Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 66

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

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Mr. Bradford is also well known as a Livingston citizen, having served two years as a member of the City Council, while in 1915 he was appointed and served two years as mayor. His administra- tion was a very progressive one and is remembered for several important improvements, including the installation of a garbage system, the paving of streets and the installation of an ornamental light- ing system. Mr. Bradford is a republican, is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was formerly identified with the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He is owner of a modern home at 102 South F Street.

In Schuyler, Nebraska, Mr. Bradford married Miss Alice Shaw, born in Nebraska, from which union two children were born. The oldest was Louis, who, while employed as a brakeman with the Great Northern Railway, was killed at Cutbank at the age of nineteen. The second of the family, Helen, lives at Seattle, Washington, where her hus- band is a hoisting engineer. Mrs. Bradford died in 1894. In 1899 Mr. Bradford married Miss Flor- ence Roup, who was born in Iowa. The two children by this union are Harry and Ruth, the former a junior in the Park County High School and the latter in grammar school.

ROBERT B. BRADFORD, a brother of W. M. Brad- ford, supervisor of the bridge and building depart- ment of the Northern Pacific Railway, is, like other members of the family, a carpenter by trade, and has built up an extensive business as a general con- tractor at Livingston.

He was born in Tipton County, Indiana, April 12, 1872, son of C. O. Bradford, now a resident of Livingston. Robert B. Bradford left the public schools of Schuyler, Nebraska, at the age of six- teen and then worked steadily at the carpenter's trade. He did some contracting while at Schuyler and in August, 1900, came to Livingston, Montana,

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and has been active as a building contractor ever since. Some of the chief business blocks and pri- vate residences of Livingston have been constructed by his skillful and expert organization. For five years he had charge of a carpenter shop under the bridges and building department of the Northern Pacific. A few examples of his work in Livingston are the Ebert Apartment, the Park Hospital, the Golden Rule Department Store, the garage of the United Motors Company, the residences of John Seaman, S. O. Brady, C. S. Hefferlin and many others.

Mr. Bradford is a republican, a Methodist, is affil- iated with the Elks, Woodmen of the World, Mod- ern Woodmen of America, and also belongs to the Carpenters' Union. He is regarded as one of the most loyal and public spirited citizens of Livingston.

In 1895, at Schuyler, Nebraska, Mr. Bradford, married Miss Cora Spidle, daughter of George and Jane (Morgan) Spidle, now retired farmers of Schuyler. Mr. and Mrs. Bradford have three chil- dren : Lorren, a student in the State Agricultural College at Bozeman, and George Theron and Virgil, both students in the public schools at Livingston.

LEWIS TERWILLIGER. Until about five years ago Lewis Terwilliger was known in several cities and communities of Montana as a successful educator. He had taken up teaching probably with the inten- tion of making it his life work in his native state of Michigan, and after coming to Montana he was teacher, principal and school superintendent for a number of years. After ten years of service as principal of the Park County High School he re- signed to take up business, and now has a pros- perous abstract and real estate business at Living- ston, is mayor of that city, is interested in several industrial corporations, and is one of the best known Masons and Knights of Pythias in Montana.

Mr. Terwilliger was born in Clinton County, Michigan, August 1, 1869. His paternal ancestors came originally from Holland and were identified with the colonial settlement of New York. His grandfather, Tiras Terwilliger, was born in New York State in 1809, and afterward moved with his family to Michigan and was a pioneer settler in the central part of that state. He died on his farm in Montcalm County, Michigan, in 1889. His wife was Abigail Sprague, also a native of New York. Homer Terwilliger, father of the Livingston busi- ness man, was born in New York State in 1841 and died in Clinton County, Michigan, in 1905. He was quite young when he went to Michigan with his parents, and after his marriage spent his life as a farmer in Clinton County. In 1861 he became a Union soldier, a member of the 8th Michigan In- fantry, and was all through the war, being four times wounded in battle and spending six months in a rebel prison. He was in the battles of Antietam and the Wilderness, and operated with Burnside's Division around Knoxville, Tennessee. Politically he was a republican and was a very devout Meth- odist. Homer Terwilliger married Lucinda Lewis, who was born in Michigan in 1846 and died in Clin- ton County, that state, in 1896. Lewis is the oldest of their three children. The other two both live in Michigan, Lee being a blacksmith at Crystal, while Asahel is a farmer in Montcalm County.

