Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume III, Part 62

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

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Harvey Foor was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, and spent his brief career as a farmer. He died in February, 1901, at the age of thirty-five. He married Rhea A. Morehart, daughter of William and Mary (Fellers) Morehart. The Morehart family is also of Danish ancestry. Rhea Morehart was born in Greencastle, Ohio, where her parents located a few years before the beginning of the Civil war as emigrants from Pennsylvania. She had three brothers: Harvey, of Canal Winchester, Ohio; Jesse, a farmer in the same community; and William, a farmer at Pickerington, Ohio. Harvey Foor and wife were the parents of five children: Arlie M .; Clarence, a farmer near the old Foor home; Ray- mond, also in the same vicinity; Forrest, a teacher in Fairfield County, Ohio; and Ercell, who recently completed her high school education at Canal Win- chester. Forrest Foor served as a first class seaman in the navy during the World war, and with his brother Arlie shares in the credit for the military record of this generation of the family.

Arlie M. Foor spent his boyhood in the country near the Village of Lithopolis, and did not relieve himself entirely of the responsibilities of work on the farm until he was nineteen. In 1909 he gradu- ated from the Canal Winchester High School, for two years was principal of the schools at Green- castle, Ohio, and then pursued his legal studies in Valparaiso University in Indiana, graduating in June, 1916. For about a year he practiced at Win- chester, Indiana, being associated with an old time lawyer of the locality, Benjamin F. Marsh, under the name Marsh & Foor. He tried his first law suit there.

In the meantime he has been keeping up an active correspondence with Hugh Marron, who immediately on leaving the law school of Valparaiso University had come into Montana. It was altogether due to the influence of Mr. Marron that Mr. Foor came out to the Treasure state, and they became associated in a general practice at Wolf Point, until their firm was dissolved and the members went into the army.

In March, 1918, at Miles City, Mr. Foor enlisted and was stationed at Fort Keogh as an office man until June, was then transferred to the navy as a musi- cian, and sent to Salt Lake, Utah, and subsequently at Bremerton, Washington, was placed in the train- ing camp band and remained there until March 12, 1919, when he was put on the inactive list and allowed to resume his civil duties. Mr. Foor or- ganized the Leonard Dethman Post No. 22 of the American Legion, and is chairman of its executive committee.

With his return to Wolf Point Mr. Foor accepted the responsibilities of secretary of the Wolf Point Commercial Club. He has handled the heavy work of this organization, and in many cases has initiated and brought success to movements under the club's auspices. Some of these achievements are noted briefly as follows: The establishment of a United States Free Employment Service at Wolf Point; a central distributing point for weather forecasts of the weather bureau; establishment of a merchants association, of which Mr. Foor is secretary; a com- munity fair association at Wolf Point, providing for rural and other exhibits properly programmed; the working out and establishment of the most feasible route for the Powder River Trail, connecting Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and El Paso, Texas; the acquisi- tion through the club leadership of additional terri- tory for the townsite of Wolf Point; and the club's initiative in the establishment through this region of the Roosevelt Highway. In this matter Mr. Foor initiated the correspondence and carried a large share of the total burden of the undertaking. The Com- mercial Club was also responsible for the establish- ment of a department of music in the Wolf Point schools.

Mr. Foor is unmarried. Though reared in a demo- cratic atmosphere, his early observation and con- victions led him to alliance with the republican party, and he cast his first presidential vote for Mr. Hughes in 1916. Fraternally he is a past noble grand of Lee Lodge No. 386 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Canal Winchester; a mem- ber of the Patrons of Husbandry in that community ; and joined the Masons at Lithopolis, but is now a member of Loyalty Lodge No. 121 at Wolf Point.

ARTHUR C. DORR was called to the superintendency of the Industrial School of Montana at Miles City in June, 1914. This school, otherwise known as the State Reform School, is one of the important insti- tutions of Montana, and it has been the peculiar good fortune of all confined to its care that the

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school has been under such able and experienced administration as that given by Mr. Dorr.

Mr. Dorr is a veteran institutional and social service worker, and has given that work practically a lifetime of study and experience.

He was born at Rochester, Minnesota, June 2, 1875. The Dorr family was established in the United States by Gustave Dorr, who came from Frankfurt-on-the-Main, and spent his last years in Minnesota. He is buried at Pleasant Grove in that state. He was a man of great accomplishment, spoke seven different languages, and came to the United States at the age of twenty-one. He was a business man. His first wife was a Mrs. Reeder, and she became the mother of his children, three daughters and two sons surviving him.

