Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 111

Author: Stout, Tom, 1879- ed
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 1126

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The strain of concentrated study and practice made it necessary for Doctor Grigg to leave his practice in Pennsylvania and for six months he lived on Lake Chelan, Washington, and in October, 1892, located at Butte. During the many years he has practiced in Butte Doctor Grigg has become known to his professional brethren for his original methods. his advanced thought, and his faithful study and devotion to his profession, particularly along the lines of his specialties. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Rocky Mountain Interstate Medical Association, the various local so- cieties, the State Medical Society of Pennsylvania. and has been a frequent contributor of professional articles to the Medical Sentinel, published in Port- land, Oregon, and other medical publications. He has been honored with the office of president of both the Silver Bow County Medical Society and the State Medical Society. He is examining physi- cian for the Butte Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, and is examining physician for Butte Camp No. 153, Woodmen of the World, which he served as first consul commander. He is a member of the Fraternal Aid Union, University Club, Damon Lodge No. I, Knights of Pythias at Butte, and has his Masonic affiliations in Mahanoy City Lodge No. 357, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in Pennsyl- vania.

Doctor Grigg is secretary and treasurer of the Beaverhead Alberta Oil and Gas Company, operating south of Dillon in Montana. In past years he has acquired extensive mining properties and other real estate in Butte and in the State of Washington. In 1900 he was appointed a member of the Board of United States Examining Surgeons for the Pension Department in Silver Bow County.

Doctor Grigg is a republican, but in the earlier years of his professional work always declined public honors. In 1910 he was elected a member of the board of aldermen to represent the Sixth Ward, and served two terms.

August 20, 1888, Doctor Grigg married Miss Joanna S. Miller. She was born in the same town as Doctor Grigg. Her father, John Miller, was a prominent shipbuilder. Mrs. Grigg is a past presi- dent and trustee of the Woman's Club of Butte, and is a member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Chicago. She has been prominent in Butte's social life for many years and as a result of long study is an authority on many matters of art, particularly ceramics, oils and water colors. Doctor Grigg and family reside at 232 West Porphyry Street. He is

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the father of three children. Elmer Roy, a grad- uate of the Jefferson Medical College of Phila- delphia, is a young physician and surgeon and now occupies the post of city physician of Butte. Leon Alison, the second child, is a graduate of the Dental School of the University of Pennsylvania at Phila- delphia, and is now well established in his profession at Spokane, Washington. Joanna Ethel, the only daughter, is a graduate of the Butte High School, and is the wife of J. W. McCready, who operates a motor truck service in Butte.

ELMER ROY GRIGG, M. D., present city physician of Butte, is a son of Dr. T. A. Grigg, whose career has been set forth above.

The son was born during his father's residence at Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1890. He received his early education in the schools of Butte, graduating from high school in 1910, and soon afterward entered Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, where he was graduated with the class of 1914. While in college he was a member of the Alpha Kappa fraternity and served as president of the local chapter in 1914. He was also a member of the Hiram R. Loux Urological Society and the Keen Surgical Society at Jefferson Medical College. Returning to Butte after his graduation, he began practice and in the fall of the same year opened an office at Anaconda, where he remained two years. Since then he has been one of the hard working general physicians and surgeons at Butte. His of- fices are in the Rialto Building. In May, 1918, he was appointed physician to the Butte Tuberculosis Clinic, and since May, 1919, has also been health officer of the city. He maintains offices in the city hall.

Doctor Grigg is a republican, a member of the Presbyterian Church, Silver Bow County Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is a director in the Beaverhead Alberta Oil and Gas Company.

Doctor Grigg resides at 319 South Jackson Street. At Helena January 10, 1916, he married Miss Lavina Victoria Bartzen, daughter of Clem and Mary (Youngers) Bartzen. Her parents live at Butte, her father being master mechanic at the Timber Butte Milling Company. Mrs. Grigg is a graduate of the Butte High School with the class of 1911.

B. G. SHOREY. The number, extent and impor- tance of the industries, enterprises and institu- tions owned or controlled by B. G. Shorey both in the past and present are and have been such as to make him one of the leading business citi- zens and financiers of the City of Billings. His career has been intensely typical of self-made man- hood, and its early history is filled with the romance of the plains, under whose harsh but efficient mold- ing the crude, raw youth was developed into a self- reliant, resourceful and capable man. Rancher, banker, man of large business affairs and substan- tial citizen, Mr. Shorey has at all times exemplified the highest type of true western manhood and the spirit of enterprise.

