A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 101

Author: Sanders, Helen Fitzgerald, 1883-
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 970

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JAMES C. JENSEN. Prominent among the business men of the younger generation, who through their own industry and persistent effort have achieved suc- cess in their chosen vocations, may be mentioned James C. Jensen, of Lavina, proprietor of a flourishing meat business and one of his adopted community's popular business citizens. Mr. Jensen is a native of Denmark, that sturdy kingdom that, although small in size and population, is great in history, and was born November 19, 1886, a son of John P. and Anna (Christiansen) Jensen, natives of Denmark, where they spent their lives. John P. Jensen was a carpenter by vocation, and although he held no high position in official life was known as an honest, industrious citizen and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. His wife passed away at the age of fifty-four years, having been the mother of five children, there being three sons and one daughter living at this time in the United States.

James C. Jensen received his education in the public schools of his native country, and lived in Denmark until reaching the age of fourteen years, at which time he went to Germany. There he was apprenticed to the trade of butcher, following it in the Fatherland for about nine years and then coming to the United States. For about one year Mr. Jensen made his home in Wis- consin and then came to Montana, first accepting a position with a bridge gang on the new Milwaukee railroad, in order to familiarize himself with the Eng- lish language. Being economical and industrious, he steadfastly saved his earnings, having determined to be the proprietor of a business of his own, and in , IgII, having accumulated the necessary capital, came to Lavinia and opened his present establishment. The suc- cess which has rewarded his efforts should be of a nature encouraging to the youth of any land, for on his arrival in this country Mr. Jensen had neither financial backing nor influential friends, but hewed out his own career and through earnest and conscientious effort built up a good business. His training was long and thorough, embracing all branches of the meat business, in addition to which he is an expert sausage maker, this being a regular part of the training in Germany. His

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establishment is equipped with the most modern ma- chinery and appliances and modern ideas have served to make it one of the leading meat markets in this part of the county. He also ships much of his sausage product to the neighboring towns and in this way has built up a very lucrative trade.

Mr. Jensen is unmarried. He is fond of hunting, fishing and driving, 'and the exceptional advantages of- fered hy Montana in this way are greatly appreciated by him, only adding to his belief that the Treasure state will in the near future be ranked as one of the leading commonwealths in the Union. He is a popular member of the Lavina Commercial Club and his reli- gious belief is that of the Luthern church. Politically he is independent and takes no active part in matters of a public nature.

FRANK J. O'BOYLE, president of the Silver Bow Com- mission Company and traffic manager for the Hennessy Company of Butte, is one of the well known business men of the city. He was born in Minneapolis, Minne- sota, on April 19, 1878, and is a son of Andrew and Julia (McDonald) O'Boyle, the former a native of Montreal, Canada, born there in 1850, and the latter of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where her life began in the same year as that of her husband. Andrew O'Boyle was an early settler of St. Paul, Minnesota, and there achieved success as a contractor and builder. He erected several of the largest and most imposing structures in the city. He located in St. Paul in 1873 and died there in 1910. Mrs. O'Boyle pased away in the same city on November 30, 1911. They were married in Elroy, Wisconsin, and they had six children, as follows : Mary, who died young, Frank G., Elizabeth, James A., Elsie and Margaret, all' excepting Frank J., reside in St. Paul.

Frank J. O'Boyle was educated in the public schools of St. Paul, and after leaving school he entered the service of the Great Northern Railroad as a clerk. He remained in the service of that road for four years, then passed four in the employ of the Minnesota Trans- fer Company. During the next seven years he was on the clerical force of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and at the end of that period came to Helena, Montana, to accept a position in the freight department of the Great Northern in that city.

In 1905 Mr. O'Boyle moved from Helena to Butte, having been engaged to manage the traffic department of the great establishment of the Hennessy Company in the latter named city. In his position as traffic manager he has rendered and is still rendering this company very efficient service, and is considered by its heads one of their most valuable employes. His services are highly appreciated and liberally rewarded by the company, and his obliging disposition and accurate knowledge of all details connected with his department of the business have won to him the fullest confidence and high regard of all who have dealings with the company in his branch of its operations.

