A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 122

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

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24th day of December, 1870. Several children were born to John C. Ross and his wife, five of whom are living. Catherine P. is the eldest and is now the wife of John Ralston, and lives in Red Wood City, California. David, born June 16, 1861, at Table Grove, Illinois ; John C., who lives in Hoopeston, Illinois, having moved from East Lynn to that place. Hattie N. is the wife of William Abernathy and lives at Table Grove, Illinois, as does also Charles P. Ross, the youngest.

David Ross received his elementary education at the country schools of Fulton county, Illinois, and later en- tered Lombard University at Galesburg, Illinois. For one year he attended the Gem City Business College at Quincy, Illinois, graduating from the same in 1879. Having determined that he would become a lawyer, he farmed and plowed corn in order to secure the money to pay the necessary expense of taking a course of law at the Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from this institution in 1892, with the degree of LL. B. and was admitted to the bar of the state of Illinois in that year. In 1893 he began to practice law at Peoria, Illinois, where he became associated with the firm of Page & Puterbaugh, the latter being Judge Leslie D. Puterbaugh of Illinois, whose father was the author of Puterbaugh's Common Law Pleadings and Practice. He had originally been associated with Robert G. Ingersoll, the brilliant orator and atheist. Later the firm became Page, Wead & Puterbaugh and upon the election of Judge Puterbaugh to the bench of the circuit court of Illinois and his retirement from the firm, the firm name was changed to Page, Wead & Ross. While in Peoria Mr. Ross was on the legal staff of the Vandalia Railway Company, the Iowa Central Railway and the St. Louis, Peoria and Northern Railway Com- pany. In 1903 his wife's health having failed, he deter- mined to move to a better climate, severing his connec- tions with the above firm, came to Montana, settling in Kalispell. He was admitted to the bar of Montana and practiced law for two years, at the end of this time re- moving to New York City, where he was in active prac- tice after his admission to the bar of New York for two and one-half years. This climate not agreeing with Mrs. Ross's health, in October, 1907, he returned to Kalispell, and since that time has been actively engaged in the practice of law, where he built up a large and lucrative business. He is referred to by all as one of the leading attorneys in the city and the size of his clientele is the best proof of his success, which has been won by his own hard work. In 1898 Mr. Ross crossed the continent of Europe on a bicycle, that being his only method of transportation, and in 1900 navigated the Yukon river in a small sail and row boat.

Politically Mr. Ross is a Democrat and his profes- sional associations are with the Illinois State Bar Asso- ciation and with the American Bar Association. In religious matters he is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, and during his residence in Peoria was a member of the vestry of St. Paul's Episcopal church. His fraternal affiliations are with the Elks, the Odd Fellows and the Masons, and he also still holds his membership in the Country Club and the Pensthemon Club of Peoria.

Mr. Ross was married on March 8, 1885, to Mary E. Throckmorton at Macomb, Illionis, his wife being a member of a prominent family of that name who lived near Columbus, Ohio, and a relative of former Governor Throckmorton of Texas. He lost Mrs. Ross in March, 1897, and was married to Miss Anna Leslie Lucas at Peoria, Illinois, on November 14, 1900. Miss Lucas was the daughter of Fannie P. Lucas who was the daughter of Sabin D. Puterbaugh of Peoria, Illinois, the author of Puterbaugh's Common Law Pleadings and Practice and the Illinois and Michigan Chancery Practice. Mrs. Ross was born in Indiana, in the city of Indianapolis, Aug 16, 1880. Mr. Ross has five children: Hattie N., born January 20, 1886, who is the wife of Lamont Lock-

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wood, a prominent banker in Chattanooga, Tennessee; John C. Ross, born February 2, 1888, and is a prominent young civil engineer at Asheville, North Carolina ; Mary Ross, born July 3, 1893, who is attending the State Nor- mal school at Macomb, Illinois.

To Mr. Ross and Anna Leslie Lucas Ross were born two children : Francis Leslie Ross, born in New York City, September 6, 1901, and Anna Eva Sabina Ross, born in New York City on August 17, 1905.

Mr. Ross is the president and manager of the Kalis- pell Title Guarantee & Abstract Company, and is the owner of a fine fruit farm and other land in Montana, as well as being the owner of valuable city property. He owns the beautiful residence where he makes his home, at 520 Sixth avenue, east, and his offices are in the Alicia D. Conrad building.

