Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 168

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

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nominee, Wisconsin. He worked in the lumber camps and mills of that section, and later took up a homestead in Dunn County, Wisconsin, where he made a home and farm out of the wilderness. In 1883 he returned to Menominee, and in 1893 located at St. Cloud, Minnesota, where he died in Feb- ruary, 1915. He was a republican and a member of the German Evangelical Church. His widow is now living at Harlowton, Montana, and of their eight children seven are living.

Emil R. Lausted, the third among these children, received his education in the public schools of Menominee, graduated from the St. Cloud High School with the class of 1897, and in 1900 grad- uated from the Minnesota State Normal at St. Cloud. After about three years as assistant super- intendent of the air brake department of the Great Northern Railway Mr. Lausted went to work for the Minnesota state engineering department, begin- ning as a chain man with a surveying crew in Stearns County the first year, the second year was a rod man in drainage work, and for three years an instrument man. In 1907 he was elected county surveyor of Douglas County, Minnesota, and by re- election in 1909 served two full terms. At the close of this service he came to Meagher County, Mon- tana, and homesteaded near Harlowton. While busily engaged in improving his homestead he was elected in November, 1914, to the office of county surveyor, and has been re-elected in 1916 and 1918, and his office during the past six years has been burdened with a large amount of technical duty not only in the laying out of boundary lines but in the technical service involved in much public construction work.

Mr. Lausted is a member of Diamond City Lodge No. 7, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and in politics a republican. June 5, 1907, he married Lil- lian S. Britzius, who was born at Wells, Minne- sota, fifth among the eight children all still living of Rev. George and Margaret (Brown) Britzius. Her father was born in Ohio and her mother in Minnesota. Her father has for many years been a minister and is now located at Minneapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Lausted have two children, Richard T. and Luella May.

THOMAS WILLIAM WELSH, M. D. Those of a future generation looking back over the records of the operations of the physicians and surgeons of the great war are going to marvel how the people of this country managed to keep in even ordinary health with so many of the best representatives of the profession under arms. Certain it is that the very flower of the class who devote their talents and skill to the alleviation of disease responded to their country's call and either devoted themselves with the care of the embryo soldiers at home camps or went across seas and plunged into the horrors of hospital work, winning honors and the eternal grati- tude and affection of the wounded. One of these enthusiastic professional men who proved their loy- alty as well as their skill is Dr. Thomas William Welsh, of Roundup.

Doctor Welsh was born on his father's farm in Johnson County, Iowa, October 5, 1877, a son of Michael and Ann (Hallarand) Welsh. Michael Welsh was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and his wife was born in County Clare. He died in 1896, but she survives. Of their twelve children seven are living and Doctor Welsh was the youngest born. Both of the parents were brought to the United States by sailing vessel when young, landing in New York City. In those days a trip across the ocean

was an undertaking, nine weeks being the usual time of passage for the sailing vessels, and sometimes the journey consumed much more. After learning the tanner's trade, Michael Welsh working at it for some time in New York State, and then learning of the opportunities offered in Iowa for securing cheap land, he traveled overland to Johnson County, and there obtained 160 acres of land on which he was engaged in farming and stockraising until his death, making a specialty of hog-raising. He was a man who devoted himself to his work, and did not care for public office, but never failed to vote, casting his ballot for the democratic candidates.

Doctor Welsh grew up on the farm and attended the rural schools, after which he took a course in the Iowa City Academy, and was for three years a student of the University of Iowa. Entering the medical department of the Northwestern University at Chicago, Illinois, he took the regular medical course, and was graduated therefrom in 1903. In 1913 he took a post-graduate course in the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital of London, England, and that same year was at the Vienna-Allgemeine Poliklinik and the K. K. Universitat Zu Wien and in other foreign cities.

Following his graduation he located at Braddock, North Dakota, remaining there from 1903 until in July, 1908, when he came to Roundup, Montana. For some years Doctor Welsh has specialized in dis- eases of the eye, ear and throat. He belongs to the Musselshell Medical Society and the Montana Med- ical Society and is an active factor in both organi- zations.

On November 22, 1905, Doctor Welsh was united in marriage with Miss Ethel A. Jung, born in South Dakota. They have three sons and one daughter, namely : Michael, Lucile, Leo and Leslie.

