Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 120

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

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John W. Schofield attended the public schools of Alexandria, and completed his junior year in a high school at Washington, D. C. Leaving school in 1910, he spent four years learning the trade of machinist at Alexandria, and worked as a journeyman for one

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year. He was then in a real estate business until February, 1917, when he came to Bozeman in the service of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. In February, 1919, he resigned and became local agent for the Henningsen Produce Company, which is one of the largest produce companies in the Northwest, with headquarters at Butte and branch houses in many towns and cities.

Mr. Schofield is a democrat, a member of the Baptist Church, is affiliated with Bozeman Lodge No. 463, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and with Seminole Wigwam No. 35, Improved Order of Red Men at Alexandria. He is unmarried and makes his home in the Y. M. C. A. Building at Boze- man.

JAMES M. NOYES. In so many instances the same spirit which brought the venturesome from the sea- board states along the Atlantic to the then wild lands of Ohio and Indiana, prompted their sons to journey a little further West, and their grandsons to take up the line of march toward the setting sun. A review of the lives of the majority of those who are making history for Montana and other of the Western states proves this, and also shows that other desirable characteristics of the pioneers of years ago have been inherited as well as that of the reach- ing forth into new territory. James M. Noyes, city treasurer of Billings, is a striking instance of this, for he not only comes of a pioneer father, but his grandfather came into Indiana at a very early day in its history from one of the Eastern states and be- came a tavern keeper at Manchester, Dearborn Coun- ty, his old fashioned hostelry being located on an old road between Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis. Here he rounded out a long and useful life, dying a highly respected resident of Manchester.

James M. Noyes was born in Southern Indiana, in the woods seventeen miles south of Madison, July 22, 1858, a son of Israel Noyes. The latter was born in Pennsylvania in 1834, and there grew to manhood. He came to Ripley County, Indiana, at a time when pioneer conditions prevailed, and securing unde- veloped land, cleared it off and made of it one of the best farms in his neighborhood, and here he is still residing. He is a republican, having lived through the birth and growth of that party. The Methodist Episcopal Church holds his membership, and re- ceives his hearty support both of money and personal effort. After coming to Ripley County, Indiana, Mr. Noyes was united in marriage with Isabella Perdue, born in Ripley County in 1844, and she died on the homestead in 1874, having borne her husband the following children: James M., whose name heads this review; Leander, who died at the age of twelve years; Mattie, who married a Mr. Williams, a farmer and blacksmith, lives in Ripley County ; Charles, who is an Illinois farmer; Cora, who died at the age of sixteen years; and Anna, who married a physician and moved to one of the Southern states. After the death of his first wife Israel Noyes was married second to Harriet Perdue, a sister of the first Mrs. Noyes, and she died shortly afterward, leaving no issue. As his third wife Israel Noyes married Bettie Hyatt, who was born in 1849 in Ripley County, In- diana, and they had children as follows: Emma, who married a Mr. Kenneth, a farmer, lives in Dear- born County, Indiana; Elmer, who resides on the homestead in Ripley County ; and William, who is a farmer of Ripley County.

Until he was nineteen years old James M. Noyes remained at home alternating attendance at the local schools with farm work, but at that time he left the parental roof and spent a year in Missouri in farm labor. Returning to Ripley County, he was employed

in a sawmill for a year, and then went West, going first to York County, Nebraska, where from 1881 to 1883 he was employed on a farm. For the subse- quent six years he was engaged in a coal business at Geneva, Nebraska, but sold it to go into the hotel business in that city, in which he continued until 1893. In that year he became proprietor of the Ash- land, Nebraska, Hotel, and conducted it until 1897, when he sold his interests and moved to Sheridan, Wyoming, and that city continued his home until 1901. From 1901 to 1904 Mr. Noyes was proprietor of the Wymore, Nebraska, Hotel, but sold it in the latter year, and going to Kansas City, Missouri, conducted a restaurant there for two years. During 1906 Mr. Noyes came to Montana, and locating at Marshall River, Yellowstone County, helped to build 106 miles of the Milwaukee Railroad, and continued his railroad construction work at New Ontario, in the extreme northern part of Canada, assisting in laying 150 miles of the government railroad, and remaining there from October, 1907, to April, 1908. In the latter year he came to Billings, which has since continued his home. Upon his arrival in this city he embarked in a cigar business under the name of the Billings Cigar Company, and conducted it until 1913, when he became associated with the United States Telephone Company, leaving it in 1915 to once more go into the cigar business, which he sold in 1917 to devote all his attention to the duties of the office of city treasurer of Billings, to which he had been elected on the republican ticket, his office now being in the City Hall. He had already had experience as a public official, as he had served as a member of the City Council of Gevena, Ne- braska. In former years he was a member of the order of Elks, but no longer maintains his connection with that fraternity.

