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when Albert was five years old, so of her he remembers but little. When Albert had reached the age of twelve years, he was called to mourn the death of his father and thus an orphan and a young lad, he was forced out into the world upon his own resources. The result was he had scant opportunity to gain an education but applied himself well when he had a chance to attend the common schools in Iowa. When he was eighteen, he started west with Denver as the objective point of his journey. He soon was occupied in farm work and shortly after- wards secured a bunch of cattle for himself and located on the Stillwater in the stockrais- ing business. In the winter of 1881, owing to severe weather, he lost his entire herd and so gave up any further work in that section, but in 1882 journeyed into Montana. He came into the country now occupied by Rosebud county and located some three miles from where he now lives and again engaged in the cattle business, also raised some horses. As the years went by Mr. Garrison prospered and he is today one of the well to do men of the county. He has a good place, considerable stock, and other property. During all these years of residence in Montana, nearly a quar- ter of a century, he has shown himself an in- dustrious and progressive man always inter- ested in the affairs of the county and state and a wealthy citizen.
In 1885 Mr. Garrison married Miss Della Taylor, the daughter of B. G. and Mary (Kurshner) Taylor, pioneers of Iowa. Mrs. Garrison was born in Quasqueton, Buchanan county, Iowa, and there was reared and edu- cated. They have one daughter, Mary, wife of Marion Drown, residing in Rosebud county.
Many changes have taken place in Mon- tana since the days when Mr. Garrison first settled here and his own labors have been in- strumental in leading others to locate here, see- ing the success he has enjoyed and the excel- lency of the country. He is well satisfied with Montana, believes it one of the best places of
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the northwest and while still in the prime of life can look back upon life in which he has won good success in his calling.
A. McC. HOWARD. Montana has very many wealthy and prominent men who give their time and attention to breeding and hand- ling stock. Among this number is the gentle- man above mentioned, who lives twenty miles south from Sabra, in Rosebud county. He owns seven sections of land in the home ranch and handles principally cattle and sheep in which business he has spent the major portion of his life in various parts of the United States.
Mr. Howard was born in New Hampshire on September 14, 1826. His father, Algernon Sidney Howard, was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and went to Stafford county with his parents when a school boy. When grown, he married and settled in New Hamp- shire and in 1833 went to Maine as a timber explorer and surveyor. He was much pleased with the country so in 1835, he settled in Ban- gor, where he continued to reside until the panic of 1837, then moved to Piscataquis county, Maine, where he remained the balance of his life. He married Mrs. Almira Chapman, a native of Parsonsfield, Maine, and a daughter of a prominent citizen of that place. The chil- dren born to this worthy couple were five girls and six boys. The father was very well edu- cated and a prominent and substantial busi- ness man who was widely known for his in- tegrity and uprightness. Our subject went from New Hampshire to Maine with his par- ents when a small child and in the latter place received his education but as school was held only two months out of the year he had scant opportunity to perfect himself in branches of learning. However, by diligence he was en- abled to gain a good English education and what time he was not occupied in this, he was
busied on the farm. He and his brother cleared up a large farm out of the solid forest. At the age of 21, Mr. Howard started out for himself and during the first few years, fol- lowed lumbering. After that, he became what was known in those early days as a drover, which corresponds now to the stock buyer. Before the country was threaded with rail- roads it was the custom to go to the outlying sections, purchase stock and gather them in large herds to be driven to the leading cities. Mr. Howard attended to this business until 1883. when he came out west to join his brother, A. D. Howard, then dwelling in Madi- son County, Montana. He entered into part- nership with him and took charge of a large band of sheep that A. D. was at that time bringing from Oregon. He drove the sheep on to what is now Rosebud county and for a number of years was occupied here in handling this kind of stock. Later on he took a home- stead and desert. Finally the brothers dis- solved partnership and in 1904, Mr. Howard purchased the property where he now resides. He had an excellent stock ranch and is one of the wealthy men of the county. Mr. Howard is a progressive man and has always taken a marked interest in everything for the upbuild- ing of the county and state and is one of the leading citizens of this part of Montana.
