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HENRY C. THOMPSON, who is train- master for the government at Fort Keogh, is one of the well known men of this portion of Montana and is a man of wide and varied ex- perience in many lines, especially with the army in the west. He was born in eastern Tennessee, on December 27. 1847, the son of Vincent and Lydda (Bolton) Thompson, na- tives of eastern Tennessee, and Virginia re- spectively. The father followed farming until the war broke out and then joined the Union army, Tenth Tennessee Cavalry, and was killed while fighting bushwhackers shortly afterwards. His widow was of German de- scent and came from Virginia to Tennessee with her parents when young. She died in Tennessee, in the winter of 1880-1. Henry C. was reared in the mountain portion of Ten- nessee and received his education from the public schools during the first fourteen years of his life. Then the war broke out and as he and his father were on the Union side, they were the objects of hatred by those who sup- ported the confederacy. Being drafted by the confederates, they had to escape and did so, getting to the Union army. The father, as stated, at once joined the army and was killed. Young Thompson, being but fourteen, and be- ing too young to send to the front was de- tached to scout through the country and con- vey food and messages to men who were being hunted by the confederates. In this dangerous work he engaged until he enlisted in Company C, Eighth Tennessee Federal Cavalry. When
the war was over he went home and remained until 1869 when he enlisted in the Fifth Reg- ular Infantry, under General Miles and served continuously for ten years. He was with Gen- eral Miles in all his important Indian cam- paigns in Indian Territory in 1874, and the Panhandle of Texas, and on July 12, 1876. he started with Miles for the Yellowstone on another Indian campaign, and was engaged against the Cheyennes, Sioux and Nez Perces. Thus he has participated in all the important struggles with the Indians on the plains for that period of active Indian warfare from sev- enty to eighty, and has passed over much of the country. He has always distinguished himself by faithfulness, courage and bravery, and won the esteem and confidence of his com- manders. On August 29, 1879, Mr. Thomp- son received his honorable discharge and then went to work for the government as scout, guide, packer, and so forth, and has remained with the military ever since, being now train- master, as stated before.
In 1893 Mr. Thompson was employed by the government as trainmaster in the army un- der General Shafter and went to Cuba, serving all through that campaign, and returning un- der General Bates. Mr. Thompson has served frequently as interpreter and came out of the regular army as first sergeant. Nearly all his life has been spent in and about the army and he is a military man in the true sense of the word.
Mr. Thompson has two children : Thomas T., who died while attending the state university at Lincoln, Nebraska; and Robert, who is now employed at Fort Keogh.
OLE EGGEN, born in Norway, May 5, 1866, now resides on a fine farm five miles south of Absarokee, Carbon county, Montana. His father, Samuel, born on the same farm as our subject, was an agriculturist and remained
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in Norway until his death in 1902. The mother, Bertha, died when our subject was a child.
In the public school's of Norway our sub- ject was educated. Here he worked on the farm until he was twenty-two years of age, when he emigrated to the United States, and came at first to Meagher county, Montana, where he worked for wages. He made his advent into Carbon county in 1899, and there he purchased the ranch where he now lives. He has a fine quarter section of land, all under an excellent system of irrigation, and which property he has vastly improved. He has buildings as good as any in the county.
In 1900 he was married to Serena .Olson, born in the same place in Norway as our sub- ject. In 1897 she came with her people to the United States, and they settled near White Sulphur Springs, Montana. Her father, Gustad, died in Norway, near where he was born; her mother was Mary Kavanaugh. She has four young children : Charlie, Oscar, Bertha and Mina.
