An illustrated history of the state of Montana, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 70

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

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is another example that has no tworkles Of course, a white man may be in the wrong often enough; and there is many an Indian massacre that admits of two varying stories. But Boze- man and the old pioneer, Clarke, were special friends of the Indians; they took sides with them when it was possible, always tried to settle trouble, trusted them entirely, and so were shot down for their faith in them.

General Meagher called for troops. There were none to spare from the posts. The story of the massaere-if the wiping out of eighty- one names so entirely that not one person

After the Drumlummon lode was located, Mr. Mayger and his partner, Mr. Nat Collins, located the ground to the southwest and immediately abutting the Drumlum- mon location, which they namel the Ivanhoe lode, the discovery being made on a small vein near the southern end of the location. After representing this ground for two years, Mr. Collins abandoned his interest. It was at this time that Mr. Mayger, who was then at Butte, wrote to his brother Charles to relocate the ground. Being fully convinced that the Drumlummon lode was not prop- erly staked, he instructed his brother to move the stakes of the Ivanboe lode higher up the mountain, -100 feet on the north end and 300 feet on the south end. This Mr. Charies Mayger proceeded to do, but unfortunately did nol calculate the steepness of the mountain and fell short in his measurement some forty feel on the north end, a circumstance that has caused the two brothers much liti- gation, from the fact that only a portion of the apex of the Drumlummon lode was cut by their north end line, con- sequently raising the question of divided apex, which could only be settled through almost interminable litiga- tion. Mr. Charles Mayger named the claim the st. Louis lode, after the city of his birth. Its discovery shaft is on a vein that was first disclosed by Mr. Mayger when rep- resenting the Ivanhoe lode.

In 1877 Mr. Mayger sold his placer mining interests and engaged in quartz mining, first operating at Butte. Montana, where, in company with Mr. John C. Rainsford, be purchased the Centennial quartz mill. Mr. Mayger sold his interest in the enterprise the following fall. Re- turning to Marysville, he entered into a contract with Mr. Cruse for 2,0000 tons of ore, to be delivered on the Jump of the Drumlummon mine. For the purpose of milling this ore, Mr. Mayger commenced the erection of a five-stamp pan amalgamation mill ; this mill was built upon mill site located on the creek just under the mine, and was the first silver amalgamation mill built in the county of Lewis & Clarke. The greater portion of the machinery for this mill was shipped from St. Louis, Mis- souri,-first by boat to Fort Benton, then by teams to its

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survived to say what had been done or how, may be called such,-at Fort Philip Kearney was sad reading for those in command elsewhere. Meagher then called for 600 volunteer cavalry. There was almost no money at his service, but the merehants, and, in truth, all men came for- ward with all sorts of needed supplies, and on the 7th of May the general, who had been placed in supreme command with a staff of able offieers under him, took the field. What could they do? Contemplate the extent of frontier to defend, the scattered and defenseless towns and smaller settlements with roads through

destination. In 1880 Mr. Mayger sold this mill to Mr. Cruse, who, after making several months' run, sold the property to the Montana Company, Limited. Mr. May- ger, after disposing of this mill, devoted several years to prospecting and the examination of mines, extending over a section of country from Colorado to Canada, British America, spending two years in the latter conntry on a copper property owned by a Canadian and English com- pany.

In 1886 Mr. Mayger was united in marriage with Miss Fannie McLeod, of Boulder, Colorado, a native of Flor- ida. They have two children: Ifelen Delorm and William Jr. Socially, Mr. Mayger is a member of the I. O. O. F. and also of the B. P. O. E. and one of the pioneer members of the Montana Club. A Democrat in his political views, he has served as Assessor of the Second District of Lewis & Clarke county, and was also a member of the constitutional convention that formed the laws for the State of Montana, In 1887 Mr. Mayger organized the St. Louis Mining & Milling Company, of Montana, St. Louis capitalis's being interested, and im- mediately commenced the extensive development of the St. Louis lode. He has been its manager from its first or- ganization, and through frugal and economical manage- ment has from a small beginning succeeded iu developing a mine second to few in the State.

HENRY S. CLARK, a resident of Butte City, has been identified with Montana for nearly three decades, the date of his arrival in Montana being in March, 1866.

Mr. Clark was born in Boonville, Lewis county, New York, October 5, 1832, and is of English descent, his ma- ternal ancestry being traced back in a direct line to the Brewsters, who landed from the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock.

