Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 136

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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The domestic life of our subject was fairly begun in 1882, when he was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Littleton, a daughter of Orvel Littleton. The latter is a prosperous farmer residing in Kan- sas. Mr. and Mrs. King are the parents of three children : Charles, Allie and John. They are all of school age and are noted as industrous and intelli- gent students. Previous to his marriage Mr. King passed three years in hunting buffalo in Kan- sas. This was between 1870 and 1873, and Indians were numerous and hostile in that portion of the country. Owing to this fact it had become a mat- ter of necessity for the residents to carry firearms at all times. On one occasion Mr. King was one of a party of three that camped over night half a mile from a band of painted redskins. The latter passed the time in the execution of a kind of relig- ious dance usually the precursor of an excursion on the warpath. Mr. King and his companions lay in hiding throughout the night, and at noon the following day the Indians departed. It is consid- ered quite certain that had the party of white men beer: discovered they would have been immediate- ly slaughtered. Fraternally Mr. King is one of thirty-eight members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Fort Benton. His political affilia- tions are with the Republican party.


EDWARD LAMBERT .- Although but twelve years a resident of Helena, Mr. Lambert has made substantial progress in business and secured a strong and elevated position in the good will and regard of the people. He is a native of Dayton, Minn., where he was born in 1867, the son of Levi and Mary (Bouchey) Lambert, native Canadians, who settled at what is now Minneapolis when it consisted of a single log cabin with town lots, now worth fortunes, that then sold slowly at $10 each. Mr. Lambert's parents are still living and reside about twenty-five miles from Minneapolis, where the father, until recently, followed the trades of blacksmithing and wagonmaking, but is now re- tired. Their son Edward received his early edu- cation in the public schools of Minneapolis, and his professional training in the College of Phar- macy, Physicians and Surgeons of that city. At the age of twenty-one he was graduated from this institution and went to Hunter, N. D., where he was engaged in the drug business for two years. He then came to Helena, Mont., bringing with him a stock of drugs with which he opened a


pharmacy in what is now the Grandon Hotel. In 1890 he gave this up and went into the employ of E. Myers, formerly in business in Helena, and re- mained with him until 1895, at which time he started the Western Drug Company, with head- quarters at 513 and 515 Broadway, of which he is still proprietor and manager. His business ca- pacity, affability, obliging disposition and close attention to every detail have brought him excel- lent success and secured a host of friends. In fra- ternal relations he is connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World, hold- ing membership in lodges in these orders in Helena. He was married in 1892 to Miss Ida A. Simpson, a native of Owatonna, Minn. They have two children-Harry and Ralph.


H ENRY KNOP, one of the largest and most successful sheepgrowers of Powell county, Mont., came to the country in territorial days, and is now located on 4,570 acres of land near the mouth of Brock creek, but a few miles from the town of Garrison, upon which he pastures a band of 3,700 sheep. He was born in Randolph county, Ill., May 27, 1853, the son of Frederick and Mary (Weitta) Knop, natives of Germany. Coming to the United States with their parents while they were mere children, they became in a sense pio- neers of Randolph county, where they were reared, married and died. The father was a farmer.


It was upon one of these farms that Henry Knop, our subject, was raised, receiving a German and English education in the schools of Randolph county, remaining at home until he was twenty- seven years of age. On June 5, 1879, he was mar- ried to Miss Margaret M. Jobmann, a native of Germany and the daughter of John and Anna (Brauer) Jobmann, both Germans by birtlı. When six years old Mrs. Knop came to the United States with her parents, the voyage having been made in a sailing vessel, occupying seventy-two days. On October 1, 1866, they landed at New Orleans, where they remained eighteen months, going thence to Perry County, Mo., and later to Illinois, where the mother of Mrs. Knop died of smallpox May 7, 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Knop were married in Chester, Ill., and later removed to Ran- dolph county, where they resided nine years, and where their children, Henry F., Louis G. and Will- iam J., were born.


