A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 102

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

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tional Medical Congress; in 1888 his "Products of the Epiblast" was read before the American Medical Asso- ciation, Newport, Rhode Island; in 1894 appeared "The Antrum of Highmore in its Relation to Vocal Reson- ance," in the Journal of the American Medical Associa- tion; in 1895, "The Present Scientific Status of Hypno- tism," Chicago Review; "A Study in the Psycho- Physics of Music," Minnesota Mogasinc, April, 1895; "Psycho-Physics of Sleep," in connection with the treatment of insomnia, Journal of the American Medical Association, December, 1895; "Suggestions as an Ideo- dynamic force," 1896; "Hypnotism and Crime," Journal of the Medico-Legal Society, New York, 1895; "A study in the Psychology of Inebriety" and "Modern Methods of treating the Antrum," read before the American Medical Association, 1896. A reprint of "The Psychology of Narcotism," read in the section on Neurology and Medical Jurisprudence at the forty- seventh annual meeting of the American Medical Asso- ciation, gives Dr. Sudduth's titles as follows: Fellow of the Chicago Academy of Medicine; professor of morbid psychology, Chicago Post Graduate School ; consulting physician and neurologist, Chicago Eye and Ear Hospital; and chief consulting physician of the Alpha Sanitarium.

In but small measure has credit been given in the above brief review, of the wonderful things that Dr. Sudduth has accomplished in what may be termed his professional activities and no less wonderful re- sults have been brought about in an entirely different direction by this man of resistless energy and thorough- ly enlightened understanding. For more than forty years he has been identified to some extent in the development of the great west, and during all the stren- uous years when mental effort must have engaged a large proportion of his time, his thoughts have wan- dered to that land of promise, far toward the setting sun, where, gradually he was acquiring land, which has resulted in his present vast possessions in Mon- tana. A scientist by choice and profession, he early recognized that Montana was a rich field for scientific experimentation. It might be too long a story for these pages to record how he was first led to take his present interest in alfalfa, on which wonder work- ing plant he is perhaps the greatest living authority today.

To the ordinary man alfalfa was merely a rich forage plant, useful, yes necessary to the cattlemen of these wide ranges, but to Dr. Sudduth it appeared in a very different guise, finding in it not only the elements for the growing of stock but also for the nutrition of mankind. He has made many experi- ments and has developed many forms of alfalfa that possess great nutritive qualities and there is prospect that a beginning has but been made. He may be named as one of the world's benefactors on account of his scientific work in this direction, for if he can produce a food for the human race, rich in protein and without starchy matter, that can be grown where nothing else will flourish, his fame is assured.

At the American Land and Irrigation Exposition, Madison Square Garden, New York City, November 3-12, 1911, Dr. Sudduth was awarded the Van Cleve cup for the best general exhibit, open to all along the line of the Great Northern Railroad, to the per- son who demonstrated the best and widest uses for alfalfa as food for man and beast. At Minneapolis, Minnesota, he secured the L. W. Hill cup, awarded for a similar object at the Northwest Products Exposi- tion, November 12, 1912. He also won the J. J. Hill cup at the Billings Dry Farming Exposition, 1910, for the best general exhibits. Dr. Sudduth's achievements rank with those of Luther Burbank as discoveries of science while the results promise to be yet more gen- erally beneficial.

Dr. Sudduth was married in 1875, to Elizabeth

(Staple) Ballard, who was born at Lexington, Ken- tucky, and was a daughter of Dr. James L. and Kath- erine (Hogan) Ballard, the latter of whom was born in Jessamine county, Kentucky, in 1832, and was a resident of Saybrook, Illinois.

Miss Mabel Sudduth, Dr. Sudduth's only child, is in close sympathy with her father and is a successful farmer herself. She has taken prizes for several years at the dry farming contests both in Montana and in Wyoming and was the first woman delegate to rep- resent her state at the dry farming congress, being sent by the governor of Montana to the International Dry Farming Congress at Colorado Springs, in 1911.

Dr. Sudduth's experiment station has been main- tained on the farm of his daughter, near Broadview, Montana. This young lady left college with failing health but regained it through open air life on her land, where she has for several years been thoroughly interested in intensive farming.

