Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 178

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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Lewistown, Mont .; Albert, one of twin sons, and Douglas are in Mexico, the former growing coffee and the latter railroading; Arthur, the other twin, is manager of the Electric Vehicle Company, of New York, Hartford and Elizabethport. Mr. Huy is a firm believer in the Democratic party, and as a representative of that party he was the first police justice of Great Falls, administering the duties of the office in a highly creditable manner. He has been a member of the Masonic order for many years. He was also a charter member of the Corning (N. Y.) Lodge of Odd Fellows. Mr. Huy has outlived the allotted existence of man and is still robust and vigorous. His life has been a busy and productive one. He has used his time in useful labor, and has won for himself a warm place in the affectionate veneration of the people. One of the patriarchs of the city which he helped to found, he can look back over his long connec- tion with it with pleasure unmarred by the recol- lection of any interest neglected, any duty slighted or any wrong done consciously to any person.

C 'HARLES C. HUYCK .- The magnitude of the sheep industry in Montana is little appreciated or understood by the average residents of eastern states, and the extent of the various enterprises in this line would prove a matter of astonishment to those who look upon Montana as a practically bar- ren waste of land. Among the representative men identified with this important industry in Carbon county is Mr. Huyck, one of the progressive and successful young business men of this section of the state.

Mr. Huyck is a native of the state of Iowa, hav- ing been born in West Union, Fayette county, on March 5, 1863, the son of William and Nancy (McMasters) Huyck, the former of whom was born in Bradford county, Pa., and the latter in Bellefonte, Center county. The Huyck family has long been settled in the old Keystone state, and there was born Isaac Huyck, the grandfather of our subject, the original ancestors in America hav- ing emigrated from Germany, and were sterling representatives of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. After his marriage William Huyck removed to Iowa, locating in West Union, where he devoted his early years to the vocation of a carpenter and builder, and where he is still living, having at- tained the venerable age of seventy-five years, re-

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taining much of his physical and mental vigor. His cherished and devoted wife is still living. They became the parents of two children : Charles C., the subject of this review, and Carrie E., who is married and resides at Red Lodge, Mont. Charles C. Huyck secured his preliminary education in the public schools of his native town and supplemented the same by a course of study in Slack's Business College, at Decorah, Iowa. He prepared himself for the practical duties of life by learning the trade of carpenter and builder under the effective direc- tion of his honored father, and after leaving the business college he devoted his attention to work in this line for a few months and then accepted the position of assistant bookkeeper of the Fayette County National Bank, at West Union, where he remained two and one-half years. He then went to St. Paul, Minn., and was employed in a sash and door factory about four months, but securing a position with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in the construction of bridges on its line, he came to Montana and began work on the Rocky Fork and Cooke City division. He only remained a month, however, and then located in Red Lodge, Carbon county, and engaged in contracting and building for a period of four years, erecting many of the early public and private buildings in the town. In the meanwhile Mr. Huyck had taken up a tract of land seventeen miles north of Red Lodge, and here he now has a fine ranch property of about 1,200 acres, improved with an attractive and sub- stantial residence and other excellent buildings. Devoting his attention to the raising of sheep, he has been signally prosperous, averaging about 5,000 head. His ranch is one of the finest in this locality, and his progressive methods have brought him abundant success. He has an immense and well-equipped sheep barn, with a large dipping vat, and all lambing takes place within this structure, its shelter and accommodations advancing this period fully a month earlier than when the stock is exposed to the elements. Three creeks traverse the ranch, affording exceptional facilities for irriga- tion, so that a large portion of the land may be made very productive when desired.

In politics Mr. Huyck supports the Republican party ; fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. On February 3, 1890, Mr. Huyck was united in marriage to Miss Estella Tinkham, who was born in Chautauqua county, N. Y., the daugh- ter of William F. Tinkham, now engaged in the

blacksmithing business in Red Lodge. Our sub- ject and his wife are the parents of three interesting children, Mabel, Ellsworth and Maric, all of whom are attending school.

