Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 19

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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In 1887 Mr. Calkins became identified with the National Guard of Montana as a member of Com- pany G, First Regiment. He was the adjutant at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war and joined his comrades in the service of the govern- ment. They went to Helena on April 28, 1898, and on May 6 were mustered into the service, Mr. Cal- kins as first lieutenant of his company. They ar- rived in San Francisco on May 28, and on July 17 sailed for the Philippine Islands, arriving at Cavite on August 24. As the outlook did not promise active service, and as his business demanded his at- tention, Mr. Calkins remained in the Philippines only a few months, and on December 3 he left Ma- nila on his return voyage, and arrived in Butte on January II, 1899. When active military operations commenced in the Philippines Mr. Calkins regretted that he had not remained with his regiment, but the inaction was irksome in the extreme and he took the course which seemed the most expedient. Mr. Cal-

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kins is prominently identified with the Masonic or- der and other fraternal organizations, in the first of which he has maintained a deep interest from the time of his initiation as an Entered Apprentice. He was raised to the degree of Master Mason in New York, and was dimitted to become a frater of Butte Lodge No. 22, A. F. & A. M., of which he served as master in 1893. In the capitular body of the fra- ternity he is identified with Deer Lodge Chapter No. 3, R. A. M., of which he is now scribe, while he holds chivalric honors as a sir knight of Montana Commandery No. 3, K. T., of which he is a past commander. He has been made a noble of Algeria Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine in Helena. He also belongs to the Elks and to the Sons of America.

Mr. Calkins has ever supported the Republican party, and has taken an active interest in local poli- tics. In 1887 he was elected one of the board of al- dermen of Butte to represent the Third ward; in 1899 he was elected city treasurer, and in the munic- ipal election of 1901 he was chosen as his own suc- cessor in this important office, securing a majority of 300 votes and receiving the distinction of being the only candidate elected on the Republican ticket. In the administration of the city's finances he has shown marked executive ability and thorough busi- ness methods, and his re-election was a mark of the public appreciation of his services. During his first term as treasurer the revenues of the city were in- creased by full $50,000, as, before this time, licenses had not been collected from banks and from various other sources prescribed by the ordinances of the city. The devotion to the city's interests shown by Treasurer Calkins has gained to him the indorsement of the citizens of Butte without regard to political affiliations. On September 3, 1886, Mr. Calkins was united in marriage to Miss Mary Doty, who was born in New York, the daughter of Mar- tin V. Doty and wife, who are deceased. Treasurer Calkins and wife are prominent in the leading cir- cles of the best social life of the city of their home.

HITE CALFEE .- Many pleasant incidents are woven into the life record of this repre- sentative citizen and business man of Bozeman, Gallatin county ; but to rehearse the story in detail would exceed the limits of this work. His expe- rience in the west extended over a long period of years. He comes of patrician stock, his great-

grandfather and grandfather on the paternal side having accompanied Gen. LaFayette to America and served with distinction during the war of the Revo- lution. Both were killed by Indians after peace was made with England.

Mr. Calfee was born in Greensburg, the county- seat of Green county, Ky., August 24, 1840, and when a child accompanied his parents on their re- moval to Arkansas, so that practically he has passed his entire life in the west. Henry Calfee, the father of our subject, was born at Bloomington, Ind., October 19, 1801, and when twenty-five years of age located in Greensburg, Ky., where he followed shoemaking and tinsmithing for a period of ten years. Later he removed to Washington county, Ark., following the same occupation until 1863, but during the Civil war he was shot and killed by bushwhackers. He was twice married, and our subject was the child of the second union, solem- nized at Greensburg, Ky., in 1836, when he wedded Miss Margaret E. Cannon.

