Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 123

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

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Washington, where he was assigned to the same work for three months. He then became traveling representative of the Washington office, in which capacity he made many long trips, jumping from Great Falls, Montana, to Washington, D. C., back to Missoula, Montana, thence to various other places in Montana until the spring of 1909, when he was made deputy forest supervisor of the Bitter Root National Forest, with headquarters at Missoula. On July 1, 1909, he went to Red Lodge, Montana, as forest supervisor of the Bear Tooth National Forest, where he remained until November 1, 1910, whence he went to Kalispell as forest supervisor of the Blackfeet National Forest, retaining that position until July 1, 1911, when he returned to Missoula, this time as assistant district forester in the office of Operation. On July I, 1915, he became assistant district forester in Silviculture at Missoula, and has been retained in that office to the present time. In this capacity Mr. Preston has general supervision of timber sales and planting forest products and silvicultural research. His office is in the Federal Building, Missoula, where he has supervision over an office force of twelve men.

Mr. Preston is nominally a republican, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church and the Mis- soula Chamber of Commerce.

On June 17, 1908, at Sedalia, Missouri, Mr. Pres- ton was married to Maud Hunicke, the daughter of Al. and Louise Hunicke, of Los Angeles, Cali- fornia. For many years Mr. Hunicke was a master painter for a railroad company at Sedalia, Missouri, but is now retired. To Mr. and Mrs. Preston have been born two children, Louise, born February 9, 1911, and John F., Jr., born June 18, 1917.

DAVID DUDLEY RICHARDS. There is no positive rule for achieving success, and yet in the life of the successful man there are always lessons which might well be followed. The man who gains pros- perity is he who can see and utilize the opportunity that came in his path. The essential conditions of human life are ever the same, the surroundings of individuals differing but slightly, and when one man passes another on the highway of life to reach the goal of success before others who perhaps started out before him, it is because he has the power to use advantages which probably encompass the whole human race. Today among the promi- nent citizens and successful men of Montana stands David Dudley Richards, until March I, 1920, the efficient and popular secretary of the Missoula Cham- ber of Commerce, and now connected with H. O. Bell & Company, Ford agents in Missoula. The qualities of keen discrimination, sound judgment and executive ability enter very largely into his make-up, and have been contributing elements to the success which has attended his efforts.

David Dudley Richards is the scion of sterling old Welsh stock, he being of the first generation of his family native to this country. His paternal grand- father, John Richards, was a native of Wales who in 1860 brought his family to this country and set- tled in Pennsylvania. In 1863 he moved to Bevier, Missouri, where he homesteaded 160 acres of land, to the improvement and cultivation of which he de- voted himself during the remaining years of his life. He was a pioneer of that locality and was successful in his business affairs, eventually becom- ing the owner of 740 acres of land, practically all of which was either in cultivation or pasture. He gave considerable attention to the raising of cattle, and also raised many mules especially for the coal mines. He was a republican in his political views, and was active in his religious life, being a member

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of the Welsh Congregational Church. Fraternally he was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His third wife, Elizabeth, was a native of Wales and died in 1908. Among their children was Thomas Richards, who was born in 1848 in Landsdowne, Wales, and' who died on October 21, 1914, at Mis- soula, Montana. When he was twelve years of age he accompanied the family on their immigration to the United States. He was reared on the paternal farmstead at Bevier, Missouri, and received his educational training in the rural schools of Macon County, Missouri. He engaged in farming and was also in the mercantile business at Bevier until 1883, when he moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and there engaged in the coal business. On June 13, 1885, he came to Butte, Montana, where he lived until April, 1914. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, and his excellent qualities received substantial recog- nition by his fellow citizens of Butte, who repeatedly elected him to public office. During the late eighties he served two terms as deputy sheriff under Sheriff John E. Lloyd, and he also served four years as deputy county clerk and recorder. For the long period of seventeen years he rendered efficient serv- ice as secretary of the Butte School Board, and during that period practically every large school building in that city was erected. He resigned this position in April, 1914, and came to Missoula to make his home, having retired from active life, and there his death occurred in the following October. Politically he was a staunch supporter of the repub- lican party, and was an active member of the Welsh Congregational Church. Fraternally he was a mem- ber of the Masonic Lodge at Bevier, Missouri, of which he was a past master, and of the Bevier lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having joined both of these time-honored orders at the time he attained his majority.

