Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 124

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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mountains for stage horses, and experienced great hardship on the journey. In March he bought forty-five head of cattle, mostly cows, and brought them to Magpie, Mont., where he located and remained until 1876, having pre-empted 160 acres of land, and engaged in stockraising. During the ten years of his stay in that neighborhood he was buying and selling produce and merchan- dise, having in the summer of 1867 sold 200 pounds of butter to Maj. William Davenport for $500. In 1872 he opened a store at Gallatin, but not having experience in that line the venture was not a success, and in 1873 he sold out to old Gov. Harris.

Mr. Gallop was married July 6, 1873, to Mrs. Rachel C. Hutchinson, a native of Michigan and daughter of Nathan Chidester, of New York, who removed west about the same time as Mr. Gal- lop's father and settled in the same neighborhood. By her first marriage Mrs. Gallop had one son, Frank N. Hutchinson, who was born at Con- verse, Mich., July 1, 1866. He was a successful stockman, and very much respected by all who knew him, and especially by his step-father, with whom he was associated in business. He was a young man of great promise, and his untimely death on January 7, 1901, was universally deplored. In. 1876, having his cattle at Magpie and look- ing up a location for a permanent residence, he selected his present ranch, twenty miles north from Belgrade and twenty-six northwest of Boze- man, the district and postoffice being named Gal- lop in his honor. In April, 1876, he removed to the ranch, homesteading 160 acres, taking up a desert claim of 200, and purchasing a half section of railroad land, having now 720 acres in one body and 320 four miles west and one mile south, still retaining his pre-emption at Magpie. On this land stockraising and farming has been his prin- · cipal business. He has frequently raised as much as 10,000 bushels of grain and abundant crops of hay. In the matter of cattle the Durham is his favorite breed, and of these he has often had 1,000 head, among them some of the finest thor- oughbreds to be found. He also breeds fine Norman horses, paying more attention to quality than numbers.

Mr. Gallop has been postmaster of the town for more than fourteen years. His public services are much appreciated by the people, and they in- sist upon his continuing them indefinitely, or as long as he will. Fraternally he is identified with

the Knights of Pythias. He is a heavy stockholder in the Bozeman Milling Company, and is connected with many other industrial enterprises. At pres- ent he is residing at Bozeman, having leased his ranches. An incident in his life which illustrates the dangers to which the early settlers were sub- jected, is worth recording. In July, 1869, he was summoned to court at Bozeman, and the high water in the rivers made it necessary for him to make his way across the mountains to Magpie. In the Nixon basin he was attacked by seven Indians, and one of their bullets grazed his horse's hip, making a flesh wound. His shot in return killed one of their horses. They chased him fourteen miles, and he finally got away by swimming the Missouri river. Again, while living at Magpie with Mr. Adelbert Hutchinson, they were attacked on the night of April 3, 1868, by fourteen Indians, who tried to get their horses, locked in the barn. The next morning they shot at a Mr. Davis, the ball cutting off his hat band. The stock was saved ex- cept one mule, killed by the redskins.

H ARRY A. GALLWAY .- The accomplished and agreeable subject of this brief biograph- ical notice, was born at Virginia City, Nev., in 1866. His father was Daniel Gallway, an Irishman who emigrated to America about 1842 and died in Nevada after a successful business career. His mother, whose maiden name was Ellen Hickey, was also of Irish birth. Mr. Gallway was the oldest of five children. He received a limited education in the public schools of Nevada, and then learned telegraphy, which he followed as an occupation for two years. He then engaged in stock brokerage and bookkeeping for a time, and in 1892 located at Butte, going at once into the mines as a practical laborer to get knowledge of the business through personal experience. Af- ter working a sufficient time to do this, he be- came a bookkeeper for Patrick Mullens, going to Delmar, Nev., in 1896, and taking charge of the company's office. Later he returned to Butte and went to work for the Anaconda company.

