Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 102

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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In October, 1875, I spent two weeks with my family at the Bishop's home in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Tuttle, of blessed memory, with her three boys and her mother, Mrs. Foote, were at home, the Bishop being away on his annual visitation in Montana. It has never been my pleasure to visit a better regulated or more orderly home. I shall never forget its open handed hospitality and its cheerful, joyous simplicity. The latter part of Oc- tober I left Salt Lake City on my way to Boze- man, Mont., expecting to meet the Bishop on his way home. One night, a little after midnight, we met a stage that was just ready to start from a station after changing horses, and I asked the driver if Bishop Tuttle was on that stage. He re- plied, "There's a fellow curled up in the bottom of the stage asleep; but I don't know who he is." I said, "Will you please ask if it is Bishop Tuttle ?" He opened the door and called out, "Is Bishop Tuttle in the stage?" The Bishop roused up and jumped out. He had really learned from his many long stage rides to sleep in any position he might be placed on a stagecoach. In the summer of 1876 I was with the Bishop at the old town of Hamilton, in Gallatin valley, where we had Sunday service in a Granger's hall. After the Bishop commenced his sermon a woman came into the hall with six chil- dren and took a seat on the bench beside me. After the service was over I spoke to her, and she said she wanted the children baptised but she had come too late. I told her she could have them baptised then if she wished. The Bishop said, "Yes, and I'll

be godfather for them." He took a little book from his pocket and began to take the names of the children, beginning with the oldest. When he came to the youngest, a boy five or six months old, he asked the name, and the mother answered "Bishop Tuttle." The Bishop remarked that he should be glad to have the little boy named for him, but his name was Daniel. The mother in- sisted that he should be called Bishop Tuttle, and when I asked the question, "Name this child," the Bishop answered, "Bishop Tuttle," and I baptised him Bishop Tuttle. The Bishop has been fond of telling this story, but I have never known of his telling the sequel, and imagine he has never heard it. It is said that at some time after this the story of the baptism was told in the waiting room of a hotel, and an English cowboy who happened to be present remarked: "Bet ten dollars that fel- low will be a horse thief." The Bishop was de- servedly popular with all classes of people in Mon-

tana. When he met a person once he was most certain to know that person when they met again, even if it happened to be years afterward. In this way he kept in touch with people, and always man- ifested a lively interest in their affairs. It was a common custom to close all the Protestant churches when the Bishop held services in any of the towns in Montana. I was with him one Sunday at Helena, in the summer of 1876, and noticed tlie Presbyterian minister at our service, and after the close of the service I said to him, "It's very kind of you sir, to give up your service because the Bishop is here." "It's no kindness at all," he re- plied, "my congregation would all go to hear the Bishop anyway, and I do not like to preach to empty seats." The Bishop's visit was looked upon by the people generally as a great event of the year, and I think I only speak the truth when I say that at the time I knew him he was the most pop- ular man in Montana; he seemed to be pop- ular everywhere. In 1877 I attended a great mis- sionary meeting held in the Moody & Sankey taber- nacle in Boston, at which meeting I was told 8,000 people were present. The meeting was addressed by able speakers elected for the occasion. After three or four addresses had been delivered, the audience became uneasy, and many were on their feet ready to leave the building when someone called for Bishop Tuttle. As the Bishop advanced to the front of the platform he shook his fist and said : "I am a wild man from the west." No one left the building during the Bishop's address, and all seemed delighted with his plain, common sense speech.

In age I am the Bishop's senior by ten months. We never met until we were thirty-eight years old, and twenty-four years have passed since we last met; and yet, when I think of the Bishop, I feel that I have always known him. Among the world of men that I have come in contact with during my busy rambling life, I have never met a larger hearted or more manly man than the first Bishop of Montana. He laid broad and wise foun- dations for the church in the infancy of our state, and his successor has built wisely and well on these foundations, and Montana must always feel a just pride in her two Bishops who have founded and builded so wisely and well. I shall always retain the unselfish interest and warm attachment that I formed for Bishop Tuttle in Montana. In my declining life it will always be a pleasant memory that I knew him and worked with him in the early days of our history. As we are both approaching

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the end of the journey, I often call to mind the beautiful sentiment contained in those familiar lines of the great Scotch poet ----

"John Anderson, my Jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither, And monie a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither; Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson, my Jo." -Thos. E. Dickey.

