Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 160

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

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Politically Mr. Hobson has been a life-long sup- porter of the republican party. Fraternally he is a member of Lewistown Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He is also a member of the Great Falls Commercial Club. He has never sought to be a leader in the affairs of the locality, merely striving to live up to the standard of good citizen- ship. Because of his sterling qualities of character, his kindly manner and his business success he has richly earned and today enjoys to a remarkable de- gree the friendship and good will of the entire popu- lace.

JOHN G. HOWE is a graduate dairyman from the agricultural school of the University of Minnesota, and for twenty years has been successfully engaged in the creamery business. He has managed plants in several communities in Minnesota and Washing- ton, and for over ten years has been manager of the Bitter Root Co-operative Creamery Company, one of the largest establishments of its kind in Western Montana.

Mr. Howe, who is also a banker of Stevensville, was born in Kellogg, Minnesota, February 9, 1879. His grandfather Howe came from Germany and settled at an early day in Illinois. Peter Howe

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was born in Illinois in 1841 and was a pioneer farmer at Kellogg, Minnesota. He is still living there, and is a prominent and widely known citizen of that section. He is president of one of the leading banks of Kellogg. He is a republican and member of the Catholic Church. Peter Howe mar- ried Elizabeth Baker, who was born in Illinois. Their children are: Kate, wife of Peter Schierts, connected with a feed and coal company at Helena, Montana; John G .; Elizabeth, wife of Peter Steiber, a farmer at Kellogg, Minnesota; Marie, a teacher in the schools of Stevensville, Montana; Celia, wife of Lynn Efilsticker, a farmer and pure bred cattle raiser at Wabash, Minnesota.

John G. Howe attended the public schools near his home at Kellogg, and was graduated in the dairy course from the Minnesota Agricultural College at St. Anthony's Park in 1899. He left college to become assistant manager of the creamery at Man- kato, Minnesota, remained there a year, filled a sim- ilar position for a year at Belle Plaine, another year at Detroit, Minnesota, and four years at Oakland, Minnesota. Prior to coming to Montana he was assistant manager of a large creamery at Spokane, Washington, three years. Mr. Howe was called to the management of the Bitter Root Co-operative Creamery Company of Stevensville in 1908. This is a highly successful concern, the president of the company being George Kinneman, the vice presi- dent P. B. Liddell, the secretary Mr. Howe and treasurer Ben Wood. The plant is located a quar- ter of a mile east of Stevensville.

Mr. Howe is also vice president of the First Na- tional Bank of Stevensville. He owns a modern home in the town on Park Street. He has served as alderman, is a republican in politics, and is a citizen who works for the good of the community at every opportunity. May 4, 1904, at Oakland, Min- nesota, he married Miss Ruby Parsons, a native of Mankato, Minnesota. They have three children : Warren, born October 13, 1905; John George, Jr., born September 21, 1911; and George Quinton, born May 14, 1919.

LILLIAN G. MILLER, M. D. While Montana has had a number of women physicians, and is justly proud of their record, two interesting distinctions belong to Doctor Miller, one in the fact that she was the first woman physician to hold the office of county physician in the state. She also established the first and only hospital at Hamilton, now a city institution.

Doctor Miller is a thoroughly trained and com- petent member of her profession. She was born at Baltimore, Maryland, and when she was a small girl her parents moved to Emporia, Kansas, where her father became a farmer. She is a daughter of August and Julia (Baker) Miller, both natives of Germany. Her father was born in 1843 and came to this country at the age of seventeen, living for a number of years in Baltimore, where he followed the trade of shoemaker. Soon after he came to this country the Civil war broke out and he joined a New York regiment of infantry and was all through the struggle. At Gettysburg he was shot through both cheeks. He followed farming at Em- poria, Kansas, for twelve years, and in 1893 moved to Milwaukee, where he engaged in the real estate and grain business. He died at Milwaukee in 1902. He was a republican. His widow is still living at Milwaukee. Doctor Miller had six brothers and sisters : Margaret, wife of George S. Kelley, a re- tired resident of Ontario, California; George Edward, who was a broker and died at Milwaukee at the age of forty-nine; Carrie M., living at Hamil- ton, Montana, widow of Perry Baker, an attorney

of that city; Rose, wife of Charles Hoffbauer, who is a ranch owner near Billings, Montana, and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Emma, wife of George Mayne, in the steel business at Brooklyn, New York; and Nellie, wife of J. M. McGill, of Louisville, Ken- tucky.