In 1868, Mr. Howard married Mrs. Susan A. Rollins, of Hancock county, Maine, and three children were born to them, Isabel, Alice and Mary. In 1870, the mother died. In 1883 Mrs. Martha H. Haynes brought the three daughters to Anoka, Minnesota, and in September of the same year joined Mr. How- ard at Rosebud, Montana. The marriage of Mr. Howard and Mrs. Martha H. Haynes oc- curred in 1883. Alice died in 1885. Isabel married Captain A. E. Nease of Carbon coun- ty. He served in the South African war. Mary married Mr. Freeman Philbrick of Rosebud county, who is a prominent stockman and president of the first National Bank in Forsyth.
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HENRY S. AMOS has passed a very act- ive career and is at present time engaged in operating a stage line out from Clyde Park, while also he is owner of the townsite of Clyde Park, and in addition to handling these affairs he does general farming. He is one of the leading men of Park county and has performed well his part in assisting to build it up and develop the resources of this part of Montana. The birth of Mr. Amos occurred in Munroe county, Iowa, May 27, 1865, being the son of Gilbert B. and Caroline (Knapp) Amos, the former born in West Virginia in 1819. and the latter a native of Ohio. The father was brought to Ohio when a child and when arrived at manhood's estate he followed car- pentering and farming and taught school in the winters.
When ten years of age Henry S. started in the world for himself, beginning his active work in a store. He was economical and saved his money and so paid his way through the well known normal school at Valparaiso, In- diana. Having completed his studies, he came west, landing in Montana in April, 1885. He taught in Gallatin, Meagher, Jefferson and Lewis and Clark counties this state and in 1891 accepted a position as assistant to Dr. King. the surgeon for the Drumlummond Mining Company at Marysville, Montana. In this capacity he remained until 1896, in which year he began farming and buying and sell- ing land. Later we see him in charge of the Winslow Hardware Company and then op- erating the Chambers Hardware Company. In June. 1903, he put on a stage line to Clyde Park, laid out the town and since then he has been conducting sales of lots in this bright village. The sale has been more than was expected and he has recently surveyed thirteen more blocks to add to the townsite. Mr. Amos has also continued to operate his farm and cloes a good business in that line. He has never seen fit to embark on the matrimonial sea and is still one of Montana's jolly bachelors.
He is a member of the Methodist church, votes and works with the Republican party and fraternally is allied with the Yeomen.
WILLIAM EGBERT GOODWIN, more familiarly known as "Dr." Goodwin, is one of the best known men in the Rosebud Valley, being one of its earliest pioneers and having maintained continuous residence here since. On July 8, 1882, he took his present place, six miles south from Sabra, by squatters right and with this as his headquarters, he has op- erated in farming and stock raising ever since. For a quarter of a century he has continued his business here, being always blessed with excellent success so that now he is rated as one of the wealthy men of Rosebud county. Mr. Goodwin has gained his present holding en- tirely since coming to Montana as he started here with very little capital and while doing this, he has made himself also one of the es- teemed and respected men of the state. He was born in Ohio on November 18, 1860. His father, Egbert Goodwin, was born in New England on July 7, 1816, and came to Ohio when that was a very new country. Later on he journeyed on west and settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, being there at the time that the Mor- mons were creating a stir in that section. He was one who assisted to arrest Joseph Smith, who was given a hearing and discharged. Later on he moved to Bushnell, Illinois, and there remained until his death on October 3, 1876. He had followed farming all of his life and was a substantial and respected man. The mother of our subject, Ellen ( Markley) Goodwin, was born October 5. 1804. and died September 30. 1862, consequently he remem- bers very little of her personally. Mr. Good- win was educated in the common schools of Illinois and spent considerable of his younger days in working for wages. When twenty- one, he went to Minnesota and entered the
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lumber camps, spending one winter in that business. The next spring found him in Mon- tana, this portion of which was a very wild section then. After due research, he selected the place where he now resides and took it as stated above. He has given his attention in the stock business mostly to raising cattle. as he prefers them to horses and sheep.
On November 28, 1888, Mr. Goodwin married Nettie Rowley. She was born in Grant county, Wisconsin, where she was reared and educated and married then accompanied her husband to Montana. Her parents, George and Lucy (Walhart) Rowley, now reside on a fine farm in Wisconsin. The father was reared in Illinois and the mother was a native of New York, coming west when a child. Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin have six children, Nellie L. Arley Lester, Alta M., Ralph L., Eggie G. and Idyll I.