Thomas Richards was married at Bevier, Missouri, to Jennie Clauss Jones, who was born at Rutland, Vermont, in 1854, and whose death occurred at Mis- soula, Montana, in 1909. To this worthy couple were born four children, namely: Annie E., who is the wife of J. P. Rowe, professor in the Mon- tana State University at Missoula; Ralph G., who is a rancher at Wise River, Montana; John W., who is connected with the Times Publishing Company, at Los Angeles, California; David D.

David D. Richards was born at Butte, Montana, on the 16th day of August, 1889, and was reared there. He secured his elementary education in the public schools of Butte, graduating from the high school there in 1908. He then entered the State University at Missoula, where he was graduated with the class of 1912, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. While at the university he had not spent his vacations and odd hours in idleness, but had been employed by the Hennessey Company and the Butte Street Railway Company. After his graduation in 1912 Mr. Richards entered the employ of the Missoulian Publishing Company as reporter on the Missoulian and the Sentinel, maintaining this relation until 1915. In that year he went to Great Falls, where until April of the following year he served as telegraph editor of the Great Falls Leader. Then for about four months he was manager of publicity and assistant secretary of the Great Falls Commercial Club. On August 1, 1916, Mr. Richards came to Missoula as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, in which capacity he served until March I, 1920. The officers of the Missoula Chamber of Commerce were then as follows: President, H. O. Bell ; first vice president, F. A. Schlick ; second vice- president, E. S. Holmes; treasurer, Newell Gough ;

secretary, D. D. Richards. Mr. Richards is regarded as a good business man, an excellent manager, a man who possesses sound judgment and keen fore- sight, and who believes in pressing forward, keep- ing the wheels of the car of civilization ever moving up the steeps. He enjoys the respect and esteem of all who know him for his friendly manner, business ability, his interest in public affairs and upright living, and is regarded as one of the worthy citizens of Missoula.

Politically Mr. Richards is nominally a republican, though he is decidedly independent when it comes to selecting his candidates, for he firmly believes that a man's fitness for office should supersede his party affiliation. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Butte. Fraternally he is a member of Harmony Lodge No. 49, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Western Sun Chapter No. 11, Royal Arch Masons; Covenant Lodge No. 6, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; Hell Gate Lodge No. 383, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also sec- retary of the Missoula Rotary Club; secretary of Missoula Post No. 27, American Legion; he has served as a director and secretary of the Missoula Amusement Company; is a member of the Greek letter college fraternities Sigma Chi and Theta Nu Epsilon, and is president of the Alumni Chapter of the former society at Missoula. Mr. Richards ren- dered effective service during the early days of the World War as district manager of the food con- servation campaign up to the time of his enlist- ment, and previous to that time he had also acted as recruiting officer of the British recruiting office at Missoula. He is a member of the executive com- mittee of the Montana Association of Commercial Club Secretaries and was secretary of this associa- tion up to the time of his enlistment. In 1913 and 1915 he was manager of the Missoulian Burean dur- ing the legislative sessions and did good service.

Not the least interesting experience of Mr. Rich- ards' life was his brief military career. On May 13, 1918, he enlisted in the United States service and was sent to Camp Hancock at Augusta, Georgia, where for five months he was in active training. He was then in the Field Artillery Officers' Train- ing Camp at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, where as a private he finally received an honorable discharge.

Personally Mr. Richards is a man of pleasing and attractive manner, courteous in his dealings with all classes, and he has, quietly and unobtrusively, won for himself a warm place in the hearts of those who have been associated with him, while all who know of him and his work are loud in their praise of him.

PETER J. KELLY is the present county assessor at Butte. Mr. Kelly is thoroughly a man of the people and as a boy worked in the mines around Butte, and has made good in every place of responsibility and service.

