Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 41

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

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Carl B. Ross attended the schools of Leesburg, Indiana, and the Chester, Montana, high school, from which he was graduated in 1912, following which he entered the Inverness, Montana, State Bank as assistant cashier, and held that position for two years, and then began ranching, and was so engaged when he was mustered into the service in April, 1918, and was sent to Fort Missoula, where he was in training until December, 1918, at which time he was mustered out.

Returning home he was made secretary and cash- ier of the Granite County State Bank of Hall, en- tering upon the discharge of his duties in January, 1919. He is one of the most efficient men in his line in this part of Montana, as well as one of the most popular. Like his father he is a democrat and Methodist. He belongs to Ruby Lodge No. 36, An- cient Free and Accepted Masons, of Drummond, Montana, and the American Legion. In addition to his connection with the bank at Hall, Mr. Ross is a director of the Drummond Light & Power Com- pany.

On January I, 1920, Mr. Ross married Frances Kennedy, a daughter of M. Kennedy, a promi- nent miner of Butte, Montana. Like the majority of the young men of the country, he cheerfully turned from the paths of peace when the country needed his services, and only the signing of the armistice prevented his seeing active service.

JOHN J. BURKE, a native of Butte, was born June 30, 1891, a son of James Burke, who emigrated from Ireland to New York City, from there going to Panama and Mexico, then up the coast to California, finally becoming a pioneer mining man of Idaho and Montana, and dying in Butte, Montana, June 25, 1896, leaving besides his son, a widow and one daughter, now Mrs. Julia McMullen.

After attending public and parochial schools, Mr. Burke attended the Butte High School for a period " of three years, at the end of which time he entered the employ of the Hennessy Company, Centerville Branch, as a credit man. Leaving that company in 1909, he became associated with the Butte Water Company, where he was employed for seven years. In 1916 he was appointed manager of the New Method Laundry Company at Butte, and later be- came vice president and director, positions which he still holds. In 1918 Mr. Burke enlisted in the United States army service as a private in the Coast Artillery Corps, was mustered out and returned to

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Butte in January, 1919, when he was appointed as- sistant cashier of the Silver Bow National Bank, later being elected a director of that institution, which position he occupies today.

He is prominent in business circles, being a mem- ber of the Butte Chamber of Commerce, Butte Ro- tary Club, Butte Advertising Club and Laundry- owners' National Association.

Fraternally he is a member of the Butte Council No. 668, Knights of Columbus (of which he was treasurer for a number of years), Butte Lodge No. 240, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is also identified with the Silver Bow Club, Rocky Mountain Rifle Club, Army League, Navy League, American National Red Cross and American Legion.

Mr. Burke is unmarried and lives with his mother at 302 West Porphyry Street, Butte.

EDWARD R. ROEHL, a resident of Montana since 1912, is one of the leading automobile dealers of the state, with headquarters at Lewistown, where he is head of the Roehl Motor Company.

Mr. Roehl was born on a ranch in Saline County, Nebraska, December 28, 1884, a son of William F. and Paulina (Fandery) Roehl. His parents are now living at Friend, Nebraska, the father at the age of seventy-three and the mother at sixty-nine. Edward is fourth in a family of six children, four of whom are still living, three sons and one daughter. His father came to this country when a small boy and grew up and was married in Wisconsin. He became a pioneer in Nebraska, buying government land and becoming an extensive stock raiser and cattle feeder and shipper. He also served on the school board and has been an active republican for many years.

Edward R. Roehl grew up on the Nebraska farm, spending the first twenty years of his life there. Before coming to Montana he was a successful advertising man in the employ of several well known publications in the Middle West. He first traveled for the Iowa Homestead, one of the chief farm journals of the Middle West. Later he represented the Capper publications of Topeka, Kan- sas, in the commercial and livestock advertising department.

On coming to Montana in 1912 Mr. Roehl located at Lewistown and engaged in the automobile busi- ness, selling Ford cars. In September, 1917, he sold his interest in the first firm and organized the Roehl Motor Company, handling a full line of auto- mobiles and motors. He is head of a very success- ful and thriving business.

Mr. Roehl married, February 14, 1912, Miss Merna Aller. She was born on her father's farm in Saline County, Nebraska. They have one daughter, Judith. Mr. Roehl is affiliated with Lewistown Lodge No. 37, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, Hiram Chapter No. 15, Royal Arch Masons, Lewistown Commandery No. 14, Knights Templar, and Algeria Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Helena. Politically he is a republican.

