A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 86

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

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In the excellent state schools of his native province the boy received his preliminary academic education, afterward prosecuting his studies in private schools, in which he familiarized himself with foreign languages. As a youth of fifteen he came to the United States and located in Chicago. There he served an apprenticeship of two years in a drug store, making such progress in his studies during that period that in 1886 he was en- abled to enter the Chicago College of Pharmacy. In that institution he completed his junior course in 1888, receiving honorable mention and the gift of a work entitled "Principles of Pharmacognosy," by Professor F. A. Flueckiger of the University of Strasburg. De- spite the many honors that have since accrued to Dr. Sievers and the many treasures his rich years of travel have brought him, there is scarcely a single object in his possession and certainly no volume in his library which he regards with more pride and pleasure than this book, first material mark of his ability and faithfulness, which bears on its fly-leaf the legend: "Presented to Mr. Rudolph Sievers, for excellence of scholarship in the Pharmaceutical and Botanical Laboratories of the Chi- cago College of Pharmacy, by (signed) E. B. Stuart (and) E. S. Bastin."

More honors ensued the following year, when the young man completed his course for graduation from the College of Pharmacy. On that occasion he won the honors of his class and received the Billroth prize, a compound microscope. He was granted the degree of Ph. G., and within the same year, after examination by the state board of pharmacy, he was made a regis- tered pharmacist of the state of Illinois. His attitude toward his work is seen in the fact that he further per- fected himself in it by pursuing for some months there- after the study of analytical chemistry under E. F. Richter, of Chicago, formerly of Berlin, Germany.

In 1890 Dr. Sievers began the specific work of pre- paring himself for the medical profession, matriculat- ing in the Medical College of Northwestern University, and in that Chicago institution completing a thorough. course of professional study. He was graduated in 1893, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and soon afterward was appointed house physician of the Sanito- rium Waldheim at Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. In a very short time a still more creditable appointment came to him: In September of that year, as the result of a competitive examination held for that purpose, Dr. Sievers, as the successful candidate, was made house physician and surgeon in the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. In 1895, at which time he had become the head of the hospital staff, he resigned in order to pur- sue further scientific research abroad.

In the autumn of the year mentioned, the Doctor en- tered the medical department of Leipzig University, Germany, where he pursued a post-graduate course. Having completed this period of study he went to Ber- lin for further work in the same line. While there he received an appointment as surgeon of the steamship Bellona, of the German-East Asiatic line from Ham- burg, a most desirable position in that it offered op- portunities for studying diseases under oriental condi- tions. In March, 1896, he located in Vienna, where in connection with his continued studies in bacteriology, pathology and surgical diagnosis, he gave special at- tention to gynecology and general surgery; holding in company with Dr. Butler, former house surgeon of the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, the position of assistant surgeon, under Dr. D. E. Ullman's presence, Dr. Butler and Dr. Sievers alternating in charge of sur- gical cases, performing independently of each other operations every day from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. Their collections of pathological specimens were utilized for further gross and microscopical examination by stu- dents, being first sent to the pathological department under the supervision of Professor Kolisko.

In the autumn of 1897 Dr. Sievers returned to the United States, remaining in Chicago for a few months and later visiting the farther west-selecting Butte as his sphere of action. Here he conducts a general prac- tice, but devotes special attention to general and ab- dominal surgery and gynecology with the most gratify- ing results. Since coming to this city he has held the position of examining physician for both the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance of San Francisco and for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York. Owing to his rapidly growing practice, which neces- sarily demanded his entire professional attention, he resigned each of these appointments. His remarkable capacity for work, however, is such that through his having thoroughly systematized his business he is able to find time daily for the research and study which every live physician believes important. His remark- ably tireless enthusiasm for the science of which he is such a notable exponent is again seen in the fact that, with all the skill and erudition of which he was already master, he spent the greater part of the year 1911 in study abroad, conducting experimental research in the. biological laboratory of Berlin. The medical practice of Dr. Sievers is not only one of the most extensive in the state, but comprises as well the most exclusive and high-class patronage.

