A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 70

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

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enthusiastic and active booster of the town. Prior to coming to Dixon Mr. Madsen traveled extensively through various states and came to the conclusion that Montana was superior in every way. He insists that the past has been more than satisfactory and that the future will be far greater and much more glorious than the past. In politics he is an independent Democrat and he is a valued member of the school board at Dixon.

At Kalispell, Montana, June 8, 1897, Mr. Madsen was united in marriage to Miss Ida Oldenburg, a daughter of Carl and Dora Oldenburg, of Holt, Mon- tana. Mr. and Mrs. Madsen are the parents of four children, all daughters,-Karen Dora, Ruth Annie, Margaret Freda and Helen Elizabeth, all of whom are attending school at Dixon. Mr. and Mrs. Madsen are devout members of the Union church at Dixon and he is a trustee of the church. Mr. Madsen is very fond of athletics in general and in his younger days was an amateur runner and wrestler. He is exceedingly fond of music. Recreation with the Madsen family con- sists mostly in driving. Mr. and Mrs. Madsen are ad- mired and respected for their exemplary lives and they are popular factors in connection with the best social affairs at Dixon.

ARTHUR E. CHAMBERLAIN, M. D. A worthy represen- tative of the medical profession of Montana is Dr. Arthur E. Chamberlain, of Belt, the first physician to practice in that city, who, through nearly twenty years of successful professional work there, has dignified his calling by his earnest life and labors and has won a prestige by which he well merits recognition in this history of Montana and its representative men.

Dr. Chamberlain is by nativity an Ohio man, born in the village of Twinsburg, Summit county, of that great commonwealth, on the 23d of July, 1860. His father was William Chamberlain and his mother was Victoria Southworth, both natives of Ohio. William Chamber- lain was a farmer by occupation. He passed away at Solon, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, at the age of sixty-one and in 1892 was followed in death by his wife, who died at Bedford in the same state and county when sixty-five years of age. Both parents are interred at Solon. Of the two children born to them, Dr. Chamberlain is the eldest, the other being a son, Pearl P. Chamberlain.

The youthful days of Dr. Chamberlain were spent on the farm. His preliminary educational studies were con- ducted in the public schools of Solon, and following this he was for two years a student in the well-known college at Oberlin, Ohio. At the age of eighteen he en- tered professional life as a teacher and for ten years taught in the schools of his native state. Afterward one year was spent in a similar capacity at Crisfield, Kan- sas. This preparation and experience served as a broad- ening foundation for professional work of another na- ture and with the means he had acquired by his own efforts as a teacher he defrayed his expenses while re- ceiving his medical training. He entered the Homeo- pathic Hospital College of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1887, and after four years of diligent and thorough study was graduated from that institution in 1891 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The year following his graduation he remained at the college as demonstrator of anatomy and also took a post graduate course, but in 1893, desiring to take up the active practice of his profession and having decided that the field of his en- deavor should be in the west, he came direct to Mon- tana, locating first at Great Falls. After eight months of practice there he removed to Belt, where he has since been established and where his acquirements put into skillful use have won him a large practice and a prestige as the oldest physician of the city in point of service and one of the ablest as well. Dr. Chamberlain has made his own way in life and what he has accom- plished discloses among his traits of character a strong

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determination and the power of steady perseverance in the pursuit of any aim. In politics he gives allegiance to the Republican party but takes no active part in po- litical affairs. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World and with the Modern Brother- hood of America. Both as a physician and as a citizen he stands high in the esteem of his fellow men and is in hearty accord with all that makes for the advance- ment of Montana.

At Cleveland, Ohio, in 1892, Dr. Chamberlain wedded Miss Maude Cann, a daughter of George Cann, a native of Canada and a prominent merchant of Cleveland. Three children have come to this union, Arthur, Mabel and Gladys, but Mabel died at the age of four years of membranous croup.