Jo R. NORTH, in the real estate business at Billings since 1894, has been a prominent factor in the affairs of that city and has contributed much to the prestige of the family name in Montana.

Mr. North was born at Adel, Iowa, October 27, 1876. His ancestors came from England and were colonial settlers in Virginia and were of the same family as Lord North. Thomas R. North, father of J. R., was born in Ohio in 1838, went as a young man to Iowa, was married in that state, and had a long and active practice as an attorney at law in several states. He moved to Warsaw, Indiana, in

1908, and is still living there, retired. During the Civil war he served as a Union soldier but in poli- tics has been a democrat. He served as mayor of the town of Adel in Iowa and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Thomas R. North by his first marriage has a daughter, Sarah M., living at Medford, Oregon, widow of John H. Whitman, a former abstractor. For his second wife he married Naomi Stewart, who was born in 1842 and died at Medford, Oregon, in 1888. Her children were: Etta, unmarried, and living at Racine, Wisconsin; / Austin, a business man at Billings; J., also a resi- dent of Billings; Alice, living at Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, widow of Thomas Milliken, a former mer- chant; Jo R .; and Oto, associated with his brother Jo in the real estate business at Billings. Thomas R. North married for his third wife Laura B. Abbott, who was born in Ohio and is the mother of a daughter, Ava, living at Warsaw, Indiana, wife of Frank T. Simcoke, a railway mail clerk.

Jo R. North attended the public schools of Adel, Iowa, graduating from high school in 1894, in which year he came to Billings. In 1897-98 he returned to Iowa to attend the Capital City Business College at Des Moines. He spent one year in a clothing store at Adel and acquired his preliminary experi- ence in real estate in that town. He arrived at Billings in July, 1894, and at that time established his present line as a real estate man. He handles city properties, loans and insurance, and is president of North Bros., Incorporated, the other officers being Gertrude North, vice president, and Oto North, secretary and treasurer. This firm owns 2,500 acres of ranch lands in Yellowstone, Stillwater and Sweetgrass counties, besides various lots and dwell- ings in Billings. Mr. North individually and his firm are among the large property owners in the city. Mr. North has done much to open up the surrounding territory and individually owns 440 acres of ranch lands and much local property, in- cluding his modern home at 129 Avenue D. His offices are at 212 North Broadway.

Mr. North is a republican, a member of the Pres- byterian Church, the Billings Midland Empire Club, the Billings Golf and Country Club, and is affiliated with Billings Lodge No. 394, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks.

June 6, 1899, at Adel, Iowa, he married Miss Letha M. Cook, daughter of John W. and Mary (White) Cook. Her parents live at Billings, where her father is engaged in the transfer and storage business and is a large land owner in Montana. Mrs. North is a graduate of the Adel High School. Their only son, Everett W., was born August 13, 1906.

LEO A. HENTER. A young man of eminent ability and discrimination, Leo A. Henter, of Broadview, has had broad and valuable experience in banking, and while employed in this business has developed great aptitude for dealing with financial matters. He was born at Conway, North Dakota, January 22, 1891, of German ancestry on both sides of the house.

His father, Frank Henter, was born in 1836, in Germany, and was there a resident until eighteen years of age. Immigrating then to the United States, he lived for a short time in Chicago, after which he spent a few years at St. Paul and at St. Cloud, Minnesota, where he wooed and won a fair bride. Removing from there to North Dakota, he became a pioneer settler of Fargo, building the first hotel on Broadway and erecting one of the first two houses of that thoroughfare. Three years later he took up a homestead claim at Conway, North Da-

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kota, and in the thirty-four years that he occupied it made improvements of value and note. He now owns 640 acres of highly improved land, including his original homestead property, but is living retired from the activities of life at Henderson, Minnesota. He is identified with the democratic party in poli- tics, and is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He married Johannah Schmitt, who was born in Germany in 1839, a daughter of William Schmitt, who emigrated with his family from Germany to St. Cloud, Minnesota, where his children were reared and educated. Of the eleven children born of their union, two died in infancy, the others being as follows: John, a farmer, died in St. Paul, Minnesota, aged forty-five years; Anna, wife of Peter Norton, a farmer in Conway, North Dakota; Frank, engaged in farming at Conway; Christ, of Broadview, Montana, a farmer; Michael, of St. Cloud, Minnesota, is in the employ of the Great Northern Railway Company; Peter, a well known agriculturist of Broadview, Montana; Joseph, also engaged in farming at Broadview; Isabel, living with her parents; and Leo A.

