A history of Montana, Volume II, Part 95

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

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the livery business, erecting a large brick feed and sales barn at No. 226 South Main street. This venture has also proved a happy one, the manner in which he conducts his affairs having won the entire confidence and patronage of the community. In April, 1912, Mr. Robertson was the successful Republican candidate for the office of alderman from the Second ward, being elected for a term of two years. As in the past he is discharging his duties in a capable and highly satis- factory manner. He has also been prominent in fra- ternal work here, being a member of Livingston Lodge No. 32, A. F. & A. M .; Livingston Chapter No. 7, R. A. M .; St. Bernard Commandery No. 6, K. T .; Par- ticular Consistory of Eastern Montana No. I, and other societies.

On April 12, 1888, Mr. Robertson was united in mar- riage with Miss Alice E. Pound, who was born at Chippewa Falls, Chippewa county, Wisconsin, daughter of Albert and Sarah E. Pound, and the third of their six children, of whom five are living. Mrs. Robert- son's father was born in New York state, but in youth removed to Wisconsin, being engaged in the operation of sawmills and in the general merchandise business at Chippewa Falls until 1879. In that year he re- moved to Meagher county, Montana, where he carried on a sheep and cattle business until 1900, then returning to Chippewa Falls, where he was postmaster for some time. On his return to Missoula, Montana, he engaged in the real estate business, but is now retired from active pursuits, being eighty-one years of age. His wife is deceased. He has been a prominent Republican politician, and is also well known in Masonic circles. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson have one son, Almon Fulton, who secured his education in the common and high schools of Park county, and graduated from the min- ing engineering department of the University of Wis- consin, at Madison, with the class of 1911. He is a young man with a very promising future, and at present is acting in the capacity of county surveyor of Park county, elected in 1912. Mrs. Robertson is a valued member of the Ladies Literary Club, and the family home is a center of culture and social refinement.

PATRICK J. BROPHY, actively identified with mercan- tile and mining interests in Montana, makes his home at Butte. He is deeply interested in community affairs and his efforts have also been a potent element in the business progress of this section of the state. He has with ready recognition of opportunity directed his labors into various fields wherein he has achieved success and he holds distinctive prestige as one of the most promi- nent and popular citizens of Butte. From 1888 to 1906 Mr. Brophy was sole owner of P. J. Brophy & Com- pany, importing grocers, etc., but in the latter year hẹ retired from the more active management in order to devote his entire time and attention to some gold placer- mining interests he has in Lincoln county, this state.

A native of the fair Emerald Isle, Patrick J. Brophy was born in County Carlow, Ireland, on the 5th of August, 1855. His father, Thomas Brophy, was a well-known farmer in Ireland, where he was born and where he resided during the entire period of his life- time. Thomas Brophy was born in 1808 and he lived to the venerable age of seventy-two years, his demise hav- ing occurred in 1879. His wife was Johanna (Walsh) Brophy, whose birth occurred in Wexford county, Ire- land, where she died in 1903, at the age of eighty-six years. Of the nine 'children born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brophy three are living in 1912.

To the public schools of his native land Mr. Brophy, of this notice, is indebted for his early educational discipline. After completing the equivalent of a high- school course in Ireland he entered upon an apprentice- ship to learn the mercantile business. He came to America in 1876, at the age of twenty-one years, and his first year in this country was spent in Chicago, Illinois,

whence he removed to Evanston, Wyoming. He re- mained in the latter place, working in a mercantile concern, for the ensuing three years, at the expiration of which, in February, 1881, he came to Butte. After his advent in this city he formed a partnership alli- ance with George H. Casey, establishing the Casey & Brophy Company, which, with the passage of years, has grown to gigantic proportions. Mr. Casey withdrew from the concern in 1888 and from that time until 1906 the business was conducted as P. J. Brophy & Company. In 1906 the company was incorporated un- der the laws of the state of Montana, with a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars and with an official corps as follows,-P. J. Brophy, president, James H. Rowe, vice president, and H. W. Johnson, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Brophy devotes much of his attention to the operation of the Libby Placer Mining Company in Lincoln county, this state, he be- ing the secretary-treasurer and general manager of the corporation. Inasmuch as Mr. Brophy's splendid suc- cess in life is the result of his own well-directed en- deavors, it is the more gratifying to contemplate. He is a self-made man in the most significant sense of the word and his splendid achievements in the business. world have won him the admiration and esteem of his fellow citizens at Butte.