'HARLES H. BARTON .- In this compilation C

is represented the leading business men of every county in the state, and in the case at hand we touch upon the career of one who stands prom- inent in the political, official and business life of Choteau county, retaining his residence in the village of Harlem, where he is the popular post- master and a successful merchant. Mr. Barton was born at Maiden Rock, Pierce county, Wis., on July 9, 1861, the son of George R. and Mary (Wing) Barton, the former born in Bangor, Me., in 1816, and the latter in Oldtown, Me., in 1822. In 1855 they came to Minneapolis, Minn., where they remained until 1857, when they removed to Maiden Rock, Wis., where the father engaged in lumbering for many years and where his death occurred in 1887. His widow, who has attained the venerable age of nearly four score years, now makes her home with her son Charles H.

Educated in the public schools, Mr. Barton at the age of seventeen years entered upon an ap- prenticeship to the harnessmaking trade, continu- ing in this service three years and becoming a skilled artisan. In 1880 he established himself in the business of his trade in Maiden Rock, where he conducted operations for seven years, when, in 1887, he removed to Anoka, Minn., where he followed the same business for two years. In July, 1889, Mr. Barton located in the village of Chi- nook, Choteau county, Mont., entering into part- nership with J. W. Stam, forming the firm of C. H. Barton & Co., and was in the hardware business there for four years. He then sold his interest to his partner and came to Harlem, where he purchased the hotel and general store of Hon. R. M. Sands, and conducted both branches of the business for two years. He then erected his present commodious and well appointed store building, 24x80 feet in dimensions, where he has

since conducted general merchandising, having a large and well selected stock and controlling a large trade. In 1898 Mr. Barton was appointed post trader at Fort Belknap and remained there three years, when he sold the business to George H. Heath, and soon afterward purchased Charles A. Smith's post store, at the same place, which he still conducts in connection with his store at Har- lem. While a resident of Chinook Mr. Barton erected the twelfth business block in the village, a two-story structure with accommodations for two mercantile establishments.

Mr. Barton has ever been an active and influ- ential Republican, and one of the party's leading workers in Choteau county. He is now secretary of the county central committee and a member of the state central committee. He was a member of the board of county commissioners from 1894 un- til 1897, both inclusive, and did effective service in this office, while in August, 1900, he received the appointment of postmaster of Harlem. Mr. Bar- ton was initiated into the mysteries of Freema- sonry when twenty-one years of age, as an entered apprentice in Maiden Rock Lodge in his native town and was therein raised to the master's de- gree. In 1900 he received a dimit and became af- filiated with Chinook lodge. He is also identified with the lodge of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks at Great Falls. On October 19, 1890, at Maiden Rock, Wis., was solemnized the nuptials of Mr. Barton with Miss Alice Heath, who was also born in that place in 1865. During her last illness she returned to her old home, where her death occurred in February, 1899. She left three children, Rex, Ralph and Earl, the eldest being then but seven years of age. On August 15, 1900, Mr. Barton consummated a second marriage, be- ing united with Mrs. Minerva E. Mitchell, widow of Mark M. Mitchell, of St. Paul, Minn. She was born in St. Charles, Winona county, Minn., in 1865, being the daughter of Abner W. and Mar- gerett (Cunningham) Everett, natives of Canada and England.

) AMES H. BARKELL .- The scenes and inci- dents of life on the frontier are familiar to Mr. Barkell, who is a worthy representative of one of the pioneer families of the state, and one of the sub- stantial ranch men of Madison county. He was born in Devonshire, England, on February 28, 1855,

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the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Clemo) Barkell, both natives of the same English shire and of stanch old British stock. Of their three children, James H. Barkell was the eldest. His parents emigrated to America in the year of his birth, locating in the copper-mining district of the upper peninsula of Michigan, where they remained for several years, and in 1864 Joseph Barkell brought his family to the wilds of Montana, and located in Alder gulch, then one of the greatest camps known in the history of placer mining. Joseph and Elizabeth Barkell passed the remainder of their lives in Montana, and the names merit entry on the list of the com- monwealth's sterling pioneers.