His father, Rev. Charles Clark, was a Baptist minister and was for many years a resident of Denmark, Lowville, Watertown, and Rome, New York, where Henry S. was reared and educated.

After completing an academic course in Lowville Acad- emy Mr. Clark was engaged as bookkeeper and later as

rocky passes! But they, such of them as could find horses on which to make their perilous marches, kept in the saddle till General Sher- man, a good soldier and better civilian, who had learned much in California. came forward with two or three thousand stand of small arms, a heavy piece of artillery and a call for eight hundred Federal troops to serve till the end of the war, or, rather, till he could forward force enough from the regular army to settle it.

Meantime, General Meagher, while actively pushing forward preparations for a thorough chastisement of these murderers, was drowned

teller in the Rome Exchange Bank, and in the year 1853 was elected City Treasurer of Rome, New York, which office he held until the year 1855, when he left for the West, locating in Chicago, Illinois, where for three years he held a position as messenger for the United States Express Company.

In 1858 he removed to Des Moines, Iowa, and was manager of the Parker Express Company, and later was with the United States Express Company as agent in Kansas City, Missouri, until January 1, 1860, at which date he started for Pike's Peak, Colorado. Arriving there, he, with three others, located the now celebrated Manitou Springs, and town site of Colorado; City but there being no show then to make a dollar out of the springs they were abandoned, and Mr. Clark engaged in placer-min- ing at Frying-Pan Gulch and California Gulch for two seasons, then tried ranching (farming) twelve miles belew Colorado City until the spring and summer of 1864, when he was cleaned out by the flood and grasshoppers, and was driven with his wife from their home by the Indians, barely escaping with their lives, while some of their neighbors were killed by the merciless savages. They arrived in Denver (by Government freight train from Fort Bent on the Arkansas river, in which settlers were invited to ride for safety) flat broke and somewhat dis- couraged; but in a few days he succeeded in getting work at a salary of $150 a month and board and room for wife and self, with plenty to eat and a comfortable, safe place to sleep. (They had been sleeping out in the wil- lows from fear of Indians coming to the house at break of day to murder them, as they had others.)

From 1863 until 1866 he kept a grocery and commis- sion store in Denver. In 1866, in company with others, he made the journey with mule teams from Denver to Montana, and upon his arrival here he settled at the min- ing camp of Greenwood, near the Mullan Tunnel, eigh- teen miles from Helena, Montana, where he opened a store and also kept the stage station and post office. Since 1878 he has been a resident of Butte City. For a number of years he has been interested in mining and

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at Fort Benton. I call these Indians murderers advisedly, for murderers they were. The citizen soldiers under General Thoroughman must have had this idea of them well fixed in their minds; for they hung what few they caught without any great ceremony or delay. Now, I know you may call it scant history of Montana's Indian wars when you find only the mention at any length of Bozeman and Clarke among all the murdered settlers; but when I tell you that these murders reach into the hundreds-aye, thousands, what will you demand,-a catalogue of dead that would swell into a volume? IIere is what A. K. McClure, a friend of Lincoln

milling silver ores, and is the owner of numerous mining claims. Nearly ever since he settled in Montana Mr. Clark has been connected with some publie office.

In 1871 he was elected Clerk and Recorder of Deer Lodge county, and at the expiration of his term of office he was re-elected to the same position and again re-elect- ed, serving in all seven years. From 1878 to 1882 he was engaged in mining and milling in Butte City, and in 1880 and 1881 was Deputy Assessor of Silver Bow county. In 1882 he was the choice of the people of Silver Bow county for Clerk and Recorder, and was re-elected in 1884, which office he filled four years. In every position to which he has been called he has endeavored to give satisfaction. At present he is Deputy Collector of Inter- nal Revenue for the Third Division of Montana, compris- ing the counties of Silver Bow, Deer Lodge, Granite, Mis- soula and Ravalli.

