Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 138

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

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Mr. McAboy was born at Alexandria, Minnesota, August 29, 1885. His paternal ancestors were Scotch and were colonial settlers in Virginia. His grand- father, William McAboy, was born in West Virginia and spent many years as a merchant in Ohio, and finally moved out to Alexandria, Minnesota, where he died before the birth of his grandson Charles. The father, Edgar McAboy, was born in Ohio in 1843, was reared in that state, and about 1867 moved to Alexandria, Minnesota. He was one of the very early settlers in that section of Minnesota, and after his marriage he developed a large tract of land as a farm. In 1897 he left Minnesota and went to Seattle, Washington, buying a stock ranch forty miles from that city. He gave his personal super- vision to his stock interests there for twenty years, but since 1917 has lived retired in the city of Seat- tle. Since early youth Edgar McAboy has been a very devout Presbyterian and regular worker in that church. He is independent in politics. His wife was Lucinda Strang, who was born in the territory of Minnesota in 1854, her people having pioneered in the northwest. To this marriage were born six children: William E., born in 1877, a rancher at Medford, Oregon; Jessie, born in 1879, is . the wife of Henry Schaefer, who has a brick manufacturing business at Seattle but lives at Sno- homish in that state; Frank, born in 1883, was an auditor and accountant and died at Missoula, Mon- tana, in 1915, at the age of thirty-two; Charles D. is the fourth in the family; Robert, born in 1890, was a plumber and died at Butte at the age of twenty-six; Paul, born in 1895, is a stationary en- gineer living at Snohomish, Washington.

Charles D. McAboy attended the district schools of King County, Washington, and remained on his father's ranch to the age of thirteen. After that he spent several years as an apprentice plumber in Seattle, and remained there as a journeyman until 1903. Partly to satisfy his desire for travel, but more particularly to gain a complete knowledge of all the systems and customs of the plumbing busi- ness in different sections, he worked as a journey- man in every state of the Union, and during that time assisted in the installation of many large and important contracts. After this varied and inter- esting program Mr. McAboy came to Montana in 1912, locating in Butte, and continued work as a journeyman until May 1, 1918. At that date he acquired from William Killeen the Plumbing Union Plumbing and Heating Shop, and is now sole owner of that establishment, located at 117 East Broadway. An expert himself, Mr. McAhoy has surrounded himself with men of skill and experience, and has all the facilities for handling the largest class of contracts in plumbing and heating.

During the World War Mr. McAboy gave much of his time to patriotic causes, and assisted in every way possible to promote the cause of the govern- ment. He is a member of the Montana Loyalty League, the Montana State Master Plumbers' As- sociation, is a republican, and is affiliated in Masonry with Summit Valley Lodge No. 123, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Deer Lodge Chapter No. 3. Royal Arch Masons, Zabud Council No. 2, Royal and Select Masters, Montana Commandery No. 3,

Knights Templars, and Bagdad Temple of the Mystic Shrine.

Mr. McAboy resides at 709 Colorado Street. In 1911, at Virginia, Minnesota, he married Miss Myr- tle Milligan, daughter of William and Mary (War- ner) Milligan, now residents of Plentywood, Mon- tana. Her father is proprietor of a grain elevator there. Mrs. McAboy is a graduate of the high school at Minneapolis, Minnesota. They had two children, Charles William, who died in infancy, and Louise Jessie, born November 5, 1915.

ARTHUR TOLLE, who learned telegraphy in the office of the Northern Pacific Railway at Forsyth, Montana, has for the past nine years been with the Western Union Telegraph Company, and his skill and ability have been rewarded by several im- portant posts, including his present office as man- ager for the company at Butte.

