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It was a hard task to secure much educa- tion while on the plains, but Mr. Greenway had the faculty of making the most of his time and when the intervals between drives were his he made it his business to secure all the know- ledge he could gain and the result is that he is well informed and a man posted in the ques- tions and issues of the day. Mr. Greenway has never seen fit to take a partner in the life's journey and so is still amid the charms of
bachelordom and is, withal, a man esteemed by all.
GEORGE R. SIMINGTON. Born in Toronto, Canada, September 13, 1858, the subject of this sketch is at present one of the prosperous and leading ranchers of the Yel- lowstone country, residing five miles west of Red Lodge, Carbon county. His father, Wil- liam Simington, was a native of Ireland, com- ing to Canada while still a young man, and there engaging in the lumbering business. In 1873 he removed to Clay county, Iowa, where he followed the avocation of a farmer. He passed away three years ago in Carbon county. The mother of our subject, Margaret (Mc- Cauley) Simington, was also a native of Ire- land, where she married and accompanied her husband to Canada. She died in Iowa.
In the public schools of Canada our subject was educated, and he removed to Iowa with his parents. In 1883 he came to Montana where he for a time worked industriously in Custer county. In 1884 he came to Billings, and en- gaged in freighting for H. Clark & Company. His routes were between Lewiston, Fort Ben- ton, Buffalo, Wyoming, and other points. From Billings he went to Castle, again engaging in freighting. In 1891 he returned to Iowa, where he passed one winter and then came back to Red Lodge. Since then he has re- mained in this vicinity . He owns a fine ranch and is surrounded by all the comforts of life.
In 1888 he was united in marriage to Georgie Tunnecliffe, born in Jackson county, Michigan, moving to Montana with her par- ents in 1885. They settled in Billings. Her father, John, was a native of Michigan, and his people came there from New York at an early day. Seven years ago he passed from earth in Montana. Mrs. Simington's mother Mary (Thurston) Tunnecliffe, was born in
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Michigan. Her father came from England and was a pioneer in the state.
Mr. and Mrs. Simington have two chil- dren, both residing with their parents, Jesse and Bertha, a school girl.
WILLIAM C. HUNTINGTON, a pros- perous Yellowstone valley rancher, was born at North Platte, Nebraska, June 27, 1876. At the present writing he is comfortably located on a most eligible farm on Blue creek, seven and one-half miles from Billings.
The parents of our subject were Frank and Emily (Wright) Huntington, the father a native of Massachusetts; the mother of Michigan. Frank Huntington removed to Ne- braska at an early day and became one of the pioneers of the state, where he grew to man- hood, where he married, and followed the avocation of a mechanic. He was called from earth in 1893. It was while still a child that the mother of our subject removed with her parents to Nebraska.
Until the age of seventeen years William C. Huntington remained in Nebraska, and it was in this state that he received his educa- tion in the public schools in his neighborhood. Thence he removed to Wyoming where he found employment as a cowboy, in which avo- cation he became most proficient. Nine years he remained in Wyoming and in 1897 landed in Yellowstone Park, now famous as one of the most magnificent national preserves in the United States. He worked assiduously one season, thence coming to the city of Billings and engaged successfully in the business of breaking horses.
July 3. 1899. our subject was united in marriage to Miss Ella Daylong, a native of Missouri. It was in this state that she grew to womanhood and received her education, coming in 1898 to Montana. She is the daugli- ter of James and Vashti (Hobbs) Daylong,
the father a native of Virginia; the mother of Missouri.
DANIEL C. BEDFORD, one of the en- terprising ranchmen of the Yellowstone val- ley, now residing ten miles west of Fishtail, Carbon county, was born in Clinton county, Iowa, May 4, 1861. His father, Alfred, is a native of Ontario, Canada, born near Hamil- ton, in 1839. When eighteen years of age he came across the line to the United States, where he pursued the avocation of a farmer, but is now living a retired life in Iowa. The mother, Elizabeth (Conrad) Bedford, is a na- tive of Pennsylvania, born in 1841, and mar- ried in 1859. She is still living.
In the common schools of Iowa our sub- ject received a good business education, after which he pursued the occupation of a farmer. At the age of twenty-five he entered the em- ployment of the railroad service, the Chicago and Northwestern, in which he remained one year. He began working on a ranch in the spring of 1887, and six years later, in the spring of 1893, he came to the Crow reserva- tion, and for one season traveled through the mountains. The fall of that year he purchased his present ranch, where he has since remained engaged in farming and blacksmithing. Poli- tically he is a Republican.