Acquiring his preliminary education in North Da- kota, Leo A. Henter first attended the rural schools oi Walsh County, later taking a course of study at the agricultural college in Fargo, and in 1908 grad- uated from a business college in St. Paul, Minne- sota. Returning to the parental homestead, he assisted his father on the farm for a year. On August 8, 1909, Mr. Henter embarked in the bank- ing business at Lankin, North Dakota, beginning at the foot of the ladder of attainments as bookkeeper and stenographer. Proving himself worthy of pro- motion, he was transferred to Eckman, North Da- kota, and was there assistant cashier of the First State Bank until 1915. Removing then to Lambert, Montana, Mr. Henter was for two years assistant of the First State Bank of that place, and the following year was deputy bank examiner, a posi- tion to which he was appointed by Governor Stew- art. Locating at Broadview in March, 1918, Mr. Henter has since served ably and acceptably as vice president of the Mutual State Bank, of which he is also manager. This bank has a capital stock of $20,000, and a surplus fund of $20,000, it being one of the substantial institutions of the county, and its officers are as follows: Herman Lehfeldt, president ; Leo A. Henter, first vice president ; Wil- liam Spidel, second vice president; and N. C. Shepard, cashier. Mr. Henter has also other inter- ests of a business nature, being vice president of the Broadview Hardware Company, and owning a ranch situated twelve miles west of Broadview. Politically he is a democrat, and religiously he be- longs to the Roman Catholic Church. Fraternally he is a third degree Knight in Minot Council No. 1150, at Minot, North Dakota; and is a member of Fordville Lodge, Brotherhood of American Yeomen, at Fordville, North Dakota.

Mr. Henter married in 1914, at Bottineau, North Dakota, Miss Irene Nelson, a daughter of Charles and Margaret Nelson. Her father, who was in the livery and draying business for many years, died while yet in the prime of life, and her mother is now living at Grand Forks, North Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. Henter have one child, Virginia Isabel, born March 1, 1917.

ALBERT TINKLEPAUGH, president of the Granite County Bank and retired ranchman, is one of the substantial men of Hall, and well known all over Granite County. The Granite County Bank is an all-round financial institution, with commercial, savings, trust and real estate loan departments ; a

personal service bank, and is built on congenial, democratic lines. It makes people feel at home. It earns good-will and holds it, and feeling its obliga- tions, fulfills them. This bank was established in 1913 as a state bank, and has a capital stock of $20,- 000 and an adequate surplus. Its officials are : Albert Tinklepaugh, president; Jesse H. Henderson, vice president ; and Carl B. Ross, cashier. The directors are : Albert Tinklepaugh, Alex Wight, Gust Johnson, J. A. Featherman, H. J. Kolbeck, Jesse H. Hender- son and Alfred Johnson.

Albert Tinklepaugh was born in County Brant, Canada West, June 8, 1845, a son of William N. Tinklepangh, and grandson of Peter Tinklepaugh, a native of Pennsylvania, who died in Steuben Coun- ty, Indiana, in 1848. The Tinklepaugh family came to Pennsylvania from Germany, some time prior to the American Revolution. William N. Tinklepaugh was born in Pennsylvania in 1821, and died in what was then Deerlodge County, but is now Granite County, near the present site of Hall, in 1895. After he reached maturity in his native state he went to New York City and learned the trade of cabinet- maker, and following it in different places, was a resident of Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dominion of Canada, residing in the latter country but a few years. In 1890 he came to the present Granite County, and remained here until claimed by death. In politics he was a republican. A strong Baptist he was always an active supporter of the local denomination of his faith wherever he lived. His wife bore the maiden name of Mary Swift and she was born in New York State in 1823. Her death occurred at Hall in 1898. Their children were as follows: Albert, whose name heads this review; Charles, who came to Montana in 1873, was one of the pioneers in this part of the state and is now a ranchman of Drummond; Levi, who died in Minne- sota at the age of twenty-four years; Ellen M .; who resides at Rollins, Montana, is the widow of the late Perry Engles, a veteran of the war between the states, who died in a soldiers' home at Thompson Falls, Montana; Morton, who was a rancher in the vicinity of Hall, died in 1893; and Lodema, who married Duncan Dingwall, pioneer merchant of Drummond, Montana, where they reside.