In 1880 Mr. Noyes was united in marriage with Miss Laura L. Lane, born at Madison, Indiana, where the wedding ceremony was performed. Mr. and Mrs. Noyes have the following children : Carrie, who is Mrs. Benjamin Reynolds, is a widow, her husband having been a railroad contractor, who died leaving her with the following children, Mary Louise, Caroline, Tyler and Benjamin; Anna, who married Lon Button, a music teacher, lives at Billings and has one child, Anna: Louise, who died in March, 1917, aged twenty-eight years, married Frank Allen, associated with the Thompson Lumber Company, and since her death he lives with Mr. Noyes, and has one daughter, Louise; James L., who is mentioned below; and Horace, who is also mentioned below. James L. Noyes enlisted for service during the Great war in the aviation branch, December 1, 1917, and was mustered out a sergeant at Hampton, Virginia, in February, 1919. Returning to Billings, Montana, he entered the employ of the Billings Hardware Company. Horace Noyes is another of the young men of Billings who enlisted at the call of their country during the Great war, on the same day as his brother, and he too was mustered out as a ser- geant at Hampton, Virginia. Upon his return to Billings, his services were secured by the Stone, Ordean, Wells Company as city salesman.

During all of his changes in location and business Mr. Noyes has ever displayed the same enthusiasm for his work which made him successful at the be- ginning of his career, and at the same time he culti- vated his talent for making and retaining friends. Always interested in civic matters, since coming to Billings he has paid special attention to local politics, and his election to his present office was a happy choice on the part of his constituents, and the record he is making indicates that other honors will prob- ably be offered him, for he possesses those qualities

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which enable a man to give the public efficient service.

S. E. DODGE, general manager and a director of the Park Milling Company at Livingston, is an ag- gressive young business man with a veteran's ex- perience in the flour milling and grain business, and acquired his active experience in the northwestern states of Minnesota and Montana.

Mr. Dodge was born in Waseca County, Minne- sota, September 9, 1881. His paternal ancestors came originally from England and were early set- tiers in Pennsylvania. His father, D. J. Dodge, was born in New York State in 1846. When a boy he was taken to Waseca County, Minnesota, grew up there, and was a youthful soldier in the Civil war. He was a farmer and for many years engaged in the hardware business in Waseca County and since 1917 has lived retired at Minneapolis. At one time he represented Waseca County in the Legislature, for two terms was county treasurer, was clerk of court three terms, altogether twelve years, and, as these offices indicate was one of the most promi- nent men of affairs in that county. Politically he is a republican, is very much interested in the Epis- copai Church, and is a Mason. D. J. Dodge married Fiora E. Long, who was born in 1852. Their oldest child, Harley, died in infancy. Edith is a trained nurse with home in Milwaukee, and for two years during the World war was an army nurse in France. Ethel is the wife of D. C. Cordry, who is division sales manager at Minneapolis for Marshall Field & Company of Chicago. Myra lives with her parents and is cashier for the Thorpe Company of Min- neapolis. . The next in age is S. E. Dodge. Flora is unmarried and is assistant cashier of the Twenty- sixth Street State Bank at Minneapolis.

S. E. Dodge as a boy attended the rural schools of his native county and in 1898 graduated from the Janesville High School. The following three years he worked with the County State Bank at Janes- ville, but since that time his experience has been almost altogether in the flour milling industry. He spent nine years with the Winnebago Flour Mill of Winnebago, Minnesota, beginning as bookkeeper and being promoted to assistant manager. For three years he was sales manager of the Chippewa Mill- ing Company at Montevidio, Minnesota, and then became sales manager of the Crescent Milling Com- pany at Fairfax, Minnesota, remaining there three years.

