A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 71

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

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With reference to his public service, mentioned in a previous paragraph, he has served as clerk and recorder of Flathead county, his election to the office coming in 1902, and succeeding himself to the office in 1904. He discharged the duties of the office in a manner highly creditable to himself during both terms, and proved himself as efficient in the matter of con- ducting the business of the county as in his personal interests. In 1910 he was elected alderman of the First ward in Kalispell, an office which expired on May I, 1912. After assuming the duties of that office, he was elected a president of the city council, a position which he demonstrated his fitness for in a manner most unquestionable. During his service on the board of aldermen and as its president, many important changes were wrought in the civic life. He was directly instrumental in putting through the bill calling for the appropriation for the new city park, a movement which, from the splendid start already made, bids fair to give to Kalispell one of the fairest parks in the country.

2. L. Wines

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He was the author of the bills which provided for street improvement, the direct result of which has been a mile and a half of asphalt pavement of the finest kind and a more modern system of street light- ing, both of which were long felt wants in the city. In these, and many another way, has Mr. Walker demonstrated his high order of citizenship, and proved himself to be in every respect worthy of the confidence of his fellow men.

Mr. Walker is a prominent fraternalist, and holds membership in various orders, among them being the Masonic fraternity, in which he affiliates with the blue lodge of Kalispell; the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, in which he is past exalted ruler, and which he represented in the grand lodge at Bal- timore in July, 1903, and in Philadelphia in 1906; and at the Elks' State Convention held in Kalispell in July, 1912, he was elected president of the "Montana State Association of Elks Lodges," for the ensuing year; the Royal Highlanders; the Modern Woodmen of America, of which he was ten years presiding officer of the local lodge, and a delegate to the grand lodge in St. Paul in 1900, and in Milwaukee in 1904. He is also a member of the Mystic Toilers, and holds membership in the Kalispell Club. He is a Republican in his political convictions and takes a leading part in the politics of this district, where his many excellent qualities and his ability in executive matters make him indispensable in party circles.

On December 30, 1891, Mr. Walker was united in marriage with Miss Blanche D. McNeely at Menom- inee, Michigan. Two children have been born to them, Darrell W., born March 10, 1893, at Columbia Falls, Montana, and Phyllis H., born February 5, 1897, in Kalispell. Both are at present attending high school.

JOSIAH L. WINES. Whatever may be the facts in favor of greater efficiency shown by youth in many lines of activity, it certainly cannot apply to the pro- fession of law, for here experience is demanded, ripened judgment required and a knowledge that prac- tically covers everything. No tyro can succeed to any degree and no text-books cover every case. In this profession, where a man of trained understanding and natural ability must meet on equal ground another no less well prepared for battle, it is reasonable to suppose that the experienced lawyer, the one who has given his best years to solving the perplexing problems often entangling fortunes, rights and reputations, and even endangering lives, might be far better equipped than one whose career may be not more than begun. The bar at Butte, Montana, is made up of able men, and one of its notable members is Josiah L. Wines, who for almost fifty years has been actively engaged in the practice of law. He was born in Wabash county, In- diana, November 25, 1838, and is a son of J. L. and Rebecca (Little) Wines. The father of Mr. Wines was born in Vermont and moved to Indiana in early man- hood, engaged there in farming, and he died in 1840. After reaching Indiana he married Rebecca Little, who survived until 1906.

Josiah L. Wines was afforded excellent school ad- vantages and after completing his course at Asbury University, Indiana, began his law studies, and later became a student in the law department of the Uni- versity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and was there graduated in 1865. He established himself in the prac- tice of his profession at Olathe, Kansas, where he re- mained for nine years, moving then to Nevada, and for five more years practiced at Elko, removing then to Eureka and later to Reno, where he continued in suc- cessful law practice until 1894, when he became a resi- dent of Butte and here handles a practice that might well tax a much younger man. Mr. Wines, however. has been kindly treated by Nature, and it is difficult

to credit the fact, in regarding liis fine physical condi- tion and considering his continuous professional suc- cess. that he has passed his seventy-third birthday. He declares himself no politician, nevertheless he is keenly interested in all public measures, especially in those which will affect the welfare of the city and state in which he has chosen to make his home. He has been identified, on one side or the other, with much im- portant litigation in this section, and as an able lawyer enjoys the esteem and respect of his fellow members of the bar. He has been for six years the regularly re- tained attorney for the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company in Montana.

