Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume III, Part 176

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

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toward its support. He married Alexina McLeod, born on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, who died on Prince Edward Island, in 1908. Their children were as fol- lows: Malcolm, who is a farmer residing at Ana- conda; John, who was a physician and surgeon, died at Boston, 'Massachusetts, in 1917; Charles, who died on the old homestead on Prince Edward Island in 1879; Samuel, who is operating this old homestead; Miles, twin brother of Samuel, who is a physician and surgeon, practiced until recently at Boston, Massachusetts, but is now at Honolulu; Martin, whose name heads this review; Joseph, who is chief of the fire department in a town in British Columbia, Canada; Mary, who is unmarried, lives on the home- stead on Prince Edward Island; and Margaret, who married Murdock McEachern, a farmer, operating near Calgary, Canada.

Martin Martin attended the schools of Prince Edward Island, and was graduated from the normal school there in 1878, following which he taught school on the island for two and one-half years. He then came to the United States, spending two years in North Dakota, where he cut cordwood, worked in brick yards, and did whatever came to his hand. In 1884 he became one of the pioneers of Anaconda, working at building the flumes and contracting for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company for a year, and then for two years was in the smelters. For the subsequent eight years he conducted a cigar store, and from 1891 to 1894, inclusive, he was deputy sheriff, and then for four years served as county clerk and recorder of Deer Lodge, following which he was elected county commissioner and served for seven years. In 1905 Mr. Martin returned to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company as clerk in the general offices in connection with the employment department, and has been promoted through various stages to his present position. His various expe- riences and occupancy of offices which brought him into contact with men, have given him a balance of judgment, and enable him to judge as to the fitness of the man for the job and the job for the man. His offices are in the general office building at the Washoe Reduction Works, two miles east of Ana- conda. Mr. Martin is a democrat and active in his party. Like his father, he is a member of the Pres- byterian Church. In 1918 Mr. Martin sold his resi- dence, and now resides at 505 Hickory Street.

In 1887 Mr. Martin was married to 'Miss Mary Cooper at Corvallis, Montana. She is a daughter of Mrs. Isis Cooper of Corvallis. Mr. and Mrs. Martin became the parents of the following children: Gladys, who married Frank Tucker of Tucker Bros., clothiers of Anaconda; Orville, who died at the age of sixteen years; Blythe, who married Dr. W. H. Stephan, a physician and surgeon of Dillon, Montana, a biography of whom appears elsewhere in this work; Walden, who operates an acetylin gas shop at Butte, Montana; and Casel and Saxon, both of whom are at home.

CARL AUGUST LINN, a resident of Montana for the past ten years, has achieved a distinctive place among the lawyers of the state, and for eight years has been engaged in a busy private and public practice at White Sulphur Springs.

Mr. Linn was born on a farm in Ottertail County, Minnesota October 1, 1884. His parents, Simon A. and Amelia (Anderson) Linn were married in Nor- way, his father having been born in Sweden in 1841 and his mother in Norway in 1849. In 1870 they came to this country, first locating in Goodhue County, Minnesota, where the father farmed for about two years. He then drove an ox team to Ottertail Coun- ty, homesteaded, and made a farm from the grass

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roots. He lived on his farm until 1898, and then located in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and from there in 1907 moved to McLean County, North Dakota, where he spent his last days and died in 1908. His wife died in 1903. Simon Linn was a republican, with independent proclivities. He was buried at Fergus Falls, Minnesota. The eight children of the parents, all born in Minnesota, are as follows: Al- bert, who married Maud Wood and lives at Bixby, North Dakota; Anna, wife of R. E. James of Roch- ester, Washington; Lena, wife of John R. Johnson ; Elise; Inge Louise, who died at the age of twenty- one; Emelia ; Carl A .; and Thorfin L.

Carl August Linn was educated in the public schools of Minnesota, attending high school at Fergus Falls, where he graduated in 1904, and took his literary and law course at the University of 'Min- nesota. He was graduated in 1909 and admitted to the Minnesota bar June 11, 1909. He soon after- ward came to Lewistown, Montana, was admitted to the state bar on December 6, 1910, and did his early work in his profession at Lewistown until March, 1912, when he removed to White Sulphur Springs. Here he became associated with William L. Ford, under the name Ford & Linn, and this firm handled a large share of the general practice in the courts of Meagher County. Mr. Linn was appointed deputy county attorney of Meagher County in March, 1912, and was elected chief of that office in November of the same year, and re-elected in No- vember, 1914. He made a splendid record of efficiency and vigorous handling of all cases brought by the state during his two terms. Mr. Linn also served as special prosecutor for Meagher County in some conspicuous murder trials which resulted in the hanging of three men, sentence of life imprison- ment for two others, while two others were sent to prison for terms ranging from two to twenty years.

