A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 160

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

USA > Montana > A history of Montana, Volume III > Part 160

Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).

In his political views he is a stalwart Republican, and as a member of the county central committee he wields a wide influence in public matters and takes a prominent part in the councils of his party. Fraternally he is asso- ciated with the Masonic order, and is also a popular member of the Lavina Commercial Club. He is a devotee of motor cycling, hunting and fishing, and under his able management the Lavina Baseball Club has had

Fred ERauchaud

1821

HISTORY OF MONTANA

several very successful seasons, Mr. Renshaw himself, being a player of no mean ability. Like his partner, Mr. Hendershott, Mr. Renshaw is unmarried.

C. G. CAMPBELL. It is almost trite to state that the press is the most potent influence in modern civilization. In fact it is one of the chief forces in our present day existence, and we are so used to it that we accept its benefits with no thought of what their lack would mean to us. "Gutenburg's gun has the longest range," wrote Lowell in the latter half of the last century, and he was thinking rather of the influence of literature than of journalismı. It is a question if even he had a vision of the people of the remotest settlements of our country reading the happenings of Europe, Asia, Africa and the islands of the sea at practically the same time as the dwellers in the great centers of population. But this miracle the increased efficiency of the newspapers and the extension of the postal service have brought to pass. To run a good newspaper is almost as important a service to the community as to conduct a good school and incidentally it requires a decidedly broader train- ing. Whitehall is fortunate in having such an editor as Mr. Curtis Garfield Campbell, who owns and pub- lishes the Jefferson Valley News.

The eleventh of twelve children, Mr. Campbell was naturally endowed with resourcefullness as the chil- dren of large families are likely to be, so the sociologists tell us. Hoytville, Pennsylvania, has been the home of the family for generations and is now the residence of all the household except Curtis Garfield. He was born on August 19, 1882, and received his first instruc- tion in the country schools, after which he graduated from the grammar school in Hoytville. He supple- mented this by a normal course at Mansfield, Penn-

sylvania, after which he taught for two years. Having a decided talent for journalism, Mr. Campbell gave up his work as a teacher and went into newspaper work. From the first he was in the editorial department, and so did not get the training of the compositor nor of the printer. He was connected with differet papers in the east and at the age of twenty-five went to Chicago, where he remained hut one year. From Chicago Mr. Campbell made another long journey toward the west this time to Pocatello, Idaho, where for one year he was on the staff of the Tribune. Mr. Campbell desired to go into the newspaper business on his own account, and so he went to Driggs, Idaho, and purchased the Teton Valley News. For two years he edited and pub- lished this sheet and then came to Whitehall and since July, 19II, has been at the head of the Jefferson Valley News. Mr. Campbell's idea is to publish a paper which shall represent the general sentiment of the com- munity, and on that account he takes no part in politics. As he is not pledged to the support of any party, he is free to advocate the measures which seem best for the general welfare. His notion of a paper is that it should aim to give its subscribers the news of the day and that it should be a promoter of every move- ment which makes for the prosperity and the enlight- enment of the district. Until he bought a journal of his own, Mr. Campbell knew nothing of the mechanical part of the business, as his work had always been confined to the editorial end, but he went into the work with the confidence born of the knowledge that all things are to be accomplished with brains and appli- cation, and now he is familiar with every process in the preparation of a news sheet and can fill any place which happens to be vacant, from devil to editor-in- chief. He has definite ideas as to what he wants his paper to be, and he has also a sufficient stock of other ideas and an aptitude for receiving and originating new trains of thought. This, combined with an experi- ence in discriminating what is news and skill in present- ing it, enables Mr. Campbell to publish an excellent paper

and the success of his venture attests the excellence of his methods.

Mr. Campbell's father, Michael C. Campbell, is a farmer, who left his farm to fight under General Grant in the Civil war. At the close of the struggle he re- turned to the pursuit of agriculture, and it was in growing beans that the present editor earned his first money. His next gainful occupation was in the busi- ness which engaged his mother's people-that of lum- bering in the Pennsylvania woods. Her maiden name was Catherine English, and her father, William Eng- lish, was a lumberman at Lloyd, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Campbell is unmarried and is deeply interested in his lodge affiliation with the Odd Fellows. He is an interested attendant of the Baptist church of which he is a communicant. Like most good newspaper men, he is an omniverous reader and spends a great deal of time at this pursuit, which is at once a recreation and a study with him. All sorts of open air pleasures ap- peal to him and he does not let his studious tastes pre- vent his indulging in them. He is an editor by his own choice and also by his own training, and it is evident to all that he has chosen a vocation for which he is eminently adapted. Too much cannot be said of the high character of his journalism and of its splendid in- fluence in Whitehall and the surrounding country.

