Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 125

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

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Mr. O'Rourke has been a leader in the demo- cratic party in Silver Bow County for a number of years. He is a life member of Butte Lodge No. 40, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a third degree Knight of Columbus, affiliated with Butte Council No. 668, is a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the R. E. L. A., Butte Aerie No. II, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and is a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters. Sheriff O'Rourke has his home and offices at the courthouse. He mar- ried at Anaconda in 1899 Catherine O'Rourke, a dis- tant relative. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O'Rourke. Her father was a Union soldier during the Civil war and afterwards as a member of the regular army fought against the Indians in the West under Gen. Thomas F. Meagher. For a number of years he was a dry goods merchant at Denver where he died.

GEORGE D. LYON. Efficiency is the watchword of the hour. In industry and business, in work and play, in the administration of public and private affairs, in education and training, in philanthropy and religion, no trait is so important in these strenu- ous days as efficiency. This is demanded of the indi- vidual who would succeed. It is borne in upon the boy or girl at school, who is thereby incited to make schooling a direct preparation for success in the occupation to which he or she aspires. It tests the apprentice in entering and completing apprenticeship. It is more and more the condition of getting and keeping a job. Both in the skilled trades and the learned professions, good general qualifications must be supplemented by technical expertness. Even in philanthropy and religion, where the test of effi- ciency has been applied last and least, it is coming to be seen to be good is not enough to fit one to do well. We must be better than good to do good. In business circles the need for efficiency is so para- mount that without this qualification no man today can hope for promotion, and the fact that he has

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risen above his associates is proof positive that he has learned how to make every action, each thought even, work out to produce the most effective results. George D. Lyon, manager of the Clifton, Applegate & Toole Company, is one of the live young men of Anaconda who is recognized as a living exponent of efficiency raised to the highest degree.

George D. Lyon is a native son of Montana, hav- ing been born at Drummond, this state, January 9, 1883, a son of George D. Lyon, and member of one of the old colonial families of New England, whose roots strike back into the soil of old England. The elder George D. Lyon was born at Greenwich, Con- necticut, and died at Drummond, Montana, in 1885. Coming west in young manhood, he spent some time at Corinne, Utah, and then in 1872 became a pioneer rancher of Drummond, Montana, his ranch still being in the family and owned by his widow and son William, it comprising 3,000 acres of land, on which they carry on cattle raising upon an extensive scale. In politics George D. Lyon, Sr., was a repub- lican, and his namesake son inherits his views in this respect. His widow, who bore the maiden name of Ella F. Smith, was born at North Scituate, Rhode Island, in 1854. Their children were as follows: William, who is living on the homestead ranch; Arthur R., who is an emplove of the Continental Oil Company of Missoula, Montana; and George D., who is the youngest.

Growing up in Granite County, Montana, George D. Lyon attended its schools and the Phillipsburg High School, and then took a three-years' course at the State University at Missoula, Montana, and was graduated from the Northern Indiana Commercial College of Valparaiso, Indiana, in 1902. For the subsequent two years he was in the employ of the W. B. Conkey Company of Hammond, Indiana, as a clerk, following which he was car clerk for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company at Tront Creek, Montana, for a year. For six months he served as brakeman on this same railroad, working out of Missoula, and for another six months was in the mines of the Coeur d'Alene district at Mace, Idaho. His next employment was with Winston Brothers, who had a contract on the construction work of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, with headquarters at Missoula, and he remained with this firm for two and one-half years on this contract, and then for six months more was with them at Chehalis, Washington. In 1910 he engaged with the Clifton, Applegate & Toole Company at Bonner, Montana, as bookkeeper, and remained there until 1012 occupied with the construction of the Big Blackfoot Railroad. In that year the company, one of the biggest railroad construction firms in the West, came to Anaconda. and Mr. Lyon came with them and assisted in building the Georgetown exten- sion of the Butte. Anaconda & Pacific Railroad, heing the office manager of the company since that date. The offices of this company are on North Cedar Street. Anaconda. Mr. Lyon lives at No. 115 West Seventh Street.

