Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume III, Part 30

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

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Mr. Carey has identified himself with Sidney's development as an investor and as a modest builder. With the chartering of the First National Bank he became one of its stockholders, and also became a stockholder in the First National Bank of Ritchey when that institution was organized. He has also dealt in real estate in Sidney, and some of the prop- erty he secured while engaged in the real estate and locating business he afterward improved. He served two terms as a member of the town coun- cil, serving on the first town board, and subse- quently he was returned to the council from a dif- ferent ward and again served a term. During this latter period the water works and sewers were in- 'stalled, regarded perhaps as the best investment the city has ever made. The board during his mem- bership constituted a band of taxpayers and sound business men, and all the work performed was done from the standpoint of utility and efficiency.

Mr. Carey's political affiliations have been deter- mined through the years by the question of eco- nomics. While he was engaged in the wool busi- ness he favored the tariff on wool and supported the party which carried a protective plank in its platform, but later, when other issues seemed to de- mand different action politically, he gave his sup- port to the party whose principles coincided with his own views. Locally he has always put the man before the candidate, efficiency and competency be- fore politics. His only fraternal connection is with the Elks Lodge, and he holds his membership at Glendive.

Mr. Carey has passed his life unmarried, and although without a companion to share his pros- perity his has not been a lonely life, for during the years he has spent in the great Northwest he has made many close friends and business associates. And his love for literature has contributed to the making of his life a happy and contented one.

ROBERT WADROP HANDLEY, superintendent of the zinc concentrator of the Anaconda Copper Mining

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Company, is one of the skilled and experienced men of the corporation and a highly respected resident of Anaconda. He was born at Alamosa, Colorado, Sep- tember 22, 1890, a son of M. L. Handley, and grand- son of Charles W. Handley, who was born in what is now West Virginia in 1835, and died at Eaton, Ohio, in 1917. Until old age he lived at Ona, West Virginia, being profitably engaged in farming, but then, retiring, went to Eaton, Ohio. . He was married to Sophia Love, who was born in Virginia, and died at Ona, West Virginia. The Handley family orig- inated in the North of Ireland, being Scotch-Irish, and came to Virginia during the colonial epoch of the country's history.

M. L. Handley was born in West Virginia in 1858 and there reared, going to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in young manhood, where he lived for a short time, being there engaged in a banking business. Leav- ing that city, he went in 1888 to Alamosa, Colorado, and from then until 1891 was engaged in conducting a bank at that point. In the latter year he returned to Pittsburgh and was engaged in the manufacture of gas burners until his retirement in 1917, at which time he went to Eaton, Ohio, where he now resides, occupying his time in looking after his agricultural interests. Having been brought up on a farm, he has returned to the soil in his declining years. In politics he is a republican. Reared in the faitlı of the Presbyterian Church, Mr. Handley early con- nected himself with it and has been very active in his support of its work, for many years serving it as an elder, and both as a churchman and Mason he lives up to the highest ideals of manhood. While living in Pittsburgh Mr. Handley served as a mem- ber of Battery B, Pennsylvania Volunteers. M. L. Handley was married to Carrie Lange, born at War- saw, Indiana, in 1861. She died at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1898, having borne her husband the following children: S. Frances, who is unmar- ried and lives with her sister at Carnegie, Pennsyl- vania; Robert W., whose name heads this review. and Mary L., who married F. B. McNulty, a dental surgeon and lives at Carnegie, Pennsylvania.

Robert W. Handley attended the public schools of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and was graduated from the high school course in 1907, following which he worked for a year in a banking house of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1908 he entered the Pennsylvania State College at State College, Pennsylvania, and was graduated therefrom with the degree of Bach- elor of Science, and with a degree in mining engi- neering. He belongs to the Greek Letter fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon. In 1912 Mr. Handley was employed as resident mine engineer by the Shenango Furnace Company of Chisholm, Minnesota, where he remained until 1915, and then came West to Anaconda to become assistant testing engineer for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Al- most immediately he proved his worth and was promoted to be foreman of the zinc concentrator, later was made general concentrating engineer, and finally superintendent of the zinc concentrator, hav- ing now under his supervision sixty-eight men. His offices are in the Concentrator Building of the Washoe Reduction Works, two miles east of Ana- conda. Like his father, Mr. Handley is a republican and Presbyterian. He belongs to the Anaconda Club, the Anaconda Country Club, and the American In- stitute of Mining Engineers.

