Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 142

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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To the excellent schools of Chicago John H. McQueeney is indebted for his early education, and later he completed a course in the Bryant & Stratton Business College in that city. He then secured a position in the manufactory of the Coxe inks and extracts, and thereafter he was em- ployed in various capacities in Chicago until 1879, when he himself engaged in the manufacture of extracts, this being his initial business venture. His business adaptability, however, soon created a demand for his services in other ways, and he came to the west in the employ of the Utah & Northern Railroad, as cashier, following the line of construction from Utah into Montana. Sever- ing his connection with the company in the spring of 1883 he located in Butte, and engaged in the transfer business, and with this line of enter-

prise he has since been continuously identified, his business growing with the growth of the city and being now of extensive scope and import- ance and one which has been managed with finan- cial ability from the first. Mr. McQueeney has the distinction of having been the first to erect a house in South Butte, or rather to establish one there, for the house was built at Blackfoot while he was employed on the railroad. It was put to- gether with bolts, and as the line of the road ad- vanced the house was taken apart and brought on the construction train to various points until it was permanently stationed in South Butte. Mr. McQueeney is essentially a business man and he has accumulated valuable realty in Butte, Chicago and South Butte, including improved business and residence properties. He has also made and now has large investments and holdings in min- ing properties.

In politics he renders the Democratic party an unequivocal support and though he gives active aid to the party he has been averse to serving in any official capacity, though he held with abil- ity the important office of chairman of the board of county commissioners of Silver Bow county from 1889 to 1893 and rendered valuable service to the county and the city of Butte. Fraternally he is identified with Freemasonry, as a member of Silver Bow Lodge, Deer Lodge Chapter and Montana Commandery, of Butte, and of Algeria Temple of the Mystic Shrine, in Helena. On July 9, 1873, Mr. McQueeney was united in mar- riage to Miss Isabella Daly, who was born in Lockport, Ill., to which state her parents re- moved about 1837, among the pioneers of that commonwealth. Mr. and Mrs. McQueeney have two children, Estella, wife of M. V. Conroy, of Butte, and Frederick, a student in the Butte high school.

D ANIEL S. MACK .- A native of New York, where he was born May 23, 1859, and where he grew to the age of seventeen, attending the public schools and making good use of his time, Daniel S. Mack's parents were Daniel and Kath- arine (Quinn) Mack, the former a native of New York and the latter of Ireland. Daniel Mack was a noted silversmith and jeweler, and the father of six children, of whom Daniel S. was the first born. In 1876 Mr. Mack settled in the forests of Michigan and engaged in the lumber business, con-

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tinuing in that in various ways until 1885, when he was put in charge of the extensive lumber interests of E. Golfer, which he controlled until the next summer, when he took charge of the Pine River Lumber Company, of Wisconsin. From there he moved into Minnesota and oper- ated a well-digging machine for some eight months. In 1888 he came farther west, and, reaching Mon- tana, located in Castle and engaged in mining for about a year, then went to Butte and mined there for another year, when he removed to Madison county and followed mining within its limits until April, 1900, when he returned to Butte and again began mining operations in the neighborhood of that city, in which he is still engaged and one of the owners of a very rich gold mine near the town. He has also worked as a stonemason, and at other profitable occupations which presented themselves, being a man of energy and industry.

Mr. Mack was married on March 25, 1890, to Miss Rachell Hodgen, of Livingston, a daughter of N. H. Hodgen, a prosperous farmer and freighter of Washington. Her mother was Miss Phoebe Hurley, a daughter of Robert Hurley, of Missouri, also a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Mack have five children, namely, Mabel, Maude, Esther, Albert and George, all of them yet at home. The life of Mr. Mack has not been full of adventure and hardship, but it has had enough of variety to make it interesting, and enough for the exer- cise of every faculty to develop in good measure the sterling qualities of head and heart for which the pioneers of America are so renowned. Every demand on time or strength has been fully met, every emergency has found him ready, every duty of good citizenship has been promptly and fully performed. He stands well in the good opinion of his fellow men, and is most highly esteemed by those who know him best.