In 1908 Mr. Lyon was married at Missoula to Miss Ethel V. Perro, a daughter of John and Akkie (Hoffman) Perro. Mr. Perro was a carpenter who died at Drummond, Montana. Mrs. Perro survives and makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Lyon. The one child in the Lyon family is Kathryn, who was born October 16, 1911. Mr. Lyon has brought to his position deep knowledge of railroad construc- tion, wide practical experience in railroad work, and a sound, personal judgment which, combined with his efficient methods, have enabled him to so conduct the affairs of his office as to make him a model after which others are urged to pattern.

ALBERT NEWLON WHITLOCK came to Montana from the East, after graduating from Harvard University Law School, to accept a post in the newly organized law school of the University of Montana. He is still a professor in the law school, until recently was dean of the school, and at the same time has built up and maintained a busy general practice, and is widely known among the lawyers of the state.

Mr. Whitlock was born at Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, September 1, 1887. His paternal ancestors were English and colonial settlers in Vir- ginia, and from there the family was transplanted across the mountains into Kentucky early in the nineteenth century. His maternal ancestry includes the Bakers, also of colonial American stock. His grandparents were Albert and Adeline Whitlock, hoth native Kentuckians, where they spent all their lives. Albert Whitlock was born in 1823 and died in Madison County in 1898. He was a farmer. He and his wife had two sons, John, a farmer who was born in Madison County in 1848 and died there about 1898, and J. V. Whitlock.

J. V. Whitlock was born in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1852 and has spent all his active career there as a successful farmer. He now lives at Rich- mond. He is a democrat and for many years has heen a faithful member of the Christian Church. He married Alice Baker, who was born in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1857. Albert N. Whitlock was the second of three children. His younger sister, Hazel, died at the age of. nineteen. The other sister, Alma, is the wife of G. C. Stocker, a prominent farmer at Richmond, Kentucky.

Albert Newlon Whitlock attended rural schools in his native county and after a four years' course graduated from the Richmond High School with the class of 1902. He took the regular literary and clas- sical course in the University of Kentucky at Lex- ington, graduating A. B. in 1906. He is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. In 1906 he returned to the Richmond High School as its principal, remaining for one year. For two years he was an instructor in the University of Kentucky and in 1908 received the degree Master of Arts from that insti- tution. The same year he enrolled as a student in the law school of Harvard University, and remained until completing his course and receiving his LL. B. degree in IQ11. In the meantime he had been admit- ted to the Kentucky bar in 1909. For a few months in 1911 Mr. Whitlock was in the law offices of Stover & Hall at 60 Wall Street, New York City.

He came to Montana to take un his duties as assistant professor of law at the State University in September, 1911. He was one of the first instruc- tors in the Law Department, and in 1012 was chosen professor of law and still fills that chair, being the senior professor of the Law School. From 1913 until June, 1919, he was also dean of the Law School, but resigned at the latter date. In private practice he formed a partnership in 1912 with Charles H. Hall, and their relationship was con- tinned until 1917. Since then Mr. Whitlock has been a member of the law firm of Murphy & Whitlock, with offices in the Montana Building. The senior member of the firm is W. L. Murphy.

Mr. Whitlock is also a member of the State Board of Law Examiners, an office he has held since the board was created by the Legislature in 1917. Politically he is a democrat, is a member of the Christian Church, belongs to the Missoula Chamber of Commerce and is a stockholder in the Missoula Trust and Savings Bank. His home is at 415 Con- nell Avenue.

August 29, 1912, Mr. Whitlock married at Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, Miss Charlotte Reed Thurs-

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ton, daughter of J. M. and Nellie F. (Reed) Thurs- ton. Ifer mother still lives at Cambridge and her father, who died there, was a banker.

CHARLES H. MARSH is a Montanan of thirty-five years' experience and residence. He brought no capital with him to the territory. However, he knew how to work and as a ranch hand and teamster he earned his first money in Montana. For a number of years he was a locomotive engineer and for over twenty years has been a business man of Missoula, where he has developed the largest undertaking establishment in the county.

He was born in Gallatin County, Kentucky, Feb- rnary 27, 1861, son of William B. and Maria (Hil- ton) Marsh. His paternal grandparents were pi- oneers in Kentucky from the State of Virginia. William Marsh married in his native state Maria Hilton, who was born at Litchfield, Illinois, and when a small child was taken to St. Louis, where her par- ents died of cholera and she was reared by an uncle in Kentucky. William Marsh and wife enjoyed an ideal companionship and were well fitted for the strenuous experiences of pioneering. In 1872 they moved to Independence in Western Missouri, where they spent the rest of their lives as farmers. Wil -. liam Marsh died at the ripe age of eighty-two and his wife at the same age in 1908, having survived her husband six years.