Mr. Tolle was born at Bernon in Marion County, Illinois, May 17, 1878. The Tolle family is of Eng- lish extraction, and were early settlers in Virginia. Mr. Tolle's grandfather served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His father was the late Rev. C. J. T. Tolle, who gave the greater part of a long life to the service of the Methodist ministry. He was born near Lexington, Kentucky, in 1815, and as a young man went to Illinois, where he was married. He spent over fifteen years in the Methodist min- istry. He filled pulpits at Vernon, Champaign, Ol- ney, Salem and other points in Illinois, and was also a builder and organizer of churches as a cir- cuit rider. During the Civil War he was a volun- teer religious worker, preaching and performing other services in army camps. He died at Vernon, Illinois, in 1890. He was a republican and a mem- ber of the Masonic fraternity. He was three times married. The only child of his first wife is George W. Tolle, a prominent Kansan, former county treas- urer, and now an insurance adjuster at Eldorado, Kansas. There were two children by the second marriage. Kate and Lovey, both unmarried and liv- ing at Topeka. Rev. Mr. Tolle married for his third wife Mary Brown, who was born in Macoupin County, Illinois, in 1834, and is now living at Riley, Kansas, at the age of eighty-six. She was the mother of four children, Arthur being the third. May, the oldest, is the wife of I. H. Wilton, a sales- man and real estate man at Salt Lake City. Faye is the wife of Henry Oglesby, an Illinois farmer near Patoka. Emily is the wife of Rev. C. . H. Gerkin, a Methodist minister, living at Riley, Kansas.

Arthur Tolle received his first educational ad- vantages in the public schools of Vernon, Illinois, and attended the high school at Patoka in that state through his junior year. On leaving school at the age of eighteen he worked on the home farm two and a half years, and for a similar period was an apprentice in the carpenter and repair shops of the Illinois Steel Works in Chicago. His experience in the northwest began in 1900, when he spent several months on a ranch at Fargo, North Dakota. After that he was employed in a restaurant at Fargo until March I. 1901, which was the date he located at Forsyth. Montana, and became a call boy for the Northern Pacific Railway. While perform- ing those duties he learned telegraphy, and after a year and a half was made operator at Forsyth. He remained there until 1907, and then became oper- ator with the Oregon Short Line Railway at Mont- pelier, Idaho, and two and a half years later was promoted to ticket agent for the same road at Boise, Idaho.

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Anaconda, Montana. He was transferred as man- ager to Wallace, Idaho, in 1913, and in 1915 was sent to Kansas City, Missouri, and made traffic supervisor. He returned to Montana in 1916 as manager of the company's business at Billings, and since the spring of 1919 has had the management of the important office at Butte. His office and operat- ing rooms are at 16 East Broadway. Mr. Tolle has under his supervision seventy employes, and is not only a skillful telegrapher but a thorough business man and executive.

In Butte he is member of the Rotary Club, is on the official board of the Methodist Episcopal Church and politically casts his ballot independently. His home is at 722 West Granite Street, and he also owns a dwelling at Boise, Idaho. July 3, 1906, at Oxford, Wisconsin, Mr. Tolle married Miss Willie M. Smith, daughter of George B. and Hannah (Williams) Smith. Her mother resides at El Reno, Oklahoma. Her father, who died in the spring of 1919, at El Reno, was a retired lumber manufac- turer.

ARTHUR C. JONES, M. D. A graduate in medicine from the University of Michigan, Doctor Jones has devoted much of his time since then to research study and training in special lines of practice, and in Butte and over the state is widely known for his success- ful work in handling diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.

Doctor Jones is of Welsh ancestry and was born at Shamrock, Nevada, June 26, 1887. His father, Mar- vin P. Jones, was born in Kentucky in 1855 but has spent nearly all his life in the great West. He was reared in California and Nevada, was married at Austin at the latter state, and was a pioneer miner, stockman and rancher in that vicinity. Subsequently he was proprietor of a hotel at Shamrock, and in 1891 he drove a flock of sheep to Belmont, Mon- tana. On or adjacent to his ranch he established a postoffice, and was the incumbent of that office for twelve years. In 1903 he removed to Chinook, Montana, where he continued his interests as a stock raiser, and also owned a livery stable and a general store. Since 1908 his home has been at Malta, Mon- tana, where he is still active as a farmer and cattle man. He is a republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity. Marvin P. Jones married Miss Katy Riley, who was born in California in 1864. She died at Chinook, Montana, in 1908. Dr. Arthur is the oldest of their three children. Grace is the wife of Dr. Charles E. Blankenhorn, a physician and surgeon at Butte. Cathlyne is unmarried and lives with her brother Doctor Jones.

