An illustrated history of the state of Montana, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 126

Author: Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913. cn
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis pub. co.
Number of Pages: 1216

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"In 1883 Bishop Leigh Richmond Brewer, S. T. D., began the work of the Episcopal Church. The bishop organized the work as a

his father and family to California. After his arrival in the Golden State he was for some years engaged in placer mining and later turued his attentiou to packing merchant dise with a mule train, going from Marysville and Bid- well's bar to the different mining camps in the State. Many were the exciting experiences he had while thus engaged. On one occasion one of his mules packed an iron safe weighing 600 pounds, and at another time he freighted in the same way a cannou which weighed 400 pounds. The trail led over a snow-covered mountain. The mule with the cannon on its back made a mis-step and went plunging into the snow, cannon at the bottom and mule on top. It was with great difficulty that Mr. Stark and the only man he had with him succeeded in getting the beast and its burden righted. At one time he had as many as thirty pack mules in his train, each carrying from three to four hundred pounds. After operating in California for some time, he went to Idaho and packed to Boise Basin.

It was in 1865 that Mr. Stark came to Montana, his jour- ney hither being made from Walla Walla with a pack train of flour for Mr. Snow at Helena. He continued in this business until 1866, when he sold out and purchased

mission, and services were held at first by Rev. William Horsfall, of Miles City, and Rev. Frank B. Lewis, of Bozeman, the latter of whom took sole charge of the work in May, 1893. The mission was thoroughly organized and named St. Luke's. A missionary com- mittee was appointed, and eighteen communi- cants formned the original membership.

" In January, 1884, this mission, with St. Andrews at Livingston, was committed to the care of Rev. Alfred Brown. They had no church building, services were held in the new depot of the Northern Pacific Railroad Com - pany, and in such other rooms as could from time to time be secured in the infant city. In July, 1886, a neat little frame church was opened on the South Side, and the congregation took up its home in permanent quarters. In 1887 the work had grown to such an extent as to warrant a resident clergyman, and Mr. Brown gave his entire time to this field. Mr. Brown's labors with the church ended in 1888, and the same year Rev. Charles H. Linley, A. B., of Cambridge, England, succeeded Mr.

a dairy farm in Deer Lodge county, settling dowu on it and selling his product to the miners, receiving a dollar a gallon for milk and a dollar a pound for butter. He sub- sequently owned 320 acres of land near Pioneer, where he raised hay and stock, and still later had a farm of 320 acres six miles east of Drummond. On the latter place he resided fourteen years. He then sold out for $7,000 and removed to Deer Lodge. Here he purchased thirty- six acres on the east side of the town and on this property erected a commodious residence and made other valuable improvements, its close proximity to the city rendering it a most desirable property. Mr. Stark also owns a stock ranch and is raising cattle in Cascade county.

In March, 1874, Mr. Stark married Mrs. Fidelia Bul- lard, a native of Iowa, a daughter of David Mayard and a descendant of German ancestry. She has one daughter by her first husland-Fairie, now Mrs. H. Evans-and she and Mr. Stark have two children, Edna Gertrude and Charles Thomas, Jr., both born iu Deer Lodge county.

While Mr. Stark is not a politician, he takes a com- mendable interest in public affairs, votes with the Demo- cratie party, and has served his county one term as County Commissioner.

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Brown in the work of the growing mission. His work closed in 1890, and in July of the same year Rev. Herbert Giles Sharpley, B. A., took charge by appointment of Bishop Brewer. Mr. Sharpley was forced, on account of failing health, to give up the work late in 1892. Rev. C. H. Reinsberg, M. A., Princeton General Theological Seminary, New Jersey, by appoint- ment of the bishop, took charge of the work the first Sunday in September, 1893, and is the present incumbent. The communicants at present number 45. The Sunday-school has about thirty members.

" The Methodist Episcopal Church was estab. lished some time in 1886. It has a valuable property on the North Side, a brick building for worship, and a good parsonage on the ad- joining lots. It has recently lighted the build- ing with electricity. Rev. J. W. Jennings is the present pastor.

