A history of Montana, Volume II, Part 71

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

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According to Mr. Chrismas: "When your work reaches such a stage that these protective measures you have specified are recognized as inseparably characteristic of your enterprise, other orchard pro- moters will be obliged to follow your example or go out of business. Your plan of work meets with my entire and unqualified approval and needs but be sub- mitted to the other members to meet with the same from the entire Board. Your plan is unique and such as to aid us in our work, and we shall be pleased to be of assistance to you in yours."

The approval of the horticultural board was not necessary to prove to the people of this section that Mr. Crawford is laboring in behalf of their best inter- ests, but it illustrates the intelligent manner in which he is carrying on his campaign and the comprehensive knowledge brought to bear in advancing his theories. In this same intelligent, enthusiastic labor that, sin- cerely carried on, has brought about such excellent results in other lines of enterprise, and there can be no doubt but that a man of Mr. Crawford's ability will bring his work to a successful conclusion. He is known throughout Yellowstone and Carbon counties as a resourceful and practical business man, an expert horticulturist and a public-spirited citizen, and he has numerous friends all over this section of the state.

CHARLES F. SAUERBIER. An honored citizen and rep- resentative business man of Virginia City, Montana, is

Charles F. Sauerbier, who is here proprietor of a large and well established blacksmith shop. Diligent and ever alert for his chance of advancement, he has progressed steadily until he is recognized today as one of the foremost men of his home city. Here he is held in high esteem by his fellow citizens, who honor him for his native ability and for his fair and straight- forward career.

Charles F. Sauerbier was born in Cook county, Illinois, May 4, 1853, and he is a son of Frederick and Louise (Burghart) Sauerbier, both of whom are now deceased. The father was engaged in farming opera- tions during the greater part of his active career and he and his wife became the parents of eleven children, of whom Charles F. was the fifth in order of birth. To the public schools of his home place Charles F. Sanerbier is indebted for his preliminary educational training, which was supplemented by a thorough course of instruction in German. He earned his first money as a farm hand on his father's estate in Illinois and when he had reached his twenty-first year he entered upon an apprenticeship to learn the trade of black- smith. In 1878, at the age of twenty-five years, he came to Montana and settled in Glendale, where he resided for. a period of two years, during which time he was engaged in blacksmithing. Thence he removed to Adobetown, where he was a resident for two years, and in 1882 he located in Virginia City. Here he opened a blacksmith shop and engaged in business on his own account. His success was assured from the start and he now has the largest and best equipped blacksmith establishment in Madison county. His youngest son, Chauncey, is associated with him in the business.

In Glendale, Montana, in the year 1879, was cele- brated the marriage of Mr. Sauerbier to Miss Lucy Pyle, who was born and reared in Illinois. Mrs. Sauer- bier was summoned to eternal rest in 1893, and is buried in Virginia City. She was a woman of most pleasing personality and was deeply beloved by all with whom she came in contact. She is survived by six children: Alice remains at home and keeps house for her father; Myrtle, who taught school prior to her marriage, is the wife of Glen Conklin, of Madi- son county,' Montana; Mary is a trained nurse and resides in Salt Lake City, Utah; Ruth lives in Beaver- head county, where she is a popular and successful school teacher; Carl is single and is working in a mer- cantile establishment in Virginia City; and Chauncey is associated with his father in business, as previously noted.

Mr. Sauerbier is a stanch supporter of the Repub- lican party in his political convictions and while he has never sought the honors or emoluments of public office he has been prevailed upon to serve as a member of the city council. He gives freely of his aid and in- fluence in support of all measures and enterprises pro- jected for the good of the general welfare and in every respect is a loyal and public-spirited citizen. His interest in athletic sports extends to frequent hunting and fishing trips and he is a great baseball fan, his son Chauncey being a member of one of the local nines. The family home is one of extreme attrac- tiveness and is the scene of many joyous social gath- erings.

THOMAS J. WADDELL. The present postmaster at Stanford is one of Montana's honorable pioneers, a man who came into this region of the northwest nearly thirty-five years ago, and through the years of devel- opment and the later era of fulfillment has enjoyed his own share of material prosperity and has likewise been honored in many ways by his community of fel- low citizens.

Since the age of twenty, Thomas J. Waddell has been in the west and a worker in its varied activities.