Doctor Miller acquired her early education in the public schools of Emporia, Kansas. She completed her freshman year in the high school, and finished her high school course at Milwaukee. Preliminary to her medical work she was a professional nurse. She took the nurses' training course at the Hahne- mann Hospital Training School in Chicago, and was a graduate nurse in Chicago for four years. She then entered the Woman's Medical College at Baltimore, where she received her M. D. degree in 1906. For 11/2 years she was resident physician at the Endowood Sanitarium for Tuberculosis. Then after a vacation and a period of considerable travel she located at Billings in 1909 and engaged in active practice there for three years. While at Billings she was appointed county physician, being the first woman in Montana to receive that honor. She moved to Hamilton in 1912 and established the Hamilton Hospital, but six months later turned the institution over to the city. Since then she has been busy with a general medical and surgical practice and has offices in the First National Bank Build- ing. She has served as county physician of Ravalli County. Doctor Miller is a republican, a member of the Presbyterian Church, is affiliated with the Re- bekahs at Hamilton and is also a member of the Women's Benefit Association, formerly the Ladies of the Maccabees. She belongs to the Woman's Club. Her home is in the Coulter Block.

CAPT. EARL MATHIAS WELLIVER, who is county contractor for Ravalli County, has been a resident of Hamilton since 1908. He served with the rank of captain in the National Army during the World war, and for a number of years was an officer in the New York National Guard. He has had a widely diversified experience as a teacher, public official, merchant and is an all around business man.

Captain Welliver was born at Muncy, Pennsyl- vania, January 3, 1872. His paternal ancestors came out of England and were colonial settlers in New York and Pennsylvania. His father, Mathias Wel- liver, was born in Pennsylvania in 1827, and spent all his life in that state. He married at Lairdsville and after his marriage moved to Muncy, where he was a hotel proprietor and real estate dealer. He was also a breeder and owner of trotting horses. His experience and qualifications as a horse man made him valuable to the Confederate Government during the Civil war. For two years he was cap- tain of a company of Pennsylvania cavalry on active duty at the front. The last two years of the war his services were even better placed in the remount department, where his knowledge of horses made him especially useful. He was a democrat in poli- tics. Mathias Welliver married for his first wife a Miss Crawford, a native of Pennsylvania. Her children were: Mrs. Jane Maniville, of Pennsyl- vania ; James, who owned a flouring mill and died at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, at the age of thirty- two; Florence, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, widow of Sam Lehman, who was a foreman in the machine shops of that city; and McClelland, a hotel proprie- tor at Williamsport. For his second wife Mathias Welliver married Julia Gregory, who was born in New York State in 1843 and is still living at Ham- ilton, Montana. Her ancestors were Scotch-English. Both the Welliver and Gregory families were repre- sented by soldiers in the American Revolutionary

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War. Mrs. Julia Welliver had two children : Myrtle, wife of F. H. Bailey, a civil engineer at Hamilton, Montana, and Earl Mathias.

Earl Mathias Welliver acquired his early educa- tion in the public schools of Muncy, Pennsylvania, graduating from high school in 1887. In 1889 he graduated from the State Normal School at Mans- field, Pennsylvania, and for one year was a teacher in Lycoming County. In 1891 he engaged in mer- cantile business at Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, was there two years, and was a merchant at Elmira, New York, until 1896. He continued in business at Buffalo, New York, until 1908. Captain Welliver came to Hamilton, Montana, on July 1, 1908. His first duties here were as purchasing agent for the L. E. Myers Company, a Chicago contracting firm which constructed the big ditch of the Bitter Root Valley. He was with that firm six months, and then became department manager of the Valley Mer- cantile Company, a post of duty he held until Au- gust, 1917.

On February 21, 1892, Captain Welliver enlisted as a private in the Thirtieth Separate Company of the New York State Guards at Elmira. He was trans- ferred to the Seventy-fourth Regiment at Buffalo in April, 1896. He was promoted from private to cor- · poral, sergeant, first sergeant, first lieutenant and captain, and resigned his captain's commission when he came west in 1908.

Though not subject to the draft, Mr. Welliver on account of his previous military experience en- tered the Officers' Training Camp at The Presidio, California, in August, 1917. He was commissioned a captain of infantry and was on duty at Camp Lewis, Washington, as instructor in the officers' training camp and assistant inspector and instructor . for the school of small arms. Captain Welliver was mustered out and given his honorable discharge February 5, 1919. He then resumed his residence at Hamilton, where as county contractor he is engaged in the important work of classification of lands in Ravalli County. His offices are in the courthouse.