In 1860 Mr. Wines was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Jackson, who was born in Indiana, and they have one daughter, Eva L., who married first James B. Gallagher, a well known mining man of Butte, now deceased. She has one son, Frank M. Gallagher, of Butte. After the death of Mr. Gallagher she married Nat H. Wood, and they reside in San Francisco. For many years Mr. Wines has belonged to Masonic bodies and is well known in the fraternity in several states.

ARTHUR P. HEYWOOD. Energetic and able men, whether they elect to be identified with the professions or choose as their field of endeavor the industrial and commercial world, are welcomed to citizenship in any community, but are especially valued in a young and growing commonwealth. One of the successful mem- bers of the bar of Montana is Arthur P. Heywood, of Helena, the present county attorney of Lewis and Clark county, whose professional activities in Montana have been directed both toward gaining a personal success and toward advancing the prestige and welfare of that state.

Mr. Heywood is a native of Nebraska and obtained his literary education in that state, first in the public schools and later at the Wesleyan University at Cen- trial City. For some time after leaving college he gave himself to the profession of teaching, for the most part in rural schools, but his last year in that work was in the city schools of Ponca, Nebraska. In 1889. · a young man of twenty, he engaged in the jewelry busi- ness at St. Paul, Minnesota, but a year later he decided to seek his fortunes in the new state of Montana and came to Helena, and thence went to Augusta. For four years he taught school and rode the range. At that time through the kindness and courtesy of D. J. Hogan, of Angusta, a graduate of a Chicago law school, he obtained the necessary books and set about assiduously to master ·by self-study the essentials of the profession of law. In 1894 he returned to Helena and continued his studies and that city has since been his home. His delvings into Blackstone and Kent were pursued with so much diligence and intelligence that after a com- paratively short period of preparation he was admitted to the bar, and on December 31, 1896, was admitted to practice in the supreme court of the state. Possessing all the qualities of an able lawyer, Mr. Heywood has from the time of his admission to the bar continued in practice in Helena, his labors attended with a success that has gained for him a place of high professional standing in his adopted state. In November, 1906, he was elected county attorney of Lewis and Clark county for a term of two years, and in November, 1910, he was reelected to that office, his present posi- tion and one he has filled with ability and efficiency. As a part of his private practice, he is retained as the legal counsel of different corporations and is a di- rector in several of them.

Mr. Heywood was born in southeastern Nebraska, April 28, 1869, a son of Hon. C. F. Heywood, of Ne- braska. The father is a native of England and immi- grated to the United States at the age of nineteen to seek the advantages of the new world. He became

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a pioneer of Nebraska, where he gave his attention to farming and cattle raising and entered actively into the public life of that state, having served as a mem- ber of the Nebraska legislature during both territorial days and after the admission of the state to the Union. There he was married to Miss Susan J. Starr, who was a native of Nebraska and died there in 1886. The elder Mr. Heywood has reached the advanced age of seventy-nine years and is now living retired near the scene of his long years of useful activity.

On July 7, 1908, at Centre City, Minnesota, Arthur J. Heywood was united in marriage to Miss Genevieve Thompson, of Le Roy, Minnesota. They have two children: Charlotte Maxine, born July 21, 1909, and Arthur P. Heywood, Jr., born August 5, 1911, Helena being the birthplace of both.

