A history of Montana, Volume II, Part 70

Author: Sanders, Helen Fitzgerald, 1883-
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1002

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That he is fast rising in the ranks of the legal profes- sion is conceded by all, and a brilliant future is predicted for him.

Mr. Poore is a member of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, Silver Bow Lodge No. 240, and also of the Silver Bow Club. He was married on June 3, 1911, to Miss Mamie Lingo, the daughter of Archie and Mary Lingo, of Twin Falls, Idaho.

HARRY P. STANFORD has come to be the proprietor of one of the leading taxidermy establishments in the state, and is recognized far and wide in Montana for one of the ablest men in his line of business. Mr. Stan- ford was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on October 3, 1867, and is the son of James and Catherine (Coggan) Stanford. Both were natives of England. The father came to Canada as a young man, and he died in that country in 1872 when he was sixty-eight years old. He was a well-known leather manufacturer of his com- munity. His wife died in Kalispell, Montana, in 1894, at the age of seventy-four.

When Harry P. Stanford was ten years of age he came to Montana with his mother, locating first in Fort Benton, in which place he attended school until he was sixteen years old. When at that age he went with I. G. Baker & Company and remained in their employ until he was in his twenty-third year, after which he entered the police service, and served as a policeman in Fort Benton and in Kalispell, in which latter place he was at one time chief of police, being the first man to hold that position in Kalispell. He held that position during the year 1892, and again held the same office in 1897 and 1898. Leaving that office, Mr. Stanford entered the taxidermy business, and estab- lished a shop at 504 West Fifth street, at which place he has been continuously engaged since that time. He conducts a popular establishment, which is well patro- nized by the best trade in the country, and the high class of work he performs is his greatest recommendation to the public.

Mr. Stanford is one of the four children of his par- ents. The others are : James T. of Great Falls; Mrs. C. E. Conrad, of Kalispell; and George, of Somers, Mon- tana.

In 1890 Mr. Stanford was united in marriage with Miss Anna Hanlon, of Kalispell, Montana. No chil- dren have come to them.

Mr. Stanford is a Republican in his political allegiance, and is a member of the Kalispell Club, but maintains no other social or fraternal ties. He is one of the well known and successful men of the city, and has a large circle of friends in the state.

ALFRED C. WARNER, United States commissioner of Montana and a resident of Choteau, has had a varied experience in his career both in regard to his locations and to the character of his employment. His first ex- perience in Montana was from 1877 to 1882, and his residence has been continuous there since 1885. During this long period he has become well and favorably known, especially in Teton county, where the major portion of the intervening years has been spent, and he deserves mention in this history of Montana by reason both of his merit as a citizen and by his long identi- fication as such.

He is a product of New York, born in the city of Brooklyn on September 8. 1848, and comes directly of English lineage, both of his parents having been na- tives of London.

Alfred C. Warner attended school at the age of thirteen, all of his education having been acquired in the country schools of Long Island except one winter he spent as a pupil in the Brooklyn public schools. The limited means of his parents necessitated his be- coming a wage earner at an early age. In the sum- mer of 1863, when fourteen years old, he secured his

first position, that of a general utility boy for the D. Appleton & Company publishing house of New York, and after a time was advanced to a clerkship. He remained with this firm until the spring of 1867 and then joined his parents in St. Louis, where he found employment in the Woodward Book Store of that city, which identification was continued until 1871. In that year he returned to New York and took a position with J. B. Ford & Company, the publishers of books and of Henry Ward Beecher's paper, the Chris- tian Union, with which firm he remained five years, being advanced by them to the position of chief clerk. It was in 1877 that he came to Montana and became clerk of the Blackfoot Indian Agency. After five years spent in that capacity, or in 1882, he returned to St. Louis and resumed connections with the Woodward Book Store, then owned by E. P. Gray, but in 1885 the call of Montana brought him once more to its soil. For a time thereafter he was bookkeeper for Hamilton & Hazlett, of Choteau, the predecessors of Joseph Hirsh- berg & Company, and while with them he pur- chased a sawmill in the country which he operated for several years before and after severing his connection with the mercantile firm. Returning to Choteau, he has since given his attention to the real estate and abstract business, together with the duties of notary public.