JOHN T. INGRAM, secretary of the Gallatin County Pioneers' Society, has practically made his home in the city of Bozeman since 1864, and is well and favorably known as one of Montana's earliest pioneer settlers. In reviewing his life from boyhood it is shown that his early dependence upon his own exertions and a strict adherence to honorable methods are the only means of securing success in the accumulation of worldly goods and, what is far greater, the esteem and confidence of his fellow-men. He was born in the picturesque old sca-girt county of Cornwall, England, on Feb- ruary 28, 1840, the son of Thomas and Jane (Uren) Ingram, natives of the same county. The mining industry in County Cornwall is known the world over. as being its chief line of enterprise, and Thomas Ingram, like the average youth of that section, was early employed in the mines, and was thus engaged until he immigrated with his family to the United States in 1843. Intending to follow the vocation to which he had been reared he first located in the mining districts of Pennsylvania, establishing his home in the village of Pottsville, where he was for a short time employed in the mines ; removed thence to the mining district in the vicinity of Galena, Ill., and eventually secured a farm in Wisconsin. While the family were still in Illinois the father started overland with ox teams for California, by the way of Salt Lake, but died en route on Humboldt river, being at the time in the prime of life, aged about thirty-seven. This was during the memorable gold excitement in 1849. Upon starting for the west Thomas In- gram left his family on the homestead farm in Wis- consin, and when the sad news of his father's un- timely demise was received in the little home our subject, the eldest of the children. realized that he must aid in the support of his mother and the other children, though himself but a mere boy. The only education he then secured was in oc- casional attendance at the primitive district schools, but he assisted his mother with true filial solicitude until the time of her death, at the age of seventy-seven years, and was performing a man's work at the age of fifteen. At the age of nineteen he joined a party of his neighbors and

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made the long overland trip to Colorado for the purpose of engaging in mining. Upon arriving there his first work was in the old Gregory mine, in Blackhawk county, where he remained until 1862, returning home early in that year and re- maining until May, when he again went to Colo- rado and engaged in mining until August. He then went to Virginia City, Nev., and engaged in mining, but in June, 1864, started for the new min- ing camp at Alder gulch, Mont., the present site of Virginia City, arriving there in the latter part of July. While a youth he had learned the trade of a carpenter, and after locating in Montana, he worked in this line and also at mining in various sections of the state, though his home was practi- cally in or near Bozeman from the fall of 1864. From 1866 to 1868, inclusive, he gave his attention almost exclusively to work at his trade; but min- ing has figured as his chief vocation during the long years of his residence in Montana. After his marriage he worked as a carpenter and builder, and constructed his present residence in Bozeman.

In politics Mr. Ingram is a Republican and an active worker in its cause. His first presidential vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln. He was the candidate of his party for county assessor at the election of November, 1900, but owing to the dis- ruption of the party in the state on the question of free silver he met defeat. He was one of the prime factors in effecting the organization of the Gallatin County Pioneer Society, and was elected presi- ident of the same in 1897, while in 1899 he was chosen secretary, an office he still holds. He has been identified with the Knights of Pythias for sixteen years ; is a member of the grand lodge of the order in Montana and of the Uniform Rank. In 1860, while in Colorado, Mr. Ingram formed the acquaintance of Judge Cornelius Hedges, one of Montana's most distinguished citizens and now a resident of the city of Helena. The friendship thus formed has remained inviolate during all the intervening years; and Mr. Ingram possesses a document which he prizes very highly, the same being the first legal instrument drawn by Judge Hedges in Montana-a deed to a mining claim. On July 4, 1882, John T. Ingram was united in marriage to Miss Minerva Wykel, who was born in Indiana, the daughter of Henry and Luvina Wykel, who removed from the Hoosier state to Michigan, becoming early settlers of the latter commonwealth. Our subject and his wife became the parents of two children, now dead.

T ILLIAM B. JONES .- That the advantages of personal advancement in connection with the industrial life of Montana do not lack for ap- preciation is shown in many ways, and not the least pronounced is that manifested when persons of foreign birth come to the state, change their line of occupation entirely, and reach a measure of success which cannot be other than gratifying. One of the pioneer settlers of Fergus county, Will- iam B. Jones, was born in the south of Wales, on August 26, 1841. His parents, Benjamin and Anna N. Jones, were likewise born in Wales, where they passed their lives, the father being a farmer, while both he and his wife were communi- cants of the church of England. His death oc- curred in 1848 and Mrs. Jones is still living. Of their eight children Thomas and David are de- ceased, the survivors being William B., Richard, Jane, Margaret, Ann and Sarah, none living in this country but William B.