CHARLES H. ALLEN, editor and proprietor of the Ryegate Reporter, is a wide-awake representative of the journalistic interests of Musselshell county. Montana, who, though he has been a citizen of this state but a short period, gives evidence on the pages of his paper that he has caught the Montana spirit and has the most optimistic faith in the future of both his county and the entire commonwealth. He is well experienced in news- paper work, his acquaintance with printer's ink having begun when he was a boy just entering his 'teens, though he soon discontinued his connections with the profession and did not resume them until recent years.

Mr. Allen is a native of Canada, born April 9, 1871. His childhood, until eleven years of age, was spent in the vicinity of his birth, and the following twenty- two years were passed principally in Duluth, Minnesota, where he completed his common school education and also graduated from the high school. The educational training he had already acquired was then supplemented by a complete course in Parsons Business College at Duluth, and by a two years' course in the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He, early, began to learn the printer's trade and earned his first money in this manner when he was a lad of but thirteen years. With the exception of three years spent at his trade as a printer his attention was given to the lumber business during the whole period of his independent activity in Duluth. Upon leaving Duluth he again took up newspaper work, first at Becker, Minnesota, where he conducted the Becker Record one year, and then at St. Cloud, Minnesota, where he was connected with the Daily Journal press two years and then ran a paper on his own account two years. From St. Cloud he went to Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and assumed managerial duties on the Herald, continuing there two and a half years, following which he served for one year in a similar capacity on Wheelock's Weekly at Fergus Falls, Min- nesota. He then came to Montana in March, 1911, and located at Ryegate, where he established his present plant, equipped with a cylinder press, typesetting machine and such other essentials as go to make up a modernly appointed newspaper plant.

In politics Mr. Allen is an Independent and is deeply interested in political affairs. He believes in elevating the citizen above the party, a citizen's rights above every other thing; that a man's best guide is his con- science; that he should stand upright and self-respect- ing and that no treasure can repay him for the sur- render of the slightest right of a free individual, inde-

1822

HISTORY OF MONTANA

pendent American citizen. He is a member of the Rye- gate Commercial Club and the town and county receive from him the most loyal support in any movement that has for its purpose the progress and advancement of this section. Fraternally he affiliates with the Knights of the Maccabees, in which order he has "filled all the chairs," and he is also a member and the present clerk of the Ryegate lodge of the Woodmen of America. Mr. Allen's literary tastes are strongest in the direc- tion of history, and he has a very fine collection of historical reference books in his private library. Rec- reation and amusement are wisely given an apportioned place in his life, being fond of hunting and fishing, and of all athletic games, especially baseball.

At Becker, Minnesota, on September 21, 1904, Mr. Allen was joined in marriage to Margaret R., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Doty, of that place. Three daughters and two sons have been the issue of this marriage: Marguerite M., Violet, Cecelia, Charles H., Jr., and Wesley Doty.

DR. LUDWIG F. LUBELEY, a young physician who has but recently located at Ryegate, Montana, for the prac- tice of his profession, has made a thorough preparation for his life work by a full collegiate education and a complete medical training, including a year of hospital work. Montana, already exceptionally favored in the number of men of attainments that are to be found in its professional ranks, ever extends a hearty welcome to the young man of ambition and character, and such an one Dr. Lubeley has proved to be.

