A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 64

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

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Senator Survant owns the Malta Enterprise, the lead- ing newspaper of the place. He has also a large ranch near Malta and has been in the sheep business, but for years has made a specialty of cattle and horses. A number of his ranches are located along the government canal.

Senator Survant has been a prominent man in the public life of the county and state for some years. He is a Republican, and his first public office was that of clerk of the court in 1902. In 1906 he was defeated for the office of state senator, but was elected in 1910. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow.

In 1894 Mr. Survant was married to Miss Mary Utley of Miami, Missouri. Three children have been born to them,-Burner Barker, Annie Lee and Jessie Marion. The son, Burner, is a student in Shattuck Military school at Faribault, Minnesota; Annie Lee is finishing her education in the Ursuline Academy at Great Falls, Montana; while Jessie is still attending the public school at home and will later finish her educa- tion at some California university.

CHARLES V. FULTON. Scholarly in his attainments, and possessing excellent business and executive ability, Charles V. Fulton, associate proprietor of the Butte Business College, is widely known in educational cir- cles, while his abilities are respected and his reputa- tion is highly regarded throughout the state. He was born May 18, 1865, in Bryan, Williams county, Ohio, of pioneer stock. His father, the late Joseph A. Ful- ton, was born in eastern Ohio, where his parents set- tled in pioneer days, and during his active career was there employed as a contractor. He died in Ohio in 1903, aged three score and ten years. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Mouday, spent her entire life in Ohio, passing away in 1869, at a comparatively early age.

Having completed the course of study in the pub- lic schools of Bryan, Charles V. Fulton entered the Tri-State Normal School at Angola, Indiana, from which he received his diploma with the class of 1888, and the following year, in 1889, was graduated from the Davis Business College in Toledo, Ohio. Thus equipped for a professional career, he taught for sev- eral years in the rural schools of his native state, dur- ing which time he was a member of the teachers' examining board for Williams county. Going from there to Bucyrus, Crawford county, Ohio, he had charge of the commercial department of the Bucyrus high school for two years, and while there was ap- pointed a member of the city teachers' examining board. In 1892, desirous of broadening his field of action, and foreseeing the future development of the great north- west, Mr. Fulton came to Montana, and was soon enrolled as a teacher in the public schools of Butte. Being eminently successful in that capacity, he was subsequently appointed principal of the Garfield school, of which he had control for five years. Since that time, 1897, he has been actively associated with the Butte Business College, one of the best commercial schools of the northwest. It has the distinction of being the only business school in this section of the state that gives instructions to its pupils in the higher branches of learning, fitting them for positions of trust and responsibility.

Mr. Fulton married, June 19, 1893, in Bucyrus, Ohio, Naomi Feiring, a daughter of Henry Feiring, a promi- nent merchant of Bucyrus, and they have one child, Dudley H. Fulton, who was born in Butte, April 4, 1895, and is now attending the Butte Business Col- lege.

Politically Mr. Fulton is identified with the Repub- lican party. Fraternally he is a member of the Be- nevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and socially he belongs to the Silver Bow Club. Religiously he is an Episcopalian.

DOMINIC G. BERTOGLIO is another of Butte's capi- talists who was born in Italy. His father, John Bertog- lio, was born in the same country, in 1837, his family being farmers and for many generations the owners of the estate upon which Mary Bono Bertoglio, the widow of John and the mother of Dominic Bertoglio. still lives. The father was a railroad builder and con- tractor, and retired when past middle life from active participation in business with a competence. Dominic G. Bertoglio was born at Pia Monte, on April 21, 1872, received his education in the public schools of Italy, and his father expected him to settle on the ancestral farm in his fatherland. But to the young boy the crude new country where everything was in the process of making, instead of being all complete, appealed much more strongly than the prospect of becoming a landholder in beautiful Italy, and so at the age of sixteen he sailed for America, and upon landing made his way to Ironwood, Michigan, and across the river to Hurley, Wisconsin, where he went

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to work in the mines, being the youngest miner in that entire section.