Mr. Clark was married on the 31st of August, 1863, in Colorado, to Miss Laura Roberts, a native of Kentucky and a daughter of Samuel E. Roberts, one of the pioneers of Colorado, who at the time of their marriage was a rancher and stock-raiser. They have had ten children. The oldest died in infancy in Colorado; the second child, Will. Lee, was born June 7, 1865, in Denver, Colorado. Iu September, 1867, Mrs. Clark started with him to join her husband in Montana, Mr. Clark, as above stated, hav ing come here the year before. She made the journey by stage from Denver, via Salt Lake. A part of the way she and her child were the only passengers, and this was just after the bloody raids made by the Indians and when travel by stage in that part of the country was very dan- gerous. On that journey, and indeed, during all her pioneer life in Montana, she has shown herself to be a woman of true heroism. The stage in which she traveled was fourteen days in making the trip to Greenwood, a distance of about 1,200 miles. Nearly all of the stage stock had been stampeded by the Indians and the stations burned, but the agents and stock-tenders had found some

and founder of the Philadelphia Tilles, wrote in 1867 from the seat of war in Montana, after numberless butcheries that year of the way to and in and about Montana:

" Bozeman City took its name from Colone! Bozeman, who opened the Reno or Power river route to Montana, and who was basely mnur- dered by the Indians last spring. He welcomed the Indians into his camp. believing them to be friendly, as they professed, and while he was eating his dinner he was butchered. Mr. Coover, of Bozeman City, was with him, and escaped with a wound after Bozeman was killed." -- New York Tribunc.

of the wild bronchoes, and, hitching six to a coach, would start them off and let them run at full speed to the next station, making ten or twelve miles an hour. Little Will would "holler" " Let 'em run: I want to get to see my papa."

At that time Montana abounded in wild animals of all kinds, such as buffalo, moose, elk, antelope, deer, bear, mountain lions, ete. One night a grizzly bear killed and carried off a calf at the station and some nights later it came back seeking more prey. Mrs. Clark heard it and aroused a hired man who went out and shot it. It made its escape, however, howling as it went. The next morn ing they tracked it for some distance by the blood, but failed to find it, and it never after made them a visit. At another time, when the little son above referred to was four years old and when he was returning home fran where the men were at work on the toll road, one fourth mile above the station, he had a miraculous escape from a mountain lion.

This son is now grown to manhood, and in 199 Op 0.1 the honor of being elected Clerk of the District Court of Silver Bow county, in which office he served nost elli ciently.

Eight children were added to their family in Montana, (one died in infancy,of whom we make pre ard as follows. Henry S., born July 17. 1565, at Greenwoo 1: Arthur Brew ster, born June 8, 1522, in Deer Lige City: Clarence. born November 11. 1944, in Deer L nge City: Clar i, born May 19, 1876, in Deer Lodge City: Hudson, born April 25. 1883, in Butte City: next came twins, Lewis and Laura, born in Butte City, February 1, 1884. Henry S. die IJuly 13, 1842: IInd-on die December 15, 18-3: Clarence died December 25. 1858; Laura die I November 11. 1991. The surviving children Will L., Arthur B., Clara and Lewis are all at home and form an interesting family circle.

Mr. Clark is an active member of the A. O. 1 . W. und the 1. 0. 0. F., and also a Knight Templar Masod.

Mr -. Clark is likewise prominent in fraternal secret of

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Let me quote once more from Lincoln's friend, Colonel McClure, who came out to Montana at this time from Philadelphia, with his heart full of Quaker kindness toward the Indians; but who, when he saw with his own eyes, changed his temper and wrote thus:

"Some things relating to what is called the Indian war, the public, East and West, cannot fail to understand. It is known to all that Gen- eral Sherman has had ten thousand troops on the plains and upper Missouri since April last; that they are costing the Government probably 8500,000 a week; that no battle has been fought with the hostile tribes; that no thorough-

ganizations. She was elected the first Past Chief of Honor of Free Silver Lodge, No. 11, Degree of Honor, A. O. U. W., of Butte City, and has the honor of being elected (and serving for its first term) as Grand Chief of Honor of the Grand Lodge, Degree of Houor, Ancient Order of United Workmen, which was organized in IIelena, December 14, 1892. She is Past Noble Grand of Mariam Lodge, No. 2, Order of Rebekah, I. O. O. F., in Butte City, and has had conferred on her the " Decoration of Chivalry" of Patriarchs Millitant, I. O. O. F. She is also a member of Ruth Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, A. F. & A. M., in Butte City, and belongs to the De- gree of Isis of Algeria Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Oasis of Helena, Montana. Both Mr. and Mrs. Clark are well known in Montana.