An interesting experiment is now in progress in the city of Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Sudduth having made a contract with one of the large bakeries of that city for the making of six kinds of health bread, upon the principles he has evolved from his study of the alfalfa food question, and doubtless other sections will soon have an opportunity of testing the value of alfalfa flour and other scientifically prepared products of a plant that has been known in Egypt from ancient days.

Dr. Sudduth has recently removed to Great Falls, Montana, where he will hereafter reside and engage extensively in growing pedigreed alfalfa seed and in manufacturing the many stock and human foods that he has evolved from this wondrous legume, "the Father of foods" as the Hebrew original, allafafa, reads when liberally translated.

WALTER D. NEELY, the assistant postmaster of Butte, was well trained for the duties of his present position hy long experience in the postal service in capacities lower down, and the manner in which he meets the requirements of the station he now occupies shows that the seed sown in his training fell on good ground and is yielding an abundant harvest of benefit and satisfac- tion for all the patrons of the office, as well as for the government by which he is employed.

Mr. Neely was born in Knox county, Illinois, on March 5, 1877, and is a son of Charles R. and Mary (De Long) Neely, also natives of that state, where they are still living. The father is a farmer and has passed the whole of his life from his youth to the present time (1912) in that occupation. Although he has had many temptations to locate in other parts of the country, he has found the rich soil of the Prairie state and his surroundings in his home neighborhood from boyhood sufficient for all his requirements, and has remained where he began operations.

Walter D. Neely was reared in his native county and obtained his education in the public schools, finishing at the high school in Galesburg, from which he was graduated in the class of 1897. In October of the same year he entered the postal service as a clerk at Galesburg, and there he remained until February 1, 1900, when he was transferred to Butte, beginning his service in this city also as a clerk, and continuing it in that capacity for a number of years, all the time mak- ing an excellent record for ability and fidelity and broadening and deepening his popularity among all classes of the people.

On June 17, 1907, he was appointed assistant post- master, greatly to the gratification of all the residents of the city, and he has filled the office to their entire satisfaction ever since. He is a gentleman of superior business ability and acumen, is careful, painstaking and accurate in the highest degree, has an affable and obliging disposition and is in all respects the courteous

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and courtly product of high social culture at work for the public good in a very important and responsi- ble position, with all the qualifications required for the best administration of the affairs of his office.

As an evidence of Mr. Neely's devotion to his country and his interest in the welfare of the govern- ment he has so long served with great fidelity, it should be stated that when the Spanish-American war was in progress he asked for and obtained leave of absence to join the army recruited to carry on the war, and in June, 1898, enlisted as a private in Com- pany C, Sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. In this company he served until November 26, 1898, going with General Miles on his expedition to Porto Rico and par- ticipating in the triumphs the veteran of several wars won on that tropical island, which brought it under our flag. In consequence of his military service Mr. Neely is a member of the organization of United Span- ish War Veterans, and is at this time commander of Henry W. Lawton Camp. He is very popular so- cially throughout the city and county of his present home, and well deserves all the regard and good will the people bestow upon him.

RICHARD P. SUTTON, in the theatrical world known only as "Uncle Dick Sutton." is a veteran producer who is recognized in the east and loved and honored throughout the west.

He is the son of David P. Sutton, of Virginia, who in his young manhood moved to the sister state of Kentucky and chose for his wife Isabella Reynolds, one of the fair daughters of the native soil. Mr. and Mrs. David Sutton erected the first frame house in Mt. Freedom, Jessamine county, Kentucky, and here began their married life. The building served not only as a residence but as a public hall, a general store and the government postoffice, Mr. Sutton having been appointed postmaster for Mt. Freedom. The mer- cantile business was conducted after a manner quite its own, and the litttle store became a godsend to the pioneers of the surrounding country. True, they set- tled their accounts annually, and then not often in cash, but they were, generally speaking, an honest and upright people, so that Mr. Sutton at the time of his death, in 1850, had accumulated a considerable estate.

There were left to mourn his death a widow and seven small children, four sons and three daughters. The oldest daughter, Mary, is now the wife of Mr. J. B. Smith, of Bloomington, Indiana, her sister Mar- garet, who married Mr. Tobias Slocum, being a resi- dent of the same city. Martha, the third daughter, is Mrs. William Andrew. George H. is an employe of one of the large railroads, his headquarters be- ing in St.Louis and David P. has his residence in Shelbyville, Illinois.