White Calfee, the immediate subject of this review, was educated in private schools at Fayette- ville, Ark., and in the Arkansas State College. In June, 1861, at the age of twenty-one years, he enlisted in Company F, Second Regiment, Arkan- sas State Confederate troops; commissioned ensign, serving until October of the same year, when he was mustered out and entered the regular service of the Confederacy. He was taken pris- oner at the battle of Prairie Grove, December 15, 1862, and after two weeks' confinement at Fort Scott, Ark., he took the oath of allegiance to the Federal government. The story of his experience for several years thereafter reads like a romance. He was a saddler by trade, and upon release at Fort Scott he worked at his trade for the govern- ment for a period of two months. He then walked 150 miles, to the home of his uncle, Henry Brock, of Eureka, Kan., from which point he made his way to Fort Leavenworth, where he was engaged in flatboating on the Missouri river for a few months, also shipping horses to Fort Scott for government use. He then accompanied a survey- ing party into Nebraska, returning to Fort Leav- enworth in the fall of the same year and was employed by the government as a teamster, carry- ing commissary stores to Denver, Colo., and New Mexico. In the spring of 1864 he went to Fort Sumner was arrested for treasonable utterances, decorated with ball and chain and sent to Fort Union. Two months later he was released and

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joined an expedition under Kit Carson, which made its way to the Canadian river, in New Mex- ico, and fought the Kiwa Indians in January, 1865. Returning to Fort Sumner in May he made a trip on horseback to Denver, Colo., in company with Tom Johnson, who remained in Denver, while Mr. Calfee pushed on to Fort Halleck, where he joined a train. of emigrants bound for Oregon, Cali- fornia and Utah. On the long and weary trip across the plains the party had numerous encoun- ters with the Indians. Mr. Calfee left the train at Green river, Utah, and came to Bozeman, Mont., by way of Virginia City. He arrived in Bozeman July 13, 1865, where he was employed by the firm of Parham & Vaughn. About September I, with four others and a boy he was surrounded near the present site of Bozeman tunnel by a party of Sioux Indians, but rescued by some whites and Crow Indians. In the fight a comrade was in danger of being lassoed but rescued by the judicious use of his revolver. That year he located a squatter's claim of 160 acres three miles south of Bozeman, which he soon sold for $200. In 1867 he purchased a claim of equal area, paying $500 for it, on which he proved up and made his home until 1873, when he rented it to James L. Patterson and engaged in freighting. In 1878 he sold out to J. M. Rob- ertson and continued freighting until 1883. From 1879 to 1883 he was also engaged in the agricul- tural implement and real estate business in Boze- man, which he continued throughout the Indian wars, having many serious encounters. In 1883 Mr. Calfee contracted with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to furnish ties and other timber for construction purposes which required his atten- tion for a period of two years. In 1874 he pur- chased a ranch of 500 acres, on Middle creek, three miles south of Belgrade, which he operated until 1885, and farther expanded his operations by operating a sawmill at Pony, Madison county, and later at Cottonwood, Gallatin county, where he erected a mill with the best mechanical equipment. This he operated for fifteen years, selling his plant to W. J. Brown in June, 1900. Since then his time has been devoted to his various real estate and business interests. During 1875, when Mr. Calfee was engaged in freighting for the government, the Indians stole a number of his mules, valued at about $4,000. Claim for the amount was made, but was only allowed the sum of $615.

In politics Mr. Calfee renders stanch allegiance to the Democratic party. Fraternally he is iden-

tified with Gallatin Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M .; Western Star Lodge No. 4, I. O. O. F .; and Pyth- agoras Lodge No. 2, K. of P.

Mr. Calfee was married in the year 1884, and has two sons, White H., born April 19, 1885, and Walter Bird, born May 22, 1887. Walter is at school in Bozeman, and White, Jr., is learning the printer's trade in the Chronicle office, Bozeman.

In June, 1876, at the time of the Custer massacre, Mr. Calfee was with Gen. Terry's command that went to relieve Custer. Early on the morning of June 27, Mr. Calfee met Curley, the Indian scout that escaped from the Custer massacre, and was the first to hear the news from the Indian. June 28th, Mr. Calfee was one of the first to see Custer's body and was over the entire field while everything was just as the Indians had left it. Mr. Calfee counted 243 dead white men, and 16 dead Indians. He has an arrow taken from Capt. Cal- houn's body, and a beautiful gun scabbard which he secured from the battle field.