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secured employment on a ranch in Hellgate valley, Powell county, expecting to return to Illi- nois in three years, as he owned considerable prop- erty in that state. But in August following he was joined by Mrs. Knop and the children, and so well satisfied was the family with the conditions 'and possibilities of Montana that they decided to remain, disposed of the Illinois property and pur- chased the Powell county ranch, where they have since resided, and have been eminently successful in an extensive stock business. The attention of Mr. Knop is principally directed to sheep, al- though he has a number of cattle and horses. Throughout the community in which they reside the family is highly esteemed, and the progressive enterprise and sterling integrity of Mr. Knop has won the confidence of all.


A LMERON F. LANDON, of Gallatin county, one of the prosperous and influential citizens of that famous agricultural valley, was born in Leeds county, three miles from Newboro on the Rideau lake, Ontario, Canada, August 11, 1854. His parents, John and Lois (Williams) Landon, are natives of Ontario, but in 1851 the father with his family removed to Vermont, where they re- mained a little over a year and afterward moved back to Canada, going thence to Hancock county, Ill., where they were located until 1855. In the spring he went to St. Clair county, Mo., stayed until the second year of the war and returned to Illinois. In 1867 he moved to Johnson county, Kan., where he remained until 1890. The following year the parents removed to Oklahoma where they still re- side, the father aged seventy-eight and the mother seventy-four years, and are engaged in directing work on the farm. They celebrated their golden wedding several years ago.


The elementary school days of our subject were passed in Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. He was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Toynhee, of Illinois, daughter of John and Susannah (Cham- bers) Toynbee, of Lincolnshire, England. Her father came to the United States when he was twenty-one years of age and settled in Illinois, where he married. Mr. and Mrs. Landon are the parents of two interesting children-John W. and Clifford S.


Following his marriage Mr. Landon continued farming in Kansas until 1890, when he removed to


Montana and engaged in the same pursuit. He has recently leased the McComb ranch, four miles from Bozeman, Gallatin county, comprising 160 acres, all under irrigation and in a high state of cultivation, the principal crops being oats, bar- ley and hay. Fraternally Mr. Landon is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Modern Woodmen of America.


THOMAS S. KILGALLAN, superintendent of the Calusa-Parrott mine, has learned the busi- ness of which he is an expert by practical work in every department from the ground up. He was born in New York city on April 27, 1853. His parents were Michael and Bridget (Sexton) Kil- gallan, natives of Ireland, who emigrated to the United States about 1850. The father was a coal miner in Pennsylvania where Thomas, their oldest child, attended the public schools until he was ten years old, and was then put to work in the mines. He left Pennsylvania on June 4, 1879, and came to Montana, locating at Butte, where he resumed operations in the mines, working nineteen years for Hon. William A. Clark, and rising by merit and well-earned promotions to become foreman of the Black Rock mine, which position he filled with credit from 1890 to 1898, when he became su- perintendent of the Calusa-Parrott mine. Mr. Kilgallan was married October 26, 1876, to Miss Margaret Dawson, a native of Hudson, N. Y. They have six children living, two sons and four daughters. His fraternal connections are with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Elks, and the United Moderns, in all of which he has held high official stations.


In politics Mr. Kilgallan is an uncompromising Democrat, and has had a legislative career signally serviceable to the people of the state. He was first elected to the house of representatives of Montana in 1893, was nominated in 1896, and led his ticket at the election but was defeated, and was again elected in 1900. In the session following his first election he introduced and was largely instrumental in se- curing the passage of the law preventing the im- portation of Pinkerton detectives into the state ; and also the engineers' eight-hour law, and was very influential in locating the State School of Mines at Butte. In the session of 1901 he was the author of the liquor dealers' law (for which he re- ceived high testimonials). the law creating the


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Third judicial district in Silver Bow county, and the coal-miners' inspection bill, the latter being de- feated. In his legislative duties he exhibited the same intelligent discretion, zeal and integrity which have characterized him in all the other rela- tions of life, and extended and intensified the good opinion already formed of him. Mr. Kilgal- lan is a member of the Catholic church, and is fond of relaxing the exactions of business at times to enjoy a good game of base or football or a day's fishing.


