A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 147

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

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In his political allegiance Mr. Hattersley is a stanch supporter of the principles and policies for which the Republican party. stands sponsor. In I911 he was honored by the appointment to the office of city attorney of Conrad and he has proven himself particularly well fitted for that position. In connection with the work of liis profession he is a member of Teton County Bar Association and the American International Law Asso- ciation. Mr. Hattersley is homesteading in Teton county and when he proves up his land claim will be the owner of 320 acres of the most arable land in this section of the state. He is affiliated with Conrad Lodge No. 80, Free and Accepted Masons, and his reli- ious faith is in harmony with the tenets of the Presby- terian church. Inasmuch as Mr. Hattersley is self- educated, having earned the money with which to defray his college expenses, his fine success in life is the more gratifying to contemplate. He is decidedly loyal and public spirited in his civic attitude and gives freely of his aid and influence in support of all measures projected for the good of the general welfare.

CHARLES H. SANDS. With a marked capacity for the successful conduct of business interests, Charles H. Sands, of Concord. Chouteau county, has gained dis- tinctive recognition in financial circles as cashier of the C. H. Sands Banking Company, the only institu- tion of the kind in Concord. A son of Caspar Sands, being the second child in order of birth of a family of four children, he was born, October 9, 1883, at Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

A native of Norway, where his birth occurred in 1860, Caspar Sands came when young with his parents to this country, locating in Wisconsin, where he grew

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to manhood. He afterwards lived at Fergus Falls, Minnesota, a few years later taking up land in Polk county, that state, where he is still engaged in agri- cultural pursuits. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Christianson, was born in Norway, came with her parents to America when a child, and died in Crook- ston, Minnesota, in 1892.

Educated principally at Grand Forks, North Dakota, Charles H. Sands was for three years a student at the University of North Dakota, becoming well pre- pared while there for a business career. Accepting a position at Grand Forks as assistant cashier of the Scandinavian-American Bank, he retained it six years. Having acquired a substantial knowledge of the busi- ness connected with banking, Mr. Sands, foreseeing the advantages awaiting young business men in Mon- tana, located in Concord, and at once established the Bank of Concord. Successful in its management, he subsequently had it incorporated under the Montana laws as the C. H. Sands Banking Company, a private banking concern, and the only bank in the city. It has a capital of $20,000, and has as its officers men of ability and prominence, C. B. Roberts, of Kalispell, being president; C. B. Richards, also of Kalispell, vice-presi- dent ; and C. H. Sands, cashier.

On December 20, 1909, Mr. Sands married Miss Clara Brattan, of Reynolds, North Dakota, and to them two children have been born, namely: Adeline, born at Concord, Montana, September 29, 1910; and Marian, born January 15, 1912, in Concord. Politically Mr. Sands is a straighforward Republican, and religiously he is a Lutheran. He is quite active in financial circles, and is a member of the State Bankers' Association, and of the American Bankers' Association. For two years he has been a member of the school board here and is chairman of the board. A man of integrity, whose word can always be relied upon, Mr. Sands has won a host of friends in the community, and is popular in both business and social circles.

JAMES C. JOHNSON came to Montana in 1908 and since that time has been an honored and influential citizen of Conrad, where he is most successfully engaged in the real estate business. He is the owner of farming lands in Teton county, valued at no less than $12,000, and a great deal of the above property is under cultiva- tion. Mr. Johnson has spent most of his active career in the Pacific Coast states and while there met with vary- ing success. He insists that Montana is the best state in the Union and will probably make Conrad his perma- nent home.

In Poweshiek county, Iowa, on the 17th of November, 1857, occurred the birth of James C. Johnson, who is : son of James and Sarah (Swangel) Johnson, both of whom were born and reared in Ohio, where was solem- nized their marriage. The Johnson family traces its lineage back to stanch English stock and the Swangel family is of German extraction. James Johnson re- moved from the Buckeye state to Iowa in 1833 and was one of the pioneers in the settlement of the latter state. He was a carpenter by trade but devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits in Iowa until 1867, when he went to Linn county, Kansas, there taking up a tract of government land, on which he farmed until his de- mise, in 1873. He was a gallant and faithful soldier in the Union ranks of the Civil war during the latter years of that conflict. Mrs. Johnson passed to eternal rest in Allen county, Kansas, in 1899, aged sixty-three years.