The latter attended the public schools of Chinook, Montana, and has spent nearly all his life in this state. After completing the high school course there he entered the Shattuck Military Academy at Fari- bault, Minnesota, graduating in 1908. From there he entered medical school of the University of Michigan, and received his M. D. degree in 1912. He is a member of the Phi Rho Sigma college fra- ternity. After graduating he spent a year in the Murray Hospital at Butte, and for nine months in 1913 was assistant to Dr. H. M. Cunningham, a prominent specialist in the eye, ear, nose and throat at Marquette, Michigan. Doctor Jones then went abroad, remained in London three months and another three months at Vienna, where he continued his special studies in the eye, ear, nose and throat. Doctor Jones returned to Butte in 1915, and for the past five years has confined his work to his special lines. During 1918, however, he was with the Mayo Brothers at Rochester, Minnesota, in the Division of Plastic Surgery and Radium, and has since added those to

his special lines of work. His offices are in the Silver Bow Club Building, and he is secretary of the Silver Bow County Medical Society and also a member of the State and American Medical associ- ations.

Doctor Jones is a republican, a member of the Episcopal Church, is affiliated with Silver Bow Lodge No. 48, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Butte Lodge No. 240, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and is a member of the Silver Bow Club and the Rotary Club of Butte and the Butte Count- try Club. His modern home is at 1161 West Plati- num Street. He married at Butte in 1914 Miss Lois C. Gunn, daughter of Dr. J. W. and Jessie (Clayton) Gunn, of Butte. Her father is a well known Butte physician. Mrs. Jones completed her education in the National Park Seminary at Washington, D. C. To their marriage were born three children: Lois, born October 18, 1914; Arthur C., born April 5. 1916; and Barbara Evlyn, born in January, 1918.

EDWARD IRVING MCDOLE. Possessing much native business ability and judgment, and inheriting in a marked degree the habits of industry and thrift characteristic of a long line of Scotch ancestors, Edward Irving McDole, manager of the New Method Laundry Company, is actively identified with one of the more useful industrial enterprises of the city, and one of the most extensively patronized. A son of Henry McDole, he was born July 23, 1888, in Jefferson City, Missouri, but was brought up and educated in Butte.

Henry McDole was born in Springfield, Missouri, in 1854, and during his earlier life was engaged in agricultural pursuits in his native state, having car- ried on general farming in Springfield, Jefferson City, and in other near-by places, in the meantime, however, having learned the blacksmith's trade. In 1892, seized by the wanderlust, he migrated to Walla Walla, Washington, where he followed his trade for a year, the following two years being similarly employed at Deer Lodge, Montana. Coming with his family to Butte in 1895, he established the first smithy in the place, locating here where blacksmith- ing was in great demand, and during the next few years built up a substantial patronage. In 1904 he removed to Dayton, Washington, where he is still actively and prosperously following his chosen oc- cupation. He is a straightforward democrat in politics, and a worthy member of the Baptist Church, of which he is a liberal supporter. He is of honored Scotch ancestry, the McDole family having origi- nated in Scotland, from whence the founder of the McDole family in America came to the United States in colonial days, settling in Virginia.

Henry McDole married Marthe Ann Kelso, who was born in Missouri in 1855, a daughter of William and Sally (Turner) Kelso, the former, a pioneer farmer of Missouri, having been born in Virginia in 1812, and having died in Nevada, . Missouri, in 1899, while the latter was a native of Kentucky. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry McDole, as follows: James W., a time keeper at the West Colusa Mine, died in Butte when but twenty-one years of age; Edward Irving, the special subject of this sketch; and Roy Goldwin, living at Los Angeles, California.

After his graduation in 1906 from the Butte High School, Edward Irving McDole was for five years associated with the Yegen Brothers Bank, being first employed as a clerk and later as bookkeeper. From 1911 until 1912 he worked for the Standard Oil Company in Butte, and during the next three years was in the employ of the Newbro Drug Company. Accepting the position of bookkeeper for the New

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Method Laundry Company in 1916, Mr. McDole has continued with the firm until the present time, since October 1, 1918, having had entire manage- ment of the concern, which is one of the largest and most prosperous of its kind in the whole state of Montana. The plant and offices of this laundry are located at the corner of Silver and Wyoming streets, and under the able supervision of Mr. Mc- Dole is doing an extensive and well-paying business, its 100 employes being kept busy during every work- ing hour. Its officers are men of enterprise and good business judgment, being as follows: James T. Finlen, president ; John J. Burke, vice president ; John E. Corette, secretary and treasurer; and Ed- ward I. McDole, manager.

Mr. McDole married, November 30, 1918, Miss Virginia Rand, who was born, bred and educated in Butte, and now presides with ease and generous hospitality over their pleasant home at 2939 Keokuk Street. Politically Mr. McDole is a democrat, and religiously he and his wife are consistent members of the Baptist Church.