D R. ALFRED G. LADD, one of the most prominent physicians and surgeons of Great Falls, Mont., was born at Bowdoin, Me., April 2, 1851. He descends from Daniel Ladd, an Eng- lishman, who emigrated to America in 1664, and was long engaged in the French and Indian wars, and was eventually killed by the Indians. The parents of Dr. Ladd were Cyrus K. and Susan (Holt) Ladd, both natives of Maine. The father was a lumberman, operating mills in Maine and New Hampshire. His home in later life was in Portland, Me., where he died in 1890, and where his widow is still living. They had one son and four daughters, and the Doctor is the only one of the family now residing in Montana. A grandson of Daniel Ladd was in the English army, and was subsequently crown commissioner of New Hamp- shire and a prominent actor in the Revolutionary period.


Dr. Ladd was reared and educated in Maine, be- ing graduated from Bowdoin College in 1873 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1876 his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of A. M. He then entered the medical department of the college, and from this he was graduated with hon- ors in 1878, and for one year thereafter was in practice in the Maine General Hospital of Port- land. Removing to East Pepperell, Mass., he en- gaged in medical practice for the year, then re- moved to Philadelphia, where he continued for three years. During this time, in 1882, he formed a most harmonious matrimonial union, at Brown- field, Me., with Miss Jessie Sweat, a sister of Dr. Sweat, of whom extended mention is made else- where in this work. Their family consists of three children, Margaret, Greeley and Veleria G. In 1883 Dr. Ladd came to Montana and located on a ranch near Sand Coulee, where he practiced his profession and raised sheep for three years. From 45


the time of his first arrival in the state he has en- joyed a large and representative practice, although he was exposed to many hardships in the early days and twice lost in blizzards. He was truly a pioneer physician, for there were but three other physicians in this part of the state.


At Great Falls Dr. Ladd was the second physician to locate, coming in 1886, although he had frequently practiced in this locality. He has- since continued to practice here, both as a physician and a surgeon, and enjoys the distinction of having founded the first hospital of the city and he was also among the founders of the general hospital. Although engaged in one of the most extensive and lucrative practices in the state, he continued raising sheep up to 1887, since which time he has devoted himself mainly to his profes- sional work. Dr. Ladd has an extensive acquaint- ance and a representative clientage of the best citi- zens, and because of his skill in his profession, his- tact and success in business and his high character he stands as one of the leading men of the city and county and belongs in the front rank of the emi- nent medical men of the state. He enjoys the high regard of a warm circle of friends and the veneration of the younger generation. He is one of the most prominent members of the State Medi- cal Society and of the Northern Montana Medical Association. He has long been a valued member of the Masonic brotherhood, and is a past master of his lodge. In political belief he is a Republican,. and as such was chosen coroner of Cascade county .: :


D R. P. G. LA CHAPPELLE, late of Butte, who died at the age of forty-nine, when there seemed to be years of usefulness and service to his kind before him, was born near Montreal, Canada, December 14, 1847, the fifteenth of a family of nineteen children, whose parents were quite wealthy, owning large farms in the Dominion. . They were natives of Canada, and their remains now rest peacefully in the soil on which they spent their lives. The Doctor was educated at Mont- real, from whose excellent high school he was' graduated after a full academic course. After that he spent four years in the study of the classics before entering on the study of his profession, . which he began under the direction of two eminent physicians. After two years' study with them he entered a medical college in Montreal, from which


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he was graduated four years later. He then re- moved to Michigan and remained there until 1888, when he came to Butte and practiced his pro- fession with eminent success and ability until his death, which occurred in 1895. During his resi- dence in Butte he took a post-graduate course at Rush Medical College, Chicago.


In political affiliation the Doctor was a Demo- crat ; in fraternal relations he was identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was married September 15, 1874, to Miss Philomene Rock de Dubie, who was born at Montreal May 20, 1853, a daughter of Baptiste and Tercile (Flow- erene) Rock de Dubie, also natives of Canada. Her father was a gentleman farmer with large estates, and of much consequence in the com- munity. There were nine children in the family of whom she was the sixth. The Doctor and Mrs. La Chappelle are the parents of three sons and two daughters. Two of the sons, Joseph P. L. and Eugene A., have died ; the living children are Anna Eugenia, Amelia Elizabeth and William A. Miss Eugenia was a student of music at Deer Lodge, Mont., for a year. She then went abroad to pursue her studies under competent masters, and has since been taking lessons on the harp un- der the instruction of Prof. Hasslem of Paris. She is a musician of great promise, having talent of a high order which is already well cultivated, and the enthusiasm of a genius for its further de- velopment. Miss Amelia is a graduate of St. Mary's Academy at Salt Lake City, and of the National Park Seminary at Washington, D. C.