" The Roman Catholic Church was organized in the summer of 1887. It has a good prop- erty in the western part of the town, valued at $4,000. Its house of worship is built of brick,

and is the work of a few of the consecrated Catholic women of the early days of the town.

This much as a specimen of church progress in the eastern part of Montana. The following terse official data of general as well as church history is from the other extreme, and the old- est connty in Montana:

MISSOULA, MONT., Sept. 19, 1894. JOAQUIN MILLER, EsQ., The Heights, Oakland, Cal.

Dear Sir :- Replying to your recent favor I have made as many inquiries as possible, but even now am not in a position to give you very much information.

The first school was opened in Missoula with an enrollment of nine pupils; there are at pres- ent about 600 pnpils.

The first church was the Methodist, at Mis- soula, in 1873, the present number of churches being nine.

The number of Indians in this county when first organized, about 1,400; there are now about 2,100; and about 160 United States soldiers.

RICHARD LOCKEY -One of the early-day business men and one of the most esteemed residents of Helena is Hon. Richard Lockey. He came to Montana in the '60s, arriv- ing in Helena, the present capital city, in 1866, and here establishing himself in the mercantile business in 1871. He has prospered with the city, and is now one of her wealthy, honored and influential citizens.

Mr. Lockey is a native of England, having been born in Yorkshire, in the year 1845. He was brought to America when a child, and was reared to maturity at Dubuque, Iowa. At the breaking out of the late war of the Rebel- lion he joined the Fremont Hussars at Patterson, Missouri, and served throughout the war, participating in numerous campaigns, notable among which was that of Sherman's expedition into Alabama.

The Union arms having finally proved victorious, our subject laid aside the accoutrements of war, returned to Dubuque, Iowa, and resumed the educational discipline, which he had summarily interrupted to go forth in the defense of the country whose cause he espoused as patriot- ically as could any native son of the Republic. He attended the Bayliss Commercial College at Dubuque and graduated at that institutton. After coming to Helena be

gave his attention for a time to the study of law, bu never engaged in the practice of the profession.

In his business career he has been a merchant and a real-estate conveyancer, and in both lines of enterprise he has been particularly successful. Politically he has wielded a marked influence in shaping the affairs of the city, and of the Territory which has proved worthy of the granted crown of State-hood. He has served as a member of the Legislature, and, in a more local way, as a member of the City Council and the School Board of Helena, be- sides having been the incumbent in other positions of public trust and responsibility.

Mr. Lockey is a man of broad intellectual grasp, is an advanced thinker, has always been prominent in the dis- cussion of public affairs and has ever given a strong sup- port to such measures and enterprises as tend to conserve the public welfare. He is also an appreciative patron of fine arts and of all other elements which lend to the higher embellishment of life. After his children had completed their preliminary discipline in completing the course of study in the Helena public schools, be sent them to Europe that they might there enjoy the wider opportn- nities afforded for finishing their education.

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The names of a few of the oldest settlers are as follows: Frank Woody, date of arrival, 1862; Dwight Harding, 1856; J. K. Rinehard, 1867; W. H. H. Dickinson, 1869; Capt. C. P. Higgins, 1862; and W. J. McCormick, 1868. Yours respectfully, JAMES BURKE, Co. Clk. and Rec.

The following, copied from the same source, shows that the enterprising breeders of thor- oughbreds come legitimately by "Spokane " and the gold cup of Kentucky. They are now reaching out for the gold cup of the globe. The peaceful picture of the once warlike and treach- erous Crow Indian is pleasant to contemplate:

"The Yellowstone Fair Association has out- stripped its competitors elsewhere in the State, increasing year by year its agricultural exhibits and in no way diminishing its encouragement for racing events. The fair and races have kept well along together, and it has never been the case, as so frequent elsewhere, that horse-racing has detracted from the other features of the annual meeting. Everybody in the Yellow- stone valley takes a peculiar interest in the fair;

nearly every land-owner is a shareholder in the association and looks to its snecess as he would to his own, so there is no likelihood of the in- terest abating.

