An illustrated history of the Yellowstone Valley : embracing the counties of Park, Sweet Grass, Carbon, Yellowstone, Rosebud, Custer and Dawson, state of Montana, Part 82

Author: Western Historical Publishing Co. (Spokane, Wash.)
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Western Historical Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 760

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The subject of this sketch received his elementary education in Montgomery county, attending the public schools. Arriving at man- hood's estate he engaged in farming. He first came to the Yellowstone Valley in 1889, where he worked for wages a few years, then pro- ceeded to better his condition by purchasing a ranch twenty miles north and four miles west of Billings, where he engaged in the sheep business, and that successfully.

In 1893 he was united in marriage to May Miner, born in Fallon county, Illinois, and coming to the Yellowstone country with her parents about 1883. Her father John Miner, is now a resident of Carbon county, Montana. Mr. and Mrs. Robison have three children, Thomas, Florence and Clara.

SAM NEWNES resides one mile south of Howard in Rosebud county and for nearly a quarter of a century he has been a resident of Montana, having during that long period passed through many experiences incident to the frontier, and having alwaws shown a pos- session of the true material that makes the rugged frontiersman and the path-finder. His life has been passed with much hard labor, and while he has won the smiles of fortune at this time it has not been without the efforts that show the aggressive and wide awake man of energy.

England is his native country and Feb- ruary 19, 1854, the date of his birth. Mr. Newnes' parents, William and Maria (Powell) Newnes, were both born in the same shire as our subject and the father was a postmaster and followed the nursery business. His death occurred in 1905. Our subject was educated in his native land and there remained until 1880 when he came to Ontario, Canada. He occupied himself with farming there until April, 1882, and then started to view the west.

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He landed at Howard the following May, second day and went to work on the railroad. He selected government land soon after com- ing here and was among the very first actual settlers in this portion of the Yellowstone valley. Since that time, Mr. Newnes has con- tinued in farming and stock rising and has prospered as his labors entitled him to do, be- ing now one of the well to do men of the vicinity.

In 1874, Mr. Newnes married Jessie Dow- ling, who was born in Manchester, England. on March 6, 1857, the daughter of James Dowling, a native of Scotland. The children born to this union are fourteen, three of whom are dead. Sam F., James D., Harry, Maria, William, John, Samuel, George, Joe, James, Charles, Jessie, Elizabeth, and Ben. Mr. New- nes has a very interesting family and one that would delight the heart of our worthy presi- dent. During the years of his residence in this tate Mr. Newnes has shown a spirit of real thrift and desire to build up the country and bring to the front its various resources, so that others would be attracted hither and the real advancement that has come would be apparent to everyone. To this end he has taken an interest in politics, has ever been on the side of good schools and is a progressive man.

CHARLES F. GRANT resides at Shields, Park county, which place by his enterprise and push is becoming to be recognized as one of the business points in the county. It was 1903 when he arrived there and at once put up a hotel, a livery stable, a saloon, a blacksmith shop, a large general merchandise building and hall, and brought in a fine stock of general merchandise. About three months later, he sold the general merchandise business and since that has been conducting the other busi- ness himself.

Charles F. Grant was born on July 17, 1858, in San Francisco, California. His father,

Frederick Grant, a native of Virginia and a miner by occupation, crossed the plains over the Santa Fe trail in 1849. Two years later, Mary Wilson, with her parents crossed the same route and she was married to Frederick Grant. She was born in Ohio and with her husband has long passed from the activities of this world. Charles F. was educated in San Francisco and when arrived at his majority he started for himself and took up mining as his initial occupation. Three years later he turned his attention to the merchandise business, es- tablishing a store in Leadville, Colorado. Later we find him in the same business at Cripple Creek, whence he moved to Spokane, Wash- ington. Soon after that, he opened up a gro- cery store at Boise, Idaho, and remained there until 1898, when he came to the state of Mon- tana. He spent considerable time traversing the various portions of that state and finally located at Utica, where he conducted a livery barn and hotel. In the fall of 1901 he built the first hotel and livery stable at Clyde Park and two years later sold them and established himself at Shields, as has been mentioned be- fore in this article. He is doing a good busi- ness and as is evidenced by this brief outline of his life, he is counted one of the energetic and forceful men of the county.

In March, 1883, Mr. Grant married Lil- lian Birch, the daughter of William and Nel- lie Emmerson Birch of Stockton, California. Two children are the fruit of this union, Ma- bel. born February 7, 1885, and Madge, born February 6, 1887. .