In May, 1899, he was appointed superintendent of the Parrott properties in Butte, numbering some sixteen claims. He has mining interests of his own in Flathead county and is concerned in other enterprises of value. In. fraternal rela- tions he is conspicuously identified with the order

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of Elks, and in 1900 was elected exalted ruler of his lodge. During his residence in Virginia City, Nev., he was an officer in the Emmet Guards, part of the time being first lieutenant. In Mon- tana he has taken an active and influential part in politics on the Democratic side. He was elected to the state house of representatives in 1898, and in the session which followed was chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, and also of the one on public buildings and one other. He was one of the thirteen Democratic members who refused to vote for Hon. William A. Clark for United States senator. In Nevada also he was active in politics and was deputy clerk of Storey county for two years. Mr. Gallway was married in 1890 to Miss Georgia Brophy, a native of Vir- ginia. She presides over his pleasant home and assists in dispensing its graceful hospitality.

OHN GAMMON .- One mile south of Ovando, Powell county, Mont., is the handsome and profitable ranch of Mr. John Gammon. It is one of the best in the vicinity of the famous Blackfoot valley, and represents the accumulation of patience and industry, notable characteristics of its owner. He was born in Monmouthshire, England, in 1853, a son of Richard and Elizabeth (Davies) Gammon. The father was a native of England, a coal miner by occupation, and died in 1867. Elizabeth Gam- mon, the mother, was born in Wales, and passed from earth in 1870. In 1882, at the age of twen- ty-nine years, John Gammon came from Eng- land to the United States and, having arrived at New York, pushed on directly westward for Montana. On his arrival here he immediately went to work for the Northern Pacific Railroad -on the Mullen tunnel-and in this employment he continued for about fifteen months. Follow- ing that he went to Deer Lodge county and lo- cated in the Ovando valley, now in Powell county. He has since continued to reside in this community and has done well financially and socially.

Mr. Gammon married Miss Amelia Kiesling, a native of Germany, but raised and educated in the state of Wisconsin. Mr. Gammon has one of the best ranches in the section of the country in which he resides. It embraces 160 acres and is devoted to a general stock business. Although Mr. Gammon was not one of the foremost of Montana pioneers, having never delved with pick

and shovel in the numerous rich placer strikes of the earlier days, it is quite evident that he has found profit in the less exciting avocations of a ranchman and at the same time escaped many of the hardships and dangers of that early period.

THE GARDEN CITY BREWING COM- PANY .- Among the enterprises which have contributed to the industrial precedence of the city of Missoula, that conducted by the company whose name initiates this sketch must be accorded a prominent place. It was organized and incor- porated in December, 1899, with a capital stock of $75,000, and with this personnel of its official corps : P. H. Gerber, president ; H. L. Shepard, secretary, and H. L. Redle, treasurer, these exec- utive officers constituting the board of directors. The nucleus of the finely equipped plant of the company was erected in 1897, by Lang & Martin, but the original plant was very modest as com- pared with the present institution, as extensive additions and improvements have been made, fully doubling its output capacity and making possible the production of a superior article. Messrs. Lang & Martin conducted the enterprise until the organization of the present company, which purchased the plant and has continued operations upon a greatly enlarged scale. The greatest care is taken in the brewage of the beer of this brewery, none but the best material being employed in any of the various processes of manufacture, while ever detail is under effective and thoroughly skilled supervision. The present output of the brewery now reaches an annual aggregate of 12,000 bar- rels, and the products find a ready and ever cum- ulative market in Montana and Idaho, the excel- lent quality of the product and the correct busi- ness methods of the company insuring a steady expansion of the volume of trade controlled.

Paul H. Gerber, the president of the company, is a native of Saxony, Germany, where he was born in 1869, receiving excellent educational ad- vantages in his youth and coming to the United States in 1884. He is thoroughly familiar with all details of the brewing business, and was for three years employed by the Anaconda Brewing Com- pany, at Anaconda, Mont., where he located in 1893. In that connection his duties pertained to executive and office work and represented the outside interests of the concern. From Anaconda

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he came to Missoula, where he was for some time associated in business with Joseph Steiger, later entering into his present business connection. He is a progressive and capable young business man, and the present enterprise is sure to have its in- terests advanced through his executive ability. The other officials of the company are prominent business men of Missoula, Carl Greenwood being also one of the interested principals. Fraternally Mr. Gerber is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is distinctively popular, as he is in the business and social circles of the city.

