A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 7

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

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Mr. Eldred throughout his whole career has proved himself a man of sterling character and has won the confidence and respect of hosts of friends. His busi- ness qualifications have been demonstrated in many situations and he has risen from place to place until he has attained a high position in the esteem of all who know him.

DR. JOSEPH A. TREMBLAY. A native of Canada, but since 1886 a resident of Montana, Dr. Joseph A. Trem- blay, county physician and surgeon of Silver Bow county, by his eminence in his profession, his skill in his practice and his high character and sterling man- hood, reflects great credit alike on the land of his nativity and the state and city of his adoption. He is one of the leading physicians of Butte, well known all over the city and very popular. He has a large private practice, a beautiful home and an interesting family, and throughout Silver Bow county he stands high in the estimation, regard and good will of the people.

Dr. Tremblay was born in Lower Canada, on March 3, 1845. He received his early academic training in the public schools of his native land and his professional instruction in the medical department of Victoria Uni- versity. He began his professional career at Marlboro, Michigan, remaining there for a period of seventeen years. In 1886 he came to Butte, when what is now one of the greatest mining towns and most spectacular

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cities in the world was but a primitive and straggling village, or typical western mining camp. Here he has lived ever since except for the space of seven years during which he was in active practice in Missoula.

His father, Julian Tremblay, was born in Canada and died there in 1873, at the age of fifty-five years. He was a prominent educator and revered by those who had the benefit of his instruction and the people who witnessed his usefulness and devotion to his du- ties. His wife, the mother of the doctor, Martinie ( Robart) Tremblay, was also a native of Canada, and died in that country at an early age.

Dr. Tremblay was married in Missoula, Montana, to Miss Cathryne Nash, who died in Butte in 1903. They were the parents of six children, all of whom are living. Mrs. Mary T. C. Kelley, the first born, is a resident of Butte. She has four children. Mrs. Ma- tilda M. Murray, resides in Seattle, Washington, and has one child. Julian Tremblay, the only son in the family, is attending Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. Rufina Kilpatrick has her home in Butte, and is the mother of one child. Miss Cirie and Miss Emedee Tremblay, who are the only mem- bers of the family born in Butte, the others all being natives of Marlboro, Michigan, are still living at the paternal home with their father, and are among its greatest attractions. They are prominent in the social life of the city, and, like their father, very popular.

The doctor is a devout member of the Catholic church. In fraternal relations he is connected with the Order of Knights of Columbus. He was elected county physician, and is still filling that office to the entire satisfaction of the people and greatly to the benefit of the county. He has always been deeply interested in the enduring welfare of the people among whom he has lived and labored, and is at all times ready to do whatever he can to promote it. The citizens of Butte and Silver Bow county regard him as one of the most progressive and useful men among them, as well as a gentleman of high character, upright life and practical public spirit. He possesses, too, the mod- esty of genuine merit, which adds to his popularity and intensifies the esteem all the people have for him. He is one of Canada's best contributions to the man- hood of the United States.

HAVELOCK H. HANSON, M. D. Foremost in the ranks of men of vigorous and forcible character who have taken important and prominent part in the affairs of Butte is found Havelock Horatio Hanson, M. D., whose talents, enterprise and energy command the re- spect of his fellow men, and whose career is a worthy example and an object of emulation. A knowledge of men whose substantial fame rests upon their attain- ments, character and success, must necessarily exert a wholesome influence on the rising generation of the American people, and it is therefore peculiarly proper that the life of such a person should have its public record. In this connection it is appropriate to review the circumstances in the career of Dr. Hanson. .

Havelock H. Hanson was born at Fredericton, the capital of New Brunswick, Canada, April 31, 1858, and is a son of Edgar and Helen N. (Hanson) Hanson, also natives of the Dominion. The family originated in England, from whence representatives immigrated to America on the Mayflower, but later established . itself in Canada, the paternal great-grandparents of Dr. Hanson building the first log cabin on the site of the present city of St. John, New Brunswick. For more than forty years Edgar Hanson held the office of deputy provincial secretary of New Brunswick. The early education of Dr. Hanson was secured in the public schools of Fredericton, and in 1876 he was graduated from Kings College of that city, with the degree of Master of Arts. He then began the study of medicine while being engaged in the drug business

