Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume III, Part 136

Author: Stout, Tom, 1879- ed
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 1144

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Mr. Shippee continued the stock business, handling both horses and cattle, and raised only a few oats on his farm for horse feed until the country began to be closed up by settlement. His ranch brand for cattle was "lazy AH" on the right ribs, and for horses "T lazy 5" on the left hip. He had one decided advantage in that his ranch property lay near the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, into which no settlers could enter, though he did not find it difficult to make friends with the Indians and secure grazing privileges. By 1913 it seemed to Mr. Shippee that the entire government domain was alive with homesteaders, and since then his stock enterprise has gradually been curtailed and farming has become a substantial industry.

Mr. Shippee entered a half section after he had it pretty well improved, and that tract is now the center of his rather extensive ranch domain. He has developed by fencing and building a ranch of 2,186 acres, about 400 acres constituting his farm. Of a dozen crops planted since he began farming in earnest he has harvested something every year but two, the year 1919 registering his first complete failure.

Mr. Shippee is a director of the First National Bank of Plentywood and is vice president of the Citizens State Bank of Antelope. He has never courted the responsibilities and honors of politics, and has been satisfied to vote at elections as a republican, his first presidential ballot going to Ben- jamin Harrison in 1892. Both he and his wife were modest factors in promoting the success of their country during the war, and Mrs. Shippee for a number of months plied her knitting needles in making garments allotted to her by the Red Cross Chapter.

January 7, 1901, at Utica, Montana, Mr. Shippee married Miss Elizabeth Jackson, who was born in the Province of Ontario, Canada, July 4, 1865, daugh- ter of W. J. and Jennie (Dagliesh) Jackson. Her brothers and sisters are: William Jackson, of Fergus County, Montana; Peter, of Utica; Grace, wife of William D. Dooley, of Dooley, Montana; Howard,

of Hermiston, Oregon; Mary, wife of Ed Morse, of Big Sandy, Montana; Ed and Clinton, of Hermiston, Oregon; and Lucy, wife of Milton Lehner, of Wal- lace, Idaho.

LOUIS A. MANGAN, M. D. As a capable physi- cian and surgeon Doctor Mangan has performed the work of a pioneer professional man in the Out- look community of Montana, where he located July 18, 1914. For over a year he was absent in army duty both in this country and abroad, but in 1919 rejoined his old friends at Outlook and resumed the work that has brought him such enviable reputation among the medical fraternity of Northeastern Montana.

Doctor Mangan was born in Pembina County, North Dakota, April 28, 1886, and grew up in a farmer's home. His father, Patrick Mangan, a . native of County Wicklow, Ireland, came to America at the age of fourteen. He lived for several years at Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario, and eventually became foreman in lumber mills. There he met his wife, then a boarding house keeper. His early life was destitute of formal educational opportunities, but he was a man of in- telligence and by persistent labor achieved a sub- stantial success. On coming to the United States he settled in the Red River Valley of the North, added other land to his homestead by purchase, and left the well equipped estate where his widow now lives. He died on his farm in 1918, at the age of ninety-one. Patrick Mangan married Jane Cooper, who was born in the north of Ireland and was left an orphan at the age of eight years. She came to New York at the age of sixteen and was living at Bracebridge, Ontario, when she met the vigorous young Irishman whom she married. Their children were: Robert, who died on the home farm; Mary, wife of Patrick O'Toole; John and Elizabeth, both at the old homestead; Helen, wife of George Morton, of Manning, North Dakota; Fred, a farmer at home; Susan, wife of Thomas O'Toole, of Crystal, North Dakota ; and Dr. Louis A.

Dr. Louis A. Mangan left the farm at the age of eighteen, and from that time forward depended upon his own exertions to achieve the goal of his ambition, a liberal education and a professional career. He did his first college work at Notre Dame University in Indiana, where he waited on table and did laboratory work as a means of meet- ing expenses. He was a student in the University of Minnesota, where he also waited on table. He acquired his medical education in the Northwestern University Medical School at Chicago, and while there he carried a paper route, tended a furnace, waited on table, pressed clothes, clerked in flower stores, and later had work more valuable to him in his training as a physician in the office of Dr. Paul B. Magnuson, then chief surgeon of the Chicago and Alton Railway, the Union Stock Yards and the Chicago Junction Railroad. Doctor Magnuson en- trusted him with looking after the night calls and other duties. During his senior year at Northwest- ern he was also employed as a house physician in the People's Hospital at Chicago, and it was with this thorough training and experience that Doctor Mangan came out to Montana soon after graduating and receiving his diploma as a Doctor of Medicine from Northwestern University.