On June 11, 1918, Mr. Handley was married to Miss Mahel Marie Prisk at Ely, Minnesota. She is a daughter of Michael and Susan Elizabeth (Odgers) Prisk, of Ely, Minnesota, where Mr. Prisk is a mas- ter mechanic for a mining company. Mr. and Mrs. Handley have one son, Robert W., Jr., and he was

born February 20, 1919. They reside in the Loraine Apartments. Mr. Handley is not only skilled in his calling, but he is a man who has won many friends among his business and social acquaintances, and he and Mrs. Handley are held in the highest regard by all who know them.

RAY CHURCH has lived in Montana since he was six years of age, for many years was in the news- paper business, but since 1899 has been a resident of Helena and for seven years was a general agent of the Montana Life Insurance Company. He is a member of the Legislature and his name has become prominent in business and political affairs of the state.

Mr. Church was born at Oswego, Kansas, July 17, 1875. He is of English ancestry, of American colonial stock, and one of his Church ancestors served as a major in the Revolutionary war. His grandfather, Elihu C. Church, was born in Now York State, and spent his life there as a farmer. His wife was Emily Makepeace, who also died in New York.

The founder of the family in Montana was Wil- liam C. Church, father of Ray. He was born near Vernon, New York, in 1838, was reared and married in that locality, and at an early day removed to Wis- consin. While in that state the Civil war came on and he enlisted in the First Wisconsin Cavalry in 1861, and was with his command through the entire struggle. After the war he returned to New York and became a farmer in Oswego County. During the early 'zos he moved to Kansas. He was honored with the office of sheriff while living in Kansas. From Kansas he came to Montana in 1881, locating at Wickes, and engaged in the freighting business between there and Helena. He died at Wickes in 1883. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and a republican in politics. William C. Church married Nettie E. Lampman, who was born in Vernon Center, New York, in 1848, and is still living at Alhambra, Montana. They had two sons, Arthur W. and Ray. The former is a sta- tionary engineer living at Butte.

Ray Church acquired his education in the public schools of Jefferson and Lewis and Clark counties. He left school at the age of sixteen, clerked in a store at Helena one year, worked on a ranch in Chouteau County two years, and in 1893, at the age of eighteen became an employe of the Helena Inde- pendent. He was connected with the business and editorial department of that well known Montana institution of journalism for twenty years. He re- signed in 1913 to become general agent of the Mon- tana Life Insurance Company, with jurisdiction over Lewis and Clark, Jefferson and Powell counties, and his business energy has been the means of develop- ing and maintaining a large and satisfactory volume of business for this Montana Company. His offices are in the Conrad Bank Building, where the company occupies two floors.

Mr. Church is secretary of the Helena Rotary Club, and in 1918 was elected on the democratic ticket to represent Lewis and Clark County in the Legislature. During the session of 1919 he was a member of the fish and game and insurance com- mittees. He was also on the special joint investi- gating committee to examine the accounts and af- fairs of state offices and state officers. A bill as- sociated with his name, which he introduced and which became a law, provided for compulsory com- mitment and appropriated money for improvements for the Montana School for the Deaf, Blind and Feeble-Minded at Boulder.

Mr. Church is a member of the Montana Club of

W.D. McFarlane and family

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Helena, is present exalted ruler of Helena Lodge No. 193 of the Elks, and is also affiliated with Helena Aerie No. 16, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Red Cross Lodge No. 32, Knights of Pythias, Sons of Veterans, and the Helena Commercial Club. He is president of the Helena Cemetery Association. During the war Mr. Church shared in the activities which made insurance men generally responsible for the success of the many local and state campaigns for raising funds for the government. He was a prominent member of the Lewis and Clark War Activities As- sociation.

In 1902, at Helena, Mr. Church married Miss Es- telle Flaherty, daughter of Edward L. and Ida (Runkle) Flaherty, the latter now deceased. His wife's father, a resident of Helena, came to that city during the '8os and for many years has been a funeral director. Mr. and Mrs. Church have one son, Edward, born June 1I, 1904.

