A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 3

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

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His parents, Berry R. Sulgrove, and Mary M. (Jame- son) Sulgrove were both born in Indiana, and were married at, and lived in Indianapolis, where the subject of this sketch, the oldest of four sons, was born on February, 7, 1854. The mother came from a noted Virginia, colonial, family which came west with the early emigrants, and settled on the banks of the Ohio, in Jefferson county, where her father, Thomas Jame- son, had large holdings, and who was the first to in- troduce the culture of silk in the then far west. Her grandfather, Thomas Jameson was born in 1732, the same year as George Washington, served under the latter in the Revolution and died some years after her birth. The father was the son of James Sulgrove, a prominent leather merchant, whose family came from

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colonial North Carolina and settled near the future capital. Their ancestry dates back to long before the building of the "Sulgrove Manor" house upon the old estate of that name, near the town of Banbury, England, which was confiscated by Henry VIII., and afterwards granted to a Washington family, supposed to be the ancestors of George Washington, and occupied by them for nearly a century. Yet, notwithstanding this fact, the solid built ancient home has retained the original Sulgrove family name, during the four hundred years of its existence, and is still used, unchanged, as the manor house.

Berry Sulgrove was a special protege of Alexander Campbell, of the noted Bethany College, from which he was graduated with the highest honors, and early gained the distinction of one of the most intellectual men of the country. Forsaking the law for which he had been trained, thereby following a family precedent, he entered upon a literary career, drifting into journalism, when it meant more than news gathering and became famous as one of the editors of that period. He was considered a wise political adviser, and was the greatest political writer the Hoosier state has produced and as the editor of the Journal was a power in keeping it loyal dur- ing the Rebellion. He was a historian of note and wrote the history of "Indiana in the War;" "Holloway's In- dianapolis;" "History of Marion County," and, many sketches of early days. A keen observer and omnivor- ous reader, he wrote well on any subject and was the author of countless special articles for all sorts of peri- odicals. A deep student of the original classics and familiar with the whole field of literature his acquire- ments were well digested and the result was an epigram- matic style, with language clean, clear and compact, and exact in statement, which has made his writings the subject of much study and selections from them are used as textbooks in the public schools of his native state.

It is the natural result of the inherited traits of such an illustrious sire that the son, Leslie, should become so well known for his remarkable memory, wide read- ing, and the great range of his accomplishments, and that he should in his school days and always after have been devoted to literature. His tastes include nearly every- thing that has value to existence but from childhood he has favored more the sciences, chiefly chemistry and biology. As a schoolboy he gained fame as an en- tomologist and his collection of insects was awarded the state prize for excellence and completeness. He strove to make our native silks of commercial value and exhaustively studied the subject. He was a born natur- alist and has always loved to freely roam in the forest depths. As a schoolboy he had as an associate and mentor the afterwards celebrated botanist, John Muir and later was the intimate friend and assistant of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley and between them has existed the strongest mutual admiration. As a writer on many sub- jects, more particularly the sciences, music and the drama, Mr. Sulgrove made quite a name while em- ployed on the various papers of his native city and was quoted as an authority on almost everything connected with outdoor life, and noted as an athlete of great skill and strength. An intense longing for the highlands and tiring of the journalistic life led him to abandon the flat valley land for the mountains and brought him to Montana before the advent of the railroads. Here he was deeply interested in all that was included in the country and this interest has never abated. His pur- suits were varied and he was assayer, laborer, pros- pector, blacksmith, for which his mechanical bent made him well fitted, surveyor and printer. Drifting back into the news line he edited a paper in Butte called the Daily Labor Union, of which his chief remainder and sole remuneration is a stock certificate. Coming to Helena as a legislative reporter for Butte papers he be- came a syndicate correspondent and was employed on

the Herald, the Independent, and later on other pub- lications. After taking part in helping to survey some of the little known portions of the territory he served as clerk of the old first district court at Miles City, when the United States court was held there by the late Judge John Coburn. Upon the change in politics Mr. Sulgrove again entered the newspaper field and built up the Montana Stock Journal, which later developed into four different organs of various interests, and at all times since he has kept in touch with the fraternity and is still active in a literary way.