JOHN E. GHARRETT .- A work of this nature exercises its maximum function when it enters memoir to one who lived as honorable and useful a life as did Mr. Gharrett, for many years one of the leading farmers and stockgrowers of Missoula county and a man of inflexible integrity in all the relations of life. During the war of the Rebellion he defended the old flag on many a southern bat- tlefield, and he was ever known and honored for his fidelity of purpose, his lofty principles and his strict adherence to the ethics which govern all human existence. Such qualities won him exalted place in the esteem of his fellowmen and his career was unshadowed, being ever as an open scroll, challenging the closest scrutiny.

Mr. Gharrett was born in the village of Scipio, Jennings county, Ind., on May 27, 1837, the son of Henry and Nancy Gharrett, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania, who, removing to Indiana in an early day, became pioneers of that state. They were the parents of three sons, and John E. of this memoir is the only one of the number who has passed from earth. His father died in Indiana when John was two years old and his mother soon remarried, removing to Illinois when he was eight years old. He was thrown upon his own resources for a living and education at about twelve years of age. He worked in the summer seasons at farm- ing and such occupations as were at hand, and studied hard in the district schools during the win- ter seasons. As he grew older he became ambitious for a better education than he could thus acquire and by hard work and diligent application he ob- tained a fair collegiate education. It was very diffi- cult in those days for a poor boy to accomplish this, by a truly strenuous life, working through va- cations and boarding himself, also denying him-

self all luxuries and many of the necessaries of life, in fact everything he wanted but books, his steady courage and persistency accomplished his object. He then commenced agricultural opera- tions on a farm in Stark county, Ill., and also con- ducted merchandising there for some years.

In 1861 he enlisted in Company E, One Hun- dred and Twelfth Illinois Infantry, and with his regiment he took part in the siege of Knoxville, Tenn., and numerous other notable battles and engagements, holding the rank of first sergeant. He resigned in 1864, to become first lieutenant of the First Regiment of Colored Heavy Artillery, with which he served until he was transferred to his old regiment, with which he remained until the close of the war, receiving his honorable dis- charge in the latter part of 1865. He returned to Illinois and later removed to Guthrie county, Iowa, where he was in trade in the grocery and implement business until 1880, when he went to Colorado, whence in 1881 he came to Montana and purchased a tract of land six miles southwest of the city of Missoula, and devoted his attention to agriculture and stockraising until his death on September 5, 1897. He was a man of excellent business ability, and his operations were attended with gratifying success. His landed estate at the time of his demise comprised 960 acres of fertile and well improved land, and the property is now managed by his two sons. Mr. Gharrett was one of the founders of the Farmers' Alliance in Montana, and at one time president of the or- ganization. Fraternally he was identified with the Grand Army of the Republic and the Ancient Or- der of United Workmen, while in politics he was originally a Republican, but eventually joined the Populist organization, ever having the courage of independent convictions and arriving at conclu- sions through careful thought and reasoning.

Mr. Gharrett was united in marriage in Illinois on April 4, 1860, to Miss Harriet Holgate, who was born in that state, the daughter of James and Sylvina Holgate, pioneers of that section, where the former was for many years engaged in farming and also held the office of county judge for a num- ber of terms. Mrs. Gharrett survives her hus- band, as do their two sons, Scott and Shirley, who are natives of Iowa and Illinois and who are young men of marked business ability. Mr. Gharrett was well known to the people of Missoula county, and will long be remembered by those who knew him and had cognizance of his sterling character.

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D ELPHIS J. GIARD .-- Canada has contributed many noble specimens of manhood and many leading business and professional men to the cit- izenship of the United States. A notable example is found in the person of Delphis J. Giard, of Butte, who, although born at Montreal March 2, 1872, is really to be classed as a native of the United States, for his parents, F. X. and Virginia (Goy- ette) Giard, came to Montana in 1864 and set- tled at Deer Lodge, being among the active pio- neers who blazed the way and set the pace for the onward march of civilization in this region. He was a blacksmith and followed his trade for many years at Deer Lodge, Virginia City, Helena and other places in the state. He died September 18, 1901, at Montreal, where his widow is still living.