WILLIAM DANIEL MACFARLANE. In all that con- stitutes true manhood and good citizenship, William D. MacFarlane, one of the best known and most substantial farmers of Hill County, is a notable example and none' stands higher than he in the esteem and confidence of the community honored by his citizenship. His career has been characterized by duty faithfully done, and by industry, thrift and wisely directed efforts he has acquired a liberal share of this world's goods, besides earning a reputa- tion for a life unclouded by unworthy acts. He is a man of good judgment and pronounced views, has worked hard for that which he now possesses, and knows how to appreciate the true dignity of labor and to place a correct estimate on the value of money. Nevertheless he is liberal in his benefactions and stands ever ready to support with his influence and means all measures for the material and moral welfare of his community.

William D. MacFarlane was born in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada, on December 8, 1861, and is the son of William and Flora (Campbell) Mac- Farlane. Both of these parents were natives of Scot- land, the former having been born at Johnson in 1832, and died in 1909, when seventy-seven years of age; the mother was born in Glasgow in 1835, and her death occurred in 1917, at the age of eighty- two years. They were married in Guelph, Ontario. and became the parents of nine children, five of whom are living. William MacFarlane accompanied his parents on their emigration to Canada in 1844, the slow-going sailing boat on which they made the passage requiring six weeks to make the trip. Mr. MacFarlane received his education in the schools of Scotland and Canada, and his early years were spent at home. When about twenty years of age he en- gaged in teaching school, continuing that vocation for a number of years, while at the same time he conducted a farm. However, he then began devot- ing his entire time to farming. In his boyhood he had learned from his father the art of weaving, and after.his location in Canada he did considerable work along that line. But as a farmer he ac- complished very definite results, having practically carved a farmstead out of the wilderness and ranked as one of the pioneer settlers of Bruce County. Therefore he was compelled to forego the con- veniences and accommodations found in the older settlements, and it was not an uncommon thing for him to' carry on his back a bushel of wheat to mill to be ground into flour. In 1875 Mr. MacFarlane sold his Bruce County farm and moved to Mani- toba, where he developed another farm, which he devoted to wheat raising. He lived on that farm for twenty-three years, but in 1898 he disposed of

his property and located in Auburn, Nebraska, where he quietly spent his last days, having re- tired from active labor. He was a member of the Baptist Church and was well liked and respected by all who knew him.

William D. MacFarlane spent his boyhood days on the paternal farmstead, securing his educational training in the public schools of Ontario and Mani- toba, supplementing this by a course in Doctor Craw- ford's Business College at Rapid City, Manitoba. When sixteen years of age he learned the bricklay- ing and plastering trades in Winnipeg. He followed that line of work for thirty-four years, or until 1912. During this period from 1884 to 1889 he lived at St. Thomas, North Dakota, where he was engaged in contracting, then went to Vancouver, British Co- lumbia, and later to Regina, in both places being en- gaged in building and contracting. In 1891 Mr. MacFarlane located in Great Falls, Montana, where he was likewise engaged until 1898, in which year he located in Fort Benton, where among other jobs he erected the Stockmen's National Bank in 1900, and also the new addition to the Chouteau House and other important structures. In the fall of 1901 he located in Havre, where he remained until the fol- lowing year, engaged in contracting, but he then located on a farm about three and a half miles south of Havre, to the operation of which he gave his attention, as well as his contracting work. He had a fine herd of Shorthorn cattle and carried on the dairy business to some extent up to 1918, when he relinquished his interest in everything except his farm and dairy interests, to which he is giving his entire time and attention. He milks regularly be- tween twenty and thirty cows and expects in the course of a short time to have the best dairy in this section of Montana. He is fortunate in having a number of unusually fine springs on his farm, which is a very desirable feature on a dairy farm, and he has the place otherwise equipped for pur- suing his work with a minimum of labor.

On April 6, 1886, Mr. MacFarlane was married to Agnes Kerr, who was a native of Ontario, Canada, and is of Scotch descent, her parents having been born in Dunnbarton, Scotland. To this union were born seven children, namely: Mary Agnes is the wife of Clarence Sargent, of Chinook, Montana, and they have eight children; Jeanie Florence is the wife of Charles L. Brown, of Havre, and they have one daughter; William James, who lives in Detroit, Michigan, was married to Marie Bell, and they have a daughter; Margaret Mildred is the wife of Mag- nus Nielson, of Rudard, Montana, and they have a son and daughter; Beulah Kerr is the wife of John E. Gentner, of Havre, and they have a son, Edgar E. remains at home and is the active manager of the farm; Flora Alice is also at home.

