Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 173

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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M ILTON HAMMOND .- The great northwest of the United States offers opportunity and occupation for every sort of talent and welcomes enterprises of every kind that will help to de- velop her resources and contribute to the' wel- fare and comfort of her people. And among her forceful factors, Milton Hammond, of Darby, a successful merchant, hotel keeper and proprietor of an active and very serviceable livery business and stage line, has a high rank in the general estima- tion of the people around him and those with whom lie does business. He was born February 20, 1847,

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at Andover, County Victoria, New Brunswick. He was the second of the seven children of George and Joanna (Wright) Hammond, also natives of New Brunswick. After attending the public schools until he was sixteen years, he took a three-years course in college, then filled a clerical position in a grocery store for a year and for the next two was clerk and time keeper for a lum- ber company. During the.next twelve years he was engaged in teaming for his father in New Brunswick and Maine in the lumber business, and after that he kept books for a lumber company at Stillwater, Minn., for ten years.

Mr. Hammond came to Montana in 1887 and became connected with the Blackfoot Milling Com- pany at Bonner, first as shipping clerk and later as mill foreman. In 1894 he removed to Darby and started his present prosperous business, that of hotel keeping and owner of a livery and stage line, which is running stages from Darby to Hughes creek, and in all of these he is carrying on a very successful and profitable business. In polit- ical relations Mr. Hammond is a stanch and act- ive Democrat, taking great interest in the suc- cess and welfare of his party. He was married on February 26, 1873, at Kingman, Me., to Miss Sarah Kendall, daughter of Robert and Sarah Kendall, her father being a prosperous and ex- tensive lumberman. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond have three children, Albert, Pearl, now the wife of John McGrath, manager of the Anaconda Copper Min- ing Company's store at Darby, and Myrtle, who is still at home. Mr. Hammond is a genial, oblig- ing and entertaining gentleman, whose friends are numerous and devoted, and who illustrates in his cheerful and useful life the best elements of Amer- ican citizenship.

S AMUEL C. HANSON is a native of New York state, where he was born April 7, 1853, but now a pioneer of Red Lodge, Mont., Mr. Hanson has contributed to the state of his adop- tion some of the enterprise and breadth of view characteristic of his nativity. His parents were Cyrus and Lucinda (Hill) Hanson, natives re- spectively of New Hampshire and Vermont, and descendants of families resident in New England from Colonial times. The father took part in the Canadian rebellion of 1837: afterward made his home in the northern part of New York and

passed his life in farming. The family consisted of eight children. Samuel C. Hanson was edu- cated in the public schools of New York and left the homestead in 1869, going to Manchester, N. H., where he remained three years engaged in railroading and working at his trade as a machin- ist. He then removed to Minnesota and passed the time railroading until 1882. In that year he came to Montana, locating at Billings, where he conducted a restaurant for four years, at the end of which he removed to Red Lodge and re- mained there until 1896 working as an engineer. He had previously taken up the ranch on which he now resides, about five miles south of Bridger, and which by application and intelligence he has brought to a high state of cultivation. His land is all well irrigated and produces good crops of cereals and hay. He has a fine herd of Hereford cattle, and makes a specialty also of brown Leg- horn fowls. He was married in October, 1887, to Miss Kate Farrell, of Ohio, daughter of D. Farrell, a native of Ireland.

JAMES HARRINGTON .- Prosperous in busi- ness and prominent in social and public life, James Harrington, of Carbon county, is one of the substantial and representative men of his sec- tion of the state. He is a native of Knox county, Mo., where he was born October 15, 1848, a son of Isaac and Jane (Fisher) Harrington, the former a native of Knox county, Mo., and the latter of . Edinburgh, Scotland. His paternal grandfather, James Harrington, was born in Kentucky, and in early manhood removed to Missouri, where the maternal grandfather, Andrew Fisher, also set- tled upon his arrival in America from Scotland. Mr. Harrington's father died in Missouri in 1901, aged eighty-one, leaving a family of nine chil- dren. Mr. Harrington passed his school days in his native county and remained on the home- stead until 1870, when he removed to Texas, and after a short stay went into the Indian territory and Arkansas, where he remained two years, en- gaged in raising cotton. He then returned to his old home and passed the winter on the home- stead. In the spring of 1873 he removed to Nev- ada and passed a year in burning charcoal, which brought him profitable returns. He again re- turned to Missouri, and after lingering for an- other year on the homestead came to Montana,