Mr. Jones remained at the parental home until he had attained the age of twenty years, and was employed in coal mining until he was twenty-six years of age, when he came to the United States, locating first at Belleville, Ill., where he was a coal miner for twelve years. He then made a trip through Colorado, worked in gold and sil- ver mines in various localities and prospected and mined for himself. In 1879 he came to Boulder, Mont., and was there engaged in successful min- ing for four years. In 1883 he came to Fergus county and took up a homestead claim on Cot- tonwood creek, eight miles south of the village of Cottonwood, and here he now lives and has an aggregate area of 419 acres. One hundred and fifty acres are well adapted for cultivation, and in addition to raising cattle Mr. Jones carries on profitable ranching. He is well pleased with the outlook of this section of the state, and feels that he has established himself in a home whose value is certain to be cumulative. In politics Mr. Jones belongs to the Republican party, and fraternally he is identified with Judith Lodge No. 30, I. O. O. F., at Lewistown. September 26, 1864, stands as the date of his marriage to Miss Mary George, who was likewise horn in Wales, a daughter of William and Ann George, both of whom passed their lives in Wales, where the father was a farmer until his death in 1862. His wife survived him many years, being called from earth in 1899. Both were members of the church of England. Of their seven children, William, Ann and Mar-

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garet are deceased, the others being Elizabeth, David, John and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have one child, Benjamin, an energetic agriculturist on an adjoining ranch to his father's.

B ENJAMIN JONES .- On another page of this work will be found individual mention of Will- 1am B. Jones, the father of the gentleman whose name initiates this paragraph, and to that we re- fer the reader for family details. Benjamin Jones was born in the south of Wales on November 26, 1865, but he was educated in Illinois and at the age of eleven began assisting his father in his coal mining. After two years of this labor he came to Montana, and worked on the homestead ranch of his father on Cottonwood creek until he had attained the age of twenty-four years, when he took up pre-emption and homestead claims on lands adjoined to his father's ranch on the south and east, and thirteen miles south of Lewistown. To this property he has added 160 acres, and has now 485 acres of land. He has made good im- provements, and is successfully engaged in the raising of cattle, horses, hay and grain, a con- siderable portion of his land being under effective irrigation and very prolific. For eight years Mr. Jones conducted freighting in this section of the state, and he is now concerned in the operation of a threshing outfit. His energy and progressive methods have brought him success and he is one of the prosperous young ranchmen of his section. In politics he gives his support to the Repub- lican party. On December 16, 1888, Mr. Jones was united in marriage with Miss Effie M. Smith, a native of California, the daughter of Thomas and Emma Smith. Her father is dead and her mother remarried to George Williams, and they reside in Fergus county. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have had seven children, one of whom, Roy, died when ten years old. The others are Mary, William, Em- ma, Maggie, Agnes and Hazel.

H ARRY C. BURGESS, who, with his brother, Starratt J. Burgess, is engaged in one of the most prominent dairy enterprises in Montana, is a resident of Lewis and Clarke county, near Helena. He was born in Hants county, Cheverie, Nova

Scotia, in 1861. His parents were Charles H. and Hannah Burgess, natives of Nova Scotia. Henry Burgess, until he was eighteen, remained in Nova Scotia, receiving his education in Ellershouse, Hants county, whither the family had removed in 1873. In 1879 he came to the United States and located at Boston, Mass., engaging in the carpenter business for two years. The attractions of the far west then claimed him, and he journeyed to Port- land, Ore., where for two years he worked at the carpenter's trade, thence returning to Boston where he continued that business for two years more. In 1885 Mr. Burgess first came to Helena, Mont. Here he was employed for three years by Thorn- burg & Appleton, contractors and builders, then the heaviest contracting firm in the state. Mr. Burgess was foreman of the carpenter work dur- ing the construction of the elaborate Broadwater Hotel, west of Helena. In 1893 he abandoned his · trade and engaged in dairying with his brother, Starratt J. Burgess, and in this he has since con- tinued.

