Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 43

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

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Mr. Gordon is a member of the Electrical Work- ers Union, is independent in politics and has been councilman at Deer Lodge for three terms, and is affiliated with Lodge No. 14, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons at Deer Lodge, Valley Chapter No. 4, Royal Arch Masons, Zabud Council No. 2, Royal and Select Masters, and Deer Lodge Camp No. 345 Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Gordon re- sides at 609 Milwaukee Avenue, having a good mod- ern home. He married at Deer Lodge Miss Jennie Harris, a daughter of Henry and Delia (Carroll) Harris, now deceased. Her father was an early day shoemaker at Deer Lodge.

JOHN H. NEWELL. Of that brand of pioneers whose names deserve to be written in gold on Mon- tana's pages of history, those who explored and proved the vanguard of civilization in Montana in the early sixties, very few remain. One of these few is a retired rancher at Roberts, John H. Newell.

Mr. Newell, who fifty years ago was on terms of acquaintance and friendship with many of the men who had made history in Montana, was born at Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, March 18, 1842. The Newells as a family came from England and settled in Virginia in colonial times. Many of them have met every test of patriotism. Both the grand- fathers of Mr. Newell lost their lives as soldiers in the War of 1812. The parents of John H. Newell

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were Thomas and Hannah (Rowe) Newell. His father was born in Virginia in 1807, grew up at Lancaster in Fairfield County, Ohio, and was mar- ried there, his wife having been born in Fairfield County in 1814. Later he moved to Hancock County, Ohio, about 1837, and in 1852 transferred his home to Piatt County, Illinois, where he died in 1857, his wife having passed away in 1856. He was a farmer, and played a pioneer part in the development of the several localities mentioned. Politically he was a democrat, served as a member of the State Militia, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his wife had a large family of children: William, who was a farmer and miner in Colorado and Southern Mis- souri and died at Joplin in the latter state; James H. who was a mine owner and died in Barton County, Missouri; Thomas J., a business man who died in Oklahoma City; Joseph, who enlisted in 1861 in an Illinois Regiment and was killed in one of the battles of 1863; John H., who is fifth in age; George, who served in the Civil war and died soon afterward from hardships of army life; Caroline, now deceased; Samuel, a retired farmer living at Clinton, Illinois; Almeda, wife of T. C. Graden, a stockman at Amarillo, Texas; and Frank, a farmer in Kansas.

John H. Newell acquired a common school educa- tion in Ohio and Illinois. He was fifteen years old when his father died, and after that he worked for three years as a farm hand in Piatt County, Illinois. He went west to Denver in 1860, and during the next three years was a prospector and miner in different parts of Colorado. He was one of those attracted by the news of discoveries in Montana, and on February 18, 1863, arrived at Bannock. After a brief stay there he went to the famous diggings of Alder Gulch, near Virginia City, and was a member of that historic community for two years.

Though he came to Montana in the role of a miner and prospector, Mr. Newell's chief activities in the state has been farming and ranching. From Alder Gulch he moved into the Gallatin Valley, being one of the early settlers near Bozeman, and farmed and ranched there steadily for thirty-two years. He took up a preemption of 160 acres, and grazed his stock over a large amount of public domain. In 1897, having sold his property in Gallatin Valley, Mr. Newell moved to Roberts, and acquired 320 acres of land in that vicinity. He sold his farm in 1918 and is now enjoying a well earned retirement. In politics he is a democrat, but his life has been quietly spent with no noteworthy participation in politics or public affairs.

On January 3, 1866, at Virginia City in Madison County, Montana, he married Miss Lucy Harris, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Green) Harris. Her father was a carpenter and likewise a pioneer of Montana. Mrs. Newell after forty-five years of married life died March 27, 1911. She was the mother of nine children, the oldest, John, dying at the age of fourteen and a half months; Mary, unmarried, and living at Stockton, California ; George, a farmer and teamster at Red Lodge; James, a business man of Stockton, California; Samuel, a farmer near Stockton, California; Joseph, who has a farm in Custer County, Montana; Minnie, wife of James Williams, a rancher and stock man in Gallatin County, this state ; Thomas Cleveland, owner of a meat market at Roberts; and Grover, whose home is in Wyoming.

CHARLES FRANK JUTTNER has gained a prominent rank among Montana lawyers, and is one of the very able members of the Butte bar.