"To an Eastern man the regular visitation of the Crow tribe of Indians to these annual exhibitions is a source of great interest. The aborigines move their belongings, pony herds, dogs, squaws, pappooses and entire camp equi- page from the reservation to the vicinity of the fair-grounds every year and go into camp for a week. Their larder is kept well supplied by the fair association, many cattle and sheep be- ing butchered for their entertainment, and wagon-loads of melons, in which the Crow re- joices to an almost African joy, are donated by the association. The Crows have many good race horses and ponies and every day of the meeting they are given opportunities to race in their own uncouth manner, besides foot races and hurdle races in which only the Indians are permitted to join. Each year they have a big dance in the camp and the monotonous boom- boom of the tom-toms is heard all night."

He has a most attractive home, on Eighth avenue, where Mrs. Lockey, formerly a Miss Jeffrey, of Leaven_ worth, presides over a model family circle. They have had five children, but only two-Miss Mollie and Mr. Richard-survive.

THE WILSON BROTHERS-Frank K. and IIugh J. Wil- son, who compose the firm whose name initiates this re- view-are two of the most prominent and highly respected business men of Butte City, Montana, natives of Portage county, Ohio.

John Wilson, the father of these gentlemen, was born in Ireland and when he was seven years old came to America. He was reared in Ohio aud was married in Mahoning county, that State, to Miss Sarah Doherty, a native of Ohio and a descendant of Irish aud German an- cestors. After their marriage they settled on a farm in Portage county, where they reared their family of nine children, all of whom are still living, where the father died in 1892, at the age of sixty-five years: and where the mother is still living, now in her sixtieth year.

Hon. Frank K. Wilson, the senior member of the firm of the Wilson Brothers, was born June 15, 1861. He at- tended college at Valparaiso and graduated there, and

after his graduation he came direct to Butte City, Mon- tana, For two years he was principal of the Walker- ville schools, at the end of which time he resigned his position in order to engage in merchandising with his brother at Walkerville. They still run the store there, he having full charge of it; and they are also interested in various other enterprises. In 1892 he was elected to represent Silver Bow county in the State Legislature. At that election he received the largest vote of any Dem- ocrat in the district.

Hugh J. Wilson, the junior member of the firm, was born October 14, 1864. He was educated in the public schools and in the Ada Normal College, of which institu- tion he is a graduate, and for five years he was engaged in teaching school, up to 1886, at which time he came to Montana and embarked in business with his brother at Walkerville. They have since done a wholesale and retail grocery business and have met with excellent success.

In 1889 the Wilson brothers, in company with others, became owners of land on East Broadway in Butte City, on which property, in 1893, the Messrs. Wilson and J. L. Hamilton completed the erection of the Butte Hotel.

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CHAPTER XXXIV.

THE BENCH AND BAR-CHANGES ON THE BENCH-ACQUISITIONS TO THE BAR-MINERAL LANDS AND LAWS-IMPORTANT DECISIONS-DEFECTIVE LAWS-COMMENTS ON THE CONSTITUTION.

1880-1894.

BY EX.CHIEF JUSTICE WADE.

S OON after the January (1879) term of the Supreme Court, Justice Knowles re- signed for the purpose of resuming the practice of his profession, and was succeeded by William J. Galbraith, of Iowa, as associate justice.

The services of Justice Knowles had been of the highest valne to the jurisprudence of the Territory. Slow to form opinion, conscien- tions, full of the courage that comes from honesty of intent and purpose, of strong con- victions, a careful thinker, patient and plodding, his judgment was broad and comprehensive, and he always had the full confidence and respect of the people. After practicing at the bar for ten years, he was appointed, by President Har- rison, United States District Judge, for the dis- trict of Montana, upon the admission of the Territory as a State.