Several years ago Mr. O'Boyle found a field for the employment of his surplus energy by organizing the Silver Bow Commission Company, of which he has been president from the beginning of its history, and which has been very successful in business, yielding to its stockholders handsome profits on their investment in it.

On June 21, 1905, in Helena, Montana, Mr. O'Boyle was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude Miller, born October 19, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois, and who was at the time of her marriage a popular school teacher in the capital city of the state. She is a daughter of Simon F. and Mary (Sullivan) Miller, who died when Mrs. O'Boyle was a child, and she was reared by Mr. and Mrs. John Keller of Helena. Mrs. O'Boyle graduated from St. Vincent's Academy and Helena Teachers' Training School. She became well known as an elocu- tionist. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. O'Boyle are:

Francis J., who was born in Butte on March 28, 1906; Eileen G., who was born in Butte on May 13, 1908; Donald J., born on December 26, 1909; and Lorene M. and Lawrence D., twins, the date of whose birth was October 28, 191I.

Mr. O'Boyle is, with reference to his fraternal rela- tions, a Knight of Columbus and a Modern Woodmen of America. In their religious affiliations Mr. and Mrs. O'Boyle are devout and zealous members of the Cath- olic church. In politics Mr. O'Boyle is an independent worker for the good of the city and county, without regard to party considerations. Everything that will promote the advancement of the city or county or min- ister to the welfare of their residents has his earnest and serviceable support.

EDWARD C. LEONARD. A citizen who has figured prominently in the business, public and social life of the state of Montana, and who has thus contributed in his sphere of action to the well being of the common- wealth and to the advancement of its normal and legitimate growth, is Edward C. Leonard, of 205 North Merrill street, Glendive, who has handled more prop- erty than any other man in Dawson county. Mr. Leon- ard was born on the farm of his father in Poweshiek county, Iowa, July 14, 1867, and is a son of Joshua and Ellen H. (Ady) Leonard.

On ,the paternal side Mr. Leonard is descended from natives of Wales, while his maternal ancestors came from England and were related to the old and hon- oréd Howard family of that country. His father, the son of an Ohio farmer, spent his boyhood days and was educated in the Buckeye state, and on first locating in Iowa settled at Muscatine, where he engaged in farm- ing and was married. Later in life he removed to Poweshiek county, where he continued to follow agri- cultural pursuits, was known as one of the pioneer farmers and stockmen of that county, and some ten years prior to his death retired from active pursuits and settled in the town of Brooklyn, where he died in 1900, at the age of sixty-seven years, his birth having occurred in Ohio in 1833. His wife, also a native of Delaware county, Ohio, now makes her home at Brook- lyn, Iowa. They had a family of seven children, as follows: Charles W., who lives at Rockwell City, Iowa; Minna, the wife of R. D. Ackley, of Brooklyn, Iowa; Oliver H., of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Alice, the wife of C. H. Ehrich, of Brooklyn, Iowa; Edward C .; Nora, the wife of Howard Simpson, living in West Liberty, Iowa; and Helen, who makes her home in Chicago. Joshua Leonard served for about sixteen years as county commissioner, was a member of the school board for some length of time, and was known throughout his community for his honesty and in- tegrity, frequently being named as referee in settling the disputes of his neighbors. Originally a Whig and later a Republican, he cast his first vote for John C. Fremont. In religion he adhered to the faith of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Edward C. Leonard was educated in the schools of Poweshick county and Iowa (now Grinnell) College. His first mercantile venture was in the general mer- chandise business in Brooklyn, Iowa, where he con- tinued from 1889 to 1900, and in the latter year came to Glendive. For about three years he followed the same line of business, but since then has been inter- ested in realty matters, and the large transactions with which he has been connected have made his name known throughout this part of the state in connec- tion with land deals. His operations have been so ex- tensive that within one year's time he has sold over 100,000 acres of land. At this time he owns about 7,000 acres of his own, and has many thousands listed for sale. Of his own land 1,600 acres are under culti- vation, while the other property includes some of the best city property to be secured, including improved

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and unimproved business and residence sites. He has been progressive and public-spirited, so conducting his affairs that they have resulted in the greatest meas- ure of good to his adopted city. He is the secretary and treasurer of both the Dawson County Development League and the Farmers Grain Company, is a school director, a director of the Dawson Fair Association and a member of the Board of the Dawson County Club. Like his father he is a Republican in his political views, and his fraternal connection is with Poweshiek Lodge No. 198, Knights of Pythias.