JOHN DAMM. Among others who have materially assisted in opening the country now embraced in Custer county, we would mention the name of John Damm, who owns a ranch up up the Pumpkin creek, some sixteen miles southeast from Miles City. His birth occurred in Germany, on February 23, 1844, and his parents, Peter and Tressi Damm, were natives of the same country and there followed farm- ing until their. death. From the public schools of his own land Mr. Damm received his edu-
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cation and there followed farming until the time when he desired to try the world for him- self, when he decided to come to Michigan. In that state he was occupied in the copper mines until 1886, when he came farther west, selecting his present place as a permanent home. He at once commenced the work of im- provement and building a home and since that date he has been raising stock and doing gen- eral farming, still remaining on the place he secured on the first trip into the country. Mr. Damm is handling cattle, but raises some horses.
On August 6, 1881, Mr. Damm married Miss Bertha Bohne, the nuptials occuring in Mich- igan. Mrs. Damm had come from Germany, her native place, to America with her brother and was also with her husband when he came to Montana. To this marriage were born the following named children, John, born in Mich- igan, in 1882; Christina, born in Michigan, in 1884, and now at home; Mathew, born in Michigan, 1886; and Tresa, born in Montana, in 1888. On October 18, 1891, Mrs. Damm was called from her home and family to try the realities of another world. Her departure was an event of deep mourning, as she was generally beloved.
Mr. Damm is a man of industry and has followed faithfully the work he has marked out and is meeting with a reasonable success. In politics, he is a Republican, but is not a politician.
HON. WILLIAM F. MEYER is a native of Ripon, Wisconsin, the date of his birth being March 3, 1857. His father, George W. Meyer, was born in the province of Hanover, Germany, and in his native land married Miss Bertha M. Wigginhorn, a native of West- phalia. Germany. The paternal grandfather of our subject, William E. Meyer, was a cap- tain in the German army and, served under the renowned Blucher, with whose command
he was present and participated in the battle of Waterloo. George WV. Meyer came to the United States in 1848 and took up his resi- dence in Wisconsin, devoting his energies to agricultural pursuits. In 1901 he made a visit to the Fatherland and has ever been one of the leading citizens of his present home place since the early days of his settlement there.
Our subject is one of eleven children, seven of whom are living. He received his educa- tion in the public schools before matriculating in Ripon college, from which he was gradu- ated in 1882. He immediately came to Bill- ings, Montana, and soon went thence to Park City and opened a lumber yard, also taking a homestead. There he resumed the study of law, having previously taken a careful course of reading in the same, and was admitted to the bar in 1884. In 1889 Mr. Meyer removed to Red Lodge, and has since been actively engaged in the practice of law, being univers- ally accorded the position of one of Montana's foremost and most successful lawyers. In partnership with Messrs. J. W. Chapman and and Paul Breteche, Senator Meyer engaged in the banking business in 1895. Mr. Breteche died in 1898 and since that time the institu- tion has been known as the Meyer & Chapman banking house, they being the sole proprietors. In 1898 Mr. Meyer erected the fine building where the business of the bank is now con- ducted, where also he maintains his offices for the practice of his profession. The banking house of Meyer & Chapman has recently estab- lished two branch institutions. One of these is located at the new and thriving town of Bel- fry and is a private concern, doing business under the style of Bank of Belfry. J. O. Higham is the cashier and is associated with Messrs. Meyer & Chapman as proprietors of the bank. The other bank is located at Park City, and is organized under the state laws as the Park City State Bank, with a capital of $25,000. Both these branch institutions are splendidly equipped with elegant fixtures and
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spacious quarters and enjoy a thriving and promising business. Mr. Meyer, owing to his recognized ability as a financier, has the hand- ling of much eastern capital for investment and loans in the promising sections of the state.
In 1895 Mr. Meyer was called by the people to represent his district in the state legislature, and so well did he maintain the interests of his constituency that in 1900 he was chosen a member of the upper house. While in the house in 1895, Senator Meyer introduced the bill creating Carbon county, and notwithstanding the spirited fight against it, he was enabled to secure its passage and the county was organized, giving to Senator Meyer the sobriquet of "Father of Carbon County." As a member of the senate in 1900-1, Senator Meyer introduced and secured the enactment of a bill to prevent the slack of coal mines being dumped into streams ; a bill to impose a tax on live stock brought from other states into Montana to graze; a bill re- quiring the stock association to publish a list of all strays. Also he secured the passage of a bill allowing briefs to be presented to the supreme court in typewritten manuscript as well as in longhand writing. This, however, was later overruled by the court. Mr. Meyer was chosen by his party as the leader of the minority on the floor of the senate.
