Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 144

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

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He was born December 24, 1868, at Independence, now a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. He was fourth among the five children of Rev. Alanson and Mary E. (Murch) Carroll, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Vermont. His father was a Presbyterian minister, educated at Western Vol. II-33

Reserve University in Ohio, and was one of the pioneers of his church in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. He died at Independence August 17, 1908.

William E. Carroll when three years of age was taken by his parents to Olathe, Kansas, but in 1881 the family home was returned to Independence. He acquired his education in the public schools of those two towns, also attended the Kansas City High School, and graduated in law from the University of Michigan in 1890. He came to Butte a young lawyer well recommended by his preceptors and for- mer associates, but for his success has chiefly relied upon his individual ability to transact business and solve problems of litigation to the best interests of his clients.

Mr. Carroll was assistant city attorney of Butte from 1907 to 1909, and at different times has taken an active and speaking part in republican cam- paigns. He has been an official in the Grand Lodge of Masons of Montana, was master of Mount Moriah Lodge No. 24, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Butte from 1897 to 1899, and is also affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Elks.

At Butte on September 27, 1894, he married Miss Anna Martin, daughter of James T. and Margaret (Corby) Martin. Her father was born in England, was a skillful mechanic by trade, was a veteran sol- dier of the Civil war and died at Truro, Massachu- setts, December 5, 1909. For many years he was a resident of Montana and is well remembered in the state. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll have three chil- dren: Helen, born December 9, 1896; Chauncey M., born August 8, 1901; and Charles R., born December 12, 1902.

MILES JORDAN CAVANAUGH has been a prominent Butte attorney for over a quarter of a century, has extensive interests in mining and other enterprises and represents a prominent pioneer family of the territory and state.

He was born at Denver, Colorado, October 3, 1865, son of Miles and Elizabeth (Downs) Cava- naugh. His father came to the Butte district of Montana in the early sixties, was a miner and pros- pector, and rose to the superintendency of a mine. He was selected by President Grover Cleveland as one of the men to safeguard the Government in- terests along the Northern Pacific Railway.

Miles Jordan Cavanaugh received his education in Butte, attending the public schools, and studied law with Carter & Clayberg. He was admitted to the bar November 2, 1891, and to practice in the Supreme Court on the 5th of the same month. Mr. Cavanaugh practiced at Helena from 1891 to 1894, and since then has been at Butte. He is a director and attorney for the Royal Development Company. Mr. Cavanaugh is a safe counsellor, a well read and hard working lawyer, and has also been a con- stant reader of good literature and enjoys the out- door sports of fishing and hunting. He is a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, and is a member of the Silver Bow County and State Bar Associations.

He married Alphonsine Milot, daughter of H. A. Milot, one of the early mining men of Montana. By their union he had two children, Lorena and Martha. For his second wife Mr. Cavanaugh mar- ried Cora E. Baugh, a native of Kentucky.

JAMES LATIMER BRUCE, mining engineer at Butte, has had an interesting record of personal service during the past twenty years, one that has identified

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him with some of the big mining districts of the country and since 1913 with the state of Montana. Mr. Bruce was born at Dublin, Ireland, May 20, 1880. His father, Stuart Bruce, was a native of Scotland and of a long line of sturdy Scotch an- cestors. The mother, Margaret Latimer, was of Irish birth and of Scotch-Irish family. James Lati- mer Bruce received his first education in a kinder- garten at London, England,, in 1885. Later in that year his parents emigrated to Canada and from that time until he was thirteen Mr. Bruce lived on a farm and attended the public schools of Oxford County, Ontario, from 1889 to 1893. He left Cana- da with his brother, Stuart, for Denver, Colorado, in 1893, to join their father, who was then in the mercantile business. James Latimer Bruce during subsequent years had considerable work to do in his father's store at Denver, and when not in school was thus employed until 1899. He was a student in the public schools of Denver until 1894, and in 1896 entered the Colorado School of Mines, where he remained a student except for one year until graduating with the degree E. M. in 1901. In the meantime, in 1899, he was employed in the Cripple Creek gold mining district.