This building is 100 x 120 feet, has four stories and a base- ment, and its location is one of the best in the city. Its 120 guest chambers are arranged singly and en snite and with baths. All the rooms are exceptionally large, light and airy, have outside exposure and are provided with fire escapes. The dining room, reception rooms and writ- ing and reading rooms are tastefully designed and beauti- fully furnished, and office accommodations and corridor space are alike ample. The incandescent system of electric lighting has been used throughout the building, and the newest and most artistic designs in brass fixtures have been adopted. The furniture in the house is of the very best and compares favorably with that of any hotel in the Northwest. The chamber suits are of oak and are perfect in finish and design. The carpets are velvet, Ax-

The term of Justice Blake having expired, he was succeeded as Associate Justice in March, 1880, by Everton J. Conger, of Illinois.

The services of Justice Blake on the bench, though not for so long a period as Justice Knowles, were marked with great ability and care. Born and reared in Boston, a student by nature and education, familiar with all the his- tory of Montana and one of its pioneers, having a perfect knowledge of every statute of the Ter- ritory and of every decision of its courts, he could not fail to perform good service on the Supreme Bench. He served his country faith- fully in the war of the Rebellion. He was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Ter- ritory from March, 1889, until its admission as a State in November, 1589, and was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the

minster and Brussels, Every bedstead is equipped with Bushnell springs and the finest curled-hair mattresses. There are also commodious and appropriately furnished sample rooms. Indeed, the greatest care and most ex- quisite taste have been used in the fitting and furnishing of the whole establishment, and the most fastidions guest can find every comfort and luxury here. Mr. Hugh J. Wilson is president of the company which built the hotel, and is also it smanager, giving it his entire attention. IIe and his brother are also members of the Silver Bow Sheep Company, and have an interest in several large ranches.

Both gentlemen affiliate with the Democratic party and are members of the Knights of Pythias and other frater- nal organizations.

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State, which office he held until January, 1893, when he was succeeded by W. Y. Pemberton as Chief Justice.

At the date of the succession of Justices Gal- braith and Conger, in 1879-80, the population of the Territory had greatly increased, and with it the number of the lawyers and the business of the eonrts.

Besides those already named, the lawyers in active practice in the Territory at this time were Robert P. Vivion, George F. Cowan. J. A. Kanense, LI. M. Porter, I. R. Porter, Ben- jamin T. Porter, II. R. Comly, Merritt C. Paige, United States attorney, from 1872 10 1877, drowned in the Madison river May 13, 1877; Thomas M. Pomeroy, Frank H. Woody, John J. Donnelly, Patrick Talent, John F. Forbis, H. P Rolfe, Ira H. Pierce, W. II. D . Witt, Stephen De Wolf, Hiram Blaisdell, Arthur S. Iligzins, F. K. Armstrong, James H. Garlock, J. W. Andrews, Jr., United States attorney, J. W. Tattan, William II. Ilunt, Horace R. Buck, F. J. McBride, George C. Randolph, James S. Dryden, United States at- torney, J. W. Strevell, John T. Baldwin, William O. Sp er and W. T. Piggott.

FRANCIS M. MCGUIRE, one of Fort Benton's successful business men, was born at Sweet Springs, Pettis county, Missouri, November 23, 1854, of Irish ancestry.

His parents, John and Betty (Phips) McGuire, were na- tives of Kentucky, who after their marriage moved to Missouri, locating upon a farm which he (John McGuire) had purchased, and where they raised their children, five sons and three daughters. Mr. John McGuire served in the Union army, under General Sigel, was captured at the battle of Lexington and paroled. His wife died in his forty-fifth year, and he lived to be seventy-five years of age.

Francis M., their fifth child, remained in Missouri until her sixteenth year, and then, in 1871, came overland to Montana, with horses and oxen. He rode a saddle horse and drove stock all the way through. For a number of years afterward he made the herding of stock his entire business, being for several years in the employ of the Fort Benton & St. Louis Cattle Company, in which the Conrads were largely interested. In 1890 he came to