Lewis Terwilliger received his primary education in the rural schools of his native county, graduated from the high school at Maple Rapids in 1887, and in 1890 graduated in the normal and scientific departments of Ferris Institute at Big Rapids. In the meantime and afterward he put in about seven years as a teacher in Michigan, being assistant prin-

cipal at Maple Rapids two years, principal at Eagle Harbor three years and principal of the Stambaugh schools two years.

Mr. Terwilliger came to Montana in 1895, was principal of schools at Townsend one year, assist- ant superintendent at Butte one year and three years principal of the city schools at Boulder. He then helped organize the Jefferson County High School, and remained as its principal three years. In 1903 he accepted the responsibilities of principal of the Park County High School at Livingston, and when he resigned ten years later it was to identify him- self permanently with that city as a business man. For one year he was connected with the First State Bank, and has since built up an organization of his own, handling abstracts and real estate, his trans- actions covering a large part of Southern Montana. His offices are at 123 South Main Street. Evidently Mr. Terwilliger is a thorough business man, and has been more successful financially than most men who devote a large part of their time to teaching. He owns a grain and stock ranch of six hundred and forty acres two and a half miles southwest of Wilsall, also has a modern residence at 209 South Sixth Street in Livingston, and is secretary of the Yellowstone Valley Land and Irrigation Company . and a director in the Livingston Marble and Granite Works.

Mr. Terwilliger was elected mayor of Livingston in April, 1919, for a term of two years. He is a republican in politics. His Masonic affiliations are with Livingston Lodge No. 32, Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons, of which he is past master; Livingston Chapter No. 7, Royal Arch Ma- son, of which he is past high priest; St. Bernard Commandery No. 6, Knights Templar, of which he is past eminent commander; Orient Chapter No. 6 of the Eastern Star, and is past grand patron of the State of Montana, Algeria Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Helena, and Livingston Consistory No. I. In 1919 he received the 33rd degree, the highest degree in Masonry. He is past chancellor com- mander of Yellowstone Lodge No. 10, Knights of Pythias, at Livingston, and as master of arms of the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias is in line for the office of grand chancellor of the Grand Lodge of the state. He is past exalted ruler of Livingston Lodge No. 246 of the Elks and is a member of the Livingston Chamber of Commerce and the Livingston Commercial Club.

In 1896, at Reed City, Michigan, Mr. Terwilliger married Miss Mary Bennett. Her father, Charles Bennett, is deceased and her mother now lives at Salt Lake City, Utah. Mrs. Terwilliger before her marriage was a teacher in Michigan. She took kin- dergarten training at the Ferris Institute in Big Rapids. Mr. and Mrs. Terwilliger have two chil- dren: Vena, a graduate of the Park County High School and a teacher in Park County, and Homer, a graduate of the county high school and now asso- ciated with his father in business.

SAMUEL MOTT SOUDERS, M. D. Dr. Souders be- came a resident of Red Lodge January 19, 1901. He had recently graduated in medicine and came to the Northwest highly recommended for his abilities and talents. He came to Red Lodge as assistant surgeon for the Northwestern Improvement Com- pany and later was appointed chief surgeon, though in the meantime he has built up a large general medical and surgical practice. Dr. Souders gave Red Lodge a splendid hospital, a four-story modern hos- pital building which he erected on Broadway, oppo- site the postoffice. He owns and directs this institu- tion, and it has facilities for the accommodation of

Souders.

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from thirty to fifty patients. These patients have been received from all the Northwestern states, including Montana, Wyoming, Dakotas and Idaho.

Dr. Souders, who has therefore filled an important place in the citizenship of Carbon County for the past eighteen years, was born. at Beavertown, Ohio, May 5, 1873. His original ancestors in the paternal line came out of Germany to America about the period of the Revolutionary war, locating in Vir- ginia. His grandfather, John Souders, was born at Alexandria, Virginia, in 1800 and moved from his native state to Ohio, where he followed farming. He served as a soldier in the war with Mexico in 1846-47. He died at Circleville, Ohio, in 1881. His wife bore the maiden name of Ann Slater. She was born in Virginia and died in Circleville, Ohio.