Not only is Dr. Sievers' professional ardor evinced by his independent study and investigation, but he is furthermore a prominent member of the Rocky Moun- tain Inter-State Medical Association, of the Montana State Medical Society, a life member of the Chicago Medical Society and of the American Medical Associa- tion. His remarkable capacity is such that he has not heen obliged to debar social interests from his life. While a student he was one of the charter members of the Nu Sigma Nu Greek letter fraternity, in the Zeta Chapter, year '93, when that society was organized

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among the medical students of Northwestern Univer- sity. Of the non-academic secret societies he has at- tained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite Masonry and is a Noble in the Bagdad Temple of the Knights of the Mystic Shrine. His social popularity in Club. Dr. Sievers is politically allied with the Re- Butte is also seen in his membership in the Silver Bow publican party.

Mrs. Sievers is of Swiss ancestry. Her father, Dr. Emil Ridell, was born in the great Teuton country ; while her mother, Bertha Hoffman Ridell, whose pater- nal lineage is of the Swiss nobility, was born in New York City. Dr. Ridell became prominent as a physician in the American metropolis. There he was married and there Alma Ridell, now Mrs. Sievers, was born. Dr. and Mrs. Sievers are the parents of two children, both born in Butte. Ruth Ethel, the daughter, was born January 31, 1900, and Arthur Rudolph came to the home on December 21, 1902. In the domestic, as well as in all other phases of Dr. Sievers' life in Butte, he is counted a valuable acquisition to the life of the city.

WILLIAM G. JARRETT of Roundup, Montana, is a well known man in political circles not only in his own community but throughout the state. As a Republican he has taken an active interest in public affairs for many years, and served his party in many capacities. He has been precinct committeeman for several years, and has been a state and a county delegate at a number of conventions. In 1908 he campaigned the state for the Republican ticket, and at the time of the Musselshell county division spent much of his time at Helena fighting for Musselshell. During 1908 he was also the assistant sergeant-at-arms in the state senate. Outside of his political offices he has in ad- dition been connected with the school board, and was secretary for some time for both the United Work- men and the Maccabees. At one time he was state delegate for the Workmen. Besides these other af- filiations he is also a member of the Roundup Com- mercial Club.

Mr. Jarrett was born in Rochester, Minnesota, De- cember 23, 1874, the son of Henry Jarrett, a native of Iowa, and Mary Frances (Paine) Jarrett, a native of Illinois. The elder Mr. Jarrett was a farmer, and was one of the men who took part in the Black Hawk Indian war. He was a man of broad sympathy and charity, beloved by all his neighbors, and was par- ticularly interested in church work. He and Miss Paine were married in Iowa, but later moved to Rochester, Minnesota, where he died in 1900 at the age of eighty-six, and she in 1911 at the age of sev- enty-three. They had eight children, of whom William G. was the youngest.

William G. Jarrett attended the public schools in Rochester, going through the high school and later taking a course in bookkeeping. Immediately after his graduation he took up ranching, starting in on a salary of eighteen dollars a month. When he was twenty-three years old he started west and arrived in Montana in 1897 where he has remained ever since. For the first twelve years he lived in Livingston where he followed surveying, ranching, mining, etc., but in 1909 he came to Roundup. After working in the mines for a few months, he was appointed clerk of the court of the New Musselshell county. On November 3, 1912, the Republican convention at Roundup, by a large majority nominated him for the office of clerk of the district court and on November 5th the voters indorsed that action by another handsome majority, Mr. Jar- rett carrying nearly every precinct in the county.

On September 22, 1902, Mr. Jarrett was married in Livingston, Montana, to Jennie McDonald, the daugh- ter of Sylvester and Mary McDonald of Chestnut, Montana, and they have had four children-Mayme F., at school, Gladys L., at school, William G., Jr., at

school, and Edward S., at home. Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett are both Catholics, and Mrs. Jarrett is an active worker in the church activities. She is a member of the Royal Highlanders.

THOMAS J. TROY. A successful career of business enterprise and social service has characterized the life of Thomas J. Troy, the superintendent of the Havre public schools and one of the largest landholders in this part of Montana.