Mr. Bertoglio was employed in these camps until 1891, when the mines shut down, and there followed a panic, and consequently a cut in wages. At this junc- ture, Mr. Bertoglio decided to go west, and so left for Tombstone, Arizona, and until January, 1892, worked there and at Prescott and Bisbee. From Ari- zona he came to Butte, and for two years worked in the mines here. He was twenty-one years old when he had saved up a capital of $160, and he and another miner decided to open a general store in Meaderville, a suburb of Butte. They were sucessful from the very start, and a few months later A. C. Grosso became a partner, which continued ten years, when Mr. Bertoglio bought out Mr. Grosso's interests. The business con- tinued to be not merely a paying concern, but a money making investment, which was a source of fortune to its owners. Mr. Bertoglio bought out his associate at the end of their decade of experience as partners, and since that time has conducted his store alone.

In the meantime he had been investing his surplus capital in enterprises of various sorts. In addition to his interests in the Bertoglio Mercantile Company and the firm of Bertoglio & Smith, he is one of the incorporators of the Spokane Telephone Company, holds stock in the National Life Insurance Company of Montana, in the Tivoli Brewing Association of Butte, in the Marconi Wireless Company, and the Patent Plow Point Company, whose foundry is located at Detroit, Michigan. In the last-mentioned corpora- tion he is one of the directors and is vice-president of the company. These holdings, together with some val- uable mining properties which he owns in Butte, bring his fortune into the hundreds of thousands.

In November, 1893, Mr. Bertoglio was married to Miss Mary Grosso of Butte. Two children have been born of this union, John, born in 1898, is a student at Gonzaga College, in Spokane, and is now in his senior year. James, born September I, 1905, is attend- ing school in Meaderville, where the family reside.

Mr. Bertoglio is a member of the Elks' lodge and also of the Odd Fellows. He belongs to the Roman Catholic church. His grandfather, James Bono, was influential in ecclesiastical circles in Italy. Politically Mr. Bertoglio supports the Republican party and was the candidate of that body for the legislature in 1903, but was defeated. His favorite diversions are hunt- ing and fishing, and he devotes a great deal of time to these occupations. He enjoys a wide popularity in a varied circle of acquaintances, and is one of the best known of Butte's solid, financial citizens.

HENRY LOUIS SHAPARD. One of the most conspicuous figures in the recent history of Missoula is the popular gentleman whose name introduces this article, a man actively identified with the business and industrial in- terests of this section for some years. Equally noted as a citizen whose career has conferred credit upon the community and whose marked abilities and stirring qualities have won for him much more than local re- pute, he holds today distinctive precedence as one of the most progressive and successful men who ever in- augurated and carried to successful termination large and important undertakings in this section of the com- monwealth. Strong mental powers, invincible courage and a determined purpose that hesitates at no opposi- tion have so entered into his composition as to render him a dominant factor in the business world and leader of men in important enterprises. For a considerable period he has been interested in mining and is today president of the Carter Mining & Milling Company at Carter, Montana, and also owns the Shapard Hotel of this city.

Henry Louis Shapard was born April 26, 1866, in San

Francisco, California, and with a very limited educa- tion and after various trying experiences, he has be- come one of the leading business men of Missoula. He has in truth encountered a series of hardships and ad- versities such as would have overwhelmed one not so well supplied with grit and determination to succeed. Born of poor parents, at the early age of twelve years he began his struggle with the world. His first work was in a tobacco factory where he acted as stripper and after a hard day's work he attended night school, for the spark of ambition burned brightly in this young fel- low's breast. He soon entered the mines and worked as tool bearer, and proving faithful and efficient, was given more and more to do. Step by step he learned every detail of the mining business and also became fa- miliarized with smelting and its processes, and for over eight years his energies were devoted to that work, which took him to various camps in the state of Ari- zona. At the age of twenty years he became identified with railroading and was employed in the locomotive department as fireman for the Southern Pacific, Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, Atlantic & Pacific, and Northern Pacific railroads, this work being pursued by him for a decade and bringing him to this thirtieth year.

In 1894 Mr. Shapard announced his candidacy for the office of sheriff of Missoula county on the Populist and Labor ticket, and quite without campaign funds he can- vassed the entire county on foot, encountering all sorts of hardships and finally arriving at Thompson Falls ragged and shoeless, with a week's growth of beard on his face. He secured one hundred and six votes out of one hundred and sixty, and although running ahead of his ticket he was defeated for the office of sheriff by a small majority. In the fall of 1900 Mr. Shapard was nominated on the Democratic ticket for the legis- lature and was again defeated by a small majority. That settled his political aspirations and he determined to succeed in another way. And this he has abun- dantly done.