Andrew Logan

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He was born in Boone county, Illinois, on the 6th of October, 1855, the sixth in a family of eleven children. His father was Thomas M. Waddell, an Englishman by birth, who was brought to America at the age of four years, and was reared in this country and fol- lowed the trade of mechanic in several states of the Union. During the Civil war he enlisted and served with the One Hundred and Fifty-third Illinois Infan- try. His death occurred in Oregon in 1893 when he was seventy years old. He was married in Illinois to Miss Mary Stickney, who died in 1865 at the age of thirty-eight, and is buried in Illinois. Mr. Waddell has a brother and sister who are residents of Montana -Edward, who is married and lives near Kalispell, and Mrs. Mary J. Barnes, who resides at Jones, near Lewistown.

Mr. Waddell lived in Illinois until he was eleven years old, at which time the family moved to Kan- sas, where he was reared to manhood, and in that state finishing the schooling which he had begun in his native state. After leaving school he followed farming and cattle raising, but in 1875 occurred his migration into the great states of the Rocky Mountain region. For the first three years he was engaged in blacksmithing in the mines of Utah. He then took the job of trailing a band of sheep belonging to Hunt- ley & Clark into Montana, and arrived in this terri- tory as it was then, on the 19th of November, 1878. Here he found a permanent home, and with the loyal admiration for the Treasure state which is found among so many of its residents he has never regretted his choice among the forty-eight states and territories of the Union. The trade of blacksmithing which was his first occupation in the west has been his vocation through all these years, and he has made it the basis of a substantial business. He is the inventor of the Waddell manure spreader, a machine which is found on many farms of Montana, and the manufacture of which has been a considerable factor in Mr. Waddell's business.

As an active citizen of Stanford, a town with which he has been identified for many years, Mr. Waddell has taken a prominent part in its civic affairs. In September, 1909, he was appointed postmaster, and was reappointed with a higher grade in May, 19II. He has also served in the office of justice of the peace and as a member of the school board, and is one of the local leaders in the Republican party. He belongs to the Stanford Commercial Club and is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World. Mr. Waddell is a man of broad interests, takes a keen delight in the diversions and public amusements, and lends his support to all the movements which increase and supply the cultural progress of the community.

Mr. Waddell was married on November 24, 1887, at the old town of Philbrook, to Miss Emma Mont- gomery, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Montgomery of that place. During the quarter of a century of their happy home life seven children have been born to them, named as follows: Belle, the only daughter, who is the wife of Robert Annan of Stanford; Thomas H., in the livery business at Stanford; Edward, de- ceased; F. Guy, who is a student in the local high school; Howard, Roy and Teddy, who are all attend- ing the public schools. Mr. Waddell has taken pains to give his children the best educational and home training, so that as a home maker, a business man and citizen he has performed his duties with credit and honor.

ANDREW LOGAN of Missoula is one of the most hon- ored pioneers of Montana, having settled in Missoula as long ago as 1878 and lived here ever since. Not only was he one of the first settlers here but one of the most distinguished. He has been twice mayor of Missoula, and has served on the council many times.

Mr. Logan was born in Troy, New York, March 14, 1856, and lived there until he was about twenty-one years of age when he determined to take Horace Gree- ley's famous advice and "Go west, young man !" He stopped at first at Bismarck, North Dakota, and re- mained there about a year, following various occupa- tions. Then it was that he came and settled in Mis- soula which he liked so well that he decided to spend the rest of his life there.

He worked in the town for awhile and then went out to the fort where he was post blacksmith for four years. In 1882, he returned to Missoula and started in business for himself.

He continued this work until 1889, when he sold out to accept the office of justice of the peace to which office he was elected. He held this office until 1897, and then he went back into business again. It is worthy of note to remark that he is the leading man of his line in Missoula.

Mr. Logan is a strong Republican and takes a lively interest in politics. Among the many offices he has held is that of public administrator which he held from 1887 to 1889. When Roosevelt was president, he ap- pointed Mr. Logan a commissioner to classify and appraise the value of the Indian lands on the Flathead reservation. He was appointed postmaster of Missoula January 29, 1912, by President Taft, for a term of four years.

He was educated in the public schools of Troy, New York, but he quit school when he was twelve years old and has been hustling for himself ever since, so that he is practically a self-made man.

