An illustrated history of the state of Montana, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 157

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

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Such are the mining districts of the Little Belt mountains, and such the mines in the Big- ger, Yogo, Running Wolf, Dry Wolf, Neihart and Barker Districts; and all these mines were discovered in some ten years, in a range of mountains less than fifty miles long and twenty wide.

GEN. CHARLES F. LLOYD, an enterprising and well- known citizen of Butte City, Montana, was born at Goth- enburg, Sweden, July 27, 1851, son of Walruth and Jane Lloyd, his father being a well-to-do merchant of that town.

In Jannary, 1852, the Lloyd family emigrated to Amer- ica and settled at La Crosse, Wisconsin, where the father engaged in the grain business. There Charles F. at- tended the public schools until he was twelve years old. Then Mr. Lloyd removed with his family to Lansing, Iowa, and engaged in merchandising, his son assisting him in the store and also attending school until he was seventeen. At this time young Lloyd obtained an ap- pointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he remained four years, after which he was commissioned Second Lieutenant of the Fourteenth In- fantry in the United States Army, with headquarters at Fort Douglas, Utah. He arrived at Fort Douglas on the 17th of June, 1874. In 1876 he went through the Sioux war, was with General Crook's expedition and took part in the battle of Rosebud, Montana. The Custer massacre occurred three days after the regiment with which Gen- eral Lloyd was serving left Fort Donglas. At the con- clusion of the expedition a part of the regiment was stationed at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. In the fall of 1877 he was sent to Fort Cameron, Utah,-since aban- doned,-where he remained until the summer of 1881. He was then ordered to camp on the White river, near Meeker, Colorado, then called Thornburg Battle Ground, where he relieved the troops there stationed and where he remained one year.

In the fall of 1882 General Lloyd obtained leave of ab- sence and came to Butte City, Montana. The following June he resigned his commission and turned his atten- tion to a business life, being employed as general man-

MISSOULA COUNTY.

Hitherto Missoula county has stood at the head with her golden fruits and vast area of timber lands, and in sharp competition with Gallatin, with her wonderful garden and farm products, to furnish the needed food, fuel and lumber for the mining counties of the State. But now Missoula is coming forward with many quartz mines, which promise to rival the richest in the country. Why not?

Missoula has long ranges of metalliferous mountains on each side of her large territory, and areas of her rich soils are underlaid with coal-bearing rocks. The early explorer, as he descended the Deer Lodge, the Hell Gate and the Missoula, soon saw the forest creeping down

ager of the Northwestern Forwarding Company, in which he had become financially interested. This enter- prise was continued successfully for over ten years, when he was selected to wind up the business for the company, and in this he is now occupied. Since locating here he has also became interested in varions mining enterprises and in ranching. He owns a dairy ranch, located two miles and a half from Butte City, which demands his closest attention. Here he has 250 head of stock, among which are 150 milch cows. He has been conducting this business for seven years, and now has over $35,000 in- vested in it.

At the solicitation of Governor J. E. Rickards, General Lloyd consented to accept the appointment of Adjutant General for the Montana National Guard, which occurred January 2, 1893. He is one of the directors of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company, which controls all of the inter-mountain country of Wyoming, Idaho Mon- tana and Utah.

General Lloyd was married, in September, 1875, to Miss Hattie Belden, of Salt Lake City, and they have two children, a son and daughter, Nafew and Nettie.

IIe is a member of the Elks and of the Silver Bow Club. Both in business and social circles he is highly esteemed for his many excellent traits of character, and as a public-spirited and influential citizen he ranks with the leading men of Butte City.

WILLIAM J. BICKETT, County Assessor of Lewis and Clarke county, Montana, was born in Marion county, Ken- tucky, January 1, 1856. He comes of a family who were early settlers of Kentucky, his father, William J. W. Bickett, having been born in that State in 1822. William J. W. Bickett was a physician by profession. He married Miss Martha Collet, a native of Missouri, her ancestors being among the early settlers of the South. Dr. Bickett

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the mountain sides over the foothills and into the broad valleys, where under the influence of the moist, warm, Pacific winds, the spruce, fir, pine, cedar and hackmatack begin to assume the gigantic proportions so notorious on the Pacific slope.

