A history of Montana, Volume II, Part 75

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

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The wife of Mr. Sorenson, Mrs. Eliza L. Sorenson, was born February 25, 1855, the eldest daughter of Henry and Rozilla (Bently) Harrington, the former a pioneer of Ohio, the latter born in Indiana, in 1835. Mrs. Harrington came to Miles City in 1881 and lived here until her death, in August, 1911. Mrs. Sorenson started for Montana from Joliet, Illinois, September 21, 1879, and came across country in a wagon to Wyo- ming, thence down Tongue river where she met Mr. Sorenson, January 1, 1880. She came to Miles City, March 24, 1880, and they were married April 12, 1880. Seven children were born to them, the eldest of whom Frank, was born February 22, 1881, on the present Clark ranch, being the first white child born on Tongue river. The other children are Ernest, Lillie (who died

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at the age of eighteen), Laura, Grace, Lee and Clara, all who live in the vicinity of Miles City.

PATRICK HENRY MCCARTHY. In any community, be it a country village or a metropolitan city with its thousands of inhabitants, there is one class of pro- fessional men given by common consent a place of prominence in the life of its people, their work put- ting them into personal touch and sympathy with their clients as is the case in so complete a degree with no other profession. It scarcely need be explained that this is the class which includes physicians and sur- geons. Butte, Montana, is fortunate in numbering among its leading practitioners in this line of work a man of the comprehensive education, talent and skill possessed by Dr. Patrick Henry McCarthy, whose abilities professionally are evidenced by a very ex- tensive practice in general work, and have been rec- ognized officially in his appointment to membership on the Montana State Board of Medical Examiners.

Dr. McCarthy has risen to his present high posi- tion entirely through his own efforts, he having been born a poor boy at Houghton county, Michigan, Oc- tober 15, 1875, and deprived of a father's care and support through tragic death, the elder McCarthy hav- ing been killed in Quinz mine, Houghton county, when Patrick, who was the next youngest of a family of five children, was but four years old. It was the grandfather of Dr. McCarthy who was the first mem- ber of this branch of the family to leave his native Ireland and settle in America, choosing as his location Houghton county, Michigan, where he followed the miner's occupation. James McCarthy, father of the doctor, was twelve years old when brought by his parents to this country. He married Mary Driscoll, a native also of Ireland, who came to this country with her parents when a small child. The Driscolls first resided at Houghton, where the daughter was married to Mr. McCarthy, but later became residents of Holt, Nebraska. Previous to his demise, in 1879, James McCarthy had made an overland trip to Mon- tana and Utah, and prospected and mined in those sections for a time, but returned to Houghton and there met his untimely death.

Dr. McCarthy received his early schooling in O'Neill, Nebraska, and at Butte, Montana, but at the age of sixteen years was obliged to take upon his shoulders the task of self-support and accordingly sought employment in the mines. For four years he worked at mining in the Butte and Leadville, Colo- rado, fields, then, having earned and saved sufficient to enable him to pursue his studies further, he made a forward step in achieving his ambition for a medical degree by entering the Creighton University at Omaha, Nebraska. After a year of study in that institution of learning he accepted a position as teacher of chem- istry and anatomy in the Fremont (Neb.) Normal School, remaining with the school for one year. He then reentered the Creighton University and in 1902 was awarded his degree of Doctor of Medicine. The year following his graduation from the medical col- lege Dr. McCarthy was an interne at the Presbyterian Hospital at Omaha. In 1903 he finally located in Butte, and since that time has engaged in continual practice at this point both as a general physician and surgeon. At intervals, however, he has gone east to take post graduate work in various medical uni- versities, having studied in New York, Baltimore and Chicago. In this way he keeps himself informed of all the latest developments in medical science and prac- tice and is able to serve his patients with increasing efficiency as the years pass. He also keeps in touch with other leading men of his profession through his membership in various medical associations and clubs, including the Silver Bow Medical Society, the Mon-

tana State Medical Association and the American Medi- cal Association.