'Mr. Linn is affiliated with Diamond City Lodge No. 7, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is Past Master, with Harlowton Chapter No. 22, Royal Arch Masons, Helena Commandery No. 2 of the Knights Templar, and Algeria Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He affiliates with the republican party.

BERT RAREY. One of the enterprising and alert young business men of Hardin who is devoting his abilities to the expansion of the financial control of the Big Horn Valley, is Bert Rarey, cashier of the Stockman's National Bank of this city. Mr. Rarey has been a resident of Hardin since 1919, and he came here from Eastern Montana, the City of Baker having been his former home for six years.

Mr. Rarey was born in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, on September 3, 1888. There his childhood and youth were spent and he acquired his educational training in the public schools of the capital city. Leaving high school when he was sixteen years old, Mr. Rarey began working for the Capital City Bank of Columbus, Ohio, and after seven years with that institution, he went to Minneapolis as chief clerk and auditor of the Metropolitan National Bank of that city, and remained there for two years. He was then offered and accepted the position of assist- ant cashier of the Baker State Bank and held that responsible position until he came to Hardin. From the above it will be seen that Mr. Rarey has had a long and varied experience and that he has concen- trated upon one line of work, all of his efforts having been directed toward perfecting himself in it, with the result that he is admittedly one of the ablest financiers in this part of the state. While at Baker, Mr. Rarey took a very prominent part in republican

politics and was a member of the central committee of his party of Fallon County.

Mr. Rarey comes of an old American family, founded in Pennsylvania, representatives of which became very early settlers of Ohio. His father, James K. Rarey, was a native of Franklin County, Ohio, and spent his life there, with the exception of the last five years he was on earth, that period being passed with his son at Baker, Montana, and Hardin, Montana, he dying in the latter city in 1919,. when he was sixty years old. He was a son of Frederick Rarey, a brother of the celebrated horse-tamer, John S. Rarey, and was associated with the latter in the horse business, as well as being engaged in farming. Frederick Rarey is buried at old Rareysport, now Grosport, Ohio, the land on the old Ohio Canal.

James K. Rarey was married to Carrie Brown, a daughter of Charles Brown, who survives her hus- band, and lives at Columbus, Ohio. They had the following children : James C., who is a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana; Charles Frederick, who lives in California; and Bert, whose name heads this review.

On January 10, 1917, Bert Rarey was united in marriage at Terry, Montana, to Miss Mabel Sult, a native of Iowa, who was reared in North Dakota. She completed her educational training at Cornell College in Iowa. She is a daughter of George H. Sult, a retired merchant now living at Denver, Colo- rado, and is the eldest of three sons and four daugh- ters, three of whom are residents of Montana. Mr. Rarey is an Elk. He cast his first presidential vote for William Howard Taft, and has not failed to vote at each succeeding national election and for his party's candidate. He was a selective service man and was classed in Number 3, and had his class been called, his name would have been the first. Although but a recent addition to Hardin, Mr. Rarey has already proven his worth, and is justly numbered among the important men of his community, and one from whom his fellow citizens are expecting great things both with reference to business and pub- lic service.

JOHN W. CORNWELL. A native of Montana and member of one of its old families, John W. Corn- well has spent the greater part of his life among the Crow Indians on the Reservation and is cashier of the First National Bank of Lodgegrass.

He was born at Livingston, Park County, Mon- tana, March 15, 1885. His father, John H. Cornwell, Sr., was a regular soldier in the United States army, and his army service brought him to Montana. A native of New York State and of English and Hol- land stock, he grew up in a rural community, ac- quired an ordinary education, and joined the army at Brooklyn, New York, soon after the close of the Civil war. His first service was on the Texas frontier, protecting the telegraph lines from Indian depredation. He was with the troops sent to Fort Custer, Montana, at the time of its founding and when he finished his service there he located in that region. He was proprietor of a hotel at the old Fort but left there before the post was abandoned and lived for a time at Livingston, and later re- moved to Washington and became a fruit farmer at North Yakima. He died at North Yakima in 1908 at the age of sixty-one.