On January 14, 1914, Doctor Welsh enlisted in Company B, Second Regiment, Montana National Guard, and was made sergeant of his company. He first saw active service during the Butte, Montana, riots in 1915, and was on the border from June 23 to November 7, 1916. On September 1, 1917, he was called to the Officers' Training Camp at Presidio, · California, and remained until December I, was enrolled into the Medical Corps in June, 1917, and called to active duty on August 6, 1918, and remained in the service until February 20, 1919. During that period he was at the base hospital of Camp Lewis from September 1, 1918, until October I, when he was sent to Camp Kerney, California, as assistant of the Sixteenth Sanitary Train, and was later placed in command of Field Hospital No. 263. His honor- able discharge bears the date of February 20, 1919. In politics he is a democrat. Since his return to Roundup he has resumed his practice and his interest in local affairs.

HON. JOHN HURLY was born in Berrien Springs, Michigan, July 19, 1878, and attained his rank on the Supreme Bench soon after he became forty years of age. His grandfather, Thomas Barry Hurly. spent his life in County Kerry, Ireland, and was an Irish barrister. He died in 1861. His son, William Hurly, born at Tralee, County Kerry, on June 12, 1854, came to this country with his mother about 1862, grew up at St. Joseph, Michigan, was married there, and for ten years was in the newspaper busi- ness in Southwestern Michigan. In 1886 he moved to Forman, North Dakota, and continued in the real estate and newspaper business there until his death on March 1, 1913. He was always an active repub- lican. William Hurly married Ella B. Murphy, who was born at Berrien Springs, Michigan, June 20, 1860, and is still living at Forman, North Dakota.

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Her father, Sanford Murphy, was a member of Company E, Sixth Iowa Cavalry, which regiment came west in 1863 or 1864 with General Sully and Mr. Murphy was killed in an engagement with the Indians near Fort Rice, near what is now Mandan, North Dakota.

Judge John Hurly spent his boyhood at Forman, North Dakota, attended public schools, graduating from high school in 1897. As a means of earning his living and preparing himself for his chosen pro- fession he learned shorthand, and for five years was a stenographer at Wahpeton, North Dakota, part of that time acting as court reporter. He was studying law at the same time with Hon. W. E. Purcell, since United States senator from North Dakota, and with Hon. W. S. Lauder, district judge, and was ad- mitted to the bar in March, 1903. Later he went to Washington as secretary to Congressman Thomas F. Marshall of North Dakota. In the fall of 1907 he began practice at Minot, North Dakota, remained there one year, and in 1908 came to Montana and opened his law office at Glasgow. He was elected county attorney of Valley County in 1910, serving one term of two years. In 1912 he was a candidate on the republican ticket for the office of the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, but was de- feated. He continued in practice at Glasgow until 1917. In 1916 Mr. Hurly again received the republican nomination for district judge and was elected by a large majority. The Seventeenth District comprised Valley, Phillips and Sheridan counties. Judge Hur- ly was on the District Bench until September 1, 1919, when Governor S. V. Stewart appointed him as asso- ciate justice of the Supreme Court.

Judge Hurly and family reside at Glasgow, Mon- tana. April 20, 1908, at St. Paul, Minnesota, he married Miss Jeannette P. James, a native of Minne- sota. They have three children: Ella Marjorie, born November 1, 1911; Jean, born September 13, 1915, and John Thomas, born January 28, 1918.

CHARLES GILBERT GADDIS, chairman of the board of commissioners of Meagher County, and one of the extensive ranch owners of this region, is en- gaged in the cattle industry. He was born at Fort Logan, Montana Territory, August 31, 1879, a son of William and Margaret L. (Young) Gaddis, both born at Washington, District of Columbia, he in 1831 and she in 1836. His death occurred in 1908, but his widow survives him and is living in her native city, although eighty-three years of age. They had four children, of whom Charles Gilbert Gad- dis, the youngest, is the only survivor. Growing up at Washington, William Gaddis embarked in a gro- cery business and conducted it until 1869, when he left the capital for Fort Shaw, Montana Territory, to take the place of post trader for the Federal Government. Later he was transferred to Fort Lo- gan, and continued to hold that position until 1880, when the post was abandoned, at which time he bought the fort with the land surrounding it and engaged in the cattle industry, continuing in it until his death. Well known in Masonry, he be- longed to Navy Lodge No. 4, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, at Washington; Helena Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Helena Commandery, Knights Templar; and Algeria Temple, Ancient Arabic Or- der Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In politics he was a strong democrat.