Captain Welliver is a republican, is past master of Ionic Lodge No. 38, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, is affiliated with Hamilton Chapter No. 18, Royal Arch Masons, with Crusade Commandery No. 17, Knights Templar, and is inspector general of the Knights Templar for the State of Montana. He is also a member of Algeria Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Helena. His home is at 516 Sixth Street.

In 1896, at Elmira, New York, Captain Welliver married Miss Ida McNeal Rockwell, a daughter of Andrew and Julia (McNeal) Rockwell, both deceased. Her father was a contractor and builder at Elvira. Mrs. Welliver is descended from the first white child born in Chemung County, New York. Captain and Mrs. Welliver have five children. Two of their sons were members of the military establishment of the Government during the late war. The oldest son, Earl R., was born October 2, 1896, attended the Hamilton High School through his junior year, and for two years, 1916-18, was in Alaska with the Alas- kan Engineering Commission. He is now assisting his father. The son Julian, born October 29, 1898, also at home, enlisted April 17, 1917, spent one year in Texas, six months in England and six months in France, as a member of the Aviation Corps. Edwin, born July 5, 1902, was sixteen years of age when he joined the navy at San Francisco in March, 1918, and was on duty with a submarine chaser until mustered out January 20, 1919. The two younger children, twins, are Frank and Harrison, born Sep- tember 8, 1915.

F. R. FULSHER, M. D., C. M. Present coroner of Mineral County, a physician and surgeon at Sal- tese, Doctor Fulsher has had wide experience and possesses 'the finest talents and has spent many years in the service of various large corporations, particularly railroads, organizing and building up hospitals

Doctor Fulsher was born in the City of Winni- peg, Canada, June 19, 1881, at a time when Winni- peg consisted largely of a small settlement around old Fort Garry. His grandfather, William Fulsher, was a native of England and an early settler at Port Hope, Ontario, where he died. Fred Fulsher, father of Doctor Fulsher, was born at Port Hope, Ontario, in 1828, and as a young man moved to Western Canada, to Winnipeg, where he married and where he kept his residence the rest of his life. For several years he had some successful ex- perience as a placer miner in the Caribou District in British Columbia. He died at Winnipeg in 1890. He was a conservative in politics and a member of the Masonic fraternity, and as a youth had served in the Canadian Militia in Ontario. Fred Fusher married Jean Gibson, who was born at Kildonan, Manitoba, Canada, in 1833, and is still living, a resi- dent of Winnipeg. The date of her birth shows that her family was one of the very first in the western wilderness of Canada. Her father, William Gibson, came over with the original Lord Selkirk colony of Highland Scotch, who made the first settlements in the Red River Valley of what is now the Province of Manitoba.

Dr. F. R. Fulsher was educated in the public schools of Winnipeg, graduated from the Collegiate Institute there in 1898 and received his A. B. degree from the University of Manitoba in 1900. He took his medical studies at McGill University in Mon- treal, graduating M. D., C. M. in 1904. Doctor Ful- sher spent two years as an interne in the Du Brett Sanitarium at Banff, British Columbia, and for two years was provincial health officer of the Province of Alberta. For eighteen months he was associ- ated in practice with Dr. M. D. McEwen at Head- ley, British Columbia. In order to restore his health, seriously impaired by overwork, he spent two years traveling in Europe, Japan and throughout the Orient. Returning to Seattle, Washington, in 1908, Doctor Fulsher was given the responsi- hility of handling the construction work for the D. & R. Hospital Association for the Great North- ern Railway at Wellington, Washington. He was engaged in that work one year, and then at the Dalles, Oregon, was chief surgeon for construction work of the D. & R. Hospital Association, and also for the S. P. and S. and Oregon Trunk Railways. For a short time Doctor Fulsher was located at Marysville, Montana, and since then has been en- gaged in a general medical and surgical practice at Saltese. With that town on the western border of Montana as his home and headquarters he is surgeon for the Milwaukee Railway System, the Mann Lumber Company, the Cooper Monihan Lum- ber Company, and the Richmond Mine and Milling Company. He is also coroner of Mineral County.