PETER KIRSCHER has one of the fine estates in Park county. The same consists of eight hundred and forty acres in one body, located fifteen miles north from Livingston and admirably fitted both for general farm- ing and stock raising. In addition to this, Mr. Kirscher owns a half section in another portion of the state, besides considerable other property. His farm is well improved with fine buildings and skillfully laid out, and is a valuable and pleasant property. He was born on August 8, 1843, in Erie county, Pennsyl- vania, his parents being Peter and Caroline (Harman) Kirscher. The former was born in Alsace, France, and came to America with his parents when fourteen, followed farming and stock raising and in 1853 moved to the vi- cinity of Des Moines, Iowa, where he remained
until his death in 1898. The mother was born in Baden on the Rhine, came to this country when fourteen with her parents and settled near Erie, Pennsylvania. She died in 1896. Our subject came west in the spring of 1864, landing on Alder Gulch September 10th. The following winter he was carried with the stampede to Last Chance Gulch where Helena now stands. He soon began to believe that he had no luck in mining, so, with a partner, he bought a whip saw and cut some of the lum- ber used in the first buildings in Helena. The next winter he tried his hand again at min- ing but soon turned aside and bought a yoke of oxen and crossed over to Diamond City where he engaged in hauling timbers for the mines. In the spring of 1866, he formed a partnership with William Linhardy and took up ranching in the Missouri valley forty miles east of Helena. Improving this occupied him for four years then he sold out to his partner and bought a ten mule outfit and be- gan freighting from Corinne, Utah, to Helena, Montana. He would make a round trip in thirty days, and he worked steadily at this un- til 1872, when he and his brother went to farming again in the Missouri valley. In 1878 he sold out to his brother and bought a half section of land nearby which he still owns. It was in the fall of 1883 that Mr. Kirscher took his desert claim, three hundred and sixty acres of his present estate. Later he bought one hundred and sixty acres from the railroad and since then he has purchased another half section, which gives him the estate mentioned at the beginning of this ar- ticle. In 1889, he brought his family over here and since that time this has been the home place. Mr. Kirscher is an energetic, ac- tive man, has made a fine showing on his farm and is one of the well-to-do men of the county.
On September 20, 1873, Mr. Kirscher married Christiana Dinger, the daughter of George and Miria Dinger. 4 Four children
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have come to gladden the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kirscher: Mrs. Josephine Killoin, born July 10. 1874; Mrs. Ida Bliler, born October 15. 1875 : Ralph M., born October 6, 1879 and Alvin, born January 15, 1882.
Mr. Kirscher, his wife and family are all members of the Catholic church. In matters that pertain to the advancement of the educa- tional affairs and the welfare of the state and so forth, Mr. Kirscher is keenly interested and he takes an active part in political affairs, be- ing allied with the Democratic party.
WILLIAM C. JONES, a general farmer and business man of the Yellowstone valley, residing ten miles west of Billings, was born in Jasper county, Iowa, June 22, 1844. His father, Joseph Jones, was born in a block house in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, during an Indian outbreak. He was a veteran of the Civil War, enlisting at Brownsville, Nebraska, in 1862, in Company E. Second Nebraska Volunteers, serving a little over a year. He was one of the earliest settlers of Iowa, being compelled to go sixty miles for store supplies. The mother, Nancy (Calhoun) Jones, was a native of Indiana.
It was but a limited schooling that our sub- ject received in the state of Iowa. His mother died when he was quite young. On arriving at man's estate he began farming in Iowa. In 1863 he went to Kansas where he still fol- lowed farming, going later to Nebraska, where he followed agricultural pursuits for a number of years. Thence he removed to Wy- oming, remaining there about three years. To his present location he came in 1894, purchas- ing 165 acres, all of which he now has under ditch. Altogether he has a fine and handsome ranch. He served in the Civil War with his father.
In 1864 he was married to Mariah L. Clements, born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At
the age of four years she was taken to Iowa by her parents who settled near where her husband lived. Her father, Isaac B. Clements was a native of Ohio, a pioneer of Wisconsin, and well versed in the Indian language. Her mother, Margaret (Kyburts) Clements, was a native of Germany.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones have seven children : Estella, wife of Henry Hendrickson; Esther, wife of Robert Munyen; Emma, wife of W. H. Hiber; Isaac; Daniel; Burdie (dead) ; Candace, wife of Calvin J. Williams.
CHARLES E. HIBER, a well and favor- ably known rancher in the Yellowstone valley, four and one-half miles east from Laurel, was born in New Ulm, Minnesota, February 4, 1872. His father, August Hiber, was a native of Germany. At the age of thirty years he came to the United States and first settled in Chi- cago in the butcher business, his trade. Sub- sequently he went to Minnesota where he secured a homestead. In 1877 he went to Fre- mont county, Iowa, locating on a farm, where he remained until his death. The mother of our subject, Jane (Foster) Hiber, was a na- tive of Canada, of English descent and at an early day came to Minnesota with her parents.
The immediate subject of this sketch, Charles E. Hiber, was removed to Iowa while still a lad, and there he secured his education. Following his arrival to manhood, he, in 1892, removed to Wyoming, and there rode the range for two years. In 1894 he returned east to Iowa and was engaged in agricultural pursuits in that state for three years. He came to the Yellowstone valley in 1897, where he has since resided. He owns one quarter section of excellent land, does diversified farm- ing and is one of the prosperous agricultural- ists of the valley.