B. G. Shorey was born at Belfast, Maine, Sep- tember 7, 1862, a son of Wellington and Louisa (Durham) Shorey. The family, of English-Irish descent, was founded in Maine in colonial days, and in that state, in 1831, Wellington Shorey was born. He was a farmer by vocation and a republi- can in his political adherence, and never left the state of his birth, dying at Belfast, in 1903. Mr. Shorey married Louisa Durham, who was born in Maine in 1837, and died at Belfast in 1907, and they became the parents of seven children: John D.,

a contractor and builder of White Sulphur Springs, Montana; J. W., a farmer and stockman of Rich- land County, Montana; Jennie, the widow of John McGray, a farmer of Knox, Maine, where she re- sides; Emma, who died unmarried at Belfast in 1909; Charles, a stockman and farmer of Waldo, Maine; Raymond O., a farmer and stockman of Roberts, Montana; and B. G.

The public schools of Belfast furnished B. G. Shorey with his educational training, and until he was eighteen years of age he worked on his father's farm. At that time he decided to strike out for himself, to see something of the world and to make his own opportunities, and accordingly left the pa- rental roof. On March 17, 1882, he arrived over the narrow-gauge railroad at White Sulphur Springs, Montana, the last part of the journey, from Ogden, being made by stage, via Butte and Diamond Gulch. From March to June, 1882, he was employed by Cook & Hussey, following which he went into the Judith Basin and took up a ranch at Ross' Fork. This he sold one year later and went to work for Severance & Son, sheepmen at Judith Gap, a position which he retained one year. Next Mr. Shorey entered the service of Mrs. Cor- son, who was at that time known as the "Sheep Queen of Montana," and whose ranch was at Hop- ley's Hole, near the present site of Hollowtown. He remained with Mrs. Corson until the spring of 1886, when he went down into Lake Basin and located a ranch of his own, upon which he spent the next twenty-one years. It was on this prop- erty that Mr. Shorey's real abilities were demon- strated, for from a small beginning he developed one of the finest properties in the state, a ranch of 32,000 acres on which it was his custom to run 20,000 sheep and Soo head of cattle. When he sold this property in 1907 he came to Billings, where he has since occupied his handsome $25,000 home at North Thirty-second Street and First Avenue, a residence erected by him in 1903 and still as good a home as there is to be found at Billings. Mr. Shorey is the owner of four large ranches; one at Roberts, Montana, a tract of 1,073 acres; a summer range in the mountains for his cattle, com- prising 320 acres; a ranch of 1,963 acres at Custer, on the Big Horn; and one at Sidney, of 1,128 acres. In addition to raising cattle Mr. Shorey is exten- sively engaged in growing grain. He is the owner of two other dwellings at Billings; the concrete warehouse at Fifth Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street, and the coal docks on Twenty-eighth Street, and also has a large interest in the Babcock Theatre Building, one of the leading business blocks of Billings. In 1910 Mr. Shorey was made president of the Billings State Bank, a position which he held until 1913, when he resigned, and his other connections are numerous and important, includ- ing a wide range of industries and enterprises. Ever interested in the welfare of his adopted city, he is a co-operant factor in many measures for the public good, in which his name is an indication of such a movement's worth. In his political belief Mr. Shorey upholds the principles of the republican party and exercises his right of franchise accordingly. He is a member of the Billings Midland Club and Billings Lodge No. 394, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

On August 11, 1889, Mr. Shorey was married at Billings to Miss Helen Simmons, daughter of A. J. and Addie (Ray) Simmons, the latter of whom still survives as a resident .of Waldo, Maine. Mr. Simmons who was for many years a farmer and blacksmith at Waldo, and a highly esteemed citizen of that place, is now deceased. He and his wife

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were the parents of ten daughters and one son, all of whom were reared to maturity. Mr. and Mrs. Shorey have one daughter: Adelaide, who is the wife of James Edgar. Mr. Edgar, who has recently been mustered out of the United States service, is superintending operations on Mr. Shorey's big ranch at Sidney.

GEORGE BENNETT LADD. Prominent among the business men of the younger generation at Billings is found George Bennett Ladd, manager of the grain elevator of Ladd & Cousins. Mr. Ladd is distinc- tively a member of the progressive and energetic element to which the city owes so much for its present prestige in commercial circles and to which it confidently looks for its future continued ad- vancement. During his comparatively short career he has had the opportunity of gaining experience both as a grower of grain and as a dealer therein, and in his present capacity is in a position to appre- ciate and recognize the conditions applying to the cases of both producer and handler.