Mr. Brophy has been twice wed, his first union having been to Miss Margaret D'Arcy, the ceremony was performed at Joliet, Illinois, in January, 1893. Mrs. Brophy was summoned to the life eternal at Butte in 1902 and is survived by three children, concerning whom the following brief data is here incorporated,-Thomas D'Arcy Brophy was born at Butte, in October, 1893, and he is now a senior at Gonzaga College, at Spokane, Washington; John A. Brophy was born in June, 1895, and is a sophomore in Gonzaga College, at Spokane; and Patrick J. Brophy, Jr., born in April, 1899, is at- tending a parochial school in Butte. For his second wife Mr. Brophy married Miss Mary E. Ryan, a native of Canada. There have been no children born to the second union.

In his political proclivities Mr. Brophy is a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor and while he is not an active politician he is deeply interested in all matters tending to promote progress and improvement. For eight years he was a member of the Butte school board. In fraternal circles he is prominent as a Knight of Columbus and he is also affiliated with the Ancient Or- der of Hibernians, the Silver Bow Club and the Butte Country Club. In religious matters he is a stanch Catholic, and in this faith he is rearing his children. He was president of the Butte Business Men's Associa- tion in 1910-11, and his civic attitude is distinctly loyal' and public-spirited.

SAMUEL MCCONNELL. Today more than ever before, men are measured by what they accomplish. In 188t Samuel McConnell, then a youth in his seventeenth year, came to Montana to avail himself of the greater opportunities the West afforded the young man begin- ning an independent career. He was ambitious and had that courage and energy so essential to success, espe- cially so in a new country. In the interim of thirty years or more since then, his merit has won steady advance- ment until today he is filling the responsible position of general manager and superintendent of the Butte Cen- tral Copper Mining Company, of Butte, Montana.

Born in Ontario, Canada, November 20, 1864, Mr. McConnell is a son of Robert and Margaret (Car- ruthers) McConnell. Ontario, Canada, was also the nativity of his father, who was born there in 1832 but who died in 1887 in Wilmington, Ohio, where his body now reposes. Margaret Carruthers was born in Edin- burgh, Scotland, in 1830, and came to Canada with her parents when but a child. She was married to Robert

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McConnell in Canada, and she too passed away at Wilmington, Ohio, her death having occurred in 1888.

Samuel McConnell received his early education in the schools of Canada. While still a youth he left home and first went to the state of Ohio, where, however, he remained but a short time. From there he went to Covington, Kentucky, where he secured a position in the rolling mill of Mitchell, Trenter & Co., as an apprentice to learn the machinist's trade. In 1881, having mas- tered his trade, and having heard of the opportunities Montana afforded one of his vocation, he came to Helena, where he was first employed in the Nettie mine and later in the Whitlach mines, in each case as a machinist. He was thus engaged until 1896, when he secured a position as chief machinist for the Holder Hardware Company of Helena. He remained with this company until 1906, when he resigned to take charge of the Ophir mine at Butte. After a short time he was placed in charge of the property of the Butte Central Mining and Smelting Company, which was later sold to the Butte Boston Company, which, in turn, disposed of it to the Butte Central Copper Mining Company, owned and controlled by eastern and Canadian capitalists. When Mr. McConnell took charge of this property it was in an undeveloped state, as the mine was continually ac- cumulating considerable water and the owners had never solved the problem of how to dispose of the annoy- ance. With characteristic determination, Mr. McCon- nell in a short time had mastered the difficulty and the mine became a big producer, it now being considered one of the best in the Butte district. The main shaft is now down to the 1,000 foot level, with numerous lengthy lead tunnels, and the ore is of a high grade. In 1912 the most modern and up-to-date concentrator and cyanide plant for the treatment of ores in this sec- tion of the country, was completed, under the manage- ment of Mr. McConnell. The company has its offices at 829 South Dakota street and employs a force of 125 men. At the last meeting of the board of directors, Mr. McConnell was promoted from the office of general superintendent to that of general manager and superin- tendent. He is also a large stockholder in the com- pany.

On September 22, 1886, Mr. McConnell was united in marriage to Miss Hannah C. Millikan, of Wilmington, Ohio, daughter of John and Margaret C. (Himel- wright) Millikan. They have three children: Edna, wife of William A. McDonald, now a resident of Brit- tannia, British Columbia. She was born at Wilmington, Ohio, in 1887 and attended the State Normal school at Dillon, Montana; Samuel Verner McConnell, who was born at Helena, Montana, in 1903, and is now attending the public schools of Butte; and Montana Delight Mc- Connell, who was born in Butte, in 1906.