On December 12, 1902, Mr. Leonard married Miss Etta Heath, a resident of Brooklyn, Iowa, and a na- tive of Indiana. Her father, Charles Heath, was born in 1849, in Indiana, and died at the age of thirty years, having been the father of six children, of whom three are living. He spent all his life in agricultural pur- suits, and at the time of his death, which occurred on his fine Iowa farm, he was also engaged in general mercantile pursuits. He and his wife, also a native of Indiana, were faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in political matters he was a Republican. To Mr. and Mrs. Leonard there have been born five children: J. Cecil, Marjorie, Grace, Helen and Ruth.

DANIEL J. DONOHUE, M. D. Not only professionally prominent but also active in public affairs in Dawson county, Montana, Dr. Daniel J. Donohue, of Glendive, occupies a foremost place in the best citizenship of this section. He was born April 30, 1874, at New Rich- mond, St. Croix county, Wisconsin, and is a son of Charles and Mary ( McGoldrick) Donohue.

Hon. Charles Donohue is one of the representative men of St. Croix county, Wisconsin, and has had a busy life filled with much accomplishment. He was born in the city of Cork, Ireland, and was a motherless little boy when he accompanied his father across the Atlantic ocean. The lad had but few educational ad- vantages, in fact may be said to be entirely self-taught. The father remained for a time in the state of New York and then drifted west as far as St. Croix county, Wisconsin, where he subsequently died. Charles Donohue in early manhood made a prospecting trip to Colorado and engaged there in mining for a few years, when he returned to St. Croix county and fol- lowed an agricultural life until 1878. From that date until 1897 he was in business at New Richmond, dealing in agricultural implements. When excitement was at its height concerning the great gold discoveries in Alaska he started for the northwest on a prospect- ing tour and remained for five years more or less engaged during this period in mining and locating mines, and since returning to New Richmond acts as a professional mining expert. In 1889 he was elected sheriff of St. Croix county and served one term, enjoying the distinction of being the first Democratic incumbent of the office in that county. In 1891 he was elected register of deeds, was reelected for a second term, and was particularly honored by his party by being appointed a delegate-at-large from Wisconsin to the Democratic National Convention held at Denver, Colorado. In 1909 he was first elected mayor of New Richmond. Wisconsin, and in I911 was reelected and is serving in this office at the present time. He married Mary McGoldrick, who was born at Dubuque, Iowa, and died at Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1891, the mother of eight children, the three survivors being: Daniel J .; Anna. who is the wife of Dr. J .. M. Hagan, of New Richmond, Wisconsin; and Matze, who is the wife of Michael Barger. cashier of a banking insti- tution at Linton, North Dakota.

Daniel J. Donohue attended the New Richmond schools. the high school at Hudson, Wisconsin, and St. John's University at Collegeville, Minnesota. and in the class of 1899 was graduated from the Physicians

and Surgeons Medical College, which has been merged with the Minnesota University. After one year spent as house surgeon at St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota, he practiced at New Richmond from the spring to August, 1900, when he came to Glendive and has been in practice here ever since, making a specialty of surgery.

Dr. Donohue has always been a loyal and patriotic citizen and at the present time is major in the First Regiment, Montana State Guards. On April 28, 1898, he enlisted in Company C, Third Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, commanded by Col. M. T. Moore, of La Crosse, Wisconsin, for the Spanish-American war, and was honorably discharged at Hudson, Wisconsin, Jan- uary 7, 1899. On April 1, 1909, he was appointed a member of the State Board of Health by Governor Edwin Norris, for a four-year term. On numerous other 'occasions he has been particularly honored, in November, 1900, being elected a member of the Mon- tana House of Representatives, this being an honor, indeed, as he was the first Democrat ever elected from Dawson county, which is normally Republican, being called the banner Republican county of the state. Locally he has served terms as health officer of the city and county and served one term as alderman from the First ward. In the serious civic problems which every city faces, it is a good omen to find men like Dr. Donohue willing to grapple with them for the public good.