Mr. Sulgrove has filled official positions with credit and in whatsoever he has served his varied abilities and acquirements have aided in doing well whatever he has undertaken.

He was public librarian of Helena for many years and his literary tastes, knowledge of books and news- paper experience peculiarly adapted him for the posi- tion and taking charge of this institution when it was practically defunct he reorganized and advanced it un- til the public library was the center of literary interest in the capital city and it became of such value to the community by his urbane official work that on the repu- tation he gained for it was reared the present public library building which, through lodge, labor and other interests, obstructing better plans, forced on the city the insufficient edifice which was used as an adjunct to pull a public auditorium from its scanty treasury. But whatever the merits the plan has since disclosed its inception was due to the splendid work of its hardworking librarian. In the position of health offi- cer Mr. Sulgrove had the advantage of early medical studies supplemented by handily acquired legal knowl- edge and hard study and brought all of these to bear upon reforming and renewing the efficiency of the health department, in which he was singularly successful and was highly complimented in many ways for his ability in handling contagious disease epidemics, upon which he was considered an authority. He was instru- mental in putting the city in good shape and also in establishing the present garbage system. His chief work of which he is most proud is the present county hospital for contagious diseases, the erection of which was due solely to his patient and persistent efforts in behalf of the afflicted.

Mr. Sulgrove still maintains an active interest in all surroundings and does not abate his studies nor athletic work despite that he is verging on three score years. He is as in the past devoted to the Bible, Shakespeare and the Arabian Nights and of these works he has fine collections and of the last one of the best in the country; oriental literature having always appealed to him.

Mr. Sulgrove has always taken a deep interest in the welfare of the young men of the community and when there was an organization for their benefit he was prominent in its work and even now so enthusiastic is he in their behalf that he devotes much of his time to their physical advancement and keeps in touch through the Athletic Club of which he is the manager, and, in other ways labors for their betterment. In politics he is a Republican but free in his expression. He cares noth- ing for lodge affairs and the only order to which he belongs is the Montana Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of which he has been for many years the secretary and also president. Mr, Sulgrove was married in 1885 to Miss Sophia C. Dithmer, at Indian- apolis, and returning to the Treasure state has since made Helena his home. There are two children, Miss Mary Agnes Sulgrove, and Leslie Berry Sulgrove, a graduate of the Indiana Law school, and now a prac- ticing lawyer in Helena. Mrs. Sulgrove is an enthu- siastic worker in the order of the Eastern Star and in the church, and the family is socially in high standing in the capital city.

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W. L. KELLEY. In Providence, Rhode Island, on the twenty-second of October, 1877, W. L. Kelley was born. His father, Patrick Kelley, was, as the tell- tale name assures you, a native son of the Emerald Isle. With the foresight and optimism of the Irish people, his parents had come to America in an early day and established themselves in one of the manu- facturing centers of New England. When the barren, rocky soil of their own land had refused to yield them their meager living, they sought and found a land overflowing with promise, only waiting for thrift and energy to discover its treasure. These good people, however, knowing little of the new. country, settled in a commercial center. As their son grew to manhood, it is true they found him employment in one of the many factories. he even became head weaver in the largest, but it was left to him, Patrick Kelley, to go still farther toward the west and find that which they had come to seek-a land so rich in itself that it would yield for the slightest effort, not a bare subsistence, but a comfortable living.

In 1885, then, Patrick Kelley located on a Montana farm, situated in the fertile Bitter Root valley four miles from Missoula. Here he lived in plenty until a few years since, when he retired from active life. He purchased for himself a home in the city of Mis- soula, there to finish his useful life surrounded by every comfort, each one of which speaks to him of some effort of his own. His wife, Hannah Gallagher Kelley, born like himself in the Land of the Saints, lived long enough to enjoy for herself the fruits of their joint labors and to see their son, W. L. Kelley, take rank among his peers in the land of their adoption. She died in 1884.