WILLIAM WIMAN ANDRUS, M. D. Among the many eminent names to be found in Montana's roll of pro- fessional men, none is more worthy of mention than that of William Wiman Andrus, M. D., a physician and surgeon of deservedly high reputation and a citizen whose worth as a public official was unquestionably dem- onstrated during the ten years in which he held the chief executive office in Miles City. Prominent in pro- fessional, public, fraternal and social life, he has ac- tively identified himself with all matters of importance bearing on the city's welfare, and he is universally re- garded as one of his community's most representative men. Dr. Andrus is descended from two old and hon- ored families of the Empire state, but is himself a na- tive of Orono, Ontario, Canada, where he was born October 14. 1858, a son of Edson and Mary Ann (Wiman) Andrus. His father was engaged in the saw- mill and lumbering business in New York until 1845. in which year he moved to Ontario, and there continued in the manufacture of lumber up to the time of his death, while his mother is still a resident of Bowman- ville, Ontario. Three children were born to them, of whom two are living: Weatha, the wife of James Gilfillian; and Dr. William W.

After completing his preliminary education in the com- mon schools of Ontario, Dr. Andrus was for four years successfully engaged in teaching, but in 1883 gave up the profession of educator for that of professional base- ball player. He had always been skilled in all outdoor sports, and while playing as an amateur attracted the attention of a "scout" for a professional team, who saw promising material in the youth and secured his ser- vices for the Indianapolis team. In 1884 he played with

St. Louis and Minneapolis; in 1885 and 1886 with the Hamilton, Ontario, team in the International League; in 1887 was with the Portland team, in Maine, and during the next year was again with the Hamilton or- ganization. In 1889 and 1890 he was on the roster of the Buffalo club, in 1891 was with Manchester, New Hampshire, and in :892 was with Kansas City in the Western League. A clever and versatile player, Dr. Andrus at various times played second hase, short- stop and right field, and was a great favorite with the patrons of the game in whatever city he was playing. During the time he was engaged in the "National Game." Dr. Andrus carefully saved his salary and used it in pursuing his studies in the medical department of Trinity College, Toronto, attending .school winters and playing hall during the regular seasons. In 1893 he was duly graduated from Trinity, receiving the degree of M. D., and the same vear came to Montana, being for eight months associated in practice with Dr. Henry Chappel, of Billings. In October of that year he came to Miles City and established himself in practice, and this city has been his field of endeavor to the present time. A man of scholarly tastes and able to throw light on almost any subject connected with his pro- fession, yet drawing from a fund of rich experience and ripened knowledge. Dr. Andrus is also a man of rare sympathy, great kindness of heart and magnetic per-

sonality. He is a close and careful student, keeping fully abreast of the advances in his profession and tak- ing a great interest in the work of the American Med- ical Association. Fraternally he is a prominent Mason, belonging to the lodge, chapter and commandery, and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevo- lent Protective Order of Elks, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Woodmen of the World, the Knights of the Maccabees and the American Order of Protection. In 1899 he was grand medical examiner of the Ancient Order of United Workmen of Montana, and socially he is identified with the Miles City Club.

Dr. Andrus has been an active and influential factor in Republican politics for a number of years, and the high esteem in which he is held has been made evident by his election to various positions of public trust. He served one term as alderman of the First ward, and in 1899 was elected to the mayoralty chair. The adminis- tration which followed was such an admirable one that · he was chosen to succeed himself in 1901, and he con- tinued to hold office for four terms, leaving office in 1909 with an unblemished record for conscientious per- formance of duty. He has also served two terms as county physician, and is now acting for the third time as county health officer. Dr. Andrus has lost none of his love for outdoor sports and each summer finds him on a fishing or hunting trip to Canada, where for a time he is able to lay aside the cares and responsibilities which are the portion of a man of his prominence and abilities.

On November 20, 1895, Dr. Andrus was married to Miss Corma Ireland, who was born in Illinois and reared in Montana, the daughter of Allen Ireland, de- ceased, a former resident of Miles City. Dr. and Mrs. Andrus have two children : Edson, born November 28, 1899; and Kathleen.

JOHN C. HUNTOON, one of Lewistown's leading attorneys, was born at Peterboro, Ontario, on May 13, 1865. His father, Josiah Huntoon, was a New Yorker by birth, and when his son John was five years of age, returned to that state, but after two years again took up his residence in Ontario. On this occasion he settled at Collingwood, where the boy received his elementary training in the public schools. His mother. Betsey (Kathan) Huntoon, was also born in New York, and lived there until after her marriage. Of the five children that came to these parents, John C., of this review, is the only one now living. The mother died in their Canadian home and her body is interred at Collingwood, Ontario. Josiah Huntoon retired from business upon the death of his wife and has since made his home in California. He was engaged in the whole- sale manufacture of lumber all his life.