His experience and progress as a mining engineer during the past twenty years can be described briefly as follows: From graduation in 1901 he was chem- ist and assayer at the Little Johnny Mine at Lead- ville, Colorado, until 1902; surveyor and draftsman for the firm of Hills & Willis of Cripple Creek, 1902-03; chief engineer and later general foreman of the Federal Lead Company of Flat River, Mis- souri, until 1907; assistant manager of the Grace Zinc Company of Joplin, Missouri, 1907-09; and manager of the Continental Zinc Company of Jop- lin, 1909 to 1913.

Leaving the great mineral districts of Missouri, Mr. Bruce came to Montana and from March, 1913, to January 1, 1920, was manager of the Butte and Superior Mining Company of Butte. In Septem- ber, 1919, he accepted his present responsibilities as manager of the Davis Daly Copper Company of Butte. Mr. Bruce is also a director in several min- ing companies.

He is a member of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, the American Institute of Min- ing and Metallurgy, the Montana Society of En- gineers, the Silver Bow Club of Butte, the Butte Country Club, Elks Club, Masonic order, and in politics is a republican.

June 16, 1909, at Lexington, Missouri, he mar- ried Mary Louise Temple, of Joplin, Missouri. She died shortly after coming to Butte in 1913, leav- ing no living children. On December 25, 1915, Mr. Bruce married Leah Sidney Hills, of Denver, Colo- rado. Her father was Victor G. Hills, who was one of Colorado's early day engineers with · office at Pueblo, and for a number of years practiced his profession at Denver and Cripple Creek. He was of the firm Hills & Willis of Cripple Creek, men- tioned in preceding paragraph as the firm that employed Mr. Bruce soon after he graduated from the School of Mines. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce have three children: Mary Adaline, born in 1917; and James Stuart and Janet Victoria, twins, born in 1919.

DAVID E. BAIRD. The problems of health are really the problems of life and must pertain to all questions of human interest, so that the physician and surgeon is the most important man of his com- munity. He must possess a wide range of general culture, be an observant clinician and well read neurologist, even though he never specializes along any particular line. To take his place among the

distinguished men of his profession he must bear the stamp of an original mind, and be willing to be hard-worked, while at the same time his soul often- times faints within him when studying the mysteries of his calling. Acquainted as he is with the simple annals of the poor, and the inner lives of his pa- tients, he acquires a moral power, courage and con- science which permits him to interfere with the mechanism of physical life, alleviating its woes and increasing its resistence to the encroachments of disease. No wonder that a skilled, learned and. sym- pathetic medical man commands universal admira- tion and respect. Within recent years another badge of honor has been added to those to which the phy- sician and surgeon is entitled, that of military serv- ice. The very flower of the medical profession has served this country in the hour of its greatest need, and not only saved countless lives, but preserved whole communities from the ravages of epidemics which usually follow in the wake of wars. One of the men of Montana entitled to distinction because of his skill and the eighteen years of military serv- ice he has rendered his Government, both as member of the state guards and regular army, is Dr. David E. Baird of Roundup.

Doctor Baird was born on his father's farm in Venango County, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1876, a son of John M. and Mary Grace (Hovis) Baird. This farm was the original location of the great- . grandfather of Doctor Baird, who bought it in 1796, and on it John M. Baird was born October 29, 1848. His wife was also a native of Venango County, hav- ing been born on July 16, 1852. In July, 1871, they were married, and they became the parents of six children, namely: Susan M., who is the wife of J. C. Chambers, of West Newton, Pennsylvania ; Doctor Baird, who was the second in order of birth; James C., who married Jessie Fulton, and served as sergeant in the Aviation Corps during the late war ; Frank P., who married Bessie Barnes, is superin- tendent of the Roundup public schools; Almeda F., who married Rev. Edwin Howe, a missionary, died at Canton, China, where Mr. Howe was stationed, in 1915; and Jesse H., who married Sue Bragstad, of Roundup, Montana, is a Presbyterian minister and is now in charge of the First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown, Ohio; John M. Baird is a farmer and is also in the oil business, operating wells lo- cated on his farm. He is a man of prominence in his community, and has been elected several times on the democratic ticket to township offices, includ- ing those of assessor and collector. Very active in the Presbyterian Church, he has held the office of elder in it for many years and in the church and his community is an influence for good.