One of them was Edwin Dorr, who was born in Pennsylvania and prior to the Civil war moved to Illinois and thence to Minnesota. He married, in Olmsted County, Minnesota, Miss Emma Russell, and they are now living at Eugene, Oregon.

Arthur C. Dorr, the oldest survivor of five chil- dren, was reared and educated in Minnesota and acquired his first experience in institutional work there. To the age of sixteen he lived on a farm, attended rural schools, and remained at home until reaching his majority. Up to that time his prac- tical experience had been gained as an employe of his father in a store. At the age of twenty-one he became an employe in the State Insane Hospital at Rochester, and was there four years. His per- sonal qualifications then gained for him the office of steward in the Hastings State Hospital in Minne- sota, and he was connected with that institution for seven years. He was then invited to the office of the Minnesota State Board of Control in the investi- gation and inspection service of the institutions un- der that board, and followed that work for three years. For 21/2 years he was assistant superintend- ent of the Training School at Red Wing, Minne- sota, and for two years steward at the St. Cloud Reformatory. From there he was called to Mon- tana to become superintendent of the Industrial School at Miles City.

Six years ago the State School at Miles City owned 981/2 acres of land with five main buildings. Since then 220 acres have been purchased, and an additional area of 480 acres of school lands have been turned over to the use of the institution by the state. This gives a farm and industrial property of more than 800 acres. During Mr. Dorr's admin- istration stock barns have been built, chicken house, cold storage and dairy house erected, and the farm is conducted on an intensive and scientific system of management under the supervision of a chief farmer, who also has charge of the dairy and other stock interests. Sufficient crops are produced to supply the institution, and as an additional source of profit to the institution and as a means of stimulating dairying in that section of the state a herd of pure- bred Holstein cattle is maintained. With all this equipment Mr. Dorr is able to make the institution realize the purposes for which it was founded and provide means of industrial vocational education for the delinquents committed to the school. A complete course of instruction is maintained from the first to the eighth grades.

Mr. Dorr has found other opportunities to identify himself usefully with the state and his home com- munity. He is a member of the Miles City Chamber of Commerce, being on its agricultural committee, is one of the commissioners of the Tongue and Yellowstone River Irrigation District, served as president of the Miles City Club in 1918, is super- intendent of the Swine and Poultry Department of the Custer County Fair, and is a member of the

executive board of the Custer County Farm and Stock Bureau. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masons, Elks and Royal Arcanum.

At Rochester, Minnesota, April 17, 1899, he mar- ried Miss Louisa Pedersen. Her father, H. O. 'Pedersen, came from Norway, was an early settler at Rochester, where he followed his trade as a black- smith, and was the father of four daughters and one son. Mrs. Dorr was born at Rochester. They have three children : Alice, Mildred and Elsie.

JOSEPH H. KLINKHAMMER, one of the early set- tlers of Wolf Point, and as a business man and public official vitally identified with the upbuilding of the community, has spent his life in the north- western states of Minnesota, South Dakota and Montana, and represents the third generation of the Klinkhammer family in America.

His grandparents were Gerhard and Margaret ( Vogelsberg) Klinkhammer, who emigrated from the Province of Alsace, first locating in Wisconsin, and then moved out to Minnesota territory when there was not even a wagon road in that great ex- panse of country. The head of navigation on the Mississippi was not yet distinguished by even the villages of St. Paul and Minneapolis. The Klinkham- mers settled three miles west of New Prague, where Gerhard Klinkhammer spent the rest of his life as a farmer and is buried. He and his wife had two sons and a daughter, all of whom married and reared families: Joseph, who spent his life in LeSeur County, Minnesota; Peter, a retired farm- er and one of the large land holders of Southern Minnesota ; and Mary, Mrs. John J. Lenz, of Nobles County, Minnesota.