George B. Ladd was born at Inwood, Iowa, Aug- ust 20, 1884, a son of George P. and Mary Ellen (Skewis) Ladd, and a member of a family which, originating in England, was founded in Massachu- setts in colonial times. George P. Ladd was born in Massachusetts in 1851, but as a youth was taken to Wisconsin, where he was educated and reared, and where for some years he was a resident of the Town of Shellsburg. In 1881 he removed to Lyon County, Iowa, where he engaged in farming and rose to a high place in the esteem of his fellow- citizens, who elevated him to the office of county treasurer, a trust which he was holding at the time of his death, which occurred at Rock Rapids, Iowa, April 3, 1914. He was a stanch democrat in his political allegiance, and an active member and gen- erous supporter of the Congregational Church, in which he served as deacon and a member of the Board of Directors. He married Mary Ellen Ske- wis, who was born in 1852, at Shellsburg, Wis- consin, and survives her husband as a resident of Rock Rapids, Iowa, and they became the parents of seven children: Clarence, who is engaged in the hardware business at Inwood, Iowa; Carrie, who is the wife of C. L. Jones, a practicing attor- ney at Parker, South Dakota; William Parkhurst, a prominent grain broker of Billings and member of the firm of Ladd & Cousins; Allie W., who is unmarried and makes her home with her mother; George Bennett (Ben), of this notice; Jennie, who is the wife of R. S. Towne, an agriculturist of the locality of Sisters, Oregon; and Earl, who is an automobile agent and the proprietor of a garage at Rock Rapids, Iowa.

George Bennett Ladd was educated in the public schools of Inwood, Iowa, and after his graduation from high school took a commercial course in the Cedar Rapids Business College. Leaving that preparatory institution in 1905, he was variously employed at Inwood for two years and then went to Colorado, where he homesteaded 160 acres four miles northwest of Merino in Logan County, a tract of land which he still owns. Mr. Ladd has always been a firm believer in the value of. real estate, particularly farming and ranch property, and has invested a share of his earnings therein, at the present time being the half-owner of 309 acres of good land on Blue Creek, Yellowstone County, Montana, the owner of the other half being his brother William P. Ladd. George B. Ladd resided on his Colorado homestead for eight years, but in 1915 turned his attention to the grain business, in which he had recognized great possi-

bilities. For one year he was located at Huntley, Montana, from whence he went to Roberts, this state, and continued in the same line until Septem- ber 3, 1918, at that time coming to Billings to take charge as manager of the. Farmers Elevator, which is leased by Ladd & Cousins. He has continued to satisfactorily manage this business to the pres- ent time, and has displayed marked business capac- ity and a thorough knowledge of the grain busi- ness in all its ramifications. The elevator, a mod- ern structure, with a large capacity, is situated at No. 3325 First Avenue, South.

Mr. Ladd was married in 1910, at Merino, Colo- rado, to Miss Ida H. Watkins, daughter of James and Mollie (Cluff) Watkins, of Osceola, Nebraska, well known and highly esteemed farming people of that locality. To this union there have come two children : Lloyd, born June 17, 1911, and Lowell, born September 17, 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Ladd re- side at their pleasant home at No. 3939 Second Avenue, South. Mr. Ladd is a democrat and has a number of civic and social connections. During the comparatively short period that he has resided at Billings he has given his earnest support to all movements which have promised advancement of the general welfare.

WALTER W. LIVINGSTON came to Montana as one of the pioneer agents for the Northern Pacific Rail- way. After a few years he left railroading to estab- lish the pioneer electric light company at Bozeman, and for a quarter of a century or more had a responsible place in connection with the public utility service at Bozeman. He was manager of the Mon- tana Power Company of Bozeman and was also secretary of the Pioneer Building & Loan Associa- tion.

Mr. Livingston was born at Henderson, Ken- tucky, December 17, 1855, and died at Bozeman, Montana, November 21, 1919. His paternal ances- tors came from Scotland and settled in New York. The grandfather, John Livingston, was born in York County, Pennsylvania, and went at a very early . day to Wayne County, Ohio, where he cleared up a tract of land from the woods, spent the rest of his life as a farmer and reared a family of eleven children. His wife was a Miss Dinsmore, a native of York County, Pennsylvania. William Samuel Livingston, father of Walter W., was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1820. He was reared in his native state, but when a young man went to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he married. He studied for the ministry and for many years was one of the capable preachers in the Presbyterian Church. He preached at Chillicothe, Zanesville, Ash- land, Cleveland and other places in Ohio. His last years were spent at Sewickley, near Pittsburg, Penn- sylvania, where he died in 1884. Politically he was a republican. Rev. Mr. Livingston married Julia H. Brooks, who was born at Williamsport, Pennsyl- vania, in 1822. She died while visiting at Bozeman in November, 1889. Walter W. was the oldest of their children. J. B. was a railroad official and died in New Jersey. John W. is an accountant at Butte, Montana, and Frank G. is in a similar business at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Mildred R., the youngest, is the wife of John P. Martin, who is in the postoffice at Bozeman.