Of the eleven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, James C. was the fourth in order of birth and he was a student in the public schools of Linn county, Kansas, until he had reached his eighteenth year. He remained at home with his mother, after his father's death, and assisted in the care and education of his younger brothers and sisters until he was twenty-three years of

age. In March, 1883, he went to San Francisco, Cali- fornia, remaining in that city for a period of four months, at the end of which he went to Walla Walla, Washington, where he engaged in the lumbering and freighting business. In 1888, after a very successful career in the last mentioned lines of enterprise, he re- moved to Morrow county, Oregon, there leasing a ten thousand-acre ranch, which he conducted for one year. As a result of a freeze-out and a dry summer his entire crop was lost and his health in a very bad state. In order to recuperate he accepted a position in the quartermaster's department at Fort Walla Walla, where he remained for three years. He then resigned his position and with improved health and repaired financial conditions he contracted with the govern- ment to furnish the fort with vegetables, which he did for the ensuing four years. He was very successful in the latter venture and next turned his attention to min- ing, becoming a member of the company which con- trolled the Wild Rose mine, the Santiago group and the Fleet Wood group, all valuable and paying properties in the vicinity at Pierce, Idaho. He was identified with mining interests for a period of ten years and still owns a placer mine in the Pierce City district.

In 1908 Mr. Johnson came to Montana to visit a brother whom he had not seen for many years. He be- came so impressed with this state and its possibilities that he immediately decided to locate here and with that in mind took up a homestead just two miles distant from Conrad. With the passage of time he has accumulated more land in Teton county and his holdings now com- prise 480 acres, the same being valued at $12,000. He has real estate offices in Conrad and has met with most gratifying success in his various real estate transactions. In politics he is an uncompromising supporter of the principles and policies promulgated by the Republican party and while he does not participate actively in pub- lic affairs he is ever on the alert to do all in his power to advance progress and prosperity and he gives freely of his aid and influence in support of all measures af- fecting the general welfare. He is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church in his religious faith and the list of his personal friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances. He is unmarried.

D. D. MORE. One of the earliest citizens to locate in the town of Hingham was D. D. More, of the More Land Company, and one of the rising young business men of the state.

Mr. More was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, on the 16th of February, 1881, but has spent most of his active career in the Northwest. He was the third in a family of five children born to Roland V. and Arthusa (Martin) More, both of whom were natives of New York state, where the mother died in 1887 at the age of thirty years. The father, who is now fifty- nine years old and is engaged in the hotel business at. Waddington, New York, has been a resident of his native state all his life. The other children in the family are named as follows: Clarence, a resident of Maine; Mrs. Lula Houston, of Wood Lake, Minnesota ; Ashton, of New York state; Maurice, of Hingham, Montana.

After completing his schooling at Lisbon Center, New York, Mr. D. D. More was employed in various ways for a time and then for two and a half years was in the milk business at Ogdensburg in his native state. In 1900 he came west to North Dakota, and began his career as a farm worker, and from that became an em- ploye in his uncle's general store at Buffalo, North Dakota. A year later he filed a homestead claim near Berthold, that state, and then worked for two years in Devils Lake. He was then a resident on his claim until it was proved up. His energy and good manage- ment were bringing him a steadily increasing pros-

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perity, and after one year's employment in the State Bank at Berthold he bought an interest in the institu- tion, and was engaged in banking until he sold out and came to Montana. He is still owner of a fine farm at -

Berthold. In March, 1910, a few months after the town was started, he settled at Hingham, where he opened a well equipped livery stable. He is still proprietor of this business, though it is only a minor part of his busi- ness operations. He has extensive interests in the school lands of Hill county, these lands being, as he says, as fine as the sun ever shines upon. His real estate busi- ness has been developed on a large scale, and he is one of the best informed land men in Montana.