GIRARD B. ROSENBLATT. The town of the great northwest has proved too strong for many former resi- dents of the east, and these men, now eminent in their respective spheres of activity, are now solid and sub- stantial factors in the citizenship of this country. One of the ablest electrical engineers of the state of Mon- tana is Girard B. Rosenblatt. Mr. Rosenblatt came to Montana first in 1903 on some special engineering work. He returned to Pittsburg and New York, but could not resist the influences calling him back into the north- west and on December 23, 1905, came to Montana to stay.

Girard B. Rosenblatt was born in New York City in 1881. He belongs to a family which originally had its seat at Frankfort-a-Main, in Germany. From that locality Gottlieb Rosenblatt immigrated to New York about 1830. Gottlieb Rosenblatt was a merchant and importer and was also prominent as one of the founders of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. His wife's name was Katrina Rosenblatt. The father of the Montana engineer was M. G. Rosenblatt, who mar- ried Frances Bernhard. The father, who for many years was a silk manufacturer, was born in. New York in 1848, while his wife was born in the same city in 1854.

Girard B. Rosenblatt was reared and educated in New York City, and graduated from Columbia Uni- versity in 1902. Having attained technical equipment he began active work as electrical engineer, and some time later, as already mentioned, was sent west upon a mission, the result of which was that for the past eight years he has been a permanent resident of Mon- tana. Mr. Rosenblatt is in charge of the mining division for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Com- pany, and formerly was in charge of the Butte branch office for this company. Earlier in his career he was a transformer designer, and also engaged in private work. In politics he is a Democrat, and has numerous fraternal social and professional relations. Mr. Rosen- blatt is affiliated with Butte Lodge No. 22, A. F. & A. M .; with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers ; with a number of the Alumni Associations of the Co- lumbia University and vice-president for 1913 of the Utah Chapter ; a member and in 1904 a director of the Sylvan Canoe Club at Pittsburg; has membership in the Silver Bow Club and the Butte Country Club at Butte; belongs to the University Club and the Country Club of Salt Lake City; and is a member of the Ameri- can Canoe Association and an honorary member of the Electrical Society M. A. C.

Mr. Rosenblatt was married at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1909 to Miss Elsie Margaret Klein, who was born in Cleveland and was a daughter of Samuel H. and Nettie (Goodhart) Klein, her father a well known mer- chant and for many years a resident of Cleveland. Mrs. Rosenblatt is a native of the city of Cleveland, and was graduated from Smith College in 1906.

ARTHUR A. FERNS, founder of the Ferns Coal Com- pany, vice-president of the Montana Orchard Company and a successful business man of Butte, was born in Montreal, Canada, on the 25th of March, 1876, and is the son of Arthur Ferns and his wife, nee Armitage.

The father of the subject was born in England, on the 28th of July, 1846. He came to Canada as a young man and was married at Montreal on July 5, 1875. He was in the employ of the Grand Trunk Railway Com- pany as an expert accountant, and he held that position until he came to Butte in 1906 to go into business with his son. He is still actively engaged in the enterprise which was set on foot at that time. Mrs. Ferns is also a native of England, born there in 1852. They became the parents of seven children: Arthur, George, Francis, Egerton and May were all born in Liverpool, England ; Mary, now Mrs. Garoll, was born at Richland, Indiana, and is now a resident of Miles City, Montana.

Arthur A. Ferns was sent to Liverpool, England, at an early age, and there he was instructed by private tutors in the elementary branches. He returned to America while still a boy and attended school in Day- ton, Ohio, and in Cincinnati completed his high school course. Afterward, he secured employment with the Standard Oil Company as a shipping clerk in Cincin- nati, and was engaged in this occupation for a year and a half. He left the Standard people to engage in the wholesale millinery business at Indianapolis, and from this line he went into similar work in the hardware and drygoods business. While thus engaged, he trav- elled over a large section of the western country, and was particularly attracted by the possibilities of Mon- tana. In 1904 he was sent to this state to take charge of a wholesale paper concern, and after he had been here for a short time decided to go into business for himself. Accordingly, he and his father started in the coal business at Helena and at Butte, under the firm name of the Ferns Coal Company.