Professor Troy was born in Ontario, Canada, Aug- ust 22, 1871. He is one of the comparatively few men in whom are combined the studious temperament with unceasing energies for hard work in business and physical activities. During his boyhood his chief ideals were scholarly, and he enjoyed thorough and varied educational advantages. From the grade and high schools he entered the Mount Forest Model school and then the Ottawa Provincial Normal School, from which he was graduated. He later attended the St. Jerome College of Science at Berlin, Ontario, and also took a commercial course in the Carnegie College of Ohio.

As an educator Mr. Troy began his career as prin- cipal of the schools at New Germany, Ontario, where lie remained three years. Mr. Troy has been iden- tified with the state of Montana since 1897, and has been one of the state's foremost educators. For two years he was principal of the Fort Benton schools, had a similar position at Niehart two years, and since 1902 has been superintendent of the school system of Havre. He came to this city during its important period of growth and development, and has been able to render a lasting service to the cause of education by building a solid foundation for all future educa- tional development in this locality. Throughout the past ten years he has taken a progressive attitude to- ward all matters connected with his office, and yet has managed to secure the cordial cooperation of his fellow citizens in promoting the welfare of the schools.

In his own life and in his work as an educator, Professor Troy has advocated and practiced the old adage that a clear mind is dependent on a healthy body. In his own hard-working student days he was devoted to athletics, and high ideals of scholarship did not interfere with his gaining equal honors in one of the great field sports. What time he had to give to outdoor exercise he devoted to practice in the putting of the 16-pound shot, and in this event he ranks among the greatest during the athletic contests of the past twenty years. In 1892 he won the shot-put over all competitors at Ottawa, Canada, and during the next twelve years he won twenty-eight gold medals and prizes at different athletic meets. In the Olympic games of 1904, held during the world's fair at St. Louis, he was an entrant among representatives from all parts of the world, and won a gold medal for his performance. He took the gold medal at the Portland world's fair in 1905, and was winner of the state championship at Butte in 1892. Among the trophies of his athletic prowess he possesses thirty-two gold medals and other prizes. Professor Troy is a man of splendidl physical development. His broad success in the serious services of life has not only proved the value of the old motto above mentioned, but has also disproved a frequent assertion that successful athletes are seldom noted for achievement in other depart- ments of the world's work.

Professor Troy is closely identified with the educa- tional progress of this state, and is a member of the board of educational examiners for Hill county and of the State Education Code Commission. He is the owner of fifteen first-class residence properties in Havre and Dodson, and is one of the most prosperous citizens of the state. He is a devout member of the Catholic church, and is affiliated with the Knights

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of Columbus and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, of which he is state trustee.

Mr. Troy married at Butte, June 15, 1903, Miss Emma E. Bronson. The four children born of their union were as follows: Thomas B., born at Havre, Friday, May 13, 1904, now in school and giving promise of becoming an athlete; Clement, born in Havre, June 28, 1906, and died October 4, 1906; William C., born at Havre, August 31, 1907; and Lenore C., born in Havre, April 3, 1911.

Professor Troy's father was William Troy, who was born in Ireland in 1831, came during his youth to Canada, and followed a successful career of farm- ing until his death, which occurred at Ottawa in 1891. Shortly after his arrival in America he met and married Miss Ellen O'Farrell, who was a native of Canada, her parents having been early settlers. She died in Canada in 1892. .

WILLIAM B. SHOEMAKER has served his county in the capacity of clerk since 1904, having been recently elected for the fourth consecutive term, a fact which advertises his popularity and ability more eloquently than could any words. He has been a resident of the state of Montana since 1897, and has taken a man's part in the affairs of whatever place he has been lo- cated in the intervening years. Born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, on January 20, 1871, he is the son of Adam and Henrietta (Sentman) Shoemaker. The father, born in Pennsylvania, was for many years a prominent hotel man and farmer of his native town, but in the later years of his life was retired from busi- ness activities of all kinds. He died in 1901. The mother, also a native of the Keystone state, died at the family home in 1910. They were the parents of six children, of which number all but two are living. They are: James H., general manager of the Corn Belt Telephone Company, of Cedar Falls, Iowa; Charles L., a commission man of Chicago, Illinois; Gertrude, the wife of John Ferguson, who is the editor of the Conrad (Mont.) Observer; William B., of this review.