LEXANDER MACKEL .- Born and reared

A in the healthful atmosphere of the farm, gain- ing from its abundant outdoor exercise full physi- cal development and strength of sinew, and being thus well fitted for any struggle that fate might have in store for him, Alexander Mackel, of Butte, brought to the practice of his profession a health of body and clearness of mind which have been exemplified in many a hard contest in the ex- citing forum of the courts. To these physical

qualities he has added studious and thoughtful intellectual preparation for his business and has proven himself well equipped for any of its re- quirements. He is a native of Goodhue county, Minn., where his life began on December 12, 1871. His father, Ignatius Mackel, was a Ger- man who settled in Minnesota in early manhood, and carried on farming with fair success and pros- perity until he died. His mother was Mary Busse, a member of an old Missouri family. Of their fifteen children Alexander was the fourth. He received his preliminary scholastic training in the public schools and finished at a state normal school, which he entered in 1890 and attended a year and a half, then his professional studies began at the law school of the State University in 1892.

There he was graduated in 1894, was at once ad- mitted to practice in the courts of Minnesota and in the fall was elected county attor- ney of Norman county and served two years. He then removed to Texas and re- mained a year and a half. Then after a short visit to Minnesota, he started for Montana to establish his permanent home. He arrived at Butte on December 15, 1898, and began im- mediately a vigorous practice of his profession in all its branches, and as one of the attorneys for the unions, notably for the Clerks' ,Union, which was seeking a 6 o'clock closing of the business houses. He gave this matter especial attention and succeeded in winning the cause and securing the desired result. In 1901 he was ap- pointed chief deputy county attorney and during his tenure of the office was engaged in many notable trials for murder and other great crimes, in which he was pitted against some of the most prominent lawyers of the state. But he did not lose a single case of the kind, and by his pro- fessional learning, skill as a tactician, earnest- ness in prosecution and ready marshaling of all his forces in a contest, soon established himself firmly in the public estimation as one of the bar's most resourceful and successful members. Mr. Mackel is an Odd Fellow, and has held the office of noble grand. He is also a Knight of Pythias, a Red Man, a Son of Herrmann and a Yeoman of America. He was the first presid- ing officer of his lodge in the last named body. In politics he affiliates with the Populist party, in whose service he was active in Minnesota, and by invitation made a vigorous canvass of that state

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in behalf of the fusion ticket in the fall of 1900. While residing there he was a member of the state national guard, and was second lieutenant in one of its leading companies. He is a gentle- man of superior social qualities, of high character and of unflagging industry-one of the chosen on whom the profession delights to bestow her laurels and the public its proofs of confidence and esteem.

P ERRY H. MANCHESTER is a native of Calhoun county, Mich., born in the city of Battle Creek, on November 6, 1843. His father, Elias C. Manchester, a native of New York, re- moved to Michigan early, taking up his residence in Calhoun county in 1836 and becoming one of its pioneers, and here he passed the residue of life. The family has long been identified with America, Caleb Manchester, the grandfather of Perry H. Manchester, having been likewise a na- tive of the Empire state. His mother traces back to the Plymouth Rock landing in 1620, as before her marriage she was Amy A. Howland. She was, however, born in New York, her immedi- ate ancestors being of that Howland family who made early settlement in New Bedford, Mass., and were connected with the Society of Friends, of which Mrs. Manchester was a birthright mem- ber. Of the ten children born to Elias C. and Amy A. Manchester all are living save one, and five of the sons gave yeoman service as Union soldiers in the Civil war.

Perry H. Manchester, one of these five sons, at the age of eighteen years abandoned his studies to respond to the call of his country "To arms for the defence of the Union." He enlisted in Com- pany C, Twentieth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into service on July 29, 1862. He went into camp at Jackson, and on September 5 accompanied his regiment to Washington, D. C., where they were assigned to the Ninth Army Corps, under Gen. Burnside. They then marched to Alexandria, Va., and again back to Washing- ton, by their absence having by one day missed the battle of Antietam. They then took part in the battle of Fredericksburg, and in February, 1863, they went to Newport News, Va., one month later moving northward to Baltimore and finally to Kentucky, engaging there with Morgan's raid- ers in the battle at Horseshoe Plains. Mr. Man- chester was with the Army of the Cumberland 47