Mr. Dodge came to Livingston in the fall of 1917. The Park Miffing Company in which he is a stock- holder and director, as well as manager of the milis, was organized in December, 1916, and operates on a capital of $50,000. The company has a modern equipped mill with a capacity for 200 barrels daily, also has a farge elevator, and the industry serves to convert much of the hard wheat raised around Livingston into products ready for consumption. The head of the company is J. M. Darroch, president, a resident of Spokane, Washington. The vice presi- dent is H. B. Futter, a ranch owner in the Shields Valley. F. B. Holcomb, of Livingston, is secretary and treasurer.

Mr. Dodge is a republican, and is a vestryman in the Episcopal Church 'at Livingston. He is af- filiated with the Lodge of Masons at Fairfax, Min- nesota, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Willmar in that state, and is a member of the Rotary Club of Livingston, and the Livingston Cham- ber of Commerce. He resides at 319 North Main Street. In 1916 he married at Chicago Miss Anna Bradke, a daughter of August and Carolina (Schultz) Bradke. Her parents are retired farmers living at Maxwell, Iowa.

JOHN WILLIAM BROPHY, M. D. A Butte phy- sician and surgeon whose skill and attainments are readily recognized, Doctor Brophy is member of an old Irish family, several of whom are repre- sented in Montana, and before taking up the study of medicine he was employed in a business capacity in Butte.

Doctor Brophy was born in County Carlow, Ire- fand, April 1, 1885. His grandfather, Thomas Brophy, was born in 1808 and died in 1879, spending his entire life as a farmer in Ireland. He married Johanna Walsh, a native of Wexford County, who died in 1903 at the age of eighty-six. They were the parents of nine children, one of whom is Pat- rick J. Brophy, a Montana business man for over thirty years.

James Brophy, father of Doctor Brophy, was born in County Carlow in 1850 and spent his life there in the quiet vocation of farming. He died in December, 1885. He was a member of the Na- tionalist party, the Catholic church, and the Land League. He married Elizabeth Nourse, who was born in County Carlow in 1845 and died there in 1910. Of their children Doctor Brophy was the youngest. Thomas, the oldest, is a farmer in County Carlow; James has long been a resident of Butte, connected with commission houses and in the auto- mobile business; Patrick is a farmer in County Carlow ; and Joanna is the wife of Sylvester Bourke, a farmer in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Doctor Brophy was educated in the country schools and the Christian Brothers School of County Carlow, and received the equivalent of a high school education in St. Mary's Seminary at Cariow. In 1909 he graduated with the A. B. degree from the Royal University of Ireland at Dublin, and very soon afterward came to the United States and lo- cated at Butte. For one year he was employed by the Hennessy Company, for another year taught Latin in the Mount St. Charles College at Helena, and then entered the Medical Department of Creigh- ton University in Nebraska, where he took the reg- ular course and graduated M. D. in 1915. This was followed by a period of intensive training in St. Joseph's Hospital at Denver, where he spent fifteen months as an interne. On returning to Butte he was for one year a member of the staff of St. James Hospital, and in July, 1917, accepted an appointment to the staff of the Montana State Hospital for the Insane at Warm Springs, Doctor Brophy returned to Butte and engaged in a gen- eral practice as a physician and surgeon in June, 1919. His offices are in the Phoenix Building. He is a member of the Silver Bow Medical Society, the State Medical Society, is a Fellow of the American Medical Association and a member of the American Medical Psychological Association.

Doctor Brophy, who is unmarried and resides in the Curtis Hotel at 21 West Park Street, is a dem- ocrat, a member of the Catholic Church, is a third degree Knight of Columbus, being affiliated with Helena Council No. 844, and is also a member of the Knights of the Maccabees of the World and the Fraternal Brotherhood.

IRA D. FRANKLIN. Self-made men deserve more credit for what they accomplish in life than those whose prosperity is the result of inherited wealth or the outcome of technical knowledge supplied by coffegiate training. One of the advantages of this country, and one that is emphasized in its Western states, is that no height is too high for the ambi- tious, hard-working lad to aim for, and to the credit of those who have their own way to make be it said that a very large percentage not only reach but pass the goal of their youthful hopes. One of these

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men who owes all he today owns and is to his per- sonal sturdiness and faithful endeavors is Ira D. Franklin, proprietor of the "F-Bar-W" Ranch on the Little Powder River, who came to Montana as a runaway lad of twelve years, and has since made this state his home and the field of his operations. Ira D. Franklin was born at Canton, Minnesota, September 17, 1874, a son of John Demster and Celia Maude (Stevens) Franklin. John D. Frank- lin was born in New York State, his father being a canal boatman on the Erie Canal, but left his native place for Minnesota and for a time was engaged in farming. He then went to Valley City, North Da- kota, and engaged in a hotel business, and he also lived at Jamestown, North Dakota. His death oc- curred at Canton, Minnesota, but his widow sur- vives him and is now Mrs. Oliver Brown of Puget Sound, Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin had two sons, namely : Ira D. and Walter, also of Little Powder River.