He was born at Menominee, Michigan, February 28, 1876, son of Joseph and Mary (Marshalick) Juttner. His parents established their home at Menominee when that city was in its infancy, and reared a family of ten children there. These chil- dren are all still living. Joseph Juttner the father died at Menominee in 1891.

Charles Frank Juttner grew up in his native city and received two diplomas from the Menominee Higli School, one in June, 1894, and the other in June, 1896. The following year he spent in the literary department of the University of Michigan, and then continued his studies in the law school until graduat- ing LL. B. in June, 1900.

As a boy at Menominee he had some military training as a member of Company F of the Fifth Regiment Michigan Militia from 1891 until 1893. He held the non-commissioned rank of corporal. While in university the Spanish-American war broke out and at the call of President Mckinley for vol- unteers he enlisted with the Ann Arbor company, Company A of the Thirty-First Michigan Infantry, and remained in service about a year until the close of hostilities. He was a corporal in this company when honorably discharged. He then resumed his work at the university, made up for the lost time and graduated with his class.

After his admission to the bar Mr. Juttner re- turned to Menominee to practice and was elected prosecuting attorney of Menominee County in 1902. Along with his private practice he has taken some interest in politics in Montana, though strictly with- in the limits of his profession. In 1916 he was the nominee of the republican party of Silver Bow County for district judge of the Second Judicial District. And in 1918 for that of county attorney of Silver Bow. Mr. Juttner is an active Mason, being affiliated with Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 24. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Deer Lodge No. 3, Royal Arch Masons, Montana Commandery No. 3, Knights Templar, all at Butte, and also the Bagdad 'Temple of. the Mystic Shrine at Butte.

Mr. Juttner married Miss Lily M. Sweet. They were married in Butte July 25, 1917, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Charles A. Cook, pastor of the First Baptist Church. Mrs. Juttner is a daughter of Henry J. and Rose Sweet, who were early settlers in Montana. Her father died at Butte. Mrs. Juttner was born in that city, was educated in the Butte public schools, and during her married life has continued an active interest in church work as a member of the First Baptist Church of Butte and is a member of the choir.

PERRY F. BROWN. Prominent among the concerns which are lending practical encouragement to the hay and grain industry of Montana is the P. F. Brown Company, of Lewistown, than which no enterprise has done more to bring these staple products of the state before the public and the trade all over the country. Without a market the products of any community are valueless, local interest comes to a standstill and deterioration sets in; on the other hand, with a live market causing a demand, business progresses and the community, urged and encouraged to greater effort, prospers proportionate- ly. It has been the self-appointed duty of Perry F. Brown, head of the P. F. Brown Company, to promote the hay and grain business of Montana and to find a market.

Mr. Brown was born at Ipswich, Edmunds County, Dakota Territory (now South Dakota), December 5, 1884, a son of Frank E. and Ella A. (Brown) Brown. His father was born at Norwich, Chenango County, New York, January 30, 1853, and was educated in his native state, where he grew up on

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his father's farm. He subsequently learned the drug business and after his marriage migrated to the territory of Dakota, where he took up a home- stead in the vicinity of Ipswich, Edmunds County. He also conducted a drug business at Aberdeen, and later at Mitchell, but in 1914 removed to Dewey County, South Dakota, where he established him- self in the cattle business. Mr. Brown breeds full- blooded Hereford cattle, and at this time has more than 100 head in his herd. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is independent in his political views. Mrs. Brown, who was born in Pennsylvania, died in 1885, at the age of thirty- three years, leaving five children, of whom three are living.

The fourth in order of birth of his parents' children, Perry F. Brown received his education in the public schools of South Dakota and Wes- leyan College at Mitchell. He first engaged in the grain business at Mitchell in 1903, and during the next eleven years carried on extensive opera- tions among the dealers and agriculturists of North and South Dakota and Minnesota. In 1914 he changed his base of operations to Lewistown, where he has since built up a large and prosperous trade, under the firm style of P. F. Brown Company, dealing in grain, hay and seeds, with offices at No. 421 Bank Electric Building. This concern forwards grain and hay all over the country and bears an excellent reputation in trade circles. It did not take Mr. Brown long after his arrival to realize that Montana needed a market for its out- put, and toward this end he has worked consistently and constructively. His firm, through one of its members, belongs to the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, and personally he has a number of important business connections, in addition to being associated with civic and fraternal bodies. He maintains an independent stand upon political ques- tions, using his own judgment in regard to the choice of candidates irrespective of party lines.