Fraternally Mr. McConnell affiliates as a member of the Masonic order, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks. In political affairs he gives his allegiance to the Democratic party, and in church faith and membership he is a Presbyterian.

Men like Mr. McConnell do not travel successward by luck, but by ability and conscientious effort, and the high and responsible position Mr. McConnell holds has come to him as a reward of his own well-directed ener- gies. His investments have been judicious and have prospered, and he is well known in the mining circles of Montana. Of genial disposition and charitable in his views and dealings with his fellow men, he is appre- ciated by his business associates both for his ability and personal character, and those same qualities render him an agreeable companion in social circles. While he is essentially a business man, yet he believes in a pru- dent equalization of work and recreation and is fond of all kinds of sport.

GUSTAVE THEO. NICKEL. One of the enterprising and progressive business men of Butte who has achieved

success in his chosen field of endeavor through the medium of his own individual efforts, is Gustave Theo. Nickel, senior member of the firm of Nickel & Olden- dorff, proprietors of the Old Silver Bow Buffet, at No. 39 North Main street. The youngest of a family of nine children, his father died when he was only three years old, and he was left an orphan when only fifteen years of age, since which time he has made his own way in the world, and stands today as an example of what may be accomplished through thrift, perseverance and industry. Mr. Nickel was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, November 10, 1861, and is a son of Henry and Katherine (Frederick) Nickel. Henry Nickel was born February 9, 1818, and spent his life in the meat business, dying in his native Fatherland in February, 1864. His wife was born in 1824 in Germany, and brought her family to the United States in 1874, pass- ing away in New York in 1876.

The education of Gustave Theo. Nickel comprised five years of study in his native country and two years in the schools of New York City. His first employ- ment was as a Western Union Telegraph messenger boy in New York City, and after spending two years in that capacity went to work for Madame Rudersdorff, the mother of Richard Mansfield, on whose farm he continued to work from 1878 to 1881. In May of the latter year Mr. Nickel came to Butte, and here he was engaged in the meat business with his brother Henry until 1890, at which time he engaged in the retail liquor business. This has grown to be one of the leading establishments of its kind in the city and caters to a large and representative trade. When the Spanish-American war broke out, Mr. Nickel became first lieutenant in Company F, First Montana Volun- teers, and during the greater part of the war served in the Philippine Islands. He was engaged in a number of hotly contested engagements, among which was Calocon, where his captain, William Hill of Helena, was wounded. Mr. Nickel was mustered out of the service at San Francisco, and at once returned to Butte, where his business had been carried on by his partner during his absence. Mr. Nickel has been prominent in fraternal circles, and belongs to the Sons of Her- mann, of which he is treasurer and ex-grand treasurer of the state; the B. P. O. E., the Eagles, and the and while he has not cared for office on his own account Bohemian Maennercher. Politically, he is a Republican, he has taken an active part in local matters, and wields wide influence in his part of the city. He resides at No. 217 North Alabama street, where he has a comfortable home.

On November 30, 1889, Mr. Nickel was married at Butte to Miss Mary Riehl, a native of Germany, who was brought to this country as a child and settled first in Peoria, Illinois. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Nickel: Carl, born September 12, 1890, who is now associated with the R. G. Dun Mercantile Agency ; Minnie, born in June, 1893; and Isma, born July 6, 1895, who is now a pupil in the Butte high school. Mr. Nickel has a thriving, up- to-date business and conducts it along progressive lines. He may feel a pardonable degree of pride in what he has accomplished, as he started out in life a poor boy, with no financial aid or strong influence be- hind him. An able and straightforward business man and patriotic and public-spirited citizen he is esteemed by a wide circle of acquaintances and has hosts of friends in the city of his adoption.

WILLIAM GALLICK. Among the men of foreign birth and breeding who have come to this country in early manhood, and through their own persevering efforts have worked their way upwards to places of importance and influence among their fellow associates is William Gallick, a well-known citizen of Butte. A son of William Gallick, he was born, August 30, 1830, in Gne-

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sen, Germany. His father spent his entire ninety- eight years of life in the Fatherland, during his active career having been engaged in business as a clothing merchant. His wife, whose maiden name was Jane Gumpert, died in 1842, at a comparatively early age.