for several years, and in 1880 he entered Magill Uni- versity at Montreal. After spending two years in that famous institution, he took a nine months' course in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, then entering the Columbus (Ohio) Medical College, where he was graduated with the class of 1881. For a short time he was located at Chautauqua, New York, being surgeon for the Chautauqua Iron and Ore Company, and then went to Van Buren, Maine, where he practiced for two years and met with success. At that time he went to Andover, New Brunswick, and established .himself in practice, but in 1886 came to Montana, and for two years was located at Townsend, then going to Mis- soula. During the ten years that followed he became one of the leading professional men and prominent citizens of that city, but in 1898, seeking a wider field for his activities, came to Butte, in which city he soon took precedence as a physician and surgeon. Dr. Hanson has carried on a general practice, but has de- voted his attention chiefly to surgery and has become known as one of the leading practitioners of the state. A recognized authority on various diseases, he has been constantly called in consultation in cases of a serious nature, and his advice and assistance are highly appre- ciated. He is a close student. a steady-handed surgeon and a man of much personal magnetism and pro- foundly sympathetic nature, and his reputation has extended over a wide radius. He holds membership in the Montana State Medical Societies, the American Medical Association and the New Brunswick Medical Society, in the work of all of which he takes a great. interest, and among the members of which his opinions are held in the highest respect. His greatest recrea- tion is with the rod, of which he is an expert wielder.

On April 14, 1880, Dr. Hanson was united in mar- riage with Miss Hester E. McKeen, daughter of Wil- liam and Anna (Hammond) McKeen, natives of New Brunswick, Canada, but for many years residents of Montana. Dr. and Mrs. Hanson have two charming daughters: Margaret and Nellie, both married and living in San Francisco together. Margaret married Roscoe Oakes and Helen married Fred Poss.

HENRY LOWNDES MAURY, city attorney of Butte and one of the best known and leading members of the legal profession in that city, was born in Charlottes- ville, Virginia, on November 20, 1875, and is a son of Matthew Fontaine and Lydia Aun (Maury) Maury. He is a great-grandson of James Maury, who was ap- pointed American consul at Liverpool, England, by President Washington, and also great-grandson of James Maury, a patriot of Revolutionary fame. Louis Herndon Maury, uncle of Henry Lowndes Maury, was first officer under Admiral Semmes of the Confederate cruiser Alabama, of historic fame, and his great-uncle, Dabney N. Maury, was a major general in the Confed- erate army. His grandmothers also won distinction. His paternal grandmother, Sarah Hughes Manry, was of Welshi extraction, and one of the best known au- thors and writers of the United States in her day. Her works were known and read all over this country and secured her considerable renown also in England. The maternal grandmother, whose name was Lucy Price in her maidenhood, was a niece of Gen. Sterling Price of the Confederate army, and has long been prom- inent in the social life of Virginia. She is still living. on the old family homestead in that state, and is re- garded as one of the most estimable and representative ladies of the highest class.

Matthew F. Maury; great-uncle of the subject of this review, was the most renowned hydrographer of his period, and one of the most eminent of all time. He entered the United States navy as a young man and soon reached the rank. of lieutenant. He studied the Gulf stream, and was the first man to trace its course accurately and map it out definitely on the trackless

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bosom of the ocean. He also located other oceanic currents and described great circle sailing in a way that has been of great advantage to navigators. In 1856 he published his "Physical Geography of the Sea," a work of the highest merit, and one that at- tracted the attention and brought him the commenda- tion of the whole scientific world in the domain of thought and investigation to which it was devoted. He was also a civil and mechanical engineer and an inventor of submarine appliances. During the Civil war he espoused the cause of the Confederacy, and in the furtherance of that cause invented the first form of torpedo used in naval warfare, and also the first submarine mines, which were used in the James river below Richmond, Virginia. After the war he was appointed a professor in the Virginia Military In- stitute at Lexington in his native state, the school from which "Stonewall" Jackson went into the war. He died in 1875.

Henry Lowndes Maury completed his education at the University of Virginia, from which he was grad- uated .in 1894. Soon afterwards he came west and located in Butte, where for six years he was employed as a clerk in the law office of Corbett & Wellcome. During his connection with those gentlemen he studied law and was admitted to the bar, and when he began practicing formed a partnership with Judge Pember- ton, which lasted for four years. At the end of that period he formed a new partnership with his present associate, Mr. Templeman. They have a very large and active practice, and the firm is in the highest rank in the legal profession.