Dr. McCarthy finds interest and recreation in many different departments of social, religious, civic and political activity, and is a man of considerable wealth, owning some valuable mining and banking interests. He is an energetic worker in the ranks of the Demo- cratic party and is the honored president and chair- man of the Democratic Club of Butte. He belongs to the University Club, is fraternally connected with several leading lodges, including the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Eagles order, of which latter he is official physician. He is a faithful communicant of the Roman Catholic church, con- tributes generously to its charities and benevolent ac- tivities, and finds scope for personal work among men through his membership in the Knights of Columbus

The marriage of Dr. McCarthy occurred at Scrib- ner, Nebraska, Miss Julia Stafford, a daughter of Michael Stafford and a native of Iowa, becoming his wife. Dr. and Mrs. McCarthy have one daughter, born at Butte, November 7, 1910. Their home is one of the attractive and hospitable ones in Butte, and they have a host of friends, by all of whom they are held in the highest respect and esteem.

HERBERT O. KELLOGG. Recognized throughout Sweet Grass county as one of the most progressive and en- terprising business men within its confines, and also holding prestige as a citizen who has shown his public spirit and demonstrated his ability in various offices

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of importance and trust, Herbert O. Kellogg takes rank with the representative men of his community. Like many others of Montana's successful men, Mr. Kellogg is a product of the east, having been born in Franklin county, Vermont, January 8, 1858, a son of Amhurst T. and Harriet B. (Abel) Kellogg, natives of St. Albans, Vermont. Amhurst T. Kellogg spent his life in Vermont, where his attention was devoted to agricultural pursuits, but he also found time to give to matters of a political nature, serving acceptably as selectman of his township, as a member of the school board and in various other official capacities. He was originally a Whig and later a Republican, and was well known in fraternal circles as a prominent member of the Masonic order. He died in 1903, while his widow still survives him and makes her home in Swanton, Vermont. Of their six children, three are still living: Herbert O .; Amhurst, living in Seattle, Washington; and Hattie, Northfield, Vermont.

As was the custom of the farmers' sons of his day and locality, Herbert O. Kellogg secured his education in the district schools during the winter months, his summers being devoted to the work of the home farm. He continued thus to give his services to his father until he reached his majority, when he left home

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with the intention of going to Nevada. Subsequent circumstances, however, caused him to change his mind, and he journeyed to California, taking the steamer Oregon at San Francisco for passage to Portland, where he arrived with a working capital of fifteen cents. His finances demanded that he secure employment at once, and he was soon hard at work in a railroad tie camp, at Lebanon, on the Santa Anna river, being em- ployed at making railroad ties for Gore Brothers. Three months of this kind of work earned him enough to go to The Dalles, Oregon, where he was engaged by the cattle firm of Stewart & Hamilton to assist in driving a band of cattle over the divide from Oregon to Gallatin county, Montana, now Sweet Grass county, a journey that took six months. Landing in Gallatin county, November 6, 1879, Mr. Kellogg continued to work as a cowboy on the Yellowstone range during the summer of 1880, but in the spring of 1881 went to Sun river, as an employe of Flouree & Lowery, and helped to take a herd of cattle from that point to Bismarck, Dakota, at that time the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad. In the fall of 1881 he returned to Sun river and continued with the above- named firm, but in the spring of 1882 went to Old Coulson, where the city of Billings now stands, with a band of cattle. He was soon engaged in hauling water with T. H. Smith for the new town of Billings from the Yellowstone river, a business in which he was engaged until November, 1884, then going to Melville and becoming clerk in the general store of H. O. Hickox. He continued to be connected with this busi- ness until 1887, on April 10th of which year he came to Big Timber and associated himself with Newton Budd and Eli Vickey in the establishing of a gen- eral merchandise business. After about two years Mr. Kellogg sold his interest and formed a partnership with S. C. Walbridge, whose interest he later pur- chased, and is now engaged in business on his own ac- count, having a large trade and occupying one of the most modern store buildings in the city. His entire at- tention has not been devoted to this business, however, as his energies and abilities have demanded a wider field, and in addition to owning a ranch two and one- half miles from Big Timber, is a heavy stockholder in the A. F. & K. Grain Elevator Company, and is also interested in a garage business. He has been president of the Sweet Grass County Fair Association since its organization. In political matters he is a stalwart Re- publican, and has served as a member of the school board for many years, was appointed county commis- sioner in 1904 and elected to that office in 1905, and for the past three years has been fire chief of Big Timber. For a long period his connection with fra- ternal work has been active and continuous. He is a member of Doric Lodge No. 53, A. F. & A. M .; Livingston Chapter No. 7, R. A. M .; St. Bernard Com- mandery No. 6, K. T .; and Algeria Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Helena; Big Timber Lodge No. 25, Knights of Pythias, of which he is past chancellor; and the Order of the Eastern Star, of which his wife is also a member.