The marriage of W. F. Meyer and Alice C. Adams occurred on July 1, 1884, and they have been blessed by the advent of one child, William F., Jr., born March 26, 1899. Mrs. Meyer was born in Ripon, Wisconsin, the daughter of Thomas Adams, a native of the north of Ireland, who settled in and was one of the leading citizens of Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, until his death.
MARK T. NEWMAN, one of the promi- nent and prosperous ranchers of the attractive
and arable Yellowstone valley, resides four- teen miles south of Billings, up Blue creek. A native Montanian is he, having been born at Bozeman, April 2, 1877. Our subject is a brother of Edwin Martin Newman, a sketch of whom appears in another portion of this work, and his parents were Orson N. and Elizabeth Matilda (Tripp) Newman, the for- mer a native of New York; the latter of Can- ada. The attention of the reader is directed to the biography of Mr. Ed. Newman, in which will be found a description of the eventful life led by the father of our subject, Mark T. New- man.
When scarcely a year old Mark T. came with his parents to Billings. Here hie re- mained on his father's farm until he had heached the age of sixteen years. Until 1879 he fol- lowed the exciting avocation of a cowboy, and then went to Skagway, Alaska, a mild gold excitement having at that early day arisen. From Skagway our young pioneer won his way to Dawson City by the aid of a dog train, the earliest method of transportation over that bleak country, which has since been spanned by railway. For seven months he remained in that arctic region, when he returned to the Yellowstone valley, locating on the ranch upon which he now resides. Since 1899 he has been engaged in the cattle business in which he has been uniformly successful.
March 5, 1903, our subject was united in marriage to Elizabeth J. Sheehy, born in Chi- cago, Illinois, and coming to Montana in 1897. She is the daughter of John C. and Kate ( Mur- phy ) Sheehy, the former a native of Cork, and the latter of Dublin, Ireland. The father came to the United States when a small boy. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Newman, Walter Orson and Anna L. Frater- nally Mr. Newman is a member of the Knights of Pythias. Our subject has five brothers, William M., A. D., Edwin M., Charles H. and Albert A. He has two sisters, Mrs. W. J. Scott and Mrs. H. C. Mckinsey.
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ELIAS FREMAN MAGEE, who is a de- votee to the king of all trades, the blacksmith's, is a well known citizen of Fridley and is en- titled to be classed with the pioneers of Mon- tana, for practically all his life has been spent in the state and he arrived here before he was able to speak. He was born near Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1863. His father, Steven Ma- Gee, a native of Vermont, came with his par- ents to Ohio when a small child. As his par- ents died while he was still young he was bound out and had to early learn the hard side of life. From Ohio he came west to Illinois and in 1852 started west again, this time for California. He was with an ox train. While en route he met Mary A. Hall, who was travel- ing west with friends. She was a native of with her parents to America. They settled near Council Bluffs, Iowa, and died when she was still young. Then with friends she be- gan the journey to California and when at Fort Bridger, she and Mr. MaGee were mar- ried. As Mr. MaGee was a sawmill man and there was an opening for that business in Salt Lake, he tarried there, and in fact, remained there till 1863. the year he brought his family to Alder Gulch, Montana. He at once engaged in mining and remained in Madison county till 1883, when he removed to Park county and took up a ranch on the Yellowstone near Fridley, and here he remained till his death in 1896. The mother still lives, being with the subject of our sketch. When the elder MaGee was dwelling in Utah he had a great deal of trouble with the Indians and on one occasion they broke out the night his first child was born. Later they burned his house and all his property. When the family started for Alder Gulch, Elias F. was but three weeks old and the family of five children caught the whooping cough and it was a weary journey. At Fort Bridger they remained six weeks un- der the care of the army physician. Owing to the fact that they dwelt on the frontier all the
time our subject had little opportunity to go to school and most of his education was gained from his mother's teaching. When sixteen he began to learn the blacksmith trade and has followed it ever since. He has a shop and some other property and is doing a good busi- ness.