Shortly after his political adventures, Mr. Shapard opened a railroad house for the accommodation of rail- road men, which proved a success, largely owing to his thrifty nature and knowledge of the needs of this class of men from past experience. He subsequently invested his accumulated capital in real estate and other enter- prises and became a large stockholder in the Garden City Brewing Company, for a number of years being vice president of that thriving concern. He has also been engaged in mineral investments and is a heavy stockholder in the Hellgate coal mine, occupying the offices of secretary and treasurer of the same. This is a very valuable mine, having an eight-foot vein of fine coal and its output is largely consumed in Missoula, doing away with the necessity of long distance shipping. In 1904 he became the owner of what was known as the Kennedy hotel and renamed it the Shapard hotel and he has since made manifold improvements until the hostelry is the largest in the city. He has made addi- tions and it now has one hundred and twenty-five rooms, which are all needed to accommodate his ever increas- ing patronage, which is the largest of any hotel in the city. He is president of the Carter Mining & Milling Company of Montana, a gold mine with a great future, and also owns city realty of first class order. In short, no man has contributed in more definite manner to the growth and development of Missoula than this self- made and progressive citizen.

Mr. Shapard was happily married in April, 1892, Mary Garrity, a native of Minnesota, becoming his wife. Fraternally the subject is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

CLAUDE FRANK MORRIS. In the remarkable develop- ment that has taken place in many sections of Mon- tana, within the last decade, a main factor has been

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the interest shown by young men of education, initia- tive and enterprise, men who have been college bred and have come to this great state not with speculative intent but with the object of establishing here their per- manent homes. At Havre, Montana, many of the lead- ing and successful business undertakings are directed by men of the above class and a case in point is that of the cashier of the Security State Bank, Claude Frank Morris. Mr. Morris was born in Ralls county, Mis- souri, January 10, 1869, and is a son of Harrison F. and Nancy Catherine (Domigan) Morris.

Harrison F. Morris was born at Georgetown, Ken- tucky, but after marriage and prior to the birth of his son, Claude Frank, moved to Missouri. He lived for some years in Ralls county but subsequently moved to his farm in Audrain county, on which he still resides, living somewhat retired. He married Nancy Catherine Domigan, who was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and died in 1907, in Audrain county, Missouri. Of their family of eight children all survive with one ex- ception, Claude Frank being the fifth in order of birth. William H. resides on his ranch in Hill county, Montana. James W. is a farmer in Audrain county, Missouri. Callie is the wife of Theodore Black and Sarah is married to Joseph Adkinson, both being residents of Audrain county, Missouri. The two remaining chil- dren, Fannie and Iva, both reside with their father on the family homestead in Audrain county.

Claude Frank Morris attended the public schools of Audrain county and afterward completed a commercial course in a business college at Sedalia, Missouri. In 1892, being then twenty-three years of age, he came to Montana, accepting a position as bookkeeper in the Stockton Bank, at Fort Benton, where he continued for four years and possibly would have remained longer had he not, at that time, received an appointment to a government position, a clerkship in the agricultural department at Washington, D. C., under Secretary James A. Wilson. During his five years of official life in the capital city, Mr. Morris made good use of the many cosmopolitan advantages offered there, and also became a student in literature and law at the Columbian University, giving as much attention to his classes as was consistent with the faithful perform- ance of his official duties. He was graduated in the law class of 1902 and was also president of his law class during the graduating year, for many reasons the latter honor being a matter for justifiable pride.

After the termination of his official service and the completion of his college course, Mr. Morris returned to Montana with the expectation of engaging in the practice of law, but before his plans were fully matured, Mr. S. McKennan, who is one of the financial magnates of the northwest, brought to bear influences which led to his adopting banking as a career, and ever since then he has been a business associate of Mr. McKennan, his' law business being confined to settling up and administering estates. Mr. Morris became secretary of the Union Bank & Trust Company, at Helena, and continued in that position for three and one-half years, with an interruption of ten months, during which he was engaged in straightening out the affairs of a bank at Malta, Montana. Since January, 1907, Mr. Morris has been cashier of the Security State Bank, at Havre, Montana, and has thoroughly. identified himself with the various and prospering in- terests of the place. He owns valuable property there, including a handsome city residence and a ranch just outside the city limits, in managing which he finds a large amount of recreation and enjoyment. In politics he is a Democrat and represents his party as state central committeeman for Hill county.