Mr. More was married in Minnesota, February, 1904, to Miss Alta Hawley, and they are the parents of three children: Martha, who was born in Minnesota in 1906; Earl, born in Berthold, North Dakota, in 1908; and Lowell, born at Berthold, in July, 1910.

Mr. More is independent in politics. He is fond of outdoor life, and finds this new country of northwest Montana a place to excite all his enthusiasm as a cit- izen and his best efforts for its welfare and substantial development.

JAMES P. AYLEN, M. D. chief surgeon of the Nor- thern Pacific Hospital in Missoula, was born in Can- ada, September 25, 1863. He is the son of Dr. John and Saloma (Prentiss) Aylen, both natives of Que- bec. where they spent the greater part of their lives. The father lived there his entire life with the exception of a three-year period which he passed at Rochester, New York. He was a noted physician and practitioner of Canada, and died there in January, 1900, at the age of sixty-seven. The mother still lives, and it at present residing in Winnipeg. Four children were born to them, the eldest of whom was James P. Aylen of this review.

Dr. Aylen lived in Quebec until he was about thirteen years of age, at which time the family removed to Rochester, New York. In three years they returned to the Canadian home, and the son, James P., remained there until he was about twenty years of age, after which he entered McGill University and pursued a four years' course of study. He then went to New York City and attended Bellevue Hospital and Med- ical College, from which he was graduated and re- ceived his medical degree. Upon leaving college he went to Minneapolis and began to practice orthopaedic surgery, but a serious breakdown in his health after a few months compelled the young doctor to give up his work for a time. He then moved to North Dakota where he resumed practice, and there enjoyed a long and more than ordinarily useful career in the practice of his profession. He located there in the old terri- torial days (1888) and still holds the certificate granted by the Territorial Medical board. For twenty years he continued in North Dakota, and in that time he occu- pied many important positions of an official nature in his district. For twelve years he was a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners of North Da- kota, and during a large part of that time was president of the board. At one time he was president of the North Dakota Medical Association. He was county physician for twenty years in Ransom county, North Dakota, and in his connection with the various offices named rendered valuable service to the people. His removal from North Dakota was a distinct loss to the community with which he had been identified for so many years, but with his removal to another field Dr. Aylen did not lay aside his habits of usefulness. In his Montana home he is carrying on as great a work as he did in past years, and is recognized in Missoula as one of the substantial men of the city and county.

Dr. Aylen removed to Missoula in January, 1908, to take charge of the Northern Pacific Hospital at this point, and since he took charge of the hospital, rapid

strides have been made in the standing of that splen- did institution. Its equipment has been increased and improved in many ways, and under his supervision the hospital has come to be one of the most modern and perfectly appointed places of its kind in the United States. A nurses' home has been added as well as a new laundry building and a new elevator shaft. The boiler capacity in the engine room has been increased and a new X-ray coil installed, as well as many other changes of a similar nature, all equally important.

Dr. Aylen is a man of exceptional mental attainment, and is a student of note. He is an inveterate reader and owns a fine private library. The doctor is somewhat of a fraternalist, being a member of the Masons and affili- ating with the blue lodge and the Mystic Shrine. He was master of the blue lodge for three years. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has gone through all the chairs of the order. He was past grand master of North Dakota, and at one time was grand representative from North Dakota to sov- ereign grand lodge. He is also a member of the Mod- ern Woodmen of America, the Maccabees and the Yeo- men. He is a member of the Missoula Club. As relat -. ing to his profession, Dr. Aylen is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Association of Life Examiners of America, of the Montana State Med- ical Association and the Missoula County Society. Dr. Aylen is a Republican and takes an active and worthy interest in the political affairs of his county, in which he is an important factor. He is an enthusiastic sports- man and enjoys shooting, fishing and all forms of out- door exercise. He is particularly fond of coursing and at one time kept a kennel of thirty-five prize grey- hounds, which he exhibited in many of the larger cities of the United States. Automobiling is a favorite pas- time with the doctor, but it has by no means supplanted the horse in his affections. Dr. Aylen is particularly de- lighted with the Montana climate and the country in general. He believes it to be the finest state in the land for the ambitious young man, and he claims that the climate can not fail to add to the vigor of youth. and to increase the faltering vitality of old age.

