Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 101

Author: Bowen, A.W., & Co., firm, publishers, Chicago
Publication date: [19-?]
Publisher: Chicago : A. W. Bowen & Co.
Number of Pages: 1374

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After the war Mr. Baker returned to his home and in September, 1865, removed to Iowa, and en- tered a preparatory school at Lynnville, and then took a college course at Grinnell College, from which he was graduated in 1874. having studied the scientific course and civil engineering. He re- mained in the college a year as assistant instructor in chemistry and physics, and at its close came to Montana in 1875, locating at Virginia City, where for one year he was principal of the city schools. In 1877 he was appointed deputy mineral surveyor, and, in the spring of 1878, removed to Butte and began practice as a civil engineer and surveyor. He has also followed patenting claims during most of this time, and has been concerned in works of con- struction involving great difficulties, which he has overcome in a masterful way. He surveyed the ditch and superintended the erection of the water works at Glendale, and put in the hydraulic plant at Yugo sapphire mines. His services are often in de- mand as an expert reporter on mines and mining

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properties. Mr. Baker was married in April, 1884, to Miss Mary Hobart, a native of Illinois. They have one child, Jacob H., of school age. Mr. Baker is a member of the Presbyterian church and of the Republican party. He has several times been elected county surveyor, and has given eminent sat- isfaction in the discharge of his official duties. His life is a busy and productive one, leaving him little leisure for the gratification of any desire for mere pleasure, and about the only sport in which he in- dulges is an occasional hunting or fishing trip. He is a genial, cheerful and entertaining gentleman of high character and fine social qualities.

0 RLANDO B. BARBER .- Now living in practi- cal retirement, after years of "ceaseless toil and endeavor," the resulting a success which enables him to rest from his labors and enjoy the even- ing of life in that repose which is his just due, Mr. Barber comes of old stock, his paternal American ancestors having settled in New England in the early colonial epoch, as is shown from records ex- tant. He himself was born in Hamburg, Erie coun- ty, N. Y., on August 8, 1828. His father, Samuel Barber, was born in Worcester, Mass., and removed to New York about 1800. He was an active participant in the war of 1812, and his father was an officer in the Revolution. Samuel Barber married Olive May, a native of New York, where she died, as did also her husband. In their family were nine children.

Orlando B. Barber, the seventh child of his parents, received a good English education in the common schools, and his early life was passed on the farm. He learned the trade of millwright, becom- ing a skilled artisan while still young. Finally he removed to Pennsylvania, and engaged in farm- ing and carpentering for several years, and then re- moved to Minnesota, where agriculture again en- grossed his attention. He was one of the three men who founded Redwood Falls, in Redwood county, Minn. He was a resident of Pennsylvania in 1861 and raised a company of 112 men for enlistment in the Union army, but was not called into active ser- vice. In 1866 Mr. Barber joined the Fiske expedi- tion and came across the plains to Montana, locating in Virginia City, where he followed his trade of mill- wright. He assisted in building the Hope mill at Phillipsburg and also one at Red Mountain. In 1870 he engaged in merchandising in Virginia City, and

successfully continued it for a number of years. In 1884 he became the owner of a ranch property in the Ruby valley, in Madison county, known as the Val- ley View ranch, and comprising about 400 acres, and there engaged in the raising of cattle and horses. He now owns a fine ranch near Sheridan, Madison county, where he has his home, the place comprising about 400 acres. This is now in charge of his son, a capable young man. He also has interests in placer mines in the county. For seven years Mr. Barber traveled extensively throughout the Union, and then came to his pleasant home, where he lives quietly, enjoying to the full the companionship of his many friends in the community, where he is held in the highest esteem as one of the venerable pio- neers of the county.

Mr. Barber has ever shown great interest in all that touches the welfare and progress of his state. His political support has been always given to the Democratic party, by which he was elected to the territorial legislature of Montana. Fraternally he has long been identified with the noble order of Freemasons. He is a member of Montana Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., of Virginia City, and Mon- tana Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., of the same place. In 1850 Mr. Barber and Miss Samantha Gates were married. She was born in New York. Her pater- nal grandfather was a drummer in the Revolution, enlisting when fourteen years old and serving seven years, showing that the family has been long estab- lished in America. Mrs. Barber proved a true con- panion and helpmeet to her husband during their long wedded life, which was one of ideal character, and the deepest sorrow of his life was that which came December 28, 1899, when she was summoned from earth. By her gentle, womanly character and unselfishness she endeared herself to a large circle of friends, to whom her death came as a personal be- reavement. She left two children, Ellen, the wife of D. W. Tilton, of Butte, and Charles, who has charge of the homestead ranch. Both were born in Pennsylvania. On January 8, 1901, Mr. Barber married Miss Bessie Bartlit, born in Essex, N. Y., thie· daughter of Elihu Bartlit.