Mr. Garrison is a good active Republican, but is in no sense a politician. He has great faith in the state of Montana and especially Park county, and presages much good for this section in the next few years.

FRED STANDEN, born at Olmstead Falls, Ohio, May 4, 1864, has a handsome ranch on which he resides, one and one-half

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miles southwest of Laurel, Yellowstone county. His father, John Standen, was a native of Kent. England, coming to the United States while a young man, and locating in Ohio. He was engaged in the butcher business, also rais- ing considerable stock which he shipped. He died ni August, 1904. The mother of our sub- ject, Betsy (Aps) Standen, was also a native of Kent, coming to this country with her hus- band. She died in 1877.

In the public schools of his native town our subject was educated. But he was com- pelled to leave school at an early date, owing to the death of his mother, and in 1882 he re- moved to Valley, Nebraska, working there for wages. To the Yellowstone Valley he came in 1899, and here he purchased a farm of 160 acres. This he improved and two years later he sold the same and went to Wyoming, re- maining there only one year, and returning to Montana and purchased an Indian alottment on Clark's Fork. This property he exchanged for the ranch upon which he now resides, June 23, 1903. Since then he has materially improved the property, and has 160 acres un- der irrigation, together with good, convenient buildings, etc.

He was married in 1888 to Minnie Kellett, born near Rome, Illinois, November 28, 1869. When one year and one-half old she was taken by her parents to Douglas county, Nebraska, and here she remained until she came to Mon- tana with her husband. Her father, Patrick Henry Kellett, was born in County Kerry, Ireland, coming to the United States at the age of twelve years, and locating in Kentucky. Later he removed to Illinois and subsequently to Nebraska. Her mother, Mary Jane (New- lon) Kellett, was a native of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Standen have four children : Roy, Georg, Elma and William, all at school. Our subject has six brothers living: John, in St. Paul, Minnesota ; Richard, Alliance, Nebraska ; Horace, Edgmont, North Dakota; Charles, Leary, Ohio, Edward, Columbus, Nebraska.

He has lost two brothers, Albert and Alfred. He has four sisters : Jennie, Hattie, Nellie and Julia. Mrs. Standen has six brothers : Charles, Henry, Albert, Samuel, William and Ernest. She has two sisters, Nellie and Jennie.

ABRAHAM HARRINGTON resides in the Tongue valley about fourteen miles up from Miles City and is engaged in the sheep industry. He has long been in Custer county and although not a pioneer in raising sheep still he is to be classed with the pioneers of the county, for he has dwelt here about twenty years. He is a native of Laporte county, Indi- ana, and was born on August 18, 1867. His father, Henry Harrington, was born in Co- lumbus, Ohio, in 1831. At the age of fourteen he came with his parents from Ohio to Kos- ciusko county, Indiana, and later removed to Laporte county. He was among the early set- tlers of Indiana and died in 1894. He mar- ried Miss Rozilla Ann Bentley, a native of Laporte county, Indiana. Her parents were pathfinders in that section. In his native county our subject was reared and there re- ceived his education. When twenty, in 1887, Mr. Harrington came direct to Custer county and for the first two years he was engaged in various employments. In 1889 he en- tered a grocery store in Miles City and there remained for fourteen years. Then he deter- mined to try the sheep business and since then he has given his attention to this work. He has been favored with success in the venture and his place is assuming the characteristic marks of the sheep rancher in Montana.

In 1890 Mr. Harrington married Miss Martha Flemming, a native of Arkansas and the daughter of Hiram and Mary Louisa (Bramblett) Flemming, both natives of Arkansas. When Martha was a child of ten years, the family came on to Kansas and there the father died five years later. The mother

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still lives in Kansas. Mrs. Harrington came to Montana in 1890, the year of her marriage. The children born to this union are nine, Flos- sie Helen, Callie May, Sylvia, Panzy, who died when four, Eva, Evelyn, Eugene, Abraham, and Frank who died when six months old.

JAMES N. SCOTT, a native of Wood county, Ohio, now resides on a fine ranch two and one-half miles north of Roscoe, Car- bon county. The date of his birth was Febru- ary 28. 1865. His father, James N. Scott, also born in the Buckeye State, at Fremont, Sep- tember. 9, 1831, was reared in that vicinity and followed the avocation of a farmer. In 1866 he removed to Washington county, Iowa, where he located on a farm and followed at various periods the trade of a carpenter. Two years subsequently he removed to Stanton county, Nebraska, in 1868, where he located on a farm, remaining two years, going thence to Hamilton county, same state, where he set- tled on a farm along the Platte river. Here he lived seven years, thence removing to Dawes county, same state, and securing a farm when the Burlington & Missouri Railroad was being constructed in the state. On this road he took a contract and with the work came to Huntly, Montana, and the same year located on the Stillwater river, near Columbus, Mon- tana, and where he still lives.