He was born at Hartington, Nebraska, on November 21, 1885, and lived there until about fifteen years of age, acquiring his common and high school education in the public schools of that place. From there he went to Quincy, Illinois, where he spent six years as a student at St. Francis College, in which institution he won two degrees, A. B. and A. M. He next took up the study of medicine at Creighton Medical College, Omaha, Nebraska, where he was graduated in the spring of 1910. While pursuing his medical studies at Omaha, he received an appointment as interne at St. James Hos- pital, Butte, Montana, the duties of which position he took up after his graduation and continued to perform one year. Following his service there, he located at Ryegate, Montana, for the independent practice of medicine, and is there local physician for the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway. In line with his professional interest he sustains membership in the Musselshell County Medical Society and the Montana State Medical Society, and he keeps in touch with col- lege associates as a member of the Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity. College life and the modern attitude of his profession that it is better to preserve good health than to cure disease, together have made Dr. Lubeley a believer in the value of athletics and he is always an interested spectator of such games, especially of base- ball and football. He also enjoys hunting and fishing, and to him good literature is always a source of pleas- ure and of profit. He shares the universal feeling of Montana citizens that this is a state unexcelled in op- portunity for the young man of ability and determina- tion. Dr. Lubeley is a communicant of the Catholic church and affiliates with the Knights of Columbus. In politics he usually supports the Democratic party, but is inclined to be independent in his views and in the exercise of his franchise. He is at the present time a member of the Ryegate school board.

Dr. Lubeley is the sixth in order of birth and the youngest son in a family of ten children born to his parents, August and Elizabeth (Stratmann) Lubeley. The father was born in Wisconsin, but is now a retired citizen of Nebraska, in which state he was for many years engaged in the mercantile business. He is a devout Christian and an active member of his church. The parents were married in Nebraska.

HENRY THIEN, cashier and active head of the State Bank of Ryegate, Ryegate, Montana, and also an in- terested principal in the corporation there known as the Hilbert-Thien Company, which is engaged in the real estate and farm loan business, is a business man of acumen and long experience. He has been established in this state but a short time, but already his community has profited by his enterprise and push in promoting the advancement of this section, and he in turn is convinced that he has made a wise choice of business location. .

Mr. Thien, born near Richmond, Stearns county, Minnesota, December 12, 1863, spent the first fourteen years of his life in the vicinity of his birth, and after that until 1886 resided in St. Cloud, the capital city of his native county. He was educated first in the" public schools of Stearns county and later at St. John's. University, Collegeville, Minnesota, and began business activity while still a boy, his initiate experience being in the county treasurer's office at St. Cloud. Nearly four years were spent in a clerical capacity in different county offices there, and for two years he was in the employ of a legal firm of that city. He then entered the banking business, and from that time to the present has had to do with banking and finance. Locating at Melrose, Minnesota, in 1886, he was there engaged in the banking business four years and from there went to Browerville, where he established another bank and conducted it until 1897. In that year he removed to Bisbee, North Dakota, and engaged in the banking, lum- ber and hardware business there until 1909, when he sold out all of his interests and moved to Fargo, North Dakota. Two years later, or in 1911, he came to Mon- tana and located at Ryegate in October. Here he bought out the bank, a private institution, and estab- lished the State Bank of Ryegate, of which he is cashier and active head. In connection with the bank there was formed a corporation known as the Hilbert- Thien Company, which department does a general real estate and farm loan business.

Mr. Thien is a direct descendant of sturdy German ancestry, Joseph Thien and Marie H. Terhorst, his par- ents, both having been born in Germany, though their marriage occurred in St. Louis, Missouri. The father came to the United States in 1845, when a young man, and was located in St. Louis, Missouri, during the first fifteen years of his residence in this country but spent the remainder of his life at Richmond, Minnesota, where he followed farming. He was a devout Christian and an active member of the Catholic church. He died in 1894, at the age of seventy-three years, and was followed to the grave by his wife in 1901, when she too,. reached the age of seventy-three. They are buried side by side in the cemetery at Richmond, Minnesota. Henry Thien, their only son and the fifth of their six children, is the only member of the family in Montana,. his sisters all being residents of Minnesota.

Mr. Thien was happily married at St. Cloud, Minne- sota, on June 22, 1886, to Ida, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Huhn, of that city. Ten children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Thien and are as follows: Robert R., who is married and resides in Chicago; Clara A., at the parental home, an accon: - plished young woman, who has graduated in music and drawing and by her skill in these arts has won first prize in a number of contests; Leo H., a civil engineer in the service of the Great Northern railway; Frances, a high school student; Edward, a high school graduate; Raymond A., Lucile, Erminilda and Wilfred, all pupils in the grades; and Harold A., not of school age.