He was born at Marysville, Montana, June 26, 1883. His grandfather, Jeremiah Kelly, spent prac- tically all his life on a farm in County Cork, Ire- land. However, he came to the United States while this country was engaged in the Civil war, and en- listed as a Union soldier, serving during the last year of the struggle. Soon afterward he returned to Ireland. Jeremiah Kelly, father of Peter J. Kelly, is an honored resident of Butte. He was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1855, and was fifteen years of age when he came to this country. He had some experience in the mines of Michigan, was at Leadville, Colorado, during the high tide of the gold diggings there, and in 1880, left Leadville

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and the following year settled at Marysville, Mon- tana. He was a miner there until 1884, and has since lived at Butte. For a time he was an employe of the Butte & Boston Mining Company and is now a veteran in the service of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, being retained on the pay rolls of that great corporation as a watchman. He is a democrat and a member of the Catholic Church. Jeremiah Kelly married Annie Sullivan, who was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1856. Peter J. is the oldest of their children. Rose is the wife of James Graney, living at Helena, where Mr. Graney operates the Helena Stamp Works. Michael lives at Butte and is a sampler in the copper mines. Jere- miah is an acetylene welder living at Butte. May is unmarried and lives with her parents at 221 North Jackson Street.

Peter J. Kelly acquired his early education in the public schools of Butte, attending high school and graduating from the Butte Business College in 1901. His first employment in the mines was as a tool packer. Finally he was promoted to the duties of a regular miner and followed that work four years. For two years he was employed by A. B. Bryan's general mercantile establishment at Walkerville. After that he served four years as deputy county treasurer under C. E. Meagher, and was a time- keeper with the Anaconda Copper Mining Company until 1916, when he was elected for his first term as county assessor. Mr. Kelly is now in office as a result of his re-election in 1918.

In a business way he is a co-partner with Al Mc- Millan in the Velie Sales Company automobile agency. He is a fourth degree Knight of Columbus, being affiliated with Butte Council No. 668, and is also a member of Butte Lodge No. 240, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Butte Aerie No. II, Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is a democrat and a Catholic, and resides in the O'Rourke Apart- ments on West Quartz Street.

In 1909, at Butte, Mr. Kelly married Miss Flory Sewell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Sewell. Her mother is living in New Brunswick, Canada. Her father, deceased, was a carpenter at Anaconda, Montana. Mrs. Kelly died in February, 1914, leav- ing one daughter, Florence, who was born December 29, 1913: On February 20, 1919, Mr. Kelly married Miss Julia Lahiff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lahiff, of 620 West Quartz Street. Mr. Lahiff is a miner.

ARTHUR C. RICHIE, head of the statistical depart- ment of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company at Anaconda, is recognized as a man well fitted for the duties of his position through inclination and ability. He was born at New Paris, Ohio, June I, 1879, a son of John S. Richie, and grandson of Samuel S. Richie, who was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died at New Paris, Ohio, in 1888, when over eighty years of age. He was one of the pioneers of Ohio, and developed into a farmer upon an extensive scale near New Paris.

John S. Richie is now a resident of Scott's Mills, Oregon, but he was born at Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, in 1840. Until about 1857, he lived in Philadel- phia, and then moved to New Paris, Ohio, and engaged in farming, remaining in that location until 1882, when he came West to Ellendale, North Dakota, there continuing his farming operations until 1893, when he came to his present location and is now practically retired. A republican by conviction, he has been active in his party, and had the honor of being a member of the Lower House of the North Dakota Assembly at its first session, and was also elected in 1904 to the Oregon As-

sembly, in both instances being on important com- mittees. Born and reared a member of the Friends Society, he has been steadfast in his support of Quaker doctrines. The maiden name of his wife was Mary Brown, and she was born in 1841. Their children were as follows: Anna R., who married Charles A. White, lives at Scott's Mills, Oregon, where her husband died, having been a farmer and saw-mill operator; Edward Russell, who died at Ellendale in 1891; and Arthur C., whose name heads this review.

Arthur C. Richie was reared in Dickey County, North Dakota, and attended its schools, those of Scott's Mills, Oregon, and the Pacific College at Newburg, Oregon, being graduated from its aca- demic course in 1894. In 1896 Mr. Richie came to Montana, and was scale man for the Boston-Mon- tana Company at Butte, from which position he rose through various clerical positions to one of much more importance, and remained with that concern until April 1, 1902, when he came to Anaconda to enter the employ of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company as statistical clerk. In September of that year he was promoted to be assistant statistician, and August 12, 1916, became head of the statistical department, which position he still holds, and has under him ten employes. This department accounts for all ore receipts in the plants and the inter- mediate products of all processes, keeping track of all losses accruing in materials from the mines to the finished product. His offices are in the Anaconda Reduction Department two miles east of Anaconda. Mr. Richie is independent in his political views. Fraternally he belongs to Anaconda Camp No. 154, Woodmen of the World. He owns a modern residence at No. 700 Oak Street.