COL. JAMES EDMUND CALLAWAY .- Holding an admitted precedence in the legal profession, and having a highly creditable military record, and one who has wielded wide influence as a man of affairs, the service of Col. James E. Calla- way to Montana has been of exalted character. It has identified him with this commonwealth in a leading way for more than a quarter of a century. He is the Nestor of the bar in Madison county. He was born July 7, 1834, in Trigg county, Ky. His father, Samuel T. Callaway, also a native of that state, was an active physician until his health broke down. He then became a clergyman of the Chris- tian church, and in 1848 removed to Illinois, where he continued in the ministry until his death. He was early an old-line Whig, and later a Republican. He was a son of that Edmund Callaway who, as a boy, rendered distinguished service in the Conti- nental army and also took a conspicuous part in the war of 1812, and later commanded a troop of gal- lant Kentuckians at the battles of Tippecanoe and Raisin river. His name appears on the monument erected in honor of the pioneers of Kentucky, at Frankfort. An uncle, Col. Richard Callaway, was a partner of Daniel Boone, the renowned pioneer of Kentucky. His two daughters, Fannie and Betsey, were one day boating on the Kentucky river near Fort Boone with Boone's little daughter, Jemima,

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and all were captured by Indians. The capture was reported by little Margaret Hamilton (always called "Peggy"), who later was wife of William Means, and grandmother of Col. J. E. Callaway. Col. Rich- ard Callaway, with thirty men, pursued the Indians, whom they overtook four days later, and rescued the children. This Fannie Callaway was the first white girl married in Kentucky, her husband being a Henderson. Her sister Betsey married a son of Daniel Boone. Dr. Lamme, father of Edward Lamme, of Bozeman, was a grandson of Betsey. The Irwin brothers, of Deer Lodge, were also her grandsons. Daniel Boone and Col. Richard Calla- way were members of the first legislature of Ken- tucky. The maiden name of Col. James E. Calla- way's mother was Mary Hamilton Means, and her maternal grandfather was Col. James Hamilton, who commanded a Georgia regiment in the Revolu- tion, and was killed early in the war. He was born on the Island of Nevis in the West Indies, and came to Georgia about 1767. The Colonel's maternal grandmother, a daughter of Col. Hamilton, became a resident of Kentucky when she was four years old, and there she married William Means, a Virginian, who died in 1853, aged eighty-four years. He was the first sheriff of Christian county, Ky. His wife, "Peggy" Hamilton, lived to be very old.

Col. James E. Callaway was educated in the pub- lic schools of Kentucky and Illinois, and Eureka (Ill.) College. At an early age he entered the law office of Richard Yates, war governor of Illinois, then living at Jacksonville, and under that eminent jurist he continued his reading until admitted to practice. After a short residence at Jacksonville he located at Tuscola, Douglas county. In April, 1861, the attack on Fort Sumter led him to tender his services in defense of the Union. A public meeting was held in Tuscola April 17, 1861, and within an hour a company was organized and Col. Callaway chosen captain, and two hours later Capt, Callaway started to the state capital to tender its services to the government. At Springfield he found that his was the fifty-seventh company offered to Gov. Yates after the six regiments of three-months troops were full and organized. The company was mustered into state service by U. S. Grant on May 9, and into the United States service in June, 1861, as Company D, Twenty-first Illinois Volunteers. Their regiment was commanded by Col. U. S. Grant. It left Springfield July 4, 1861, was at- tached to the Army of the West, and never was in battle under Grant. Its first engagement was ät

Fredericktown, Mo., against Jeff Thompson. In September, 1862, Capt. Callaway was commissioned major. At Chickamauga the colonel, J. W. Alex- ander, was killed, the lieutenant-colonel captured and the command devolved on Maj. Callaway. On the day before Col. Alexander's death the Eighty- first Indiana Regiment became badly demoralized. Gen. Jeff C. Davis, the division commander, rallied them after their second break, and sent Maj. Calla- way to take command of the Eighty-first Indiana in addition to his own regiment. This he did in this battle after Col. Alexander's death and in the siege of Chattanooga. The record of the Eighty- first Indiana was so excellent after he assumed com- mand that it received special mention from head- quarters, and the regiment later presented him with a beautifully mounted sword, which now graces his dining-room at his home at Virginia City. During the siege of Chattanooga Maj. Callaway, with these regiments and some cavalry and artillery, was sent nearly forty miles up the Sequatchie valley on a for- aging expedition. He seized all the mills in the valley, ran them for a week, gathered and ground thousands of bushels of corn, loaded his 300 wagons with provisions, and returned without losing man or wagon, although closely pursued by Wheeler's cav- alry. After the battle of Stone river Gen, Rose- crans organized a light brigade in each division from officers and men distinguished for bravery and soldierly qualities. Their names were placed on a "roll of honor." Maj. Callaway's name was on the roll, and he was made commander of one of these brigades. Two months later the secretary of war ordered these brigades disorganized. After the bat- tle of Chickamauga the Eighty-first Indiana had so few men that it was not entitled to a colonel and had no field officer, and Gov. Morton offered Maj. Callaway its lieutenant-colonelcy, but he refused to leave his old command, and was made lieutenant- colonel of his own regiment in November, 1864. Of the 300 regiments of the Union army officially men- tioned as having rendered distinguished services, the Twenty-first Illinois "holds the rank" on the "Roll of Honor." It suffered lieavier loss at Stone river than any other command in the Army of the Cumberland. After the surrender of all of the Con- federate armies the brave Callaway, with a colonel's commission, resigned "by reason of the close of the war," and was honorably discharged. The United States government, in recognition of arduous duties rendered and disabilities incurred in the line of duty, placed his name on its pension roll.