Arthur Ferns was impressed with the great oppor- tunities which Montana offered to one interested in the land and orchard business, and so he started in that as a side line to his other interests. Before many months had elapsed he had organized the Montana Orchard Company, a concern whose object is the development of the orchard lands located in Carbon county, Montana. The company is incorporated and its president is Nicho- las H. Gramling, with Mr. Ferns as vice-president. The success of this venture thus far has been most gratifying, and not a little of it is due to the enterprise of Mr. Ferns. The fame of Montana fruits has gone abroad, and there is no question of the reward of one who can promote the development of a new territory for the cultivation of this crop. Such undertakings are most beneficial to the state, for they both increase its wealth and bring most desirable citizens into it as per- manent settlers.

Mr. Ferns is a member of the Silver Bow and the Montana clubs; in Indianapolis, he maintains his affilia- tions with the Marion Stock and the Canoe clubs. In politics he is a Republican and has always loyally sup- ported the principles for which that party stands. He is a member of the Episcopal church, as might be ex- pected of one of his birth and training, and he has the characteristic English fondness for sports of all sorts, being an especial devotee of football.

Mr. Ferns is one of the clever and progressive busi- ness men of the younger set, who are already making their mark upon the development and advancement of the west, and whose future must inevitably have a great influence upon the fortunes of the great state in which their activities are centered.

WILLIAM PAXTON CARY, one of the junior barristers of Butte, represents one of the oldest families of this comparatively young republic. His earliest American progenitor was Wilson Myles Cary, an Englishman who

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in 1650 joined the Virginia settlers who gathered their living from the soil and courageously bore arms in time of need. Through all of the succeeding genera- tions the family has been southern as to location and spirit. George Walton Cary, the father of William Paxton Cary of this review, was born in Alabama, in 1840. His vocation was that of a dry goods merchant, in a wholesale way. He bore arms in the Confederate army, in which he held the rank of lieutenant colonel of the Forty-fourth Alabama Regiment, and with which he served from the beginning to the end of the con- flict. Lieutenant Cary married Miss Margaret Vir- ginia Paxton, a daughter of William Hayes Paxton and a descendant of the Paxtons of the early days of Lexington, Virginia.

William Paxton Cary was born March 31, 1882, in New York City, and his general education closed with his course in Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, from which he was graduated in the year 1904, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. While at Cornell he spent one year in the study of law. In the fall of 1904 he came to Butte and for two years worked as a miner. At the same time he devoted his time and attention to the study of law until December 1, 1906, when he was admitted to the bar. Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession. In January, 1911, Mr. Cary became associated with H. A. Frank, under the firm name of Frank & Cary, and that copartnership is yet in force.

Mr. Cary holds membership in the Greek letter fra- ternity of Sigma Chi, and is also a member of the Silver Bow Club of Butte. Politically he is a Repub- lican, but is not bound by party ties and votes for what he regards as the best men and measures.

FRANK P. LEIPER, the efficient attorney of Dawson county, now serving his second term in this important official capacity, holds prestige as one of the leading members of the bar of Glendive. Although a com- paratively young man, Mr. Leiper is recognized as one whose influence is a decided factor in the ranks of the Republican party in Dawson county, where he stands for the best type of western American citizenship. He was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, December 4, 1876, and is a son of Robert S. and Minnie (Dick) Leiper. Mr. Leiper's father followed farming all of his life, and died in his native Beaver county, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1893. Mrs. Leiper, a native of Indiana county, Pennsylvania, survives her husband and lives in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

Frank P. Leiper was given the advantages of an ex- cellent education, attending first the public schools of Beaver county, and later Pearsall's Academy and Greensburg Academy at Darlington, Pennsylvania. He was thus qualified for work as an educator, and for eight years taught school in Pennsylvania. in the mean- time assiduously prosecuting his legal studies. He com- pleted his preparation for the law by a course in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and on December 6. 1904, was admitted to the Montana bar, since which time he has successfully practiced at Glendive. When only twenty-eight years of age he was elected to the state legislature, and was known there as one of the active young members of the body. He has also served as alderman of his adopted city, from the Second ward, and in 1908 was elected county attorney. The efficient and conscientious service which characterized his first term made his reelection a matter of course, and he is now giving the citizens of Dawson county the benefit of his experience in the field of jurisprudence. He has been faithful in the discharge of his arduous duties and well merits the esteem in which he is universally held.