Mr. Maury was married in Charlottesville, Vir- ginia, on November 22, 1898, to Miss Ann Perkins, a daughter of George and Lizzie (Watson) Perkins, of that city. Six children have been born of their union, all of whom are living and are residents of Butte. They are: Reuben, born September 2, 1899; George, born . December 24, 1901; Lesse Lewis, born October 23, 1903; Lydia, born December 12, 1906; Eliza, born October 2. 1908; and Henry Lowndes, Jr., born July 9, 1911. The first three named are students at the Mckinley school in Butte.

In 1911 Mr. Maury was appointed city attorney of Butte, and he is still the incumbent of that office. Politically he supports the principles and candidates of the Socialist party; fraternally he holds member- ship in the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World; and socially he is a member of the Uni- versity Club of his Alma Mater, the Silver Bow Club of Butte and the Lambs Club, of Helena. He was president of the Silver Bow Bar Association in 1907. In religious faith and membership he is connected with the Episcopal church in the city of his residence.

Mr. Maury is devoted to the game of chess and is very skillful at it, having defeated some of the ex- perts in the game. He is enterprising and practical in his efforts to aid in the progress and further develop- ment of his adopted city and state, and in reference to their welfare is guided by intelligence, breadth of view and excellent judgment.

LEVI S. WILD. An essentially representative citizen and business man of Butte is Levi S. Wild, who has resided in this city since 1886 and who for the past twenty years has been the general manager of the Butte office of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Mr. Wild has traveled extensively throughout the United States and has lived in many of the most im- portant metropolitan centers of this thriving, bustling, American commonwealth, yet we have his word for it that Montana is the "Peerless" state. His loyalty and public spirit in connection with all that affects the gen- eral welfare and prosperity of Butte and .. Montana at

large have ever been of the most insistent order.

A native of the fine old Wolverine state, Levi S. Wild was born in Albion, Michigan, March 10, 1846. His parents came from old Revolutionary stock in Massachusetts and were Michigan pioneers, having traveled by team from York state to Michigan in 1834. John E. Wild was born in the state of Massa- chusetts, in 1810, and his wife, whose maiden name was Hutch, was a native of Elmira, New York, where her birth occurred in 1813. Mr. Wild erected the first frame house on a farm just beyond the outskirts of Albion, Michigan, and he was the first president of that town after its incorporation. He was also a member of the board of trustees of Albion Female College and was a charter member and worshipful master of the first Masonic lodge of Albion. He figured prominently in all the public affairs of his pioneer environment and was paymaster of the first organization of the Mich- igan State Guards, in 1836. In 1865 Mr. and Mrs. Wild removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, where they passed the residue of their lives, their deaths having occurred in 1870 and 1891, respectively.

The last born in a family of five children, Levi S. Wild received his educational training in his native place, where he attended Albion College for a period of two terms, just prior to the outbreak of the Civil war. He learned telegraphy in 1861, on the Michigan Central Railroad, and in the following year went to Chicago, where he accepted a position with the West- ern Union Telegraph Company, doing service at the company's office at the corner of Lake and Clark streets. He remained in Chicago until the autumn of 1865, when he removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, whither his parents had removed from the old Michigan home. In 1866 he went to St. Louis to fill a position in the offices of the Western Union. The spring of 1867, however, found him back in St. Joseph and in May of that year he started out on horseback across the plains for California. The Indians were exceptionally troublesome at that time, probably owing to the en- croachments upon their old hunting grounds along the Platte river by the Union Pacific Railway. The Cali- fornia outfit was organized at Fort Sedgwick-op- posite the then new Union Pacific Railroad town, Julesburg, Nebraska,-and there was joined by an eighteen-wagon outfit. The Indians were exceedingly troublesome all the way up the Platte river to the foot hills of the Black Hills. They made numerous dashes into the camp and while the "train" was in transit tried to stampede the stock. They were repeatedly repulsed and not one of the party suffered injury. The stage stock was driven off and coaches held up both ahead and behind this outfit and many were killed by the Indians, and so it was miraculous that the above party made so clean an escape from Indian cruelty.