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arriving at Virginia City in the winter of 1875. In the spring he went to work for Poindexter & Orr on the Blacktail near Dillon, taking cattle to Cheyenne, Wyo., and from there went to Mis- souri for his family, bringing them to Montana the next spring by wagon train across the plains. On his arrival he went to work for the same out- fit, remaining in its service for about a year and then engaged in the cattle business on his own account at Watson, near Dillon, but soon after took a contract to furnish ties for a narrow gauge railroad and made good profits at the work. He located on Rapids, Yellowstone, and remained there two years engaged in ranching, when he sold out and located at Stillwater and remained until 1892, when the reservation was thrown open. During his residence at this place he was employed by W. H. Norton. In 1892 he took up his resi- dence on the property which he now occupies, lo- cated about nine miles up the Stillwater from Columbus. He has all his land under irrigation and in a high state of cultivation, with a good herd of Hereford cattle. He is a progressive, enterprising man whose ranch shows that it is in charge of a good farmer and an excellent manager. On February 22, 1876, he was united in marriage with Miss Harriet Riley, a native of Indiana, who had removed with her parents, Will- iam and Jane Riley, to Missouri in her childhood. They have two children living: Gertie, the widow of Chas. Allen, and Victor; Maud Elizabeth is deceased. In politics Mr. Harrington is a Demo- crat, and as such served as deputy sheriff at Columbus.

W W. HARVEY, a prominent ranchman of Broadwater county and one of its leading and most respected citizens, has his home near Toston. He was born at Lafayette, Starke county, Ill., on January 10, 1852, the son of C. C. and Maria (Vincent) Harvey, both natives of Indiana. The father removed to Illinois early in life, married Miss Maria Vincent in 1849, and was long engaged in successful farming in that state. He was in California at the time of the earliest gold discoveries, and his wife had some of the first gold panned in the California mines. He returned to Illinois in 1851 and died a few years later. W. W. Harvey passed his youthful days in Lafayette county, and was educated in its schools. He went into Kansas when fifteen, en-

gaged in cattle driving two years, and then going to Texas, "whacked" cattle back to Kansas. Later he returned to the old home in Illinois, and soon started for Montana. He arrived at Fort Ben- ton on July 5, 1871, coming up the Missouri river. He entered the employ of the Diamond R Com- pany and made two trips from Fort Benton to Helena, then drove a team for "Red Wagon Jim," who later broke his .neck in Helena. Then he was for six months engaged in farming in the Missouri valley. There was then much excitement over placer mining, and Mr. Harvey prospected in the vicinity of Deer Lodge, Virginia City and along Jefferson river. In this unsuccessful enter- prise he spent two years of industrious labor. Following this came a period of ranching in the Missouri valley, but he soon went to Fort Mc- Leod, passed one year, returned to the Missouri valley in 1878 and rented the Huston ranch, but soon removed to another ranch and remained there three years. Three years later Mr. Har- vey purchased a ranch on Beaver creek, sold it in one year and secured his present homestead and has since profitably devoted himself to stock- raising and ranching. Mr. Harvey was married on February 5, 1879, to Miss Margaret Sharp. Their children are Minnie V. (Mrs. R: C. Clen- denning) and William M.

An incident of life in Montana only twenty-one years ago deserves recording. One morning in 1880, John McNeil, a neighbor of Mr. Harvey, reported that one of his horses had been taken from his stable during the night. Mr. Lenhardy, . who was present, said that he had noticed sus- picious signs and sounds, and, while they were discussing the matter, James M. Moore dropped in and said that a saddle was missing. Then came William Morgan to report that the Indians had run off some of the company's horses, and that he and John T. Murphy had trailed them to the place where they had crossed the river. The settlers decided to organize a party to follow the savages, and Mr. Harvey and W. M. Deadwood soon gathered some men and started to overtake the thieves. They traveled eighteen miles, "picked up the trail" and followed it about fifty yards apart. They were all well mounted and at sun- down overtook the Indians, thirty miles from the ranch. The pursuers were on a ridge, the In- dians in a valley. Mr. Harvey and his men opened fire and the first volley crippled some of the stolen horses and the rest stampeded in two sections.