On August 24, 1905, Mr. Leiper was married to Miss Lillian Sartain, who was born in Dawson county, Mon- tana, daughter of John and Annie Sartain, natives of Vol. III-20

Tennessee. Mrs. Leiper was the fourth in order of birth of her parents' seven children, and the first white child born in Dawson county. Her father came here at a very early date, and died on his ranch, located near Miles City, in 1898, when he was seventy years of age. His widow survives him. Mr. and Mrs. Leiper have had two daughters, Dorothy and Carol.

HOSPITAL OF THE SACRED HEART. The city of Havre, Montana, has been fortunate in gaining for itself the Hospital of the Sacred Heart, of which Mother Lud- milla of the Order of St. Francis, Motherhouse at Stella Niagara, New York, is in charge. The hospital was placed in course of construction in June, 1911, but did not reach completion before February, 1912, the dedication taking place on the 18th day of that month, with Bishop Lenihan of Great Falls in charge of the ceremonies. Though not large, the hospital is adequate in every way to meet the demands of the city, and with accommodations for forty patients is well prepared to minister to the needs of the sick in this place. Five physicians and surgeons are connected with the hos- pital, all capable and prominent in their profession, and they have united in making the Hospital of the Sacred Heart the best equipped and most complete establish- ment of its kind in this section of the state. The operat- ing room is the pride of the hospital, being accoutred in the most modern and approved fashion, and all the ap- pliances and appurtenances which have been installed in the hospital were chosen with a view to propriety and efficiency, from a standpoint of service. Four sisters and the Mother Superior conduct the work of the place, and constitute a most efficient nursing staff. The building is equipped with an elevator, which is the only one in Havre.

KARL HUGH KELLOGG, M. D. The physician occupies one of the most responsible, as well as confidential, relations in our social existence. To him are entrusted our innermost. secrets, as well as the lives and welfare of our dearest friends. To worthily and acceptably fil! such a position is one of the most difficult tasks ever imposed on man, and such a task we find is assumed by Karl Hugh Kellogg, who, though yet a young man, is the oldest resident physician at Stevensville. Dr. Kel- logg came to this city well equipped to practice his chosen profession, having been given a long and thor- ough training, and since his advent here, in 1904, his clientele has grown to large proportions and he has come to be recognized as a leader in professional, pub- lic and social life. He was born November 27, 1881, in Battle Creek, Michigan, a son of Will Keith and Ella (Davis) Kellogg.

Will Keith Kellogg was born in Battle Creek, Michi- gan, where he established the great firm that is now known all over the civilized world as the manufacturer of Kellogg's Corn Flakes, a breakfast food that has brought renown to the Michigan city. With his wife he is spending the greater part of his time in travel in foreign countries. His wife was a native of Maine, and they have been the parents of five children, three of whom are living: John Leonard, superintendent of the great plant at Battle Creek; Dr. Karl Hugh, and Eliza- beth K., now Mrs. Williamson, of Battle Creek.

Dr. Kellogg secured his education in the primary and high schools of Battle Creek, and after graduating from the latter chose the profession of medicine as his life work. After devoting some time to study, in the fall of 1899, he entered the Detroit College of Medicine, and was graduated therefrom in the spring of 1904, this being supplemented by a special course in the Hy- genic Laboratory at Battle Creek. During the same year he came to Stevensville and established himself in practice, and since that time has risen steadily in public favor, his sterling integrity and gentlemanly bearing having drawn around him many warm friends, while his

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undoubted ability has given him high rank among the medical practitioners of Ravalli county. He devotes a part of his time to scientific research, is a close and assiduous student, keeping fully abreast of the various advancements in his profession, and takes an active interest in the work of the various medical societies. Fraternally, he is connected with the Lodge, Chapter and Knights Templar of Masonry, being past master of his lodge, and is also identified with Oddfellowship. A stanch Republican in politics, he has been an active worker in the ranks of his party, and in 1906 and again in 1908, was elected to the office of coroner of Ravalli county.