JOHN C. BAILEY .- Born at Corry, Erie county, Pa., March 26, 1851, and growing up in the midst of the excitement created by the discovery of oil in large quantities in his native state, Jolin C. Bailey, of Havre, has twice consulted the deeps of

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the mountains as to what they can yield up for the support and enrichment of mankind. His father, Enoch Bordwell, also a native of the Keystone state, was prominently engaged in the oil-producing busi- ness at the very height of its prosperity. He died at Corry in 1882, leaving a widow whose maiden name was Julia Ann Wooden, a native of Pennsylvania, who is still living with hier children in the east. Mr. Bailey attended school at Lottsville and Corry, Pa., and Penn Yan, N. Y. He left school at the age of twenty and then read law for two years at Corry ; but in 1873, changing his mind as to a professional career, he purchased the Corry Commercial College, which he conducted for two years. The next year and a half he spent in the lumber business near his native town, and then for two years sold buggies in Pennsylvania for a Cincinnati manufactory. From 1877 to 1882 he was in the oil district, speculating in oil, and from 1882-87 had a seat in the oil ex- change at Oil City, Pa., where he did an enormous business. In 1887 he enlisted in the Twentieth United States Infantry at Columbus, Ohio, and was sent to Fort Assinniboine as sergeant in charge of forty-five men. He remained at the Fort three years and a half, and was then stationed for a year at Newark, N. J., in the recruiting service, returning to the Fort in 1891, and being discharged from the service there in 1892, after a term of five years.

In politics Mr. Bailey is a Democrat, and as such has been influential in local affairs and rendered conspicuous service to his community in various representative capacities. He was for years a mem- ber of the city council at Corry, Pa., and has been regularly a delegate to the county and state conven- tions of his party from his section in Montana for the last ten years, serving repeatedly as chairman in the county organization. He is a member of Corry City Lodge No. 470, K. of P., and its first lieutenant in the Uniform Rank of the order. His home is in Havre, where he has the good will of all classes of the citizens. Mr. Bailey's family name is Bordwell, and he was christened Gilbert Shearer Bordwell; but on joining the army he chose to enlist under the name of John C. Bailey, and has since retained that name.

NTHONY W. BARNARD .- What a flood of A interesting reflections, what striking contrasts of primitive and present conditions, what memories of startling developments and stirring scenes, must crowd upon the mind of Anthony Wayne Barnard,

of Butte, in his hours of reverie. For, although yet in the noon of life, he is one of the city's oldest in- habitants. When he reached the place on August 6, 1866, her inhabitants did not number 150, and he picketed his horses amid the luxuriant grass, full two feet high, where now her principal streets are filled with the busy tides of life and trade. Great trees crowned the northern hill where now are hap- py homes or marts of traffic. Silver Bow valley was a verdant velvet meadow, silver-veined with streams. The antelope, the elk and the deer dis- ported freely in sight of the smoke of her chimneys, and all the feathered tribe of the forest were musical at her borders. The story of her growth is not quite that of the Arabian tale, but something very like it.

Mr. Barnard was born in Chautauqua county, N. Y., on September 3, 1846. His father was Martin M. Barnard, a native of Virginia, who, wandering into the Empire state in his early manhood, married Elizabeth Benedict, and settled down on a farm, as he probably supposed, for life. But early in the 'fifties he was moved by the liberal offers of land by the government to leave the home he had established and seek a new one in the west. He located on gov- ernment land in Rock county, Wis., where he re- sided until his death in 1876. His wife died soon after their arrival in Wisconsin. The family con- sisted of eight children, Anthony being the fifth. He was four or five years old when the family re- moved from the east, and became a veritable farmer's son in the wild west-went to school when he could, and secured by great good fortune a finishing course at a good high school. He remained at home work- ing on the farm until he was nineteen years old. Then, in 1866, with a team and spring-wagon he started for Montana, by Council Bluffs and Omaha and up the Platte river to Fort Laramie. This was the year in which Red Cloud made so much trouble for settlers and emigrants, and when bloody massa- cres, among them that of Harney's men, horrified the country. But before Mr. Barnard's party left the fort a treaty of peace had been made, and the train of seventy-five wagons to which he was at- tached had no annoyance from the savages. The streams and rivers were much swollen, however, and the party experienced great difficulty in fording them and in crossing on improvised rafts where fording was impossible. Several men and many mules and cattle were drowned in these crossings. The train passed the Custer battle ground, but saw not one human habitation for 500 miles after leaving Fort Laramie. They traveled on the new Bozeman