Doctor Baird attended the public schools of Venango County, the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, the Grove City College at Grove City, Pennsylvania, and the medical department of the University of Maryland, being graduated from the latter in the class of 1906. For three years after his graduation Doctor Baird was physician and surgeon for the Ritter Lumber Company at Saginaw, North Carolina, from whence in 1910 he came west to Carlyle, Montana, and then on March I, 19II, located at Roundup, where with the exception of the time he was engaged in mili- tary service he has since continued. He belongs to the county, state and national medical associations. In 1916 Doctor Baird was appointed health officer of Musselshell County, and reappointed in 1918, and served for two terms, and in 1917 he was ap- pointed city health officer of Roundup, and served for two years. In politics he is a democrat, follow- ing in the footsteps of his father in his political belief. He belongs to Grove City Lodge No. 603,

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Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Grove City, Pennsylvania ; and he belonged to Bald Creek Chap- ter No. 36, Royal Arch Masons, but demitted to Roundup Chapter No. 30. Royal Arch Masons. He belongs to the Asheville, North Carolina Command- ery, Knights Templar, and Algeria Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Helena, Montana. Doctor Baird is also an active member of the Phi Chi Greek letter fraternity, hav- ing been the grand presiding national president.

In 1898 Doctor Baird enlisted in the Pennsylvania National Guards, served through the anthracite coal strike of 1902 with the Sixteenth Regiment, Penn- sylvania National Guards, and on August 29, 1910, he was made a sergeant major of the Second Regi- ment, Montana National Guards, receiving his com- mission as second lieutenant in 1914, and was ap- pointed assistant adjutant during the Butte riots in 1914. On June 19, 1916, he was ordered into service on the border, and on June 22d of that year re- ceived his commission as first lieutenant, being pro- moted to be battalion adjutant. He was released from duty on November 4, 1916, and mustered out of the service on March 25, 1917. During the late war he was ordered back into the service as first lieutenant, serving as such until Angust 3, 1917,

when he was released and honorably discharged. He was appointed by Governor S. B. Stuart to serve on the local draft board of Musselshell County after he had volunteered for the medical service. His commission was received and passed through the surgeon-general's office to the adjutant-general's office on the day the armistice was signed. During 1917 Doctor Baird was in the general command of 163 regiments stationed at old Fort Keogh, from March 25 to August 5.

On October 30, 1907, Doctor Baird was united in marriage with Sarah Alice Whitney, born at Bran- don, Vermont. Doctor and Mrs. Baird have three children, namely: Donald Whitney, Ruth Emily and David James. Doctor Baird is an earnest, carefully trained and faithful exponent of the healing art, never too much occupied to give time and attention to civic affairs, and few men stand any higher in popular esteem than he, and he has earned the con- udence and affection he inspires.

JOHN J. O'NEILL has been a resident of Butte since 1903, in which year he moved from Denver to become manager of the Continental Oil Company over the district of Montana and northern Idaho.

His career might be briefly described as one of hard work, and as he has worked he has used the opportunities that have come and has achieved a degree of success sufficient to satisfy the ambition of a normal American citizen.

His parents were James and Saralı (O'Brien) O'Neill, both natives of Ireland. John J. was one of fourteen children and was born at Clifton Springs, Ontario County, New York, August II, 1860. His birthplace is widely famous as the home of the Clifton Springs Sanitarium, whose superla- tive facilities have been patronized by many of America's foremost business men. After a few years of education in the local schools John J. O'Neill went to work at the Sanitarium as an errand boy. In time he made himself valuable to the manage- ment and the patrons of the sanitarium, and with increasing responsibilities remained there for ten years. The direct opportunity for a change of em- ployment was due to his acquaintance with a guest of the sanitarium, Mr. C. S. Morey of Denver, who offered him a position with the C. S. Morey Mer- cantile Company.

Thus in 1881, at the age of twenty-one, Mr.

O'Neill went to Denver and for six years was with the mercantile company, beginning as a utility man and when he resigned to go into business for him- self he was foreman in one of the departments. Since 1887 practically all of Mr. O'Neill's business energies have been devoted to the oil business. He sold oil at retail in the city of Denver as a member of the firm Horan & O'Neill for about two years. In the meantime, in the latter part of 1887, he had become city salesman in Denver for the Continental Oil Company. Later he was made manager of the company's business at Colorado Springs, was there about six years, and for nine years had charge of the company's business at Leadville, Colorado, Then in 1903 the company selected him for the important responsibilities of looking after their business in Montana and northern Idaho, with Butte as his headquarters.