Delphis J. Giard, their son, was educated in the public schools at Butte, attending them un- til fourteen years old. He then took a four-years course at the Montreal Business College, of Mont- real, being graduated in 1886. That year he be- gan his successful business career by purchasing the interest of A. J. Marchand in the grocery establishment of A. J. Marchand & Co., on East Park street. This was an old and well known house in which his brother, F. X. Giard, had been a partner for years. Since D. J.'s connection with it the firm has been known as Giard Bros. In 1899 D. J. was appointed administrator of the estate of S. E. Hirbour, deceased, which rep- resented property to the amount of half a million dollars, he having been Mr. Hirbour's business manager and representative for three years pre- vious to his death. As representative of this es- tate, he erected in 1901-2 on the corner of Main street and Broadway, the highest building in Mon- tana, a magnificent eight-story business block costing about $110,000.

In politics Mr. Giard is a Republican and is always active in behalf of his party, although he has declined to accept any office except that of school trustee, to which he was elected in 1898 and again in 1900. He is, however, recognized as one of the leading Republican workers in Sil- ver Bow county. He belongs to Butte Lodge of Elks, the Woodmen of the World and the Knights of the Maccabees. He is also president of the Canadian Institute at Butte. He was married at Butte in 1895, to Miss Bertha Langlois, who was born in 1876, near Montreal. They have two children : Reuben, aged five; and Laura, aged three.

C 'HARLES E. GILBERT .- Entitled to espe- cial consideration as a pioneer of Montana, where he has attained success in the industrial ac- tivities which have brought about its wonderful development, is Charles E. Gilbert, one of the pro- gressive farmers and stockgrowers of Missoula county, where he has a fine ranch on the beautiful Camas prairie. Mr. Gilbert was born in Pennsyl- vania in 1854, the son of Louis and Lydia (Prin- dle) Gilbert, the former of English and the latter of German lineage. Louis Gilbert was born in Ohio, and thence removed to Pennsylvania early in the 'forties, becoming a farmer. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in the Federal army, and in the fall of 1862 was compelled to return to his home by reason of wounds received in battle. Mrs. Lydia Prindle Gilbert died when her son Charles was a lad, so that he was doubly or- phaned ere he had attained the age of ten years.

Charles E. Gilbert received his education in the public schools of Pennsylvania and Michigan, to which latter state he came at the age of twelve, accompanying the family of a physician who had taken an interest in him and with whom he made his home for about four years. In 1870 he started in life on his own responsibility, lo- cating in Henry county, Ill., where he remained two years, and then joined a party that traveled with team to Iowa, Dakota and northern Ne- braska, where Mr. Gilbert retained his residence for four years, after which he was for two years identified with steamboating on the Missouri, on boats plying between Yankton and the head of navigation. In the spring of 1878 he located at Miles City, Mont., where he secured the contract to supply all the hay required by the United States army post at Fort McKeogh. In the sum- mer of 1879 he located on a ranch twelve miles from Miles City, near Powder river, and there maintained his home for three years, within which time he learned to be an excellent cook. He disposed of his ranch and took charge of the boarding car service in connection with the con- struction of the Northern Pacific Railroad be- tween Mandan, N. D., and the point where the last spike was driven in Montana.

After the completion of the line Mr. Gilbert engaged in the restaurant business at Garrison, Deer Lodge county, later conducted a boarding house at Rock creek in Hell Gate canyon, while in 1886 he located on a ranch near Lo Lo, in the Bitter Root valley for two years, and in 1888

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he secured his present ranch on the beautiful and fertile Camas prairie in Missoula county, where he has now one of the finest places. His ranch comprises 400 acres, and lies one and one-half miles east of Potomac, which is his postoffice ad- dress. Here gratifying success has attended his . discriminating and well directed efforts. He has made the best of improvements upon his ranch, de- voting attention to general farming and stock- growing, and making a specialty of supplying butter, eggs and other farm produce to the mining camps in the vicinity.