Mr. Morris was married October 25, 1905, to Miss Alice Cary Manwaring. who is a daughter of T. P. and Mary (Griswold) Manwaring, the latter of whom

was born at Binghampton, New York. The father of Mrs. Morris for many years was a prominent orchardist and now lives retired at Dayton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Morris have one daughter, Catherine. He is a Presbyterian in religious faith, while Mrs. Morris was reared in the Methodist church. He is identified fraternally with Alexandria-Washington Lodge, No. 22, A. F. & A. M., at Alexandria, Virginia, and is a member and a trustee of the Elks, at Havre. In all that goes to make the highest type of American citi- zen, Mr. Morris stands preeminent.

GEORGE A. PACKARD. The large extent and immense richness of Montana's mines, and especially that por- tion of the mining country of which Butte is the cen- ter, has attracted to the professions dependent upon this industry men of the largest . caliber and highest education, and it is but natural that many of these should select Butte as the headquarters for their field of operations. Among the men of this profession who enjoy a national reputation and have offices in Butte Mr. George A. Packard deserves conspicuous men- tion.

Mr. Packard is acquainted with and has worked in many of the richest mining sections of the United States in various localities, and his proficiency in his chosen profession is the result of natural aptitude, exhaustive special education and training and wide experience. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he entered immediately after graduation from the Wakefield, Massachusetts, high school in 1886, and received his degree of Min- ing Engineer from the institute with the class of 1890. His first professional employment took him to Ari- zona, where for two years he worked on properties owned by the Phelps, Dodge Company. In March, 1892, he came to Montana for the first time, and fol- lowed his profession in Cooke and Virginia City, among his employers there being the Eastern Pacific Company, Virginia City, and the Henderson Mountain Mining & Milling Company. Mr. Packard next went to southeastern Missouri and entered the employ of the DesLoges Lead Company. He subsequently rep- resented one of the largest cyanide companies in Arizona and was for two years located at Mercur, Utah, as manager and consulting metallurgist for sev- eral large companies. From September, 1896, until May of the following year he was professionally en- gaged at Butte, Montana, and in 1899 went to Boston and established offices in that city, serving his clients there in the capacity of consulting engineer. He still maintains these offices in the eastern city, although he now spends the greater portion of his time in the offices which he opened in Butte a year and a half ago. Among his important connections here has been that of manager for the Raven Copper Company.

Mr. Packard keeps in touch with men and matters relative to his profession in all parts of the world through his membership in a number of the well known societies and organizations and technological and metallurgical character. He is a member of the Tech- nology Club of Boston, the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, the American Institute of Min- ing Engineers, the Montana Society of Engineers (of which he is a trustee), and also of the Chemical Metal- lurgical Society of South Africa. Through his mem- bership in these distinguished societies he has been able to achieve an acquaintance and position among min- ing engineers of the world that is one of his most valuable and highly esteemed assets.

Mr. Packard was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, April 17, 1869, a member of one of the earliest Ameri- can families of which the country has record. His paternal ancestors came from England in 1638 and set- tled at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, the founder of the

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family in this country being Samuel Packard, who was a prominent man in those pioneer days and fought in the early Indian wars, while members of the family also participated in the Revolutionary conflict. The maternal line of the family of which Mr. Pack- ard is a present day representative also sprang from English stock, the first member having come to Amer- ica in 1642, settling in Charlestown, Massachusetts. One of the men of the family was an officer in the army and took part in the famous Boston Tea Party. Mr. Pack- ard's father was George Packard, a native of Maine, who was born November 29, 1820, followed the busi- ness of contractor during his lifetime, and died at Wakefield, Massachusetts, January 17, 1884. His mother was Marietta Swain, daughter of Strong Swain and a native of Wakefield, Massachusetts. Her death occurred in September, 1879. Mr. Packard has one sister, Carrie E., born in 1874, at Wakefield, now the widow of E. W. Parker, and a resident of Seattle, Washington.

On April 12, 1899, at Readfield, Maine, was sol- emnized the marriage uniting George A. Packard and Miss Edythe R. Morrill in wedlock. Mrs. Packard was born in Maine, the daughter of Jacob P. Morrill. Of this union a son, Morrill, was born, but he died in infancy, leaving the parents without issue.

Mr. Packard is not only professionally prominent, as evidenced by his membership in the list of so- cieties previously named, but he likewise belongs to clubs and fraternal organizations that make him well known in social circles. Since 1897 he has been af- filiated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, having joined at Virginia City, Montana, and is a member of the Silver Bow Club and the University Club. He is a gentleman of broad gauge and diver- sified interests, independent in thought and action, and enjoys a reputation for high personal qualities.