On December 30, 1905, Dr. Donohue was married to Miss Effie McEvoy, who was born at St. Paul, Minne- sota, and they have three children: Charles D., Evelyn and Daniel J. Dr. Donohue. is a member of the Roman Catholic church. His fraternal connections include the Knights of Columbus, the Sapnish-American War Vet- erans, at Butte, and life membership with St. Paul Lodge No. 59, Elks, and the Knights of Pythias. He is identified with the leading medical organizations of the country.

WILLIAM N. WAUGH, a successful and well-known attorney of Butte, was born in Clinton, the extreme northeastern county of New York, on June 23, 1875. His father. William H. Waugh, was a native of Ire- land and lived in that country until he was eight years old. He was born in Belfast, on Tulv 12, 1835. and in 1843 came with his parents to the United States and found a new home in the village of Champlain, Clinton county, New York, a short distance from Lake Champlain and very near the Canadian line. There he grew to manhood, obtained his education and, after reaching manhood. engaged in manufacturing and mer- chandising at various points in northern New York, and lastly at Mooers Forks, that state. He was a gentleman of much more than ordinary intelligence and force of character, and besides being successful in his business operations, he rose to prominence and influence in his locality, and had a potent voice in the management of all its civic and political affairs. For a number of years he held an important official posi- tion in the state prison at Dannemora, New York. He died in Mooers Forks in May, 1907, at the age of seventy-two years, lacking about two months. The mother, whose maiden name was Margaret Armstrong, was a daughter of William J. and Susan Armstrong. She was born at Mooers Forks, Clinton county, New York, and died at the same place on April 30, 1905. She was also of Irish ancestry, her parents having come from the north of Ireland. She and her hus- band were the parents of but one child, their son William N., who with his own children are the only living representatives of the family except two half brothers, issue of a prior marriage of the father.

William N. Waugh was educated in the public schools of his native town and the high school in Plattsburg in the same county. His first employment

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after leaving school was as a telegraph operator and accountant for the O. & L. C. Railroad, now owned by the New York Central Railroad, in whose employ he remained five years or more. At the end of that period failing health obliged him to resign his position and seek a change of climate and occupation, and he came to Butte to find what he sought in these respects.

Mr. Wangh arrived in Butte in the spring of 1900, and soon afterward was appointed messenger to the deputy clerk of the criminal department of the Silver Bow county court. His experience in that position created in him a desire to study law, and he began preparing himself for the practice of the legal profes- sion. After living in Butte one year, and thereby becoming eligible for the position, he was appointed deputy clerk of the county court, and three months later was made chief deputy clerk of the whole district, a position in which he gave the public excellent service for about two years.

He kept up his study of law diligently and syste- matically, and before resigning his clerkship was ad- mitted to the bar. He at once began the practice of his profession, and in this he has been actively and profitably engaged ever since. He has had a general practice of large extent, and also served as assistant county attorney under James E. Murray from 1906 to 1908. He is interested in an active mining company, too, and a director of several mercantile corporations. Fraternally he belongs to the Masonic order, holding his membership in What Cheer Lodge, No. 689, at Nor- wood, in the state of New York.

Mr. Waugh was married in Butte, on March 8, 1903, to Miss Lewis Manker, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, and the daughter of C. E. Manker. Four children have been born to the union, all of them natives of Butte. They are: William N., Jr., born in May, 1905, Marie Antoinette, Vera and Marjorie. The fam- ily residence is at 114 South Idaho street.

WILLIAM XAVIER SUDDUTH, M. D. Although his professional eminence has brought him a larger measure of distinction than comes to many men yet in the vigor of their powers, perhaps Dr. William Xavier Sudduth, whose magnificent estate of 30,000 acres surrounds Broadview, Montana, is as proud of what he has scientifically developed on this land, as of any of his conquests over disease or of his successful battles for the cure of both mental and physical ills. Dr. Sudduth is a remarkable man. He was born January 18, 1853, at Springfield, Illinois, and is a son of Dr. James M. and Amanda E. (Ashmore) Sudduth.