On August 17, 1885, Mr. Kellogg was married to Miss Laura Sellers, who was born in Indiana, and to this union there have been born two sons: Dorman and Herbert O., Jr. As a prosperous business man Mr. Kellogg is well and favorably known, not only in Big Timber, but all over this part of the state. He also takes an active interest in all enterprises which promise to advance and develop the community and promote its best interests.

JOHN W. COLE. Although now living a life of re- tirement at his comfortable home in Park City, Mon- tana, John W. Cole can lay claim to being one of the progressive citizens of this state, within the borders of which he spent many years in various lines of activity,

having been at different times prospector, miner, ranch- er and stockraiser. During his earlier years Mr. Cole traveled to various points in the western and south- western states, always in the advance guard of civili- zation, and so successfully did he prosecute his opera- tions that today he is the possessor of a comfortable competency, and may now retire from the cares of in- dustrial activity, content with the knowledge that his life has been one of usefulness and earnest industry. Mr. Cole was born at Portsmouth, Scioto county, Ohio, July 15, 1850, and is a son of Thomas and Sarah (Hodley) Cole, a grandson of John and Jane Cole, and a great-grandson of William Cole, who was a slave-owner in early days in the East.

Thomas Cole was born in Brown county. Pennsyl- vania, and when a mere child accompanied his parents to Scioto county, Ohio. He was the eldest of the four children of his father, who was a farmer and stock- raiser, and he was reared to the life of an agriculturist. In 1862 he removed to Des Moines, Iowa, becoming a drover and engaging in buying and selling horses and cattle. He was a Democrat in his political belief and was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. His death occurred when he was sixty-five years of age, while his wife, who was a native of Ohio, passed away at the age of sixty years. They were the parents of three children: Mary, who married George Young and re- sides in Ohio; John W .; and Jane, who died at the age of sixteen years.

John W. Cole received his education in the public schools of Des Moines, Iowa, and as a youth was asso- ciated with his father in the stock business. In 1865 he started overland with a freight outfit, in ox-teams, from Omaha, Nebraska, to Denver, Colorado, and then returned to Omaha, but in the summer of 1866 again accompanied the freight train to Denver, and during the following fall forged on to Clear Creek, Colorado. From 1867 to 1872 he was engaged in placer mining, and in the summer of the latter year he went to Silver City, New Mexico, continuing in the same line of work until 1874. On his return to Denver, he pur- chased a pack horse and crossed the mountains to Tibo, Nevada, a mining camp. and for some time was engaged in prospecting and mining, but in the spring of 1876 went to Los Angeles, California, re- maining there some two or three months. Mr. Cole next went to San Francisco, from whence he journeyed to old Mexico on a prospecting trip, but while there his health failed and he returned to the California city. Subsequently he traveled overland to Bannack, Beaver- head county, Montana, where he was connected with a horse ranch until the spring of 1879, and at that time came to Custer (now Yellowstone) county, and located on the present site of Park City. During the years that followed Mr. Cole built up a large and profitable busi- ness in horses, cattle and sheep, but in 1900 sold his cattle to John H. Booz, and in 1908 retired permanently from active business. He is still the owner of a ranch that covers a half-section of land, and this he rents. Mr. Cole bears an excellent reputation among those with whom he has had business dealings, and among his fellow townsmen is known as a public-spirited citizen who is ever ready to assist in any movement calculated to benefit his section in any way. His poli- tics are those of the Republican party, and. fraternally he is affiliated with Billings lodge No. 394, B. P. O. E.

On July 1, 1878, Mr. Cole was married to Miss Fran- ces Louisa Kinney. and three children have been born to them: Iva, who is the wife of W. C. Brock, living on Mr. Cole's ranch; Ira, who met his death by drown- ing when a youth of seventeen years; and Carrie, the wife of Henry Fink, residing in Park City.