Since moving to Butte Mr. O'Neill has identified himself so far as consistent with all local enter- prises and his name has been associated with the high minded and patriotic citizens of Montana. He is a democrat in politics, a member of the Catholic Church, of the Silver Bow Club, of the Elks and the Knights of Columbus, and is a former Grand Knight of the latter order at Butte. While in Den- ver he married Miss Alice Kendrick, of Ottawa, Illi- nois. She died at Denver in December, 1898, the mother of two children. The son, John R., born in July, 1890, at Colorado Springs, was educated in the public schools in Gonzaga University at Spokane and in the Art Institute of New York City. The daughter, Alice M., born in Colorado Springs, was graduated in 1913 from the Colorado State Normal School.

JAMES ALBERT POORE. A native son of Montana, James Albert Poore has enjoyed a steadily rising reputation as a lawyer at Butte for the past fifteen years. Most of this time has been devoted to the interests of a private clientage, though for nearly three years he was assistant attorney general of Montana.

Mr. Poore was born at Boulder, December 15, 1879, son of James and Jane Taylor (Baldwin) Poore. His parents were both natives of England. His father, born Angust 29, 1829, came to America in 1849, and was identified with the very first rush of prospectors to the valleys and gulches of Montana. He reached what is now the state of Montana in 1863, and was a placer miner at Virginia City, Last Chance Gulch, the Butte district and the vicinity of Boulder. After some years he went back to Eng- land and in 1877 brought his bride to Montana, still a territory. He died in Montana February 14, 1902, at the age of seventy-three. His wife, who was born October 2, 1846, survived her husband, and was the mother of four children: Mrs. Sarah Mande Boy- ington, James Albert, Thomas T. and Philip George.

James Albert Poore acquired his education in the public schools of Boulder, the Helena Business Col- lege and Butte Business College, and for five years, beginning at the age of nineteen, was employed by the law firm of Forbis & Mattison at Butte as a law clerk and stenographer. He acquired a considerable practical knowledge of the law while there, and also earned the funds sufficient to complete his legal edu- cation. Mr. Poore is a graduate in law from the law school of the University of Virginia, receiving his degree in 1905. From university he at once returned to Butte, where he has made a reputation for sound ability, careful handling of all interests entrusted to him, and on more than one occasion has exhibited brilliant qualifications as a lawyer. He is a republican in politics and was nominated in 1908

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for county attorney of Silver Bow County. In May, I910, he was appointed assistant attorney general, and gave his time to the law department of the state government until January, 1913.

Mr. Poore is a member of the Silver Bow Club, and is affiliated with Butte Lodge No. 240 of the Elks. June 3, 1911, he married Miss Mamie Lingo, daughter of Archie and Mary Lingo, of Anaconda, Montana. They have two children, James' Albert, Jr., and Robert Arche.

CHARLES WARREN GOODALE is one of the eminent engineers of America. A resident of Butte, he is one of the oldest among a considerable number of former graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose work and professional engage- ments have made them residents of Montana. It is forty-five years since Mr. Goodale graduated from that great American "tech" school, and since then his experience has taken him to many of the great copper mining districts of the West, and on pro- fessional engagements and in pursuit of recreation and knowledge he has become a world traveler.