Mr. Brown was married August 1, 1903, to Miss Bessie Clarke, who was born in Kansas, a daughter of J. W. and Laura (Swain) Clarke, natives of Wisconsin and the parents of eleven children, of whom Mrs. Brown was the seventh born. The Clarke's formed one of the pioneer families of Minnesota, having first located in Blue Earth County, where they passed through the periods of Indian warfare in the late '6os. Later they removed to Stafford County, Kansas, where they were also pioneer agriculturists, but eventually took up their residence at Mitchell, South Dakota, where Mr. and Mrs. Clarke are now living in comfortable retirement. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are the parents of one son, Clarke Fisher, who is attending school.

CARL DETLEF HAGGE, manager of the Thompson Yards, Incorporated, at Billings, Montana, has been identified with the lumber business since the outset of his career, and during the time which has elapsed has had wide and varied experience in numerous communities. He has become well and favorably known to the trade throughout this part of the country, and his activities have brought him into association with many of the leading men in the industry, among whom he is adjudged a well-in- formed, astute and thoroughly competent business man, of substantial standing and sound principles.

Mr. Hagge was born at Arcadia, Iowa, March 5, 1884, a son of Hans and Rosa (Eggen) Hagge. His grandfather, Detlef Hagge, was born in 1827, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and as a youth fought in the war of 1848. Coming to the United States in 1870, he located in Iowa, where he was for ten years engaged in agricultural pursuits, and then

retired from active affairs and settled down to enjoy the fruits of his early labors. Now, at the remarkable age of ninety-two years, he is still a resident of Arcadia, Iowa, and, for his years, very well preserved. Hans Hagge was born in 1856, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and was fourteen years of age when he accompanied his parents to the United States, being reared in Clinton and Carroll counties, Iowa. He was married in the former county and then engaged in farming in Carroll County, but in 1893 removed to Crawford County, in the same state, where he continued his agricul- tural operations until his retirement in 1905. Since then he has made his home at Charter Oak, where he is one of his community's most substantial and highly respected citizens. Politically a democrat, for many years he has been active in civic and political affairs in his community, has held office for a long period, and at this time is a member of the board of supervisors of Crawford County. Mr. Hagge married Rosa Eggen, who was born in 1862, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and who died at Sioux City, Iowa, in 1906, and they became the parents of three children: Minnie, the wife of Herman Hinrichsen, a farmer of Charter Oak, Iowa; Carl Detlef; and Anna, the wife of John Gregory, a farmer of Charter Oak.

Carl Detlef Hagge attended the district schools in the vicinity of his father's farm in Crawford County, and following his graduation from the high school at Charter Oak in 1901 returned to the home farm for one year. Not contented with the prospects of life in the country and farming as a regular vocation, he decided to fit himself for a business career and accordingly pursued a course at the Fremont (Nebraska) Business College, in 1902 and 1903. He again returned to the farm, but in the fall of 1904 started to work in a lumber yard at Charter Oak, where during a short initial experience he was introduced to the business. Next he went to Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he spent a short period in the general offices and then began visiting the various offices of the company as office help and extra yard man, and in the following ·year had advanced so far that he was promoted to be outside yard foreman at Aberdeen, a capacity in which he acted until May, 1907. At that time he entered the employ of the McCaull-Webster Lumber Company at Aberdeen, as manager of the yard of that concern, but in November of the same year transferred his services to the Phoenix Lum- ber Company as manager at Strasburg, North Dakota, where he remained until the spring of 1911. His next location was at Ellendale, North Dakota, where he was employed by the same concern as manager, and in March, 1914, when this company sold out to the Wells-Thompson Company, he con- tinued with the new firm. In November, 191.4. he was sent to Jamestown, North Dakota, as manager of the yards at that point, and continued with the new firm when the Wells-Thompson Com- pany disposed of their holdings to the Thompson Yards, Incorporated. In May, 1918, Mr. Hagge was sent to Billings, Montana, as manager of the yard and offices, which are situated at Thirtieth Street and Minnesota Avenue, this being the largest yard in Southeastern Montana, and one of the finest and best equipped to be found anywhere. The present officers of the concern are: president. George P. Thompson; vice president, W. H. Boner; treasurer, F. E. Weyerhaeuser; and secretary, F. H. Thatcher. The executive offices are at Min- neapolis, and the firm has about 200 branches throughout Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana.