Dr. Kellogg was married June 28, 1905, to Miss Etta Landram, of Stevensville, daughter of John and Holly (Emmett) Landram, a pioneer couple of Montana, the latter being a native of Virginia. Two children have been born to this union: Karl, aged four years, and Will Lewis, age two. Dr. Kellogg is essentially an "out- of-door man," and whatever time he can conscientiously spare from his professional duties he spends in hunt- ing and fishing in and around the Bitter Root country, finding in these pastimes one of Montana's greatest charms.

EDWARD SHERMAN BAER, C. E. Not every educated young man succeeds, even in the special line to which his training has been directed, for much more is needed than book learning, excellent and necessary as it is. Good health is a necessity and persevering industry an absolute requisite, while energy and enthusiasm assist in establishing the self-confidence that is the real foun- dation stone of many a subsequent business success. Among the capable and worth-while citizens of Glen- dive, Montana, whose constructive work in every di- rection illustrates all that has been said above, is Ed- ward S. Baer, civil engineer, senior member of the engineering and contracting firm of Baer Brothers, with offices in the First National Bank Building, and with a professional reputation that extends over and beyond the confines of the state. Mr. Baer was born on his father's farm in Outagamie county, Wisconsin, near the city of Appleton, and his parents are John Mason and Libbie C. (Riley) Baer.

John Mason Baer was born at Mansfield, Ohio, No- vember 14, 1846. When a mere boy he decided to seek his fortune away from home and when the Civil war broke out was working in a woolen mill. Although only fifteen years of age at the time, he succeeded in entering an Ohio regiment and bore himself so well through his first enlistment of three months that he was accepted at the age of sixteen years as a member of the One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, in which he was commissioned second 'lieutenant of his company, being the youngest commissioned of- ficer in Ohio. After participating in many battles, marches and skirmishes and being three times wounded, he was captured on the "Nancy Bell," which was sub- sequently burned. After a period of confinement at Andersonville, Georgia, he was paroled, on account of the dangerous condition of his wounds and he then went back home, his parents in the meanwhile having moved to Outagamie county, Wisconsin. Under home care he slowly recovered and then returned to his regi- ment and afterward took part in the Red River cam- paign and was also at Gettysburg. After the close of the war he went back to Ohio and thence rejoined the family in Outagamie county, Wisconsin, and followed farming there until 1888. when he moved to Appleton, where he went into the lumber business. On the Democratic ticket he was elected register of deeds for Outagamie county, served for eight years and then was appointed postmaster of Appleton and continued in that office for six years. He still has important busi- ness interests, being manager of the Green Bay and Wisconsin Canal Company, of which he is a director,

and is manager and treasurer of the Independent Tele- phone Company. He is a member of the G. A. R. post at Appleton, and is identified fraternally with the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Elks.

In Ohio Mr. Baer was united in marriage with Miss Libbie C. Riley, who was born at Bethel, Ohio, Sep- tember' 15. 1847. She is prominent in social life at Appleton, Wisconsin, is past state president of the Woman's Relief Corps and has served as vice president of the national organization. Like her distinguished cousin, James Whitcomb Riley, she has great literary talent, is a valued contributor to G. A. R. literature and is the authoress of a charming book, "The Land of Fancy." Four children were born to the above mar- riage, namely : Antis M., who is the wife of a Mr. Gault ; Charles O., who died of fever while serving as a sol- dier in the Spanish-American war; Edward Sherman; and John M., who is a civil engineer and a member of the firm of Baer Brothers, his home being at Beach, North Dakota.

Edward Sherman Baer after being graduated from the Appleton high school, entered the University of Wisconsin in the civil engineering department. For about one year after leaving the University he was connected with the boiler works at Manitowoc, Wis- consin, afterward going with the firm of O'Keefe & Orbison, of Appleton, as superintendent of the con- struction of a pulp mill at the Combined locks, near Appleton, on the Fox river. In 1902 he was the con- tractor with the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Com- pany in building the waste weir on the canal, an im- portant engineering enterprise. Mr. Baer then came farther west and at Dickerson, North Dakota, became civil engineer in charge of the maintenance-of-way on the Northern Pacific Railroad between Mandan, North Dakota, and Billings, Montana, serving in this position from November, 1902, until August, 1904, when he re- signed in order to become county surveyor of Dawson county, Montana, and city engineer of Glendive, con- tinuing in office until 1910. During this time the main public utilities were installed, the city now having a fine sewerage system and a complete water works plant.

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A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 122

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