In the line of his profession Mr. Heywood sustains membership in the Montana State Bar Association. Fraternally, he affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Ability as a lawyer and a pleasing personality are qualities that have made him prominent and popular in both professional and social circles, and have won him many and influential friends. As a nec- essary balancing of work and recreation and because he really enjoys it, he gives a due portion of his time to outdoor sports, being especially fond of hunting and fishing. His interests in this direction are evidenced by his position as secretary of the Montana Fish and Game Protection Association, and in this capacity he devotes considerable attention to the stocking of the streams of the state with the various kinds of game fish. In this and in other ways he has made the interests of Montana his own and he well deserves recognition as one of the representative and public-spirited men of the state.

HERMAN FREYLER, SR. It is safe to say that Helena has few citizens more widely known for their charities than is Herman Freyler, Sr., who is also one of the men who help to maintain Helena's commercial standing at its enviably high mark. He has successfully passed through all the vicissitudes of frontier life, as he crossed the plains to the mining camps of Montana by ox train and did not find the journey an unalloyed pleasure trip. Indeed, it was only after many hardships that he settled in Jefferson county and began his mining operations. Before very long his success in the undertaking made all the discomforts and privations of his pioneer expe- rience seem as nothing, for the rivers literally ran gold for him and he was one of the leading placer miners of his time. Mr. Freyler sold out his claim after a while and went into the general merchandise business at Wickes, Montana, opening his store there in 1894 and continuing to operate it until 1909. In that year he dis- posed of the establishment at Wickes and came to Helena, where he opened the first five, ten and twenty- five cent store in the city. In this, as in everything to which he set his hand, Mr. Freyler was signally success- ful.

At the time of beginning his business in Helena, Mr. Freyler became associated with his son, Herman Frey- ler, Junior. Both he and his wife, Stephanie (Liene- man) Freyler were born in Germany, but they were married in America. There were two sons and four daughters in the family and both of the sons are in business in Helena. Herman Freyler, Jr., was born in 1875, and in September, 1900 was married to Miss Daisy Waymire of Boulder, Montana. Three children were born of their union, Herman in 1902 ,James in 1904, and Daisy in 1905. The eldest child's birthplace was Elkhorn, Montana, and that of the two younger ones, Wickes. In June of 1906, the mother of the young family was removed from its midst by death.

Mr. Freyler, Jr., is a member of the Brotherhood of American Yeomen, and in politics is independent, being one of that number who do not require a party platform

to determine their own principles and who believe rather in efficient office holders as bulwarks of the government than in any shibboleth of party name. He is a man who is always counted upon to support any movement for the betterment of his kind, and he is never counted on in vain.

CLAIR W. ROBISON. Prominent among those bril- liant young lawyers in whom Dillon and the Beaver- head valley take just pride in Clair W. Robison. He has resided here since 1900 and two years after his arrival his splendid standing as a lawyer was stamped with public approval by his election as county attorney and during his incumbency of that office he made an unparalleled record, losing but two criminal cases. He has indeed a most excellent legal mind; gets at the gist of the question; discovers quickly the under- lying principles of law; and states his conclusion in clear, terse English. His oratory is of high order and, combined with logic of unusual soundness, is sure of bringing conviction to the average mind. Mr. Robi- son specializes in criminal law.

He was born in Madison county, Iowa, January 22, 1875. He resided in that state until twenty-four years of age and then came to Montana, locating first at Livingston and remaining there until 1900, when he came to Dillon, where he has ever since resided. He received his early education in the public schools of Iowa and subsequently entered Drake University at Des Moines, Iowa, from which institution he was gradu- ated. He had the unusual advantage of pursuing his first year's study of the law in the office of United States Senator Cummins, and at the same time attended Drake University, law department. He finished his preparation for the profession which he now adorns in the Chicago Law School, from which he received the degree of LL. B. He began his practice in Livings- ton and has been successful almost from the first, not sharing the sad experience of the Hon. Peter Sterling, of romance, who stared so many years at a blank wall before the arrival of clients. He is one of the most ardent of Republicans and from the first has taken an active interest in politics. As previously mentioned, he was here but two years when elected to the office of county attorney and his success has been a marvel to the entire profession. His reputation as an orator extends beyond the boundaries of Beaverhead. county. He be- lieves in the merit of kindly argument rather than abuse and is renowned as a diplomat at the bar. His prac- tice has grown by leaps and bounds.