After acquiring his education in the public schools of Helena, Montana, Charles Gilbert Gaddis became manager of his father's ranch, and when the latter died he bought the estate and is still in the cattle business, having from 300 to 350 head of cattle of the Hereford strain. His ranch contains about 3,200

acres and is well improved and very valuable. In November, 1918, Mr. Gaddis was elected commis- sioner of Meagher County, and is now chairman of the board. His political convictions are such as to make him support the principles of the democratic party. Mr. Gaddis, like his father, became a Mason, and belongs to the Diamond City Lodge No. 7, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Helena Con- sistory No. 3, in which he has been raised to the thirty-second degree; and Algeria Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and both he and his wife belong to Martha Chapter No. 11, Order Eastern Star.

On February 6, 1907, Mr. Gaddis was united in marriage with Emma C. Wilson, born at Portland, Oregon, a daughter of John J. and Emma C. (Ran- ner) Wilson, who had ten children, of whom four daughters and two sons survive, Mrs. Gaddis be- ing the eldest of them all. The Wilsons are now living at Dalton, Montana, where Mr. Wilson is engaged in mining. Mr. Gaddis is a man of open mind and heart and quick understanding, and has always had the will and resourcefulness in carrying on his business which make for profitable results. As a citizen he has shown a commendable public- spirit that has led him to support those measures he believes will work for the best interests of his sections, and as an official his record is unblemished and characterized by the power to stimulate his as- sociates to whole-hearted endeavor, so that he is a natural leader, and one upon whom many rely for inspiration and advice.

IRA B. TOURTLOTTE, secretary and general manager of the Stockfeeders' Company of Glasgow, is one of the dominating figures in the horse industry of this part of the state, having raised himself to his present responsible status through his own individual efforts. He is a native of Anoka County, Minnesota, where he was born on December 18, 1879, a son of Jonathan B. Tourtlotte, born in Maine, whose father was of French origin, although himself also a native of Maine. He married a Miss Whitney and Jona- than B. was their youngest child.

Jotham B. Tourtlotte was born in February, 1857, and his educational training was confined to the public schools. The greater part of his mature life has been spent with the Washburn Flour Mills at Anoka, Minnesota, although, after twenty-five years of service with them, in 1910 he resigned and located at Puyallup, Washington. He was married to Clara Herrick, a daughter of John Herrick, and a native of Wisconsin, where she was born in 1860, and they had two sons, namely: Ira B. and his brother, Alvin F., a merchant of Sanger, North Dakota. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. While he is a republican, he has never sought or desired to be burdened with the responsibilities of office, and he has never joined any fraternal organizations.

Growing up at Anoka, Minnesota, Ira B. Tourt- lotte attended its public schools, and when he was nineteen years old left school to go into the Pills- bury Flour Mills, and remained with this corporation until he came to Montana in 1902. At that time he was a finished miller, and could have remained indefi- nitely with the Pillsbury people had he so desired, but he decided to branch out, and so came west. He immediately entered the sheep business on the Big Dry in Dawson County as a partner of Clarence Hall and W. A. Twitchell, the partners beginning with about 3,000 head of sheep, and they ran them on the range until the spring of 1904, when they lost one-half of their flock in the terrible March

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storm, and they disposed of the remnant of their sheep.

Mr. Tourtlotte then went to work for wages on the Selway ranch at the head of Pumpkin Creek, Custer County, of which DeLos Selway, brother of R. R. Selway, was foreman, and remained for a year. Returning then to Minnesota, Mr. Tourtlotte spent the ensuing winter, and then, in the spring of 1906, located at Wilton, North Dakota, and em- barked in a hotel business. Although this was an entirely new line with him, he made money, and spent six years as proprietor of the Wilson Hotel of that place. Having recuperated his losses, Mr. Tourtlotte then returned to Montana, in 1912, and embarked in business at Glasgow in partnership with Messrs. Twitchell and Selway. They are ex- tensively engaged in shipping horses in and out of Glasgow, and since 1916 have been incorporated as The Stockfeeders' Company. Until then Mr. Tourt- lotte had charge of their farm, located south of Glasgow, and they handled a considerable amount of cattle, but since they have confined themselves exclusively to horses.