On September 2, 1903, Mr. Richie was married at Anaconda to Miss Edith P. Smith, a daughter of Carroll and Samantha (Haining) Smith. Mr. Smith is employed in Mr. Richie's department. Mr. and Mrs. Richie have one daughter, Marjorie, who was born October 13, 1909. Having risen to his present responsible position through his own efforts, Mr. Richie has every reason to be proud of what he has accomplished, and is held in high esteem by his superiors and is recognized as fair in his judgments by those under him.

DAVID J. HAVILAND has given thirty-five years of his life to work in mercantile lines. His proficiency and industry have been valued assets by concerns in both the Middle West and Northwest. Mr. Havi- land is department manager of the Missoula Mer- cantile Company and is one of the successful busi- ness men of that city. He is of English ancestry, the Havilands having come from England and settled at Flushing, Long Island, as early as 1647. His father, David J. Haviland, Sr., was born in New York State in 1819, and spent his active career as a farmer at Glens Falls, New York, where he died in August, 1868. He was a Quaker in religious faith and voted first as a whig and later as a re- publican. His wife was Phoebe Brown, who was born in Warren County, New York, in 1838 and died at South Charleston, Ohio, in 1914.

David J. Haviland was the only son of his parents and was reared by his widowed mother. He spent a number of years as a child and young man at Battle Creek, Michigan. He attended public school there and also the Kreuse Business College. Leav- ing school at the age of seventeen, he worked as clerk in a general store at Battle Creek. During the next ten years he applied himself to the work in hand, and not only earned his salary but laid the foundation of his substantial business career

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After leaving Michigan he was in a department store at Boulder, Colorado, twelve years, eventually becoming head of the department and with a finan- cial interest in the business. On leaving Colorado Mr. Haviland came to Missoula, where he arrived in May, 1909, and since then has been manager of the house furnishings department of the Missoula Mercantile Company. The Missoula Mercantile Company is one of the largest and most complete organizations of the kind in Montana, and the house furnishings department has the reputation of carrying the most complete stock of house furnish- ing goods in the state.

Mr. Haviland regards Missoula as his permanent home and he owns a modern residence at the corner of University and Gerald avenues. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, is a re- publican and a member of the Episcopal Church. He is prominent fraternally, being a life member of Hell Gate Lodge No. 383 of the Elks, is a member of Missoula Lodge No. 13, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, Western Sun Chapter No. 11, Royal Arch Masons, is past commander of St. Omar Com- mandery Knights Templar, at Missoula, a member of Algeria Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Helena, and is a past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias, an order which he first joined in Mich- igan.

October 4, 1899, at Boulder, Colorado, Mr. Havi- land married Miss Leta B. Wells, daughter of Wil- liam B. and Delphine (Burton) Wells. Her par- ents are now deceased. Her father for many years was superintendent of the Water Works at Boulder. Mrs. Haviland finished her education in the Uni- versity of Colorado at Boulder. They have three children : Doris, born in August, 1900, now in the first year of the State University of Montana at Missoula; Jean, born February 15, 1904, a junior in the Missoula County High School; and Leta Clair, born February 10, 191I.

FRANK M. PEARSON. During the ten years he has lived in Missoula Frank M. Pearson has handled as large a volume of real estate and insurance as any other individual in Western Montana. He posses- ses special qualifications for successful work in this line.

