Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 35

Author: Bowen, A.W., & Co., firm, publishers, Chicago
Publication date: [19-?]
Publisher: Chicago : A. W. Bowen & Co.
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Until the cataclysm of 1896 Mr. Galen was an unwavering Democrat in politics, and always mani- fested the liveliest interest in the success of his party, so far foregoing his own preferences and tastes in 1876 as to accept a seat in the territorial legislature as a representative from Jefferson county. But in general, he was averse to public life and official station. He was married in San Fran- cisco in 1860 to Miss Matilda M. Gillogly, whose life began on the ocean. They had seven children : Charles H., Frank and Minnie, deceased, and James L., now living at Cape Nome; Albert J., a promi- nent and skilled lawyer of Helena; Matilda M., and Ellen L., the wife of former United States Sen- ator Thomas H. Carter.

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R )AYNOR S. FREUND, M. D .- Among the able young medical representatives of Butte, where he has gained a tangible support as the result of his signal devotion to his profession and his unmistakable ability as a physician and surgeon, Dr. Raynor S. Freund merits attention. He was born in the city of Port Huron, Mich., on March 20, 1872, the son of I. D. and Jennie (Spalding) Freund, of whom specific mention is made on another page. Raynor Spalding Freund attended the public schools of Michigan and was graduated from the high school at Champion, Marquette county, in the class of 1890. He then entered the Hopkins School, a well known preparatory insti- tution of Boston, Mass., where he studied for two years, after which, in the fall of 1892, he entered the celebrated University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he devoted three years to the scien- tific course, and four years to the technical teach- ings in its medical department, being graduated after an exacting course on June 23, 1899, and simultaneously receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

He then came to Butte and became associated with his distinguished father and Dr. T. J. Murry in hospital and general practice. This alliance con- tinued until April, 1901, and since then the Doctor has continued an independent practice, having a finely equipped office in the new postoffice block. He enjoys popularity in both professional and so- cial circles, and is identified with the Rocky Moun- tain Inter-State Medical Association, the Montana State Medical Association and the Silver Bow Medical Society.

F 'RANKLIN F. FRIDLEY was one of the ear- liest settlers in Gallatin county, Mont., but for some years prior to his death a resident of Park county. His parents were Jacob and Nancy (Hite) Fridley, natives of Rockingham county, Va., where the former was born May 5, 1796, and the latter on June 12, 1798. The father of Jacob

Fridley was born and reared in Switzerland. Franklin F. Fridley was born in Augusta county, Va., October 22, 1824. When he was four years old his parents removed to Ohio and fifteen years later to Iowa, where they both died, the mother in 1846 and the father in 1856. In 1849 Mr. Frid- ley made the long journey across the plains to California, arriving at Sacramento on August 22

of that year, and finding the now prosperous cap- ital of the Golden state a staggering hamlet, containing but one wooden house. From there he went to the mines on Jackson Forks, and re- mained during the winter successfully engaged in mining. On December 15, 1850, he sailed from San Francisco on the ship Hercules around Cape Horn, and, after a four months' journey, reached his home on April 15, 1851. He bought a farm near Muscatine, Iowa, and engaged in farming until 1864, when he started for Montana, arriving at Emigrant gulch on August 27 of that year. The train with which he traveled was divided into four parts, and at a mass meeting held at Richards' bridge crossing the North Platte, Mr. Fridley was chosen captain of the first division of forty-four wagons, and he conducted it safely to its destina- tion. He remained at Emigrant gulch three weeks, then removed to Gallatin valley; the next month, October, 1864, he built the third house in the town, the first one in Gallatin valley to have the luxury of a board floor, the site being now oc- cupied by the Nevitt block. Here he lived until 1876, when he went to the states for the winter.

In the fall of 1864 Mr. Fridley bought a claim adjoining the original townsite of Bozeman on the north, which now forms the Imes addition to the city. In 1874 he bought the present Fridley ranch on the Yellowstone, twenty-three miles above Livingston, on the National Park branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and on his return to Montana, in 1877, he settled on this ranch, right in the shadow of Emigrant peak, and devoted him- self with energy and public spirit to developing and building up the section. He laid the first platform at Emigrant and presented it to the Northern Pacific Railroad, thus securing a railroad station. He built the first bridge over the upper Yellowstone at his own expense, afterward selling it to the county. In fact every public interest was promoted and every good enterprise quickened and stimulated by the touch of his tireless energy, and his useful life was progressing peacefully and profitably, when, on August 18, 1892, he was thrown from his wagon and received injuries from which he died on the 8th of September. In life he was highly esteemed and in death he was uni- versally mourned. He was laid away to rest in Bozeman cemetery with every demonstration of popular regard and affection, and his memory is held in the most respectful reverence.