In 1898, Mr. Hiber was united in marriage with Jennie Consolver, a native of Ohio. Her
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father, John Consolver, resides with our sub- ject. Four children have been born to Mr. Hiber and wife: Harold, who died in in- fancy : Ernest, Dorothy and Belle.
MATTHIAS BARLEY had an introduc- tion to the state of Montana that was not cal- culated to inspire confidence in the people or place, as will be seen later. He came here in 1882, nearly a quarter of a century since, hav- ing but five dollars in money, unable to speak any English, and with a young wife to care for. Soon after landing here he was beaten cut of the five dollars and so, without friends or money and no way of communicating with those about him, he was face to face with a proposition that was gloomy enough. He was not to be thrown down that way, however, and soon he had secured work of some kind and later took a homestead where he now re- sides, five miles east from Rosebud, on the north bank of the Yellowstone. Owing to his industry and careful handling of matters he soon began to prosper and added other land by purchase until now he owns a nice body of real estate one half section of which is under the ditch. In addition to general farming, Mr. Barley raises and handles considerable stock. He is one of the well-to-do agricultur- ists of the county and has a splendid property well improved.
Turning to the earlier periods of Mr. Bar- ley's life, we note the fact that his birthplace was in far away Austria, the local place being near Krainburg, Carnivla, and the date, Janu- ary 22, 1855. His father, Antone Barley, was born in the house where our subject first saw the light and there he passed from the earthly scenes. He was a farmer and followed it all his days. He married Maria Zager, who was born in a small village three miles distant from the Barley homestead. The Barley family had dwelt in that immediate vicinity for many
generations. Our subject was reared in the manner common to the youth of his country and gained a good education from the com- mon schools. When of proper age he entered the Austrian army and there served for three years. In 1881, he came to the United States and soon was in Minneapolis, where he wrought in the sawmills for one year. Then he married Miss Gertrude Yanko, the date be- ing January 30, 1882, and the place of the nuptials was Minneapolis. Mrs. Barley was born in the same locality as her husband, as were also her parents, Joseph and Mary (Jem- nich) Yanko. Mr. Yanko was a soldier for twelve years. Mrs. Barley had come to St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1879, to dwell with an uncle. There she learned German and later went St. Paul where she acquired a knowledge of the English. Soon after his marriage Mr. Barley made the trip we have mentioned, and since then he has resided in this section. The children born to this couple are : Katie, Mat- thias, Joseph, John, Frank, Gertie, Fanny and Martin.
WILLIAM E. KNOWLES is insepara- bly connected with the success that the famous Chico Hot Springs have won throughout the state of Montana. Very few people in the state of Montana have not heard much of the wonderful curative properties of these springs, and thousands of the best citizens of the state have personally experienced the invigoration that comes from the proper use of their waters. Professor F. W. Clark, chief chemist of the U. S. Geological Survey, has given an ex- haustive analysis and finds them rich with the carbonates, sulphites, chlorides and so forth that are well known curative agents. In the spring of 1899, Mr. Knowles secured posses- sion of the springs and constructed the first plunge bath and from that time forward the attendance at the springs had constantly in-
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creased and the successful cures brought about are numbered by the hundreds. Every year Mr. Knowles increases the capacity of the hotels and baths and each succeeding year finds everything overflowing with enthusiastic guests. One word so universally prevalent on the lips of every one indicates better than a volume could the splendid standing of this famous resort in the minds of all. A stranger passing among the guests when the time has come for them to depart would invariably hear, "I am having such a good time and feel so much at home here, I hate to leave." Com- bined with the excellent waters the fine sur- roundings and the first class accommodations are the hearty good welcome granted to every one by Mr. Knowles and the sweet and kindly care ever lavished by his wife, and altogether the Chico Hot Springs furnish all lovers of rest and recuperation, an ideal spot.
William E. Knowles was born June 28, 1851, in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, his parents being Henry and Eliza (Radbourn) Knowles, natives of England and born Janu- ary 18, 1810, and September 21, 1813, respec- tively. Their marriage occurred in Philadel- phia. In 1856 they moved to Illinois, our sub- ject being five years old and in that state he received his education from the public school. After his father's death he remained at home until 1876, then came west and grew up with the country. In the fall of 1880 he landed in the Yellowstone valley and was engaged in various places until securing possession of the springs above mentioned.