Mr. and Mrs. Thien are communicants of the Catholic church and the former is fraternally affiliated with the Catholic Order of Foresters. Mr. Thien, who is a Republican, takes an active interest in political affairs and while a resident of North Dakota served as mayor of Bisbee and also as a member of the school board there. He gives an appropriate portion of his time to -

1823

HISTORY OF MONTANA

diversions, enjoys riding and driving, and is well in- formed on the live questions of the day. He is very optimistic as to the future of Montana, especially as an agricultural state, for he has found here abundant natural resources and the strongest of western energy and genius, all of which will in time make accomplish- ment of what is now possibility. In the person of Mr. Thien, Montana has received a citizen of character and worth, one who will prove a strength in the commer- cial and industrial upbuilding of his section of this commonwealth.

EDMUND NICHOLS. Years of experience, stern train- ing, natural inclination and a keen insight into human nature, combined with an enthusiasm for his work and a belief in its great importance, have made Edmund Nichols, of the Billings firm of Nichols & Wilson, one of the leading members of the Yellowstone county legal profession, and although he has resided in this city only since January, 1911, he has already gained a wide reputation. Mr. Nichols is a product of the east, having been born at Gouverneur, St. Lawrence county, New York, June 4, 1860, a son of Orson K. and Amanda L. (Jones) Nichols.

Mr. Nichols is a scion of one of the old and honored families of this country, the progenitor of which, John Nichols, came to America from England and settled in Massachusetts, where he married his wife, Abigail, in 1676. Their son, Joseph Nichols, was born in Farming- ton, Massachusetts, in 1702, and was the father of John Nichols, who was born April 7, 1731. Joseph Nichols, son of John, and great-great-grandfather of Edmund Nichols, of Billings, was born at Farmington, Massa- chusetts, August 4. 1754, and had a family of fourteen children, among whom was Alphonse Nichols, also born at Farmington, in 1780. Hiram Nichols, the grand- father of Edmund, a carpenter by trade, was born in New York, October 27, 1808, and died August 23, 1899. Orson K. Nichols was a native of the Empire state, and was born June 30, 1835. As a youth he learned the trade of carpenter with his father, and subsequently took up contracting, which he was successfully follow- ing at the outbreak of the Civil war. He enlisted in Company A, Fourteenth Heavy Artillery, New York, and at Cold Harbor, Virginia, was taken prisoner by the Confederates and confined in the prison at Danville, West Virginia, where he was unable to survive the hardships and died November 27, 1864. He was mar- ried in New York to Miss Amanda L. Jones, a native of Vermont, and she survives him and makes her home in Epworth, Iowa.

Edmund Nichols was the only child born to his par- ents, and was but four years old when his father died. He first attended the common schools of Gouverneur, New York, later went to the Potsdam State Normal School, and eventually graduated from the law depart- ment of the University of Iowa in the class of 1883. After he had spent one year in the office of William S. Forrest, a Chicago attorney, he located at Adel, Iowa, and associated himself with T. R. North. He con- tinued there until 1888, in which year he removed to Perry, Iowa, continuing to practice alone there until 1902, and from 1892 to 1896 served as prosecutnig at- torney of Dallas county. In 1902 he was elected judge of the fifth judicial district of Iowa, in which capacity he acted for two terms, and continued in general prac- tice there until January, 1911, which saw his advent in Billings. Here Mr. Nichols formed a partnership with Harry L. Wilson, under the firm style of Nichols & Wilson, and they maintained well-appointed offices in the Stapleton building. The records of Yellowstone county show that never before have there been so many able members of the bar within its confines, and be- cause the members of this firm possess the necessary qualifications for success they have taken prominent position among the leading members of the profession.

Mr. Nichols has interested himself in fraternal work, and is a member of Otley Lodge, No. 299, A. F. & A. M., at Perry, Iowa; Perry Chapter, R. A. M .; Girard Commandery, K. T., at Perry; Des Moines Consistory, S. R., at Des Moines ; and Ža. Ga. Lig. Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Des Moines. He also holds membership in Perry Lodge, No. 407, B. P. O. E. In political mat- ters he is a Republican, and takes a keen and active in- terest in the success of his party.