Charles H. Marsh was eleven years of age when his parents moved to Western Missouri. He finished his education in local schools and also attended the Kansas City Commercial College. In 1884, at the age of twenty-three, he came to Helena, Montana, and soon afterwards went to work on a ranch in the Prickly Pear Valley. His next experience was in the placer mines of Jefferson County, where he drove a four-horse team hauling charcoal. Later in the same year he was given work in the engine shops of the Northern Pacific Railway, and remained with that corporation fifteen years. He became a fireman, and for twelve years was locomotive en- gineer. Even yet he retains his card of membership in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Hav- ing married and established a home and with several children growing up, Mr. Marsh left railroading and in 1899 bought a half interest in the livery and un- dertaking business of Hays & Haverfield at Missoula. In 1901 he became sole proprietor and soon after- ward took in his brother Walton Marsh as a partner. In 1903 he again became sole proprietor and in 1908 sold the livery business and has since concentrated his time upon the undertaking department. Mr. Marsh was elected coroner of Missonla County in 1904 and served four terms. He is a republican in politics, is a member of Missoula Lodge No. 13, An- cient Free and Accepted Masons, Western Sun Chap- ter No. II of Missoula, St. Omer Commandery No. 9 of Missoula, Eastern Montana Consistory No. 1 and Algeria Temple Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also an Odd Fellow, Elk, Eagle and a member of the Royal Highlanders.

In February, 1891, Mr. Marsh went back to Missouri to claim as a bride the girl who had been the inspira- tion of his early efforts and enterprise in the West. She was Miss May Douglas, danghter of James Dong- las. a prominent citizen of Buckner, Missouri, and a Confederate veteran. James Douglas was a Cali- fornia forty-niner, and after returning from the coast married Henrietta Dixon, of Virginia. For nearly thirty years Mr. and Mrs. Marsh have had their home in Missoula. Their first child, Hilda Frances, was born in November, 1891, and their son Walton was born in 1893. Their youngest child was Donglas G., who was born January 10, 1894.

He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in Washington, District of Columbia, November, 1917, and received his training at Paris Island and Quan- tico and sailed for France March 12, 1918. On the morning of June Ioth he was killed in action at Chateau Thierry in Belleau Woods. He fell when within a few yards of the first line trenches. He is buried in France.

FRED R. ANGEVINE, for the past seven years has been a Missoula lawyer whose work has attracted to him a large clientage and who has made a most cred- itable record in connection with several offices of trust. He is a lecturer in-the Law Department of the State University.

Mr. Angevine was born at Missoula February 14, 1889. He is of English ancestry. His father is R. W. Angevine, a prominent resident of Missoula and Montana. R. W. Angevine was born near Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1857, spent his boyhood there, and was married at Duluth, Minnesota, where he lived for several years and was connected with the police department. He came to Montana about 1886 as foreman of bridges and buildings of the Rocky Mountain Division of the Northern Pacific Railway. That work required much travel, but he made his headquarters and home in Missonla and has re- garded Missoula as his chief residence for over thirty years. After retiring from railroading he served as chief of police of Missoula for ten years, for two terms was county auditor of Missoula County, and is still a business man, being a rancher and con- tractor. He has a hay, grain and stock ranch of 450 acres at Clinton, and has a home on the ranch as well as in Missonla. He is affiliated with the Bap- tist Church and is a member of the Missonla Lodge, No. 13, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Western Sun Chapter No. 11, Royal Arch Masons, Covenant Lodge No. 6, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Missoula Aerie No. 32, Fraternal Order of Eagles. R. W. Angevine married Etta Jones. She was also a native of Nova Scotia, born at Pug Wash Junction, near Halifax, in 1863. Fred R. Angevine is the older of two sons, his brother Eugene being a registered pharmacist at Missonla.

Fred R. Angevine graduated from the Missoula County High School in 1907. He then spent five years in the Literary and Law departments of the University of Washington at Seattle, graduating LL. B. in 1912 and being admitted to the Washington bar in that year. He is a member of the Sigma Chi and the Phi Delta Phi college fraternities. Re- turning to Missoula in 1912, Mr. Angevine entered at once upon his business and profession as a lawyer and handles a large practice both in the civil and criminal branches. He gives part of his time to his duties as special lecturer on criminal law and practice in the State University Law School at Missoula.