FRANK KENNEDY, a member of the mercantile firm of King & Kennedy, Anaconda, Montana, is one of the enter- prising business meu in this section of the country. At their stand on Main street, this firm carries a full line of books, stationery, cigars, tobacco, the leading daily news- papers, and all kinds of notions.

Mr. Kennedy is thoroughly an American. He traces his aucestry in this country back to 1810. His father, Samuel II. Kennedy, was a prosperons western produce dealer and was located in New Orleans for many years prior to the war between the States. In New Orleans, in 1852, Frank Kennedy was born, the fourth child in his father's family, and in that city he began attending school. When forebodings of the Civil war were heard throughout the country, Mr. Kennedy sailed with his family to Europe, in order to avoid the threatened dangers. For six years he remained in the old country, and during this time Frank continued his studies and prepared him- sell for a business life. After the war closed the family returned to New Orleans, and there our subject and his father engaged extensively and very successfully in the western produce and cotton business. Mr. S. II. Kennedy was president of the State National Bank for many years.

fare has been protected, and that, relying upon the proffered protection of the army, hundreds of emigrants and settlers have fallen victims to the scalping-knife. So much has passed into his- tory, and must be familiar to all intelligent readers. How many lives have been thus wan- tonly sacrificed, the nation will never know. Most of them have fallen without survivors to tell the story of their sad fate. I notice that Governor Crawford, of Kansas, estimates the butcheries of settlers and emigrants during the past year at five thousand; and the calculation has been received in the East with general dis- trust. Those who have spent any considerable

It was in 1887 that Frank Kennedy came to Montana. He filled a clerical position with the Anaconda Smelting Company until he purchased Mr. Crockett's interest in the mercantile business, in which he has since been actively engaged.

Mr. Kennedy was married in 1889 to Miss Lotta Ellen- becker, a native of Michigan, and they have two children, Horton and Eleanor. Fraternally, he is a Master Mason and a member of Acacia Lodge, No. 33, F. & A. MI., Anaconda.

E. H. LEE, a successful merchant of Billings, was born in Europe, in 1838, of English ancestry. At the time of his birth his parents resided in Kentucky, but were then visiting in Europe. The father afterward became a real- estate dealer of Philadelphia. In early life our subject had an earnest desire for sea, and for several years was engaged as assistant engineer, on the seas, during which time he visited all the principal seaport cities of the world. In 1863 he located in the United States, and became as- sociated with the famous Custer regimeut, United States

Army. During the first campaign in 1873, he served as tent-maker, and in the succeeding campaigns as harness-maker. Mr. Lee served in the Black Hills cam- paigu, where for nineteen days he struggled through a Dakota blizzard in going from Fargo to Bismarck, and was also in the massacre of 1876. In the fall of the latter year he completed his term of service at Fort Lincoln, was afterward engaged in merchandising at Bismarck, later at Miles City, and since 1881 has resided at Billings. His first store was devoted to dry goods, and he now carries also a complete line of notions, fruits, etc. Mr. Lee's fine store building, 100 x 25 feet, is located on Main street. Ile was married September 21, 1886, to Miss Laura Ward, a daughter of Benjamin J. Cemantha (Putnam) Ward, of Cleveland, Ohio. The mother was a lineal descendant of Israel Putnam. Her father was a physician in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a Republican in his political views. Mrs. Lee received a liberal education, is an intelligent lady,

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time in the West have good reason to know that the number given is not too large. I do not take np a paper published between the Plains and Oregon that does not record some fiendish savagery of the Indians; and there is hardly a cabin on the Platte or the Smoky Hill ronte that has not the memory of the slain in- terwoven with its history.

" The people of the far West have good reason to feel sorely aggrieved by the persistent and often malicions representations of their actions and purposes. They, as a rule, have to suffer exposure to the scalping knife, and are generally rewarded for their heroism and sacri-

fices by studied calumny."-A. K. McClure's Three Thousand Miles Through the Rocky Mountains.

Let it all the time be borne in mind that Montana is an empire in extent, an exposed border at every foot of her for sides, and dotted with fastnesses where savages might hide in hordes for years all up and down and across her. Had Montana, with her five grand basins and her high-heaved basalt walls, figured in the Old World's history, she would have been cut np into five great kingdoms, each one greater than Greece, Egypt or ancient Italy.