Albert Tinklepaugh went to school in Wiscon- sin, and left home when he was seventeen years and six months old to enlist in the defense of his country in the Sixty-Sixth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, in 1863, and served from then on until the close of the war. That period of stress and hardship made men out of mere boys, and following his discharge Albert Tinklepaugh went to Minnesota and was en- gaged in ranching in that state until 1880, when he came to Montana and bought 160 acres of railroad land, to which he later added 40 acres, in the vi- cinity of the present site of Hall, and here he was engaged in ranching until 1914, when he sold his property, and has since lived retired. He has been president of the Granite County Bank since 1915. and his association with this institution gives it added solidity.

In 1868 Mr. Tinklepaugh was married at Preston, Fillmore County, Minnesota, to Miss Christie Car- nagie, a daughter of John and Jane (McGowan) Carnagie, both of whom are deceased. Mr. Carnagie was a farmer and machinist during his younger years, but later on in life became a jeweler. Mr. and Mrs. Tinklepaugh became the parents of the following children: Eva M., who married F. W. Herring, a locomotive engineer, now deceased, lives at Philipsburg. Montana; Freeman, who is a gen- eral worker of Hall; and Maude, who died at the age of twenty-seven years.

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Mr. Tinklepaugh belongs to Ruby Lodge No. 36, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and to Burnside Post, Grand Army Republic of Philipsburg. An unsafe bank is a reflection upon the intelligence of a community. People cannot carry their money on their persons for the transaction of large busi- ness deals. They have to have banking institutions, and the community which allows the use of the word "bank" by any other than a regulated institu- tion is reckless. Judged by this, the people of Hall have displayed proper foresight in giving their sup- port to a bank of the character of the Granite Coun- ty Bank, which is an institution fit for the confidence of its depositors and those otherwise transacting business through its medium. The present sound conditions of this bank is due to the efforts of the men connected with its operation, and they take pride in the fact that its patrons regard it as their ideal of a financial institution.

LUCIAN HEATH SUTTON is a native son of Mon- tana, and is a young business man of much enter- prise and has given his home city of Hamilton its chief theatrical and amusement assets. Mr. Sutton has been in the theater business for several years, and his experience in business affairs has been rather wide and extended, showing his versatile gifts.

He was born at Helena, November 12, 1892. His father, George L. Sutton, was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1862, was reared in that city, and in 1890 came to Montana. He lived at Helena, later at Bozeman where he was manager of the Bozeman Hotel, and in 1897 moved to Tacoma, where he con- tinued the hotel business. Since 1914 he has been a hotel man in Seattle. He is a republican and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Lucian Heath Sutton was the only child of his parents. His mother was Elizabeth Hamm, who was born in Missouri in 1869 and died at Helena in 1893. Mr. Sutton grew up in the home of his ma- ternal · grandparents. His grandfather William Hamm was born in the Province of Ontario, Canada, in 1843, of English ancestry and the son of a Metho- dist minister in Ontario. William Hamm was a widely known and prominent Montana pioneer. He grew up in his native province, was married in Mis- souri, and in the early days came to Montana, first to Fort Benton and then to Helena. He was a prac- tical lumberman, and as head sawyer was connected with a number of lumber mills in the forests of the Bitter Root Valley and all over Montana. Later he settled at Helena where he owned a residence, and in 1909 retired to Tacoma. In 1916 he established a home at Hamilton, where he died September 3, 1919. In 1898 he served as a constable in Helena. He was a republican in politics. William Hamm married Margaret Rhodes, who was born in Missouri in 1852 and is now living at Hamilton.

Lucian Heath Sutton acquired his early education in the public schools of Helena, finished the sopho- more year in the Montana Wesleyan University in that city, and in 1907-08 attended Helena Business College. The first year after leaving school he was employed in the offices of Wallace, Brown & Gaines, a prominent firm of lawyers of Helena, then division counsel for the Northern Pacific Railway. For six months he was with the Griffin Wheel Company at Tacoma, Washington, following which he was ste- nographer and law clerk for E. C. Day at Helena eighteen months, and for three years, beginning in 1912, was in the grain brokerage business at Seattle. In 1915 Mr. Sutton became private secretary to T. F. Ryan, president of the Ryan Fruit Company.

Mr. Sutton opened the Grand Theater, formerly

the Lucas Opera House, at Hamilton, in November, 1916. Under his management this has become one of the leading amusement places in Western Mon- tana. In September, 1917, he also acquired the Star Theater. He conducted these houses alternately, one as a summer theater and the other for the winter season. In May, 1919, after extensive re- modeling he reopened the Star as the Liberty Theater, an exclusive motion picture house. This is the best equipped and best patronized theater in Ravalli County.