Mr. Robison was married on January 13, 1907, in Seattle, Washington, the young woman to become his wife and the mistress of his household being Rella Egbert, daughter of Cortland and Ellen Egbert, of Des Moines, Iowa. This charming young woman was the subject's classmate at Drake College. She is a mem- ber of the Baptist church and is a very enthusiastic Sunday-school worker.

Previous to entering the law, Mr. Robison was en- gaged in theatrical work for one year, his dramatic gifts and magnetic personality fitting him especially for acting. During his stage experience he appeared only in the legitimate drama. He still retains his interest in the drama. He loves nothing better than a quiet hour with his favorite authors, and is wonderfully "keen" about baseball, being a celebrated fan in Dillon. He also enjoys a good football game and during his college course was for four years half back on the "Varsity" team. He takes annual fishing and hunting trips, being an expert with rod and gun. His social proclivities are sufficient to make him take enjoyment in his fraternal relations. He is a member of the Redmen and is national representative of Montana to the Great Council of the United States, this being the fourth year of his incumbency of this office. He is also past great sachem of the state. The Knights of

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Pythias claims his membership and he has held all the chairs in the order; is representative in the Grand Lodge of the state of Montana and past chancellor commander of Occident Lodge, No. 8.

Mr. Robison's first boyhood adventures as a cap- italist were when living on the farm in Iowa when he speculated in horses as the pony trader, and made a tidy sum thereby. His parents, W. S. and Sarah Robi- son, still reside upon the Iowa homestead, the father following farming and stock raising and being a much respected member of the community in which his inter- ests are centered. The subject is the eldest member in a family consisting of two boys and two girls.

CHARLES R. ST. CLAIR, Among the prominent busi- ness men of Glasgow, Charles R. St. Clair takes a leading rank as a jeweler and watchmaker of excep- tional ability, and as one who has from a small be- ginning built up a thriving and prosperous business in the eighteen years of his residence here. Not alone has he won popularity in a business way, but Mr. St. Clair has been prominent in the official life of the city, and had the distinction of being the first treasurer of the city of Glasgow, a position which he handled suc- cessfully for six consecutive years.

Mr. St. Clair was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, on the 20th of December, 1871, and is the son of John A. and Anna M. (Caldwell) St. Clair. The father was a native of Pennsylvania; he was a carriage maker by trade and followed that business all his life. He died in Minneapolis in 1894. The mother, a native of New Jersey, born at Burlington, that state, is now a member of the household of her son, Charles, of this review.

When Charles St. Clair was seven years of age his parents moved from the Pennsylvania home to Ames, Iowa, in which place he began his schooling. In 1883, the family again moved, locating on this occasion in Beadle county, South Dakota, where he attended school until he was seventeen years of age. His first work after leaving school was in an office of the Phila- delphia & Reading Railroad in a clerical capacity, where he remained for two years, then removed with his parents to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and there he clerked in a dry goods store for a year. He was de- termined to become conversant with some business or profession that would enable him to rise from the ranks of the employed, and after some thought decided to enter the Winona Horological School, and in due time he completed a thorough course of training, after which he took employment with the J. S. Allen Jewelry Company at Minneapolis. Mr. St. Clair remained with that firm for six months, in which time he gained much of practical business experience, and at the end of the time, felt himself competent to conduct a sim- ilar business for himself. He established a business in Minneapolis, but only remained there a short time, when he decided to go west. He first came to Glasgow on May 10, 1894, and from a necessarily modest beginning he has evolved his present thriving and successful business, which is unquestionably one of the leading places of its kind in Glasgow.

The facts of Mr. St. Clair's political service have already been touched upon in a foregoing paragraph: He is prominent in fraternal circles among other socie- ties holding membership in the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias, in which latter named organiza- tion he has held all offices in the local lodge. Mr. St. Clair owns considerable Glasgow property, which in- cludes his own pleasant residence.