But in the early days, when the gold-seeker, the prospector, explored the gravel beds of every mountain stream from the Rio Grande to the Fraser river, the tributaries of the Missoula and St. Regis could no longer conceal their golden sands. Rich placers were discovered; wild re- ports of rich "diggings," sometimes true, some- times false, caused stampedes to barren and secluded regions which resulted in untold suffer- ings, fatal diseases and even death.

came out to Montana in 1864, and in 1869 returned East for his wife and two children, whom he brought to Hel- ena. One of these children, Anna, is now the wife of R. P. Thonghman; and the other, William J., is the subject of this sketch. Soon after his return to Helena, in 1869, Dr. Bickett died from the effects of an overdose of medi- cine taken while sick.

William J. Bickett was just entering his 'teens at the time of his father's death, and at that early age he was thrown upon his own resources. He worked at whatever he could get to do, and when he was sixteen he was em- ployed as clerk in the dry-goods store of J. R. Boyce & Company, retail dealers, with whom he remained seven years, his long continuance with the firm being ample evidence of his ability and their confidence in him. Then, with all the money he had saved during these years, lie invested in the sheep business, in which he met with suc- cess until the severe winter of 1880, when, on account of deep snows, he lost heavily. This loss cansed his return to the mercantile business, and for three years he was employed as clerk by Vanwart & Company, of Helena. At the expiration of this time he was elected Assessor of Lewis & Clarke county. This was in 1886. In 1888 he was re-elected for a second term, which continued until the admission of Montana as a State, in 1889. Again he received the nomination of his party for the same office, but was defeated by 160 votes, George Walker heing the successful candidate. In 1892, however, he was elected to the office by a majority of 322 votes, and is now serv- ing his third term as County Assessor. His long service in this office has given him a thorough knowledge of the value of property here, and it is bnt just to him to state that his services have given general satisfaction to all concerned. The assessment of the county reaches the sum of $22,000,000.

After some of the rich finds were worked out, the miners as a class left Missoula to the plow and reaper of the farmer, the shorthorn and the thoroughbred of the ranchman, the Cotswold and Fairdowns of the wool-grower, the pruning- knife of the horticulturist, and the ax and saw of the lumberman. But a few continued their claims, and in the last few years old placers have been reopened with such improved appli- ances that gravels, which would not longer pay with rocker, wheelbarrow, and sluice-box in the '60s, are now yielding rich rewards to the hy- draulic force of the giant, and the saving power of the bed-rock fume. The pick and shovel of the prospector have shown the presence of numerous veins ore and leal and copper and

Mr. Bickett was married July 31, 1889, to Mrs. Vena E. Swett, a native of New York, daughter of A. B. Taylor, of that State, and widow of W. C. Swett, who was a promi- nent cattle dealer of Montana. She had a son and daugh- ter by her first husband, and by Mr. Bickett she has one daughter, Verna.

All his life Mr. Bickett has been a consistent Demo- crat. Besides holding the office already referred to, he has served as a member of the City Council of Helena, having been elected as snch in 1885. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. A man of genial disposition and good business ability, he has by an upright life gained the confidence and good will of his fellow-citizens. He is now engaged in the sheep business, with S. HI. Kenett as partner. Mrs. Bickett has one of the many fine resi- dences which adorn the beautiful city of Helena. Ilere they reside, surrounded by all life's comforts, in the en- joyment of one another's society and the esteem of their many friends.

ARTHUR E. DICKERMAN, one of the well-known busi- ness men of Great Falls, Montana, came to the city in its earliest history and has since been identified with its growth and prosperity.

Mr. Dickermau was born in Decorah, Iowa, August 19, 1860. The Dickermans are of German origin and were early settlers in Vermont, while the Greenes, his mater- nal ancestors, came to this country from England and settled in Rhode Island about 1640. General Greene of Revolutionary fame belonged to one branch of the family. Charles E. Dickerman, our subject's father, was born in Monadore, Ohio, in 1834, and his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Kent, was born at the same place and in the same year. They have five children. Charles E. Diekerman began his business career as a merchant and afterward became a banker. He acquired a large

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zinc, carrying the more precious silver and gold in numerous localities throughout the mountain regions of the western and east portions of the county. There are also large deposits of granite, syenite, freestone, limestone, marble and fire clay, which will supply all demands for these materials for domestic uses and for trans- portation.