In 1800 he was appointed a United States commis- sioner of Montana, which office he has filled ever since, and in 1896 he was elected county clerk of Teton county, to which office he was returned for five suc- cessive terms by re-election. All this is indicative of the standing of Mr. Warner among his fellow citizens in Teton county and marks him as one of the worthy men of Montana. He started in life a poor boy, with neither capital nor influence to assist him, and what he has accomplished represents the strength of his own merit.

In politics his allegiance is given to the Republican party. His fraternal associations are with the Knights of Pythias, of which order he is a past chancellor com- mander, and with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Great Falls. Mr. Warner is unmarried.

FRANK D. MORSE. As sheriff of Granite county, Frank D. Morse is perhaps one of the best known men in his section of the state. He has been identified with Montana since 1878, and has been connected with various industries in the intervening years, in- cluding mining, ranching and lumbering, as well as operating a general store at Elk Creek for three years. In 1898 he was appointed deputy sheriff, and in the fall of 1910 was elected sheriff of Granite county, the duties of which office he is now discharging.

Mr. Morse was born at Bradley, Maine, on No- vember 7, 1855. and he lived there until he was about twenty-three years of age. He is the son of John W. and Lucy Ann (Gulwer) Morse, both na- tives of the state of Maine. The father was born in 1832. In 1878 he came to Montana, remaining two years and returning to his home in Maine. The west, however, had left its mark upon him, and in a few years he again left Maine and came back to Montana, where he engaged in the grain business. He died in Philipsburg in 1909, at the age of seventy-eight, and lies buried in the western city. His wife, who died when she was fifty-four years old, is buried in Maine, where her death occurred. Five children were born to this couple, of which number the son Frank D. was the second born. One daughter of the family, Nellie, married J. W. Rodgers and lives at Helena. Mr. Rodgers is assistant state treasurer.

The education of Mr. Morse was of a limited order. chiefly obtained in the grade schools of the town of Bradley, Maine. When he was nine years of age he was employed as a cow herder, for which he received

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a wage of ten cents per head weekly. The first speculation or investment in which he indulged as a wage earner was when he bought a sheep for $1.25, which he managed to save out of his wages as a cow herder. He took his purchase home, picketed him out and in the night the sheep became tangled in the rope and succeeded in breaking his neck. Thus the young sheep owner found himself beaten in his first investment. Later he was employed in various ca- pacities with the lumbermen on the river, and from his early boyhood was a wage-earner, although the wage was usually a meagre one. He learned a deal about the lumbering business in the years that he was thus employed, and when he came west at the age of twenty- three he settled in Philipsburg and there engaged in the lumber business. After a short time he went on a ranch, remaining there for a year or thereabouts, after which he managed a store at Elk Creek for three years in the interests of the firm of Morse & Brogan. His next business move found him the owner of a ranch, with which he was occupied until 1898. In that year he was appointed deputy-sheriff, and after a service of four years he went back to ranching until 1906, when he was again appointed deputy-sheriff. He served his second four years in that capacity and in the fall of 1910, his record as deputy having proved so satisfactory to the public, he was named for the of- fice and elected sheriff of Granite county, an office which he is now filling.

Mr. Morse is a Republican of strength and he takes an active part in all the political affairs of the county. He is one of the strongest men the party claims in this section and is invaluable to party interests when im- portant issues are at stake, being recognized as one of the greatest fighters for a cause known to the county. He is a member of the Maccabees and is a past commander of that society in Drummond at the present time. He is a member of the Philipsburg Cham- ber of Commerce.

On May 5, 1883, Mr. Morse was united with Julia Gasper in marriage at New Chicago, Montana. She is a daughter of an old and well-known family in New Chicago, formerly from Maine. Two children have been born to them, Verdine D., who is married and living in Granite county on his father's ranch, and Frank M., also married and living on his own ranch in Granite county. Both are prosperous and enter- prising young men, destined to make good in the great western state which they have been born and reared in, and are in every way a credit to their par- ents.