On November II, 1886, Mr. Burgess was united in marriage to Miss Nettie Arnold, of Bartlett, Ohio, a daughter of Benjamin F. Arnold, a farmer. They have one child, Ralph Henry, four years of age. Mr. Burgess has three brothers in Montana, Charles Percy, of Philipsburg, a carpenter : Eastcourt N., of Helena, also a carpenter, and Starratt J., his partner in dairying. He has one sister married to Mr. E. Carter, a stockman, of Wolf Creek. Mr. Burgess is a member of the First Baptist church, of Helena, and he has sung tenor in its choir during his entire residence in the city. Mr. Burgess has always affiliated with the Republi- can party, in whose campaigns he takes a lively in- terest. Fraternally he is a Freemason, being a member of Helena Lodge No. 3; a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Capital Lodge No. 2; also is connected with the Woodmen of the. World, in Camp Broadwater. Mr. Burgess is one of the successful business men of Montana. During his long residence in the west lie has seen it grow from a land in which the hostile Indian was largely in evidence into one of the fairest lands. In the making of its history Mr. Burgess certainly has had a share. By industry and business sagacity he has achieved a no small measure of financial success. He has established a reputation for hon- esty and fair dealing second to none in the state, and has a large circle of acquaintances by whom he is highly esteemed.

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R OBERT S. TINGLEY .- A native son of Mon- tana and a representative of one of the ster- ling pioneer families of the state, the subject of this review has personally shown himself to be a young man of progressive spirit and business abil- ity, has gained the confidence and esteem of the community in which he has practically passed his entire life; and is recognized as one of the able and enterprising farmers and stockgrowers of Choteau county.

Mr. Tingley was born in Choteau county, Mont., when it included the present county of Teton, on October 24, 1872, the son of Robert S. and Louise (Campbell) Tingley. The father was born in Clark county, Ill., in the year 1841, and came to Montana as a pioneer in 1862. To him must be accorded the distinction of having been the first to strike gold at Bannack. He was well known to the old-timers of the state, having for many years conducted a hotel at Twenty-eight-mile Springs. In 1876 he removed to Fort Benton, where he con- ducted a meat market until the spring of 1888, when he took up aranch on Big Sandy Flat, where he died in the summer of the following year. His widow now makes her home with her son, the subject of this review. She was born at Fort Benton in 1851, her father having been one of the very first to be- come identified with the history of this section of the Union. Robert S. Tingley received his pre- liminary education in the public schools of Fort Benton, supplemented with a course of study in the Engelhorn Business College, at Helena. He left school in 1885 and for the following two years was engaged in herding cattle in the Moccasin mountain district, while during the next two years he was identified with the same line of enterprise in the vicinity of Big Sandy, Choteatt county. In 1895 he became foreman of the home ranch, near the village of Big Sandy, which was then under the management of his uncle, Clark Tingley, who died in 1899, since which time our subject has been general manager of the ranch, which com- prises 3,000 acres located two miles east of the town of Big Sandy. The ranch is devoted to the raising of high grade cattle and horses, while a considerable portion is under effective irrigation and annually yields large crops of grain and hay. Mr. Tingley has shown marked executive ability and discrimination since assuming the management of the property, and is esteemed as one of the re- liable and enterprising young men of this section of the state.

In politics he exercises his franchise in support of the Republican party and its principles ; frater- nally he is identified with Big Sandy Lodge No. 85, A. O. U. W. On October 5, 1898, Mr. Tingley was united in marriage to Miss Jeanette Rutan, who was born at Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1876, the daughter of Charles F. Rutan, living now at Seattle, Wash. Our subject and his estimable wife are the parents of two children : Lorain, born Aug- ust 7, 1899; and Orville, born October 11, 1900.