Mr. Pearson was born on a farm four miles from Ottawa, Kansas, July 24, 1878, but most of his life before coming to Montana was spent in Ohio. His great-grandfather came from England. His grandfather was born at Moundsville, West Vir- ginia, and was a millwright by trade and died at Woodsfield in Eastern Ohio. Albert J. Pearson, father of the Missoula business man, was born at Bealsville, Ohio, in 1849. He spent most of his life in his native state, and was prominent as an attorney and in public affairs, practicing law at Woodsfield for many years. As a democrat he was a leader in his party, served two terms as county attorney of Monroe County, and also two terms as probate judge. He was a member of the State Senate of Ohio one term and was twice elected to represent his Ohio district in Congress. While in Congress he was chairman of the committee on enrolled bills. At that time W. J. Bryan was in Congress, and a resolution introduced by Mr. Bryan and adopted by the House conferred special thanks upon Mr. Pearson for his painstaking and accurate work as chairman of the committee. This was a very un- usual honor. Albert J. Pearson was an active Methodist, a Royal Arch Mason and Odd Fellow. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the Union army and served during the last eight months of the war. For many years he was affiliated with the Grand

Army of the Republic. He married Elizabeth A. Alford, who was born in Ohio in 1850 and died at Woodsfield in 1903. They were the parents of six children : Charles A. L., who was an examiner in the pension department of the Federal Government at Washington, where he died at the age of thirty- six ; William, a tailor at Columbus, Ohio; Alvin J., judge of the Common Pleas Court at Cleveland ; Frank M .; Eloise M., who is the wife of a farmer in Alberta, Canada; and Lorena, who died at the age of seventeen.

Frank M. Pearson attended public schools at Woodsfield, Ohio, graduating from high school in 1899. The following three years he spent in a local insurance and real estate office, and for two years was cashier of the branch office of the Travelers Insurance Company at Columbus and held a similar position at Cleveland for one year. Then for a short time he was special agent for that company, following which until 1009 he was manager of the O. M. Stafford & Goss Company, general insurance agents, at Cleveland.

Thus when he came to Missoula in June, 1909, Mr. Pearson was an expert in the insurance field. For six months he was in the employ of the general insurance and real estate firm of Stoddard & Price, and then formed a partnership with C. L. Taylor under the name Taylor & Pearson. On the death of Mr. Taylor December 31, 1914, Mr. Pearson con- tinued the business alone until 1916. In the mean- time his interests acquired such a large scope that he was obliged to take in another partner. With Dennis Lee he formed the firm Pearson & Lee Company, but in 1918 bought out Mr. Lee and has since been at the head of one of the leading estab- lishments of its kind in Western Montana. He handles city property and ranches all over the western part of the state. His offices are at 116 West Cedar Street.

Mr. Pearson is a democrat, is a Methodist, a charter member of Harmony Lodge No. 49, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He resides in the Rozale Apartments on South Sixth Street, West. On January 9, 1906, at Woodsfield, Ohio, he married Miss Maude E. Winchell, a daughter of E. L. and Dorothy (Lightner) Winchell, the latter now de- ceased. Her father is a contractor and builder living at Mountain Lake Park in Maryland. Mrs. Pearson was born at Zanesville, Ohio, and at- tended Hiram College in her native state and Kee Mar College at Hagerstown, Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Pearson have one son, Winchell E., born August 5, 1908.

JOHN L. CAMPBELL is a law graduate of the University of Minnesota, and during the eight years he has lived at Missoula made rapid progress in establishing a sound reputation as a lawyer and is now serving his second term as city attorney.

Mr. Campbell was born at Wabasha, Minnesota, December 18, 1890. In the paternal line he rep- resents an old and prominent Southern family of Scotch ancestry. His grandfather was for many years a successful planter and slave holder in Mis- sissippi, and was at one time lieutenant governor of that state. He died in Mississippi. W. H. Campbell, father of the Missoula lawyer, was born on a plantation in Mississippi in 1836 and as a young man joined the Confederate army at the outbreak of the war between the states. He was in active service until the battle of Antietam in 1862. In that battle he was shot through the ankle and was incapacitated for further military duty. Not long after the war he sought a new home on the

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prairies of Minnesota, became a merchant at Wabasha and for fourteen years served as county auditor of Wabasha County. He had become a republican in Minnesota. He was a member of the Episcopal Church and was affiliated with the Masonic fratern- ity. W. H. Campbell, who died at Wabasha in 1894, married in Minnesota Miss Alma A. Downer, and she is still a resident of Wabasha. She was born at Upper Jay, New York, in 1851. She is the mother of three children : Susie C., of Wabasha, widow of C. H. Robinson, who was a dentist; W. D. Camp- bell, a dentist at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada; and John L.

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 123

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