Mr. Morse is not a member of any church, but re- gards them all with a high degree of respect, and is always generous in his support of a worthy cause, whether endorsed by the churches or otherwise. He is a citizen of genuine worth, and his influence in the county has ever been of a beneficial nature, from the viewpoint of his political service, as well as in his private capacity as a citizen and voter.

JOSEPH A. NADEAU, president of the Nadeau Invest- ment Company and one of the leading real estate men of Bitte, Montana, was born at St. Hyacinthe in the province of Quebec, Canada, on March 17, 1848, and passed his early life in attending good schools in his native province. When he was ready to begin the bat- tle of life for himself he moved to Champlain, New York, and started a retail shoe business, which he con- ducted three years with moderate profits. He then sold this business to go to a more promising field, and removed to Valley Falls, Rhode Island, where he again opened a retail shoe store, which he conducted with success until 1878. In that year he sold his business in Valley Falls, and brought his family to Butte, which was then but a small mining town, with a population made up of all nationalities and characterized by all

the roughness but big-hearted generosity of the typical mining camp in all sections of the great west.

After his arrival in Butte he saw the need of a good eating house for the miners, and started the "French Restaurant." This at once became popular and profit- able. Mr. Nadeau conducted it five years and made a considerable amount of money in it. He then became proprietor of the Windsoe Hotel, the leading hostelry in the city, and this also proved to be a successful venture for him. He kept the hotel for three years, then sold his interest in it and formed a partnership with his brother, Arthur Nadeau, for dealing in real estate on a large scale, the line of trade in which he is still actively engaged.

The firm was soon on a high tide of prosperity through its judicious investments and good manage- ment, and at the end of five years Arthur Nadeau re- turned to his native province of Quebec, Canada, and opened a branch office there. The brothers made in- vestments in mining properties as well as in other lines of real estate, and these have made them wealthy. But their general real estate transactions have also been extensively profitable and wide spread. They have not been confined to Butte, Montana, but have ex- tended to California, Kansas, Canada and other local- ities far distant from one another, covering an exten- sive scope of country.

By 1906 the business had become so large that it was necessary to incorporate it. Under the articles of in- corporation the name was changed to the Nadean In- vestment Company, and of this Joseph Nadeau was made president, Arthur Nadeau, of Montreal, Ca- nada, vice-president, and Ovila Nadeau, a son of Joseph, secretary and treasurer. The company does now a larger business than ever and is continually ex- tending its operations.

Joseph Nadeau, the father of Joseph A. and Arthur, was born in Canada, in 1824. He was for some years a successful farmer, then for twenty-four years a traveling representative of a farm implement estab- lishment. At the end of that time he moved to Con- cordia, Kansas, where he passed the remainder of his days in retirement, dying there on October 1I, 1904. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Benjamin, was also born in Canada, and they were married in that country. She died on the same day her husband died, October II, 1904, at the age of seventy-eight years.

Joseph A. Nadeau was married on August 20, 1871, at Valley Falls, Rhode Island, to Miss Delia Rosseau. Five children were born of the union, all natives of Valley Falls, Rhode Island, but one, and all living but the first born. He was Adelord Nadeau, whose life began on June 4. 1872, and who was a prominent drug- gist in Los Angeles, California, at the time of his death, which occurred on June 8. 1902. He was mar- ried and left a widow and two children to mourn his early demise and their great bereavement. His chil- dren were Adelord Nadeau. Jr., and Lorraine Na- dean. The second child of Joseph A. Nadeau is Ro- salba, who is the wife of Dr. F. L. St. Jean, a leading physician at Anaconda, Montana. The third child of Joseph A. Nadeau is his son Ovila, who is secretary and treasurer of the Nadeau Investment Company. The fourth child is Phedora, who married Dr. G. E. St. Jean, a brother of Dr. F. L. St. Jean. Dr. G. E. St. Jean is owner of and conducts the Wallace Hospital, at Wallace, Idaho. The fifth child, Alhert Nadeau, was born in Butte, Montana, and is now a lawyer in active practice in that city. He was graduated from the law department . of Harvard University in 19II,

Joseph A. Nadeau is a devout Catholic in his reli- gious faith. In politics he is a member of the Dem- ocratic party. but he takes no active part in party con- tests. Socially he belongs to the Society of St. John the Baptist, and is one of its leading members. He is