In February, 1884. Mr. MaGee married Miss Catherine Stockwell, the daughter of Ira and Mary (Smith) Stockwell, natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively, and early pion- eers to Alder Gulch, Montana. Mrs. Magee was born in Wisconsin and was seven years of age when she came with her parents into Mon- tana. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Ma- Gee are May, Eva, and Edna. Also, Mr. Ma- Gee has one stepson, George Aheron.
The brothers and sisters of our subject are Charles W., and Jennie Huston. The elder MaGee was a veteran of the Mexican war. Mr. MaGee has spent twelve years hunting and trapping and has had some very interesting experiences.
SAMUEL E. CLARK, residing on a well improved ranch nine miles west of Fishtail, Carbon county, up Rosebud creek, was born in Marion county, Indiana. September 10, 1861. His father Joseph, also a native of Indiana, was born September 16, 1821. He followed agriculture as an avocation, and with the break- ing out of the Civil War he enlisted in the fed- eral army, and served four years patriotically. He participated in a number of desperate bat- tles, such as Gettysburg, etc., was never wounded. and was mustered out of service with the rank of sergeant. Subsequently he followed farming until his death. January 4. 1900. The mother of our subject, Eliza Ann (Clark) Clark, was born in Indiana, Septem- ber 15, 1826. She is still living with her chil- dren in that state.
It was a common school education received
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by our subject, and at the age of eighteen, 1879, he was engaged in freighting between Nebraska and the Black Hills. In 1882 he came to Montana, but subsequently returned to the Black Hills, where he remained four years. In 1886 he went to the Crow reserva- tion. Custer county, where he passed fifteen years on a cattle ranch. Thence he removed to Carbon county, and here he owns 160 acres of excellent land, rearing cattle and horses.
In 1896, in Custer county, Mr. Clark was united in marriage to Maggie Lynch, who had come from Ireland with her parents directly to Montana, when a young girl. Her father, Patrick, came to the United States in 1883. and engaged in the cattle business in Custer county, where he is still living. Her mother. Margaret (Callon) Lynch, died May 26, 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have four children, Joseph F., Lena D., Ira G., and Minnie. Mrs. Clark is a member of the Catholic church. Politically Mr. Clark is a Republican.
JOHN D. COPPEDGE, a progressive and enterprising ranchman residing one-half mile northeast of Fishtail, Carbon county, was born at St. James, Phelps county, Missouri, Octo- ber 10, 1856. His father, George, a native of the same place, was born March 1, 1833. He was a miller, merchant and farmer, and also bought and sold stock. He died in 1870. The mother of our subject, Polly Ann (Davis) Coppedge, was born in Marie's county, Mis- souri, July 2, 1834. She died January 17, 1867. She was married October 11, 1853, in Gascaonade, now Maries county, Missouri. The brothers and sisters of our subject are as follows :
Josephine, died in Missouri when one year old : Thomas, born in St. James, Phelps county, Missouri, died in 1860; Eunice Leora Bell born May 8, 1864; James W., born in Phelps county, Missouri, coming to Montana in
June, 1884, where he died March 28. 1896.
Our subject was educated and followed farming in Missouri, coming to Butte, Mon- tana, in 1884. During nine years he had charge of the roaster in the Lexington quartz mill. Subsequently he was one and one-half years on Trail creek operating a coal mine. Coming thence to Carbon county he secured a home- stead and engaged in farming and stock rais- ing. He owns 160 acres of land and some fine cattle and horses. Politically he is a Democrat.
On April 7. 1907, occured the marriage of Mr. Coppedge and Miss Helen M. Patter- son. She was born in Illinois, came to Kansas City, Missouri, when young and there re- sided until her marriage.
JAMES WEST, one of the prominent and leading ranchmen of the Yellowstone valley, resides on an excellent ranch five miles west of Fishtail, up Rosebud creek. He was born in August. 1859, in Venango county, Penn- sylvania. His father, Philander, was a native of the Empire State, and by profession an architect. He died July 2, 1905. The mother, Sydney (Smith) West, a native of Pennsyl- vania, died in 1876.
The public and high schools of Pennsyl- vania afforded our subject the foundation of an excellent business education, and this was supplemented by a course at a Bryant & Strat- ton Business college ; and lectures at Hughes' Medical College, Keokuk, Iowa. In 1879 he went to Leadville, Colorado, and to Cheyenne, Wyoming, the following year. One year he passed on a cattle ranch, and in 1881 went to Bismarck, Dakota, where on horseback he rode over Custer's trail to the Little Missouri River, and thence to the Stinkingwater. A blizzard drove him back to Cook City, and then he be- gan prospecting and mining in that vicinity. Before there was any settlement to speak of he
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rode through the country surrounding Cook City, Montana. Subsequently he secured a contract with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. In 1901 he secured his present homestead and is engaged in stock raising.
