Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 32

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

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Following his marriage, Charles L. Wentworth located on the land owned by his wife, an entry of 160 acres, and later he himself homesteaded 160 acres

in Fergus County. During the time of proving up on this property he worked in the Gilt Edge mining district, and subsequently bought the Nickel Plate stage line, between Lewistown and Gilt Edge, at the same time taking over the mail contract between Lewistown and Kendall. In all, he continued in the stage business for six years, and at the same time continued his farming operations. At this time Mr. Wentworth is one of the big wheat growers of the county and also is actively engaged in breeding standard-bred cattle and horses. His business con- nections are numerous, including a directorship in the Empire Bank and Trust Company, in which he is a stockholder, the Montana and Eastern Banking Corporation, and the Farmers Elevator Company, of which he was one of the organizers in 1908. The same year he engaged with the Montana State Fair Association as county representative in collecting all the produce exhibited from Fergus County, and in 1910 was made a member of the Advisory Board of that body. In 1913 he was elected vice president of the Montana Seed Growers Association, and in 1918 was honored by election to the post of president of the Fergus County Fair Association. Mr. Went- worth is one of the prominent and influential re- publicans of his community, and in 1916 was elected alderman of the Third Ward of Lewistown, an office to which he was re-elected in 1918. His terms have been characterized by much constructive work. Mr. Wentworth is fraternally affiliated with Judith Lodge No. 30, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is past noble grand of the Encampment of that order; with Judith Lodge No. 30, Knights of Pythias ; the Dramatic Order Knights of Korassan; Lewiston Lodge No. 456, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and the Woodmen of the World.

Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth are the parents of two children: Miss Leone Montana, who resides with her parents, and Lloyd Ingram. Lloyd I. Wentworth was married May 27, 1918, to Helen Waspbey, and July 6, 1918, enlisted in the Quartermaster's Depart- ment of the United States Army at Tacoma, Wash- ington. He was subsequently transferred to the Motor Transport Corps, and was sent to Camp Johnson, Jacksonville, Florida. He was promoted to first lieutenant and at the close of the great war was identified with the Instruction Department. He is now held in the Officers Reserve, subject to call for five years from date of enlistment.

THOMAS J. B. SHANLEY, M. D. There is no vocation that commands greater respect and few that offer better opportunities for the display of character and ability than does that of the medical profession. Dealing with the careers of men who have contributed to the upbuilding and prominence of the profession in the great commonwealth of Montana is a task every writer enjoys, for it leads through many and diversified avenues of useful- ness, and gives truth and expression to the fact that those, who have done most for their fellow- men and the advancement of the profession, are the ones who have lived honest and unselfish lives them- selves. In preparing a review of the lives of the men whose names stand out prominently among the medical men of this state, who by character and achievement have gained notable prominence, the record of Dr. Thomas J. B. Shanley of Butte is found to be one that compels more than passing mention.

Doctor Shanley was born at Burlington, Vermont, on November II, 1880, a son of M. W. Shanley, and grandson of Thomas Shanley, born in Vermont in 1805, and died at Burlington, that state, in 1885, having spent his entire life in Vermont, where he

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followed farming. He married a Miss Barrett, also a native of Vermont. His father, great-grand- father of Doctor Shanley, served in the American Revolution as one of the "Green Mountain Boys." The Shanleys' came to the American colonies from Ireland, first living at Boston, Massachusetts, but later locating permanently in Vermont.

M. W. Shanley was born at Burlington, Vermont, in 1850, and still makes that city his home, and in it he was reared, educated and married. For a time he was engaged in farming in its vicinity and then turned his attention to building. For about five years he lived in the western portion of North Dakota and was interested in the Stevens, Shanley & Scofield Ranch, where horses and cattle were grown upon an extensive scale, but returned to Vermont. The democratic party gives expression to his political views. In religious faith he is Roman Catholic. The maiden name of his wife was Elizabeth J. Flynn, born at Cambridge, Ver- mont, in 1850. Their children were as follows: Frank, who is a resident of Detroit, Michigan, is a large landowner of Towner County, North Da- kota, and spends a considerable portion of his time there; Doctor Shanley, of whom we write; Helen, who is studying medicine at Columbia Uni- versity, New York City, New York; Joseph Wil- liam, who is an oil operator, resides at Casper, Wy- oming; and Bernadette, who for two years was a student of the School of Mines at Butte, but is now attending Columbia University.