ABRAM LINCOLN BRADLEY. The Gilman State Bank has as its presiding official one of the most constructive citizens of the Sun River Valley, Abram Lincoln Bradley, a man to whose efficient efforts is due practically all of the development of this region. He has participated, usually as a leader, in every movement inaugurated for the pur- pose of bringing about much-needed improvements, and his name is known all over this part of Mon- tana.

The birth of Abram Lincoln Bradley took place on a farm in the Province of Ontario, Canada, on May 15, 1865, and he is a son of Thomas and Per- melia Bradley, and grandson of Thomas Bradley, the latter of whom was born in England, and there died before his grandson was born, having spent his life in his native land. The Bradley family is one of the old ones of England, and on his mother's side Abram Lincoln Bradley also came of good, old English stock.

Thomas Bradley, father of Abram Lincoln Brad- ley, was born near Sheffield, England, in 1811, and he died in the Province of Canada in 1869. About 1831, being then of age, Thomas Bradley left his native land for Canada, locating on a farm in the Province of Ontario, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was very active in his support of the Methodist Episcopal Church of his neighbor- hood, to which he belonged. Thomas Bradley mar- ried Permelia Halsted, born in Ontario in 1815, where her life was spent, and where she died in 1900. Her parents came to Ontario at an early day. Thomas Bradley and his wife had thirteen children, of whom Abram Lincoln was the young- est born.

Abram Lincoln Bradley was reared in the Province of Ontario, attended its schools, and was graduated from the high school of Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, in 1882. His business career was begun as a messenger boy in the Merchants Bank of Saint Thomas, Ontario, Canada, and he was pro- moted through several grades during the two and one-half years he remained with this institution. Mr. Bradley then came to the United States and took up a homestead in the vicinity of Langdon, North Dakota, and lived on his claim until 1894, when he went into Langdon and for six years was connected as bookkeeper with a large implement house of that city, and for ten years was in the same capacity at Cando, North Dakota.

In 1910 Mr. Bradley came to Montana and estab- lished the Augusta State Bank, of which he was

president. In 1913, when the railroad was built through this section, it was terminated two miles from Augusta, and a station was built and named Gilman. With the consequent moving to Gilman of many of the residents of Augusta, and the trans- feral of business to the new community, it was deemed expedient to move the bank to Gilman, and the name was changed to the Gilman State Bank, Mr. Bradley continuing, however, as its president. Mr. Bradley's associates in the bank are E. B. Boone, vice president, and C. W. Terwell, cashier. This bank has a capital of $25,000,, a surplus of $8,000, and its deposits are about $250,000. The bank is conveniently located on Main Street.

Well known as a Mason, Mr. Bradley belongs to Cascade Lodge No. 34, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Great Falls, Montana; Helena Con- sistory, Scottish Rite No. 3, in which he has been made a Thirty-second Degree Mason, and Algeria Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mys- tic Shrine of Helena, Montana. He is also a mem- ber of the State Bankers Association and the American Bankers' Association. The Bradley resi- dence is located on Montana Street, and is owned by Mr. Bradley, and he owns other realty at Gil- man and ranches in North Dakota and Montana.

In December, 1913, Mr. Bradley was married at. Great Falls, Montana, to Mrs. Allie L. (Treadwell) Dawson, a daughter of William and Lucinda A .. Treadwell, an old English family. Mrs. Bradley is the mother of Elmer E. Dawson, auditor at the Commercial National Bank, Great Falls, Montana. Mrs. Bradley is a graduate of the normal college at. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley have no children.

As president of the Gilman State Bank Mr. Brad- ley has been largely instrumental in developing the Sun River Valley and has interested outside capital in several of the projects. During the World war Mr. Bradley was very active, serving as chairman of the Liberty Loan drives of his district, putting all of them over the top, and received two Honor Flags. which he generously declares belong to the com- munity.' In addition to the above work Mr. Bradley assisted the Red Cross and other organizations in their various drives, and in every way did all in his. power to aid the administration in carrying out its. policies.

JOHN BRIMACOMBE. As proprietor of the Butte. Window Glass Works, John A. Brimacombe is iden- tified with one of the foremost industries of the. kind in the state, and is widely and favorably known throughout the community as a man of honor and: integrity, eminently worthy of the high respect in which he is held .. A native of Michigan, he was born February 1I, 1877, in Marquette, of English lineage on the parental side of the house.