And among those who commenced the prac- tice during the years 1881-2-3-4, and later, during the Territorial period, were M. Kilpat- rick, Max Waterman, W. B. Settle, William C. Casterline, Henry F. Titus, Andrew F. Bur- leigh, I. D. Mccutcheon, W. H. Trippett, John II. Duffey, E. D. Edgerton, Thomas II. Carter, M. HI. Parker, B. D. Powers, W. A. Burleigh, R. B. Smith, William Wallace, Jr., L. J. Staats, L. A. Luce, E. N. Harwood, William A. Imes, James W. Forbis, A. K. Barbour, R. Von Tobel. O. F Goddard, George Voss, T. F. Casey, George F. Shelton, Thomas C. Marshall, Willian S. dlon, D. M. Durfee, F. P. Staling. E. D. Weed, W. F. Parker, Fletcher Maridox, George Halior M. !! Leam- ing. T. ( . Bach, W. M. Belford. 0. 4 60%. Oliver P. Crane, John B. Grayberg F. W. Cole, A. J. Craven, B. P. Carpenter, Jo'm W. Eddy, Thomas J. Galbraith, W. Greene, J. R. Goss. Charles S. Hartman, II. J. Has'.ell, Allen R. Joy, J. E. Kanouse, W. L. Lippincott, Jolin McGinniss, H. R. Melton, C. R. Middleton, Arthur II. O.Connor, G. W. Reeves, II. B. Smith, James U. Sanders, A. J. Walsh, A. C. Botkin, HI. J. Burleigh, Z. T. Burton, T. E.

Fort Benton, engaging in the butchering and meat mar- ket business. The firm is now McGuire and Collins, who own the Central Meat Market and have the exclusive business of the town. Mr. McGuire is an obliging and competent man in his business, and enjoys the good-will and trade of the whole city.

Hle was married January 25, 1888, to Miss Kittie Whalen, who was born at Fort Buford, Montana, the daughter of Patrick Whalen. Mr. Whalen is a Montana pioneer and was a soldier of the United States army. Mr. and Mrs. McGuire have one child, born at Fort Benton, namely, Francis Marion, Jr. They are members of the Catholic Church, and he is a member of the A. O. U. W. In politics he is a Republican. He is an active business man, giving his whoie attention to his calling, and being rated as one of the most reliable citizens of Fort Benton.

P. F. RILEY, one of the representative business men of Elkhorn, was born in Ireland, December 29, 1849, ITis father, Hugh Riley, was born and raised in that country, and was there married to Miss Ellen Matthews. In 1853

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Brady, E. W. Craven, Thompson Campbell, J. M. Clements, George D. Greene, L. J. Hamil- ton, R. H. Howey, Francis G. Higgins, Thomas Joyce, E. A. Kreidler, J. W. Kinsley, John A. Luce, John J. McHatton, S. H. McIntyre, II. G. MeIntyre, F. N. McIntyre, J. K. Miller, George K. Milburn, C. B. Nolan, Frank E. Smith, George W. Taylor, C. II. Benton, David B. Carpenter, C. P. Connolly, C. M. Crutch- field, Frank E. Corbett, J. M. Evans, W. L. Hay, J. B. Leslie, T. J. Porter, G. J. Webster, Kenneth Williams, C. H. Baldwin, Theodore Brantley, A. P. Brown, W. M. Cockrill. E. J. Conger, R. G. Davies, W. B. Dickson, Dudley Du Bose. M. Kirkpatrick, C. W. Jones, M. D. Kelley, P. H. Leslie, M. J. Liddell, Sidney M. Logan, C. S. Marshall, N. W. McConnell, C. S. Muffley, Edward C. Russel. Henry C. Smith, James N. True, James A. Walsh, J. M. Addle, N. C. Binmm, John G. Bair, M. D. Baldwin, Peter Banm, W. M. Blackford, J. A. Carter, Miles J. Cavanaugh, Henry C. Cockrill, John W. Cotter, M. L. Crouch, T. E. Crutcher, E. C. Day, J. G. Denny, J. L. Dobell, P. R. Dolman, James Donovan, F. M. Dudley, II. V. A. Ferguson, F. S. Fish, George O. Freeman,

the family emigrated to America, locating at Brooklyn, New York, where they remained until the father's death, in 1872, at the age of seventy-three years. The mother departed this life in 1881, aged eighty years. They had ten children, nine of whom are still living. Three sons served in the Union army during the late war, and one in the navy.