On October 13, 1891, Mr. Knowles mar- ried Percie Matheson, who was born on July 26, 1861, at Woodstock, Ontario. She had fin- ished her education at the St. Thomas Col- legiate Institute and had been engaged in teaching school in Huron county, Michigan, until she came to Chico in 1888, taking charge of the Chico schools until her marriage. Her parents were John S. and Anna ( McPherson) Matheson, natives of Canada. Their mar-
riage occurred in 1848. To Mr. and Mrs. Knowles one child has been born, Radbourne Campbell, January 13, 1898.
Mrs. Knowles is a member of the Pres- byterian church. Mr. Knowles is a Republi- can in politics and although never desiring of- fice, is very active in this realm, being a mem- ber of the Republican Central Committee. He is a member of the Masons and also of the Elks.
LUDWIG C. LEHFELDT, one of the most extensive stock raisers in the Yellowstone valley, resides at Billings. He is a German by nativity, born April 3. 1865. His father, Ru- dolph Lehfeldt, came to the United States in 1870, locating in Crawford county, Iowa, and coming to Montana in 1885, in company with. his sons. Here he engaged in stock raising until 1890, when he returned to Iowa. Lud- wig and his brother continued the business until 1896, when the partnership was dissolved. At present our subject owns or controls about 38,000 acres of land, 1,000 acres of which is under cultivation and partly irrigated. He grows timothy, alfalfa and breeds horses, cat- tle and sheep. This grazing and agricultural land lies in Yellowstone and Fergus counties.
December 23, 1891, at Billings, our sub- ject was united in marriage to Julia Staffek, born in New York City. Her father, Frank. was a native of Bohemia; her mother, Bar- bara, of the same country, now lives with our subject. Her father died in New York. She and her mother came to Montana in 1885 to join her brother. John. Mr. Lehfeldt has a full brother, Herman, and a half brother in Herman's employ. He has, two sisters, Olga, wife of John Schroder, and Alvina, wife of Rudolph Molt, a stock raiser, living in Bil- lings. The wife of our subject has one brother and three sisters: Mrs. Annie Kostalak, of Great Falls, Barbara, and Mrs. Jennie McFar-
LUDWIG C. LEHFELDT
HERMANN LEHFELDT
MRS. EUGENE P. WRIGHT
EUGENE P. WRIGHT
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land. He is a member of the Eagles and I. O. O. F. Politically he is in sympathy with the principles of the Republican party.
Mr. Lehfeldt sold for $100,000.00 his ranches, but is still handling stock.
HERMANN LEHFELDT, who is one of the most extensive stock raisers and general ranchmen in the valley of the Yellowstone, is at present living at Billings, Yellowstone coun- ty. He was born, March 17, 1873, at Denison, Iowa. His parents were Rudolph and Mary (Witt) Lehfeldt, both natives of Germany. Thirty-seven years ago the father, Rudolph, emigrated to the United States and located on a farm in Iowa. In 1885 he came to the Yel- lowstone Valley, but returned to Iowa in 1892. He is well-to-do, and at present is retired, liv- ing in Denison. The mother of our subject passed from earth while he was a babe.
Following his early schoolboy days in Iowa our subject came to the Yellowstone Valley at the age of twelve years, where for a short period he continued his studies. Arriving at man's estate he engaged in the stock business in company with his brother, Ludwig. In the Lake Basin they ran bunches of cattle and sheep, their range being in the country north of Billings. At the termination of five years the brothers divided the interests of the busi- ness and Mr. Lehfeldt has since "been for him- self."
December 1I, 1895, he was married to Ottilie Martha Norhenberg, born in Germany and coming to the United States when four- teen years of age. She is the daughter of John and Amelia Norhenberg, both Germans. To To our subject and his wife have been born four children, Hidwig, Martha, Victor and Ottilie.
EUGENE P. WRIGHT was born in John- son county, Iowa, October 6. 1857, the son of Samuel M. and Elizabeth (Humbargar)
Wright, both natives of Ohio. The father was born in Adams county, November 19, 1828, and moved to Indiana with his parents while a small lad. They settled near Frankfort, but removed from Indiana to Illinois in the latter part of the 40's. About 1854 they went to Johnson county, Iowa, where the father en- gaged in agricultural pursuits, a business which he made his life work. He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and his parents were early pioneers of the Buckeye State. He died May I, 1901, age seventy-two.
The mother of our subject was born near Mansfield, Ohio, September 16, 1830, going with her parents to Illinois where she was mar- ried. She was of German descent, her father having been born on the Rhine.