As a boy he worked in cotton mills, knitting mills, foundries and other occupations on that order, until he was about seventeen years of age. At that time, he began to learn the blacksmithing business, serving a five years' apprenticeship, receiving for the first year of his apprenticeship the munificent salary of two and one-half dollars a week.

He earned his first money as a boy while going to school, by working as a helper in the foundries. He received no regular wages, only an occasional fee of ten or fifteen cents.

Mr. Logan is a member of many organizations, the Masons, Odd Fellows, the Elks, and the Maccabees. He has filled every office in the state in the Odd Fellows lodge and is now the past grand master. He is past exalted ruler of the Elks, and past commander in the Maccabees. He has also held various offices in the Masonic lodge.

While the Ancient Order of United Workmen was in existence, he was past grand master of Montana.

Mr. Logan is fond of out door sports like riding and driving and of course, is a great lover of good horses. He is a great baseball fan and rooter. Like most self- made men he is very fond of reading and loves music and the theatre.

He married in Missoula, Montana, January II. 1880, Miss May Ford, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ford, formerly of Connecticut. He has four children, two boys and two girls, as follows: William A. Logan, married and resides in Missoula ; Bertha A., married to Mr. J. A. Russell and resides in Missoula also; Elva, living at home; and Claude G. Logan, who is single and resides in Missoula and is associated with his father in business.

Mr. Logan's father was William A. Logan. He was born in Ireland, and came to this country when he was seventeen years of age. He traveled over a great deal of these United States, but finally settled in New York state. He followed various occupations. At Troy he married Miss Jane A. Furgeson. She died in 1911 at the age of eighty years and he died in 1888 at the age of sixty-five. They are buried side by side at Troy, New York.

There were eight children in the elder Logan family,

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of whom Mr. Logan was the eldest. He has one brother, Mr. William J. Logan, and one sister, Miss Margaret G. Logan living in Missoula.

Mr. Logan is a great lover of his home state. Of Montana he says: "There is no state in the Union bet- ter than Montana for a young man to come and settle. There is a chance here for every man."

JOHN M. PRICE. Born in Mendocina county, Cali- fornia, on January 4, 1860, Mr. Price has spent his entire life in the west. He is, in fact, a typical west- erner in every respect, including that of being the son of equally typical easteners. His parents were na- tives of Pennsylvania, and his father, Joseph B. Price was a physician, who came to California, with his wife, Martha Arnold Price, shortly after his marriage. Our subject would probably have gone west himself, when he was old enough, if his father had not made this impossible by going to the lands' end himself, so the boy did the next best thing. He went northwest. He had more than the average fondness for change and excitement, and before he was sixteen, he had gone to school in Montana, in Oregon, and in Seattle. After this he engaged in mining for about two years in different places in Montana.

In 1878, Mr. Price entered the employ of the Mis- soula Mercantile Company as a clerk in their Stevens- ville branch. He remained here three years, and in that time proved his usefulness to the organization. It was evident that he was at once an excellent man- ager, and that he was specially adapted to the selling end of the business, being a born salesman. From Stevensville, he went to Missoula, still in the employ of the "M. M." and at various times he was sent out to take charge of various branches which were in need of an efficient head. Among the towns in which he managed the company's business, were Hope, Idaho, Demmersville and Corvallis, Montana. After leaving the last mentioned city, Mr. Price acted as traveling salesman for the company, and for several years was one of their most successful members of the force. His personal popularity, and excellent business ability made him one of the best business getters on the road. In 1903, he was put in charge of the com- pany's interests at Victor, in Ravalli county, and under his direction, the store enjoyed a prosperous existence. and its manager was one of the most esteemed and popular citizens of the county.

It was about this time, that Mr. Price concluded that he would go into business for himself, so he left the corporation with which he had worked so long and so successfully, and engaged in the real estate busi- ness. It is in this that he is now occupied, a member of firm of Price & Mathews. This firm is one of the substantial ones of Missoula. Mr. Price is one of the old residents of the state, and he has an excellent record in its commercial enterprise. He has dealt in cattle to a considerable extent, and has also been interested in mining. Success has crowned the most of his enter- prises, and his good fortune is a matter of good news to a large body of Montanians, in various towns of the state, for Mr. Price has a wide acquaintance in Montana. and to be one of his acquaintances is to wish him well.