Mr. Goodwin has spent many years in Montana, has labored faithfully to bring about the development and advancement that is so evident in the state, has won many friends. has gained fine property holding and is still just beginning the prime of life. Judging the future by the past, we may expect that he will accomplish much yet for his state and for himself.
ED. O'DONNELL, one of the prosperous ranchers and general farmers of Yellowstone county, residing two miles west of Billings, was born in the north of Ireland in 1858. His parents, John and Ann O'Donnell, were na- tives of the same district, the mother having been before marriage, Ann Boyle, daughter of Neil Boyle, the wife of the latter having been Miss Sharkey. Evidently our subject, Ed. O'- Donnell, comes of an old resident family of the vicinity of his birthplace, his paternal grand- father and grandmother. Louis and Mary O'Donnell, having also been natives of the north of Ireland.
The elementary education of Ed. O'Donnell was received in Ireland, where he made good progress in his studies, alternating his school terms with industrious work on his father's farm and in the employment of others in his immediate neighborhood for wages. Here he remained until 1884 when at the age of twenty-six he came to America, located at first in eastern Canada. One year subsequently he removed to Billings, Montana, and here he resumed farming, working for wages as in Ireland. But our subject was frugal. industri- ous and ambitious to acquire that competency which laid ready at the hand of every pioneer of this western country. That he was emi- nently successful is attested by the fact that he now possesses three hundred and seventy acres of excellent farming land in the far-famed Yel- lowstone valley of Montana, and is surrounded with all, that adds to the enjoyment of rural life in one of the most prosperous states in the union. It was in 1891 that Mr. O'Donnell purchased his land and the estate all lies under a most excellent system of irrigation.
One year after coming into possession of this property, in 1892, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Mary Loftus, a native of Ireland, who came to the United States in 1883, one year previous to the emigration of 1.er husband. She is the daughter of Patrick and Delia (Sullivan) Loftus, both born in Ireland.
To Mr. and Mrs. O'Donnell have been born nine children, viz: John, Eddie. Delia, James, Anna, Charlie, Mary, George and Au- driey.
In one of the garden spots of the state this couple are happily and comfortably situ- ated, surrounded by a community of enterpris- ing and well-to-do citizens.
JAMES B. HAWKINS, one of the well known pioneers of Montana, and more fa-
ED. O'DONNELL
JAMES B. HAWKINS
EDWARD B. KENNEDY
FRANK KELLETT
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miliarly called "Jack" Hawkins, is one of the directors of the state reform school located at Miles City. He was born in Utica, New York. July 10, 1848, the son of Martin and Henrietta (Ballou) Hawkins. The father, a native Irishman, came to the United States when a lad and settled in New York state. He died when our subject was eight years old. The mother was born in New York state, the daughter of Levi and Sarah (Austin) Ballou, who were among the very first settlers in the Mohawk valley, and Mr. Ballou's father fought in the French and Indian war. After her husband's death, Mrs. Hawkins removed with her four children to Kane county, Illi- nois, it being 1857, and settled on a farm. There the family remained until 1860, when they removed to Dekalb county, the same state. There they grow up and in 1885 Mrs. Hawkins came to Montana and is now residing in Forsyth. Our subject spent his early life in working on the farm in summer time and attending the district schools in winter until April, 1870, when he started to join a friend in Montana, for whom he expected to work. At Omaha he found his funds were short to make the entire trip and he took the position of deck hand on a boat and at Atchinson hired out to a nurseryman. In the fall he started for Montana again. Arriving at Abilene, Kansas, which was then a distributing point for the cattle which were brought up over the trail, he hired out to take a drove of cattle north to Fort McPherson. After delivering the cattle he took the outfit of horses and wagons back to Texas and he was back and forth on the trail from Texas to Kansas for four years. taking cattle north and horses south. Finally on May 24. 1874, Mr. Hawkins enlisted in the Frontier Batallion, Company D., which is better known as Texas Rangers. It was the purpose of this military organization to quell Indian uprisings and to deal with outlaws, as well as do scout work. While in this capacity. where he remained thirty-one months, he re-
ceived the nickname, "Soda-Water-Jack," and to this day "Jack" has remained with him among his friends. Mr. Hawkins was ser- geant in the Rangers and had much thrilling and active work in that body. After his hon- orable discharge in November, 1876, he, in company with two others, started to the Black Hills, Dakota. Arriving in Custer City, March 12, 1877, they traded their wagon for provisions and packed their horses and started for the Big Horn mountains. After prospect- ing until their provisions were low they started to the Rosebud and put up hay at Fort Keogh. Since that date Mr. Hawkins has been a son of Montana and is one of the substantial men of the state. In 1882, he was appointed deputy sheriff, in 1886. deputy sheriff and jailor and in 1892 he was elected sheriff of Custer coun- ty. His re-election promptly followed in 1894 and in 1898 he was appointed, by Governor Smith, trustee of the state reform school. He held that office until January 1, 1903, when he was appointed director and since that time he has acted in that capacity.