P. F. Riley, the subject of this sketch, received his education in the public schools of Brooklyn, where he also learned the copper and tin smith's trade. He fol- lowed that ocenpation several years in Brooklyn, and in 1867 went to San Francisco, via the isthmus, where he remained nine years. In 1872 Mr. Riley removed to Diamond City, Montana, immediately engaged in min- ing, and while at Eldorado Bar made as high as $25 a day for one year. In 1882 he engaged in silver mining in Elkhorn, and is now the owner of the Diamond claim, located on old Baldy. Ore taken from this mine has as- sayed 300 ounces to the ton, and when put in operation will no doubt prove a very valuable mine. Mr. Riley has

William D. Gardner, Charles Gordon, L. W. Gosnell, M. S. Gunn, O. M. Hall, H. W. Heiderman, J. A. Hoffman, Ella L. Knowles, Samson Lane, Thomas K. Lee, R. C. Means, John S. Miller, E. W. Morrison, U. B. Mum- ford, Charles H. Musgrove, A. H. Nelson, C. C. Newman, K. M. Nicoles, Lafayette Peavey, Thomas D. Penry, Charles W. Pomeroy, Ed- ward Scharnikow, Theodore Shed, Frank Show- ers, J. S. Shropshire, H. C. Stiff, H. G. Swaney, HI. E. Thompson, John B. Wellcome, C. W. Wiley, M. L. Wines, Joseph Wood, Robert Lee Word and Edgar G. Worden.

After the retirement of Justices Knowles and Blake, as before that time, mining litigation continued to occupy a large share of the atten- tion of the courts, and little by little the system of the mining law continued to grow.

In the case of Pardee vs. Murray (4 Mon- tana, 234) the Supreme Court, by Wade, C. J., held that possession of the surface of a lode claim is possession of all veius, lodes and ledges whose tops or apexes are within the surface lines; that no adverse possession could become operative by going outside the surface bonnd- aries and sinking a shaft upon what was claimed

built a good residence and business building in Elkhorn, also owns five other buildings in this city, and has been engaged at his present occupation since 1889.

November 12, 1877, he was united in marriage with Miss H. H. Lloyd, a native of Townsend, Montana, and a daughter of John Lloyd, who came to this State in 1862. Ile now resides on a farm in Townsend, on which he located soon after coming to this State. Mr. and Mrs. Riley have eight children, born in Montana, Frank, Irene, John, James, Jesse, Blanche, Peter and George. During his entire political history, Mr. Riley has been a stanch Democrat. In his social relations, he is a charter mem- ber of the I. O. O. F. and the K. of P.

WILLIAM FRANCIS KIRBY, proprietor of the Windsor Restaurant and Northern Pacific Livery and Feed Stables, also a prominent contractor and builder, is actively identified with the business interests of Livingston, Montana.

Mr. Kirby is a native of Missouri, was born in Linn county, in the year 1842, son of William and Mary (Fen-

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as another location, but which the jury found to be the same, and that in case of a cross vein the prior locator is entitled to all the ore or mineral within the space of intersection, but the subsequent locator has the right of way through such space. (See State Supreme Court, by Dewitt, J., in King vs. Amy and Silversmith Con. Mining Co., 9 Montana, 543, and the Su- preme Court of the United States, by Field, J., in the same case, 154, U. S .; also, Iron Silver M. Co. vs. Elgin M. Co., 118 U. S. 196; Flag- staff S. M. Co. vs. Tarbet, 98 U. S., 469; Ar- gentine M. Co. vs. Terr. Mining Co., 122 U. S., 485; Iron Silver M. Co. vs. Cheeseman, 116 U. S., 533; The Eureka Case, 4 Saw., 311.)

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An illustrated history of the state of Montana, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 126

Author: Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913. cn Publication date: 1894 Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis pub. co. Number of Pages: 1216

Author: Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913. cn
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis pub. co.
Number of Pages: 1216