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route and saw Col. Bozeman at his ferry when they crossed the Yellowstone. The next year he was killed. The caravan arrived at Virginia City late in July and reached Butte early in August. The jour- ney had been long and exhaustive, unexpected de- lays and difficulties had occurred so that when it was ended Mr. Barnard's slender means were entirely gone. But he was not discouraged. He went to work promptly at the mines earning what he could while the season lasted. After it was over there was no work, and a majority of his friends and ac- quaintances returned east.

But he was made of sterner stuff, and he deter- mined to "stick and do," or die in the effort. There was opportunity to work the placer claims about three months in the year, and the other months were spent in prospecting, going on stampedes and other ways of trying "to make a stake." Mr. Barnard located some good placer ground, being one of the first patentees within the limits of the state. His claim, No. 42, was a good producer. From it he took out in dust about $200,000. It was located in Missoula gulch, almost in what is now the heart of the city. From it he has sold $40,000 worth of town lots, and the rest is worth a great deal of money, aside from its value for mining, which is considerable, quartz having been developed. He is interested in many other mining properties, among them some twenty-five quartz claims and is besides one of the most extensive owners of real estate in Butte. The Barnard block on Granite street was the first one he built. He has since erected many houses in various parts of the city, in whose future greatness he never for a moment lost faith. While others of her citizens were investing in booming towns, particularly Spokane, Tacoma and Seattle, and losing their money, he put every dollar he had available in good home properties, and made large profits. At the same time he was building up the town and in this way has done as much for its growth and development as any one and more than most.

Mr. Barnard is a strict Jeffersonian Democrat, but has steadfastly refused to accept office of any kind. Knowing that in local government he is not a partisan, and looks upon municipal administration as a business matter, leading men in both parties have frequently solicited him to become their can- didate for mayor, but he has resisted their impor- tunities and continued to give his attention to his business and the public interests incidentally in- volved. He is a member of the Masonic frater-

nity, and has given valuable service both in the ranks of the craft and in official station in all the de- partments to which he belongs, lodge, chapter, coun- cil and commandery. Of the last he is a past com- mander. He is also a charter member of the Silver Bow Club and was its first secretary. When Chief Joseph and his fanatical followers made their cele- brated raid on the whites, Mr. Barnard was one of Hon. William A. Clark's company of defenders. He spent two weeks in the service, but was not in the great battle fought in the Big Hole country, in which thirty men were killed and many more wounded. His command was engaged in another part of the territory and did not arrive on the scene of action until the day after the battle. Mr. Bar- nard was married in Baltimore, Md., on January 8, 1880, to Miss Jesse G. Addis, a native of New Jer- sey. They have five daughters-Lilian, Ida, Jose- phine, Mabel and Edith.

A NTOINE BARIL .- An honored pioneer and successful ranch man in Madison county, Mr. Baril played well his part in connection with the in- dustrial development and progress of our great state. He comes of Canadian French lineage, and was born on January 1, 1837, in the province of Quebec, Canada. His father, Frank Baril, was also born in Canada, whither the original Amercan an- cestor emigrated from France in an early day. Frank Baril, a farmer, passed his entire life in Canada, and was an active participant in the war of 1808. His wife, whose maiden name was Tarzille La Gris, was likewise born in Canada. To them eight children were born, Antoine having been the fourth, and four are now living. Antoine Baril at- tended the schools of his native province, and aided in the work of the homestead farm. He resided in Canada until 1858, when he came over into "the states," locating in Minnesota, and, three years later taking up a claim of government land in the north- ern part of the state. He developed and improved his farm for four years, and in 1864 started for Montana, leaving Little Falls, Minn., on the 8th of March. He was a member of Rockwell's party which made the trip across the plains with a train of fifty wagons, by way of the Bozeman cutoff, and they arrived in Virginia City on the 15th of August.