After one year in general practice at Outlook he opened the St. Anthony Hospital, a private enter- prise which he owned until recently and which is now the Outlook General Hospital. This hospital has an equipment of ten beds, but is built for larger capacity, and in the past five years it has rendered

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a splendid service not only on the Montana side but to patients from Southern Saskatchewan.

Doctor Mangan made arrangements for others to handle his practice and left Outlook December 28, 1917, to begin his duties in the army. He enlisted in Chicago, was commissioned January 10, 1918, with the rank of first lieutenant, and was first assigned to duty at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. While there he attended the officers training camp, and he also saw many of the German troops removed from the in- terned ships in New York harbor. Going north to Hoboken he joined Base Hospital No. 46, and crossed the ocean without incident of encountering a submarine, landing at Liverpool June 2Ist and pro- ceeding by way of Southampton across the channel to Cherbourg, France. His unit was sent to Bazo- illes-Sur-Meuse, an important army hospital center. Doctor Mangan was placed on the surgical staff and had charge of two surgical wards for a month. He . was then ordered with an operating team to the St. Mihiel sector, reporting to Colonel Flint of Mobile Hospital No. 39. He remained there on duty during twelve days of the St. Mihiel drive. September 26th he was sent to a point ten kilo- meters south of Verdun, where he reported to the eminent American surgeon Colonel Crile of Cleve- land, Ohio, in charge of Mobile Hospital No. 5. That was his place of duty until after the signing of the armistice, when he was ordered back to the base and soon afterward put in charge of the Roent- genological laboratory of Base Hospital No. 46 and Provisional Hospital No. 1. March 20, 1919, Doctor Mangan was ordered to St. Nazaire for transporta- tion home, crossed the ocean on the transport Madaaska, arrived at Newport News without inci- dent May 6th, and was mustered out at Camp Dix, New Jersey, May IIth. From there he went to Chicago, where he met Mrs. Mangan, and both re- turned to Outlook, where he soon resumed his pro- fessional work.

April 28, 1915, at Chicago, Doctor Mangan mar- ried Miss Delia L. Gallagher, one of a family of two sons and three daughters born to Edward and Bridget Gallagher. Mrs. Mangan is a native of Albany, New York, where she was born in 1886 and is a graduate nurse of St. Bernard's Hospital. Doctor and Mrs. Mangan have one son, Robert.

WILLIAM DENMON DOOLEY trailed a bunch of cat- tle into Northeastern Montana before any of the section lines had been run by the Government sur- veyors, worked his stock on the public domain, later acquired a homestead, developed a profitable ranch and farm, and when a railroad was constructed across his land and a station established the name given it was Dooley. Dooley is now one of the promising towns of Northeastern Montana, and the name fitly honors the pioneer activities and influ- ences of one of the best citizens, of Sheridan County.

It was the impetus of boyhood adventure that sent William Denmon Dooley into Montana nearly thirty years ago. He was born at Mount Sterling, Mont- gomery County, Kentucky, June 14, 1875, and spent most of his life before coming to Montana in Mis- souri. His grandfather, Jabez Dooley, was an Irishman who established the family in Kentucky at Winchester, where he is buried. He spent his years as a farmer and married Rebecca Scobey. One of their children was Obediah Dooley, who was born in Kentucky, was a slave holder's son and grew up on a plantation where most of the labor was per- formed by negroes. As a soldier he did what he could for the establishment of the Confederate States of America. The war over he returned home

to find his parents working in the fields, whereas previously they had been of the independent class. He, too, had to resort to labor to lay the founda- tion of a career, and spent the rest of his life in Kentucky as a farmer. He died at the age of sixty- two. His wife was Willett Highland, daughter of Denmon Highland, of German stock. Her father was also of the slave holding class. She died in middle life, the mother of the following children: Annie, who became Mrs. Emmet Drake and died in Montgomery County, Kentucky; David, of Clay County, Missouri; Willet, an osteopathic physician at Cameron, Missouri; Bettie L., who married Charles Tapp and died in Colorado Springs, Colo- rado; Jabez, of Oklahoma; Pearl, who was married and died near Sharpsburg, Kentucky; and William Denmon.