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practically retired from business, as his son Ovila has taken the greater part of the burden of trade off his shoulders. Mr. and Mrs. Nadeau spend much time in travel and in 1908, accompanied by their son Ovila, they made a trip around the world, being joined in Europe on their homeward journey by the other son, Albert. The home of the family is a beautiful suite of rooms in the Napton block, the most elegant and fashionable apartment house in Butte. The father is one of the most highly esteemed men in Butte. He has been progressive and public-spirited with reference to the progress and improvement of the city and state, and has performed all the duties of citizenship during his long residence in this community with an eye single to the public welfare and the enduring good of the people.

WALTER D. TIPTON. Devoting his time and energies to the practice of his profession, Walter D. Tipton, of Helena, is well grounded in the principles of law, and being thorough and methodical in the preparation of his cases, and skilled and judicious in their management, is meeting with unquestioned success as an attorney. A son of John C. Tipton, he was born November 6, 1873, at Red Bluff, California, the founder of the branch of the Tipton family from which he is descended, having immigrated from Wales to the United States, becoming an early settler of Kentucky. He comes of patriotic stock, both his paternal and maternal grandfathers hav- ing served in the War of 1812.

John C. Tipton was born in Kentucky, July 5, 1835, and died at Red Bluff, California, November 4, 1908. Leaving his native state in 1853, he went by way of New York and the Isthmus of Panama to California, where he remained for a quarter of a century, being engaged the greater part of the time in freighting and merchandising. Making an overland journey to Mon- tana in 1878, he first located at Helena, but the follow- ing spring he removed to Meagher county, Montana, which was his home for many years. Through his own efforts he obtained a place of distinction among the leading men of his community. Taking an active part in political affairs, he served as county assessor, county treasurer and county commissioner of Meagher county, in each position performing the duties of his office ably and faithfully. In 1906, having disposed of his interests in Montana, he returned to California, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Christian church. On October 17, 1861, at American Fork, California, he mar- ried Aurelia Himrod Ryan, who was born at Mead- ville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1837, and died at White Sulphur Springs, Montana, March 4, 1903. Her father, Simeon Ryan, was descended from one of the early pioneers of the Keystone state.

The fourth child in a family consisting of five sons and two daughters, Walter D. Tipton acquired his pre- liminary education in the common and high schools of White Sulphur Springs, later attending the Montana Wesleyan University in Helena. Going then to Ann Arbor, Michigan, he was graduated from the University of Michigan with the class of 1899, receiving the degree of LL. B. Immediately beginning the practice of his profession at Helena, Mr. Tipton has met with well merited success as a general practitioner, now ranking among the capable lawyers of the city.

He is a member of the Lewis and Clark County Bar Association; of the Montana State Bar Associaiton; of the Lambs' Club, of Helena; and fraternally belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is an adherent of the Democratic party, but takes no active part in politics. Broad and liberal in his religious views, he is a valued member of the Unitarian church.

ASBURY M. CRAWFORD. When it first became gener- ally known that the soil of Montana could be made

to produce marketable fruit, and especially apples, many inexperienced agriculturists at once sprang to the conclusion that fortunes were to be easily made in this line, and the success of a few strengthened this belief to such an extent that all over the state farmers began to give over land that for years had yielded them a reasonable margin of profit in the staple prod- ucts to experimenting in apple growing. A few were fortunate in their undertaking, but the vast majority soon discovered that fruit culture, like any other line of endeavor, must be backed by experience and a thorough knowledge of the business in order to suc- ceed. The State Horticultural Society has endeavored to instruct and educate the general public along this line, but it has been left to a few individuals, men who have made a deep and exhaustive study of their subject, to accomplish the most good in this direction, and prominent among these may be mentioned Asbury M. Crawford, of Billings. He is recognized as an horticultural expert, and has identified himself with various enterprises calculated to advance fruit grow- ing in the state, being president of the Basin Reser- voir and Orchard Company.