JOHN J. TINGLEY .- As a native son of Mon- tana and a worthy representative of one of its pioneer families, it is proper that Mr. Tingley finds consideration in this volume, and the propriety is heightened in view of his personal standing as one of the able and progressive young business men of the state and as one identified with industrial ac- tivities of wide scope and importance. Concerning his honored father, the late Robert S. Tingley, de- tailed mention is made in the sketch of his son, Robert S., Jr., appearing on another page of this work. John J. Tingley was born on April 14, 1867, in the old town of Fort Benton, Mont., where, in the public schools, he received his edti- cational training until he attained the age of eighteen years, since which time he has been ac- tively identified with the live stock and ranching interests of the family, the estate being as yet un- divided and the various members of the family thus owning equal interests therein.

The enterprises of the Tingleys cover a long period of years and the interests involved are of wide scope and importance. From 1887 until 1889, both dates inclusive, the father was engaged in stockraising in the Moccasin mountains, Fergus county, and in 1889 the cattle were brought to the present ranch at the Bear Paw range in Choteau county, which had been located the preceding year. This fine property adjoins the town of Big Sandy on the Great Northern Railroad, so that shipping facilities are exceptionally good. To the original homestead claim additions have been made by the purchase of contiguous tracts until the property now has an aggregate area of fully 3,000 acres, which are devoted to the raising of high-grade cattle and to diversified farming. Upon the death of the late Robert S. Tingley, in 1889, the ranch became the joint property of his children : John J., Oliver, Robert S., Jr., Lizzie (wife of H. R. Mudd), Moses C. and David, and of the father's brother.

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Clark Tingley, who continued the management of the estate until his death, which occurred in 1899 in Great Falls. Since that time the interests of the estate have been in charge of the brothers, with Robert S. as manager. John J. Tingley is an earnest supporter of the Republican party, and fra- ternally is identified with Big Sandy Lodge No. 85, A. O. of U. W., in whose affairs he takes lively interest. He is one of the popular young men of the county, in whose social life the family occupy a position of distinctive prominence.

F M. TINSLEY .- Commingling in his ances- try the blood of noted families of South Caro- lina and Kentucky, and himself a native of Mis- souri, Francis M. Tinsley, of Hyde, Gallatin coun- ty, Mont., has many of the best traits of our south- ern civilization, and much of the energy, resource- fulness and hardihood of the western frontier. He was born in Grundy county, Mo., August 12, 1856. He lived on his father's farm and attended the schools of his native county until he was eight years old, when he came with the familyto Montana, mak- ing the journey overland with ox teams. From the time of his arrival at his new home until 1882 he remained with the family, his life passing as that of country boys generally in this section, at which time he bought a farm for himself on Willow creek, six miles west of Pony, and began opera- tions on his own account. The tract consisted of 200 acres, which he cultivated for three years with fair success. He then sold it and purchased of W. D. Dunn his present homestead of 160 acres, to which he has added by purchases until he now has about 1,000 acres and is profitably engaged in stockraising, usually carrying from 150 to 200 head, thoroughbred Herefords being his prefer- ence. He is a wide-awake, energetic man, and pushes his business for all it is worth; and in con- sequence has one of the most promising farms in his part of the county. It yields annually abund- ant crops of hay from the older grasses, to which he has recently added alfalfa with a view to increas- ing his annual product. The farm is provided with good barns, sheds, fencing and other necessary appliances for its purposes, including a com- modious and comfortable dwelling, well shaded and surrounded with grounds tastefully arranged and adorned with attractive shrubbery and flowers.

Mr. Tinsley was married January 1, 1883, to

Miss May Dunn, a native of Indiana, and daughter of Dr. William Dunn, who was born in Kentucky, but removed to Brazil, Ind., when a young man, and there acquired a lucrative practice. In 1879 he came to Montana and remained until 1895. He then started to return to his former home, but died on the way, deeply regretted by numerous friends, and highly respected throughout his useful and honorable life. The Tinsleys have two children : Walter I., born March 9, 1885, and Francis Marion, born January 13, 1895. Mr. Tinsley has been a school trustee for many years, and has shown in- telligent activity in all public affairs of the county. He is well esteemed as a thoughtful and progress- ive man, and his counsel is much sought by his friends and neighbors. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and renders good service to his lodge as he has opportunity.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 178

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