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The pursuers separated in two parties and tried to head them off. The Indians returned a warm fire and Mr. Harvey advised Mr. Sharp to drop from his horse and use it as a breastwork. In dismounting Mr. Sharp was shot in the knee, but Mr. Harvey succeeded in getting him a place of safety. Three of the party came dashing up just as the savages fired half a dozen shots. The day was drawing near its close and it was grow- ing dark. Mr. Harvey went after the Indians, and, with Mr. Morgan coming from an opposite direction, they had three Indians in the circle between them. The firing continued and the par- ty closed in and killed two Indians and badly wounded the third. Mr. Harvey kept an Indian's gun, belt and scabbard, which he still preserves, and Mr. Morgan contented himself with a couple of scalps as souvenirs. The party recaptured all but three of the horses. Charles Cook met them with a wagon when fourteen miles from their des- tination and carried the wounded Mr. Sharp to his home.

JOHN C. HAUCK .- This enterprising, pros- J perous and highly successful ranchman is a gift of the Keystone state to Montana. He was born in Lancaster county, Pa., October 25, 1844, the third of the children now living of David and Mary C. Hauck, also natives of that state. The father was a well-to-do farmer, and a man of public spirit, always taking a deep interest and a leading part in matters affecting the welfare of his community or state. He was a colonel in the state militia at the time of the Buckshot war, when Thaddeus Stevens jumped from the window of the state house. Both father and mother were Presbyterians, and were the parents of eleven children, of whom eight are still living.

John C. Hauck received a good education in spite of the fact that at the age of twelve he began assisting in the work on the farm, and at which he continued until he was twenty. At that age he began teaching school and followed that occupation for two years. In 1867 he came to Montana, and, locating at French Bar in what is now Lewis and Clarke county, spent two years in fruitless efforts to make a strike in mining. Not succeeding, he kept moving from place to place for fourteen years, and, accumulating a modest competence thereby, thus disproving, in

one case at least, the old adage "A rolling stone gathers no moss."

In the meantime he had established a profitable business in cattleraising also, and, in 1882, de- siring to give to this his whole attention, he located the ranch on which he now lives, using all his rights in taking up land, and adding to his pos- sessions by purchase until he now has 2,500 acres of his own and 1,280 under lease on a branch of the Judith river six miles east of Phil- brook. Here he has one of the most productive and best cultivated ranches in Fergus county, well improved with good buildings and completely equipped for raising large crops of grain and hay, and breeding sheep extensively, in all of which he is energetically engaged. He also raises su- perior vegetables in considerable quantities. Mr. Hauck is a Republican but not an office-seeker. He believes in the principles of his party, but does not care for its honors, being well occupied with his large and varied business interests. He was married July 13, 1896, to Miss DeLeo Palmer, daughter of M. A. and A. Palmer, natives of Pennsylvania (where she also was born), who enii- grated to Montana in 1886 and located on Ross' Fork in Fergus county, and engaged in farming. Both her parents are members of the Methodist church, and Mr. Palmer is a Democrat in politics. Mr. and Mrs. Hauck are regarded as among the chief members in their section in matters of social life, business thrift and public affairs.

W ILLIAM H. L. H. HAWSON .- Fergus county has its quota of industrious, suc- cessful business men, and prominent among them is the one of whom we now write. Mr. Haw- son comes of stanch old English lineage, and was born in Lincolnshire, England, on the 8th of October, 1844, being the son of William L. and Catherine Hawson. William L. Hawson was for many years prominently engaged in the wholesale and retail meat business in Lincoln, England, and passed his entire life in his native land, where his death occurred in 1897, his wife having passed away in 1844. Both were communicants of the church of England, and Mr. Hawson was iden- tified with the Masonic fraternity. The subject of this review was their only child. William H. L. H. Hawson at the age of twelve years began

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to earn his own living and has ever since de- pended on his own efforts and resources. For fif- teen years he devoted his attention to the voca- tion of an engineer, passing seven years of this time in England and the succeeding eight years as engineer on various ocean vessels. In 1871 Mr. Hawson turned his attention to the hotel business, in Bishop Auckland, England, contin- uing in this until 1880, when he came to America. Stopping in St. Louis, Mo., for a time, he came to Montana, and was an engineer in Butte until 1883, when he came to Fergus county and took up squatter's claims on the Cottonwood creek, twelve miles from Lewistown, which is his postoffice address. He now has a well-improved and valu- able ranch of 493 acres, devoted to the raising of cattle and to general agriculture. He was also engaged in the hotel business at Cottonwood and other places in Montana, conducting for two years the large Spofford Hotel at Red Lodge, Carbon county. In politics he is a loyal Republican, and fraternally has passed the ancient-craft degrees in the Masonic order; is a member of the lodge and encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; and is also a member of the Benev- olent Protective Order of Elks. Both he and his wife are members of St. James Protestant Epis- copal church, at Lewistown.