On March 26, 1887, Dr. Aylen was married in Mon- treal, Canada, to Miss Florence A. Carter, daughter of William H. and Emily Carter, of that city. Two chil- dren have been born of their union, Gerald Valleylee, deceased, and Walter Carter, now in attendance at a medical college (Vanderbilt University) in Nashville, Tennessee.

DR. CLARKE S. SMITH, engaged in general practice in Kalispell, has been located in this city since 1909, in which time he has won a considerable prominence in his profession. Dr. Smith is a native of Michigan, born in Muir, that state, on May 19, 1881. He is the son of Jus- tin and Christina Elizabeth (Fox) Smith, both native born New Yorkers. In the late sixties Justin Smith moved to Michigan where he spent some twenty years. He died in 1890 in Brainerd, Minnesota, where he had been engaged in the lumber business for some time, as a member of the firm of J. J. Howe & Company of that place. He was a veteran soldier of the Civil war, having entered the First New York Dragoons as a private, and soon being advanced to the rank of captain. He served throughout the war, giving valuable service to the Union, and meeting with many harrowing experiences. He was taken prisoner at Beaver Dam and after nine months imprisonment was exchanged. Mr. Smith was always prominent in a political way in whatever locality he found himself, and was a man of considerable influence with his party, which was that of Republicanism. His marriage to Christina Elizabeth Fox occurred at Syra- cuse, New York. She died in 1896 at Bozeman, Mon- tana, on the fourteenth day of June, when she was sixty-two years old. She was the mother of four sons, Clarke S. being the youngest of them.

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Clarke S. Smith was educated in the Brainerd public schools and at Ionia, Michigan, finishing with the class of 1898. On leaving school he took a position with the Northern Pacific Railway with whom he continued for five years; when he resigned his position with them he was filling the important post of traveling auditor for the company. Following his resignation from that position, he entered the University of Minnesota, from which institution he was graduated in the medical department in 1907, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. For one year he was engaged as interne in St. Luke's Hospital of St. Paul, Minnesota, after which he engaged in practice in Bridger, Montana. He remained there for one year, then removed to Kalispell and became associated with Dr. A. D. Macdonald; they later took Dr. Arthur Morrow into the association, and the firm was known as Drs. Macdonald, Smith and Morrow. This copartnership endured for a year, since which time all three have been engaged in independent practice. In May, 1910, Dr. Smith took leave of his work in Kalispell and for three months thereafter was engaged in post graduate work in a prominent eastern hospital, as a further aid to his already wide knowledge of medicine and surgery.

Dr. Smith is an active and enthusiastic Republican and takes a lively interest in the civic affairs of the city, rendering a citizenship well worthy of the man and beneficial to the community. He is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of Brainerd and of the Knights Templar in Kalispell and the order of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Kalispell Club, and professionally, is identified with the County and State Medical organizations.

Dr. Smith was married in Bozeman, Montana, on September 14, 1910, to Carolyn Van Zandt, daughter of John Nelson Van Zandt, a native of Bozeman, now retired from business life.

CLARENCE E. KENYON is one of the proprietors and owners of the largest drug store in Great Falls. He has been identified with the drug business since his · earliest manhood, first as a pharmacist in the employ of others, and in more recent years established in busi- ness on his own responsibility. The business which he has been conducting since April, 1910, is steadily in- creasing in volume, and is one of the most popular and reliable houses of its kind in this section of Montana.