Mr. Hagge is a democrat in his political support,

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and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Hc belongs also to the Employers Association, the Billings Midland Club and Ashlar Lodge No. 29, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. His modern residence is located at No. 307 Yellowstone Avenne. In 1913, at Ellendale, North Dakota, Mr. Hagge, was united in marriage with Miss Lulu Webb, a daugh- ter of Richard and Emma (Glenn) Webb, of Lind- say, California, where Mr. Webb is the owner of an orange grove. Two children have blessed this union : Dorothy, born October 26, 1914; and How- ard, born December 4, 1916.

EDWARD SEARS. As electrical and district master mechanic of the Milwaukee Railway, with 600 men under his superivision, and the technical expert in charge of all the lines of the Milwaukee System in the divisions where electric power prevail, Edward Sears is one of the most prominent railroad operat- ing officials in Montana.

He had a long and thorough training and many exceptional qualifications for his present work. He holds the degree mechanical engineer from Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana, having graduated from that well known technical institution in 1899. The same year he entered the service of the Denver & Rio Grande at Denver, Colorado, and spent three years in the railway shops, not as an ordinary ap- prentice, but in a sort of post-graduate course in practical railroading, being given an opportunity to learn everything in railroad work. After this in 1902 he went with the New York Central Railway at the DeWitt Roundhouse, East Syracuse, New York, being general foreman there one year. Then for several years until 1906 he was a roundhouse foreman at various localities on the Hudson River division of the New York Central.

His chief training ground for his present work was as general foreman of the electrification depart- ment of the New York Central on the Hudson River and Harlem Division, a post he filled from 1906 to 1913. From 1913 to 1916 he was superintendent of equipment for the Portland, Eugene & Eastern Railway at Portland, Oregon. This is now part of the Southern Pacific system. In 1916 Mr. Sears came to Deer Lodge, Montana, as electrical and district master mechanic of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, in charge of all the electrified territory, and with offices at Deer Lodge.

Mr. Sears was born at Williamsville, Michigan, June 5, 1874. He is of English ancestry. His grandfather Edward Sears was born at Darford, England, in 1804, was a land owner in England, but in 1863 sold his possessions and came to the United States, living for three years at Wankesha, Wiscon- sin, thence moving to Williamsville, Michigan, where he was a successful farmer. He died at Williams- ville in 1880. He married Ann Searles, a native of Dartford, England, who died at Williamsville, Mich- igan. Henry Sears, father of Edward, was born at Dartford, England, in September, 1849, and was fourteen years of age when brought to this coun- try. At Williamsville, where he married, he fol- lowed the business of contractor and builder, and put up many of the homes of the early settlers. In 1882 he moved to Redfield, South Dakota, buying a stock ranch, and was a farmer and stockman there until 1902, when he sold out his property and re- turned to Williamsville, where he owns a large amount of farm property and is now practically re- tired. He is a republican and a member of the Church of England. Henry Sears married Miss Ocena Rinehart, who was born at Williamsville, Michigan, in 1852. Edward, Edith and Arthur are their three children, the first two being twins. Edith

is the wife of W. F. Parker, who is paymaster for the Western Steel Car & Foundry at the Hegewisch shops at Chicago. Arthur is in the automobile busi- ness at Cassopolis, Michigan.

Edward Sears grew up on his father's ranch in South Dakota, attending the public schools of Spink County and the high school at Doland and from there entered Purdue University to take his technical course in mechanical engineering. Mr. Sears is financially interested in a farm of 350 acres in Mich- igan. Since coming to Deer Lodge he has bought a modern home at 205 Fifth Street. He is an in- dependent voter, is a member of the Congregational Church, is affiliated with Beaverton Lodge of Ma- sons in Oregon, with the Scottish Rite Consistory at Portland, with the Portland Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and is a member of Valley Chapter No. 4, Royal Arch Masons at Deer Lodge. He is also a member of the Deer Lodge Chamber of Commerce.

In 1904 at East Syracuse, New York, Mr. Sears married Miss Catherine McVee, daughter of Mr and Mrs. John McVee of East Syracuse, the latter now deceased. Her father is a veteran engineer of the New York Central Railway. Mrs. Sears is a grad- uate of the Teachers Normal School of Syracuse. To their marriage was born one daughter Edith on February 3, 1906.