Dr. Souders' father was an honored physician and spent his entire life in Ohio. For more than half a century he practiced medicine and surgery at Dean in that state. He was born at Circleville in 1833 and died at Dean in 1917. He took much interest in local affairs, filling various offices, and in politics was a prohibitionist. During the Civil war he was a surgeon in the Union army. His church member- ship was English Lutheran. Dr. Samuel Souders married Jennie O'Neill, who was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1844 and died at Dayton, Ohio, in August, 1917. Her mother was a cousin of General Sherman. Dr. Samuel Sonders and wife had a family of four children. Minnie, the oldest, has been with the American Red Cross in overseas work, and in the spring of 1919 was still in Italy on duty with that organization. She is the widow of E. W. Darst, who was a prominent minister of the Christian Church and at one time was pastor of large churches in Boston, Massachusetts, Chicago, Illinois, and Berkeley, California. The second child is Maud, wife of Professor John Heiss, Professor of Modern Languages at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana. Dr. Souders is third in age, while Myrtle, the youngest, is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music at Cincinnati and is instruc- tor in music at Dayton, Ohio.

Samuel Mott Sonders acquired his early education in the public schools of Dean, attended the Dayton High School, a preparatory school at Springfield, Ohio, and in 1893 graduated with the A. B. degree from Wittenberg College at Springfield. The follow- ing four years he spent as principal of the high school in Van Buren Township of Montgomery County, Ohio. He then entered the University of Cincinnati and completed the work of the Medical College in 1900. He is a member of the Greek letter fraternity Beta Theta Pi and the Omega Upsilon Phi medical fraternity. Dr. Sonders is a thoroughly progressive and advanced man in his profession and spent every summer from 1901 to 1917 in post- graduate work. The University of Wittenberg con- ferred upon him the degree A. M. in 1917. He has also attended surgical clinics in Philadelphia, New York City, Cincinnati and Chicago. After graduat- ing Dr. Souders was interne of the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati until he came out to Montana. He has served as health officer of Carbon County and the City of Red Lodge and is an active member of the Carbon County Medical Society, being its presi- dent, of the Yellowstone Valley Medical Society, the Montana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He also belongs to the Volun- teer Medical Corps of the United States. Dr. Souders has acquired some valuable property since coming to Montana. One is an irrigated ranch of 148 acres on Rock Creek near Red Lodge. He also has 640 acres of deeded land on Dry Creek and owns an eighth interest in 1,600 acres where the

Empire Gas and Fuel Company have been drilling for gas, and also a third interest in a ranch of 200 acres devoted to fruit culture at Fromberg.

Dr. Souders is a republican, was reared in the Lutheran Church and now affiliates with the Epis- copal Church at Red Lodge and is a vestryman. He is a member of the Star in the West Lodge No. 40, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Carbon Chapter No. 20, Royal Arch Masons, Bear Tooth Lodge No. 534, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Dr. Souders married Miss Margaret Jones on December 25, 1901, at Vernon, Texas. Her mother is still living at Vernon. Her father, the late Thomas Jones, was a stockman, merchant and townsite pro- moter at Vernon, was one of the leading pioneers of Wilbarger County, Texas, served as sheriff of that county, and organized and promoted several townsites in the Red River Valley. Dr. and Mrs. Souders have three children: Mott, Jr., born De- cember 10, 1905; Margaret Elizabeth, born Jannary 12, 1911; and Helen Jeanette, born May 14, 1912.

B. THORWALD KROHNE is active head of the real estate business developed by his late honored father, Charles O. Krohne, who came to Livingston thirty years ago and by his business energy and public spirited devotion to the city's best interests is one of the men who deserve longest memory among the upbuilders of this part of the state. The business is now conducted by B. T. and C. E. Krohne under the title of C. O. Krohne Sons.

Charles O. Krohne was born in Sweden in 1863. He died at Livingston August 8, 1917. He was reared and married in his native country and there learned the trade of machinist. On coming to the United States in 1885 he settled in Minneapolis, where he continued work at his trade. In 1889 he moved to Livingston, and shortly afterward gave up his mechanical vocation and established and event- ually built up one of the leading real estate and insurance organizations of Southern Montana. He made his business a source of direct benefit to the broader prosperity of Livingston and the surround- ing territory and was always diligent in working for the city's welfare. He was a man of charitable instincts and gave liberally of his means and per- sonal influence to objects and causes outside the average man's interest. He served as public admin- istrator for Park County several times. He was a republican, a member of the English Lutheran Church and affiliated with Livingston Lodge No. 246, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Charles O. Krohne married Tekla Johnson, who was born in Sweden and is a resident of Livingston.