AUGUST H. BARTH. In every community there are men who, by reason of their ability, stand out from the rest. Upon such men many cares devolve; they are

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the center of all activity; their brains and money are back of most enterprises, whether public or private, and to them belongs the credit of the progress gained by their community. August H. Barth, of Billings, has for many years been recognized as one of the lead- ing men of this section of the state, where he has approximately 50,000 acres of land under his control and devotes it to sheep raising. He was born at Green Bay, Calumet county, Wisconsin, November 28, 1858, and is a son of Donatus and Anna Barth, natives of Germany.

Donatus Barth was born in 1832 and came to the United States when a young man in 1845 on a sailing vessel. He located in New York, where he was mar- ried to Anna Barth, who had come to this country on a sail ship which took eleven weeks to cross the ocean. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Barth moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but later went on to Green Bay, Calumet county, where Mr. Barth took up gov- ernment land and hewed a home from the wilderness, becoming a substantial farmer, although his former training had been as a nailmaker. During the Civil war he enlisted in a Wisconsin regiment and served gallantly in the defense of his adopted country's flag, and after his return resumed farming, which he fol- lowed in Wisconsin until 1878. In that year he re- moved to western Oregon, fourteen miles from the capital, Salem, and there purchased land and engaged in agricultural pursuits up to the time of his death in 1906, his wife having passed away two years before. While living in Wisconsin he acted as county com- missioner and assessor and was known as an influential Democrat. His religious belief and that of his wife was that of the Methodist Episcopal church. They had ten children, of whom nine are living, and August H. was the seventh in order of birth.

August H. Barth received his education in the schools of Calumet county, Wisconsin, and was reared to agricultural pursuits until he was sixteen years of age, at which time he went to Appleton and learned the trade of blacksmith. After spending three years in Appleton he went to San Francisco, California, and after a short period there moved on to Portland. Sub- sequently he followed his trade in Salem, Oregon, for a year and one half and then went to eastern Oregon. The year 1879 saw his advent in Montana, when he spent about one year in Butte, and he then went to Challis, Custer county, Idaho. In 1882 he returned to Montana, settling at Coulson, near the present site of Billings, and during the following year established himself in the blacksmith business in the latter city, erecting the first blacksmith shop here. In 1886 he transferred his activities to the sheep business, to which he has since given his attention, and his mam- moth enterprises have proven beneficial not only to himself but to the community. He has properties near Augusta, in Lewis and Clark county, thirty-five miles south of Chinook, in Chouteau county, thirty-five miles south of Forsyth, in Rosebud county, and in Carbon county, the latter a tract of one thousand acres, under the firm name of A. H. Barth & Son. This firm owns twelve thousand acres of land and leases thirty-eight thousand acres, all of which is devoted to sheep rais- ing. Mr. Barth is president of the Woolman Ranch & Sheep Company, and is associated in business with a Mr. Edward, the firm name at Chinook being Edward & Barth, while at Forsyth it is known as Barth & Edward. At this time seventy-five thousand head of sheep are on the company's land, and during 19II $32,000 worth of wool was sheared. Although this wool sells at seventeen and one-half cents per pound, it is the equal of the wool sold in England at twenty- two cents, as has been proven by Mr. Barth, who sent samples of his product to the other country. During the summer of 1908 Mr. Barth took a trip to Alaska, where he is now extensively interested in the develop- ment of coal lands, and was one of the organizers

and is now vice-president of the Bear Creek Coal Com- pany of Montana. He is also vice-president of the Montana & Wyoming Oil Company, which is develop- ing the oil business in Crawley, Wyoming. Mr. Barth has ever been a friend of progress and Billings has benefited by his activities. Strictly legitimate enter- prises only have occupied his attention and these have been carried on in such a manner as to leave no doubt of their promoter's integrity and probity. Mr. Barth is a Republican, but has not been active in public mat- ters, preferring to give his time and attention to his large business interests. He has found time to engage in fraternal work, and is a member of Ashlar Lodge No. 29, A. F. & A. M .; Billings Chapter No. 6, R. A. M .; Aldemar Commandery No. 5, K. T., and Algeria Temple, Helena; and also belongs to Billings Lodge No. 394, B. P. O. E., and Edna Chapter No. 14, O. E. S., his wife also belonging to the latter.

Mr. Barth was married in 1883 to Miss Annie H. Goodwin, who was born near San Francisco, California, and they have one son, Arthur. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, and is acting as manager of the ranch in Carbon county, being the junior member of the firm of A. H. Barth & Son. He married Miss Virginia Andel, also a graduate of the University of Nebraska. They are members of the Eastern Star, and Mr. Barth also holds membership in Ashlar Lodge of Masons. Like his father, he is a stanch Repub- lican.