In March, 1890, Mr. Price was married to Josephine. the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Martin of Helena. No children have been born to their union. In matters of national policy, Mr. Price favors the doctrines of the Republican party, but in local affairs, he votes for the man who will make the best officer, irrespective of his politics. For he is, like most Montanians, pri- marily interested in the best measures for the welfare of his state and city. He is one of the pioneers of Montana, and is a member of the Society of Mon- tana Pioneers.

WILLIAM JOHN TIEDT was in 1911, among the largest fruit growers of the Bitter Root valley. He shipped the products of his orchards in car load quantities to every part of the known world. His father, Fredrick Tiedt was a German of the socialist or liberal party who came to America during his young manhood. He was a great admirer of Carl Schurz, who was banished from Germany for the part that he took in the 1848 movement. Possibly, had it not been for the political agitation which finally resulted in the revolution of '48 Mr. Tiedt might always have remained in the Father- land. As history shaped itself, however, America was the gainer by one more stalwart German family pos- sessed of the thrift and industry that go to make up a good republic. After reaching the United States, the senior Mr. Tiedt soon found his way to Jackson county, Iowa, where for many years he made his home work- ing upon a farm until he saved enough capital to purchase a mercantile business in the town of Bellevue. Mr. Tiedt married Augusta Rako in Germany before he came to America. She became the mother of his two little sons but passed away while they were still hardly more than infants. The father, later in life moved to Minnesota where he died at the age of sixty-eight. Frederick Tiedt, the oldest of the boys and the one who bears his father's name, is now a prosperous merchant in Argyle, Minnesota.

William John Tiedt was born on the 19th day of November, 1860, in Jackson county, Iowa. Here, too. he received his early education, later attending school in Bellevue. For a short period, then, he taught in the rural schools of the county and in the village of Springbreak. When only eighteen years of age, in 1878, he procured the position of outside manager- known in the Iowa coal fields as "top boss"-at the valuable mines of Cable, Montana, one of the richest gold ore producing mines of the world. He remained there for three years and eight months. It was under his management that the huge gold nugget from the mine was displayed at the New Orleans exposition. It was the second nugget in size of those on exibition and was valued at three thousand five hundred dollars ..

During the winter of 1884 and 1885 he attended the W. A. Fadis Commercial College in St. Paul, Minne- sota. In the fall of 1885, he settled on a stock ranch in the Bitter Root valley, Montana. In 1897 he sold the stock farm and moved on the cut-over timber land on the bench, located one and one-half miles east of Lake Como, and three hundred feet above the level of the Bitter Root river bottom.

In the fall of 1884, Mr. Tiedt severed his connec- tion with the mining company and purchased for him- self a ranch in the Bitter Root valley. This ranch he stocked well with cattle and began setting out a small portion to orchard. The claim is situated one and one half miles east of Lake Como on "bench land" or stump Jand three hundred feet above the river level. Here the first year he planted two thousand young apple trees, the next year growing nursery stock that now numbers one hundred and thirteen thousand trees. In the autumn of 1906 he with two friends sold to a Kansas City firm, an entire train load of apples. So enormous has been the increase of his orchards since that time that in 1911, including one neighbor's crop. he sold for the company that purchased the orchards, forty-six car loads. Among these, nine cars went to Stienhart and Kelly of New York City, one to Havana, Cuba, and two to Hamburg, Germany. His original one hundred and sixty acres of land has now become seventy acres of fruit bearing trees and three hundred and eighty acres already set out to young orchard. There seems to be no limit to the growth of Mr. Tiedt's business. He is an acknowledged author- ity on orcharding and is at the present time serving his second term as president of the Montana State

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Board of Horticulture, having been appointed to that position in the beginning by Governor Toole and later reappointed by Governor Norris.

His political sympathies are with the Socialists whom he believes will gain strength in America as they have done in Germany. He is active in the Masonic lodge, being a fourteenth degree Mason of the Scottish Rite route.

Mr. Tiedt was married to Miss Elizabeth Wetzsteau. Miss Wetzsteau is of German parentage although she herself was born in Michigan. They are the parents of two attractive children who will have the best of opportunities that travel and education can offer. The daughter, Miss Inez, is slightly the elder. The son, they call Fred for his paternal grandfather and his father's only brother.