while making its gallant record, was present at the fall of Vicksburg, from there went to Jackson, Miss., and back to Crab Orchard, Ky., where sickness incapacitated him for active duty, his regiment proceeding to Knoxville, Tenn., and leaving him in hospital. In the spring of 1864 he joined his regiment at Annapolis, Md., and then he participated in the memorable Peninsula cam- paign, seeing active service in the battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania. He was wounded on May 24, 1864, at North Anna river. The in- jury was not at first regarded as serious, but it proved so, as he was confined by it in a Wash- ington hospital for some time, and finally re- moved by his father to the Harper hospital in Detroit, Mich., where he remained from Septem- ber, 1864, until the close of the war, and he was on crutches when he received his discharge.

As soon as he was able Mr. Manchester entered the Eastman Business College in Chicago, where he was graduated in March, 1866, receiving the highest honors in a class of twenty-four. He secured a position as bookkeeper in Battle Creek, his native city, where he pursued this vocation until 1871, when he. removed to Nebraska, took up a homestead in Clay county, and followed agriculture until 1880, when he returned to Battle Creek. He removed to Oshkosh, Wis., in 1881 and engaged in lumbering during the winter and then resumed bookkeeping in Battle Creek, and here he kept books until February, 1884, when he was chosen secretary and manager of a co- operative store at that place. After one year he conducted merchandising for himself until Jan- uary, 1889, when he came to Montana, being lo- cated near Bozeman until October, when he as- sumed the position of bookkeeper for the Nelson Story & Co. flour and feed business, in Butte. He was made manager in August, 1890, and con- tinued in this executive incumbency until August 1, 1900, when Mr. Story disposed of the business. Mr. Manchester was employed by the new firm until January 19, 1901. In the March following he became manager of the Trull transfer business in Butte, which has since become known as the Montana Transfer Company. At the present time he is employed as a bookkeeper for the company and also acts as timekeeper and bookkeeper at the Nipper mine.

In politics Mr. Manchester is an unwavering adherent of the Republican party, and while re- siding in Nebraska held the office of justice of

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the peace. In April, 1901, he was elected an alder- man from the Seventh ward of Butte and is in this office giving careful and efficient service. Frater- nally he is now identified with Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 24, A. F. & A. M., as its treasurer, while he is a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was in 1900 the commander of the order for the Department of Montana, and has held all the leading offices in the local post, being now quartermaster. He is also a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, is a past master of his lodge and has held the office of receiver for about five years. He is also affil- iated with the Royal Templars of Temperance, and in each of these fraternities enjoys a merited popularity.

On November 6, 1867, Mr. Manchester was united in marriage to Miss Amitys Piper, who was born in Ontario county, N. Y., on January 18, 1845. Her maternal great-grandfather, Silas Phelps, was a soldier in the Continental army of the Revolution. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Manchester are: Theodore E., born September 20, 1868, was a member of Company G, First Montana Volunteers, during the Spanish-Ameri- can war, was wounded in Manila on February 23, 1899, and is now a resident of the naval sta- tion, Bremerton, Wash .; Edward P., born Janu- ary 3, 1871, married Miss Cornelia Enderly, re- sides in Portland, Ore .; Ora E., the only daughter, born July 11, 1876, remains at the parental home, being the wife of Chas. H. Little, the marriage ceremony being performed July 15, 1896. Mr. and Mrs. Little are the parents of one child, Helen.

OHN E. MANLEY .- From small beginnings J the subject of this review has worked his way upward to a position where he is recognized as one of the prosperous and progressive farmers and stockgrowers of Deer Lodge county, his fine ranch being located eight miles south of the vil- lage of Helmville, his postoffice address. There is both lesson and incentive in reviewing the salient points in the career of a young man who has so husbanded his resources as to attain suc- cess. Such men honor the state, and Mr. Manley has won the right to be classed among the "Pro- gressive Men of Montana."