Doctor Shanley attended the public schools of Burlington, Vermont, and his environment was a valuable one during the formative period of his life. When he had completed the sophomore year in the Burlington High School, he did the work of the last two years of high school at the Uni- versity of North Dakota, and then entered George- town University at Washington, District of Colum- bia, and was two years in attendance on collegiate course. For the subsequent two years Doctor Shan- ley was at Atlanta, Georgia, looking after the min- ing and plantation interests of his brother Frank, and at the close of the second one he became a student in the medical department of Columbia University at New York City, New York, and was graduated therefrom in 1909, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and as a member of the Greek Letter fraternity, Chi Zeta Chi.

Doctor Shanley was house surgeon at the French Hospital of New York City for two years and seven months, thus gaining an invaluable practical experience, leaving that institution to become resi- dent physician of the Manhattan Maternity and Dis- pensary Hospital of New York City, where he re- mained for thirteen months. In December, 1912, Doctor Shanley located permanently at Butte, and entered upon the practice of his profession, spe- cializing in surgery, although he also has a general medical practice, and has built up a very large and valuable connection. His work has ever been dis- charged with a keen sense of conscientious obliga- tion, and his skill is evidenced through the results which follow his labors.

Doctor Shanley is an independent democrat and a Roman Catholic, following in both his politics and religion the teachings of his father. He be- longs to Butte Council No. 668, Knights of Colum- bus, in which he has been made a third degree knight; the Silver Bow Club; and the county, state and national medical organizations; and during 1919 served the Silver Bow Medical Society as president. He was also president of the University Club of Butte from July, 1916, to September, 1918. His

residence and offices are situated at No. 201 West Granite Street.

In June, 1915, Doctor Shanley was married at Butte to Miss Anne Sennett, a daughter of Mrs. M. Sennett of Butte. Mrs. Shanley was born at Leadville, Colorado. Doctor and Mrs. Shanley have the following children: Thomas J. B., Jr., who was born on December 20, 1917; and Elizabeth Anne, who was born on December 10, 1918.

Always interested in athletics, Doctor Shanley stroked the "varsity crew" during his freshman year at the Georgetown University at. the inter- collegiate boat race on the Hudson River at Pough- keepsie, New York, in 1901, and came in second, Cornell being first. He has participated in many other boat races, one being against the crew of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Mary- land. Doctor Shanley maintains membership with the Virginia Boat Club of Richmond, Virginia, and the Atlanta Athletic Club, and is also a member of The Society of New York Alumni of Georgetown University and of the Menden Alumni Society of Columbia University, New York City. He has al- ways stood for the things which are right and proper both in his profession and outside of it, and no one has been more strict in the main- tenance of professional ethics than he.

ERNEST R. PATTERSON, proprietor of one of the chief mercantile establishments of Big Timber, was about two years old when he made his first ac- quaintance with Montana. That was in 1888, in which year his father brought the family from the State of Maine and settled on the Musselshell River. His father, Eugene L. Patterson, was born near Belfast, Maine, in 1863. He had been em- ployed in the logging camps of Maine, also operated a milk route, and on coming to Montana was fore- man for a large ranch on the Mussellshell River and later conducted ranches in the Lake Basin country and at White Beaver. In 1806 he bought a ranch of his own on Sweetgrass Creek, twelve miles from Big Timber, and lived on this property until he sold out in 1908. He then bought the hardware stock of the Montana Trading Company at Big Timber and was financially interested in that business until his death. This is the hardware store of which his only son, Ernest, is now proprietor. Engene Patterson was a republican and was affili- ated with Big Timber Lodge No. 25, Knights of Pythias. He died at Big Timber in 1914. His wife was Alice Shorey, who was born in Belfast, Maine, in 1869 and is still living at Big Timber. Ernest R., who was born at Belfast, Maine, May 6, 1886, is the older of two children, his sister Edith being the wife of John Cameron, a rancher near Reed Point, Montana.