ROBERT C. LOWMAN. Active, enterprising, and pro- gressive, Robert C. Lowman is prominently identified with the mercantile interests of Lewistown. A native of Montana, he was born in Virginia City, November 16, 1878.

His father, the late Jacob B. Lowman, was born and reared in Ohio. He subsequently spent a number of years in Kansas, from there coming, in 1864, to Mon- tana, and settling in Virginia City, where he followed placer mining, and also did carpenter and contract work, residing there until his death, October 25, 1911, at the venerable age of eighty-two years. He married, in Montana, Anna M. Conway, who still maintains her residence in Virginia City, and to them six children were born, as follows: George E., of Virginia City, is un- married ; Thomas J., engaged in ranching near Raders- burg, Montana, is married; Henry F. and Edgar T., both single, are residents of Butte; Robert C., the spe- cial subject of this brief sketch; and Anna M., of Vir- ginia City.

Robert C. Lowman was educated in the public schools of Virginia City, and since the age of fourteen years has heen hustling for himself. When but twelve years old he began riding the range for horses, and after- wards made a business of catching horses for so much a lead, accumulating considerable money, and con- tinued thus occupied until eighteen years old, during the time having charge of one of the largest horse ranches "in Montana. Returning then to Virginia City. Mr. Lowman was employed on a ranch two years, and in the meantime learned his trade under an experienced meat cutter from Germany. He subsequently followed his trade in northern Montana, and at Great Falls, from the latter city coming to Lewistown in 1905. Here Mr. Lowman worked on a salary until 1909, when, in partnership with Mr. Joseph Dugart, he opened a meat market, and conducted a prosperous business as head of the firm of Lowman & Dugart. He sold his interest in the meat business February 26, 1912, and is now the proprietor with Mr. E. J. Christe, of the Christe restaurant, 317 Main street. He speaks most enthusi- astically of the rapid growth and progress of Montana, and thinks it without doubt one of the best states in the Union.

Politically Mr. Lowman affiliates with the Demo- cratic party, but takes no active part in public affairs, his time being devoted to his business. He belongs to the Lewistown Commercial Club, and fraternally he is a member of Lewistown Camp No. 108, Woodmen of the World, which he has served as commander. Re. ligiously both he and his wife are members of the Catholic church.

Mr. Lowman married at Livingston, Montana, Feb- ruary 6, 1906, Anita Svoboda, of Saint Paul, Nebraska, and into their pleasant household three children have been born, namely: Franklin, Adolphus, and Jacob Duane.

WILLIAM L. FORD. It is speaking with all due con- servatism to say that there is probably in all this county no young man of greater promise than William L. Ford, or one who better exemplifies the highest tra- ditions of the profession to which he is an ornament. He holds the office of county attorney and his thorough theoretical training, vigorous intellect and careful and consistent observation and enforcement of professional ethics have won the recognition and confidence which he enjoys in marked degree. Mr. Ford was born in Diamond City, Montana, May 31, 1878, and has lived in the state all his life, and in White Sulphur Springs for the most of it, his parents having removed here when he was three years of age. He knows the life of the West in its most typical and picturesque phases. As a youth, previous to entering upon his legal prepa- ration, he rode the range in Meagher county and he made his first money when engaged in this occupation, while at the age of nineteen years he had complete charge of the ranch. His early education was secured in the schools of White Sulphur Springs and he subsequently became a student in the Bishop Scott Academy at Portland, Oregon. Following that he matriculated in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which he received the well-earned degree of LL.B. as a member of the class of 18 -. He re- turned to White Sulphur Springs, where he displayed his professional shingle and entered upon the active practice of the law. Unlike the Hon. Peter Stirling of romance, Mr. Ford did not have to stare long at a blank wall before clients wandered into his office, for Fortune soon smiled upon him. In 1906, he was nomi- nated and elected county attorney and is now serving his third term in this important capacity. He is widely recognized as a lawyer of ability and of even brilliant promise. He has held two other public offices, namely, city attorney and city clerk. In his political faith he gives his hand and heart to the men and measures of the "Grand Old Party," and takes a very active in- terest in political matters in this section.

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A history of Montana, Volume II, Part 71

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