Mr. Sutton is affiliated with Ionic Lodge No. 38, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Hamilton Chap- ter No. 18, Royal Arch Masons, Crusade Com- mandery No. 17, Knights Templar, Ravalli Lodge No. 36, Knights of Pythias, and Ravalli Aerie No. 1693, Fraternal Order of Eagles.

February 8, 1910, at Townsend, Montana, Mr. Sut- ton married Miss Isabella M. Hartwig, daughter of W. J. and Isabelle (Burke) Hartwig, residents of Helena, where her father is proprietor of the Antlers Theater. Mr. and Mrs. Sutton have three children : Lucian Heath, Jr., born May 12, 19II ; William J., born December 12, 1912; and Isabella M., born August 23, 1916.

DANIEL JAMES BURKE. During the last twenty years Daniel James Burke, now a resident of Lewis- town, has built hundreds of miles of steam and electric railways and has done contracting all over the Northwest country. Large corporations know that the organization of Daniel J. Burke is capable of carrying out any contract it undertakes, and Mr. Burke would be fully justified in feeling pride and satisfaction in the great volume of business he has transacted.

His career has been one of real self achievement, beginning in humble circumstances and today en- joying a splendid position in the business affairs of Montana. He was born on a farm in Wallace Township, LaSalle County, Illinois, six miles north of Ottawa, September 9, 1864. His father, Thomas Burke, who spent his active life as an Illinois farmer, was born in Roscrea, Tipperary, Ireland. in 1837, son of Daniel and Catherine (McGrath) Burke, who came to America in 1840 and were pioneers in the locality north of Ottawa, Illinois, where Daniel J. Burke was born. Thomas Burke, who died April 15, 1901, at the age of sixty-four, his death being the result of an injury received by the kick of a horse, was married November I, 1860, at St. Columba's Catholic Church in Ottawa, to Mary O'Shea. She was the mother of four children: Catherine, who died at the age of twenty- two months; Daniel J .; John J., who was born November 20, 1865, and lives at Marseilles in LaSalle County, Illinois; and the fourth child died at its birth with its mother on October 8, 1868, when she was twenty-eight years of age. Thomas Burke married for his second wife on February 1, 1872, Mary McCluskey.

Daniel James Burke spent his life on a farm in Northern Illinois, and secured a limited education in the country schools. Soon after reaching his majority he left Ottawa, on February I, 1886, went to Friend, Nebraska, in the fall of the same year to Schuyler, Nebraska, and on being without capital and with an experience largely limited to the farm he accepted whatever employment he could get. In the spring of 1890 he was made night police at Schuyler, and after a year was appointed chief of police and street commissioner, an office he filled creditably for two years.

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special agent and claim agent for the Burlington Railroad at Alliance, Nebraska. He was with that railroad until February, 1900, with headquarters at Alliance. At that date he opened a small lumber yard at Bayer, Nebraska. Mr. Burke on March 17, 1900, bought a thirty-team grading outfit from Mile Elmore, then working at Vance, Nebraska, for the Burlington Railroad, and since that date has followed railroad building. His operations as a railroad contractor have been in the states of Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Iowa, Idaho and Montana. The first contract he handled was for the Burlington and Missouri River Railway, part of the Burlington system. He did work for the same company in Iowa, and on April 14, 1906, moved the first dirt at Carterville on the new transconti- nental line of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. This was on the line between Mobridge and the coast. He was actively engaged on this construc- tion until 1909. Mr. Burke then moved his con- tracting organization for the building of the North- ern Pacific line between Rosebud and Miles City, as far as the Bozeman Tunnel. In 1912 he built the Gallatin Valley Electric Railway, now part of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul system. He also constructed the electric railway between Bozeman and Salesville, a distance of twenty miles.

Mr. Burke has had his home and business head- quarters at Lewistown since 1912, and since then has constructed 123 miles of railroad in Fergus County alone. He has also added to the resources of Lewistown as a business city, having erected a first class public storage and warehouse building at a cost of $75,000. He is one of the heavy stock- holders in the First National Bank and served the bank as director in 1917-18. He belongs to only one organization, the Elks Lodge No. 961, at Alliance, Nebraska. He is a democrat and in religion a Catholic.

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 41

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