June 1, 1904, in Carbon county, Mr. West was united in marriage to Lottie M. Field. They have one child, Ida Florence Field, born in 1905.
Politically Mr. West is a Republican, and for two years served as deputy sheriff in Cook City, Montana, and for the same term was constable. Subsequently to completing his con- tract with the Northern Pacific Railroad Com- pany, Mr. West secured a contract to put in a flume at the Custer battle field, on the Little Big Horn river.
HENRY A. BOHNE, one of the stock- men of Custer county, dwells about sixteen miles southeast from Miles city, where he owns a good quarter section of fertile land. His birth occurred in Germany, on April 15, 1842, and his father, Captain Bohne, was a mason by trade, which he followed in his native land until his death. Our subject's mother is also deceased.
Having studied in the common schools of his native place, until he had secured a good education, our subject then found employment in the mines which business he thoroughly mastered, and also did mill work. These oc- cupations continued to demand his attention until he was twenty-seven yetars of age, when he determined to try the United States. He accordingly sailed to the shores of the New World and in due time came on to Michigan where he was but a short time in securing a position in the Calumet and Hecla . copper mines. For about seventeen years he was steadily engaged in this work and finally he decided that it was best to try his fortune in the west. Montana was the place thought to
be the best and accordingly in 1886 he came thither. After due exploration he concluded to try stock raising and farming and so secured a ranch, the place where he now resides and at once gave his attention handling stock, prin- cipally cattle, buc a few horses. This has oc- cupied him since and he is one of the men who have made a success of the business of hand- ling stock, although he is not so deeply inter- ested as some of those mammoth companies. With his work of raising stock, Mr. Bohne has not forgotten the part of the good citizen and is a stanch Republican, taking an interest in the elections and the questions of the day.
WV. D. WHITE, a prosperous cattleman and a Civil War veteran of distinction, resides on Blue creek, six miles south of Billings, Yellowstone county. He is a native of Wayne county, Illinois, where he was born July 26, 1843.
He is a soldier and a son of a soldier, his father, William White having been a veteran of three wars, the Blackhawk, in a company commanded by Abe Lincoln, the Mexican and the Civil Wars. William, the father of our subject, was a native of Kentucky, removing to Illinois at an early day where he settled on a farm in Wayne county upon which he re- mained until his death in 1883. In the Mexi- can war he was in General Taylor's division, in a company commanded by Captain Camp- bell. During the Civil War he was second ser- geant of Company H. Fifty-sixth Illinois In- fantry. Following the close of the war he re- turned to his Illinois home remaining there until death called him thence.
The mother of our subject, Temperance (Owens) White, was a native of Virginia, coming to Illinois with her parents when a mere girl, and where she was married. She died in 1858.
W. D. White whose name forms the cap-
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tion of this sketch was accorded a poor chance to obtain a liberal education. The schools in his day and locality were primitive affairs, the schoolhouse in which he received the rudi- mentary elements of his education having no floor and was devoid of any of the modern facilities of the present day. In 1862 he en- listed in G company, Eighteenth Illinois In- fantry, under Caption Hooper. He served his time out in this regiment, re-enlisting in 1865 in D company, Eighty-seventh Illinois In- fantry, and was mustered out in December, 1866. He participated in nearly all the prin- cipal battles that accentuated that heroic strug- gle for the preservation of the union, including Fort Donalson, Pittsburg Landing, Fort Phil- low, Arkansas Pass, Pea Ridge and the seige of Vicksburg. In these engagements he was connected with the Eighteenth Infantry, but he saw. harder service when with Eighty- seventh ; was assigned more duty such as scout- ing, and participating in two fights. He was also a member of the famous Red River expedition. Following the close of the war he returned to Illinois, where he resided until 1873, going then to Butler county, Kansas. Here lie engaged in farming, but in 1877 he removed to Pratt county, same state, and in 1878 went to Butler county, Missouri, there- after residing in Missouri and Arkansas until 1883, when he removed to Garfield county, Colorado, ranching in that section for ten years. He then came overland to his present location in the attractive Yellowstone valley, being the first to settle on Blue creek.
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