On the 8th of June, 1865, Mr. Hawson was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Frances Knight Northall, who was born in Worcestershire, England, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Northall, the former of whom was born in Wales and the latter in England. Mr. Northall was a civil engineer and both he and his wife were mem- bers of the Church of England. His death oc- curred in 1856 and that of Mrs. Northall in 1879. Of their ten children, William, John, Catherine, Eliza and Alfred are deceased, those surviving being Frank, Benjamin, Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah. Mr. and Mrs. Hawson became the parents of four children, Mary, Charles H. L., Jr., Williamn and Ada K.

ILLIAM M. HEALY .- The subject of this memoir has won success as one of the representative farmers and stockraisers of Cas- cade county, and his nature was that of buoyant, generous type so characteristic of the race from which he sprung. True in all the relations of life, the record of his career, unostentatious though

it be, is worthy of perpetuation in this work. Mr. Healy was born in the famed old city of Cork, Ireland, on Christmas day, 1822, the son of Morris and Katherine Healy, likewise natives of the Emerald Isle, where they passed their entire lives. They were members of the Catholic church, and known as people of sterling character. The father was a farmer by occupation. His death occurred in 1842; his widow survived him until 1848 when she too passed away.

William M. Healy received a common English education, and while still a boy the responsibilities of life devolved upon him and were assumed with courage and good will. He aided in caring for his parents from early youth until he had reached the age of twenty-two years, when he began work in a flouring mill and thoroughly learned the miller's trade. He continued to be thus engaged until 1849, when he secured a position as foreman in the butter works at Cork, where he was employed until 1863. In that year he came to Montana and located in Sun river valley, where for two years he was employed at ranch work for wages by his nephew, John J. Healy. In the year 1865 he took up a homestead claim of 160 acres in the valley, and also effected a purchase of 150 acres. Upon this excellent tract of land he energetically engaged in farming and cattleraising with excel- lent success.

In politics Mr. Healy gave allegiance to the Democratic party. In 1849 Mr. Healy was united in marriage to Miss Mary Collins, a native of the city of Cork and the daughter of Michael and Nora Collins, also born in the Emerald Isle, where the father died in the year 1834, the mother pass- ing away in 1865, both being devout members of the Catholic church. To William M. and Mary Healy eight children were born, of which num- ber three are now deceased, Morris, Katherine and Joseph. The surviving children are Michael, Anna, Mary, Thomas and John S. The devoted husband and father entered into eternal rest on October 28, 1891, secure in the esteem and confi- dence of his fellow men and a devout member of the Roman Catholic church.

The finely improved ranch is now conducted under the charge of John S. Healy, the young- est son of the subject of this memoir. John S. Healy is a native son of Montana, having been born in a small log cabin located two miles west of the village of Sun River on July 18, 1875. He secured his educational discipline in the pub-

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lic schools of the vicinity and early became fa- miliar with the duties incidental to carrying on the work of the ranch, assisting his father, and after his death personally assuming the respon- sibility of conducting the ranch work. In this he has been very successful, having a thorough knowledge of all details of the work and bringing to bear the best modern and progressive methods. In politics he gives his support to the Democratic party. His genial nature has gained him a wide circle of friends in the county of his birth.

A BRAHAM HEDRICK .- The descendant of generations of farmers, on both sides of his house and himself a farmer throughout his whole life, Abraham Hedrick, of near Belt, Cascade county, Mont., may almost be said to have been born to the business, and the success he has at- tained in it does credit to his birthright. He is a native of Crawford county, Mo., where he came into being January 31, 1855. His parents were John and Dorcas (Turnbull) Hedrick, the former born in Indiana and the latter in Tennes- see. The father followed ranch life, as his father had done before him. He died in 1860, when Abra- ham was only five years old, leaving the mother with a family of six children to rear and pre- pare for the duties of life. This good mother performed her duty faithfully until she too passed away, in 1892, at more than seventy years of age. Abraham Hedrick received a very limited education in the neighboring district schools, the exigencies at home requiring even his small ser- vices on the farm at an early age. When he was but eight he was obliged to do what he could to help along, and, in 1878, when he was twenty- three, he took charge of the place for his mother and conducted it for some years. Then he re- moved to Texas and there engaged in the same line of business until 1886, when he determined to make his home for the future in Montana. He got his effects together and started by teams over- land on the long jaunt toward the northland, and consumed two years in the trip. He arrived at length, however, and located about eight miles from Belt, where he took up homestead and pre- emption claims on which he has since resided and made a comfortable independence. He has brought the land to a high state of productiveness for general farming, in which he has extensively en-