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lican, but never desired or sought public office. He was the first postmaster at Fridley, accepting the office as a convenience to the community. On January 16, 1852, he was united in marriage with Miss America J. Mounts, born near Albion, Ill., on October 26, 1829. She died September 22, 1892, just two weeks after the death of her hus- band, and was buried by his side and that of her son, who had died some two years previously. Mr. and Mrs. Fridley were the parents of three children; Benjamin F., Edwin L. and Rosa G. The oldest, Benjamin F., city marshal of Bozeman, died January 12, 1890, leaving a widow, Lyda A., and three children-Charles, Edna and Harry. Edwin L. is still a resident of Bozeman, prosperous in business and well esteemed in the community; Rosa G. is the wife of Madison M. Black, and they own and occupy the old Fridley homestead in Park county.

M ADISON M. BLACK .- This prominent ranchman, public spirited citizen and pro- gressive business man of Park county, is a son of the late Col. Leander M. Black, who, after a ca- reer of great usefulness in Montana, died at Hel- ena July 18, 1881. Col. Black was born in Laurel county, Ky., in 1830, and in 1854 was united in marriage with Mary A. McHargue, a daughter of William McHargue. In 1858 he joined the stam- pede to Pike's peak, leaving his family with his wife's parents. He arrived at the site of Denver in the spring of 1859, and engaged in supplying the government with wood, hay and grain on con- tracts. He was filling contracts for supplies to the Army of the Platte, when the Civil war broke out. By reason of his superior means of trans- portation the officers of the command allowed him almost unlimited discretion under his con- tracts. He had ox and mule teams crossing the plains from Missouri river points and back during the war, and so conducted his business as to win unstinted praise from the officers whose commands he served. During this period of seven years he was unable to get a communication to or from his family. But on Christmas day, 1864, he returned to the old plantation in Kentucky and was reunited with his family. On January 1, 1865, they re- moved to St. Joseph, Mo., where they resided until July, 1871, when the Colonel brought them to Boze- man, Mont., where they made their home until after his death. In 1867 he was elected to the

state senate of Colorado. In 1869 he loaded his teams and went to Virginia City. He was ap- pointed special agent for the Crow Indians, then located on the Yellowstone near the present city of Livingston, with authority to treat with them and if necessary build an agency and furnish them supplies. He accepted the appointment and es- tablished headquarters and a general store at Boze- man. He councilled with the chiefs, secured a treaty and built the first Crow agency in the ter- ritory. Game was then plentiful, as was proven one night when the Colonel was called by one of the sentinels to witness an unusual sight. All around the camp elks' eyes were gleaming in the darkness, indicating the presence of several hundred of them.

After resigning this position he again devoted himself to contracting on a large scale, covering the whole of western Montana and adjacent terri- tory-wherever there were Indians. He also bought and platted forty acres of land south of the townsite of Bozeman, now known as Black's ad- dition. He owned much real estate in the city and still carried on his store. He bought the old Pick and Plow newspaper and converted it into the Avant Courier, which is still published. He also established the Bozeman Times, and was president and half owner of the First National Bank of Boze- man. He owned farms on the Yellowstone, and in Madison and Gallatin valleys. He had exten- sive mining interests in Butte, Cook City and Lewis and Clarke, Madison and Jefferson counties. He built the road through Boulder pass and estab- lished a stage line, shortening the time and dis- tance between Helena and Butte. He built a wagon road through Yankee Jim canyon on the upper Yellowstone to the National Park in 1873-4; had the contract for carrying the mails and ex- press between Bozeman and Helena in 1875-6; the first mail contract from Cantonment, now Miles City, to Fort Buford in 1877 ; and had a sutlership at the Cantonment and established trading posts on the Yellowstone at the mouth of the Big Horn and Baker's battle ground. In 1878 he removed to Butte and patented "The Black Placer," now in the heart of the city. He then saw the necessity for a shorter overland route to Butte and built the present county road through Elk Park, cutting off some forty or fifty miles of the distance to Helena, and put on the first stage route between the two cities. The Great Northern Railroad was after- ward built over the same pass. In 1880 he was nominated by the Republicans for the legislature

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as a joint member for Jefferson and Gallatin coun- ties, but was defeated. He was interested in the Mantle mine at Cataract, and also owned a two-fifths interest in the A. M. Holter lode at Elk- horn, both in Jefferson county, the latter having since paid over $1,500,000 in dividends. Col. Black was taken violently ill at the International hotel in Helena on July 16, 1881, died on the 18th and his remains were buried in that city. In an editorial tribute to his memory the Helena Inde- pendent said :

"Few men were better known or more univer- sally esteemed throughout Montana than Leander M. Black. A few years ago he was regarded as one of the leading capitalists of Bozeman. Per- haps no man did more than he to attract attention to and build up and enhance the material interests of Bozeman during the days of his prosperity. He devoted his means with a lavish hand to the pro- motion of any public enterprise that had in it a promise of good to the community with which he was identified. His liberanty, however, was not confined to the city in which he made his home. He possessed those broad and liberal views which made him deught to assist in furthering the wel- fare of the entire territory. He was eminently a public-spirited man, and one of the best citizens any community could have. He was a splendid type of the frank, energetic, warm-hearted West- ern man."