James H. Barkell, as soon as he had completed his school work in the primitive school of Montana, be- came identified with agricultural pursuits, giving his attention to gardening in 1868, when but thir- teen years of age. On December 25, 1881, Mr. Barkell was married to Miss Louvilla Stark, who was born in Bannack, Mont., the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Abbott) Stark. Of this union five chil- dren have been born, the eldest of whom, Henry, died in 1898. The others, Ernest, Chester, Richard and Carrie, are still at the parental home. Their home after marriage was made on his present ranch, he purchased for that purpose. It comprises 160 acres, located on the Jefferson river, three miles south of Silver Star, which is his postoffice address. Here he is successfully engaged in the raising of grain and hay and in gardening, and also feeds stock for the Butte market. He is careful and discrim- inating in the conduct of his ranch enterprise, which yields to him a due measure of success. In poli- tics he is a Republican, and fraternally he is a val- ued member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows and the Ancient Order of United Workmen

JOHN J. BARRY was born in Ireland June 24, 1863, the son of John B. and Ellen (Sager- son) Barry, also natives of Ireland, who were the parents of four children, of whom our subject was the youngest. He was educated in the national schools of his native land. Remaining at home until 1885, he came to America, located at Butte, and engaged in mining, also dealing somewhat in real estate. In 1888 he was elected treasurer of the Butte Miners' Union, and was re-elected six times in succession. During this period he served on several occasions as a delegate to the Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly. In 1893 he was

appointed on the police force of Butte by Mayor Dugan, and was re-appointed by Mayor Harring- ton, serving two years under each. At the end of his term he resumed mining until 1901, when he was appointed deputy state inspector of mines, a position he still holds, and the duties of which he is discharging with eminent satisfaction to all the interests concerned.

Mr. Barry was married in 1891 to Miss Mary McCarty, also a native of Ireland, and daughter of John and Mary (Sullivan) McCarty. The Bar- rys are the parents of six children, four of whom are living, namely: John, Julia, Michael and Edward. Mr. Barry is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the United Mod- erns. In politics he is an ardent Democrat. He has been a good and serviceable citizen and is very highly respected by all classes of the peo- ple of Butte and other sections where he is known.

ALTER S. BATES .- The great mining in- dustries which first of all gave Montana her prestige demand the services of many skilled and scientific men, and among the representative as- sayers of the state is Mr. Bates, who is a resident of Bozeman. He is a native of Charlotte, Eaton county, Mich., where he was born on May 15, 1861, the son of Aaron W. and Phoebe (Austin) Bates, natives of Rhode Island. The Bates family was of English origin, the first American resident, Clement Bates, coming from Kent, England, in the ship "Elizabeth" in 1635. He made his home in Hingham, Mass., and is the ancestor of most of the numerous family bearing the name in New England, some of his descendants settling in Rhode Island early in the seventeenth century. The mother was a descendant of Roger Williams through the Olneys. She passed away at Char- lotte, Mich., on July 2, 1867, and in that city the father still lives.

Walter S. Bates secured his early educational discipline in public and private schools in Char- lotte, Mich. He remained at the parental home until he had attained his majority and then came to Montana, which has since been his home. Soon after his arrival in the territory in 1884, he lo- cated in Bozeman, and was for one year employed in a sawmill. Later he completed a thorough course in the New York Metallurgical University, and has ever since devoted himself to the pro-

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fession of assaying, in which he has been very successful. He is signally efficient, being careful and critical in all manipulations and processes and having the confidence of all those by whom his services are enlisted. He is a member of the National Society of Mining Engineers, and was chosen a delegate to the national convention of the same in 1900, but found it inexpedient to serve in this capacity. He gives his political support to the Republican party, and fraternally is iden- tified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Woodmen of the World. On September 21, 1890, Mr. Bates was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Sidell, who was born near Pontiac, Mich., the daughter of William and Jane Faitte Sidell, the former of whom is a practical miner. Mr. and Mrs. Bates are the parents of five chil- dren, Elmer S., Anna, Elsie, Dora and Verna.