WILLIAM MITCHELL. Thirty years ago, when it was first erected, the Merchants Hotel, of Livingston, Mon- tana, was considered one of the finest buildings of its kind in the section, but as the years passed and the com- munity grew from a struggling little village into a pro- gressive city of commercial and industrial importance, demands were made for greater accommodations, new hostelries were erected, and the pioneer of them all was pushed further and further into the background until it is now used as a rooming house. Fully keep- ing pace with the general advancement of Livingston, the original proprietor and builder of this landmark, William Mitchell, has gone steadily forward, and today occupies a position of prominence among the business men of the city, and occupies the position of county clerk of Park county. He is an example of the type of self-made man of which the Northwest is so proud, having been the architect of his own fortunes since he was sixteen years old, and whatever success he has gained has been the direct result of his own efforts. Mr. Mitchell was born on his father's farm in Kenosha county, Wisconsin, February 8, 1855, and is a son of Charles and Elizabeth (Lang) Mitchell, natives of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who are both deceased.

The parents of Mr. Mitchell were married in Scot- land, and after the birth of two children decided to try their fortunes in the United States. Accordingly, in 1854, they set sail for this country, and from New York City came West to Kenosha county, Wisconsin, with a party of Scotch colonists who became pioneer agri- culturists of that section. Three other children were born to them in America, and in the cultivation of their lands and the rearing of their children they spent the remainder of their lives. But two of the children sur- vive: William, and Fannie, the wife of Henry Cruse, living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

William Mitchell was reared to the life of an agri- culturist and attended the district schools in the vicin- ity of his father's farm until he was sixteen years of age, at which time he decided to make his own way in the world and ran away from home. Drifting into Michigan, he secured employment in the lumber camps during the winters and on the log drives during the summer months, and later followed the same line of work on the upper Mississippi in Minnesota. In 1875 he located in Bismarck, North Dakota, where he was employed at cutting wood for the steamboats that plied

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the Missouri river, in addition to which he hunted and trapped game for hides, but in the spring of 1879 fol- lowed the building of the Northern Pacific Railroad to Clark City, now known as Livingston. He continued to follow hunting as an occupation until 1882, and in the winter of that year started the erection of the first hotel in Livingston, to which he gave the name of Merchants Hotel, and which was very popular during the early days and still draws its full quota of guests. Mr. Mitchell has continued to be more or less inter- ested in the hotel business to the present time, and in conjunction therewith has given a great deal of atten- tion to the raising of stock on his valuable ranch in Park county since 1883. He has served as chief of police of Livingston for two years, and for five years was deputy sheriff under O. P. Templeton, the first sheriff of Park county, following which he was for four years under sheriff under Harry McCue. In 1910 · Mlr. Mitchell was the Democratic candidate for county clerk, a position to which he was elected, and in which he has acceptably served to the present time. He has given the county a good, clean administration, featured by a number of reforms in the clerk's office, and has earned the respect and approval of the tax payers of this section. Fraternally he is connected with Yellow- stone lodge No. 10, Knights of Pythias and Livingston lodge, B. P. O. E.

In 1879 Mr. Mitchell was married to Miss Kate Car- bin, who was born in Chicago, Illinois, and five chil- dren have been born to this union: Fannie, the wife of James McDonough; Mary, the wife of George Lulloff; and Kate, Charles and Fred, who live at home.

HARVEY C. POUND. Coming to Montana in 1879 and identifying himself with various large enterprises, the business career of Harvey C. Pound, commissioner of the United States lands office at Big Timber, has been one of marked success, while the signal service he has rendered in official capacities has been of inestimable value to his state. From the time when, thirty years ago, he was interested in a stage line running from Martinsdale to Forts Benton and Maginnis, he has at various times been engaged in ranching, stock rais- ing and other lines of business activity, and in all his operations has so conducted his affairs as to win and retain the unqualified respect and esteem of the citizens of his community. Mr. Pound was born at Chippewa Falls, Chippewa county, Wisconsin, September 6, 1860, and is a son of Albert E. and Elizabeth (Loomis) Pound.

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A history of Montana, Volume II, Part 75

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