The son received his elementary education in the district schools ot Missoula county. Few city products can brag of a training more thorough, even though it was, at times, gained under difficulties. Later, he grad- uated from the Garden City Commercial College.

From his boyhood he showed signs of becoming the good "mixer" that he is. Even in the boyish sports he kept pushing to the front. Hardly was he out of school when Mr. Prescott, then sheriff of Missoula county, appointed him as his deputy. This ; in 1900. In 1902, when the term had expired, Mr. Kelley embarked for himself in the grocery business, but his commercial career was suddenly cut short when the general superintendent of the Northern Pacific Rail- way sought him as his private secretary. For only one year did he remain with Mr. Gibson, as at the end of that time the company asked him to fill a clerical posi- tion in Butte during some emergency.

Upon his return to Missoula, he entered the employ of D. J. Donahue, doing the book work for the firm. When he left them it was to become chief clerk for S. W. Ramstell, who was at that time chief engineer for the Milwaukee Railroad-during the construction of their line in western Montana.

Mr. Kelley may have been like the proverbial rolling stone. There was certainly never time for him to gather any moss. Perhaps, in this case the stone gathered solidity and polish as it rolled. He certainly never held any one position long, but the new one was always a bit better than the old had been.

In 1907 he became under sheriff once more, this time for H. B. Campbell. Two years later, he was chosen deputy clerk of the district court, a position of much local prominence, and in 1910 he was elected sheriff of the county, an office that he is peculiarly fitted to fill well. November 5, 1912, he was re-elected to the same position by 403 majority, the first sheriff in Missoula county in eighteen years to be re-elected.

Eleven years ago Mr. Kelley was united in marriage to Miss Clare Gendreau, decidedly not of her hus- band's nationality. Miss Gendreau had come to Montana from Boston, Massachusetts, her native state. Their

union has been blessed by the birth of four children : Viola D., who was born in 1902, her sister Loretta M., one year younger, and two brothers, Francis W., aged four, and Daniel L., aged two.

Is it necessary to say that Mr. Kelley is a Democrat ? He is a politician not so much from choice, perhaps, as by nature. It is as natural for him to lead as for many men to follow. He is interested in his fellow men and in all that concerns their welfare, hence he must do his part toward the making and enforcing of the laws that govern them.

CHARLES W. GOODALE. The mining industry of Mon- tana has in the person of Charles W. Goodale one of its ablest exponents and most active operators, while the city of Butte regards him as one of her most valu- able citizens and men of affairs. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Boston, Mr. Goodale has been connected with mines and mining matters since his early manhood, and with the passing of the years he has won for himself a reputation for ability in that wide field of industry that is second to none in the state of Montana.

Not only has he become prominent in that particu- lar line, but he has become a power in many other in- dustries, financial and industrial, and his wide affilia- tion with the best clubs and societies has won to him further popularity which he well merits, in recognition of his genial and kindly disposition.

A man of fine intellectual attainments, travel and culture, Mr. Goodale is representative of the best in western social circles, and his friends are limited only by the bounds of his acquaintance.