Mr. Angevine has served two terms as public ad- ministrator, was county attorney from 1916 to 1918, and for a few months served with the colors during the World war. He went to Camp Pike, Arkansas, August 1, 1918, and after a period of training was commissioned second lientenant of infantry. He was mustered out December 4, 1918.

Mr. Angevine is secretary of the Missonla Amuse- ment Company and is also interested in the ranch with his father. He is a democrat in politics, a mem- ber of the Methodist Church, belongs to the Missoula Chamber of Commerce and is affiliated with Missoula Lodge No. 13, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Hell Gate Lodge No. 383 of the Elks. On Oc- tober 7, 1019, at Seattle, he married Miss Bernice Moderie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Moderie.

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Her father is connected with the Heron Lumber Company at Missoula. Mr. and Mrs. Angevine re- side at 222 West Spruce Street.

WILLIAM B. DALY has had a phenomenal rise to prominence in mining circles in Montana. About twenty years ago he abandoned a promising law practice to come to Butte and learn mining. He worked as a common laborer for a time, and neg- lected no opportunity to acquire a fundamental and practical knowledge of mining in every detail. For several years past he has held one of the important executive positions in the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and is now assistant general manager of the corporation, with supervision over an army of 12,000 employes.

· Mr. Daly was born at Smartsville, California, January 4, 1873. His father, Lawrence Daly, born at Dundalk, Ireland, in 1834, came to the United States about 1848, and in the following year drove a bull team of oxen attached to a prairie schooner across the plains and over the mountains to Cali- fornia. For many years he was a successful hy- draulic miner in California and died at Smartsville in 1892. He was a democrat and a Catholic. Lawrence Daly married Ann Barry who was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1834 and died at San Francisco in 1906. A brief record of their children is as follows: Mary, who is living at Oakland, California, unmarried; Kate married Hugh O'Don- nell, a coal dealer, and both died at San Francisco; Ella, wife of Joseph Hamm, who has charge of the California Wire Cloth Company at Oakland; Ce- cilia, who died in infancy; John J., who was a resi- dent of Butte and many will recall the tragedy of November 8, 1898, a general election day, when he was killed at Butte while protecting the sanctity of the ballot; Lawrence, a machinist helper for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company living at Butte ; William B .; and Thomas and Matthew, both of whom died young.

William B. Daly was educated in the public schools of Smartsville and after passing a teacher's ex- amination taught school for two years. He studied law at San Francisco, was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of California January 8, 1894, and for five years was a hard working young lawyer with every promise of success in his profession.

In April, 1899, he arrived at Butte, possessed with the ambition to make a name and career for himself in mining. The first year he worked as timekeeper at the Neversweat Mine, and then in order to learn every phase of the business became an underground miner. He was promoted to cost clerk under John P. O'Neil, then to chief time keeper for the Ana- conda Copper Mining Company, and in March, 1907, became foreman of the East Gray Rock Mine. Later he was also foreman of the West Gray Rock Mine, the Bell. the Diamond and the East Gray Rock mines. From September, 1912, to December, 1913, Mr. Daly served as superintendent of the employment department of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. His next promotion was to effi- ciency engineer, an office he held from December, 1913, to June, 1914. From June, 1914, to June, 1918. Mr. Daly was general superintendent and since the latter date has been assistant general manager, with offices in the Hennessey Building at Butte.

He is a member of the Montana Society of Min- ing Engineers and the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Politically he is an independent demo- crat, and at one time took considerable part in local affairs. He was elected clerk and recorder of Silver Bow County in 1904, but was counted out hy his opponent. He is a Catholic, a fourth degree Knight

of Columbus, affiliated with Butte Council No. 668, member of the Silver Bow Club, Silver Bow Good Roads Association and the Butte Chamber of Com- merce.

Mr. Daly and family reside at 808 West Galena Street. June 28, 1905, he married Mary E. Nevin, daughter of Edward and Ellen Nevin, both now de- ceased. Her father was a miner in Virginia City, Nevada, having been a pioneer there. Mrs. Daly received her education in the schools of Virginia City and is a graduate of the parochial high school.