On June 17, 1885, Mr. Nichols was married to Miss Dorothy I. Stephens, who was born in Illinois, daughter of James and Susan (Hamilton) Stephens, natives of Oswego, New York, both of whom are deceased. Mr. Stephens was a millwright by trade, and some time after his marriage migrated to Illinois, from whence he subsequently moved to Iowa. His wife passed away in California, having been the mother of six children, of whom Mrs. Nichols is the youngest. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols have had six children, as follows: Lillian H., Dorothy, Josephine, Marion, Edmund O., and Elizabeth.

FRANK K. CAROTHERS, lawyer and ranchman, is an Ohio university man who has chosen Montana as the scene of his business and professional activities and is located at Ryegate. Born in Carey, Ohio, on February 19, 1888, he accompanied his parents from that place to Sidney, that state, when about four years of age and lived in the latter city until he came to Montana in IgII. Upon completing his high school education at Sidney, he became a student at the Ohio State University at Columbus, where he remained six years and won two degrees. At the age of twelve he began his business career by working in a brush factory, his wages being $2 per week, and later he became a traveling salesman, earning in this manner a part of his expenses while obtaining his collegiate education. After graduating from the university he came to Ryegate, Montana, and began the practice of law. Though he has but just entered upon his career in this profession, he is well qualified to succeed in it. Mr. Carothers is interested in the agricultural, as well as professional opportunities of Montana, and is the owner of a fine ranch about three miles from Ryegate. He is a member of the Ryegate Commercial Club, is public-spirited and has given every evidence to the people of his locality that he possesses the qualifications not only to succeed him- self, but to advance their interests.

Mr. Carothers is a son of Wilson Carothers and Josephine Keller, both of whom were born in Ohio, were married there and have remained residents of that state, their home during the last twenty years having been at Sidney, where the father is a manufac- turer. The senior Mr. Carothers is a devout Christian and an active church member. Of the four children of these parents, Frank K. is the third in order of birth and the only one located in Montana, the others all being residents of Ohio.

At Miles City, Montana, in January, 1912, was solem- nized the marriage of Mr. Carothers and Miss Ruby Hutt, a daughter of Mrs. Amelia Hutt, of Van Wert, Ohio. Both Mr. and Mrs. Carothers are members of the Presbyterian church and the latter is a member of the Ladies' Aid Society and takes an active part in church work. Politically, Mr. Carothers is an active Republican. He is at present a United States commis- sioner of Montana and is secretary of the Ryegate school board. He is a member of the Masonic order and of Phi Delta Theta, Phi Delta Phi and Theta nu Epsilon college fraternities. College life has also made him familiar with all forms of athletic games and he especially enjoys football. He is a young man of vigor, ambition and attainments, and Montana eagerly wel- comes such to citizenship.

LOUIS E. FREEMAN. The business of furnishing entertainment for the public is one in which have been

1824

HISTORY OF MONTANA

enlisted the efforts of some of the most progressive business men of Montana, and of late years, since the advent of the cinematograph, or moving picture ma- chine, houses devoted to this sort of entertainment have sprung up throughout the state. Many of these ventures were ill-advised, their proprietors either being ignorant of what constituted a clean, moral, interest- ing performance, or else being of an unscrupulous nature that caused them to attempt to get the greatest possible returns from the smallest possible investment, regardless of public morals, taste or satisfaction. Con- sequently the houses operated along these lines soon lost their patronage as the public, P. T. Barnum not- withstanding, does not "like to be fooled," and many theatres thus changed hands and became the property of shrewder business men, who realized that public taste must be catered to and patronage appreciated. In this latter class stands the Gem Theatre, at Great Falls, Montana, a popular house known as the finest moving-picture establishment in the northwest, the proprietor of which, Louis E. Freeman, has exhibited no small amount of managerial ability in conducting its affairs, and has so regulated his performance and improved it that from a poorly-patronized house that had become a losing proposition, it has become one of the most popular family theatres in the state. It is interesting to note that prior to his present position, Mr. Freeman had had no experience in matters the- atrical, the greater part of an industrious career hav- ing been spent in railroading. A brief record of the life of a man who has accomplished something in a particular field may not be out of place in a work devoted to the progressive men of a progressive state.

Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.

A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 160

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