The mother of our subject, Ervilla (Jen- nings) Scott, was born in Sandusky, Ohio. She died in Montana in January, 1900.

Our subject and his father remained to- gether until the former came to his present lo- cation, in 1894. He then secured a homestead of 160 acres, which is all under an excellent system of irrigation and well improved. In 1895, Mr. Scott was united in marriage to Orra J. Mosier, born in the vicinity of Des Moines, Iowa. Her father, Cross O., was a native of Missouri, removing to Iowa when

two years of age. Her mother, Ann ( Harvey) Mosier, was a native of Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have seven children : Walter, Wil- lie, Maud, Blanche, Daisy, Harvey and Harry.

MICHAEL HURLEY is to be numbered with the progressive and industrious pioneers of Custer county and his labors have been put forth here for a quarter of a century with dis- play of wisdom and sound judgment, so that he has won the success that is gratifying when the golden years of life begin to run apace. Mr. Hurley has a nice ranch about two miles up the Tongue river from Miles City and he gives his attention to stock raising and the pro- duction of the fruits of the field. He was born in county Limerick, Ireland, where his ances- tors before him were born for several genera- tions, the date of his advent into the world be- ing June 15, 1838. His father, William Hur- ley, remained in county Limerick until the time of his death in the forties. He had mar- ried Mary Connor, also a native of the same county. After studying in the public schools until 1854, and doing between times work in various capacities, our subject · went over to England in 1854 and there remained for four years. Then he came to the United States and in 1858 landed in New York City and went thence to Hartford, Connecticut, and there fol- lowed the tailor trade he had previously mas- tered, until the breaking out of the war in 1861. Mr. Hurley was among the very first to offer his services to put down the rebellion and enlisted in the Fifth Regular United States Infantry. He served all through the war, being in the detachment sent to New Mexico in the Department of California and other southwestern points, and was among the troops that opposed Sibley in his campaign in New Mexico. After the war, he was honor- ably discharged in Kansas and there remained until 1874, when he re-enlisted in the regular

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army at Fort Hayes, taking his place in the same company and regiment as before. After a station period at Fort Hayes and Fort Leav- enworth, he came to Montana with General Miles in 1877 and served through the Indian campaign and received his honorable discharge in May, 1879. Mr. Hurley was actively en- gaged in many Indian campaigns, both in the southwestern portions of the United States and farther north and has always shown cour- age of the true and patriotic soldier. After be- ing mustered out he settled on the ranch he now occupies and gave his attention to rais- ing stock which has occupied him since, to- gether with farming. He has achieved good success and is a well esteemed man in the com- munity.

In September, 1869, Mr. Hurley married Ellen Kennedy, a native of Ireland, and to them have been born the folloiving named chil- dren: Fannie M., wife of S. F. Randall, in Chicago; Mary C., wife of Thomas W. Chaf- fee, in Miles City ; Margaret E., wife of Mar- tyn Hawkins, of Chicago; William R., in Cus- ter county ; John K., deceased; and Anna M., a stenographer for the Northern Pacific at Glendive.

J. H. LUTZENHISER, born in Benzie county, Michigan, March 13, 1878, is one of the enterprising and prosperous ranchmen re- siding one and one-half miles north of Roscoe. Carbon county. His parents were natives of Ohio. Henry, the father, removed to Michi- gan with his parents at an early day. In 1897 he came to Montana and located where now lives the subject of this sketch. The mother. Lucinda (Jennings) Lutzenhiser, when quite young went to Michigan with her relatives. Herself and husband are now living with our subject near Roscoe.

The first preliminary education received by our subject was in the district schools of

Michigan. Subsequently, while yet a small lad, he accompanied his parents to Garfield county, Nebraska, and here he remained about three years, when he moved again with his parents to Pickens county, Alabama. Three years subsequently the family returned to the old home in Michigan. It was in 1897 that our subject came to Montana, where he secured a homestead, and where he is now located. He has his land under thorough cultivation and has made many improvements. Our subject has a full and a half brother ; the latter Arthur E. Janes, the former, William, both enterpris- ing ranchers in Carbon county. He has two sisters; Rachael, wife of S. M. Jenkins, and Anna May. The latter is a teacher in the Orphan's Home School, at Twin Bridges. She finished a common school education in Michigan, which she completed in the Boze- man Agricultural college.