ALBERT EDWARD STRIPP, M. D. Opening to its devotees an extremely wide range of usefulness, the profession of the physician and surgeon is a many- sided one, and that particular phase which accom- plishes the more than splendid work of preserving God-given life, says nothing of the world of sorrow that is banished or of the happiness and continued love which is re-enthroned through health restored at the exercise of that divine art. It is indeed a divine art, and those who study it, mellowed and enriched as they are through their association with unmasked humanity, are possessed of a priceless ability to answer the command to "heal the sick." The medical fraternity of Billings has long been noted for the splendid talent possessed by its mem- bers, among whom one who has come to the fore- front in recent years as a general practitioner of medicine and surgery is Dr. Albert Edward Stripp, who has followed his vocation here since 1916.

Albert E. Stripp was born at Aylmer, Province of Ontario, Canada, April 11, 1877, a son of William Slade and Rosamond (Clayton) Stripp. The Stripp family originated in England, from which country Thomas Henry Stripp, the grandfather of Doctor Stripp, emigrated to Canada, settling at Bowman- ville, Ontario, as a pioneer. In his declining years he retired from agricultural pursuits and took up his residence at Charlevoix, Michigan, where his death occurred. William Slade Stripp was born in 1840, at Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, and was reared and married in his native province. His inclination turned toward commercial pursuits, and he became a well-known wholesale fruit dealer, a business which in 1885 brought him'to Michigan, he taking up his residence at Charlevoix. While there he was attracted to the lumber business, in which he eventually embarked, and in which field he achieved excellent success. At the time of his re- tirement he removed to Long Beach, California, and there his death occured March 20, 1919. Mr. Stripp was a well known Mason and a republican voter. He married Rosamond Clayton, who was born in 1844, at Aylmer, Canada, and died at Charlevoix. Michigan, in 1898, and they became the parents of four children, as follows: William C., who is engaged in the lumber business at San Francisco, California; Albert Edward, the second in order of

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birth; Frederick S., superintendent of the Metro- politan Life Insurance Company of Spokane, Waslı- ington; and Rosa, the wife of Henry Kanagy, a ranchman of Long Beach, California.

Albert Edward Stripp attended the public schools of Charlevoix, Michigan, where he was graduated from the high school in 1894. After engaging in farming for two years he was attracted to the ' Great Lakes, where he served for a time as a sailor, but eventually realized the need for further educa- tion and accordingly entered Kalamazoo (Michigan) College, where he pursued a three-year course. At the end of that time he entered upon his medical studies, and after a four-year course in the medical department of the University of Michigan was graduated in 1904 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. To further prepare himself he next spent one year as an interne in the hospital of the Uni- versity of Michigan, and this was followed by one and one-half years of work in the Michigan Asylum for the Insane at Kalamazoo. With this preparation and experience he entered upon the practice of his chosen calling at Charlevoix, but after one and one- half years, in 1908, came to Laurel, Montana, where he was engaged in practice until 1916. While located there he rose to a high place in his profession and served as surgeon for the Northern Pacific Railroad, which operates large shops at that point, and the experience thus gained has proved of inestimable value. He was also one of the foremost citizens of the city, took a prominent part in civic affairs, and served efficiently as mayor for four years. In 1916, in order to increase the scope of his profes- sional activities and to have a wider field in which to display his talents, he came to Billings, where he has since carried on a general practice in medicine and surgery, with offices in the Electric Building, suite No. 217. His clientele has grown steadily since his arrival and he is now accounted one of the leading physicians of the city, having the confidence of his patients and the esteem of his fellow- practitioners. He is a member of the Yellowstone County Medical Society, the Montana Medical Soci- ety and the American Medical Association, and also holds membership in the Billings Midland Club. Fraternally he is affiliated with Laurel Lodge, An- cient Free and Accepted Masons; Billings Lodge No. 394, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and Laurel Camp, Modern Woodmen of America. He has a number of important business connections and is president of the Twenty-Mile Basin Oil and Gas Refining Company. His political views cause him to support the republican party. Doctor Stripp and his family belong to the Congregational Church and reside in their pleasant home at No. 302 Bur- lington Avenue.

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 43

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