Ernest R. Patterson attended rural schools in Sweetgrass County, and later secured a liberal edu- cation. For three years he was a student in the State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota, grad- uated in 1906 from the county high school at Big Timber, and then spent a year in the state university at Missoula. On leaving college he went to work in his father's business and since February 1, 1919, has been sole proprietor. His store at the cor- ner of McLeod Street and First Avenue is a com- plete establishment, handling hardware and furni- ture, and there is also an undertaking department Mr. Patterson's partner in this being Casper Graff.

Mr. Patterson is owner of a modern home on Fourth Avenue, and another dwelling on Fifth Avenue. He has served as city councilman of Big Timber, is a republican, is a past chancellor of Big Timber Lodge No. 25, Knights of Pythias, a

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member of the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan and is affiliated with Big Timber Camp No. 10610, Modern Woodmen of America.

He married at Big Timber in 1908 Miss Beulah Busha. On another page is an account of the numerous activities of her father, Charles T. Busha, one of the leading citizens of Big Timber. Mrs. Patterson is a graduate of the Sweetgrass County High School and finished her education in the Southern Female College of Virginia. To their marriage were born five children, Riley, the oldest, and Edith Lenora, both dying in infancy. The other three are Alice Helen, born May 3, 1911, Ida Elizabeth born May 13, 1914, and Beulah Gene, born May 21, 1919.

ARTHUR A. STAPLETON. Since his arrival at Lew- istown in 1905 Arthur A. Stapleton has contributed materially to the upbuilding of the city, and on every side can be seen evidences of his ability as a constructor of substantial structures. His career has been indicative of the value of a useful trade when properly mastered and of the awards to be attained through following it through to its high- est possibilities, for in this way has Mr. Staple- ton become one of the leading factors in the busi- ness life of Lewistown and placed himself beyond the possibility for future financial needs.

Arthur A. Stapleton was born at St. Mary's, Can- ada, October 25, 1874, a son of Arthur and Sarah (Long) Stapleton. His father, who was born in England in 1822, was brought to America on a sailing vessel by his parents when he was a mere child, the family being pioneers of the part of Canada in which they settled. There Arthur Staple- ton grew up in a somewhat wild part of the coun- try, learning the various lessons connected with the business of farming, which, with sawmilling, constituted his occupations throughout life. He was a man of industry and integrity, was honored in his community, and death in 1876 was mourned by a wide circle of acquaintances. Mrs. Staple- ton, who survived her husband for a long period and died in 1913, at the advanced age of eighty years, was a native of Canada. There were nine children in the family, of whom six are still liv- ing, and Arthur A. was the eighth in order of birth. Arthur A. Stapleton was only about two years of age at the time of his father's death, and some two years later his widowed mother took him to Michigan, where, in the town of Lexington, he passed his boy- hood and secured his education in the public school. He was an industrious lad and even when still a mere boy did much to assist his mother in her struggles for a livelihood, remaining at her side until he was sixteen years of age. At that time he began to be self-supporting, and went to Grand Rapids, Mich- igan, to learn the trade of plumber. After completing his apprenticeship and mastering his trade he traveled as a journeyman for some years, and his first per- manent residence as a business man with an es- tablishment of his own was at Flint, Michigan, where he remained until 1905. During the time he had been located there he had done a good business and had become encouraged therein, but eventually decided that a wider field was awaiting him in the west, and accordingly, in the year mentioned, came to Lewis- town, Montana, where he has since centered his ac- tivities. Mr. Stapleton is now at the head of a large and prosperous business, which has grown and developed into the proportions of a necessary com- mercial asset. He has not alone confined himself to placing plumbing systems in some of the largest buildings in the city; on the contrary, his activities have extended into various fields of business en-

deavor, he having been particularly active and prom- inent in the construction of residences and other structures. In addition to ten or twelve handsome and substantial residences which he contributed to the city's upbuilding, in 1916 he built the handsome Stapleton Block on Broadway, and is the principal owner of the Broadway Apartment Building on the same thoroughfare. His business transactions have always been characterized by strict fidelity to prin- ciple, contract and engagement, and his reputation is that of a man whose word is as good as though it were backed by his name on a bond. Mr. Stapleton has found little time for politics, but is a stanch re- publican as a voter. Good movements, and particu- larly those affecting the welfare of his community, always have his earnest support and cooperation. Fraternally he is affiliated with Lewistown Lodge No. 37, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; and Lewis- town Lodge No. 456, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

On June 28, 1894, Mr. Stapleton was united in marriage with Miss Nettie Tyler, who was born in Michigan, and to this union there have been born three children: Maynard H., Bernice and Tyler, all of whom are attending the Lewistown public schools and reside with their parents.