Mr. St. Clair has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Anna L. Kent, a native of Wisconsin, who died in 1902. She left two children, Ward K. and Nina M., who share the family home. In 1908 Mr. St. Clair married Miss Grace Jones of Minneapolis, a daughter of Edward Albert Jones of that city. One

child has been born of their union, Russell E. St. Clair. The mother of Mr. St. Clair makes her home with him, he being the only surviving one of her three children. Madame St. Clair is a gentle and refined lady, and is a great social favorite in Glasgow, as is also Mrs. St. Clair, her daughter-in-law. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

HIRAM FREDERICK JOHNSON. Prominent among the younger set of rising business men in Helena is Hiram Fred Johnson, one of the proprietors and owners of the Helena Business College. He, together with J. Lee Rice, took over the ownership of that institution of learning in 1910, and by their united efforts and as a result of their progressive, careful and attractive quali- ties, have placed the Helena Business College on a basis of such firmness and solidity that its future is amply assured.

Hiram Fred Johnson was born on his father's ranch at Race Track, Montana, on July 16, 1886. The father, Peter Johnson, is a native of Denmark, who came to this country at the age of eighteen years. He jour- neyed to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he remained for some little time, and being attracted by the possibilities of the far west he moved on to Montana, making the trip by wagon train, the then prevalent mode of travel. He settled at a point which later became known and still bears the name of Race Track, and choosing land suited to his purpose, set about to establish himself in the ranching business. For thirty-eight years Peter Johnson has been engaged in the sheep and cattle rais- ing business, and during that time he has been a promi- nent figure in live-stock circles of his state. Until four years ago he was active in every branch of the ranch- ing industry, at which time the responsibilities of the business were lifted from his shoulders by one of his sons, and at the age of sixty-three he is practically retired, although he still participates to a certain extent in the direction and management of the business. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, namely: William, a resident of Anaconda, Montana, and en- gaged in the transfer business. He is married and has three children. George is a resident of Deer Lodge, Montana, and is interested in the meat business. He is married and has one child. Elmer lives in Butte and is connected with the railroad and mining industry. He has one child. Walter, his father's successor in the ranch business, lives in Race Track. Edward, a resident of Helena, is connected with the Conrad Bank of Helena. Annie is married to Max Kramer, a promi- nent rancher of Race Track. Eva resides with her parents at the family home. Hiram Frederick is a resident of Helena. The mother, who was Hannah (Jensen) Johnson, born in Denmark in 1850, still lives, and is actively engaged as mistress of the Johnson home in Race Track.

Hiram Frederick received the advantages of the pub- lic schools of his locality, and after finishing there was sent to the Butte Business College. He was duly grad- uated from the commercial and shorthand departments of that school in 1903, and so well did he improve his opportunities while a student in that institution that he was regarded by Mr. Rice as being the most pro- ficient student ever turned out by the college. Mr. Rice, proprietor of the college, was so impressed by his peculiar aptness and ability in those particular lines that he offered Mr. Johnson a position as instructor to a large class in the commercial and shorthand depart- ments, which he accepted and filled acceptably until in 1910, when, with Mr. J. Lee Rice, they bought the in- terests of S. A. D. Hahn in the Helena Business Col- lege, and have since conducted the school in a manner that has won from its patrons the highest encomiums, and has placed them in the leading ranks of instruc- tors of those especial branches of learning. They have enlarged the scope of the institution in every depart-

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ment, and now have an actual membership of about two hundred day students and about half that number in the night classes, as compared with a few dozens of enrollments, which constituted the entire member- ship or attendance at the time when they became pro- prietors of the college. The students of the Helena Business College are properly equipped to fill positions of trust and responsibility when they are graduated from that institution, and the proprietors assist them in becoming suitably located in paying positions when they leave the school. The corps of teachers is chosen with a view to entire competency and efficiency, and in every detail of management the school is kept up to an unusual standard of perfection. It is the object of the school to properly train young people for business life, and the ever-growing numbers of well-placed graduates is sufficient evidence of the success of their project.

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A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 71

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