When about nine years of age William D. Dooley left the home of his parents in Kentucky, where he had begun his education in a country school, and went to live with an uncle in Missouri, in Clay County. He finished his education in the schools of Barry, that state, grew up in a country community and knew nothing of the world outside until he discovered it for himself.

In 1892, before he was eighteen years of age, a Nebraska resident then visiting in Clay County induced him to return to Nebraska with him and his nephew. The nephew was a boy chum of Wil- liam Dooley. The trip to Nebraska was made only with the intention of visiting and then returning home. Things happened which changed the boys' plans and instead of going East they came West in search of "big wages" popularly supposed to be paid for ranch work in Montana. A train on the Union Pacific took them to Ogden, and after visiting Salt Lake they went north to Butte and finally reached Fort Benton. Arriving there they were confronted with the' real situation. Their money was nearly gone, and something had to be done to repair their resources. They accompanied some wool wagons go- ing across to Lewistown. About that time home- sickness struck young Dooley and he would have given his part of the world to be able to go home. However, he was determined to discover the real truth about the high wages paid working boys. His first job was on a sheep ranch at $35 a month. Soon afterward he went to the range as a cowpuncher at $40 a month. By that time he had worn off his homesickness and was becoming acclimated. Mr. Dooley continued a range man for wages while he remained in the Judith Basin country. Among well known stockmen his employers were Alvin Lincoln, Charley Belden and the McNamara brothers.

Abandoning the Judith Basin country Mr. Dooley came into Eastern Montana, bringing a bunch of forty head of cattle which he had accumulated. He swam them across the Missouri River and trailed them into the Plentywood locality of what was then Valley County. Accompanying him was Irvin Ship- pee of Plentywood, and both were among the pio- neers of this region.

Mr. Dooley's ranching efforts for nine years were extended with headquarters just east of Plentywood. He was one of the parties to sign the petition en- couraging Government survey of the public domain. Not satisfied with his first location, after the set- tlement of the public lands began in earnest he came further northeast and located the south half of sec- tion 17, township 36, range 56. There he built his pioneer shelter, the nucleus of his present seven- room home. Gradually his efforts in the cattle and horse business expanded. His stock was run under the brand "4-4" on the left rib. Annually for eighteen years he has been a stock shipper, his first

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shipment going out the year after his settlement as a squatter near Plentywood.

His ranch has developed to include 1,500 acres, and 400 acres are in cultivation for the growing of grain and forage. He had some harvest every year until 1919, in which year of drought he threshed only forty-two bushels of wheat, and mowed the rest of his crop for hay.

The Soo railway was built through the Dooley ranch in 1913, and from the beginning he has been one of the most liberal and enterprising in promot- ing the commercial prosperity of the town of Dooley. He is one of the partners in the Hunter Lumber Company, was one of the promoters of the Farmers Elevator, also of the Citizens State Bank of Dooley, and has served that bank as president from the be- ginning. The political influences of his early life were those of the democratic party, and his first presidential choice was Mr. Bryan, but he has been satisfied to vote and has never been an aspirant for public office.

At Utica in the Judith Basin country on July 26, 1902, Mr. Dooley married Miss Grace Jackson. Her father, William Jackson, was a native of Ire- land, lived in Canada for some years, and was a pioneer settler of the Judith Basin, where after ranching for a number of years he moved to Oregon and is now a resident of Hermiston. His wife was Jennie Dalgleish, a native of Canada. The children of the Jackson family were: William, of Utica, Mon- tana; Lizzie, wife of Irvin Shippee, of Plentywood; Mrs. Dooley, who was born in Ontario May 25, 1873; Peter, of Utica; Howard, of Idaho; Edward, of Hermiston, Oregon ; Mary, wife of Ed Morse, of Big Sandy, Montana; Clinton, of Hermiston; and Lucy, wife of Milton Lehner, of Wallace, Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. Dooley have two sons, named Clifford L. and Bradley Lawrence.