Doctor Fulsher votes as a democrat, and is affili- ated with La Combe Lodge, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, in Alberta, Canada, and with Hell Gate Lodge No. 383 of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks. He married at Helena in 191I Miss Rachel Pepworth, daughter of William and Margaret (O'Hara) Pepworth. Her parents are residents of Cascade, Montana, where her father is police judge of the City Court and city clerk. Doctor and Mrs. Fulsher have one daughter, Mar- garet Jeane, born September 28, 1913.

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GUST MOSER has been identified with the country of Western Montana over thirty-five years. His present home is at Saltese, almost on the western line of the state, but as a lawyer, business man, miner and public official his name is widely known and esteemed throughout several of the counties in that part of the state.

Mr. Moser was born at Alma, Wisconsin, Sep- tember 17, 1863. His grandfather, Conrad Moser, was born at Zurich, Switzerland, in 1805, and came to this country with members of his family. He was a Lutheran minister and he also developed a vineyard at Alma, Wisconsin, and spent many years in caring for that property. He died there in 1899. Conrad Moser, Jr., father of the Montana lawyer, was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1832, was reared and married in his native land, and shortly after his marriage he and his wife, Verona, came to the United States. They lived for a time at St. Louis, Missouri, where he was a teacher in the public schools. He also studied law and was admitted to the bar at St. Louis. For a number of years he practiced law successfully in Wisconsin, at Alma until 1872 and at Eau Claire until 1888. Conrad

Moser moved to San Francisco in 1888, and had a good practice as a lawyer in California until his death, which occurred at San Francisco, July 4, 1904. While in Wisconsin he represented Buffalo County in the Legislature and was also probate judge. He was a republican and a member of the Masonic order. His wife was born at Grabunden, Switzerland, in 1827, and died at Alma, Wiscon- .sin, in 1869. She was the mother of four children : Louise, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, widow of Carl Ulrich, who was a teacher in the public schools of that city; Gust; Robert, a Government employe at Duluth, Minnesota, and Magdalene, a teacher at Monrovia, California.

Gust Moser was educated in the public schools of Alma and Eau Claire, Wisconsin, graduating from high school in 1883. On the first of October in the same year he arrived in the Bitter Root Val- ley of Montana, and for four years was engaged in the real estate business. Following that he was sec- retary until 1895 of the Missoula Mercantile Com- pany. In the meantime he had studied law, and after his admission to the bar in June, 1895, prac- ticed with home and offices in Missoula until Sep- tember 1, 1898. At that date he was appointed super- visor of the Lewis and Clark Forest Preserve. This was the first preserve in Montana taken over by the United States Government. He continued as a supervisor until 1904, and the following year he served as timekeeper for the Montana Ore Pur- chasing Company at Butte. Removing to Thomp- son Falls in Sanders County, he was the first county clerk of that county, from February I to December 31, 1905.

For the past fifteen years Mr. Moser has been a resident of Saltese, and has handled many cases in civil and criminal law arising in this section of the state. He maintains offices in Saltese, while his home is at the head of Packer Creek, five miles northwest of Saltese. He has a mining claim there and through many years has been interested in min- eral production. Mr. Moser is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the local government of Sal- tese. He is a republican and is a past chancellor of Laurel Lodge No. II, Knights of Pythias, at Mis- soula, and a member of the Fourth Judicial Bar Association, being vice president for Mineral County.

In 1896, at Missoula, he married Miss Tessie Mor- ris, a native of Oregon. They have three children: Gust, Jr., born March 17, 1902, was educated for two years in the Lewis and Clark High School, has also taken a course in electrical engineering with

the International Correspondence School, and is em- ployed by the Montana Power Company at Taft, Montana; Edith, born April 23, 1903, is in the first year of the high school at Saltese; Dan, born Janu- ary 28, 1908, is a pupil in the country schools.

CHARLES D. ELIOT. There can be no impropriety in scanning the acts of any man as they affect his public, social and business relations. In this work will be found mention of worthy citizens of all vo- cations, and at this juncture we are permitted to offer a resume of the career of one of the sub- stantial and highly esteemed citizens of Great Falls, where he has not only attained a high degree of success in his chosen field of labor and enterprise, but also established a splendid reputation for upright- ness in all the relations of life.