Walter W. Livingston attended public school in Ohio, and is indebted for much of his early edu- cation to his scholarly father, who directed his studies at home. He also attended an academy at Pittsburg. Leaving school at the age of seven- teen he began his railroad career with the Penn- sylvania Company at Pittsburg. He was messenger

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boy for a time under Mr. William Thaw, father of William Thaw, Jr. In time he became an operator and remained in that capacity with the railroad until 1875. From 1875 to 1881 he was connected with one of the pioneer . lines in the central west, the Kansas Pacific, as operator and station agent. He spent part of the year 1881 with the Denver & Rio Grande in Colorado, and in the latter part of the same year returned to Pittsburg and re- sumed his service with the Pennsylvania Company until 1883.

Mr. Livingston came to Montana in September, 1883. He was accountant for a few months in the railroad office at Glendive, in December was ap- pointed as ticket agent and accountant at Living- ston, in the spring of 1884 was assigned to duty at Forsyth, and in October of that year was made station agent at Bozeman. Mr. Livingston in 1886 became associated with George Wakefield and Charles S. Hartman in organizing the Bozeman Electric Light Company. This company built and equipped the first electric plant in Bozeman, and Mr. Livingston was one of the men responsible for the first lighting of streets and homes with electric power. He continued as manager of the company until 1887, but from that year until 1892 followed other lines of employment, chiefly in county offices and the Bozeman postoffice. In 1892 he rejoined the Bozeman Electric Company as manager and ac- countant and continued at this post of duty for over a quarter of a century. Some years ago the Bozeman Electric Company was taken over by the Montana Power Company, which has its head- quarters at Butte.

The Pioneer Building and Loan Association is another important institution at Bozeman owing its existence largely to Mr. Livingston, who or- ganized it in 1889. He became its secretary in 1891 and afterward held that office continuously. It is the only building and loan association in Bozeman, and has enjoyed a substantial growth through the years and has been the means of supplying Bozeman . with approximately 500 homes. The association has its offices in the Electric Building, at 60 East Main Street.

Mr. Livingston was a republican, but only once was a candidate for office, when in 1889 he ran for clerk of court. He always supported his party and its candidates. He served as vestryman of the Episcopal Church and was a charter member of Bozeman Lodge No. 463, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was a past exalted ruler, for five years was trustee of the lodge and held an honorary life membership in the same. He was also a member of the Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Livingston owned his home at 329 South Black Avenue and owned an adjoining dwelling. October 7. 1884, at St. Paul, Minnesota, he married Miss B. B. Cooper, daughter of John and Nancy Cooper, both deceased. Her father was at one time a contractor and builder at Sewickley, Penn- sylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Livingston had two chil- dren : Walter T., who is a graduate of the Montana State College at Bozeman with the class of 1910, and is now a civil engineer with the Milwaukee Railway, living at Miles City, Montana, and Mil- dred B., also a graduate of Montana State College.

W. K. DWYER, for fifteen years connected with the city schools of Anaconda, most of the time as superintendent, is one of the most prominent edu- cators in Montana. He is a man of thorough cul- ture and scholarship and though trained in the law he has done little active practice. Education is the

field to which he was naturally inclined, his father having been a distinguished Irish educator.

Mr. Dwyer was born in County Cork, Ireland, July 8, 1870. His father, William Dwyer, was born at Castletown-Bere, County Cork, in 1833, was edu- cated in Marlboro College at Dublin, and for half century was principal of the schools at Castletown- Bere. Several noted men of Montana, including Judge Lynch and John Harrington, both of Butte, were among his pupils. He was a liberal in poli- tics and a member of the Catholic Church. He died at Castletown-Bere in October, 1917. His wife was Mary Hooley, who was born at Castle- town-Bere in 1844 and was educated at Swansea, Wales. She died in her native town in Ireland in 1908. Of their children, Mary, the oldest, died at Bandon, Ireland, wife of Timothy Lynch, who is a revenue officer in the City of Cork and is an uncle of Judge Lynch of Butte, above noted. John M. Dwyer, who died at Castletown-Bere, Ireland, at the age of forty-four, was a physician and surgeon and at one time was chief physician for the Brit- ish Government in British Central Africa. Patrick was a mechanical engineer, came to the United States in 1880, spent several years in Texas and New York State, and then returned to Ireland and died at Castletown-Bere at the age of forty. David T. is pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Denver, Colorado. W. K. Dwyer is the fifth in the family, and the youngest is Vincent, in the shoe business at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