In his boyhood, the parents of William Shoemaker moved from the Pennsylvania home to Clay county, Missouri, shortly thereafter going to Marshall county, Iowa. In that locality the boy attended the public schools and later was a student at Stanford Seminary. He left school at the age of seventeen and began to earn his own living, working for the C. G. W. R. R. in their telegraphy department, later being advanced to the position of station agent. In 1897, when he was twenty-six years old, he came to Montana, where he took a position as agent at Culbertson, with the Great Northern Railroad. He remained there for two years, when he was transferred to Shelby, in which place he served in a like capacity for a three years' period. In the spring of 1903 he went to Hinsdale, where he continued as the agent of the Great North- ern until the fall of 1904. In that year he was elected to the office of county clerk of Valley county, and resigned his position with the Great Northern with which he had been connected for so many years, and removed to Glasgow, the county seat, and assumed charge of the office to which he had been elected. The excellence of his service and the high esteem in which he is held by the people of the county are evidenced by his four consecutive elections to the office, and indicate the character of the man as a whole.

Mr. Shoemaker has become attached to the state, and is warm in his praises of this section of the coun- try. He has become the owner of considerable ranch lands and holds some valuable city property in Hins- dale and Glasgow. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America and Order of Eagles,

and has passed through all chairs of each of the orders.

On July 30, 1903, Mr. Shoemaker was united in marriage with Ella Cummings, daughter of Burr Cummings, a native son of Iowa and a prominent music dealer of Des Moines, that state. Four children have been born to their union: Ray, Gail, Vera and Irma. The two first named are students in the Glasgow high school.

FREDERICK T. GREENE holds distinctive prestige as one of the leading mining engineers of Butte, Montana, where he has resided for a period of fifteen years and where he is a member of the Hodgens-Greene Company, the headquarters of which concern are at 401-3 State Savings Bank building. Mr. Greene was born in the city of Brooklyn, New York, November 22, 1873, and he is a son of William A. and Angenora (Semlear) Greene, the former a native of Rhode Island,

where he was born in 1851, and the latter of whom was born in Brooklyn, in 1854. In the maternal line Mr. Greene traces his ancestry back to stanch colonial stock, the original progenitor of the Semlear family in America having settled in New York, whither he came from Holland in 1639. The paternal ancestors of Mr. Greene were of English extraction and were early settlers in this country. William A. Greene has long been engaged in the collar manufacturing business and since 1885 he has been a resident of Waterloo, in the province of Ontario, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Greene became the parents of three children, concerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated: Fred- erick T. is the immediate subject of this review; Myra B. is the wife of J. H. Hatch, of New York City; and Carl F. is a citizen of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

To the public schools of Boston, Massachusetts, Frederick T. Greene is indebted for his rudimentary educational training. At the age of eight years he accompanied his parents to Canada and he was gradu- ated as a member of the high school of Berlin, On- tario, in the class of 1889. In the same year he was matriculated as a student in the University of To- ronto, in which he was graduated in 1893. Subse- quently he entered the Michigan College of Mines, completing his mining courses in 1897 and receiving the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Mining En- gineer. In the fall of 1897 Mr. Greene came to Butte, where for the two ensuing years he was in the em- ploy of the Boston & Montana Mining Company. In that year he removed to British Columbia, where he represented different mining companies in the capacity of mining engineer. On January 1, 1901, he returned to Butte, here accepting a position as chief assistant in the geological department of the Anaconda Cop- per Mining Company. On June 1, 1906, he resigned the latter position in order to become chief assist- ant in the geological departments of the Great North- ern, Northern Pacific and Burlington Railroads, con- tinuing the incumbent of that position until Septem- ber 1, 1908. On the latter date he entered into a private practice of his profession, and in March, 1911, he became secretary and treasurer of the Hodgens- Greene Company, of Butte. The business indulged in by this corporation is mainly that of developing min- ing properties in the state and acting as consulting engineers for a number of prominent mines.