Peter Klinkhammer, who represents the second generation of the family in America, was born in Alsace, near Cologne, Germany, and was six years of age when his parents came to America and set- tled in Wisconsin. He grew up in Minnesota, and in 1862 became a Union soldier, serving three years and seven days, until the surrender of General Lee's army. He was a private in Company G of the 10th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. Soon after his enlistment the Sioux Indians went on the war path, and the 10th Minnesota was sent back from the South to protect the frontier, and Peter Klink- hammer was on duty during the pursuit and round- ing up of the hostiles after the massacre at New Ulm. When Chief Little Crow and his band of warriors were captured the entire tribe was marched across Dakota to some point in Montana, where they were corralled. Part of the 10th Minnesota was detailed on this expedition, and then returned hy river to St. Paul, only to find that some of the Sioux had escaped from Montana and had returned to their favorite camping grounds in Minnesota. Peter Klinkhammer was present at Mankato at the execution of the thirty-seven ringleaders of the Sioux tribe for their part in the work of the New Ulm massacre. After this Indian campaign Peter Klinkhammer saw, as a participant, some of the great battles of the war in the South and ended his service at St. Louis. He was discharged at Fort Snelling in Minnesota, and then returned to his farm and became one of the most successful agri- culturists in his part of Minnesota. With the ac- cumulation of capital he sought other interests and engaged in banking as a stockholder in a bank at Ellsworth, Minnesota. He is a democrat in politics and his family are Catholics.

Peter Klinkhammer married Louise Johanna Witt, daughter of Carl Witt, who came from the Province of Pommern, Germany, to Minnesota. He spent the rest of his life as a miller and farmer in Scott County. Mrs. Peter Klinkhammer died in 1895.

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She was the mother of the following children: Joseph H., of Wolf Point; Margaret, Mrs. John Switzer, of Nobles County, Minnesota ; Carl, a farm- er near Adrian, Minnesota; John J., of Sidney, New York; William, of East Grand Forks, Min- nesota; Peter, a miner and stock man of Hump, Idaho ;. Gerhard, of Sioux City, Iowa; Mary, still . at home with her father; and Barbara, wife of Mat Giesen, of Scott County, Minnesota.

Joseph H. Klinkhammer was born forty miles south of the "Twin Cities" February 18, 1873, and spent most of his boyhood on his father's farm in LeSeuer County. He attended country schools, and at the age of fifteen went with his parents to Nobles County and came to manhood near Ellsworth, Iowa, a town on the Minnesota-Iowa line. About that time he acquired the butcher's trade and first en- gaged in the business at Ellsworth, and from there moved to Rock Rapids, Iowa, where he operated a butcher shop two years, and also proved up a nomestead. He commuted after a brief residence and sold the land and improvements. His next home and place of business was at Mitchell, South Dakota, where he lived for six years, engaging in the meat business.

In March, 1912, Mr. Klinkhammer came from South Dakota to Wolf Point, and was the first to open a butcher's shop in the little hamlet. He en- gaged in that essential line of business for six years, and participated with his neighbors in the joint action necessary to build up a business community. After leaving the retail meat business he turned his energies to the ice industry, which is his present work. He is also identified in some measure with farming upon the homestead entered and proved up by his wife.

The first official service Mr. Klinkhammer ren- dered Wolf Point was as fire chief. He resigned that office when he was elected the first mayor of the town in the fall of 1915. He was re-elected in the spring of 1916, and with the aid of a strong council he made his administration one of distinct improvement and benefit to the community. The first sidewalk building was done under him as mayor, the town was bonded for waterworks, the first elec- tric lights were installed and the first street lights placed. Two additions were platted to the original townsite, an eighty-acre tract on the north and an eighty-acre tract on the south, on which many of the better residences of the town have been built. A general grade was established for the city, also an up to date fire department provided, and in other ways the preliminaries of a substantial city were wisely arranged.

Mr. Klinkhammer is a democrat in politics. He married at Wolf Point November 28, 1915, Miss Edith Dexter, who was horn in Wisconsin in March, 1891, the youngest of the four children of Maynard and Emma Dexter. Her parents are farmers of McCone County, Montana. Mr. and Mrs. Klink- hammer have one daughter, Louise, born in Janu- ary, 1917.

HUGH N. MARRON has been a successful lawyer at Wolf Point since July, 1916, though for about half a year he was absent from his office and pro- fessional work to serve with the colors during the World war.