On August 14, 1906, Ira B. Tourtlotte was united in marriage with Miss Frances W. Gearhart, who was born at Bradford Junction, Ohio, April 21, 1877, and was brought to Minnesota as a child. She was reared at Elk River and after she had com- pleted the courses in the public schools there, took the regular course at the Winona Normal School, from which she was graduated therefrom in 1898. Prior to that she had been engaged in teaching in the country, and after completing her normal course she spent several years in grade work in Minnesota and two years at Everett, Washington. Mrs. Tourt- lotte is a daughter of William F. Gearhart, a na- tive of Pennsylvania, who married Priscilla De Weese, born in Ohio. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gear- hart died at Elk River, the former many years ago, and after his death his widow became a milliner. Mr. and Mrs. Tourtlotte have four children, namely: Eugene and Donald, who are living and two who died when very young. Mrs. Tourtlotte has a sister, Mellie, who is the wife of William Holt, of Tripp, South Dakota.

Ira B. Tourtlotte cast his first presidential vote in 1900 for William Mckinley; in 1908 for Mr. Taft, and then in 1912 and 1916 he cast his vote for Wood- row Wilson. He is a man who has never permitted obstacles to overcome or adversity to discourage him. The majority of men after having sustained the loss he met with would have felt that fate was against them, and certainly few would have returned to Montana, or any other locality that he had found so unprofitable. but Mr. Tourtlotte is not of such caliber. It is a source of pride to him that he has been able to return and wrest from Montana more than was taken from him through the forces of nature in his first venture in the state. He has also won the confidence of his fellow citizens, and is recognized as one of the dependable and sound business men of Glasgow. Mrs. Tourtlotte's intel- lectual attainments are of such a character as to make her an authority on matters pertaining to cul- tural movements, and she and Mr. Tourtlotte have gathered about them a very congenial circle of per- sonal friends whom they delight to entertain at their hospitable home. The influence of such people is naturally strong, and when it is exerted, as it is in this case, along constructive lines, its force is felt over a wide area and is always inspiring in char- acter.

EDWARD CARTER HARGADINE, receiver of the United States Land Office at Glasgow, has been a resident

of Valley County since 1908, and of Montana since 1899, having come here from his native State of Delaware. He was born at Felton, Delaware, No- vember 22, 1873, a son of Robert W. Hargadine, born at Viola, Delaware, a farmer's son, who be- came a practicing physician and a florist. He was graduated in medicine from the University of Penn- sylvania, and not only attained to distinction in his profession, but was a man of note in his com- munity, serving as president of the local school board, as a member of the Delaware State Board of Medical Examiners, and directed his mind toward educational advancement. His death occurred in 1893 when he was forty-nine years of age.

Doctor Hargadine was married to Mary Evelyn Carter, a danghter of Edward J. Carter and his wife, Elizabeth (Reynolds) Carter. The Carters, Reynolds and Hargadines were all old Delaware people and all held to the democratic faith. Robert J. Reynolds, once elected on the democratic ticket governor of Delaware, was a brother of Mrs. Eliza- beth (Reynolds) Carter. Mrs. Hargadine died in 1910, having borne her husband the following chil- dren: Edward Carter, whose name heads this re- view; Mary, who is the wife of George E. Hurd, the eminent Montana attorney of Great Falls; Robert W., who is a resident of Saint Paul, Minne- sota; Albert, who is a conductor of the Great North- ern Railroad out of Havre, Montana; Julia, who married Robert S. Mckellar, an attorney of Glasgow, and Aimee C., who is the wife of John Todd, a farmer of Glasgow.

Growing up at Felton, Edward Carter Hargadine attended the graded and high schools there and learned floriculture and horticulture in his father's greenhouses and nursery in a practical manner. He had the misfortune to lose his father when he was only seventeen years old, but he had, even at that age, sufficient knowledge of the business to continue it, and did so until he left Felton for Montana.

After his arrival in the latter state in 1899, he sought and found employment with Honser & Com- pany, railroad contractors, and began with them as a "funky." Later he was made shipping clerk, and when he had been with the concern but six months was placed in the office of the Great Northern Rail- road at Glasgow as cashier. Still later he was made agent of the company at Chinook, Culbertson and then Glasgow, and also discharged the duties of yardmaster at Glasgow. On March 1, 1910, he left the road and secured some government land three miles from Glasgow, and spent three and one-half years on it. His claim shelter was a four-room cot- tage, and he had proper accommodation for his stock. During the time he spent on this claim he harvested four crops, his produce comprising potatoes, wheat, corn and garden stuff, and he left it only to assume the duties of the land office.