Mr. Baril gave his attention here to mining for two years, and in 1866 he took up land near the present village of Laurin, Madison county, and be-

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gan farming, but the ravages of grasshoppers caused him to abandon that locality, and he went down the Ruby valley and purchased a ranch four miles below his present place, and which he culti- vated for three years. He then removed to Oregon, but the climate proved injurious to his health and he returned to Montana, and in i883 purchased his present fine ranch property, which comprises 247 acres of fertile land, and is located three miles south- west of the village of Sheridan, his postoffice ad- dress. He raises excellent crops and keeps a small herd of highgrade cattle. In politics he gives alle- giance to the Democratic party, and his religious faith is that of the Catholic church, in which he was reared. In 1863 he was married to Miss Odile Charter, who was born in the province of Quebec, Canada, and died in 1890, leaving five children : Frank, who married Miss Christine Duncan and has five children, Ramie, Charles, Carrie, wife of Ed- mund DeCelles, has five children and resides at Glendale, Mont., and May.

DT. REV. D. S. TUTTLE, D. D., was born at Windham, N. Y., on January 26, 1837, the son of Daniel B. and Abigail C. Tuttle, natives of the state of New York. His grandfather, Charles Tuttle, was a native of Wallingford, Conn. As a member of the Connecticut militia he took part in the war of the Revolution. Bishop Tuttle's father was a blacksmith, which trade he followed until his death in 1877. His mother died the fol- lowing year. The Bishop had one brother and two sisters, all living except his brother. Daniel S. began his studies in the public schools and took private lessons in Latin and Greek from the Rev. Thos. S. Judd. At the age of thirteen he entered the Delaware Academy at Delphi, where he re- mained three years, the last year teaching and look- ing after the garden and cow of a widow to pay his board. He taught one year in a boarding school for boys in Westchester county, and then entered Columbia College, New York city, grad- uating in 1857 at the age of twenty. After gradu- ating he was engaged as private tutor by a Mr. Lyon, of Alabama, but the unsettled state of af- fairs in the south prevented him from fulfilling this engagement, and he was unable to pay the money borrowed to enable him to complete his college course. He then went to Brooklyn, where, by the help of Prof. Charles Anthon, he found

work in instructing pupils who were unable to keep up with their classes, receiving a dollar per hour for his services. He continued in the work for two years, and the last year was a teacher in Columbia College Grammar School under Dr. An- thon. Among the pupils was Charles King, the novelist, who uses the Bishop as one of the charac- ters in his book "From School to the Battlefield." Having paid all his debts he entered the General Theological Seminary in 1859, and graduated there- from in 1862. He was ordained deacon by the Rt. Rev. Horatio Potter, D. D., on June 29, of the same year. In July he was sent to Morris, Otsego county, as assistant to Rev. Geo. L. Foote, at a salary of $400 per year and board. Mr. Foote was an invalid and most of his duties fell to his assistant, but the wise counsel of Rev. Mr. Foote was a great help to him at the time and in the future.

In 1865 he was married to Miss Harriett M. Foote, eldest daughter of Rev. Geo. L. Foote. Six children have been born to them, four of whom are still living, namely: Geo. M., born at Morris, N. Y., is now a physician and surgeon in St. Louis, Mo .; Herbert E., born at Helena, Mont., is now an assayer at Monterey, Mexico ; Arthur L., born at Salt Lake City, is manager of a lead mine in Missouri ; Christine, also born at Salt Lake, is now Mrs. Stanley Ramsey, of Cincinnati, Ohio; also twins, born at Salt Lake City, both dying in in- fancy. The Bishop remained at Morris five years. Before going to Morris he had been a tutor for Bishop Potter's sons. At a meeting of the house of Bishops in October, 1866, a bishop needing to be chosen for Montana, Utah and Idaho, Bishop Potter proposed the name of Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle. and he was at once elected. Bishops Potter and Lay were appointed to inform him of his election. Bishop Tuttle was in New York at the time, and when informed of his election he said to Bishop Potter :. "I am not yet thirty years old, and the law of the church does not permit anyone under that age to serve as bishop." The Bishop replied, "That law refers to the age at which a Bishop can be consecrated, and not the age at which he may be elected;" and added, "Go home, and on the 26th of next January let Bishop Hopkins, of Ver- mont, the president of the house, hear from you."

On May 1, 1867, he was consecrated Bishop of Montana, having jurisdiction also of Utah and Idaho. The bishops present and taking part in this consecration were Hopkins, of Vermont, presiding,

Wauf Suttle, Bishop of Montana.