The successors of the honored father are his two sons, B. Thorwald and C. E. B. Thorwald Krohne was born at Minneapolis March 8, 1888, but has spent practically all his life at Livingston. He attended the public schools, was a student in the State College at Bozeman until 1908, and the following year at- tended Phelps Business College, also at Bozeman. He then took an active part in the business of his father, also farmed, and since the death of his father has handled the interests both in town and in the country. His offices are at 116 East Callender Street. Mr. Krohne owns a ranch of 700 acres in the Yellowstone Canyon, a place of forty-four acres adjoining Livingston, and 320 acres north of town. He is unmarried, is a republican, a member of the Lutheran Church, is affiliated with Livingston Lodge No. 32, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks No. 246. His home is a modern residence at 327 South H Street.

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CHARLES S. HEFFERLIN came to Montana in 1882 with the Northern Pacific Railway. A few years later he graduated from railroading, and began the work with which his name is destined to be long associated in Livingston, town builder and business developer. He has probably done more to develop the business section of Livingston than any other individual, and is also a local banker of more than thirty years of successful experience.

He was born in Easton, Leavenworth County, Kansas, February 5, 1857. His father, Martin A. Hefferlin, was born in the Province of Loraine, France, and on coming to this country lived at St. Louis, later at Weston, Missouri, and finally at Wyandotte, Kansas. For many years he was a merchant. In politics he was a democrat. He died at Wyandotte in 1875. Martin A. Hefferlin married Louise Ann Humphrey, who was born in Ohio in 1835 and died at Livingston, Montana, in March, 1901. Several of their sons have become well known in Montana. The oldest child, M. A. Hefferlin, was a railroad clerk and died at Wyandotte, Kansas, at the age of twenty-seven. O. M. Hefferlin was an early day merchant at Livingston, where he died in 1918. Charles S. is the third in age. H. D. Hefferlin is proprietor of the Albemarle Hotel at Livingston. William N. was for many years a merchant and is now employed as a machinist in the Northern Pacific shops at Livingston. Ida M., the only daughter, is a resident of Livingston, widow of John M. Coyan, a former merchant of that city. J. W. Hefferlin, the youngest son, is a real estate broker in Liv- ingston.

Charles S. Hefferlin graduated from the Wyan- dotte High School in 1872. For three years follow- ing he worked in the local postoffice and then became chief clerk in the Wyandotte office of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Subsequently he was with the Kansas Pacific at Ellis, Kansas, spending three years there and about three years in Denver, Colo- rado. In 1882 he became cashier of the Northern Pacific Railroad at Billings, soon afterward was sent to Custer, and in 1883 arrived at Livingston. He remained with the Northern Pacific five years longer, and having in the meantime taken full meas- ure of the present and prospective advantages of Livingston proceeded to put his ideas and plans into effective execution. In 1884 he built the Hef- ferlin Block, one of the first of many building improvements which now constitute him probably the largest property owner in Park County. In 1882 he built the Merchants Bank Opera House Building, and the following year organized the bank- ing institution, which for thirty years has been owned and conducted by him and is at once one of the oldest and most conservative and successful banking institutions in Southern Montana. He started the bank with a capital of $25,000, while today it has $100,000 capital and is patronized by many of the leading business men and business cor- porations of the state. This bank in 1900 opened the first distinct department for small savings de- positors in Livingston.

In 1882 Mr. Hefferlin built the Hefferlin Opera House, and in later years the Auditorium Block, the Callender Block, Electric Block, Holly Block, and he built and equipped the Livingston Flour Mills in 1898. Fully a score of business structures in Liv- ingston have been built and owned by him. He was one of the organizers and principal promoters of the Electric Hot Springs Company to develop the resources of the Corwin Hot Springs as a popular health resort.

Mr. Hefferlin has given much of his time and means to promote the best interests of his home

community. For the past four years he has served as chairman of the Board of County Commissioners of Park County. He was a member of the Eighth Session of the Legislature from Park County and is a former member of the City Council and Board of Education. He is active in the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Club, and is a former member of the Masonic fraternity.