He was born in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, on the 6th of September, 1854, a son of Warren and Ellen F. (Whitmore) Goodale. The father was born at Marlboro, Massachusetts, in 1825, and died in Hono- lulu, February, 1897, at the age of seventy-two. War- ren Goodale prepared for Yale and while a student at that institution, was obliged to give up his studies owing to trouble with his eyes. A long sea voyage was recommended as means of securing relief, and he started for the Hawaiian Islands, where his aunt, Lucy Thurston, had been for many years engaged in missionary work. Mr. Goodale made the journey around Cape Horn, in 1849, at the time the exodus to the newly discovered gold fields in California was at its height, and proceeded on to his destination. Arriving in Honolulu, in 1849, Mr. Goodale soon after- ward became a teacher in the Royal School, and sub- sequently was appointed marshal of the kingdom, later becoming collector of customs at Honolulu. In 1852 he returned to the United States and was married at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, on the 17th of June, that year, to Miss Ellen F. Whitmore, after an engage- ment of several years. Mrs. Goodale was the daugh- ter of Levi and Mehitable Whitmore, natives of Marl- boro, Massachusetts, and a lady of unusual intelli- gence, who in her maiden days was deeply interested in the condition of the American Indian and gave much . thought to the matter of their improvement. In 1850, she went to Indian Territory to teach in the Indian schools, and spent two years there as principal of a school established by Chief John Ross of the Cherokee tribes. In those days modes of travel in that section of the country were most primitive, and the journey of the young lady from her eastern home to the wilds of, what was then, Indian Territory is worthy of some mention. Leaving Philadelphia by rail she jour- neyed thus to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, from thence by canal to Pittsburg, and from there to Cincinnati by steamer "Robert Rogers;" down the Ohio river from Cincinnati to Louisville, Kentucky, by the steamer "Lady Franklin" and then started for Cairo, Illinois, by the steamer "Empress." En route to Cairo this steamer went aground and the passengers were trans-

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ferred to the steamer "Julia Dean," which landed them at Cairo; next to Memphis and the month of the Arkansas river by the steamer "Sultana," then by another steamboat as far as Richmond, Arkansas, and from the latter place to Tahlequah, Indian Territory, by stage coach and wagon, the trip being quite a rough and hazardous one, especially towards the latter end. She reached Tahlequah, her destination, on November 13th, having been en route since the 3d of October.

After his marriage, Warren Goodale with his bride visited their former homes in New England, then started on the long journey to Honolulu, where their home was established and maintained until the death of Mrs. Goodale, in 1861. After this sad event, the father and family of five children returned to the United States and took up their home in Massachu- setts.

This was shortly after the outbreak of the Civil war. and Warren Goodale enlisted in the Eleventh Massa- chusetts Battery, and was active in that great struggle until its close, rising to the rank of captain.

Following the close of the Civil war, Mr. Goodale returned to Honolulu and becoming connected with the sugar business in that country, continued to reside there until his death in February, 1897, at the age of seventy-two. Of his five children all are now living, except one daughter, Mary E., who died at Great Falls, Montana, on September 19, 1908.

Charles W. Goodale was but a boy of six years when he was brought to the United States by his father, and left in the care of an uncle on the old Goodale homestead in Marlboro, Massachusetts. This fine old estate has been in the Goodale family for the past two hundred years. In this old New England town Mr. Goodale attended the public and high schools, after which he was graduated from the English high school in Boston, in 1871. He followed this train- ing by a course of study in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating from that fine old institu- tion in 1875, with the degree of Bachelor of Sciences. He first became associated with the Boston and Colo- rado Smelting Company after leaving college, and for five years he continued in the employ of that company, one year in Boston, and four years in Black Hawk, Colorado.

He then became connected with the Boston & Ari- zona Smelting Company at Tombstone, Arizona, and was five years with them, after which, in 1885, he en- tered the service of the Colorado Smelting & Mining Company at Butte, Montana, and was for thirteen years in their employ. In 1898, Mr. Goodale became connected with the Boston & Montana Mining Com- pany, as superintendent at Great Falls, residing in that city from 1898 to 1901. In December of the latter year he became manager of the Boston & Montana Mining Company, a department of the Anaconda Copper Min- ing Company, in which important capacity he has since remained.

Mr. Goodale is regarded as one of the most able mining men in the country, and is prominent in those societies which have a bearing upon his profession. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers; of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America; of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy of Great Britain; of the American Mining Congress, and served one year as its treasurer; of the Colorado Scientific Society and of the Montana Society of En- gineers. He is a director of the First National Bank of Great Falls, Montana, and is president of the Barnes-King Development Company. In his political faith he is a Republican, and, in 1888, served as alder- man from the Second ward in Butte.