After finishing the public school course in Colling- wood. Tohn Huntoon attended the Collegiate Institute of Collingwood, Ontario, and afterward, in 1884, moved to Hamilton. He next took a course in the British- American Business College of Toronto, where he re- sided for four years. It was at this juncture that he returned to Collingwood, but not to settle there; only to bring away the lady whom he had chosen to preside over his home-Miss Maud Towler, the daughter of James and Julia Towler, of Collingwood.

From Toronto, Mr. Huntoon went to Ann Arbor. Michigan, where he took the law course, graduating in June, 1891, with the degree of L. L. B .; he then went to Detroit, Michigan, in September, 1891, and there he began the practice of law. In Detroit it was his rare good fortune to be associated for two years with Colonel Atkinson, one of the famous members of the Michigan bar. This practical training, supplementing as it did the thorough instruction he had received in the Canadian institutions and at Ann Arbor, was one of the most incalculable benefit to Mr. Huntoon, and when in October, 1893, he came to Great Falls, this

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state, he at once took his place in the forefront of the profession.

From 1893 to 1900, Mr. Huntoon remained in Great Falls and devoted himself to the practice of law. He had become greatly interested in the sheep industry in the meantime, and he decided to give up his legal work for a time and devote himself to this business. For about three years he gave his attention to this department of the stock industry, but he could not con- tent himself away from the work for which he had spent so much time in the preparation, and which he had found so interesting and absorbing as a profes- sion. In 1904, he came to Lewistown and resumed his legal practice and during the eight years of his stay here, he has acquired a clientele of the most desirable order. Mr. Huntoon is an ardent Republican and early became a leader in the party organization. In 1904 he was chairman of the county central committee and he is always in demand when important political busi- ness is on hand. In 1908, Mr. Huntoon was elected county attorney and served for two years, since which time he has devoted himself to private practice.

Mr. and Mrs. Huntoon have only one child, Clarence Huntoon, born in Toronto, Canada, and now a citizen of Great Falls, where he is engaged in the automobile business.

Fraternally, Mr. Huntoon is connected with the A. F. & A. M., Cascade Lodge No. 34, of Great Falls, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, while his membership in the Judith Club bears witness to his interest in the com- mercial progress of the city. There is little to be found in Montana and still less in Fergus county which Mr. Huntoon does not regard with approbation and look upon as a promise of a future which shall trans- cend the best in the prosperous past.

DR. ARTHUR MORROW, since 1900 engaged in general medical practice in Kalispell, is a physician of unusually wide experience and a man of exceptional erudition. A student in some of the greatest medical universities in the world, including those of Edinburgh and Leipsic, he has been favored far beyond the average represen- tative of his profession, and the results of his studies have ever been apparent in his work.

Dr. Arthur Morrow was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on March 16, 1864, the son of James B. and Mathilda (Richey) Morrow, both natives of England. James B. Morrow came to Halifax as a boy and there passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1882 when he was fifty-five years old. He was identified for years with the steamship business and was agent for some of the leading lines on the seas, among them being the Allan, White Star and Cunard lines, and being a member of the firm of S. Cunard & Company. He was for many years the president of the board of trade in Halifax and a director of a leading commercial banking and industrial company of that city. The mother came to Nova Scotia in her girlhood days and in Halifax met and married her husband. Seven children were born to them, Arthur Morrow being the sixth born.

Until he was fourteen years of age, Arthur Morrow attended the public schools of Halifax, then entering Mount Allison University, where he remained for two years. He next entered upon the study of medicine in the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), from which famous old institution he was duly graduated in 1886; he also spent two years in the University of Dalhousie in Halifax. Following his graduation Doctor Morrow served for three months as surgeon for the Cunard ' Steamship Company, and then entered private practice, first spending three months in the hospitals of Leipsic, Germany. He began the practice of his profession in Halifax, continuing there until 1893, that year marking his first connection with the state of Montana. He first located in Columbus Falls, Montana, remaining there

but a few months, from there going to Sand Coulee and Stockett, where he had a contract as physician to the mines. In 1900, Doctor Morrow came to Kalispell, and here he has since remained in general practice.