H. A. FEATHERMAN, who is one of the progressive business men of Philipsburg, is successfully engaged in handling real estate and loans and writing insur- ance, and has been active in developing this sec- tion of the state. He was born at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1867, a son of Jacob A. Featherman, and a member of a family of English and French descent. Jacob A. Featherman was born near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, where his ances- tors had located in pre-Revolutionary days, in 1827, and died there in 1906, having spent his entire life in that vicinity, and during his mature years being engaged in milling. He was a democrat in his po- litical belief, and a Reformed Lutheran in his relig- ious creed. His wife bore the maiden name of Ellen Stotz, and she came of Moravian descent. Mrs. Featherman survives her husband and lives at Allentown, Pennsylvania. She was born at Bethle- 'hem, Pennsylvania, February 24, 1834. Their chil- dren were as follows: Mary, who married George Johnson, a publisher of Easton, Pennsylvania; J. B., who came to Drummond, Montana, in 1878, became a merchant of the place, and there died in 1918; Lillie, who married M. J. Downs, now deceased, was formerly engaged in a real estate business at Easton, where his wife died in 1917; Annie, who married Reuben Albert, a surveyor, lives at Trenton, New Jersey; Jacob H., who died at Stroudsburg, Penn- sylvania, was a farmer during his mature years; Amanda, who died when about thirty, at New Chi- cago, Montana; Bertha, who is unmarried, lives at Drummond, Montana; H. A., whose name heads this review; Oliver F., who came to Philipsburg in 1885, was a bookkeeper, and died at Philipsburg in 1909; Fannie, who is a trained nurse, lives at Allentown, Pennsylvania; and Daisy, who married Anthony Graham, lives at Allentown, Mr. Graham having had charge of the Allentown Rapid Transit Company for many years.

H. A. Featherman attended the rural schools of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, and then in 1885 came to New Chicago, Montana, and for ten years was in the store of his uncle, John A. Featherman, and in the meanwhile attended the Helena Business College. Going from New Chicago to Drummond, Mr. Featherman clerked in the store of the same uncle until 1906, and in that year was elected treas- urer of Granite County, and re-elected to the same

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office in 1908, serving for four years, his second term expiring in March, 1911. He then became cashier for E. A. Hannah & Company, bankers, leaving that concern in April, 1918, to open up his present business of real estate, loans and insurance at Philipsburg, which he has developed into the leading one of its kind in Granite County. His offices are located in the Featherman Block on Broadway, which he owns, and he also owns a busi- ness building and lot on Broadway, adjacent to the post office, and his residence on the corner of Pine and Alfa streets, as well as several other dwellings in the city.

Mr. Featherman is a republican. The Methodist Episcopal Church is his religious home, and he is a trustee of it. Well known as a Mason Mr. Feath- erman belongs to Flint Creek Lodge, No. 11, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he has held every office including that of master; Hope Chapter No. 10, Royal Arch Masons, of which he has filled every office including that of high priest; Omar Com- mandery No. 9, of Missoula, Montana; Algeria Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Noble Mystic Shrine of Helena, Montana; and Pearl Chapter No. 14, Order Eastern Star, of which he served for two years as patron. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce 'of Philipsburg, and is now one of its directors, and has been active in it and in the community generally, doing more than his part in interesting outside capital, and encouraging civic improvements and reforms.

JOHN H. McINTOSH. Not only is John McIntosh one of the leading men of Montana, and very active in the life of Butte as general manager of the Associated Industries of Montana, but he is also distinguished as belonging to one of the famous American families, founded here in the very early days of the colonies, by representatives of the family who came from Scotland and located in a portion of the present state of Georgia, which has a county named McIntosh in their honor. Gen. Lachlan McIntosh was one of the eminent commanders of the Colonial troops during the American Revolu- tion, and an aide de camp of General Washington. He waged a successful warfare against the savage Seminole Indians and was one of the founders, to- gether with General Washington and Alexander Hamilton, of the famous Society of the Cincinnati.