Mr. Manley is a native of Minnesota, having been born in Houston county, November 28, 1862,

the son of Anthony and Catherine (Mulcahy) Man- ley, the former a native of Manchester, England, who came to the United States with his parents when a lad of nine years. They first located in Pennsylvania, and became a coal miner, later removing to Minnesota and becoming one of the first settlers in Houston county, having located there in the early 'forties and devoted his atten- tion to agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred in 1888. He was well known in that section and was one of its influential citizens, be- ing a prominent factor in the ranks of the local Democracy. After locating in Minnesota he re- turned to Pennsylvania, and there was solem- nized his marriage to Catherine Mulcahy, who was born in Ireland, and who died at the old Minne- sota homestead in 1897.

John E.' Manley was reared to the sturdy dis- cipline of the farm and his educational training in his youth was received in the public schools of Minnesota, where he devoted his attention to farm- ing for a number of years. In 1889, two years after his marriage, he came to Montana in com- pany with his wife, and secured employment as a miner. Mr. Manley was ambitious, steadfast in his efforts and ever had in mind the object of establishing himself in an independent position. During all the years he worked in the mines he and his wife conserved their resources in every possible way, being economical and self-sacrificing, and eventually secured the fine ranch which is now their home and their personal estate, purchased in May, 1899, and located on Douglas creek. Here he is bringing his business and executive ability to bear with excellent results, devoting his atten- tion specially to the raising of sheep and cattle, and carrying on diversified farming. He is up- right and straightforward in all the relations of life, and is one of the valued members of the com- munity. In politics he gives his allegiance to the Republican party, and is ever ready to con- tribute his quota toward any enterprise which will enhance the public welfare. Mr. Manley has three brothers who have likewise shown themselves to be worthy sons of the republic. One of them, Robert E. Manley, was a practicing lawyer in North Dakota at the outbreak of the Spanish- American war, but enlisted and was sent to the Philippines, where he obtained a position in the government administrative department at Manila. He recently returned to the United States on leave of absence, and has been delivering a series

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of lectures on Philippine subjects. Of the other brother it may be said that James E. is a success- ful attorney at law in North Dakota, while Frank P. is general agent in Chicago for a prominent life insurance company.

On May 24, 1887, Mr. Manley was married to Miss Nellie Gaffney, who was born in Minne- sota, the daughter of William Gaffney, a native of Illinois who became a pioneer of Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Manley have three children: Cath- erine, Emmett and Clifford.

TIMOTHY B. MANNIX, of Helmville, Powell H county, Mont., is one who can look back with much satisfaction upon his twenty years' resi- dence in state and territory. Locating in the famous Blackfoot valley he has made a specialty of sheepraising, and has been eminently success- ful. He is of Irish ancestry, although born in the traditional "Hub," Boston, in 1840, a son of Tim- othy and Margaret (Hickey) Mannix, both na- tives of Ireland, who came to the United States in 1837 and settled in Boston, where the father was for many years an affluent and successful grocery and provision merchant. He died in 1884 at the advanced age of eighty-four years; his widow died in Malone, N. Y., whither the father had moved the family on retiring from busi- ness in Boston. At the time of the removal Tim- othy B. Mannix, our subject, was fifteen years of age.

With the opening of the Civil war the young Irish-American, fired with patriotic fervor, enlisted at Malone, in Company I, Sixteenth New York Infantry, on April 28, 1861, being among the first to answer to the urgent call for volunteers. His regiment was under command of Col. Davis, and his company of Capt. Seever. For six weary weeks the command was in barracks at Albany, N. Y., and then ordered to the front. A short time previous the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry had been mobbed by citizens on their way through Baltimore. Many deaths had resulted and the route was considered dangerous during that period of intense bitterness. Yet it was over this same ground that the Sixteenth New York Infantry was called upon to pass, and, if necessary, open the initial land battle of the' great struggle. How- ever, they reached Washington unmolested, and were reviewed by President Lincoln and Gen.

Winfield Scott. Mr. Mannix was with his regiment during the peninsular campaign under Gen. Mc- Clellan, including the siege of Yorktown, and the series of hard-fought battles which followed, among which are West Point, Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mills, Fair Oaks, Savage Station, Charles City and Malvern Hill. On retirement from front of Richmond, his regiment was in the battles which culminated in the hard-fought engagement at Antietam, and on the reorganization of the Army of the Potomac participated in the battles at Fred- ericksburg and at Chancellorsville, and the ter- rible conflict at Gettysburg. Mr. Mannix was promoted to corporal, second sergeant, and on termination of term of service was tendered a commission in the One Hundred and Forty-sec- ond New York, Col. Curtis, but declined.