W. J. BABINGTON came to Montana in 1890, and in a business way was identified with mining, ranch- ing and the lumber industry for many years. For the past ten years he has been a figure in the official affairs of Missoula County, being the present county clerk and recorder.

Mr. Babington was born near St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, July 9, 1865. His family is Scotch-Irish. His grandfather, William Babington, was a native of England and spent his active life as a farmer in County Fermanagh, Ireland. James Babington, father of W. J. Babington, was born in County Fermanagh in 1828, and at the age of twen- ty-one came to America and settled at St. John, New Brunswick. He was liberally educated and in addi- tion to farming also practiced law. He was a Con- servative in politics and spent many years as post- master of his home city in Canada. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. James Babington, who died in St. John in 1903, married Susannah Coyle, who was born in Ireland in 1828 and died near St. John in 1892. W. J. Babington is the oldest of their children. Beresford is a farmer near St. John; Annie S., is the wife of George Robinson, a farmer, merchant and saw mill operator near St. John; Rob- ert C., a farmer near St. John; and John C., who was born in 1872 and died near St. John in 1901.

W. J. Babington was educated in the rural schools of Queens County, New Brunswick, and in 1885 graduated from the Normal School at Frederickton. . For five years he was a school teacher and school principal in New Brunswick, and coming to Mon- tana in 1890 went to work in the Curlew Mine at Victor in Ravalli County. For two years he was employed as a mucker and then for another two years was bookkeeper and office superintendent. On leaving the mine he followed saw milling and ranch- ing until 1910, in which year he was elected county auditor of Missoula County. That office he filled with efficiency for two years and in 1912 was elected county clerk and recorder. He served in that ca- pacity for eight years, through re-elections in 1914, 1916 and 1918.

Mr. Babington is a democrat in politics, a member of the Episcopal Church, and in Masonry is affiliated with Missoula Lodge No. 13, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, Western Sun Chapter No. 1I, Royal Arch Masons, Tyrean Council No. 3, Royal and Se- lect Masters, St. Omer Commandery No. 9, Knights Templar. all at Missoula, and Algeria Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Helena. He is also a member of Laurel Lodge No. 11, Knights of Pythias, Hell Gate Lodge No. 383 of the Elks, Missoula Aerie No. 32, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Missoula Lodge No. 556, Loyal Order of Moose, and Missoula Camp No. 5329. Modern Woodmen of America. He is an active worker in the Missoula Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Bahington served as secretary of the Missoula Coun- ty Draft Board during the late war.

July 3, 1899, he married Mrs. Kate (Campion) Wolfkill. Her father was the late Matthew Campion of Owego, New York, a veteran railroad man.

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EDWARD FRANCIS CONYNGHAM, M. D. The active life of Dr. Edward Francis Conyngham has been connected with the most important period in the de- velopment of Missoula County, Montana, and is linked with the developments which have stimulated the advancement and progress of the profession of medicine and surgery in the state. He was born at Westport, Missouri, May 8, 1865, a son of Edward J. and Katherine Marie (Andrews) Conynham, and on the paternal side comes of an old Anglo-Saxon family, which originated in Sussex (South Saxon), England, the name then being spelled and pronounced Koenigheim. On the Norman invasion (1066) the family was driven north, where Doctor Conyngham's branch of the family became identified with the Clan Douglas. During the Crusades, Kenneth Conyngham saved the life of Edward of England from an assassin, and for this a serpent was added to the family crest. Later, Edward, or Eamon, saved the Bruce from his pursuers by hiding him in a hayfield, hence the family coat-of-arms and motto. During the Commonwealth, and even after 1745, the Conynghams were adherents of the Stuarts, and almost all their Christian names are of Stuart origin. It was a Conyngham who brought to Queen Victoria the news of her accession to the throne of Eng- land.

Edward J. Conyngham was born at Annandale, Scotland, December 25, 1833, and early became a captain of Fusileers, B. E. I., but resigned his com- mission in 1860. Coming to the United States, he first settled in Georgia, and during the Civil war was a captain of infantry in the Confederate army. His death occurred at Salt Lake City, Utah, De- cember 17, 1899. His wife, who was born at Castle Andrews, County Kildare, Ireland, April 16, 1845, died at Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 17, 1889.

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 125

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