Brought up in Germany, William Gallick received good educational advantages for his days. When twen- ty years old he followed in the footsteps of many of his enterprising countrymen, immigrating to the United States, landing in New York City in 1850. In 1852 he settled in New Haven, Connecticut, where he met the lady whom he subsequently wooed and won as his bride. Going from New England to California, he lived there a few years, and then located in Portland, Oregon, which was his home for nineteen years, while there being profitably engaged in the wholesale prod- uce business. Coming to Montana in 1881, Mr. Gal- lick located in Butte, becoming one of the pioneer wholesale liquor dealers of the city, a business in which he was actively employed until his retirement from active pursuits, in 1908.

Mr. Gallick cast his first presidential vote for James Buchanan, but has since been affiliated with the Re- publican party, while in Portland having been a leader in the political arena. During the Dugan administra- tion, Mr. Gallick served as police commissioner. He has been a regular attendant at political conventions, and as a member of the reception committee has ex- tended a welcome to every president of the United States that has visited the far western states.

In 1908, Mr. Gallick was elected presidential elector when W. H. Taft was nominated for president.

Mr. Gallick has always taken an active interest in church affairs and has for many years been president of the Congregation B'nai Israel of Butte, Montana. Mr. Gallick married, in New Haven, Connecticut, February 20, 1852, Blümchen Mendel. Of the chil- dren born of their union three survive, all being resi- dents of Butte, namely: Mrs. J. G. Sternfels; Mrs. Meyer Genzberger; and Emanuel Gallick. Mr. Gal- lick has three grandchildren and one great-granddaugh- ter.

Fraternally Mr. Gallick is a member, and has passed all of the chairs, of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons, having attained the 32nd degree in the Scottish Rite and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine; of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and is a member of B'nai B'rith.

RENO H. SALES. To Reno H. Sales has come the attainment of a distinguished position in connection with the great mining industry of the state of Mon- tana. His life achievements worthily illustrate what may be attained by persistent and painstaking effort. He is a man of progresive ideas; although versatile he is not superficial; exactness and thoroughness char- acterize all his attainments; his intellectual posses- sions are unified and assimilated; they are his own. Mr. Sales is chief geologist of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, with headquarters at Butte, where he has resided since 1900.

At Storm Lake, Iowa, on the Ioth of September, 1876, occurred the birth of Reno H. Sales, who is a son of Charles and Albertina (Zahn) Sales, the for- mer of whom was born in England in 1835, and the latter of whom was a native of Germany, where her birth occurred in 1843. Charles Sales immigrated to the United States in 1844 and after residing in Iowa for a number of years he came to Montana, settling in the vicinity of Bozeman, in 1881. He was a farmer by occupation and continued to be identified with that line of enterprise until the time of his demise, in Aug- ust, 1910. Mrs. Sales came to America from Germany in 1856 and she was summoned to the life eternal in 1898, at the age of fifty-five years. Reno H. Sales was

the sixth in order of birth of the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sales.

Mr. Sales, of this notice, was a child of but five years of age at the time of his parents' removal from Iowa to Montana. He was reared to the invigorating discipline of the old homestead farm, in the work and management of which he early became associated with his father. His preliminary educational training was obtained in the public schools of Helena and later he supplemented that training by a course of study in the Montana Agricultural College, at Bozeman, being graduated in the mining engineering department of that institution as a member of the class of 1898. Subse- quently he was matriculated as a student in Columbia University, in the city of New York, and was gradu- ated in that celebrated institution in 1900, duly receiv- ing his degree of Engineer of Mines. Upon complet- ing his collegiate work Mr. Sales came to Butte, where he secured a position in the engineering department of the Boston Montana Mining Company. He re- mained in the employ of that company for one year, at the expiration of which he entered the service of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, as assistant in the geological department. In 1906 Mr. Sales was made chief of the geological department and as the efficient incumbent of that position he is accomplish- ing remarkable results. His work carries him to dif- ferent parts of the state and he is daily proving him- self of more value to his employers.

While not an active participant in public affairs, Mr. Sales is a stalwart Republican in his political convic- tions and he gives freely of his aid and influence in support of all measures and enterprises advanced for the good of the general welfare. He is affiliated with the Silver Bow, Butte Country Club. In religious matters he and his wife are devout communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church, in the various depart- ments of whose work they are most zealous factors. In connection with his work Mr. Sales is a valued and appreciative member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the Montana Society of Engineers and the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America. Mr. Sales is exceedingly fond of all out-door sports and it may be said concerning his popularity that the circle of his friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances.