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Col. Callaway returned to Illinois, resumed his profession, served in the state legislature and won prestige at the bar, until March, 1871, when Presi- dent Grant appointed him secretary of Montana Territory. In this important office he served six years with credit to himself, benefit to the territory and the satisfaction of the people. He was a mem- ber of the constitutional convention of 1884, and also of that of 1889, which formulated the state con- stitution. He was a member of the territorial legis- lature in 1885 and was the first Republican speaker of a Montana house of representatives. In 1878, during a vacancy, he was appointed by Judge Blake United States district attorney for the First judi- cial district and served as such in 1878-9. Col. Cal- laway located in Virginia City in 1871, and success- fully engaged in legal practice until 1898, when physical ailments so developed that his physicians ordered him "off duty." He is now ( 1901) resum- ing practice. He has always been a stalwart Re- publican and an active and able exponent of his principles. He belongs to lodge, chapter and com- mandery of the Masonic order and is past master i.1 the lodge. He is a popular member of the G. A. R., a past department commander of the state organiza- tion. On January 16, 1866, Col. Callaway married with Miss Mary E. Link, a native of Illinois and daughter of an early pioneer. They have four chil- dren, Llewellyn, born December 15, 1868, a highly promising lawyer at Virginia City; Ethel, born De- cember 26, 1872, died February 10, 1878; Edmund J., born December 31, 1880, now a student in the class of '02 at the law school in Lincoln, Neb .; George R., born September 14, 1883, graduated from the Virginia City high school in June, 1901. Col. Callaway is very social, regards every man his equal who behaves himself, and although a radical Republican, never allows his political differences to interfere with his social relations, and it is his de- light that he has as many personal friends in the Democratic party as among his brother Republicans. The Colonel has many traits peculiar to his southern ancestry ; quick to resent an insult and generous to friend and foe. In the constitutional convention of 1889 he was known as its "Chesterfield," and in the convention of 1884 composed, among other distin- guished citizens, of such men as James H. Mills, Thomas C. Power, William H. Hunt and Andrew F. Burleigh, he was by unanimous vote in caucus elected the tactical and political leader of his party in that convention. As a parliamentarian Col. Cal- laway is recognized as peer of any in the land. But

beyond and above all the qualities of genuine man- hood, he is a typical and thoroughbred American citizen.

L LEWELLYN L. CALLAWAY .- Among the young lawyers of the state from whom the future seems to hold in store a career of profes- sional distinction and public renown, none is more promising than that of Llewellyn L. Callaway, of Madison county. From its very beginning his professional life has been one of steady growth. Mr. Callaway was born December 15, 1868, at Tus- cola, Ill., the son of Col. James E. and Mary E. (Link) Callaway, of that city. Of the father ex- tended notice will be found on other pages of this volume. Llewellyn accompanied his parents from his native state in March, 1871, to Montana, where he attended public and private schools until sixteen years old. At that age, in 1884, he entered Hamilton Preparatory School in Philadelphia, Pa., and was graduated from there in 1886, and the same fall matriculated as a freshman at the Uni- versity of Michigan, but when vacation came went to work on his father's ranch until the fall of 1889 for the purpose of earning money to further prose- cute his studies. In that fall he entered the law department of the University of Michigan and was graduated therefrom in 1891 with the first recom- mendation of the faculty. He was admitted to practice in the superior and supreme courts of Michigan in May of that year, and in the courts of Montana in the following August. He located at White Sulphur Springs and formed a professional partnership with Max Waterman, but in 1894 removed to his former home, Virginia City, and has since resided there and been actively engaged in the practice of law with a constantly expanding client- age and professional reputation. In September, 1894, he was the nominee of his party for the office of county attorney, and was elected by a majority of 412 out of a vote of 1791, and was re-elected in 1896 by a majority of 154 votes over the combined fusion forces.