At Fort Custer John W. Cornwell, Sr., married 'Miss Annie Shoeberg. She was born in Sweden and came to this country when a young girl and was reared on her father's farm in Minnesota. She came to Montana with the old Fort Custer post trader Borup from St. Paul, and thus met her husband.

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John W. Cornwell, Sr., and wife had the following children : Edward A .; vice president of the Bank of Commerce of Forsyth, Montana; Nellie, wife of J. J. Wimer of Yakima, Washington; Anna, who lives in the old home at Yakima; John W .; Harry, con- nected with the Cornwall Hardware Company of Forsyth; Emma, wife of Oscar L. Boos, a lawyer at Sunnyside, Washington; Mary, whose husband, Sidney J. Shick, is chief clerk of the Indian Service at the Crow Agency; and Helen, wife of Norman Mead of Yakima, Washington.

John W. Cornwell, Jr., attended the common schools of Livingston, took a high school course at Yakima, Washington, and in 1903, at the age of eighteen, be- came a clerk at the Crow Agency with E. A. Rich- ardson & Company. He remained in the service of this mercantile organization until he was elected cashier of the First National Bank of Lodge Grass. This bank, which opened for business March 25, 1918, has a capital of $25,000 and has earned surplus of $2,500. A. H. Bowman is president of the bank, W. N. Spear vice president, and Mr. Cornwell cashier.

Mr. Cornwell as a youth acquired a fluent knowl- edge of the Crow language and he transacts busi- ness equally well in his own or the Crow tongue. He knows the Indian character thoroughly, both its strong and its weak points.

March 12, 1913, he married 'Miss Frances M. Rine- hart, who was born in Seattle, Washington, March 27, 1894. Her father, Dr. Joseph H. Rinehart, came west from Springfield, Ohio. His wife was a native of Canada. From Seattle Doctor Rinehart removed to Billings, Montana, where he practiced his profes- sion until his death. Mrs. Cornwell grew up at Bil- lings, and is the second of five children, the others being: Joseph H., Jr., a practicing physician at Springfield, Ohio; Alma M., a professional nurse at Billings; Lewis, of Denver, Colorado; and Elwell O., who is a pharmacist's mate, first class, in the United States navy, and for a time was stationed at Vladi- vostock, Siberia. Mrs. Cornwell was liberally edu- cated and was a student of the harp at Berlin, Ger- many, under Professor Posse. Prior to her mar- riage, she toured the country in concert work, and is also a talented pianist, and is the source of most of the musical inspiration of her home community. Mr. and Mrs. Cornwell have two children, Ervin R. and Mary E.

Mr. Cornwell cast his first presidential vote at Crow Agency for Mr. Taft and has been a regular repub- lican. He is affiliated with Billings Lodge No. 394 of the Elks. He was a leader in all but the first of the Liberty Loan drives at Lodgegrass, and he and Mrs. Cornwell were members of the Red Cross committees.

DAVID ALFRED BAKER, M. D. In the present cen- tury of expanding horizons in medical science, of marvelous discoveries and undreamed of surgical skill, the profession seems to have almost reached a time when its accomplishments are no less than miracles. The modern physician and surgeon, taking advantage of every opportunity for knowledge, must often realize with professional elation, his great power over disease and disability and be encouraged in his struggle to conquer the strongholds not yet overcome. Possessing the steady nerve, the patience that never tires, the trained understanding gained through his long period of special study, he must yet possess, in order to be a successful surgeon, a cour- age that never quails, together with a superb technical manual skill, for in every physician's life must come emergencies which make just such demands upon him. One of the men who measures up to the ex-

acting standards above mentioned is Dr. David Alfred Baker, who practiced at Jordan since 1910. He is now settled at Hardin, having become asso- ciated with his brother, Dr. G. A. Baker in Decem- ber, 1920.

Dr. David A. Baker was born at Bowen, Illinois, November II,; 1881, a son of George D. Baker, a native of Worcester County, Ohio. By trade a tailor, George D. Baker worked at his calling in his native county and at Bowen, Illinois, where he died in 1883. During the war between the states, he en- listed in the Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served as a private until the close of the con- flict. He married Susan Clifton, who survives him and makes her home at Bowen. Their children were as follows: Alice, who married William Veach of Bowen, Illinois; Dr. George, who served in the Thirtieth Railway Engineers in France, who were detailed to operate a standard gauge railroad behind the allied lines, has returned to this country and is now at Hardin, Montana; Dr. David A., whose name heads this review; and Miss Mary, who lives at Ekalaka, Montana.