On Angust 1, 1913, Mr. Hagardine was appointed to his office to succeed Walter Shanley, one of the early settlers and widely-known men. Mr. Harga- dine was re-appointed in August, 1917.

Edward C. Hargadine was married at Glasgow, Montana, on August 24, 1909, to Miss Anna M. Dignan, a daughter of David Dignan, born at Rich- field Springs, New York, in December, 1883. She was educated at her native place, reaching this state in 1902. Mrs. Hargadine is the youngest of four children. Her brother, Thomas Dignan, is one of the leading attorneys and a prominent business man of Glasgow. Mr. and Mrs. Hargadine have three chil- dren, namely: Mary Evelyn, Ellen Elizabeth and Anna Jane.

During the great war the Hargadine household was actively engaged in Red Cross work and Mrs. Har-

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gadine was secretary of the Valley County Chapter of that organization. Mr. Hargadine is a member of the Knights of Columbus. He and his family are Catholics.

CHARLES MANSON CRUTCHFIELD was established in a profitable law practice in Montana before the ter- ritory merged into the state, and for many years enjoyed a position of singular prominence in the bar of Western Montana. His home for many years was at Hamilton, where he died August 25, 1910, and where Mrs. Lena Payne Crutchfield, his widow, still resides. Mrs. Crutchfield is one of the promi- nent women of Montana, and is a Daughter of the Revolution and was very prominent in Red Cross and other patriotic activities during the late war.

The late Charles Manson Crutchfield was born at Richmond, Virginia, June 19, 1863, and death came to him at the very zenith of his professional career. He was reared in Richmond, Virginia, attended pub- lic schools there, and was a graduate of the law school of. Washington and Lee University at Lex- ington, Virginia. He received his LL.B. degree in 1885. He was a member of the Sigma Chi college fraternity.

After his admission to the bar Mr. Crutchfield practiced for a time at Richmond, but in 1887 came to Montana and established a home at Phillipsburg. In 1889 he removed to Missoula and was a partner in practice with Col. Tom Marshall. In 1896 he established his home at Hamilton, where he en- joyed a large general civil and criminal practice. He was at one time attorney for Marcus Daly and handled many of his legal interests. After the death of Mr. Daly he served as attorney for the Ana -. conda Copper Mining Company at Hamilton until his death.

Mr. Crutchfield was a fine type of the southern gentleman, polished, scholarly and the soul of in- tegrity. He was deeply interested in democratic politics and for four terms was a representative in the Montana Legislature, two terms from Deer Lodge County and two terms from Ravalli County. He was also a delegate to the Constitutional Conven- tion which framed the organic law of the State of Montana. Mr. Crutchfield served as a vestryman in the Episcopal Church, and was affiliated with the Masons, Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen of America and Knights of Pythias.

In 1891, at Warrenton, Virginia, Charles Manson Crutchfield and Miss Lena Payne were united in marriage. Mrs. Crutchfield is a native of Warren- ton, Virginia, and belongs to an old and prominent family of Virginians. Her eligibility to the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution comes from her paternal ancestor, Col. William Edmonds, who was commissioned a captain in the Virginia troops before the Revolution and rose to the rank of colonel dur- ing the war for independence.

Mrs. Crutchfield's father was Inman H. Payne, who was born at Warrenton, Virginia, in 1822, and died while visiting his daughter in Hamilton, Mon- tana, in 1895. He was a Confederate soldier, serv- ing all through the war. His life at Warrenton was spent as a merchant and farmer. He was a demo- crat and a member of the Episcopal Church. He married Mary Massie, who was born at Warrenton, Virginia, in 1824, and died there in 1891. Mary Massie, the oldest of their children, married Col. M. B. Hardin, a Confederate soldier, and after- ward a professor of chemistry at the Virginia Mili- tary Institute. Both are now deceased. George H. Payne is a traveling salesman living at Baltimore. John M. is a retired farmer at Warrenton, Virginia. Inman H. is a real estate broker at Norfolk, Vir-

ginia. Bernard W. is a retired merchant at Colum- bus, Ohio. Julian D. was in the insurance business and died at New Orleans at the age of forty-five. Alexander was a minister of the Episcopal Church and died at Warrenton at the age of twenty-nine. Markham B. died at Warrenton aged thirty-five, a merchant.

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 168

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