In 1888 occurred the marriage of Mr. Hawkins and Nannie Watson, the daughter of WV. B. and Elizabeth ( Porter) Watson, na- tives of Scotland. Mr. Watson was a mem- ber of the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery and served through the Rebellion. Mrs. Hawkins was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and in 1886 came thence to Montana.
Mr. Hawkins has the following named brothers : Thomas B., who enlisted in the Fifty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry at six- teen and now lives in Texas; William, chief of police in Miles City. The children born to Mr. Hawkins and his wife are, Mazie, on Jan- uary 1, 1889, William W., on December 25, 1890, Hazel M., deceased, and Nannie Sarah, on January 13, 1901.
Mr. Hawkins is a member of the K. P. and the Masons and in politics is Republican. He is a hard worker and has passed a life of ac- tivity and is well informel on various lines
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of business. He is abreast of the times in questions of importance and is held in high esteem by all as is evidenced by his popularity in his official capacities.
EDWARD B. KENNEDY, deceased. The subject of this biographical memoir was born in New Brunswick, April 13, 1851, the son of Michael and Mary ( Barry) Kennedy, the former a native of Prince Edward's Island ; the latter of Ireland.
In New Brunswick our subject received the rudiments of an education, up to the age of sixteen. He came to the United States and lo- cated in Michigan, remaining there, however, only a brief period. Thence he went to the Black Hills and settled in Deadwood, Dakota. This was about 1878, before the state had been divided into the North and South halves. Mr. Kennedy remained here until 1881. The fol- lowing year he came to Billings, Montana, us- ing horse teams. Of course, in that early day there was no town of Billings, but we have indicated the site of the future city. Here Mr. Kennedy secured work running a ferry boat, at Coulson, at that period the only town in the immediate vicinity. Subsequently he purchased the boat, and thus secured a pe- cuniary start in the world. This profitable craft he conducted for a number of years, at the same time investing his surplus profits in sheep and Billings real estate, in which he had great faith. Being a good business man, Mr. Kennedy soon accumulated quite a fortune, and at the time of his death had many thousands of sheep and considerable real estate in the prospering City of Billings. At the time of the opening of the Crow Reservation in 1895, he secured a home- stead under Government patent, March 17, 1( 03. Here he continued to make his home until his death which occurred the 22nd of De- cember, in the same year, at Helena, Montana, while there on business.
The widow of our subject is Mrs. Catherine (Hart) Kennedy, born in the county Sligo, Ireland. She came to the United States and took up her residence in New York City. In 1880, she went to Deadwood, Dakota, on a visit, and here met and married the subject of this memoir. To Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Ken- nedy was born one child, Mary F., a student of the Billings High School. Mrs. Kennedy and her daughter have taken up the work be- gun by Mr. Kennedy. Although she has dis- posed of the sheep business she still continues to deal in Billings property.
FRANK KELLETT is one of the early pioneers of eastern Montana and for more than a quarter of a century he has labored in the territory now embraced in Yellowstone county and he has won the respect and esteem of all who kifow him, while his worldly possessions have increased in a commensurate degree to the wisdom and skill he has manifested in his investments and his business affairs. For in- stance, in 1880, when Mr. Kellett first came here, the land about the place where the pros- perous city of Billings is now situated was considered worthless, absolutely. Mr. Kellett did not believe that and showed his belief by taking a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres. That place is his home today and is worth one hundred dollars per acre. The es- tate lies about two miles west from Billings and is one of the excellent ones of the county.