Mr. Marron was born at Waucoma, Iowa, October 5, 1893, and is of the third generation of the Marron family in America. His grandparents, Hugh and Catherine Marron, came to this country from County Cork, Ireland, during the forties, and after a brief residence in Ohio moved out to Iowa in 1849. They were pioneers in that state, and developed a modern

farm in Winneshiek County, where both of them spent their last days. They were the parents of four sons and three daughters: Thomas, a farmer at Waucoma; Robert, who was killed by a bandit while sheriff of a Montana County; Joseph, who died in Iowa; James; Mrs. Anna Tierney, of Austin, Minnesota ; Rose, who married Edward Laird, of Portland, Oregon ; and Celia wife of Harry Gaffney, of Portland.

James Marron, father of the Montana lawyer, was born at Milan, Ohio, but has spent his active career as a farmer in the vicinity of Waucoma, Iowa. He married Anna Traufler, who was born at Sumner, Iowa, in 1874, and is about three years younger than her husband. Her parents were na- tives of Luxemburg, Germany. Hugh is the oldest of the children of James Marron and wife. His sister Irene lives in Wancoma; his brother Harry is a farmer on the old homestead; William was still in the United States army in 1920 at Camp Grant, Illinois; George is a student in the Uni- versity of Missouri; and Florence and Frank are completing their high school educations.

Hugh N. Marron grew up on a farm, and his boyhood memories are altogether associated with an Iowa rural community. He finished his high school work at Waucoma, and two years later, in 1912, graduated from the Valder Business College at Decorah, Iowa. At the age of nineteen, having decided upon his life work, he entered Valparaiso University in Indiana, and completed the law school course in 1916. He received his diploma in June, and the following month came to Montana. After a brief time at Poplar associated with Senator Dana Easton he came to Wolf Point and succeeded to the practice and the office of J. P. Murphy.

His first court case outside a justice court was tried at Great Falls before Judge George M. Borr- quin in the Federal District Court. He was at- torney for the defendant in a grand larceny case. Since then his practice has extended to all classes of litigation, both in Federal and state courts, in- cluding bankruptcy proceedings. His reputation is widely extended as a successful criminal lawyer. He defended Johnson, charged with shooting his wife and daughter, assault in the first degree, and his client received only a short sentence. He cleared Bert Warwick, charged with assault in the first degree, with intent to kill. He has also handled many contests before the courts involving titles to land entries, numerous divorce cases involving wealth and property considerations, and few lawyers of his age have had a more versatile experience in their profession.

Mr. Marron enlisted for the World war in June, 1918, and spent five months in the naval officers training school in San Francisco. He was there when the armistice was signed, and received his honorable discharge in December, 1918. He took an active part in the organization of the Leonard Deitman Post of the American Legion at Wolf Point. While his father was an old-line democrat, Mr. Marron is a republican, and is a man of con- victions gained by close study of political questions. He is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, being an official in the Wolf Point Council. He is a mem- her of the Wolf Point Commercial Club, which he has served as a director, and during the war was a member of the four-minute men and is a popular speaker, frequently designated as a toast-master at banquets and entertainments. He is one of the three managers of the Wolf Point Co-operative Associa- tion and as attorney he represents two of the banks of the city. On June' 14, 1920, Mr. Marron was appointed city attorney for the city of Wolf Point.

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On June 9, 1920, Mr. Marron was united in mar- riage to Rose C. Pogreba in St. Ann's Cathedral, Great Falls, Montana. Mrs. Marron was born and raised in Great Falls, and at the time of her mar- riage was in charge of the collection department of the Conrad Banking Company of Great Falls, having served in that capacity for several years.

THOMAS M. MORROW, M. D. The active experience of Doctor Morrow as a physician and surgeon in Montana began in 1913. He was one of the first volunteers in the state to join the Medical Reserve Corps, and for nearly two years was in the army as a medical officer, spending more than six months of that time in France and experiencing some of the stern actualities of modern warfare in the late sum- mer of 1918.

Doctor Morrow, who since leaving the army has found his abilities welcomed at Wolf Point, was born at Ardoch, North Dakota, November 21, 1888. His father, George L. Morrow, a native of Ontario, Can- ada, was one of the pioneers of the Red River Valley of North Dakota, going there from Perth, Ontario, in the early '70s. He spent his active life as an ex- pert accountant and died at Minot, North Dakota, in February, 1919, at the age of about sixty years. He married Mary Malloy, a native of Pembroke, On- tario, and daughter of Patrick Malloy. She is still living at Minot. A brief record of the family is as follows: Frank J., proprietor of a department store at Minot; George P., manager of a wholesale gro- cery house at Brandon, Manitoba; Dr. Thomas M .; John C., a three-year veteran of the World war with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, and one of the three surviving men of the Third Machine Gun Bat- talion, is manager of a wholesale grocery house at Regina, Saskatchewan; Genevieve is Sister St. Igna- tius, superintendent of nurses at St. Mary's Hospital in Minneapolis; William D. is a student of dentistry in Creighton Dental College at Omaha; and Eileen is completing her education in St. Catherine's College at St. Paul.