In addition to his regular practice, Doctor Morrow is examining physician for the Central Life Insurance Company of Des Moines, Iowa, and the New York Life Insurance Company, and others. He is a member of the County and State Medical associations, and in a fraternal way is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen, Tamarack Camp No. 5401, and the Independent Order of Foresters.

While Doctor Morrow was in Halifax he occupied the post of pathologist to the Victoria Hospital and was professor of histology and physiology in Halifax Medical College, as well as examiner in those subjects in the University of Dalhousie, in Halifax. When he left that city he was presented by the students of the college with a handsome silver-mounted binocular glass, and the University of Dalhousie conferred upon him the honorary degree of M. D. While in Halifax he founded, edited and conducted the Maritime Medical News which became the accepted medical organ for the eastern Maritime provinces, as well as the official organ for the Maritime Medical Association. At various times during his practice in Canada, Doctor Morrow visited the East and spent considerable time in leading hospitals, chiefly in Montreal. -

Doctor Morrow has taken an active part in the civic life of Kalispell since locating here, and has proved himself a citizen of merit and of value to the com- munity. He has been a member of the high school board, and for two years was president of the chamber of commerce, and during the opening of the Flathead reservation he served in that capacity.

On August 20, 1900, Doctor Morrow was married in Bamberg, Germany, to Miss Franziska M. A. Prier de Saone of French and German parentage and a native of England. She is a daughter of Adolph Prier de Saone. Five children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Morrow : Edith, James, Anthony. William and Francis. The first two were born in Halifax, the others in Montana.

The family home is maintained at No. 335 Third avenue East.

HON. JOHN E. ERICKSON. Now that the recall of judges is agitating the whole county, people are begin- ning to regard the men who are sitting on the bench with more attention, with eyes sharpened by the un- doubted graft that has been carried on in some sec- tions of the country. To meet the test of this rigid examination by the awakened public means that a man must not only be capable and fair minded but that he must be honest, and the Hon. John E. Erickson of the eleventh judicial district has successfully met this test. He has been a practicing lawyer for twenty years and during eight of these has served in a judicial ca- pacity. Being naturally an observant man, his years at the bar have developed his powers of judging men to a remarkable degree and have aided him to become much more than an expositor of the law. Few men in Kalispell, Montana, and in the surrounding country, are held in higher regard than is Judge Erickson. He is a man who is recognized as one who would never flinch in the face of duty, and though this attitude has won him the enemies that a strong man always has, yet his friends are legion and the silent example of a" man of so upright a personality is of untold import- ance to the community.

John E. Erickson was born in Dane county, Wiscon- sin, on the 14th of March, 1863. John E. Erickson is the son of Eric Erickson, who was a native of Nor- way. He came to America in 1861, and settled in Dane county, Wisconsin. Two years later he moved to

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Kansas and located a homestead in Greenwood county near Eureka, cleared the land and went to farming. He was a pioneer in this section of the state, and still resides on the original farm. He married Lena Amble, who was likewise born in Norway. She came to America with her brother and sisters in 1861, the same year that her husband arrived. They were married in Wisconsin, and she is still living. Seven children were born to this union, the judge being the eldest of the family. He was educated in the district school of Greenwood county, Kansas, leaving school at the age of eighteen. He later took a course in Washburn Col- lege in Topeka, Kansas, graduating in 1890 with the degree of B. A.

The first venture that Mr. Erickson took in the busi- ness world was in the newspaper business. After a year and a half spent in this work he determined to devote himself exclusively to the law work which he had taken up in the meantime. Soon after taking his degree he had entered the office of Clagston & Ful- ler, and had been diligently studying under the able tutelage of these two lawyers. He spent two years in their offices and was then admitted to practice in all of the courts of the state of Kansas. He began to practice in 1892 in Kansas, but a short time later re- moved to Montana. He located in Choteau in the spring of 1893 and began practice; it was not long be- fore he was one of the best known lawyers in the . county and had a flourishing practice. He was elected to the office of county attorney, strong evidence of the confidence in which he was held by the people of the county. He held this office for three terms, remaining in Teton county until 1904, when he was elected judge of the eleventh judicial district, which at that time comprised the counties of Flathead and Teton. In April, 1905, he removed to Kalispell, for there was more judicial work for him at this point. How satis- factory was his service as a judge may be surmised by the fact that he was re-elected to the bench in 1908 and again in 1912, serving a third term.