W. K. Dwyer was educated in the national schools at Castletown-Bere, attended St. Michael's College in County Kerry, graduating in 1888, and in 1891 graduated from St. Patrick's College in Tipperary. The year he completed his work in the latter in- stitution he came to the United States, and for five years or more was a student in some of the best institutions of learning in this country. In 1896 he graduated A. B. and A. M. from St. Mary's University at Baltimore. After that he lived for several years in Chicago, where he pursued post- graduate work in constitutional law, literature, his- tory and education in the University of Chicago, and for one year attended the night law school of Lake Forest University. While attending law school he put in a regular day of work with the Western Electric Company at Chicago.

Mr. Dwyer came to Montana in 1902. The first year he studied law in the office of Peter Breen, then county attorney at Butte. For one year he was instructor in the Butte High School and in 1904 came to Anaconda as principal of the Anaconda High School. Mr. Dwyer was elected superintend- ent of the city schools of Anaconda in 1905, and his long service in that position coupled with his many versatile gifts of mind make him one of the best known school men of Montana. At Anaconda he has under his supervision seven schools, a staff of sixty-five teachers, with a scholarship enrollment of 1,800. His offices are in the high school building.

Mr. Dwyer for the past four years has been state director for Montana of the National Edu- cation Association. He has served eight years as a member of the State Text Book Commission, was chairman for 1919 of the State Schoolmasters Club, and since 1918 has been Montana State Di- rector of the National Education Association. Mr. Dwyer is independent in politics, is affiliated with Anaconda Council No. 882, Knights of Columbus, with the Anaconda Club and Rotary Club, and has been closely associated with a number of civic movements in his home city. He owns a modern home at 505 Hickory Street.

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In June, 1908, at Anaconda, Mr. Dwyer married Miss Alice Malvey, a daughter of P. J. and Mary (Sullivan) Malvey, who reside at Anaconda. Her father is in the copper refining department of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Mr. and Mrs. Dwyer have two children: William, born April 3, 1909; and Horace, born May 6, 19II. 7

CHARLES ARTHUR LEWIS. The handling of realty creates a position of dignity in any live and growing community, and some of the oldest and most re- liable firms of Billings and other large Montana cities are engaged in this line of endeavor. As Billings has grown, stretching out its arms to embrace outlying communities, new operators have been attracted, who have contributed materially to the city's growth and development. In this class is found Charles Arthur Lewis, who com- menced his career at Billings in the realty field in 1917, and who has since not only been successful in this direction, but also in farming, ranching and the dairy business.

Mr. Lewis was born in Gage County, Nebraska, March 25, 1880, a son of Richard and Anna · (George) Lewis. The family originated in Wales, its members being lineal descendants of Lord Wales, a member of the peerage, and in that coun- try the grandfather of Charles A. Lewis, Edward Lewis, passed his life as the owner of a large estate. Richard Lewis was born in 1845 in Wales, and was sixteen years of age when he left his native land and immigrated to America, where he spent four years in a lumber camp in the province of Ontario, Canada. Following this he came to the United States and for two years was engaged in farming near Janesville, Wisconsin, subsequently becoming a pioneer farmer and stockman on the frontier of Nebraska, owning a farm in Gage County. There he passed the remainder of his career, competing successfully with discouraging conditions, and eventually won prosperity and the ownership of a valuable property, where his death occurred in 1890. Mr. Lewis was a republican and one of the prominent and influential men of his party. After serving fifteen years as a member of the Board of County Supervisors he was sent to the State Senate, where he gave his constituents, his county and his state excellent service and estab- lished a reputation for conscientious discharge of duty. He was a member of the United Brethren Church and an active supporter of its movements, dying firm in its faith. Mr. Lewis married Anna George, who was born in Wales in 1854, was four years of age when brought to the United States, and was reared at Janesville, Wisconsin. She sur- vives her husband and resides at Beatrice, Nebraska. There were four children in the family: Elizabeth I., the wife of Perle E. Rhea, of Billings; Charles Arthur ; Lester T., who has resided at Billings since 1919; and Nettie F., the wife of Albert King, of Billings, at present with the American Expedition- ary Forces, overseas.

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 111

Author: Stout, Tom, 1879- ed Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society Number of Pages: 1126

Author: Stout, Tom, 1879- ed
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 1126