In his political convictions Mr. Greene is a "Stand- patter" Republican, and while he does not take an active part in public affairs he is ever on the alert to forward all measures projected for the good of the general welfare. In a social way, he is a valued and appreciative member of the Silver Bow Club and of the Butte Country Club. He is unmarried.

MICHAEL J. WALSH. With supreme faith in the future of Montana, with whose business, public and

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military interests he has been connected for the past fifteen years, Michael J. Walsh, of Livingston, is at present devoting his energies to promoting realty ven- tures and to discharging the duties devolving upon him in the office of public administrator. Mr. Walsh was born at Emmetsburg, Palo Alto county, Iowa, July 22, 1867, and is a son of Thomas and Marie (Nolan) Walsh, natives of Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland.

Thomas Walsh came to the United States in 1865 on a sailing vessel, and from New York City, where he landed, drifted to Emmetsburg, Iowa, first working as a farm hand and subsequently becoming one of the pioneer agriculturists of Palo Alto county, where he is still living at the age of sixty-five years. He is a prominent Democrat of his section, and has held various public offices, being elected county recorder in 1878 and serving three terms. He was married in Emmetsburg, Iowa, to Marie Nolan, who died in 1891, at the age of fourty-four years, and they had a family of two sons and two daughters, of whom the sons sur- vive: Michael J .; and Thomas J., the latter a resi- dent of Fort George, British Columbia.

Like other farmers' sons of his day and locality, Michael J. Walsh secured his education in the district schools during the winter months, his services in the summers being needed on the home farm. Agricul- tural pursuits, however, did not appeal to the youth, and in 1884 he started to learn the tinsmitli and plumber's trade, at which he worked in Emmetsburg until 1890. In that year he removed to Algona, Kos- suth county, Iowa, and about three years later went to Burt, lowa. where he continued to work at his trade until 1897, then beginning to travel over the country as a well driller and in promoting the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. In October, 1897, he came to Livingston and began to work at his trade for Nolan Brothers. At that time he was a member of the Fourth Regiment, Iowa National Guards, and in April, 1898, he joined his regiment at Camp Mckinley, Des Moines, Iowa, the Spanish-American War having bro- ken out. He was mustered in as a member of Com- pany F, Fifty-second Regiment, Iowa Volunteer In- fantry, and was enrolled April 30, 1898, as sergeant of his company. On May 21, 1898, he was promoted to second lieutenant of Company F, and went therewith to Chickamauga Park, Georgia. On August 26, 1898, the regiment returned to Camp Mckinley, and he was mustered out of the service August 30, 1898, and re- turned to Livingston. Here he worked at his trade until April, 1903, when he was elected city treasurer, and so eminently satisfactory was his administration that he succeeded himself in the following election in 1905. He engaged in the real estate business in 1903, in which he has continued to the present time. He maintains a well-appointed suite of offices in the basc- ment of the First State Bank building, and deals in real estate, loans and insurance, making a specialty of doing business for non-residents, and acting also as notary public and conducting a successful employment agency. He believes Montana to be one of the great- est farming countries in the west, and a great deal of his business comes in handling farm properties. In 1908 Mr. Walsh was elected public administrator, and in 1910 received the re-election to that offce, in which he is now serving. Military affairs have always in- terested him and he has given a great deal of his time and attention to this kind of work. He organized Company E. Second Regiment, Montana National Guard, and October 14, 1901, was elected captain, be- ing promoted to major December 5, 1903, and to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, August 18, 1906. He is a member of the Spanish-American War Veterans, Gen. Harvey C. Kessler Camp, and as a member of the Montana State Rifle Team attended the national shoot- ing match at Sea Girt, New Jersey, in 1905 and 1906, and in 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1910, was in attendance at

Camp Perry, Ohio. Fraternally, he is connected with Lodge No. 1274, Knights of Columbus, and Livingston Lodge No. 246, B. P. O. E. He is universally recog- nized as being one of the foremost business residents of Livingston, and as being made of that stuff which constitutes the best materials for aiding in the build- ing up of a moral and progressive community.

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A history of Montana, Volume III, Part 86

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