Following this brilliant military service our sub- ject returned to Massachusetts where he engaged in business. But the war spirit still ran high, and in 1864 he again enlisted, this time in the Sec- ond Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, going to New- bern, N. C., and was in active service until the close of the war. He then received the appoint- ment of keeper at the Clinton, N. Y., prison, a branch of Sing Sing. Here he remained six years, but a short time previous to accepting this posi- tion was engaged in the lumber business.

A little over twenty years ago, in 1881, Mr. Mannix came to the territory of Montana. In 1882 he located in the Blackfoot valley, then in Deer Lodge, now Powell county, and has since been engaged in ranching, having one of the finest properties in the valley. His residence, one of the handsomest and most eligible, is situated four miles east of Helmville. In the management of this estate and in providing every comfort for his family he takes great pride, and they all live generously and happily.

By act of the last Montana legislature the new county of Powell was formed from a portion of Deer Lodge. Mr. Mannix received the appoint- ment of county commissioner and is still serving in that office. For the past ten years he has been justice of the peace and notary public, and for eight years clerk of the school board. Politically he is a Republican, socially a popular citizen, a firm friend, broadminded and liberal with every- body.

Mr. Mannix has been twice married. His first wife was Misss Leonora Redden, a native of New York who died several years ago. His present

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wife, Sabina (Biglin) Mannix, was born in the state of New York. She is the daughter of Mar- tin and Anne (Conlin) Biglin, both natives of Sligo, Ireland. Her father, a Scotch-Irishman, soon after coming to the United States engaged successfully in ore and iron contracting in the state of New York, and became an old and promi- nent resident of that portion of the country. Her brother, Nicholas Biglin, was a Union soldier dur- ing the Civil war and died in Andersonville prison. To Mr. and Mrs. Mannix have been born three children : William H., Charles M. and Fred T. Mannix.

JAMES W. MARDIS .- Coming to Montana in 1864 and being closely identified with its prog- ress and development, and in many ways exhib- iting the traits of character which have made the frontiersmen of America the most picturesque and interesting type of our cosmopolite citizenship, the late James W. Mardis, of Bozeman, was a typical pioneer and enjoyed the distinction of being worthy the highest confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He was born in Pennsylvania, April 17, 1841, the son of John Samuel and Mar- garita (Whike) Mardis, also natives of Pennsyl- vania. His father was a farmer in his native state, and also engaged in raising stock. In 1850 he re- moved to Iowa and acquired large tracts of land which he cultivated until 1892. He then removed to California, where he died after a residence of about a year at the age of seventy-four. His widow returned to Iowa after his death, and is still living in that state. She was born in 1819. Mr. Mardis was educated in the public schools, and in 1862 enlisted in the Union army as a member of Com- pany K, Thirty-fifth Iowa Infantry, and served about a year, when an accident which crushed one of his legs below the knee so disabled him that on his discharge from the hospital he was honor- ably released from the service on account of his disability. He returned to Iowa and his physi- cians advised him to "go west," and on April 26, 1864, he and his wife started with a party of friends for what is now Montana, then a part of Idaho. They came by way of Cheyenne and the Bridger route, and arrived at Virginia City August 26, 1864, having camped six days before just be- low where the city of Bozeman now stands. Dur- ing the first winter after his arrival Mr. Mardis engaged in mining. In the spring he opened a

butcher shop which he conducted until the spring of 1866, when he removed to the Gallatin valley and located a strip of land adjoining that of D. E. Rouse on the south. In 1872 he sold this land to Mr. Rouse and took up his residence in Bozeman, farming land he had located near Fort Ellis, as he could not remain on the ranch continuously on ac- count of the hostility of the Indians. When the fort was located on his land and he was thus de- prived of his farm, he purchased another three miles south of Bozeman on which he lived until 1899. He then rented it and removed to Bozeman, where he died October 24, 1901. From 1882 to 1886 he also conducted a meat market in Bozeman.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 142

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