William Brimacombe, his father, was born at Tavistock, Devonshire, England, in 1830, where he but conditions in this country failing to reach his high expectations he returned to his native land, and' continued there at his trade a number of years. In 1873, being again seized by the wanderlust, he came to America, locating in Marquette, Michigan, where he worked for four years as a contractor and builder, being a pioneer in that line of work. Mov- ing to Houghton, Michigan, in 1877, he continued in- his special work in that city until his death in 1892. He was a stanch republican in politics, and a mem- ber of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons. He was twice married. His second wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Coyle, was born in 1857 in Michigan, and is now a resident of Hough- ton, that state. Six children were born of their

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union, as follows: Richard, of Butte, is engaged in the real estate business, being associated with the firm of Wall & Jackman Company, Incorporated; Margaret, wife of A. M. Edyvean, agent for the Standard Oil Company at Marquette, Michigan; John, the special subject of this sketch; Ada, wife of S. P. Penberthy, of Houghton, Michigan, book- keeper for the Copper Range Smelting Company; Charlotte, wife of Dr. C. F. Ferris, a dentist at Houghton, Michigan, and at the present writing mayor of the city; and Jennie, wife of E. L. Hawsie, agent for the Ingersoll-Rand Company at Hough- ton, Michigan.

Leaving the public schools of Houghton when a lad of but thirteen years, John Brimacombe began life as a wage earner at the Michigan College of Mines, for three years serving as mail carrier, jani- tor and as a general all round worker. During the next two years he was a clerk in the office of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway, and sub- sequently followed the trade of a carpenter and builder in Houghton until coming to Butte in 1901. Mr. Brimacombe continued at that trade in Butte until 1914, erecting many prominent residences and public buildings, and still works at it to some extent. In 1914 he purchased the Butte Glass Works, es- tablished in 1899, being the first of its kind in this vicinity, and is carrying on an extensive and lucra- tive wholesale and retail business, dealing in window glass, plate glass, mirrors, and all other kinds of glass, his plants and offices being situated at 344 South Main Street.

Mr. Brimacombe married in 1907, at Superior, Wisconsin, Miss Clara L. Wyckoff, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wyckoff, of Houghton, Michi- gan. Her father is county agent, and a veteran of the Civil war. Her mother is not living, her death having occurred when she was a comparatively young woman. Mr. and Mrs. Brimacombe have one child, Jean Caroline, born October 29, 1913. They have a pleasant, modernly-built residence at 1019 Diamond Street. Politically Mr. Brimacombe is a republican, and fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of Butte Lodge No. 22, Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons, of Butte Consistory, and of Bagdad Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

GARFIELD B. PERIER has been a resident of Butte thirty-five years, was educated in this city, and for a number of years was connected with the Rocky Mountain Telephone Company, but is now secre- tary and treasurer of the Montana Electric Com- pany, a wholesale honse dealing in electrical sup- plies. Mr. Perier, who is of Canadian French and Huguenot ancestry, was born at Aurora in Esmer- alda County, Nevada, June 26, 1882. His father, Desire Perier, was born at Chambly, Quebec, Can- ada, June 13, 1845, and at the age of sixteen left his native town and came to the United States. By way of Panama he went to California, became a miner at Port Wine, and in 1874 joined the rush to Nevada after the discovery of the Comstock Lode. He did mining there, for a time was connected with the Belcher mine at Aurora, and in the winter of 1882 returned to California and was employed by the Syndicate Mines at Bodie. At the panic of 1884 he removed to Walla Walla, Washington, spending a year on a ranch, and on October 5, 1885, came to Butte. For nine years he was employed by the Colorado Smelting & Mining Company, and in 1894, when his health failed, he retired and died at Butte October 24, 1898. He was a Mason, having taken his first degrees in that order in California in 1870. He was also an ardent republican. Desire Perier

married Delema Barsalou, who is still living at Butte. She was born in Chambly, Quebec, January 20, 1855, and her first husband was Joseph Lefevre. By that union she has a daughter, Cora Helen, who is unmarried and lives with her mother.

Garfield B. Perier was the only child of his father. His father though he had to depend upon himself for his education by reading and associations with business, became well informed, and was always re- garded as a man of superior intellect and good judg- ment.

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 138

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