Mr. Gilbert has shown marked business ability, and has ever been animated by that integrity which has gained to him the confidence and re- gard of all with whom he has been thrown in 'contact. In politics Mr. Gilbert supports the Democratic party, and he maintains a lively in- terest in educational matters and all other causes which conserve the well-being of the community. I11 1884 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gil- bert to Miss Rachel Morris, concerning whose genealogy detailed information is given in the sketch of her brother, H. W. Morris, elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert have seven children : Henry A., William C., Nellie M., Frank- lin B., Bessie E., Hattie R. and Cora J. Mr. Gil- bert has achieved success in life as the result of his own efforts and by worthy means, and he has been earnest, upright and indefatigable, and has merited the esteem which is accorded him.

H JENRY B. HOFFMAN .- For more than three decades has the subject of this sketch been a resident of Montana and closely identified with her industrial activities. Like all the early pioneers, he views with much gratification the rapid strides the state is making, holding a prestige that might well be envied by many of the older common- wealths of the Union. He is one of the represent- ative citizens and successful farmers and stock- growers of Deer Lodge, Powell county, and, with other pioneers, his name will pass into history. Mr. Hoffman is a native of Clark county, Ohio, where he was born April 30, 1837, being the son of Valentine and Elizabeth (Seibert) Hoffman, na- tives of Virginia, whence they removed to Ohio, being numbered among the early settlers of Clark county. The father devoted his attention to farm- ing and blacksmithing, and continued his residence

in Clark county until his death. His wife died in Lincoln, Ill., while there on a visit.

Henry B. Hoffman, the subject of this sketch, was reared on the old homestead farm in the Buck- eye state, receiving a common school education. He was but twelve years of age at the time of his father's death, and he remained on the homestead until he had attained the age of eighteen. In Feb- ruary, 1855, he removed to Stark county, Ill., where he rented land and engaged in farming un- til March, 1859, when the discovery of gold at Pike's Peak led him to join the rush of gold-seek- ers to that section of country, to which the name of Colorado had not then been applied. He started out with ox team and wagon, crossing the Mis- souri at Plattsmouth, and thence proceeding with a company which had been gradually augmented until nity wagons were in the train. When near Kearney, Neb., they met a returning train from Pike's Peak, and the reports received were so dis- couraging that all but five wagons turned back. He was one of those who pushed forward, deter- mined to make California his destination instead of Pike's Peak. There were four in his party, and they arrived in Honey Lake valley, Cal., August 13, 1859. There they disposed of their team and wagon, and the four men separated, Mr. Hoffman going to Plumas county and engaging in placer mining on the east branch of Feather river. His success was indifferent, but he continued to be identified with mining operations in California until 1863, coming thence to the Boise Basin min- ing district, in Idaho, and engaged in mining until 1866, when he went to Virginia City, Nev., and remained about two years, working on the Ophir toll road for the greater portion of the time. In December, 1868, he started for Montana, arriving in Deer Lodge on the 7th of the following Janu- ary. The following spring he began placer mining in Spring and Rocker gulches, in sight of his pres- ent ranch, being associated with Berthier Grove, with whom he continued to be in partnership for a number of years in mining, logging, teaming and other enterprises, and the alliance was not severed until 1880. Mr. Grove was one of Montana's early pioneers, and is well remembered by many of the old-timers. In 1870 Mr. Hoffman purchased the Fred Burr claim of 160 acres, and took up his residence in the little cabin which Mr. Burr had erected. The following year he erected a com- modious and attractive dwelling, the same being the family home at the present time. He still pre-

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serves the little cabin as a reminiscence of its builder, who was the first sheriff of Deer Lodge county. To the original homestead Mr. Hoffman has since added until he now has a fine ranch of 320 acres, devoted to farming and the raising of stock, in which he has been successful through sound judgment and progressive methods. In politics he is one of the wheel-horses of the Re- publican party, and served for three years as county commissioner of Deer Lodge county, hav- ing been elected in 1895. In the fall of 1900 he was re-elected for a term of four years ; but at the ensuing session of the state legislature Powell county was created from a portion of Deer Lodge, and Mr. Hoffman did not assume the duties of office.

In Stark county, Ill., in 1871, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hoffman and Miss Elizabeth E. Wilson, born in Indiana, the daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Morris) Wilson, natives of Ten- nessee. They removed from Indiana to Illinois, where Mrs. Hoffman was reared and educated. Our subject and his estimable wife are the parents of one daughter, Pearl.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 124

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