Mr. Kenyon was born in Cook county, South Da- kota, on June 22, 1887. When he was yet a child his parents removed to Iowa and settled in Winnesheet county, where he was for the most part reared. He is the son of Alonzo E. and Emma May (Akerson) Kenyon. The father was a native of Ohio, born there in 1851, and he came to Frankville, Iowa, in his young manhood. He was prominent in real estate circles throughout the state of Iowa in his early life, and for the past sixteen years has been connected with the police department at Decorah, Iowa-for the first three years as deputy sheriff and for the past thirteen "ears as chief of police. The mother, who was born in Iowa, died on February 14, 1908, at Corona, California, and

is buried at Decorah, Iowa, where she passed the best vears of her life. Three children were born to them, -- Mark E., now prominent in the jewelry business in Corona, California; Harry R., of Great Falls, and em- ployed in the store of his brother, Clarence E.

The father of Alonzo E. Kenyon and the grand- father of Clarence Kenyon of this review, is Henry R. Kenyon. He was born in New York state in 1817 and came west to'Ohio in the early pioneer days of that state. He served in the Civil war in an Iowa regiment and also fought with General Miles in the Indian wars. where he was severely wounded, losing the sight of one eye. He still lives in his Iowa home. and though he is ninety-five years old, he is hale and hearty. The maternal grandfather of Clarence Kenyon was Case Akerson, a well-to-do land owner in Iowa,

and widely known in that state. He also fought in the Indian wars with General Miles and was with Sheridan in the Civil war. He died in 1890 at the advanced age of seventy-four years.

Mr. Kenyon attended the public schools of the town he was reared in, and later was entered at the High Park Pharmacy School of Des Moines, Iowa, from which institution he was graduated after completing a course in pharmaceutics, and he then became a drug clerk in a store in Decorah, Iowa, where he remained for two years. He then went to Mercedes, California, remaining in the drug business for three years, after which he came to Great Falls and entered the employ of Peer Brothers, druggists. He remained with that firm for one year, then opened a drug store on his own responsibility, which he conducted for a year, and on November 1, 1909, he sold out his interests there, be- coming associated in April, 1910, with Frank R. Wheeler. The two established the present thriving drug store, and the success which they have achieved thus far augurs well for the future fortunes of the young men. They are prominent and popular in busi- ness circles in Great Falls and unlimited success in a business way is freely predicted for them. Mr. Kenyon is fast nearing the front ranks of the leading men of the community, and his accomplishments thus far are of a most worthy nature.

Mr. Kenyon is a Republican in his political adher- ence, and is a member of the Congregational church. He is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks in a fraternal way, and with various other so- cieties of a similar nature.

DANIEL L. O'HERN. Although less than five years a resident of Missoula, and with no previous acquaint- ance with the people of this part of the country, their needs, their purposes, their tendencies or their special aspirations, Daniel O'Hern of Missoula has put him- self in close touch with them and become as one of them in all essential particulars. Their interests are his care and study, their welfare is his constant aim in all his activities, the development and improvement of the city and county of his present home, and the augmentation of their industrial, mercantile and social influence and power are the objects of his greatest solicitude. The people around him realize his zeal for their advancement and commend him .highly for it, and they have shown and continue to show their appre- ciation of his worth and ability.

Mr. O'Hern was born in Webster county, Iowa. on January 13, 1882, but his parents, John and Mary (Sheehan) O'Hern, were natives of Ireland, the former born in County Tipperary and the latter County Gal- way. The father came to the United States when he was a young man and located in Illinois. A few years later he moved to Webster county, Iowa, and there he passed the remainder of his days as an industrious and well-to-do farmer, well thought of in his locality and true to his duty as a man and a citizen in all the rela- tions of life, domestic, social, industrial, religious and political.

His son Daniel obtained his academic education in the country schools and at Tobin College in Fort Dodge in his native county, and was graduated from the col- lege in 1902. He then studied law in the law depart- ment of the University of Iowa, and was graduated from this in 1908. He at once came to Missoula and began the practice of his profession. Notwithstanding the shortness of his residence here he has built up a fine practice and won a high and firmly established place in the public esteem and the regard and good will of the whole city and county. He is one of the most promising of the younger members of the Missoula bar, and already one of the most energetic, capable and successful.

Since Mr. O'Hern's arrival in Missoula he has been

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A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 147

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