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Potter, of New York; Oldenheimer, of New Jer- sey; Kerfoot, of Pittsburg; Randall, of Colorado, and Neely, of Maine. The Bishop started for his new field the last of May, accompanied by Rev. G. D. B. Miller and the Rev. E. N. Goddard. Two clergymen, the Rev. George Foote, the Bishop's brother-in-law, and the Rev. T. W. Haskins, had preceded him to Salt Lake City. The Bishop with his two priests traveled by rail to North Platte, Neb., and from there by stage, reaching Salt Lake City July 2. The Indians were very troublesome at that time, and the stage company kept them wait- ing at North Platte for some days; when at last they did start, there were three stages together, with all the passengers well armed, the Bishop and his companions and two women passengers being no exception to the rule. They arrived safely at the Mormon city, where they spent two weeks, and then the Bishop and Rev. Mr. Goddard resumed their journey to Montana, Rev. Mr. Miller going to Boise City, Idaho. At that time the only church in all the Bishop's vast jurisdiction was at Boise City, and there was no clergyman at all. They arrived at Virginia City, Mont., in a snowstorm on July 17, 1867, where the Bishop remained three weeks, holding the first service the church ever held in Montana in the council chamber, over John Rockfellow's store, on Sunday, July 21, 1867.

From there the Bishop and the Rev. Mr. God- dard went to Helena, where services were held August 11, 1867, in the school house on Rodney street. Rev. Mr. Goddard remained at Helena, and the Bishop returned to Virginia City, where he remained one year. During this year he bought a half finished church from the Methodists and finished it as St. Paul's, the first Episcopal church in Montana. That winter he was chosen chaplain of the territorial council, and acted as such during the session. He passed the winter alone in a log cabin with only his cat, Dick, for a companion. Green Clay Smith was governor of the territory, and although a Baptist in faith he acted as vestry- man of the new church, and the Bishop baptised his children. The Bishop removed to Helena after his year's residence at Virginia City, where Mrs. Tuttle joined him, and they remained there until removal to Salt Lake City, their home until the Bishop accepted an election to the Diocese of Mis- souri, in 1886, when they removed to St. Louis. It was my privilege to meet Bishop Tuttle for the first time at Boise City, Idaho, in June, 1875. We traveled together by private conveyance through

the Boise basin as far as Placerville, and back by the way of Boise to Silver City, Idaho. On this trip we spent a week at Idaho City, a Sunday at Placer- ville, and held service on a week day evening at Centerville. A little incident occurred during the day that we spent at Placerville that impressed one with the sturdy character of the Bishop in dealing with the rough Montana men. We went into a store and were occupied for some time behind a counter writing letters. While busy writing several miners entered the store, and knowing the Bishop was be- hind the counter, a big, rough looking fellow, whom his companions called Doc., began a tirade against Christianity, in which he informed his chums, in not very choice language, that Darwin had upset the whole theory of the church by his system of teaching. He talked for some time, as he seemed to think, very learnedly on the subject of evolution. and his companions applauded what he said. The Bishop did not seem to notice them until he had finished his writing. He then stepped out in front of Doc., who was sitting in a chair, and said in a stern voice: "Do you know, sir, that you are an ignoramus?" Doc. attempted to reply, but the Bishop shook his fist at him and said: "Not a word, sir, until I have finished, and then you can talk." The Bishop then went on to explain what Darwin taught, and said that he was a member of the church of England, and did not intend to teach anything contrary to the teachings of that church. When he got through he said to Doc .: "Now, sir, you can talk." Doc., however, did not seem to be in a talking mood just at that time, but rose from his seat and left the store in silence, and his companions followed him. On this same trip the Bishop engaged a hall at Placerville for service Sunday morning and evening. After the morning service a man came to the Bishop and asked if he could have the hall in the evening. The Bishop asked what he wished to do with it, and he said that he had a negro minstrel troupe and wanted to give a performance there in the evening. The Bishop said, "Well, if the people of this town would rather have a minstrel show than a religious service you can have the hall." I then reminded the Bishop that he had promised to baptize some children at the evening service, and he told the man that he could not have the hall; he left town with his minstrel troupe during the afternoon and we had our evening service. We got to Silver City in time for the Fourth of July celebration, and the Bishop acted as chaplain on that occasion.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 101

Author: Bowen, A.W., & Co., firm, publishers, Chicago Publication date: [19-?] Publisher: Chicago : A. W. Bowen & Co. Number of Pages: 1374

Author: Bowen, A.W., & Co., firm, publishers, Chicago
Publication date: [19-?]
Publisher: Chicago : A. W. Bowen & Co.
Number of Pages: 1374