Some years after the death of the husband and fa- ther, Mrs. Sutton became the wife of John Coley and by this marriage the mother of two more chil- dren, John W. Coley, who died in childhood, and Ben- jamin F., a farmer in Kentucky. In 1854 Mr. Coley, the second husband, was carried away in the terrible cholera scourge of 1854. His wife, left with nine chil- dren, the oldest son of whom was scarcely ten years of age, returned to Lexington, her childhood home, in the hope of being able to educate her little ones. The strain proved too much for her and she, too, passed away, in 1857. The three little girls, having no one to care for them, were placed in a home for orphans.

Richard Sutton, the oldest of the boys, who had been born in that first frame house in Jessamine county, April 15, 1845, took his two younger broth- ers and went to the home of an uncle in Evansville. Indiana. The uncle received them warmly and adopted them as his own. There for four years Richard Sut- ton lived as a member of his uncle's family. At the

'age of sixteen he insisted on beginning life for him- self. He procured employment on the river in the winter and traveled with a circus in the summer, post- ing bills and acting as general roustabout. In 1874 he opened a restaurant in the railway station at Moberly, Missouri. Three years later he formed a partner- ship with Robert J. Cannon and entered into the res- taurant business in Ottumwa, Iowa. This line of work, however, was never to his liking and the next year he purchased the right of city bill poster. From this it seemed only a step to the management and con- trol of the Lewis Opera house. "There is a niche in this world for every man. The only difficulty is in finding it." Richard Sutton had found his niche. So popular did he become with both the professionals and the patrons who frequented his house that he was during his six years of service presented with two gold headed canes as tokens of their confidence and good will.

He discontinued the management of this house with the intention of going to Chicago to make a name for himself, but some good fairy seemed to hold him back. Perhaps it was a fairy in the person of Miss Fanny Keeler, a Canadian girl who was making her home in Albia, Iowa. In any case, she finally con- sented to become Mrs. Richard Sutton and has always been the inspiration of her husband's life, his help- mate in time of need, and his companion in his suc- cess. Their domestic life is most enviable.

After their marriage the young couple made an extensive tour of the country but returned to Ot- tumwa, where they rented a small hotel. With the genial nature of the host and the good management of the young wife they were soon compelled to twice double the capacity of their small house. Mr. Sut- ton at this time assumed also the management of the Turner Theater. After the expiration of a two years' lease on this opera house, he decided to try his for- tune on the road, the good wife managing the hotel until the experiment might be tested. He acted as showman in the summer and traveled with a "Uncle Tom's Cabin Company" in the winter. It was he who conceived the idea of two Topsies and two Marks in the "Uncle Tom" shows. So successful was this ven- ture that for twelve years he continued in the same line of work, owning his scenery, cars and other equip- ment and acting as his own manager.

His first long trip was to the western coast, where the "Mammoth Uncle Tom's Cabin Company" was most popular. During the following year he made his first visit to Butte, and so pleased was he with the town that he then and there agreed to make it his future home should the time ever arrive for him to discontinue his nomad life. The following year he visited Butte with "3008 Combined Shows" known generally under the name of "Richards' Three Big Shows." This time they remained in Butte for three days, July 5th, 6th and 7th. In the spring they made an extensive tour of the south, playing in Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana, then returning through Oklahoma and the west. On reaching Salt Lake City, Mr. Sutton received from some citizens of Butte a proposition to bring the shows, of which he was manager and part owner, and locate perma- nently in that city. So flattering did this proposition appear that he at once cancelled the further engage- ments in the west and made straight for Butte. On arriving he was much chagrined to discover that the men who had made him the offer were not to be found Nothing daunted, however, he rented the Casino, a house of doubtful reputation, but the only one avail- able.