At Keokuk, Iowa, on the 6th of July, 1909, was sol- emnized the marriage of Mr. Sales to Miss Lorene Townsend, a daughter of J. W. Townsend, one of the early pioneers of Montana. Mr. Townsend is now engaged in the general merchandise business at Keo- kuk, Iowa, where he has resided for many years past. Mr. and Mrs. Sales became the parents of one child, Mary Townsend Sales, born on the 8th of May, 1910, and died February 18, 19II. The Sales home at Butte is a center of refinement and generous hospitality and Mr. and Mrs. Sales are very popular in connection with the best social activities of the city.

CHARLES J. SCHATZLEIN. It would be difficult to make any intelligent estimate of the value that has accrued to the state of Montana, and particularly to the city of Butte, as a direct result of the life and works of the late Charles J. Schatzlein. An artist of exceptional ability, he gave his attention to the portrayal of west- tern life and scenes, and in the wide-spread popularity which his productions have enjoyed throughout the country, the great Treasure State has never been the loser. Indeed, his work has done more to correct erroneous ideas of Montana than either the press or the people, the accuracy of his portrayals being their most salient feature. For thirty years a resident of Butte, he was known and loved by the people most understand- ingly. His acquaintance in that city dates back to the time when he arrived there, penniless but ambitious, and Butte has watched him evolve from the status of a

Chan Schaften

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paper-hanger and decorator to an artist of national fame. His life was a model of gentleness and virtue, and his death, which occurred on the 17th of August, IgII, was felt as a distinct loss in every home in Butte. He will not soon be forgotten and his work will never die.

Born in the town of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 1857, Charles J. Schatzlein was the son of John Schatzlein, a native of Germany, born there in 1834. He came to America as a young man and set- tled in Pennsylvania, carrying on a merchant-tailoring business. He died in 1906, on the 17th of August. He was married to Fredericka Saunders, born in Ger- many in 1842, who came as a child to America with her parents and was reared in Pennsylvania. She passed away in January, 1896, in that state where she had been reared and where she had passed her worthy life. Charles, their son, was educated in the public schools of the town of his birth, and after leaving school he was apprenticed to learn the paper-hanging and dec- orating business at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He com- pleted his term of apprenticeship, and was regarded as a finished workman and artistic decorator by all. His ambition was to see the western country, and without waiting to earn sufficient money to bring him to Mon- tana, he set out courageously, and made his way across the country as best he might with his slender purse. To "tramp it" was no hardship to him with his blithe spirits and his ardent love of the beautiful out-of- doors, and when necessity made that mode of traveling expedient, he cheerfully accepted it and the joys of the road more than repaid him for any possible inconven- iences he might have suffered. From Baltimore to Rea Rocks he came by rail, and from the latter named place he started by wagon across the plains of Montana, reaching Black Foot. on April 8, 1881; from that point he came by stage to Butte, arriving on the Ioth of April, 1881. The mining industry in Butte was at its height at that time and the customary industrial boom was on. Charles Schatzlein could not remain idle for long with his slender purse, and the cost of living was phenomenal in the new camp. His determination to start something on his own responsibility resulted in his opening a small paper-hanging shop, and he conducted a decorating business with excellent success for some time. The business expanded sufficiently for him to require help and he took a partner,-none other than ex-Governor Reickerts of Montana, and they carried on a growing business for a number of years. Finally Mr. Schatzlein bought out the interest of his partner and continued with the business alone. In the mean- time, the growing demands of the business, had made expedient a succession of moves into larger quarters, his last move being the present location of his shop on Broadway. During all these years the latent artistic talent of the man had been fostered and encouraged, and he had been giving a deal of his time to studies and to the production of his earlier work in this line. He always took for his subjects western scenes, never varying from that idea in his productions, even in later years when he had gained a degree of prominence in art circles. The early history of the west was a par- ticularly attractive type with him and his work has been regarded as the most accurate portrayals of any of the modern artists. He was the contemporary of Charles M. Russell, the well known cowboy artist, whose work is recognized throughout the country, and they were close friends from the time of Mr. Schatzlein's arrival in Montana. The productions of Mr. Russell's brush are on exhibition at the place of business of Mr. Schatzlein in Butte.'

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A history of Montana, Volume II, Part 95

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