Politically Mr. MacFarlane is not bound by party ties, preferring to give his vote and support to the men and measures which he believes are for the best interests of the people. He is especially interested in educational matters and served as a member of the school board for ten years or more. Fraternally he is a member of Havre Lodge No. 55. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Chouteau Chapter No. 19, Royal Arch Masons. He first be- came a member of the Masonic Order at Fort Ben- ton, but subsequently demitted to the Havre Lodge. He is a member and liberal supporter of the Bap- tist Church.

Mr. MacFarlane enjoys a splendid reputation throughout his section of the state, both as a con- tractor and farmer, for he has achieved definite suc- cess in both lines of effort. Among the good work done by him here was the interior finish of the

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Havre National Bank Building, generally acknowl- edged to be one of the finest bank buildings in Mon- tana. He has been reliable in business matters, and has always enjoyed a most enviable standing as a business man and public spirited citizen. Genial and approachable, he has gained a large and representa- tive acquaintance, by whom he is held in the highest esteem.

ARTHUR E. CHAMBERLAIN, M. D. To the distinc- tion of being the first regular physician to locate at Belt, Doctor Chamberlain has added a quarter of a century of earnest and skillful work as a com- petent physician and surgeon and the performance vi many duties, both professional and as a private citizen, which are responsible for the esteem in which he is held throughout that section.

Doctor Chamberlain was born at Twinsburg, Sum- mit County, Ohio, July 23, 1860. His parents, Wil- liam and Victoria (Southworth) Chamberlain, were natives of the same part of the Buckeye State. His father was a successful farmer and stock raiser, a breeder of Durham cattle and of good horses .. Though a republican, he never cared for public office. He died in 1902, at the age of sixty, and his wife passed away in 1907, aged sixty-five. Doc- tor Chamberlain was the oldest of three children, two of whom are living.

Reared on a farm, Doctor Chamberlain had the average environment of an Ohio farm boy, and he early looked to himself as the principal reliance and support for his ambition to do a worthy work in the world. He attended district schools, spent two years in Oberlin College, and at the age of eighteen became a teacher. He taught for ten years in his native state and one year in Kansas. This work gave him a broad view of life, and from his earn- ings he accumulated most of the capital necessary to put him through medical school. Doctor Cham- berlain is a graduate of the Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland, where he studied from 1887 until receiving his degree in 1891. The following year he remained with the college as demonstrator of anatomy and also took post-graduate studies. Doc- tor Chamberlain came to Montana in 1893, and after a few months at Great Falls located at Belt in 1894 and has given his best energies in all the succeed- ing years to his work as a physician. Since 1913 he has served as city health officer, being now in his third term. He is also registrar of births and deaths. Doctor Chamberlain is a republican, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Woodmen of the World.

At Cleveland, April 20, 1892, he married Maude A. Cann, who was born at Toronto, Canada, daugh- ter of George B. Cann and wife, natives of Eng- land. Mrs. Chamberlain was one of a family of three sons and four daughters. Doctor and Mrs. Chamberlain had three children: Arthur Cann, Mabel, who died at the age of four years, and Gladys M. The son, Arthur, enlisted November 5, 1917, at Great Falls, was assigned to the aviation department, and spent about thirteen months at Kel- ley Field in Texas, where he was one of the in- structors. He was granted his honorable discharge January 23, 1919.

H. J. MENZEMER. There is probably no public in- stitution of Montana where there are greater possi- bilities for good and where better results are being achieved day after day and year after year than at Boulder in the combined institutions known as Montana Schools for Deaf, Blind and Backward Children. Provision was made by one of the early

State Legislatures for this institution more than twenty-five years ago. The main grounds consist of about forty acres and there is also a ranch of sev- eral hundred acres.