Arriving at Salt Lake City early in September, 1867, Mr. Wild left the horseback route and took the Wells- Fargo stage for San Francisco, via Austin and Vir- ginia City, Nevada. The Central Pacific Railroad was completed and had trains running to Cisco, California, near the summit of the Sierras, where Mr. Wild took the steam cars to Sacramento, thence by boat down the Sacramento river and the bay to San Francisco. The roving propensity was not long in check. In October he was back in Salt Lake City and in November of the same year took the stage for Virginia City, Mon- tana, arriving in the then capital city of the territory on November 10 and at once assuming charge of the Western Union Telegraph office there. He remained in Virginia City until the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad, in 1869, when he returned to Utah. In 1870 he was again in San Francisco. In March, 1872. he accepted a position as paymaster for Ben Holladay on his railroad construction work in Oregon and Washington, with' headquarters in Portland. He

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filled the latter position until Jay Cooke's memorable financial smash, in the autumn of 1872, when he re- turned to San Francisco, whence he later went to Vir- ginia City, Nevada. In 1873 he made a jump to Ala- bama, Tennessee and other southern states and in 1874 he was in the employ of the Pullman Car Company at Chicago. In 1879 he was again in the south, in 1880 was in Denver and later at Ogden, Utah. On the 10th of November, 1886, after an absence of seventeen years, he returned to "Peerless" Montana and located at Butte, where he again entered the services of the Western Union Telegraph Company. He has con- tinued to reside in this city during the long intervening years to the present time, in 1912, and is perfectly content with the splendid opportunities offered here both for business advancement and pleasure. He has long been in the employ of the Western Union and the fine character of his work has brought him various promotions until he is now general manager of the Butte office.

On December 26, 1886, Mr. Wild married Miss Pauline Bryan, of St. Joseph, Missouri. She is a sister of Mrs. Bryan Irvine, who came to Butte in the early '70s and married Mr. Bryan Irvine, the well-known pioneer, who made twenty-two locations of mines on the Butte hill. Mr. Irvine died in Butte, November 17, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Wild have one son, John Edgerton Wild, who was born October 8, 1888, and who is now a member of the class of 1912 in the agricultural department of the University of Wiscon- sin, at Madison.

In politics Mr. Wild accords an unswerving alleg- iance to the principles and policies for which the Re- publican party stands sponsor, and in a fraternal way he is affiliated with a number of representative or- ganizations. He is genial in his associations, kind hearted and generous in his dealings with his fellow men, and commands the unalloyed confidence and es- teen of all with whom he has come in contact. He is a citizen of whom Butte has every right to be proud.

JENNISON PAUL JONES. The late Jennison Paul Jones, for twenty-six years a resident of Montana and for more than a dozen years one of the most highly es- teemed ranch-owners of Jefferson county, was a na- tive of Michigan. His paternal ancestry was Welsh and his maternal ancestral line was of the Pennsyl- vania German division of early immigrants. Jeremiah R. Jones, his father, was a shoemaker who also con- ducted a small farm on which he and his wife, Ann (Rote) Jones, settled in Michigan. There they lived until the close of their lives and there they reared their eight children, of whom Jennison Paul Jones was one. He was born near Mottville, Michigan, on Jan- uary 10, 1854.

Reared to hard work, Jennison Paul Jones received limited educational advantages, his farm duties per- mitting him to attend the country school for only a few months each year. In the performance of the modest agricultural tasks of the parental homestead he remained in his native locality until he had passed his majority and had reached the age of twenty-three years.

As an early settler in that country which was then new and comparatively unsettled, Jennison P. Jones purchased a small farm in Cherokee county, Kansas, and soon afterward established his home upon it. After his marriage he continued his rural residence in the Sunflower state for ahout ten years. In 1886 he sold his Cherokee county property and in March of that year he arrived in Montana.

Mr. Jones' first location in the Treasure state was near Burlington, in Silver Bow county. where he was engaged at teaming and in supplying lumber by' con- tract, for use in connection with the mining of that region. . For abont seven years he successfully' fol-

lowed this business. He and his family then removed to a new home near Virginia City, Montana, where he again followed teaming activities for about three years. At the end of that time another moye was made, Whitehall being the objective point of this change. After two years of teaming here he pur- chased the tract of land which became his permanent home. This property, which he secured from Samuel Wade, is two miles from Whitehall, and he became its possessor in July, 1898. As a landholder and in the pursuit of agricultural and horticultural purposes in connection therewith, Mr. Jones achieved a most sub- stantial and highly reputable position in the county.