Here he established his company and ran his per- formance for six continuous weeks. The success was almost unprecedented and Mr. Sutton realized that his own fortune was made. He gave up all thought of

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the road and began to look for a suitable site for the erection of an opera house of his own. In the mean- time he leased the Caplice Hall, corner of Montana and Park streets, and opened here on the 19th of October, calling the house "The Family Theater" which name it still bears. This was the first theatrical busi- ness to be established in Butte. Five years afterward Mr. Sutton purchased the Grand Opera House. He took the deed to his ever loyal wife, saying: "Here is a little gift for you," which gift Mrs. Sutton still preserves in her own right. Their next step was to erect "The Sutton Theater" now called "The Orion Theater," located on Broadway. Three years later he built a house which he called "The Lulu," in honor of his only daughter. It is now known as "The Broadway." Quite recently this pioneer manager pur- chased the Grand Opera House at Great Falls, Mon- tana.

About this time he was instrumental in organizing "The Northwestern Theatrical Association," of which he is vice-president and secretary, Mr. Calvin Heilig being president and John Cort, manager. This as- sociation is a recognized power throughout the world of amusement.

In 1908 "Uncle Dick Sutton" was compelled to re- tire from active managerial service, but will always be in the work to which he has devoted a lifetime of honest effort. Uncle Dick is genial, versatile and kindly of soul. Never has he been known to turn away from his door a member of the profession who was in need. Butte is indebted to him for many acts of public generosity as well as for the large part he has played in making her one of the leading cities of the northwest. Many times has he opened his opera houses and turned the proceeds into the channels of city charity.

He votes the national Democratic ticket, but insists that the city of his choice should not soil her skirts in the mire of party politics. He still retains his mem- bership in the News Boys Club and the Traveling Men's Association, much to the delight of the other members of these organizations. He belongs to the Silver Bow Club and to the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks.

"The Show World" for April 25, 1908, contains a very good article on the usefulness in the theatrical work of "Uncle Dick Sutton." May his last years bring him the peace and comfort that he so richly deserves.

MAXWELL B. EYERMAN is a native of California. His father, Bernhart Eyerman, came to America from Germany when a young man, and was one of the "forty-niners" who went to California in that exciting time. Mr. Eyerman made the journey from New York to the Golden Gate by going around the Horn, and the trip consumed six months. He became established in the mercantile business at San Jose, and lived there until his death in 1908. He had served the country of his adoption as a soldier during the Civil war. The mother of Mr. Maxwell Eyerman is also a native of Germany, who came to America as a young girl, and in San Francisco met and married Mr. Eyerman. Her maiden name was Anna Klinkeberg, and she is now sixty-one years of age, and still resides in San Jose. She is one who may be truly said to be "sixty-one years young," for she is in the full vigor of her powers.

It was in the town of San Jose that Mr. Maxwell Eyerman was born on April II, 1878. He attended the public schools and graduated in 1893. He then started to work, in the fruit industry, but decided to learn the photographer's trade after he had been out of school for a short time. He served his apprentice- ship with Mr. Taper, one of the best artists in San Francisco. After two years in Mr. Taper's studio Mr. Eyerman came to Butte and for four years was engaged

in what his German ancestors would call his journey- man's service In 1900 he started in business for him- self. It required some time for him to gain a foot- hold and to build up a trade of his own, but his artistic ability and his knowledge of the craft ultimately won him recognition as a photographer and as an artist, and now the Elite Studio is one of the best known in the state, and the beautiful work which it puts out attracts the widest and the most favorable notice. His portrait work and the lighting effects which he pro- duces are especially worthy of comment.

In 1901 Mr. Eyerman was married to Miss Elizabeth Burns, a popular young lady of Butte. They are the parents of two children, Maxine B. and J. R. Wharton Eyerman, both born in Butte. The elder little girl has just started to school and the younger is attending kindergarten. The family are members of the Episcopal church.

Like his father, Mr. Eyerman has a military record. During the Spanish-American war he went to the Philippines, and spent two years in active service. He was taken sick while in the Islands, but this did not interfere with the performance of his duties. For a long period he was on the firing line day and night, and he did not escape exciting adventures along with Major Silverthorne's division of the army. He received his honorable discharge at San Francisco, and returned to Butte to resume the work he had interrupted to go to the front. He is a member of the order of the Spanish War Veterans, and also of the Elks. By means of these affiliations and because he is decidedly sociable by nature, he has a large acquaintance throughout the state, and counts a host of friends in this common- wealth, In politics he is a Republican, but has never aspired to office. He is a devotee of the rod and the rifle, and has some fine pelts as trophies of his skill.