The administrative and acting head of this insti- tution since 1912 has been H. J. Menzemer, M. A., a prominent teacher of the deaf, who has made that his life career and vocation. There is a complete staff of instructors for the deaf, for the blind and for the backward children, and every effort is made consistent with the available funds to furnish a well-rounded system of education that will train and equip the pupils for the serious responsibilities of life, and reduce to a minimum the handicaps im- posed through birth or accident. There is a music department, domestic science school, a manual train- ing department, where boys learn useful trades, and the ranch is one complete school in itself.

H. J. Menzemer was born at Galena, Illinois, July 9, 1879. His grandfather, Jacob Menzemer, was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France, in 1800, was reared and married in his native country, and was a blacksmith by trade. In 1854 he brought his fam- ily to America and settled two miles from Galena, Illinois. As he went through Chicago he was not attracted to the city, since it was a comparatively small town built practically in a swamp. Jacob Menzemer became a farmer in Illinois, and died on his farm in 1894. He married a Miss Schwab, of Alsace-Lorraine, and she also died on the Illinois farm. J. A. Menzemer, father of H. J. Menzemer, was born in Alsace-Lorraine in August, 1853, and was only an infant when brought to this country. He grew up on the farm near Galena, was married in Joe Daviess County, Illinois, and bought a farm near Warren in that county, where he lived for several years. In 1899 he removed to Beloit, Wis- consin, where he worked in the Gas Engine Works, and in the fall of 1916 settled at Boulder, Montana, where he is now practically retired. He is a repub- lican and a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. J. A. Menzemer married Sarah M. Green, who was born in Illinois in May, 1855. They have two children: Edwin J., county clerk and recorder of Jo Daviess County, living in Galena, Illinois, and H. J.

H. J. Menzemer was educated in the rural schools of Northwestern Illinois, principally in Rush Town- ship, Jo Daviess County. He attended the Warren Academy, finishing his freshman year, was graduated from Beloit Academy in the spring of 1901, and then took the regular college course at Beloit College, receiving his A. B. degree in 1905. Mr. Menzemer then entered Gallaudet College, the only institution of higher learning for the deaf in the world. It is at Washington, D. C., and he con- tinued there specializing in instruction for the deaf and was awarled the degree Master of Arts in 1906.

Mr. Menzemer has done a great and splendid work as a teacher of the deaf. He was with the Iowa School for the Deaf at Council Bluffs one.year, and was then senior teacher in the Colorado School for the Deaf at Colorado Springs until 1912, when he was called to his present duties and responsibilities as president of the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind at Boulder.

Mr. Menzemer is a republican, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a member of the Super- intendents and Principals of Schools for the Deaf, a national organization, and is second vice presi- dent of the Association of Superintendents and Prin- cipals of the Blind. Mr. Menzemer is a past master of Boulder Lodge No. 41, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons; is affiliated with Butte Consistory

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No. 2 of the Scottish Rite, and Bagdad Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Butte. He is also a member of Helena Lodge No. 193 of the Elks. Mr. Men- zemer and wife reside at the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind.

He married at Colorado Springs in May, 1910, Miss Jessie Dudley, daughter of David C. and Macaria Dudley. Her mother is now living at Los Angeles. The father, who died in California, was a widely known educator, being superintendent of the State School for the Deaf and Blind at Colorado Springs. Mrs. Menzemer is a graduate of Colorado College at Colorado Springs, holding the degree of A. B. from that institution.

CLYDE WILCOX. The business experience of Mr. Wilcox has been largely in the field of banking. He has been connected with numerous banking or- ganizations both in the middle West and in Mon- tana, and is now vice president of the Cascade Bank of Great Falls.

Mr. Wilcox was born in Monterey County, Cali- fornia, March 4, 1884, son of Thomas W. and Lucia B. (Burdick) Wilcox, the former a native of Pottsdam, New York, and the latter of Wisconsin. His father is sixty-eight and his mother sixty-two years of age. Clyde is their only child. Thomas W. Wilcox in early life located in Northwest Iowa, in Lyons County, where he was a farmer and stock- man until the early '80s. He lived in Monterey County, California, five years, operating a sawmill and manufacturing lumber on an extensive scale. He then returned to Iowa, locating at Hull in Sioux County, and was in the hardware business there for about twenty years. Since retiring from busi- ness he has come to Montana and is living at Broad- view in Yellowstone County. He is an Odd Fellow, a republican, and a member of the Christian Science Church.

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume III, Part 30

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