The grandfather of John H. McIntosh was John Houston McIntosh, and he was born at Trenton, New Jersey, and died at Saint Mary's, Florida, prior to the birth of his grandson. He married Eliza Higbee, who passed away at Trenton, New Jersey, John Houston McIntosh maintaining homes both at Trenton and on his plantation on the Saint Mary River in Florida, which were occupied by the family according to the season.

John H. McIntosh of this review was born in Early County, Georgia, on February 1, 1879, a son of Dr. B. L. McIntosh, born at Saint Mary's, Flor- ida, in 1837, and died at Marietta, Georgia, in July, 1902. He was reared at Trenton, New Jersey, and was graduated from the American Institute of Med- icine and Surgery at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. When a young man he went to Savannah, Georgia, and be- gan the practice of his profession, but his plans were disturbed by the outbreak of the war be- tween the states and he, espousing the side of the South, enlisted in the Confederate army and served all through the war under General Lee, and par- ticipated in the various campaigns of that com- mander in Virginia. He was severely wounded in the last battle of the war, at Sailors Creek in Vir-

ginia, in which battle Doctor McIntosh's brother, John H. McIntosh, for whom the subject of this sketch was named, met his death. After his re- covery, Dr. McIntosh located in Early County, Georgia, where he practiced his profession until 1888, and was also interested on an extensive scale in the production of rice and cotton. In 1888 he removed to Marietta, Georgia, and continued in practice there until his death. A prominent demo- crat, he served for one term as commissioner of agriculture for the State of Georgia. He was an Episcopalian, and both as a member of that body and as a supporter of the public schools exerted an influence for good in his community. Doctor McIntosh was married first to a Miss Nesbitt, a native of Georgia, who died about a year after mar- riage, in 1866, leaving one daughter, Lucy, who mar- ried Hugh N. Starnes, and died at Birmingham, Alabama, in 1918, her husband surviving her and engaging in the manufacture of iron in that same city. The second wife of Doctor McIntosh bore the maiden name of Mary C. Hill, and she is now living with her son. She was born in Early Coun- ty, Georgia, in 1854. By his second marriage Doc- tor McIntosh had the following family: Charlotte, who died in infancy; May, who married D. C. Cole, a capitalist of Marietta, Georgia; John H., who was the third in order of birth; Bayard, who is super- intendent of the woolen mills of Marietta, Georgia; Joseph Higbee, who died in infancy; and Richard H., who is a public accountant of Birmingham, Alabama.

After being trained under private tutors in Early County, when he was ten years old, John H. Mc- Intosh was placed in the Marietta Academy, a boys' school. Later he took the high school course at Marietta, and was graduated therefrom in 1895. Mr. McIntosh then studied law for a year in the office of United States Senator A. S. Clay at Mari- etta, Georgia, following which he entered the Uni- versity of Georgia at Athens, Georgia, in 1897, and was graduated therefrom in 1899 with the degree of Doctor of Law and as a member of the Greek Letter College Fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. During his collegiate course he was active in all. branches of athletics and held the Southern record for pole vault for years. He was captain of the track team, played right field on the baseball team, was a member of the "varsity" football team for . three years, and during his senior year was awarded the position of all Southern full back.

On January 1, 1900, Mr. McIntosh came west to New Mexico, and as he was without the suffi- cient funds to open a law office he worked for eight months in the copper mine at Silver City. He then took a position as athletic director at the School of Mines at Golden, Colorado, and held it for a year. Going from there to Leadville, Colo- rado, he became a reporter on the Herald Demo- crat, of which he was later made city editor, and remained with that newspaper for a year, when he was made coach for the famous football team containing five former All American players, rep- resenting the Leadville Athletic Club, and traveled all over the West, playing the best teams. This was conceded to be the best club team in the West. In 1902 Mr. McIntosh worked as assistant city editor on the Denver News for three months, and then in March of that year came to Butte and became "sports" editor of the Intermountain, now the Daily Post, and continuing as such for a year. During this period he became interested in profes- sional athletics and won the middle weight wrestling championship of Montana when he defeated Adams at Dillon, Montana, for the title. During 1903 he

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 32

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