The number of quartz veins rich in gold, sil- ver, copper and lead, which have been discovered in Missoula county, and there recorded, is very great, runmng up into the thousands. Accord- ing to the county records as furnished by the public-spirited Clerk and Recorder, D. D. Bo- gart, 820 claims were recorded in 1890, above the partial development and systematic and

amount of real estate in St. Paul and other Western cities, including Great Falls, and is now regarded as a man of large means.

Arthur E. Dickerman was the second born in his father's family. He was educated in the University of Minne. sota, had the honor of being president of his class, and graduated in 1882. After leaving college he accepted a position as assistant credit man of the wholesale dry-goods house of Powers' Dry Goods Company of St. Paul, and in that capacity made numerous trips into the country. In April, 1886, he came to Great Falls. At the organization of the First National Bank of this place, he was made its assistant cashier, the late Colonel Broadwater being its president. He continued in the bank for a year and a half. When the county of Cascade was organized, he was appointed its treasurer, and he was also made the treasurer of the Great Falls Water Power & Town Site Company, and handled and disbursed the funds of the company during the time it was improving the water power and doing other work. In 1891 he was elected cashier of the First National Bank, which position he filled until 1893, when he resigned. Since then his time has been occupied in looking after his own and his father's interests at Great Falls. He has large real-estate hold- ings both in this city and county and he also is interested in mining operations at Neihart and Cook City.

Mr. Dickerman's political views are in harmony with the principles advocated by the Republican party and he has always taken a commendable interest in public af- fairs. In 1891 he was elected Mayor of Great Falls, a fitting honor conferred upon him because of the import- ant part he had taken in the growth and development of the city. During the past two years he has been a mem- ber of the Republican State central committee. He be- lengs to the Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias.

rich returns from a few. These numerous dis- coveries have greatly stimulated the mining in- dustry of Missoula in the last few years. The increased railroad facilities have enabled owners to work many mines which would not pay with- out them.

The O. R. & N., located a few miles from Carter, on the St. Regis railroad or the North- ern Pacific cut-off, has been worked for many years with unusual success. The numerous workings on this mine in shafts, levels and cross-cuts, have exposed large quantities of rich ores of silver, copper and lead, which have paid well for mining and shipping. The successful working of the O. R. & N. has inspired the owners of the neighboring claims to make need-

HON. WILLIAM E. CULLEN, of Helena, a pioneer and prominent member of the bar of Montana, was born in Mansfield, Ohio, June 30, 1837. He comes of Scotch an- cestry. His great-grandfather emigrated from Edinburg, Scotland, to this country in 1768, and was a Greek pro- fessor in one of the early colleges of Pennsylvania. John Cullen, the Professor's son, was born in that State, and his eldest son, Thomas W. Cullen, was also born and educated there. Thomas W. Cullen was a manufacturer of woolen goods in Pennsylvania, and he and his wife, whose maiden name was Isabella Morrison, and whom he wedded in that State in 1805, moved to Ohio in 1835, where they were re- spected citizens and members of the Episcopal Church for many years. She died in her sixtieth year, and he in his seventy-seventh. They reared a family of five chil- dren, all of whom are living, William E. being the oldest.

Judge Cullen, as the subject of our sketch is familiarly called, resided with his parents until his sixteenth year, and up to that time attended the public schools. He was then sent to an academy for three years. At the end of the three years he went to Minnesota, where he received the appointment of Superintendent of Instruction for the Winnebago Indians. For two years he held this position, and during this period all his leisure time was spent in the study of law. He then entered the office of Judge Charles E Flandreau, at that time Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota, and under the instruc- tions of this noted lawyer he continued his studies. In June, 1862, he was admitted to the Minnesota bar. During the Sioux outrages in that State he entered the service as Second Lieutenant, and in that capacity served through the campaign. He began the practice of his profession at St. Peter, Minnesota, and soon afterward formed a law partnership with Major S. A. Buell, a brother of General

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ed developments and show the real value of their discoveries, which has resulted in the open- ing up of good mines and the shipment of ores from many of them.