AUSTIN NORTH, known all over Eastern Montana as a real estate dealer and Billings city and country builder, is a self-made man in every sense of the word. He was born on the 20th day of May, 1869, "way down in old Iowa" just west of Des Moines in Dallas County, where he spent his early life on his father's dairy stock farm. While it was a boyhood, involving work from three or four o'clock in the morning until nine and ten at night, feeding, milking and caring for the cattle, growing the crops and food stuffs, clearing out the underbrush on the river bottom lands and cutting timber for firewood and fence posts, he looks back upon it as the foun- dation of his strength and endurance and the source of many other qualities that have helped him to suc- cess in business.

In 1888 his mother's health failed and the family went with her to California and Southern Oregon, where she departed this life in the fall of 1888. The father and children remained during the follow- ing winter and in the spring of 1889 went back to the old home in Iowa. Austin North, however, returned to the West and located at Billings, where he found employment on the range, in the United States Postoffice and with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. Thus since 1889 he has lived his life in helping make Billings the big city of the Northwest; the natural distributing center of the Midland Empire covering Eastern Montana and Northern Wyoming.

To his various business claims he has given close and studious personal attention, hut numerous and exacting as were these demands, they were not sufficient to abate in the slightest degree his great and abiding faith in the progress and development of his home city. Trained to hard work and long

hours, he has been enterprising, progressive, ener- getic and farseeing. His individual example has been twenty years in advance of the growth of the wonderful little city he has done so much to help build, and of the Yellowstone country which he had persistently advertised near and far.

A very strong character, true and loyal friend, good citizen, loving husband and indulgent father, Mr. North has been a man among men in Montana, prominent, influential and useful. Every activity in his life has been employed directly or indirectly for the general welfare, in sympathy with the righteous aspirations and efforts for elevation and improve- ment.

He never says "it can't be done," and only death itself can stay the vitality of his unaching mind and body. "Believe in yourself and dare to do, then give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you" is a motto hanging on the office walls of the North Real Estate Investment Company. While this motto has been the keynote for Mr. North and his business organization, hun- di eds of others have read it and derived inspiration for their own careers.

His work as a city and country builder, his un- usual ability and force of character, his continual willingness to do for Billings with every energy and faculty, guided by lofty, loyal ideals and dominated at all times by a strong sense of duty, is an achieve- ment in itself, and destined to survive his mortal presence in the community.

He has always been a persistent champion of pub- lic and private parks, playgrounds and outdoor sports. Many years ago he bought the beautiful natural park estate, adjoining the city on the northeast near the business and industrial center of Billings, and built a massive three-story stone Country Club House with golf, baseball and athletic field, extensive grand- stand, bleacher and automobile parking space. All of this was done at his own expense. At the en- trance stood a great sign "Come out in the open air and sunshine. Health is Wealth. The mark of the Master and the greatest asset on earth. This will be the public pleasure grounds for all clean outdoor sports."

When Mr. North has recognized a call to what he conceives to be his duty he never shirks or hesi- tates, but goes straightforward to the end, no matter what the consequences may be in personal incon- venience or loss to himself.

Mr. North organized and established the Austin North Company January 1, 1892, to carry on and transact a general real estate, mortgage loan and insurance business. This business was reincorpo- rated as the present North Real Estate Investment Company in 1902. He is still its president. The company occupies its own building on the corner opposite the court house with the most complete, best arranged, well lighted ground floor business offices in the city. It is the oldest established real estate office in Eastern Montana.

The same year Mr. North also organized the Billings Commercial Exchange, composed of the leading bankers, lawyers and business men of the city. He was secretary of this organization, to promote the general prosperity of all the varied interests of the State of Montana and especially those of the County of Yellowstone and City of Billings, to procure, preserve and disseminate re- liable information in relation to commercial, fi- nancial and industrial affairs-that is to say, its railroads, banking and exchange, stock and wool growing, stockyards, slaughtering, packing and manufacturing interests; its immigration, agricul- tural and horticultural interests; public improve-

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ments, educational, professional, social, moral and benevolent interests; to promote efficient, honest and economical government, and to oppose by all hon- orable means opposition to these and all other public interests.