JOHN BARRETT .- The subject of this sketch was born in England, January 6, 1844, the son of John and Peggy Barrett, also natives of Eng- land. The father was a miner and worked at the business until the time of his death, which oc- curred April 17, 1859. The mother lived until February 9, 1864. Mr. Barrett attended the pub- lic schools until he was obliged to go to work at the mines; and when he was twenty years old, having lost both parents, he came to America, locating first in Michigan, where he followed min- ing for a year, then removed to Pennsylvania and pursned the same occupation there until 1876. At that time he went to Nevada, located at Virginia City and engaged in mining for ten years. He then returned to Pennsylvania and after a year's visit came to Montana and settled at Butte. He was engaged in mining until 1893, and died Sep- tember 18, 1894, in England, where he had gone on a visit.

Mr. Barrett was identified fraternally with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Miners' Union, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of the Mystic Chain and the Red Men.

In politics he was a Republican, and was service- able to his party although not seeking its honors or its offices for himself. He was married Decem- ber 24, 1866, to Miss Elizabeth Dunford, a native of England and daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann (Mees) Dunford, also natives of England. Mr. and Mrs. Barrett were the parents of five chil- dren, namely: Mary Ann, now Mrs. J. D. Pat-

terson, of Pennsylvania; John; Thomas; Eliza- beth ; and Emily Louisa, now Mrs. Otto Bertsch, of Butte. Mrs. Barrett came to America when she was quite young and made her home at Johns- town, Pa., until she was married. On May 20, 1901, she was married a second time, on this oc- casion to Thomas Jewell. Mr. Barrett was highly respected and esteemed.

W ILLIAM F. BARTLETT .- The history of the subject of this sketch carries us back to the very early days of Montana, he having come to her borders with the first train that crossed the plains for that purpose and arriving at Hel- ena in September, 1862. Mr. Bartlett was born in New York state June 6, 1823. His father was prominent in Democratic politics in that state, into which he removed from his native state, Massachusetts. He was engaged in the manu- facture of saddles and harness, and was also a farmer and stockraiser. He was married when a young man to Miss Stata Hawks, also a na- tive of Massachusetts.

Our subject attended the public schools of his neighborhood and spent one term at a good acad- emy; but was taken therefrom to attend to his father's business, he having been elected to the state senate of New York. At this time Mr. Bartlett was about eighteen years old, and he re- mained with his father until 1854, when he re- moved to Chicago and bought the most prominent cafe in the city, which he conducted for a year and a half and then resold it to the man he had bought it of. Before leaving New York, however, he had been connected with a large tannery and shoe factory, and had acquired excellent knowl- edge in. several lines of business. After selling his cafe he went to Lyons, Iowa, and kept a hotel for three or four years. From there he went to Minnesota, near Minneapolis, and again kept a hotel. In 1862 he came to Montana by way of Fort Benton, and proceeded to Helena, where he arrived early in September and immediately went to work building houses in Prickly Pear valley, intending to winter there, but changed his mind and went to Bannack, where he remained until spring and then joined a stampede to Vir- ginia City in a search for gold. Later he was placed in charge of the Diamond R Mercantile Com- pany's store, which he opened for the company, and after four years of successful operation sold

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it out at their request in 1867. After this he went into business for himself at that place, and in 1870 made a visit to his old home in the east. He came west again in 1872, locating at Salt Lake City, where he carried on a mercantile business for five years. From there he went to the Black Hills in Dakota and was employed as agent for the Cheyenne and Sidney stage lines from 1877 to 1887, but returned to Montana and engaging in the hardware business in Butte. From 1890 he was connected with the Electric Light Company of that city for a number of years, and recently has been conducting a collection agency.

Mr. Bartlett was married in 1866 to Miss Eliza Cotney, a native of Philadelphia, Pa. They have no children. In politics he is an active Demo- crat and takes genuine interest in the success of his party. He and his wife have a pleasant circle of friends and are held in high esteem by all who know them.

W M. JOHNSTON BEALL .- The life of the subject of this review is full of interest, he being one of the pioneers of Montana and prac- tically one of the founders of the city of Boze- man. He is a native of Pittsburg, Pa., where he was born May 19, 1834, the son of Benjamin and Margaret (Johnston) Beall. The father was a na- tive of Cumberland, Md., whence he removed to Pennsylvania when a young man and achieved grati- fying success in business as an architect and builder, a line of intellectual effort in which his son, our subject, has also had a distinguished career.