Frank Kellett is, by birth, a native of the Emerald Isle, Drogheda being the place where he first saw the light, but most of his life has been spent apart from the native heath and like most of those who come to this country from Ireland, he is a genuine American in heart and spirit and a loyal supporter of the Stars and Stripes. The father, John Kellett, was born in the same place as our subject and later in life removed to Manchester, England,
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where he remained until his death, some five years since. He married Mary Campbell, a na- tive of Drogheda, also, but descended from Scotch ancestry. Our subject was but a small boy when the family home was transferred to Manchester, England, and his education was secured in that city. After completing his studies, he worked in various capacities until 1870, in which year he set sail for the United States. For a time he was employed in Con- cord, New Hampshire, and then traveled some until 1880, when he came into eastern Mon- tana. He was satisfied, even at that early day, that this would be a wealthy section of the state and that the prospects, so little seen then by the ordinary man, were good. His faith led him to act and he secured the land above mentioned and he has continued steadily in labor and prosecuting the business of farming since that time.
Mr. Kellett has a very extended circle of acquaintances and hosts of warm friends who esteem him highly. He has seen the country develop from a barren waste with few settlers to be one of the prosperous counties of the great state of Montana and with, even now, prospects that indicate the future improve- ments and development will entirely over- whelm and far exceed anything that has been done in the past. Mr. Kellett is worthy of the good success he has achieved and as he enjoys the fruits of his labors, he has never forgotten the days of pioneer hardship nor the demands of the country on every good and loyal citizen.
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EDGAR BOYD CAMP, one of the lead- ing citizens of Billings, Montana, is engaged in the real estate, loan and insurance business. He was born November 25. 1856, in Bloom- ington, Illinois, the son of Edgar B. and Mary ( Porter) Camp, both natives of the Empire State. His grandfather was Elisha Camp, a colonel of the war of 1812, and two of his
father's brothers, each colonels, in the Civil war were buried in the Arlington cemetery, with military honor in Washington. His father, a banker, lost his health and died at the age of 36 shortly after leaving his native home at Sackets Harbor, New York, for the then far west, Illinois.
Mr. Camp's mother was born and educated in New York City, where she lived until her marriage, a daughter of David C. Porter, a wealthy business man of that city, and Rose Ann Hardy, daughter of Sir William Hardy of England. The families on both sides were noted for their literary attainments, and their descendants are known down to these later years, Miss Rose Porter, whose death occurred September 9th, 1906, at her home in New Haven, Connecticut, was a well known author- ess of some forty odd books. Mrs. Laura Por- ter Sanford of Genoa, Italy, although only having published one volume of poetry, in her own name, is sought for, as a contributor to magazines and papers, both the latter being sisters of Mr. Camp's mother. The subject of this sketch certainly has cause for pride in the religious, musical, art and literary attainments of his ancestors.
Mr. Camp was reared in Illinois, living at Odell, Normal and Pontiac, and in that state he received his education in the public schools. On leaving school he was employed in a dry goods store in Pontiac five years, and in the spring of 1880 engaged in the same business he now follows in Pontiac. In the fall of 1881 he disposed of his interest and came to Mon- tana, arriving November 21, 1881 at Glendive. He went to work in the N. P. R. R. yards, and the first day's work was helping load three cars of buffalo hides. Finding this employ- ment too heavy work, he pushed on to Miles City, reaching there on the first train to enter that place. after the construction outfit had reached there the day before. November 30. 1881, and here he found employment with Miles & Stravell in the hardware business,
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remaining with this firm until February 26, 1882. He then formed a partnership with Arthur W. Miles, of Livingston, Montana, who was then paymaster's clerk at Fort Keogh. Our subject went to Coulson, a then lively frontier town located on the bank of the Yellowstone River two miles east of the now city of Billings, traveling by stage a dis- tance of 160 miles, being followed by their merchandise hauled by freight teams from Miles City, and on their arrival he opened a hardware store in a tent. Later he was able to secure some green cottonwood lumber cost- ing $60 a thousand, and erected a frame store building. Here he remained waiting for the town of Billings to develop. As soon as lots were on the market and a townsite laid out he moved their stock and on May 12, 1882. opened the initial store in the "Magic" city of Billings. He disposed of his interest in the business that summer to his partner Mr. Miles. At that time he also became interested in a brick yard, known as the firm of Camp & Penny, the first yard in the Yellowstone val- ley, they manufactured the brick for the Northern Pacific round-house and many of the first brick buildings in Billings.
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