Our subject accompanied his parents to Ottawa county, Kansas, when one year of age. This was in the fall, and he passed the first winter (1858-59) in Fort Buchanan, at the mouth of Solomon river. His mother was the first white woman in that country. Here our subject grew to manhood, and was educated in the district schools. He became a farmer and stock raiser. In 1886 he removed to Logan county, Kansas, and in 1888 he went to Arapahoe county, Colorado, and thence in 1889 to Albany county, Wyoming. The fall of 1890 found him on the Musselshell, and April 27, 1891, he came to his present location, where he has a fine and eligibly situated ranch of 100 acres, all under a splendid system of ir- rigation.
In 1878 our subject was united in marriage to Margaret Lynch, born in Bedford county, Tennessee, April 19, 1849. When a child she was taken to Illinois by her parents. Her par- ents Hon. William Westley and Sarah (Mar- tin) Lynch, were natives of South Carolina. The father was of English and Irish ancestry. He was a member of the state legislature.
Mr. and Mrs. Wright are the parents of five children, namely ; Gilbert S., born June 12, 1880, and now engaged as a driver in the Na-
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tional park; Henry C., March 5, 1882, on a ranch near Dillon, this state; Clark, March 16, 1884, a passenger brakeman on the Northern Pacific and married to Miss Helen Kelly of Bozeman, the daughter of Senator Kelly of Sweet Grass county ; an infant that died with- out naming, born February 5. 1886; and Min- nie E., born December 13, 1887.
Mr. Wright is a stanch Democrat and can give a reason for his political faith. He is one of the organizers of and is now a stock holder and director in the Yellowstone & Can- yon Creek Ditch Company.
GEORGE W. PIERCE, a progressive and enterprising ranchman, is the subject whose name forms the caption of this arti- cle. At present he resides three miles north of the town of Roscoe, Carbon county. A locality seven miles from Fall River, Massa- chusetts, is the place of his nativity, where he was born March 28, 1858. His father, Wheaton, was born in 1819. and was a veteran of the Civil War. He served patriotically in the Fortieth Massachusetts Volunteers, and was killed in the battle of Cold Harbor, Vir- ginia, June 6, 1864. He left a family of four children, of which our subject is the sole sur- vivor.
The mother of George W. Pierce, Han- nah (Follett) Pierce, was also a native of Massachusetts, born in 1840. She died in the Bay state in November, 1900.
In the excellent public schools near Fall River our subject received his early education. Until the age of 14 he continued to reside with luis Grandfather Pierce. He then began mak- ing his own way in the world. The paternal ancestors of our subject may be traced back to the landing of the Mayflower. Having worked industriously on a farm until 1876 our subject went to Des Moines, Iowa, where in company with an uncle he drove with a yoke
of cattle to north of Grand Island, in Greeley county, Nebraska. Here he remained one winter and thence went to Howard county, where he was employed on a ranch for four years. At that period the country was in quite a pioneer state of development, and there was an abundance of Indians and buffalo. In the spring of 1881 in company with four oth- ers he pushed on to Fort Niobrara, where they were employed in building the fort. During the fall of 1881 he went to the Loup river (Howard county), and there drove the mail during the most severe winter ever experi- enced in the state ('81-'82). He remembers clearly seeing dead cattle piled up along the Kalamas river so thickly that it was possible to walk a distance of a half mile on carcasses. This was the hardest winter he ever experi- enced, the weather being so cold that he did not dare to leave his sleigh to carry the mail into the postoffice.
The following spring Mr. Pierce returned to Fort Niobrara where he passed a few months, going thence to Ord, Nebraska, where he was married June 9, 1882. The following spring he left his wife with her parents, and went on to White River, Nebraska. Here he passed the succeeding summer and returned to Ord, where his wife and boy baby were awaiting him. In the spring of 1884 he re- turned to the ranch on the Ox Bow, one hun- dred and twenty-five miles from a railroad, where he passed the summer and returned to Ord, where he wintered. In the spring of 1885, accompanied by his family, he removed to White River, and here he pre-empted land, being among the first settlers. Here he passed four years, but grasshoppers and hot winds drove him thence, and in the summer of 1890 he went to Crawford, Nebraska, where he conducted a boarding house and street sprinkler. The sprinkler he disposed of in the fall, and then managed a hack line to Fort Robinson, hauling soldiers. In this enterprise he continued fourteen months, and
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