True, these mountains are not steep: yon can

and is certainly a helpmate to her husband. She was reared under Presbyterian influences, but since coming to Billings has been associated with the Congregational Church. Mr. Lee is a member of Ashlar Lodge, No. 29, A. F. & A. M., and of the I. O. O. F., of Billings. In political matters he supports the Democratic party.

PETER Cox, one of Anaconda's respected Aldermen, dates his birth in Westmeath, county Mullingar, Ireland, November 26, 1850.

Ilis parents, Peter and Sarah (Fallon) Cox, were also born on the Emerald Isle. In 1860 they emigrated with their family to America, landing in New York and making their home in that city for some time. Later they removed to Kingston, Ulster county, that State, where the father continued to reside up to the time of his death, which occurred in May, 1892, at the age of seventy-five years; and where the mother is still living, she having attained the age of sixty-four years. She is a devoted member of the Catholic Church, as also was her worthy husband. They had five children, of whom four are living, the subject of our sketch being the first born.

At the time the Cox family landed in America Peter was ten years old. He had attended school some in his native land, but his educational advantages were limited; for, soon after coming to this country, he began earning his own living by driving a horse and cart in a quarry, at $1.25 per day. Later he learned the trade of stone cutter, and worked at it until 1881, at which time he came to Melrose, Montana. The Utah & Northeru Rail- road at that time terminated there, and he worked for the company until the road reached Butte City. Then he accepted the position of receiving and shipping clerk for the company, and later was appointed their baggage master, a position which he held for a number of years, and afterward was in the employ of the Pacific Express Company. In 1889 he came to Anaconda to enter upon the duties of shipping clerk for the Anaconda Company. Later he became their timekeeper, serving as such until

1892, when he severed his connection with them. Next we find him occupied as one of the contractors and build- ers of the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railroad. He has built a portion of the road east of the town and also the road from the race track to the smelters, and is still going on with the construction of the line west of Anaconda.

Mr. Cox has purchased a very pleasant home in Ana- conda, where he and his family reside. He was married in 1891 to Mrs. D. A. Gillette, widow of Walter R. Gillette and daughter of William Toole. She too is of Irish aucestry. Her birth occurred in the State of Maine, whence, when a child, she removed with her parents to Madison, Wisconsin, where she was reared. She has two sons,-William and Warren, by her first husband, and she and Mr. Cox have a daughter: Rose, born in Anaconda.

Politically, Mr. Cox is a staneh Democrat. In 1894 he was elected by his fellow citizens of the second ward to represent them in the City Council, in which capacity he is now serving most efficiently. Both he and his wife are members of the Catholic Church.

JOHN M. DELURY, City Treasurer of Anaconda, Mon- tana, was born in Forest City, Sierra county, California, May 15, 1861. Ilis parents, George and Elizabeth (O'Brien) Delury, both natives of Ireland, e migrated to America in 1851 and settled in New York. Later they removed to California, where the father engaged in mining and where they resided for twenty-one years. In 1876 they weut to Nevada, and for ten years made their home in that State, returning in 1886 to California and loeating in San Francisco, where they still reside, respected and esteemed by all who know them. Both are devout mem- bers of the Catholic Church. Of their eleven children ten are living, John M. being the third born.

John M. Delury received his early education in Grass Valley, California, and began life on his own account as clerk in a store. Later he was employed as cutter in a meat market, and still later as bookkeeper and followed

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plow many of them to the very top; but they have walls and bluffs and are ugly things, with Indians behind the rocks or pines on the upper side as you ride along the trails.

We know nothing about the blood that was wasted before the white man came; we can care but little. I here give one example of their feroc- ity in these pages, and that is enongh. But we do know that all over the sand and the snow, Montana is dotted with red spots of our own blood.

I had planned to preserve the names of these dead heroes. Impossible. I find in the annals of Choteau county alone a list of ninety-eight persons murdered by the Indians,*

that business in California and Nevada. In 1884 he came to Anaconda, and was bookkeeper for Beelenburg & Company for a number of years, filling his different positions in life with integrity and ability and making friends with all with whom he came in contact. In 1889 he was elected City Treasurer of Anaconda, and such has been the ability and fidelity with which he has discharged the duties of his office that he has been re-elected and has held the office continuously since his first election and is now serving in his fifth year.

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An illustrated history of the state of Montana, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 70

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