After completing his high school course at Bowen, Illinois, Doctor Baker in 1903 entered a medical col- lege at Keokuk, Iowa, from which he was gradu- ated in May, 1907, and for the subsequent three years he was in a general practice at Bowman, North Dakota, leaving it in 1910 to come to Jordan. Here he was engaged in a general practice until the United States entered the World war, and he volun- teered his services on June 22, 1917, receiving his commission on July 5, as first lieutenant. For three months he was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, and was then ordered to Camp Travis, Texas, with the Ninetieth Division, Field Hospital section, and re- mained there until June 12, 1918, at which time he went with his division to Camp Mills, New Jersey, and sailed on June 28 for Europe on the Canadian Pacific liner Melita and landed at Liverpool on July 10, the steamer having encountered and de- stroyed some floating mines en route, which had escaped anchor from the Irish coast. After two days spent at Camp Winneldown, where the late Lord Kitchener "trained his mob," Doctor Baker, was sent with his detachment through Southampton and across the English Channel to Havre, France, reaching there on July 13. On his way to the medical training camp, Doctor Baker passed through Dijion, Is-sur-til to Recey-Sur-Qurce, where he was in training until August 20. He was then ordered to the Toul sector and took up his position on August 22. During the St. Mihiel drive of September 12-16, his hospital cared for the first American boys of Texas and Oklahoma who had suffered from their first touch with the German gas, but on October 8th the field hospital was moved to the Mense-Argonne offensive, taking position October 20 at Deadman's Hill and 304. Moving up toward the front they were stationed consecutively at Septsargus, Natil- lios, Cunel, Romange, Bantheville, being at the last named place when the Armistice was signed on No- vember 11, 1918, which was the doctor's birthday. On that day the hospital moved up to Stenay and there operated as a "sick hospital" until November 20, when it changed its location to Ire-le-sec and stayed for two weeks.

This unit now became a part of the Army of Occu- pation and went to Luxemburg city, from whence they 'entered Germany and were at Trier, Hetze- rath, Ernst, Manderscheid, and on December 27, left for Cues, Germany, where they were stationed in the Drei Koenigen-three kings-with a camp hospi- tal and took care of the sick and injured. They evacuated to Trier to the Evacuation Hospitals 14

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and 7. They remained there until 'May 20, 1919, when they were relieved from duty and entrained from Gerolstein, Germany, for America, sailing from St. Nazare, France, on the United States transport Buford May 20, 1919, and landing at Newport News, Virginia, June 14. This ship was afterwards used to take Alexander Berkman and Emma Gold- man back to Russia. The Ninetieth Division was broken up at St. Nazare and the surplus doctors were sent home to be discharged at Camp Dix, New Jersey, where Doctor Baker took leave of the army. His discharge covers this in substance : "Army of Occupation November 11, 1918, to May 20, 1919" and gives a resume of what is mentioned above. It gives Doctor Baker credit for being in the battle of St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne campaign and service in the Army of Occupation, and two service chevrons.

On his return trip he visited his mother. On February 3, 1921, Doctor Baker's mother died. The doctor returned to Montana, reaching Jordan July 3, 1919, without having been disabled. His collection of German souvenirs is perhaps as complete as any brought over, numbering as it does, 500 articles, which range from a one-pound shell to a French seventy-five shell, and include all the different equip- ment of the German soldier, the helmet, armor plate or chest protector for the sharpshooter, rifle, flag and iron crosses both first and second class.

Doctor Baker maintains his residence at his ranch on the Big Dry at the bridge crossing at Jordan, which is the homestead he entered and proved up. He is unmarried. When he became a resident of Jor- dan, Doctor Baker entered actively into its public life and served on the school board for four years, becoming its chairman. He is a member of the Com- munity Presbyterian Church and is one of its trus- tees. Like the majority of his profession, Doctor Baker has returned home enthused by his service, and anxious to put into active use what he learned by contact with the master minds of his calling ..

HADEN HARMON BRIGHT was the organizer and is vice president of the Mildred State Bank at Mildred, and assistant cashier of First National Bank, Miles City, Montana, and is one of the young and promi- nent bankers in the eastern part of the state.