Politically Judge Erickson is a Democrat, but since he has been on the bench he has preferred to take no active part in politics, believing that anyone serving in a judicial capacity should hold himself free from any connection that might interfere with his fair minded- ness. In his fraternal relations the judge is a member and active worker in the Masonic order. He belongs to the blue lodge, the chapter and the commandery of this order in Kalispell and has gone through all of the chairs of the blue lodge. He is also a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, of the Wood- men of the World and of the Modern Woodmen of America. The judge is a Lutheran in his religious beliefs and is a' loyal adherent to this church.

On the 27th of June. 1898, John E. Erickson and Miss Grace Vance were married at Salt Lake City, Utah. Mrs. Erickson was born in Iowa, the daughter of A. M. Vance, of Des Moines, Iowa. Three children have been born to this union. The eldest, Vance Erick- son, was born on the 16th of March, 1901 : Elene was born December 21, 1904, and the youngest, John Cooper Frickson, was born on the 18th of December, 1908. The two eldest children were born in Choteau, and the youngest in Kalispell.

The judge is now in the prime of life and is reap- ing the results of a life of hard work. Compelled to work his way through college and to fight for every inch of ground that he has gained he is closely in sympathy with the strugglers in life and is eminently of that tyne who believes in letting "mercy season ju tice." The people of a busy civilization such as exists in the live state of Montana do not often real- ize the true value of a man like Judge Erickson, but in this case they have been unable to remain blind, and in the future w.ll no doubt continue to heap honors and recognition upon him.

JAMES WILTSE WALKER. Kalispell has in J. W. Walker one of her leading merchants, as well an one of her most influential citizens and valuable public officials. His life in this section of the country has been one of the greatest activity, resulting in much good to the community and it has been thus far a worthy example of the qualities of enterprise and progressiveness which count for so much in the upward trend of the life of the country. Mr. Walker has been located in Kalis- pell something like eighteen years, in all of which time he has carried on active business enterprises. For fourteen years he conducted a drug business in the city, which, in 1909, he disposed of and entered the shoe business, a change which proved most suc- cessful from a business standpoint. He is today the proprietor of the most flourishing shoe business in Kalispell or vicinity. His public record has been one of greatest service to the city, and his unusual busi- ness capacity has played an important part in his labors for communal welfare, resulting in measures which have been of the greatest benefit to the city.

Mr. Walker was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on February 5, 1867, and is the son of James H. and Harriet A. (Lee) Walker. The father was born in New Jersey, where he was reared, and he came to Wisconsin in his early life, locating there in the pioneer days of 1854. He died on March 6, 1912, while on a visit to his son, J. W., in Kalispell. He was seventy-six years of age at the time of his demise. The mother was a native of New Jersey also, born there in 1838. In' 1851 her parents moved to Illinois, locating in Sycamore, where she met and married her husband on January 27, 1856. She died in North Dakota in September, 1906, and is there buried, as is also the husband and father. They became the parents of five children, J. W. being the third born. He attended the public schools of his home town, and after his graduation from the high school of Oshkosh was a student in the Wisconsin State Normal, grad- uating therefrom in 1886. From there he entered the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, and was graduated from the department of pharma- ceutics in 1889. His first work was in the employ of his brother in Powers, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where he remained for three years, after which he came to Montana, locating first at Columbia Falls, and there he opened up a drug store which he conducted for three years. His next move took him to Kalispell, where he saw the possibilities of success in the drug business here, and he accordingly opened a drug store, which he continued to conduct for fourteen years. In 1909 Mr. Walker sold out his interests in that business and became identified with the shoe business in the following year, since which time he has been the proprietor and owner of the finest shoe business in this section of the country.

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A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 70

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