Until he ran away from home on account of disagreements with his step-father Ira D. Franklin attended the schools of Jamestown, North Dakota, and has supplemented the knowledge there gained by close observation and contact with men. He boarded a freight train at Jamestown ånd rode it to Miles City, beating his way, for the child had no money, and although thrown off it several times by over- zealous trainmen, he managed to crawl back and reached his destination with a sound body. Upon reaching Miles City he secured employment in the restaurant of Reuben Riley, working for his board until he found a paying job driving a team for Charley Becker. All through the ensuing winter this little lad drove a team in all kinds of weather, receiving for the work $20 per month and board, and he earned every cent he received.

The following spring he went to work as sheep- man and herder for W. E. Harris, and remained with him for five years, and then left, for he found he was making no headway, his sole assets after all his hard work being his horse, saddle, bed and $23 in money. Making his way to the Little Powder River, Mr. Franklin made some money during the subsequent winter in hunting and trapping, catch- ing coyotes and wolves and killing deer and antelope. The next spring he engaged with the "YT" outfit as horse wrangler, and remained with it as long as the firm was in the cattle business. He next went with the Biddle Cattle Company on the Little Powder River, and also saw them wind up their affairs, for the closing of the open range was putting these old- time outfits out of the industry. While still en- gaged as a hand, Mr. Franklin had seen the ap- proaching end and invested his savings in horses, and when he left the ranch of the Biddle Company he began speculating in horses.

Like all of the forehanded cowboys of that period, Mr. Franklin had taken up a claim, which was lo- cated on Horse Creek, and here he developed a ranch of 11/2 sections of land, maintaining there his home until 1918. His pioneer home was a "hole in the bank," and he confesses that while living there alone his housekeeping arrangements resembled those of a coyote. However, he never lacked for plenty to eat, and could sit in the doorway of his dugout and shoot both deer and antelope.

. In 1910 Mr. Franklin acquired the Matheney Ranch on the Little Powder River, and has im- proved it with a view of making it his permanent home. His residence is a modern ten-room bunga- low, lighted by the Delco system, and supplied with hot and cold water and bath, with a full basement beneath, equipped with laundry conveniences, and a furnace for hot water heating of the house. His outlay on his house cost him $13,000. His other per-

manent buildings are his granary, with a capacity of 3,500 bushels on the first floor and 8,000 bushels on the second, with a driveway running through it, and a garage, blacksmith and tool shop for the care of his machinery, all of which he takes care of himself, having a natural attitude for the work. This ranch consists of 320 acres, and he is farming more than half of it, the land being under a water ditch of his own construction, his big reservoir impounding water for his irrigation supply. In addition to his ranching interests Mr. Franklin is a stockholder of the Powder National Bank of Broadus and the Broadus Independent Publishing Company, owners of the weekly newspaper issued at the county seat of Powder River County.

Mr. Franklin has been twice married, first at Belle Fourche, South Dakota, June 1, 1905, to Ina Crink- law, a daughter of Angus Crinklaw, a Scotchman by birth and a ranchman by occupation. Mrs. Frank- lin was reared in South Dakota. She died in 1906, leaving a son, Gerald. Mr. Franklin was married secondly to Miss Myra Emigh, a daughter of Peter Emigh, who was born at Friend, Nebraska, in 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin have five children, namely: Eva, Dale, Lela, Ernest and Annie. Since casting his first presidential vote for William Mckinley in 1896, Mr. Franklin has given an earnest support to the republican party on national issues. He has served his district as trustee for six years, and dur- ing the great war subscribed the limit for baby bonds and very liberally for the other bond issues and auxiliary war work, having always hewed to the line as a true American for the advancement of his community and his country, never willing to shirk the duties before him or pass over what he felt ought to be carried on. Had there not been in the makeup of the lad who made his way into the state the essentials of true manhood and noble character, the man of today could not have been developed. At a period when the majority of chil- dren are tenderly cherished Ira D. Franklin had to depend entirely upon his own exertions to keep life in his body and clothing on it, and yet no one ever heard him whine then, or complain since, and out of those early hardships he has emerged a he-man, sound, reliable and dependable, a fine product of a fine state, and one of whom other residents of Montana have every reason to be very proud.