Charles D. Eliot was born on a farm in Andros- coggin County, Maine, on July 2, 1855, and is the son of Rev. John and Arabella (Berry) Eliot. The father was born in West Nottingham, New Hamp- shire, October 5, 1800, and his death occurred in 1877. After completing his common school studies he became a student in Gorham (Maine) Seminary. Then, having decided to devote his life to the min- istry of the Gospel, he became a student in Troy Theological Seminary, and on the conclusion of his studies he was ordained a minister in the Congre- gational Church. He became a successful missionary among the Indian tribes in the western part of New York State for a number of years. Later he be- came pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Lewis- ton, New York, where he remained for ten years. Then for the long period of thirty years he was pastor of the First Congregational Church at Rum- ford Point, Maine, where his death occurred. He was a man of scholarly attainments, ripe experi- ence and fine pulpit ability, being remarkably. suc- cessful in his ministerial labors. Politically he was first a whig and later a republican. Mrs. Arabella Eliot was born in Lisbon, Maine, on December 25, 1820, and died in 1889. She became the mother of five children, of whom two are living.

Charles D. Eliot received his elementary education in the public schools, after which he became a stu- dent in North Bridgewater Academy, completing his educational training in Kent's Hill Seminary, Maine. His first independent employment was at farm work, at which he was employed during two summers, at seven dollars per month. He then went to Boston, where he became bookkeeper for the Barstow Stove Company, which position he filled for about ten years. In 1884 Mr. Eliot came to Mon- tana, locating at Oka, where he was employed in herding sheep for Charles E. Severance. A year later he engaged in the sheep business on his own account, about eight miles from Belt, Cascade County. He was engaged in the sheep business there for about fifteen years, when he sold out there and located on the American Fork in that part of Meagher County which is now Wheatland County, where he again became extensively engaged in the raising of sheep. In 1909 he sold out his interests there and going to Great Falls engaged in the fire insurance business. He has been very successful in this line and is representative here for five of the leading fire insurance companies of the country. He is energetic and a good business man, which, with the innate courtesy which always characterizes his business dealings have gained for him the good will and esteem of all who know him. Mr. Eliot is vitally interested in the growth and development of the city of his adoption and is a stockholder and director in the Commercial National Bank and treas- urer of the Great Falls Cemetery Association and director in the Great Falls Building Association.

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On the 5th of December, 1900, Mr. Eliot was mar- ried to Eleanor L. Tracy, who was born in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of one daughter, Eleanor, who is the wife of Seldon S. Rodgers and the mother of three children, Seldon T., Oliver Eliot and Eleanor Lind.

Politically Mr. Eliot has always been an ardent supporter of the republican party, and has taken an intelligent interest in local public affairs. In 1892 he was elected county assessor of Cascade County, and was re-elected to the office in 1894, serving two terms. For the past ten years he has been a member of the school board and rendered effective service in the cause of the school system of this city. His religious membership is with the Congregational Church, of which he is a generous supporter. Such men as he are a credit to any community, and his life forcibly illustrates what energy and consecutive effort can accomplish when directed and controlled by correct principles.

J. L. HARTMAN has been in Montana over thirty years, was long identified with timber contracting and ranching, and still has much valuable property in the western part of the state, but his time for the past six years has been given to his official duties as sheriff of Sanders County.

Mr. Hartman was born in Summit County, Ohio, near the City of Akron, February II, 1865. His people have been Americans for nearly a century. His father, John Hartman, was born in Bavaria, Germany in 1817, and in 1826, at the age of nine years, came to this country with his parents and also his grandfather, all of whom thenceforth were thrifty American citizens. The family located at Buffalo, New York, where John Hartman lived until he was sixteen years of age. For a number of years he lived at Akron, Ohio, where he married and where he followed the cooper's trade. From 1878 to 1898, twenty years, he was a farmer at Chanute in Neosha County, Kansas, and at the latter date retired and came to Plains, Montana, where he died in 1901. He was a democrat and a member of the Catholic Church. His wife was Barbara Gengel, who was born in Germany in 1832 and died at Portland, Oregon, in 1908. They had a large family of children: Barbara, of Portland, Oregon, widow of Anthony Metzler, who was a sawmill foreman; John, who for the past twenty years has been foreman of the track department of the Street Railway Company at Grand Rapids, Michigan; Mary, who died in childhood; Chris, a retired railroad man living at Thompson Falls, Mon- tana; Frank, road master for the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul Railway at Avery, Idaho; J. L. Hartman, who was the sixth in age; Henry, section foreman for the Northern Pacific Railroad living at Frenchtown, Montana; Mrs. Mattie Ellinger, wife of a hotel man at Portland, Oregon; Laura, wife of Phil Sheehan, their home being on a farm ten miles out of Portland; and Anthony, who is a traveling engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway, with home and headquarters at Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 160

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