Ten years later Mr. North initiated the Billings Chamber of Commerce, a strong organization of the leading citizens occupying its own beautiful modern three-story brick club house. This is still carrying on the same public welfare work for the entire Midland Empire, and Mr. North is an active mem- ber on its good roads, publicity and entertainment committees.

Mr. North is a republican. He is one of the owners of the Billings Daily Gazette, the leading newspaper of Eastern Montana. He has always taken an active interest in national, state, county and city political affairs, though never a candidate for nor has held any political office.

He is a good advertiser and knows how to make publicity count most, which is evidenced by his work while chairman of the Billings Publicity Com- mittee. He is a farmer and livestock grower and operates a 1,200 acre farm north of the city, plan- ning its development as a means of carrying out his ambition to be a producer.

Mr. North's father was T. R. North, of Indiana, in which state he enlisted in the Civil war October 16, 1862, in Company K, Fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteers, under Capt. E. L. Billings. The mother of Mr. North was Naomi E. Stewart of Illinois.

Mr. North married Miss Hattie Swartz, of Mich- igan. They have five children living: Two daugh- ters born respectively September 12, 1912, and De- cember 13, 1916; and three sons born January 25, 1904, May 22, 1911, and April 19, 1915. The family live in a good modern home on a high hill in "The Elevation" (Top o' the Town) overlooking the city from the Northwest.

Mr. North's activities did not cease with the be- ginning or the ending of the World war. He served as an active committeeman for all the Liberty and Victory loan drives during the war in the selling of the bonds. After the war he inaugurated the "Build. Now" campaign for Billings that business might "carry on" and employment be furnished sol- dier and civilian during the reconstruction period.

MOUNT ST. CHARLES COLLEGE. Education has al- ways gone hand in hand with the religious activities of the Catholic Church. Rt. Rev. John P. Carroll, who was installed as Bishop of Helena January 31, 1905, was primarily an educator, and in a very busy administration he has emphasized all phases of the educational program. He had been Bishop of Helena only a few years when he erected on what was known as Capitol Hill Mount St. Charles Col- lege, which has now completed its tenth year and has earned its right to a high place among Mon- tana's educational institutions.

It is a boarding and day college for young men and boys, under the direction of the secular priests of the diocese of Helena.

The site of the college and the purpose of its establishment are best described hy quoting from the address delivered by Bishop Carroll at the occa- sion of the laying of the cornerstone September 27, 1909. Bishop Carroll said, addressing directly Hon. William Howard Taft, President of the United States, who had journeyed out to Montana to assist in the ceremony :

"Mr. President we have laid the corner stone of Capitol Hill College. The building which will rise on these foundations we have named from the emi-

nence whereon we stand-an eminence so lofty and beautiful and so set apart from city, valley and mountains that it commands a complete view of that magnificent panorama which nature and man have spread out before us at this gate of the Rocky Mountains. No wonder the people of Helena from the day their city was made the capital of Mon- tana have with one accord pointed to this eminence as the natural site for the capitol building. Dis- appointed that the capitol was not located here they are today consoled by the thought that our college will perpetuate the name they have given to the hill, and as the years go by will become a most potent ally of the state in securing obedience to the laws enacted in the capitol. The aim of Capi- tol Hill College will be to give the young men of Montana a thorough, liberal education which will fit them for leadership in any vocation they may choose and at the same time so surround them with reli- gious atmosphere that they may ever follow con- science as their guide. Knowledge and virtue are the armor with which Capitol Hill College shall strive to equip its students. And these, says Wash- ington, are the chief supports, the firmest props of both state and nation. It is with singular pleasure, Mr. President, I welcome you to this height and to this ceremony of the laying of the corner stone of our college."

The campus comprises about fifty acres, with ample accommodations for all present and future building plans, and also with generous fields for athletic sports. The equipment of buildings include the main college building, Gothic in style, four stories and basement, the new Gymnasium and Science Hall, completed in 1917-18. Two additional buildings are under construction at present, a dormitory building and a building for younger boys of the preparatory department.

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume III, Part 136

Author: Stout, Tom, 1879- ed Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society Number of Pages: 1144

Author: Stout, Tom, 1879- ed
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 1144