Mr. Goodale was born at Honolulu, Hawaii, Sep- tember 6, 1854, a son of Warren and Ellen R. (Whitmore) Goodale. He represents stanch and cul- tured New England ancestry, and the early home where he lived with an uncle from the age of six years was the old Goodale homestead at Marlboro, Massachusetts, an estate that has been in the family for more than two centuries. Both his father and mother were people distinguished by fine attainments and exceptional experience. His father, who was born at Marlboro, Massachusetts, in 1825, had to give up his studies at Yale College owing to an affliction of the eyes, and then on the recommenda- tion of a physician took a long sea voyage, with the Hawaiian Islands as his destination. His annt, Lucy Thurston, had for a number of years been a missionary at Hawaii. He made the voyage around Cape Horn in 1849, and considering the wonderful fascination of the Pacific Coast at that time it seems singular that he was not diverted to the gold fields of California. In Honolulu he became a tutor in the Royal School, subsequently was appointed marshal of the kingdom, and subsequently served as collector of customs at Honolulu. In 1852 he returned to the United States to claim his bride. Ellen F. Whit- more, to whom he had been engaged for several years, was also a native of Marlboro, Massachusetts, and as a young woman had become deeply interested in the education of the American Indians. She pos- sessed the real courage of her New England ances- tors, and in 1850, about a year after Warren Goodale set out upon his Pacific voyage, she undertook a then even more hazardous undertaking, and duties and an environment that offered a strange contrast to the home of culture in which she had been reared. From her eastern home she traveled by rail to Western Pennsylvania, and thence by several stages traveled down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and up the Arkansas as far as the low waters would permit, and thence by stage coach and wagon over a rough road to Tahlequah, the chief capital of the Cherokee tribe of civilized Indians in Indian Territory, now Eastern Oklahoma. She arrived after a journey of nearly six weeks and remained for two years as a teacher in the Indian schools among the Cherokees. Hither in the summer of 1852 Warren Goodale also came, and on the 17th of June at the old Cherokee capital they were united in marriage. After revisiting in New England they started for Honolulu, and lived there until the death of Mrs. Goodale in 1861. War- ren Goodale then took his five children to his old home in Massachusetts, and the Civil war breaking out soon afterward he enlisted in the 11th Massa-

chusetts Battery, and during his service rose to the rank of captain. After the war Warren Goodale went back to Honolulu and for many years was con- nected with the sugar industry in the Hawaiian Is- lands. He died in Honolulu in February, 1897, at the age of seventy-two. Charles W. Goodale re- ceived his early education in the schools of Marl- boro, graduated in 1871 from the English high school in Boston, and then pursued his studies in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which awarded him the degree Bachelor of Science in 1875. Practically his entire experience since graduating has been as a mining engineer. His first services were rendered the Boston and Colorado Smelting Com- pany, remaining in the firm's office at Boston during 1875-76, and at Black Hawk, Colorado, from 1876 to 1880. The following five years he was superintendent and manager of the Boston and Arizona Smelting and Reduction Company at Tombstone, Arizona.

Mr. Goodale has been a prominent figure in mining circles in Montana for thirty-five years. He came to Butte in 1885 as superintendent of the mining department of the Colorado Smelting and Mining Company. Since 1898 he has been with the Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Min- ing Company, now the Boston and Montana depart- ment of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. He is at present chairman of the Bureau of Safety of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. His duties required his residence at Great Falls from 1889 to 1901, and since then he has been at Butte as assistant manager and manager. He is also president of the Barnes-King Development Company.

Despite the busy routine of his life, Mr. Goodale has had many active affiliations with professional, technical and scientific organizations, and besides the reports that have embodied the results of his painstaking investigations and examinations of min- ing properties and mining problems, he has prepared and read many addresses on technical subjects. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy of Great Britain, the American Mining Congress, the Colorado Scientific Society, the Montana Society of Engineers. He is a member of the Engineers' and Technology Clubs of New York, the Silver Bow and Butte Country Clubs of Butte, the Montana Club of Helena, the Anaconda Club of Anaconda, and the Electric City Club of Great Falls. He is a member of the Loyal Legion, is an Episcopalian and a repub- lican. About thirty years ago Mr. Goodale was a member of the City Council of Butte. Mr. Goodale is unmarried. His interests and recreation outside of his profession consist in outdoor sports and travel. He is fond of golf and plays that game chiefly on the links of the Butte Country Club.

PILO C. HANSON is president of the MacPherson- Hanson Company, real estate, mining investments, one of the leading companies of this kind in Montana.

Mr. Hanson is a keen young business man, and was one of the associates in establishing this cor- poration when only twenty-six years of age. He was born at Racine, Wisconsin, January 3, 1883, son of Lars and Anna B. (Jacobson) Hanson. His father was born in Sweden in 1834 and his mother in Christiana, Norway. They were married when young people at Chicago and moved to Racine, where Lars Hanson was employed in the lumber mills for a number of years. Later the family came to Butte, where the father died in April, 1899. Of the seven children the first six were born in Racine and the youngest at Butte.

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 144

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