Mr. Crawford was born January 17, 1853, in Alle- gany county, Maryland, and is a son of James and Elizabeth (Hinkle) Crawford. Mr. Crawford's father was born in Pennsylvania, in 1823, and as a young man moved to Allegany county, Maryland, where he fol- lowed farming until February, 1865. In that year he removed to Ottawa, LaSalle county, Illinois, where he followed the trade of wheelwright, but subsequently went to Normal, McLean county, Illinois, where the remainder of his life was spent his death occurring in 1901. He was originally a Whig in his political views, but in 1855 joined the ranks of the Republican party. His religious connection was with the Meth- odist Episcopal. church. His widow, who lives in Buffalo, New York, was born there in 1828, and six of their seven children also survive, Asbury M. being the eldest.

Educated in the public schools of his native county and in Ottawa, Illinois, Asbury M. Crawford was grad- uated from the Illinois University, at Normal, with the class of 1876. During the next two years he was engaged in teaching school in the Prairie state and in 1878 he came to Helena, where he remained until 1882. That year saw his advent in the Yellowstone valley, and he located on eighty acres of land which is located one and one-half miles from the court house, pur- chasing it from the Minnesota and Montana Land and Improvement Company. On this property, which is still owned by Mr. Crawford, and on which his family resides, he planted apple trees, the first to be planted in the Yellowstone valley, and from that time to the present he has made a specialty of fruit culture. Dur- ing these years he has given a great deal of time to the study of law, and in 1904 he was admitted to the bar of the state. In 1909 he went to Carbon county and engaged in building a reservoir near Bridger, and on August 25, 19II, what is known as the Basin Reservoir and Orchard Company was organized and incorporated, Mr. Crawford being the president and principal stockholder. A reservoir is now being built which, when complete, will irrigate some 2,000 acres of land in the Dry Basin. In political matters Mr. Crawford has in the past believed that the Democratic party stood for the principles that would do the greatest good for the greatest number of our citizens, but re- serves the right to vote for the candidate he deems best fitted for the office, irrespective of party ties. In 1890 he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah A. Craw- ford and they have three interesting children: Hetty Elizabeth, Herbert M. and Phillip.

Mr. Crawford's views on fruit culture can probably be best shown by giving a part of the conversation

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which passed between him and Mr. J. W. Chrismas, local member of the State Horticultural Board, at the latter's home near Rockvale, in Carbon county, August 10, 1911. Mr. Crawford said in part: "From the gen- eral outlook, it must be said, orcharding in this part of the state had better become a matter of paying heed to certain well known facts. It would seem that every- body has been planting or exploiting because a few have been making a success. In many instances, trees have been planted without regard to fitness of soil or location. A great number of apples and profuse growth of tree as opposed to size and quantity of fruit and hardiness of wood, have, in many instances, been the logical results. The time has passed for making trees pay under such treatment. Besides, trees can- not thus be kept bearing year after year crops of even little unmarketable stuff. It is the number of apples opposed to the amount of fruit grown that exhausts a tree and compels it to take lay-off spells for recupera- tion. Again, we have spells of winter here once in a while that are sure to take rank wood and soft fruit buds and young trees tenderly built. Trees must be planted on well-drained land; should be of as hardy character as the nurseryman can produce; need to be so cared for as to make hardy, sturdy growth; need to be properly pruned and at the right time of year ; must be thoroughly guarded against orchard pests and disease; and fruit must be thinned to the proper amount and at the right time.

"As to this matter of pests and diseases. Short of drastic enforcement of our horticultural laws, on the part of the state authorities, an orchardist, however careful and intelligent be his work, is constantly liable to an overflow of coddling moth and infection of blight from the orchard of a careless or ignorant neigh- bor,-unless he be shut off in a tract of his own, unless he be so located as to be able therein to make the working 'of our state horticultural laws practically automatic. In a tract thus protected by nature or arti- ficial conditions and such trees as Alexander and Transcendant upon the retired list,, this dread scourge of blight need be but little more than added incentive to do the needed work of pruning and irrigating in the right way and at the right time, to do this work just as it should be done were there no such malady. and especially as this work should be done as a proper safeguard against occasional spells of real winter."

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A history of Montana, Volume II, Part 70

Author: Sanders, Helen Fitzgerald, 1883- Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 1002

Author: Sanders, Helen Fitzgerald, 1883-
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1002