ROGERS W. BERRY. From earliest times all nations have attained greatness in such ratio as they have been controlled or governed by equitable and just laws with correspondingly capable exponents of their legal jurisprudence, and whether in savagery or civilization, that man who successfully performs the office of judge, advocate or pleader has always stood above his fel- lows, has been one who represented the strongest type and the highest intelligence of his people and who inspired in his fellow man a supreme confidence in his judgment and sincerity of purpose. This is the profession which Rogers W. Berry, of Great Falls, chose as his life work and his rank as one of the foremost legal advocates of the state of Montana at- tests his fitness for that profession.

He was born in Quincy, Michigan, November 12, 1858, is of English lineage, and on the paternal side is a scion of an old New England family. Through his great-grandmother Berry he is a direct descend- ant of John Rogers, an English martyr who was burned at the stake in England about 1600 on account of his religious belief and activity as a Puritan. Dr. Enos G. Berry, his father, was in his day one of the eminent men of Michigan and was widely known in politics. He was a native of New Hampshire but became a pioneer settler in Michigan, where he became prominent in the public life of that state, having served in both branches of the state legislature and having been an influential factor in causing the removal of the state capital from. Detroit to Lansing, he having prepared the bill for that removal. He was identified with the Republican party from its foundation, having been one of the principal organizers of that party in Mich- igan and thereafter until his death having continued to take a very prominent part in the Republican na- tional, state and local affairs. When the cloud of Civil war lowered threateningly over the country in 1861

Dr. Berry was the choice of the Republican party for war governor of Michigan, but owing to ill health he had to decline the nomination. He was also at one time general manager of internal affairs in Michigan. His death in 1879 at the age of sixty-three terminated a long and useful career and in all of his responsible distinctions his reputation was that of a statesman of sterling common sense, unstained personal character and stanch and devoted Republicanism. The mother of Rogers W. Berry was Lydia Ann Wilson prior to her marriage, a native of Detroit, Michigan, who died at Omaha, Nebraska in 1887 at the age of sixty-two and is buried beside her husband in Quincy, Michigan. She, too, was of English descent and her people were among the early settlers of Detroit. Dr. Berry and his wife were the parents of five children, of whom Rogers was the youngest.

In the public schools of his native city Mr. Berry received his common and high school education, which was supplemented by excellent advantages both in the arts and in law, having pursued his course in the liberal arts at Hillsdale College, and his course in law at the University of Michigan where he was graduated in 1875 at the age of seventeen with the degree of Bachelor of Laws and with the honor of salutatorian, having ranked as second in a class of one hundred and fifty students. Upon reaching his majority he was admitted to practice by the supreme court of Michigan and began at once the labors of his profession in his home town of Quincy. He remained there seven years, but ambitious for greater opportunities, he decided to go west and for several years followed mining in Col- orado very successfully. His career has not been one continuous progress toward success and wealth, how- ever, for adversity entered in more than once and what he has gained in Colorado was eventually lost again. From Colorado he went to Newton, Kansas, where he followed law eight years. Attracted by the possibilities of a successful career in law, in business and of citizenship in a new and rising state, he left Kansas for Montana and on September 4, 1892, cast his fortunes with what was then the village of Great Falls but which is now the second city in size in Mon- tana. Gifted with legal talent of a high order and with that tenacity of purpose which makes him a formidable opponent at the bar, he rapidly forged to the front as one of the able and leading lawyers of the state, one whose briefs always show wide and provi- dent research and who urges his contentions in a clear and forceful manner. During 1903 and 1904 he served as prosecuting attorney of Cascade county. He was called upon to sit as special judge in the noted case of Vaughn, Gallaghar and Cornelius, involving a very important law point. The case, the trial of which cov- ered twenty-one days, was tried without jury. It was subsequently taken to the supreme court where the decision which Judge Berry had rendered in the earlier trial was firmly sustained. Mr. Berry is the senior member of the present law firm of Berry & Bennett, with offices in the Phelps block, and continues his practice of law though he has not confined himself to his professional work, for he has also acquired ex- tensive business connections. He is president of the Reid Mining, Milling & Smelting Company, is a direc- tor and secretary of the Great Falls and Judith Min- ing Company, and is secretary and treasurer of the Tenderfoot Copper Mining Company.

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A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 64

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