JOHN L. TEMPLEMAN. A well-known and success- ful attorney of Butte, John L. Templeman was born near Axminster, Devonshire, England, on March II, 1872, and began his education in the public schools of that country. At the age of ten years he was brought by his mother to this country and located with her in Jasper county, Iowa, where he completed his district school training and then entered the New Sharon high school, from which he was graduated in 1893. He next attended Iowa College, and graduated therefrom in 1897, when he entered the law department of the University of Virginia, from which he was graduated in 1899, with the degree of LL. B.

Locating in Butte in 1900, he was, soon after his arrival, admitted to practice in the supreme court and began his professional career in that city. He made an immediate connection with the law firm of Roote & Clark and thus continued until 1903, when he was appointed city attorney of Butte and served until his successor qualified in 1905. He then resumed his part- nership relations with Messrs. Roote and Clark for one year and at the end of that time became associated with Hon. William A. Clark, United States senator from Montana, as one of his legal advisers. In March, 1908, he formed a new partnership with Henry L. Maury, Esq., and that partnership is still maintained. Mr. Templeman is extensively interested in mining operations in Montana and adjacent states which in- terests require much of his time.

Mr. Templeman's father, Robert J. Templeman, was a native of England, where he was engaged in farm- ing and raising live stock until the end of his life, in 1881, at the age of forty-one years. The mother, whose maiden name was Mary A. Little, died at Parsons, Kansas, in 1907, at the age of sixty years. She and her husband were the parents of six children, John' L. and his four brothers and one sister: Robert, Charles, Joseph and Henry and Kate Templeman, who is now a resident of Parsons, Kansas, The male members

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of the family are living in various places, and in their several communities they are representatives of elevated manhood and the best American citizenship.

Jolın L. Templeman was married in Butte, in June, 1902, to Miss Irene Isabelle LeBeau. They have no children of their own, but are rearing an adopted son, Percy LeBeau Templeman, whom they took into their home in 1905. He is now attending school in Butte. Mr. Templeman is a prominent member of the Mon- tana Bar Association, the Silver Bow and University Clubs, and other professional and social organizations. In politics he is an ardent Democrat, firmly fixed in his faith in the principles of his party as the promise and fulfillment of the highest and most enduring good to his state and the country, and in all its campaigns he is one of the hardest and most effective workers for the success of its candidates. He stands high as a lawyer, has wide popularity as a man and is admired for his public spirit and progressiveness as a citizen.

A. CARLTON MCDANIEL. Devoting his time and energies to the profession of his choice, A. Carlton McDaniel, of Butte, is meeting with most satisfactory success as a lawyer, having within a comparatively few years built up a good practice, his success in life being entirely due to his own unaided efforts. A native of Kentucky, he was born, February 21, 1877, in Mont- gomery county, which was also the birthplace of his father, the late Judson McDaniel. He is of Scotch- Irish stock. The grandfather served in the War of 1812, the founder of the branch of the McDaniel fam- ily to which he belongs having immigrated to this coun- try in colonial days.

Born and reared in Montgomery county, Kentucky, Judson McDaniel became a tiller of the soil, and was engaged in general farming until his death, December 9, 1905. He married Mary E. Blevins, a native of Mad- ison county, Kentucky, where her birth occurred March 10, 1845. She died May 26, 1886, having borne her hus- band four children, as follows: Cora, deceased, was the wife of S. E. Anderson; Charles lived but two years; A. Carlton, the special subject of this brief biographical record; and Kate, who is unmarried, and now resides in Lexington, Kentucky.

Brought up on the home farm, A. Carlton McDaniel laid a substantial foundation for his future education in the rural schools of Montgomery county, Kentucky, after which he continued his studies at the Kentucky Training School, at Mount Sterling, from there going to the University of Virginia. Coming to Montana in 1900, Mr. McDaniel entered the law office of Jesse B. Roote, in Butte, as a law student, and while there took a correspondence course in law. In December, 1903, he was admitted to the Montana bar, and has since 1906 been actively engaged in the general practice of law in Butte, and has been eminently successful in his professional career.

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A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 102

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