The vast system of shafts, tunnels, levels cruss-cuts, winzes, uprises and drifts, the many tons of ore which leave the mine daily, and the immense dumps of second-grade ore awaiting the concentrator, show the quantities of ore taken ont. This mine has built up the pietur- eskque little town of Pardee, at the head of the wild canon of Flat creek, where the mine is located. In this Spring Gulch District the little Anaconda, Little Pittsburg, Iron King and Iron Queen, Keystone and other mines, are ship-

Buell. They continued in business together uutil 1866, at which time Mr. Cullen came to the Territory of Montana.

He crossed the plains with oxen, and in an expedition commanded by Colonel James Fisk, Helena being reached in Angust, 1866. Here Mr. Cullen at once began the prac- tice of his profession. The following year he was elected a member of the Legislative Council of the Territory, consisting at that time of seven members, it being the first Legislative Assembly to meet in Montana after the amend- ment of the laws in 1866. Since then he has several times served as a member of the Legislature. In 1867 he be- came associated in the practice of law with H. P. Smith, who had been previously banished from Montana by the Vigilant Committee for his too zealous defense of the road agents. Mr. Smith was a man of very ardent tem- perament and threw his whole soul into the cases which he espoused, and for this reason had to leave; but after the excitement died out he returned, and remained un- molested. They remained in business together until Mr. Smith's health gave out, and he died in Helena in 1870. In 1876 Judge Cullen became associated with Colonel Wilbur F. Sanders. In 1885 they took into the firm Colonel Sanders' son, a graduate of the Columbia Law School, the three conducting business together until 1889. That year the Colonel withdrew from the firm and was elected to the United States Senate, the son and Judge Cullen continuing together. In 1890 George F. Shelton became a member of the firm, and these three conducted a successful law business until June, 1892, when they dissolved partnership. In January, 1893, the present law firm, composed of Judge Cullen and Gover- uor J. K. Toole, was formed under the name of Cullen & Toole, making one of the strongest law firms in the State. Since 1880 the firms with which Judge Cullen has been connected have been the attorneys of the Northeru Pa- cific Railroad Company, of the Territory. and later, of

ping rich ores and showing promise of perma- nent success. The Iron King, in Spring Gulch District, seven miles from the Iron Mountain station on the St. Regis road or the Northern Pacific cut-off, and six miles from the lively hit- tle city of Superior on the other side of the Missoula, has been worked with varying success.

The talcose slates of this region are in all mining countries deemed a good rock for rich and permanent mines. Some nine miles from Thompson Falls, on the river, is a large group of mines, some of which have been worked with very promising results. The Belle Stowe has working a large force of men and is shipping ore rich in silver, copper and lead; and it con-

the State of Moutana. In 1888 Judge Cullen was ap- pointed by Governor Leslie as Attorney General of Mou- tana, which office he filled for one year until he was succeeded by IIon. J. B. Clayberg. Under the admin- istration of Governor Hauser, Judge Cullen was Adjutant General of the Territory. He has been a life-long Demo- crat and has given his party distinguished service. In 1884 he served as Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of the Territory. He took an active part ir the nomination and election of Governor Toole. But Judge Cullen has all his life given the closest attention to his law practice and the cases in which he has been retained, and has been one of Montana's most successful practitioners.

At Helena, Montana, in 1878, Judge Cullen was married to Miss Caroline V. Stokes, a native of Illinois. Iler father, Clarence B. Stokes, was a prominent lawyer in New York State. The Judge and his wife have five children, namely, Violet, Earnest, Grace, Lilian and Mary. Miss Violet is a graduate of St. Mary's School, Faribault, Minnesota, and Earnest is a graduate of the University of Michigan The others are attending school in Helena. Their family residence, erected by the Judge in 1886, is one of the finest homes in Helena.

Like many of the professional men of Helena and other cities in Montana, Judge Cullen has invested his surplus means in the mines of the State, and now has large min- ing interests here. Ile is a Master Mason and is Past Master of his Lodge in Helena. Few men in this part of Montana are better known than Judge Cullen and few have attained a greater degree of success than has he.

COL. HENRY F. C. KLEINSCHMIDT, one of Ilelena's re- spected citizens, is a native of Prussia, horn July 3, 1832. Ilis father, Anthony H. Kleinschmidt, was a Prussian merchant, and died in 1844, when the subject of this sketch was twelve years of age.

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tains some nickel and cobalt. This ore yields from $900 to $1,000 per car load. The Bnek- eye, near the Belle Stowe, is a mine whose ores yield from $1,500 to $2,500 per car load. The Ohio, Climax, Pay-Master and Treasury have been considerably developed. The ores shipped gave good returns.