When Doctor Morrow was four years of age his parents moved to Minot, North Dakota, where he grew to manhood. He attended the public schools of that city, and then entered Creighton University at Omaha, Nebraska, taking his Bachelor of Science degree in the regular collegiate course and then re- maining a student of medicine until he graduated in April, 1911. The following two years he received special training as a surgeon in eye, ear. nose and throat work at St. Mary's Hospital in Minneapolis.

Doctor Morrow came to Montana from the Twin Cities of Minnesota in 1913. and engaged in general practice at Medicine Lake for five years.

Doctor Morrow volunteered from that point, re- ceiving his commission in July, 1917. and reported and trained in the Medical Officers Training Camp at Fort Riley, Kansas. After seventeen weeks in the camp he was assigned to duty at the Base Hos- pital there, and later completed a two months' spe- cial course in war surgery at Philadelphia. Follow- ing that he was on duty on the surgical staff at Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina, for about nine months. and was then ordered overseas. He sailed from Hoboken on the transport Kroonland, and dis- embarked at Brest in the latter part of July, 1918. His first assignment was as chief of the medical service at Allerey with Provisional Hospital No. 4. For a time he was also with the American troops in the Argonne region, and later was given special duty in eye, ear, nose and throat work at Base Hospital No. 53 at Langres. Doctor Morrow re- turned to the United States as a casual, leaving Bordeaux in February, 1919, with Convalescent Med-

ical Detachment No. 114 aboard the ship Atenas, and landed at Pier No. 2, Brooklyn, March 16th, hospi- talized at Embarkation Hospital No. 2, New York Polyclinic at West Fifty-ninth Street, and was trans- ferred to the United States General Hospital No. 29 at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, where he received his honorable discharge April 28, 1919.

On returning to Montana Doctor Morrow resumed. his professional work as a resident of Wolf Point. He holds the office of Special Examiner of the United States Public Health Service and is also county physician for Roosevelt County.

Doctor Morrow is unmarried. His father was a democratic voter, but all five of the sons have be- come affiliated as republicans and Dr. Morrow cast his first presidential vote in 1912 for Colonel Roose- velt, the progressive candidate. Doctor Morrow is affiliated with the Lodge of Elks at Williston, North Dakota.

JOHN GRAYSON. A decade comprises the history of the thriving Town of Antelope. The first active commercial enterprise established on the townsite was the store of Grayson Brothers, who came to that point in 1910, and have never neglected an opportunity to increase the welfare and development of the locality, and their own interests have grown apace with the general prosperity of the region.

The Grayson family were identified with the pio- neer history of North Dakota and came to the United States from Canada and more remotely from Eng- land. The grandfather of Grayson Brothers was John Grayson, a native of Oxford, England, who emigrated to Canada, married Miss Kester, and they spent the rest of their lives as farmers in the Do- minion. Of their six sons and five daughters, four sons came to the United States, another located near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, one daughter lived in Michigan and the other children remained about the old Canadian home near Woodstock.

The late William Grayson, father of Grayson Brothers, was a well known and highly esteemed pio- neer of Antelope, Montana, where he died in January, 1919. He was born near Woodstock, Ontario, in 1844, grew up on a farm, acquired a common school education, and his entire life was devoted to coun- try pursuits. In the spring of 1882 he moved to the United States, and homesteaded in Walsh County, North Dakota. He was actively engaged in farming three miles from Lankin in that county until the spring of 1910 and then removed to Antelope, Mon- tana. William Grayson married in Ontario Miss Mary Ramsey, who died at Antelope in 1915, at the age of sixty-eight. In Canada they were members of the Established Church of England, but on coming to the United States joined the Presbyterian Church and Mrs. William Grayson was especially active in her church interests. William Grayson took out citi- zenship papers in North Dakota and espoused the republican party. There were three children in the family, Richard and John, comprising the firm of Grayson Brothers, and Sara, wife of James Stewart of Antelope.

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Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, Volume III, Part 62

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