The paternal forefathers of our subject came from Germany to Pennsylvania in early days where they located. They were an old distinguished American family. His maternal ancestors came from England and were New England settlers.

JOHN SUCCETTI. Among the earliest settlers of the valley of the Yellowstone is the gentleman whose name forms the caption of this article. He is a native of Sunny Italy, having been born in the north part of that kingdom, near the Switzerland line, July 24, 1850. His father, Antonia, a native of the same country, cultivated all kinds of fruit and manufactured wines. He died in 1893. The mother, Cathrina ( Tromna) Succetti, born in the same place, died in 1883.

The early education of our subject was secured in Italy. At the age of 29 he came to the United States and located first at Eureka, Nebraska, where he found employment burn- ing charcoal. In 1879 he came to Butte, Mon-

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tana, where he joined his brother, Baptista, and together they worked three years. It was in 1881 that Mr. Succetti came to his present location in the Yellowstone Valley, locating on a homestead where he has since resided. He and his brother, Baptista, are living and working together. They have about one-half section of land, and another quarter section in the immediate vicinity. They were among the first settlers in the valley. At that period there was nothing in the country in the way of civilization, but any number of Indians and antelope. The brothers have a fine, handsome ranch and are comfortably provided for, the fruits of their own industry. There are two other brothers, Angelo and Louis.

JOHN LARSEN, who resides about nine miles west from Forsyth, is one of the suc- cessful agriculturists of Montana and has had a long and varied experience in the various walks of frontier life, having been in some of the remote places of the west. His birth oc- curred in Denmark, March 25, 1845, his par- ents being Lars and Kissten (Jendatter) Nel- son, both natives of the same country as our subject. They followed farming and remained in their native place until death. Our sub- ject was reared and educated in his native land and learned well the art of the agriculturist from a thrifty and careful father. In 1867. young Larsen determined to try the new world and accordingly made preparations to come to Chicago, where he landed the same year and went to work on the first tunnel that was driv- en under the river there. Shortly afterward he went to work on a farm in the spring of 1868, he went to Michigan where he was oc- cupied in the sawmills and in the woods until the spring of 1870. Then he came up the Mis- souri to Fort Benton and on to Helena, whence he journeyed to Deer Lodge and went to work on a farm. Here and in the mines he

wrought until 1872 when he took up a ranch near Garrison. In 1874, Mr. Larsen left this ranch and in the fall landed in the Puget sound country, making the journey on horseback. In the spring of 1875 he started for the mines of Alaska, the journey being by the Stikine river to telegraph station or landing. From this point he went on foot to Dish Lake one hun- dred miles, hiring Indians to pack his goods. Across Dish Lake in an improvised boat, and down Dish river one hundred miles to Mc- Dermott's lake and there prospected till the fall, at which time he returned to Fort Wran- gle. The next spring he prospected again and in the fall returned to Victoria, British Co- lumbia. A year later he went down the sound further and in 1878 journeyed on to Cali- fornia. One year later he came back to Port- land, Oregon, and thence overland to Walla Walla, where he wintered and in the spring procured a horse and rode back to the ranch he had left six years before. Then Mr. Larsen felt like settling down and did so till 1884, when he came to his present place, which has since been his home.

In 1892, Mr. Larsen took a journey to Denmark and while there married Miss Aba- lona Larson, a native of that country. Return- ing soon after with his wife they settled on the ranch and since then have been occupied in making it one of the choice places of this county. They have seven hundred acres of land, good buildings and other improvements in comparison and are rated substantial and well to do citizens of this county. Consider- ing that Mr. Larsen started without means this speaks well for his thrift and industry.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Larsen are John P., Anna, Helena and Catherine.

MARTIN ARTHUN, residing six miles south of Absarokee, Carbon county, a pros- perous and enterprising ranchman, was born in Norway. September 29, 1858. His father,

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Nels O., a native of the same place, is at pres- ent living there on a farm, the name of which property is Arthun, the title of the family The mother, Martha (Osternim) Arthun, a native of the same place, is still residing there. Herself and husband have been married sixty- two years.