While Jennison P. Jones was a self-made man, he was fortunate in the selection of a wife whose excep- tional intelligence, thrift and wise counsel contributed much toward his success. Emma D. Gillespie Jones was a daughter of John S. and Esther B. ( Moses) Gillespie, who were formerly residents of Pennsyl- vania, but who had before their marriage located in Illinois. During their residence near Bloomington, in the latter state, on December 6, 1856, the daughter was born whom they named Emma and who lived to become Mrs. Jones. Both in Illinois and in Kansas. John S. Gillespie was very prominent in the affairs of the localities in which he lived. The people of Chero- kee county made him their representative to the state legislature and in that capacity he served with ability and distinction. He was particularly active in the cause of temperance and was notably active in the affairs which had as their purpose the accomplishment of state-wide temperance in Kansas. Mr. Gillespie now resides in White Tail Park, Montana. Mrs. Gil- lespie, the mother of Emma Gillespie Jones, died when the latter was but four years of age.

The Gillespie-Jones marriage took place on December 31, 1882. The children who were born and reared by Mr. and Mrs. Jennison P. Jones are three daughters and one son. Miss Anna Mabel Jones is the superin- tendent of the hospital department of the State Or- phans' Home at Twin Bridges, Montana. John Rich- ard Jones, has charge of the operations on the home ranch. Miss Grace and her small sister, Esther Berthia, are still in their mother's care. Mrs. Jones and her children are active members of the Methodist church of Whitehall.

From his attractive and congenial home the activ- ities of Mr. Jones' life radiated in various worthy lines, but he was ever modest and unassuming in all his rela- tions. Staunchly Democratic, he nevertheless pre- ferred to avoid public offices. His religious life was of vital importance to him. He had been reared in the Lutheran church. but before his marriage had united with the Methodist Episcopal church and throughout his subsequent life was one of its most devout and consistent members. He passed from the visible earthly life of men to the existence of that unseen world in which he so fully believed on June 27, 1912, leaving be- hind him many wholesome and beneficent memories.

JAMES RUSSELL FAULDS, the editor of the North WVest Tribune, is a man of intrepid spirit, of lofty standards and of gifted mind. A brief view of his antecedents and the development of his career will be of deep interest to his many friends and stanch sup- porters. In the early 'forties a family of the rare old Scotch Presbyterian type came from their home near Rickerton, Scotland, and settled in Pennsylvania. The head of this family was named James Faulds and he was the father of several sons, who joined him in work in the mines of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Both James Faulds and his son, James Faulds, junior, were engineers, the latter having learned in America to make surveys and to run stationary engines for the various coal companies in the states where they worked. They later removed to Glencoe, Wisconsin, where they

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lived until the death of James Faulds, Sr., and also of his son, who was the father of the estimable subject of this sketch. James Faulds II married a lady who was a member of a Scotch family who had come from the famous region of Ayr. Her father was a miner throughout his entire life and was one of the historic "Forty-niners," of gold-seeking fame. He died in Placerville, California, in 1886.

In Yellow Springs, Dauphin county, James Russell Faulds was born to James Faulds II and his wife, on the nineteenth day of April, 1853. He was but a child when his grandfather and his father removed with their families to Wisconsin. Hence he owes to that state his educational equipment, obtained from the rural schools, the graded schools and normal schools of the commonwealth that is noted for so much of progress, both educational and otherwise. In all things of an in- tellectual nature he had ever a keen interest, although practical affairs were by no means despised by him. At the age of fourteen he did his first writing for the press. When only sixteen he first did pedagogical serv- ice. This work alternated with study and with the al- ways beneficial and productive work of the farm, until Mr. Faulds was twenty-seven years of age.' At that time he purchased the publishing plant of the Inde- pendent News and engaged to supervise the graded schools of the same place. Combining this principalship with the editing and publishing of his paper, he re- mained at Independence for two years, after which he again enjoyed a period of agricultural activity. In the spring of 1886 his plans developed once more in the pedagogical direction and his ambition for a successful future naturally turned toward the promising west. He started westward, but not alone; for he had found his life's mate.

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A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 7

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