Mr. Beall was reared and educated in Pitts- burg, where he attended the public schools, and at the conclusion of the course therein he began the study of his profession in the office of his father. In 1856 he removed to Kansas and re- mained there through the greater part of the border troubles, seeing much of the excitement and being in the very thick of the controversy at times. From there he went to Fort Laramie, Wyo., with a train for the Overland Express Com- pany, returning soon afterward to Kansas. In 1862 he went to Denver and in March, 1863, reached Montana, where he engaged in mining at Virginia City. In October of that year he went to Salt Lake City, but in December returned to Virginia City, removing thence in January, 1864,

to Gallatin valley and located one of the first farms in that rich and fertile region. Before the end of the year, however, he sold his interest in this farm to his partner; going up the valley in company with D. E. Rouse, they located adjoin- ing farms on the site of the present city of Boze- man and built the first two houses in that city. The division line between them, running north and south, was where the old La Clyde hotel now stands, on the corner of Bozeman and Main streets, Mr. Rouse's land lying east and Mr. Beall's west of this line, each having 160 acres in a square. Main street was Mr. Beall's line on the south and Boze- man on the east. He built his house not far from the corner of Main and Bozeman streets, near the site now occupied by the Masonic tem- ple. Afterward the government survey threw his line thirty-five rods farther east, making his east line Rouse street. In the spring of 1865, after he had located his farm and the town site, he formed a copartnership with W. H. Tracy, giv- ing him a half interest in his farm and the town site. During the continuance of the partnership they took up another claim half a mile farther west, adjoining Mr. Beall's original claim. In 1868 the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Tracy taking the south half, which was Mr. Beall's first claim when he and Mr. Rouse located the town, and Mr. Beall keeping the north half, which he subsequently plotted into three additions that are now known as Beall's first, second and third ad- ditions to the city of Bozeman. In 1868 Mr. Beall built a residence four blocks north of his old home on Bozeman street, in which he has lived ever since. It is one of the picturesque and attractive homes of the town, having a large yard well supplied with handsome shade trees and tastefully arranged shrubbery.

In an active and progressive professional career covering a third of a century in this place, Mr. Beall built a number of fine structures, the beauti- ful creations of his art adding greatly to the adorn- ment of the city and the convenience and comfort of its homes and business places. He also erected many important buildings elsewhere, notably at Helena, where, in addition to others, he planned and built the Sacred Hearts cathedral. When he was actively engaged in his professional work he was generally recognized as one of the most promi- nent and accomplished architects in the state ; but for the last seven or eight years his health has been so poor that he has been unable to devote his per-

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sonal attention to his business. He has been uni- versally recognized as one of the most honorable and upright business men in the city, and in all the relations of private life has proven himself a true, sincere and high-toned gentleman. He was made a Mason in Gallatin Lodge No. 6, in 1866, and dur- ing the thirty-five years of his membership in the order has taken the liveliest interest in its concerns and has contributed his full share to its advance- ment.

In 1868 Mr. Beall was married to Miss Rosa V. Barker, a native of New York and daughter of James Barker, also a New Yorker by nativity, who died in California in 1888 at the age of sev- enty-seven years, having removed to that state for the benefit of his health two years prior to his death. More extended mention of him will be found elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Beall, who is one of the ornaments of Bozeman society and one of the most forceful factors in every depart- ment of its charitable and church work, was born at Collinsville, Lewis county, N. Y., where she passed the youthful years of her busy and ser- viceable life. She was educated in the Fairfield Seminary in central New York, and came to Mon- tana in 1864, reaching Bozeman August Ist of that year, and has remained there ever since, except during the time occupied in her extensive travels. She is a well-informed and cultivated lady, with broad, progressive views, and active in the dissem- ination of good principles and an enlightened pub- lic sentiment. She is a zealous member of the Episcopal church, and was a leader in the Wo- man's Christian Temperance Union for many years, and a charter member of the Eastern Star Chapter, of Bozeman.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 102

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