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DAM A: LALONDE, one of the "worthy pio- neers of Montana, with whose activities he has been identified for many years, is today one of the honored citizens of Missoula county, where he is extensively engaged in the raising of live stock, incidentally giving attention to the development of the fruitraising resources of the state by the propagation of fruit of his fine ranch, which is located six miles west of the city of Missoula. His career has been not uneventful, and its salient points can not fail of interest. Mr. Lalonde was born near the city of Montreal, Canada, on May 21, 1839. His parents were Augustus and Amelia (Walker) Lalonde, natives of Canada, where they passed their lives. They had one son and three daughters, of whom A. A. Lalonde was the only


one to locate in the United States. In the agnatic line Mr. Lalonde traces back to French and Eng- lish origin, while the maternal lineage is French and Scotch.


Adam A. Lalonde resided in Canada until he was eighteen years old, receiving such educational advantages as were afforded by the public schools, and spent four years on steamboats on the St. Law- rence river, being a captain at the age of eighteen. In 1861 he crossed the international boundary and made his way to the great Mississippi river, upon which noble stream and its tributaries he became identified with the steamboating business, first as watchman and later becoming master of a river packet, being identified with Mississippi river navi- gation on nearly its whole length for five years, in the period of the Civil war. Once on the White river, Arkansas, his boat narrowly escaped being captured by that doughty Confederate officer, Gen. Sterling Price. After the close of the war Mr. Lalonde for one year engaged in freighting on the Mississippi, and in 1868 came up the Missouri river to Fort Benton, where he engaged in driving freight teams between that great supply point and the mining camp at Virginia City. How well the pioneers of the state remember when practically all traffic was by the Missouri to Fort Benton, thence overland to Virginia City. In the winter of 1868 Mr. Lalonde went to Helena, or "Last Chance," as it was then designated, and obtained a position in the IXL quartz mill for about eighteen months, after which he opened a bakery and lodging house, which proved one of the popu- lar resorts of the busy little mining city. He con- ducted tihs business for three years, when the building and contents were destroyed by fire, en- tailing a complete loss. Not dismayed, however, he set about to find some other medium for win- ning success, and went to Cascade county and, locating a claim on Cedar creek, No. 75, devoted his attention to farming and cattleraising for three years. He then associated himself with Louis Barrett, Daniel Stewart, Frank Houseman, H. Nightingale and others to prospect for gold, and the party was eventually successful, discovering a lead of the precious metal on Nine Mile creek, where they patented a claim two and one-fourth miles in length, which they worked for three years with varying success.


In 1876 Mr. Lalonde came to Missoula and rented the ranch now owned by J. R. Lattimer, and two years later purchased the land of his pres-


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ent ranch, and here he has for twenty-three years continued his residence, having now 200 acres of well improved land, devoted principally to the rais- ing of cattle 'and hogs, while in the cultivation of fruit Mr. Lalonde has been very successful. The ranch is located six miles west of Missoula, and is one of the attractive and valuable places of the county. In his political adherency Mr. Lalonde is a Populist and a zealous advocate of the party's principles. He is held in high esteem both as a man and as a pioneer, and it is gratifying to note that success has crowned his indefatigable and well directed efforts. In 1886 Mr. Lalonde married Miss Lucy Wells, a native of Pennsylvania, and to them were born one son and eight daughters, and all are living excepting the son, John A., who died in 1889. The names of the daughters are: Eliza- beth A., Ada M., Eva L., Reba J., Sarah N., Lucy M. and Emily G., the youngest not being named. Mr. and Mrs. Lalonde and daughters are members of the Catholic church, and the home is a center of true hospitality.