James M. Sudduth was born October .8, 1818, in Kentucky, and died in 1895. His parents were Thomas and Anne (McCreary) Sudduth, both of whom were natives of Kentucky. In 1839 Thomas Sudduth liberated his slaves and moved to Ohio, and later emigrated to Springfield, Illinois, where both he and wife died. James M. Sudduth attended school in Kentucky, after- ward accompanied his parents to Illinois, where he began his medical reading, and in 1851 commenced practice in Menard county, Illinois, later removing to Sangamon county. In 1854 he entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, and as a special student under the late Dr. N. S. Davis was graduated in the class of 1855, returning then to Menard county. He engaged there in medical practice until 1861, when he was appointed a member of the board of sanitary commission by President Lincoln, the duties of this body including the transporting of army supplies to the front. Just prior to the battle of the Wilderness he was appointed assistant division surgeon of the Twenty-eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, under Dr. West, and saw active service in the battles of Atlanta, Corinth and Missionary Ridge. In 1885 Dr. James M. Sudduth, in partnership with his son and David Fratt, organized, at Bloomington, Illinois, the

Musselshell Cattle Company, with a capital of $240,- 000 and headquarters at Billings, Montana. He re- mained president of this company until his death and was then succeeded by the subject of this sketch. He married Amanda E. Ashmore, who was born in Illinois and died in 1897. Of their family of three children, two survive: William Xavier and Margaret.

William Xavier Sudduth prepared for college at the Illinois State Normal University, Normal, Illinois ; was later graduated Ph. B., from the Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, and also received therefrom the degree of A. M. in 1889. Ten years prior to this, however, in 1879, he had commenced the study of dentistry, in 1881, engaged in dental prac- tice for two years at Bloomington, Illinois. In 1883 he began to read medicine under Drs. James B. Taylor and William F. Mittendorf, of New York; attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in that city, and the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, receiving the degree of M. D. from the latter institution in 1885. During the three succeed- ing years he spent the larger portion of his time as a graduate student in the universities of Berlin, Heidel- herg and Vienna.

From 1884-90, Dr. Sudduth was a director of the physiological and pathological labratory of the Medico- Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, and lecturer on clinical microscopy and genito-urinary diseases, with several leaves of absence, during which he was en- gaged in post-graduate study abroad and lecture courses in the universities of Iowa and California. In 1890 he was elected professor of pathology and oral surgery in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine, but did not enter upon the duties of the position, as he was considering the matter of leaving that city to accept a similar position in the medical department of the university at Min- neapolis, Minnesota. There he entered upon his duties in July, 1890, filling the chair acceptably for five years, resigning in 1895, and entering into medical practice in the city of Chicago. Shortly afterward Dr. Sudduth established the Alpha Sanitarium, at Lake Forest, Illinois, a private home and the pioneer institution of its kind in America, for the treatment of functional derangements and morbid mental states that occur during adolescence. This home became widely known and as years passed its scope was somewhat enlarged. In his many years of medical experience Dr. Sudduth had realized the great need for such an institution and so sound and scientific were his conclusions that he had no difficulty in interesting other advanced thinkers and prominent men of medicine; and the con- sulting faculty of that sanitarium was made up of men of eminence in medical science.

Dr. Sudduth's contributions to medical knowledge have been numerous and could his books, papers and lectures be collected a fine scientific library would result. For seven years he was on the staff of senior editors of the "Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences," Philadelphia, having the departments of embryology, anomalies and monstrosities. He also edited the International Dental Journal during 1888- 89, in 1885, his article on "Embryology and Histology," produced in the "American System of Dentistry," excit- ing much favorable comment. The greater number of his articles have been on strictly scientific subjects and they display a fund of knowledge and of care- ful thought and investigation that place them among the valuable writings of the time. It is useless to endeavor to place before the readers of this work all . these contributions, for they appear in numerous re- ports and in many of the leading journals of the day, but mention may be made of a few that illustrate the many fields of investigation in which Dr. Sudduth has walked with open eyes. In 1887 his "Special Forms of Ossification" was read before the Ninth Interna-

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A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 101

Author: Sanders, Helen Fitzgerald, 1883- Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 970

Author: Sanders, Helen Fitzgerald, 1883-
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 970