Mr. Goodale is especially prominent in club circles, holding membership in the Silver Bow Club, of Butte; the Montana Club, of Helena; the Anaconda Club, of Anaconda; the Electric City Club, of Great Falls, and the Engineers Club, of New York City. He is a mem-

ber of the Episcopal church, and is a vestryman therein.

Mr. Goodale is very fond of ont of door exercise, golf being his chief recreation, and is an enthusiastic member of the Butte Country Club.

He has but recently returned from a trip to the Hawaiian Islands and Japan, made in company with a party of eighty, of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, who were guests, while in Japan, of the Mining Institute of Japan. In 1910 he was a member of a similar party that visited the Panama canal, these being but two of many trips, of a similar character, that he has taken.

EDWARD CODDINGTON BABCOCK, founder of the well- known firm of E. C. Babcock & Company, which for many years occupied a high place in commercial cir- cles in this section of the state, was recognized as one of the leading merchants of Helena. His career as a business man and as a citizen was withont mark or blemish, and his passing robbed Helena of one of the leading spirits in her communal and civic life. Of rugged New England ancestry, he came of a family of merchants. He was the son of Draper Babcock and his wife, Mary Elliott, the latter being a descendant of the noted Elliott (or Eliot) of Massachusetts, and was one of the four children of these parents, named as follows: Edward C .; Howard E., who was associated for a time with his brother Edward C., in Montana, but died in Monmouth; Jennie, the widow of Allen B. Sea- man, who was a well-known attorney, of Denver, Col- orado; Lucious A., a resident of Monmouth, Illinois, and the father of two sons,-Draper and Elliott Cod- dington Babcock.

Draper Babcock was the son of Elisha Coddington Babcock, a pioneer merchant of Monmouth, Illinois, where he for years conducted the leading and largest mercantile business in the place, in which he was succeeded by his son, Draper, who continued in the busi- ness for many years, retiring a few years prior to his death. One of the maternal ancestors of Mr. Bab- cock of this review was Gov. William Coddington, prominent in the colonial history of Rhode Island, and one of the original proprietors of Providence planta- tions. The original American progenitor of the house of Babcock was James, who came from England and settled at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, prior to 1665, and later moved to Westerly, Rhode Island. From him descended the greater portion of those bearing the name of Babcock in America today. Edward Caddington Babcock was born at Monmonth, Illinois, on March 27, 1854, and received his early education in the schools of that city, and in Monmouth College, of which his father was one of the founders. He later attended Cornell University. Following the completion of his educa- tional training, he entered his father's store, where for two years he received excellent mercantile training under the direction of his father. It was the wish of the elder Babcock that his son continue with him in the old established business, which had come down to him from his father, but Edward Babcock was anxious to have an independent career of his own making. He accordingly came to the west, locating in Leadville, Colorado, which was at that time experiencing a boom of considerable importance, and there he established a clothing and men's furnishing store, which he con- ducted with marked success for two years. He then sold ont, the venture netting him a nice profit. In 1885 he came to Montana, locating first at Butte, where he established a similar store on North Main street. One year later he was joined by his brother, Howard E., who remained in charge of the Butte store and Edward C. Babcock came to Helena, where he opened the store of Babcock & Company, on Main street, opposite Broad- way, then one of the choice locations of the city. Later, the keen foresight of Mr. Babcock was evidenced when he moved the business to Main street, near Sixth ave-

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nue, and as in the former location, the store was located in the heart of the business center within a short time after he made tlie move. Here he continued and was engaged in business at this location at the time of his death.

For about three years Mr. Babcock was in indiffer- ent health, and he made frequent trips to other climates in the hope of receiving benefit. He was at all times, however, the head and heart of his business. On the occasion of his leaving the city and upon his return from trips of this nature, the Helena press almost invariably made reference with regret to the necessity which com- pelled his absence, and pleasure on his return. While in Los Angeles, California, in search of health, his death came quite suddenly, on January 1, 1910, and he was laid to rest, as was his oft expressed wish, in the family lot beside his parents, at Monmouth, Illinois, his native place and boyhood home.

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A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 3

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