gaged, and has produced crops which have been the wonder and admiration of the whole coun- try side; he has besides raised large numbers of fine cattle at gratifying profits. There has been hard work in his business but his labor has brought good returns, and he is well pleased with the state of his adoption and the opportunities it has given him for successful enterprise.

He was united in marriage March 22, 1876, to Miss Frances A. Johnson, the daughter of a Ten- nessee farmer, William Johnson, whose wife Lou- isa is also a native of that state. Mr. and Mrs. Hedrick have nine living children, namely: Isaiah, Jacob, John, Charles, Cornelius J., Henry C., Cor- delia, Araminta and Frances. In religious faith, although not actively connected with any church, Mr. Hedrick leans towards the Baptist denomina- tion, in which his father and mother were active workers. In politics he is a Democrat of the old school, helping to make up the bone and sinew of his party, but not seeking any partici- pation in its management or official rewards. His life has passed peacefully and pleasantly among his flocks and herds on the ranch he has re- deemed from the waste and planted with benefi- cent fruitfulness that he can now see blooming around him. Thus he is enjoying the companion- ship of his family and his friends, of whom he has a large number, cordial in their regard for him and firm in their faith.

M ESSRS. HILL & CONWAY, progressive, enterprising and successful merchants and ranchmen of Carbon county, have won a compe- tence by their own energy and skill in business, and by their sterling integrity, public spirit and interest in the welfare of the community in which they live, have secured a firm and enviable place in the regard of their fellow men. The firm con- sists of Elias C. Hill and Patrick J. Conway.

Mr. Hill was born in Susquehanna county, Pa., August 31, 1859, the son of Miner R. and Mar- garet (Conklin) Hill, natives of New York state, from whence they removed to Pennsylvania and there the father was for a number of years en- gaged in the lumber business. When he returned to New York he located in Broome county and went to farming. His family consisted of eight children. Elias passed his school days in New York state, remaining on the homestead until

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1876. When he left home he emigrated to Mich- igan, where he remained some time, then moved on to Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Wyom- ing, passing four years in these territories, en- gaged in mining and afterward serving for five years as inspector on the B. & M. Railroad. In 1897 he came to Montana and formed a business partnership with Mr. Conway. They erected a fine stone building in Gebo and opened a store there, conducting a successful and profitable business until 1901, when they removed to the ranches which they now occupy, three miles southeast of Gebo. In December, 1899, Mr. Hill was mar- ried to Miss Jennie Pruett, a native of Montana. They have one child, Emma.

Patrick J. Conway is a native of County Mayo, Ireland, where he was born September 20, 1865, the son of Michael and Mary (Hickey) Conway, also natives of that county. They emigrated to the United States in 1880, and locating at Elroy, Wis., made it their home, the father engaging in farming and stockraising until his death in 1897. Three sons and five daughters survive him. Pat- rick accompanied the family to America, and re- mained with them until 1889. He attended the Elroy high school and graduated from that in- stitution in 1888. In that year he came to Mon- tana, and after living about eighteen months at Butte, removed to Bozeman, where he remained two years and a half, employed in railroading. In 1893 he removed to Wyoming and remained un- til 1897, being in the employ of J. H. McShane & Co., of Omaha, having charge of their supply and commissary department. In 1897 he returned to Montana and formed the partnership with Mr. Hill which is still in operation. Both of these gentlemen are enterprising and progressive, and have been very successful in business. They now usually run from 100 to 300 head of stock, and raise large quantities of alfalfa. Their land is well irrigated and is very productive. The location of their ranches is a desirable one, they are well supplied with water and have good natural advan- tages which they have improved by careful and skillful farming and close attention to business.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 173

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