His official record is one of the strongest and best ever made in the commonwealth. It covered a busy time for the prosecutor. The criminal classes were active and defiant. He had a large number of important cases, and out of all there were only three failures to convict during his two terms. In 1900 he was elected mayor of Virginia City, and in February, 1901, was chosen to a second

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term, which he is now filling with marked ability, fairness and general approval, exhibiting at the same time great zeal for the interests of the municipality and consideration for the rights and feelings of individual citizens. Mr. Callaway is an unwavering Republican, and has given to the candidates and policies of his party some of the most effective service in council and on the hust- ings they have had in his section of the state. He is state committeeman for Madison county, and chairman of the county central committee on his side. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, the Elks and the Maccabees, in all of which he has held high offices, having been three times master of the Masonic lodge, exalted ruler of his Elks' lodge, and commander of his tent of Mac- cabees. He is now (1901) junior grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Masons of the state. His professional success, his political prominence and activity and his engaging social qualities have not, all combined, been sufficient to shut sentiment from Mr. Callaway's life or close his eyes to the flowery yoke of Eros. He was united in marriage on December 12, 1894, with Ellen N. Badger, a native of Boone county, Mo., and daughter of Baker W. and Fannie L. (Woodson) Badger, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Callaway have two children, Miriam, born July 6, 1896, and James L., born March 6, 1899.

AL LBERT J. CAMPBELL .- This distinguished gentleman possesses high intellectuality, and is an able lawyer, maintaining offices in Butte, and he has had the distinction of representing the com- monwealth of Montana in the congress of the United States, where he honored the state by his capable services. He was born in Pontiac, the county-seat of Oakland county, Mich., on Decem- ber 12, 1857, the second of the four children of Milo R. and Ruth A. (Perkins) Campbell. Both of his parents were born in Massachusetts, the respective families being established on New England soil in the colonial epochi, and representatives of each Mere active participants in the American Revolu- · tion. Milo R. Campbell has been a lifelong agri- culturist and also conducts a boot and shoe busi- ness in Pontiac, his home, whose wife died when Albert was a child.

Albert J. Campbell, after completing a course in the high school, in 1875 matriculated in the Michi-

gan State Agricultural College, at Lansing, which stands at the head of all similar institutions in the Union, and there took a special course of study. Thereafter he taught school for three winters, devoting the summer months to farm work, and in 1879 began the technical preparation which ulti- mately fitted him for the vocation in which he has since shown such ability. He entered the law office of Colvin & Harrington, a prominent law firm of Pontiac, and under effective direction continued his reading until he was admitted to practice in May, 1881. He was engaged in his profession in Mich- igan until 1889 when he came to Montana, located in Livingston, and there devoted himself to the practice of law until 1897, establishing a reputation as a careful and capable attorney and becoming prominent by his successful work in criminal cases. Desiring a broader field, Mr. Campbell came to Butte in 1897, and here he has a leading position in the legal brotherhood of the state. He has given particular attention to the corporation law for the last few years, receiving the clientage of many important companies whose interests he has signally promoted.

In politics Mr. Campbell has given unequivocal allegiance to the Democratic party, and been an active worker in the ranks and in its councils. In Michigan he served in various official positions, was township clerk of West Bloomfield township, Oakland county, in 1879, county attorney of Lake county, and city attorney of Chase, in the same county. At Livingston, Mont., he served as city attorney, and in 1896 he was elected to represent Park county in the lower house of the state legis- lature. He was an active and working member, was chairman of the insurance committee and served on other important committees. In 1898 Mr. Campbell was nominated and elected by the Democratic party to the distinguished office of rep- resentative in congress, receiving a satisfactory majority. During his service of two years in con- gress he served on the committee on mines and mining and also on that on emigration, and, as both of these were particularly pertinent to the wel- fare of Montana, he was enabled to wield his influ- ence to advance her interests.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 19

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