Mr. Hefferlin has a ranch of 400 acres on the Mission, and at the present time is owner of twenty- five store and business buildings in the heart of Livingston. He also has a modern home at 220 South Yellowstone Street.

October 13, 1887, at Livingston, he married Miss Florence M. Holliday. She was born at Winterset, Iowa, daughter of Samuel L. Holliday, who became well known in Montana as a pioneer merchant, rancher and stockman. He died at Livingston in 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Hefferlin have two children : Charles H., a graduate of the Park County High School, is now cashier of the Merchants Bank, having been associated with his father in that institu- tion for several years. Marie, the only daughter, is still at home.

WARD HIGLEY NYE. An educator of exceptional gifts and experience, Ward Higley Nye was called from a position as superintendent of one of the finest school systems in Ohio to the superintendency of the city schools of Billings, and in that work has fulfilled all the expectations entertained of his ability as a school administrator. His influence as an educator is not confined to Billings, since he is a member of two of the most important organizations affecting the state school system, the State Board of Education and the State Text Book Committee.

Mr. Nye was born at Windsor in Ashtabula County, Ohio, May 24, 1872. His paternal ancestors were originally from Denmark, going from there to England, and thence coming to Massachusetts in colonial times. His grandfather, Hezekiah Nye, was a Connecticut Yankee, born in 1823, and when a young man went to the Western Reserve of Ohio and established his home in Ashtabula County. He was a farmer and died at Orwell, Ohio, in 1884. He married Mary Baldwin, a native of Ohio.

Frank Nye, father of the Montana educator, was born in Ashtabula County in 1849 and has spent his active life as a farmer in that county. He is now living retired at Orwell. He is a republican and an Odd Fellow. His wife, Frances Higley, was born at Hartsgrove in Ashtabula County in 1851. They had two sons, Ward H. and Aymer. The latter resigned in 1919 as postmaster of Orwell to resume his active business career.

Ward H. Nye attended the rural schools of Ashtabula County, was graduated in 1893 from the New Lime Institute at New Lyme, Ohio, spent two years in Western Reserve University at Cleveland, paying his way by teaching in the city night schools, and in 1901 graduated A. B. from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. In the intervals of his busy career as a teacher he has taken post-graduate work at Harvard University.

Mr. Nye began teaching when seventeen years of age .in one of the country districts of Ashtabula County. He continued that work for two years while advancing his own education, spent one year as a teacher in New Lime Institute, for two years was principal of the village school at North Bloom- field, Ohio, and after graduating from college was for two years principal of the Oberlin High School, for one year principal of the high school at Urbana, Ohio, and before coming to Montana was for five years superintendent of schools of the City of

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Oberlin. He was elected superintendent of schools at Billings in 1908 and for over ten years has been in charge of the city school system. Superintendent Nye has under his supervision twelve schools, a staff of 120 teachers, while the scholarship enroll- ment is 4,000.

He has been a member of the State Text Book Committee of Montana for seven years, and for eight years a member of the State Board of Educa- tion, having first been appointed by Governor Norris and reappointed by Governor Stewart. He is a member of the Montana State Teachers Association and the National Education Association, and is active in the Billings Midland Club, which incorporates the Chamber of Commerce. Politically he is independent and is a member of the Congregational Church. He has active fraternal affiliations with the Masonic Order in Ohio, including membership in Hartsgrove Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Urbana Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Elyria Commandery, Knights Templar, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland.

July 2, 1895, at New Lyme, Ohio, Mr. Nye married Annie Belle Rathbone, daughter of Dr. A. G. and Priscilla (Watson) Rathbone. Her mother is still living at New Lyme, Ohio. Her father spent his active life as a physician and surgeon in that Ohio village. Mr. and Mrs. Nye are the parents of two sons, Paul, born June 24, 1896, spent three years in the State Agricultural College at Bozeman and is now in the real estate business at Billings, and Howard, born February 6, 1905, is a pupil in the public schools.

ANDREW LEWIS GUTHRIE. Much of the history of the community of Reed Point in Stillwater County revolves around the name and personality of Andrew Lewis Guthrie, the pioneer merchant there, formerly postmaster, and for many years active as a rancher there and elsewhere in Montana.

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume II, Part 66

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