Having received a fair education in the district schools of his vicinity, our subject, at the age of twenty-nine years, came to the Uni- ted States, and first went to Pembina county, North Dakota, where his first employment was working for wages. Remaining in North Dakota only until 1888, he removed to the vicinity of Caledonia, Minnesota, leaving there April 6, 1899, and coming to Bigtimber, Mon- tana, and thence to Meagher county, same state, where he found employment with Fred Miller, a sheep man, and with whom he re- mained two years. Thence in company with two brothers, John and Thomas, he engaged in the sheep business, and purchased three sec- tions of railroad land in Sweetgrass county. This property they disposed of in 1901, and in April of the same year they went on the Mus- selshell, in Meagher county, locating on the south fork of that stream, where they con- tinued the same business. Here they remained until the summer of 1903, when they located on Butcher Creek, Carbon county, Montana, the firm being John Arthun & Brothers. This partnership was continued until the fall of 1904, when it was dissolved. Since that date our subject has remained alone in business, ranching and running sheep.

September 28, 1895, Mr. Arthumn was 1111- ited in marriage to Elizabeth Aanstad, a na- tive of Norway, coming to America a short time previous to her marriage. Her parents are Eric and Anna (Jorina) Aanstad, both living in Norway, where they were born. Mr. and Mrs. Arthun have six children : Martha, born June 1, 1896; Eric, June 16, 1897 : Anna, October 10, 1898; Markus, April 9, 1902 and Elmer L., January 7. 1905.

JEROME A. BISHOP resides on Brack- ett creek, two miles west of Clyde Park and also in Livingston, maintaining a residence in both places. The former place is his headquar- ters for his large sheep industry, in which he has been eminently successful while the latter is for the purpose of educating his children, and the balance to enjoy some of the comforts of life. He was born in March 9, 1845, near Chicago, Illinois. His father, Jerome A. Bis- hop married Lora Davis, a native of Vermont and he died when our subject was four years of age. In 1851, Mrs. Bishop started across the plains with ox teams for California, but owing to the hostilities of the Indians, she was obliged to remain at Salt Lake City and there she married a second time. After remaining three or four years in Salt Lake City, the fam- ily moved to Indiana and our subject when aged fifteen, started in life for himself, it then being 1860. He arrived in Denver in the fall of that year and went to work freighting with ox teams from Salt Lake to Denver, in which he continued until the fall of 1862. During that time he freighted also to Fort Union, New Mexico, for the government and in 1863, he began ranching below Denver. On the first day of March, 1864, Mr. Bishop started for Montana and arrived at Virginia City the last day of April. 1864. He took up ranching in the valley where the Big Hole and Beaver Head come together, now called Twin Bridges, which place was taken from him by a squaw man. He moved higher up the river and sel- ected another place upon which he started a road ranch. He made good money during the winter and in the spring sold out and went to Silverbow where he was employed at twenty dollars per day, for himself and ox team. In the fall of 1865, he again returned to ranch- ing, but as the grasshoppers ate up everything, he was obliged to take up freighting again. This continued until 1866 when he went into the stock business on Beaverhead, where he continued for sixteen years. Then came a

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move to Bozeman and later he came to Shields river and embarked in sheep raising bringing the first band of sheep that ever came on to the upper river. Since that time he has con- tinned steadily in the same business and has purchased more land from time to time until now he has many hundred acres under fence. He has made a splendid success in handling sheep and is rated as one of the wealthy men of the county.

On December 20, 1865, Mr. Bishop mar- ried Celia Mize, who is the daughter of Free- man and Catherine (Adkins) Mize. To this union nine children have been born, seven of who are now living, named, with their dates of birth as follows : Andrew, October 28, 1867; Arthur J., October 29, 1876; Della, the wife of Frank Cain, July 10, 1878; Daisy, the wife of William F. Hanns, July 22, 1881 ; James, November 11, 1883; Dolly, the wife of Charles Bartlett, January 4, 1886; Addie, No- vember 26, 1890. Mr. Bishop is a pioneer and has labored hard since the early sixties to build up Montana. He has passed through many experiences from the days of the vigilantes to the present prosperous condition of the great state of Montana and no little credit is due him for the lion's share he has accomplished by his industry and wisdom.

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An illustrated history of the Yellowstone Valley : embracing the counties of Park, Sweet Grass, Carbon, Yellowstone, Rosebud, Custer and Dawson, state of Montana, Part 82

Author: Western Historical Publishing Co. (Spokane, Wash.) Publication date: 1907 Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Western Historical Publishing Company Number of Pages: 760

Author: Western Historical Publishing Co. (Spokane, Wash.)
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Western Historical Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 760