JOHN PARKER WATSON. Among the younger gen- eration of business citizens who have come rapidly to the forefront in recent years as participants in the business life of Logan, few have made a more favorable impression upon their associates than has John Parker Watson, manager of the Copeland Lumber Company. His career has been one of steady and consistent advancement, for he began at the bottom of the ladder in the lumber business, and through his own ability has raised himself to a place where he is an active factor in the develop- ment of the industry in this section.

Mr. Watson was born at Somerset, Kentucky, No- vember 6, 1894, a son of Andrew Jackson and Lola Ellen (Gragg) Watson. His grandfather, John H. Watson, was born in 1837, in Kentucky, where he was a farmer and sheriff of Pulaski County. In 1901 he came to near Belgrade, Montana, where he ranched for a time, subsequently resided at Bel- grade for about two years, and about 1909 moved to his present ranch of 640 acres near Three Forks, where he continues in successful operations, being accounted one of the substantial men of his locality.

Andrew Jackson Watson was born in 1859, at Somerset, Kentucky, where he was reared and mar- ried, and while farming also served as deputy sheriff

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of Pulaski County under his father. In 1899 he be- came a pioneer farmer near Manhattan, Montana, where he also became a prominent and influential citizen, and was made county road supervisor, a position which he was holding at the time he was accidentally killed by a train at Central Park, Mon- tana, in May, 1904. He was a democrat and a mem- ber of the Masonic fraternity, and was a man of excellent reputation and the strictest integrity. Mrs. Watson, who survives him and is a resident of Man- hattan, Montana, was born in Pulaski County, Ken- tucky, in 1869. They were the parents of three children : John Parker, of this review; Susie Bob- bitt, the wife of Frank Curtice, of Manhattan, deputy sheriff of Gallatin County; and Andrew Jackson, attending high school at Manhattan, where he re- sides with his mother.

John Parker Watson received his education in the graded schools of Manhattan and the Gallatin County High School, which he attended through the sopho- more year, and when he left the latter institution in 1910, began work on a ranch near Manhattan, where he remained two years. In 1912 he received his introduction to the lumber business at Man- hattan, starting at the bottom as yard man for the Flint-Lynn Lumber Company. He remained there until 1915 and then went to Anaconda, where he contributed one year to the carpenter trade, and after a sickness of one year's duration went to Am- sterdam and began to work as yard man for the Copeland Lumber Company. There he won steady promotion until he was chosen as manager for the yard of this concern at Logan, the only one here, and assumed the duties of his new position in March, 1918. He has continued in the same capacity ever since, and has proven himself an energetic, pro- gressive and thoroughly capable business man, fully competent to represent his concern's interests. The yards and offices are situated along the Northern Pacific Railway tracks, and the headquarters of the concern are located at Bozeman.

Mr. Watson is a democrat, but the duties of his position have demanded his attention to an extent that has precluded the idea of his entering actively into public affairs. He is unmarried. i

SIG GOODFRIEND. Of recent years due apprecia- tion has been shown to the genius and ability of the salesman, whether he sells his own goods in his own store or acts as a representative for others. Sales- manship is something which cannot be learned unless a person possesses that innate something which en- ables him to sense a demand, and then study out the best way to meet that demand.

One of the men of Montana who has risen to heights of prosperity through his salesmanship is Sig Goodfriend, the leading men's clothing and sup- ply merchant in this part of the state, who is doing a rousing, big business at Anaconda.

Mr. Goodfriend was born at St. Louis, Missouri, March 3, 1864, a son of Simon Goodfriend, a na- tive of Hamburg, Germany, where he was born in 1821. After his marriage Simon Goodfriend came to the United States from Hamburg and located at St. Louis, Missouri, where for some years he carried on a bakery. In 1870 he went to Collins- ville, Illinois, but when he retired he returned to St. Louis and there he died in 1886. He married

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 120

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