Mr. Bright came to Montana from Columbia, Mis- souri, where he was born November 7, 1884. His father, William A. Bright, a prominent Missouri banker, was born in Boone County, that state, Sep- tember 8, 1850, and is still an extensive land owner in Boone County. In September, 1902, he founded the Boone County Trust Company, and is still active- ly identified with it as president.

Haden H. Bright is a graduate of the Missouri State University at Columbia, completing the aca- demic course at the age of twenty-one. In the mean- time he had worked for several vacations in the Boone County Trust Company, and remained with that institution after graduating for five years, being promoted to the office of treasurer. For two years Mr. Bright was one of the firm Bright & Bright, en- gaged in the stock business in Finney County, Kansas.

Mr. Bright came to Montana to engage in the banking business, arriving here in January, 1916, and organized the 'Mildred State Bank, which was opened with a capital of $20,000 in May, 1916. F. P. Older of Mildred has heen the president from the begin- ning, C. F. Smith was the first vice president, an office now held by Mr. Bright. J. L. Murphey is cashier. The strenuous tines through which the bank has passed through its brief career has told somewhat on its success, but notwithstanding adverse

conditions the capital and surplus are $24,500 and deposits $80,000. The Mildred State Bank Building was erected through the influence of Mr. Bright and his own home contributes another item to the im- provement of the village. Mr. Bright is affiliated with the Masonic order and is a member of the Elks Lodge at Columbia, Missouri.

At Garden City, Kansas, he married Miss Mary Eaman. Her father, Charles B. Eaman, was for many years a resident of Detroit, Michigan. Mrs. Bright was born in Arizona on her father's ranch, Novem- ber 4, 1888. She has two brothers, Thomas and Walter Eaman. Mr. and Mrs. Bright have one daughter, Mary Elizabeth, born January 3, 1918.

IRENE DESY for over thirty years has been identi- fied with the interests of Fergus County in and around Lewistown. He has been a business man of the city and also an extensive stock rancher, and by marriage he is a member of one of the very first families of the city, having allied himself with a daughter of the French Canadian pioneer Janeaux.

Mr. Desy was born at Three Rivers, Quebec, Can- ada, December 25, 1866, a son of Marcelin and Delise (Lafentan) Desy. His parents spent all their lives in Canada. Irene was the youngest of fourteen children, five of whom are still living. His parents were people of great vigor and vitality, his father living to the age of eighty-five and his mother to ninety. Marcelin Desy, for many years, was regarded as one of the leading contractors in the Dominion of Canada. He was a contractor for the building of roads and dams, much of which work he did for the Canadian Government. He also owned a large farm.

Irene Desy received his early education at Mon- treal and as a young man had much experience with his father in the contracting business. At the age of eighteen he came to 'Montana, arriving at Helena on April 28, 1884. The first year he worked in a saw mill, then became superintendent of a ranch, and in 1887 arrived at Lewistown. He spent one year in mining at Maiden, then went to work for Dan Crowley breaking horses and farming. After two years he entered the ice business, and for a time was agent for the Montana Brewing Company at Great Falls. Since the spring of 1903, Mr. Desy has been engaged in ranching for himself, beginning with 160 acres of land and now owning an extensive farm and ranch of 580 acres. This place, a model of its kind, is located four miles east of Lewistown. Mr. Desy is independent in politics.

April 28, 1894, he married for his first wife, Puar Morris. The only daughter of this marriage is Ger- trude. On November 26, 1901, he married Evilan Janeaux, who was born at Montreal, a daughter of Francis E. Janeaux. Francis Janeaux was one of the first Indian traders of Montana, his trading post being at Reed's Fort, the original site of the city of Lewistown. He built one of the first buildings in the locality and was an extensive owner of property and a man of philanthropic impulse and of great generosity. His name is permanently associated with the history of Lewistown and one of the first subdivisions is known as the Janeaux Subdivision. Mr. and Mrs. Desy have four children: Francis, Archie, Alser and 'Mary.

JAMES W. CRAIG. M. D. Seven years have passed since Dr. James W. Craig came to make Montana his future home, and in those years he has made his presence felt in many avenues of the common- wealth's activities, as a physician, as a farmer and as a state senator.

Doctor Craig was born in London, Canada, July 15,

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume III, Part 176

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