On the opposite side of Thopson river from the Buckeye is a group of copper mines which was employing some thirty men and shipping copper ore to Butte. This also was a busy and promising camp. The Fisher mines, some four- teen miles from Vervillion station, on the Northern Pacitic, have gained a high reputation for their abundant ores of rich sulphides and

Mr. Kleinschmidt emigrated from his native land to America in 1852, landing at New Orleans in September and going from there to St. Louis. Previous to his com- ing to this country he had learned the mercantile busi- ness, and upon his arrival in St. Louis he accepted a clerkship in one of the business houses of that city. May 8, 1861, in response to President Lincoln's call for volun- teers, he enlisted in Company A, Third Missouri Reserve Corps, and served in Missouri until his term of enlistment expired, and was mustered out in August. He then formed a company which was attached to the Seventh Regiment of National Guards of Missouri. IIis company elected him Captain, later he was promoted to Major, and still later he became Colonel, in which latter position he served until the close of the war.

At the time the war closed Mr. Kleinschmidt and his brother had two stores, but he sold out and accepted the position of teller in the United States Savings Bank, with which he was connected as such for two years. After that he was employed as bookkeeper by a wholesale grocery firm. In 1869 he returned to Europe to visit the home of his childhood, and after spending a year in his native land returned to America and continued with the wholesale grocery firm until 1878.

Since 1878 Mr. Kleinschmidt has been a resident of IIelena. He was employed as bookkeeper for different establishments until 1886, when he was offered and ac- cepted his present position, that of bookkeeper in chief of the First National Bank of Helena, where he has since rendered most efficient service. Colonel Kleinschmidt is Post Commander of the G. A. R. Post at Helena, and has for four years served as their Quartermaster. Politically, he is a Republican. He is a member of the Unitarian Society of IIelena, and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of IIelena's schools. Ile owns a very pleasant home on North Benton avenue, and has made some in- vestments in mines.

carbonates of lead carrying silver. A ten-stamp mill has been erected in this district. The Sil- ver Bow is perhaps the most esteemed in this camp. The Monarch and Pan-Handle and Lneky Boy show good veins of ore rich in sil- ver and lead. There was great activity around the mines of Silver Butte. On Quartz creek and other tributaries of the St. Regis are sev- eral paying placers, and a large number of gold- bearing quartz veins have been located. Mr. Marsh mentions the fact that the galena of this region sometimes contains considerable gold as well as silver.

On the Windfall, a tributary of Trout creek, and about sixty miles from Missoula, is the

He was happily married in 1862 to Miss Emilie Boeck- elmann, a native of Prussia, and they have four children, Lily, Ella, Henry and Irma.

WALTER COOPER .- The last thirty-five years have wit- nessed a marvelous transformation in the great North- west, for during this short period the almost limitless re- gion, for years known as the American desert, has been wrested from hostile tribes and its vast area converted into rich, prosperous and productive States. The men who have accomplished these wonderful results, now presented to the view of those who roll across the bound- less West in a luxuriant palace car, were, it is needless to say, men of iron, of restless activity, of more than or- dinary endurance and persistency of purpose; for their achievements outrank the efforts perhaps of any previous generation since the first settlement of North America, when religion was the mainspring of their actions.

As a faithful private in the ranks of the early pioneers, Walter Cooper now deserves to rank as an officer in the army of these hardy veterans who with gallant hardihood hewed the way for "millions yet to be " He was but six- teen years of age when, in 1859, he reached the Rocky mountain region. He was without the benefits of an edu- cation when he was first thrown amid the wild scenes and rugged men of Colorado, where he grew to manhood un- fettered by class-room, but schooled for life's battle by the uncouth usages of the wildest and roughest of front- iers, where one's native ability is brought to a keen edge and mere book learning does not add an iota to the scale of merit, as weighed by the discriminating hands of the pioneers. Worth it is that makes the man, where people are forced to estimate him in times of peril, and every honr is fraught with danger and imperiled life. Such was Mr. Cooper's school. Little time has he had to seek the polish of a higher education, but it would be errone- ous to assume that he is lacking in this particular, for, with an unusually well-equipped mental reservoir, and

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An illustrated history of the state of Montana, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 157

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