P HARIS L. B. LANE .- Coming to Montana when he was but sixteen years old and pass- ing his subsequent life within her borders or in the furtherance of interests therein located, Pharis Leonard Bennett Lane, familiarly called "Sandy" on account of the golden color of his hair and whiskers, may be said to be almost a product of the state. He was born at Princeton, Wis., July 16, 1854, the son of James and Ann (Reynolds) Lane, the former of New York, where he was born in 1823, and the latter of Wales, where her life be- gan in 1825. In early days the fatlier took up his residence in Wisconsin, and became one of the first settlers in Kenosha county, where he was a prosperous farmer and lumber dealer, dying on November 24, 1899, and where his widow is still living. She is a sister of R. A. Reynolds, of Dil- lon, Mont., of Samuel Reynolds, of the Bain Wagon Works, of Kenosha, Wis., and of Jane Sel- way, founder of the schools of the Methodist church of Beaverhead county, Mont.


Mr. Lane passed his boyhood on his father's farm in Kenosha county, attended the neighbor- ing schools, and when he was sixteen came to Montana, and lived at Bannack with his uncle, John Selway. During the summer of 1870 he was prospecting around Butte, Pioneer City, Gold


creek and Bear gulch. In 1871-2 he was employed by Capt. John Healy and Al. Hamilton on an Indian trading expedition across the Canadian line, where he and his companions put some choice names of places on the map, such as, "Stand-Off." "Slide-Off," "Whoop-Up," etc. He was in that country and vicinity for three years, with headquar- ters at Sun river crossing. In the year 1876 he was mining at Pony, and in 1877 was a scout for Gen. Howard during the Nez Perces war, tra- versing the country from Henry's lake to the Judith basin. Within the same year he helped to build Fort Keogh and in the summer of 1878 he was scouting guard for Gen. Whistler at the Na- tional Park. Returning to Fort Keogh in the fall, he entered the services of Broadwater, Hub- bell & Co. as master of transportation, and during his three-years service with them helped in the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad from Glendive to Billings. In 1882 he removed to Fort Benton and was engaged in freighting for a year for I. G. Baker and the Conrad Brothers. In 1883 he put in the boom at Roosevelt island for E. G. McClay and Ira Myers, and did logging for them on Smith river. In the fall of that year he removed to Butte, where he was engaged in team- ing until the fall of 1886, when he went to Helena and was there connected with the police force under Dr. Steele, Alexander Reed and William McCann, and also in the transfer business with Capt. Smith, until 1895. After a visit to his old home in Wisconsin he returned to Butte in 1896, and has since been engaged in the horse industry and in mining, having some promising claims at German gulch.


In politics Mr. Lane is an active Democrat, and has rendered his party good service in many cam- paigns. He was married at Bismarck, N. D., to Miss Johanna Kertzell, a native of Vienna, Aus- tria, who came to the United States when she was fourteen years old. They have two children, Louis, living in the east, and one who lives at home. Mr. Lane has five brothers who are all railroad engineers in Wisconsin, and one sister living in Chicago.


C HARLES H. LANE .- The son of a skillful sea captain and navigator, Mr. Lane was born at Natick, Mass., on May 13, 1854. His parents were John Edward and Mary (La Coste) Lane, the former a native of England, from whence he came


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to the United States when a young man and fol- lowed the sea until he died at Natick in 1861. The mother was born in New Hampshire and died at Natick in 1889. Their son Charles was educated at the primary and high schools of his native town, and after leaving school served an apprenticeship to a pharmacist, following that business at Natick for eleven years. In 1880 he came west to Medi- cine Bow river, Wyo., and formed a partnership with Frank Brown under the firm name of Brown & Lane, for the purpose of carrying on the sheep industry. After remaining there for six years, in 1886 he went with Beckwith, Quinn & Co., pro- prietors of the mercantile stores of the Union Pacific Railroad, and was employed in their coal department at Carbon, Wyo. In 1889 he came to Montana and, locating at Butte, became secretary of the W. R. Kenyon Hardware Company, acting as such until 1893. During the next three years he was connected with the Anaconda Copper Min- ing Company, and since 1896 has been in business for himself as agent for the Giant Powder Com- pany, the American Steel & Wire Company, and the Paraffine Paint Company. In politics Mr. Lane is a Democrat. He has been a member of the board of education from school district No. I since 1898. He is a member of Council 106, United Commercial Travelers' Association, of which he has been secretary during the past three years. In 1888 he was married at Belvidere, Ill., to Miss Eliza Tomkins, of that place. They have three children: Roger Olney, Anna Isabel and Helen Elizabeth.




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