Madison M. Black, his son, was united in mar- riage with Miss Rosa G. Fridley on August 31, 1875, at Bozeman, where they made their home until 1897. They have two daughters : Nellie A., the wife of Harry C. Clark, of Seattle, Wash .; and Edith L., wife of Dr. Charles E. Collamer, of Peoria, Ill. Mr. Black is an ardent Democrat and has rendered good service to his party in its various campaigns, and to the community in general as county clerk and recorder of Gallatin county, an office which he held from 1880 to 1885. He has always taken a deep and serviceable interest in all matters affecting the welfare of the community, and is highly esteemed for his enterprise, pub- lic spirit and general progressiveness, as well as for the sterling qualities of his character and his pleasing social accomplishments.

M ISS IDA FULLERTON .- The recognition accorded to women in the practical and of- ficial duties incidental to educational work in Mon-

tana can not but be viewed with gratification. And it is largely through their persistent efforts that the cause has been advanced to the honor of the commonwealth which has honored them. In this volume will be found mention of a number of ladies exercising the duties of superintendents' of schools in each of several counties, and their work is pro- ducing excellent results. Miss Fullerton, who is superintendent for Lewis and Clarke county, has developed exceptional executive ability and capac- ity for the hauling of manifold details, and through her efforts greater unification and more efficient work has been conserved in the public schools of the county. She claims the old Empire state as the place of her nativity, having been born near Brockport, Monroe county, N. Y. Her parents, Alexander and Ann (Baldwin) Fullerton, were likewise natives of New York, while her paternal grandfather was John Fullerton, of English line- age, the family having long been identified with the annals of American history. Alexander Ful- lerton was a farmer by occupation, and in politics was stanchly arrayed in support of the Republican party, being a man of marked intellectuality and sterling character. The parents of our subject removed to Michigan when she was a child, and she was still young when deprived by death of her father's solicitous care and protection. The family located in Ypsilanti, and after attending the public schools Miss Fullerton continued her studies in the Michigan State Normal School, this cele- brated institution being located in the same city. She graduated as a member of the class of 1884; and having thus definitely prepared herself for pedagogic work, she went to Clinton, Mich., where she was a teacher in the high school for five years. In 1887 she came to Helena, and was placed in charge of the second primary department of the Hawthorne school. Two and a half years later she was advanced to the Central school and as- signed to the eighth grade. She taught in the high school until the fall of 1900, when she was made the nominee of the Republican party for the office of county superintendent, being elected by a satisfactory majority and one of the only two can- didates elected on the Republican ticket in the county, a circumstance clearly indicative of her personal popularity and eligibility for the place. Miss Fullerton assumed the duties of office on January 7, 1901, her term to continue for two years. In 1891 she attended the session of the National Educational Association held at Toronto,

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Canada. She at all times maintains a lively inter- est in her professional work. The duties of sup- erintendents are responsible and exacting, and Miss Fullerton has taken matters in hand with steady grasp and clear discrimination, fully justi- fying by her course the support accorded her at the polls. Her sister, Mrs. H. C. Carpenter, whose deceased husband was numbered among the pio- neers of Montana, is also one of the efficient teach- ers in the Helena schools, holding position as prin- cipal of the Emerson school, in the west division.

JUDGE WILLIAM GADDIS .- In the front rank of successful ranchers and stockmen in Montana, Judge William Gaddis is a native of Washington, D. C., where he was born September 12, 1831. His parent were Adam and Julia A. (Green) Gaddis, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Baltimore, Md. The father came to the UnitedStates in 1814, having been born in 1791. He first located at Alexandria, Va., but subsequently removed to Washington, D. C., where for forty years he was employed by the govern- ment as foreman in the shops and navy yards. He died in Washington in 1868. His father was a Scotchman and removed from his native land to Ireland where he died. Judge Gaddis has three brothers and two sisters living in Washington, and it was there he passed his boyhood and re- ceived his education in excellent private schools. After leaving school he learned the trade of a blacksmith, but later engaged in the grocery and feed business, which he continued to conduct until 1869. He then came to Montana and found em- ployment in the sutler's store, in company with Capt. Cutter as post trader at Fort Shaw. After a year passed in this connection he formed an en- gagement with Gen. J. S. Hamil as post trader at Camp Baker. The General died soon after going to that point and Mr. Gaddis remained in the busi- ness until the post was abandoned in 1880. The name was changed to Fort Logan in 1877, in honor of Capt. Logan, who was killed at Big Hole ( see his sketch elsewhere in this volume), and in 1881 Judge Gaddis purchased it with 2,400 acres of land which he has since increased to 3,000 acres, of which he has made one of the best cattle ranches in the state.

The old fort is a historic place of great interest. It was built in 1870, the site having been selected

by the officers of the Thirteenth United States In- fantry. It was first garrisoned by that regiment, then by the Seventh, the Third and the Eighteenth in turn. The first commander was Capt. Hollister of the Thirteenth, and he was succeeded by Major Ilgis, who was followed by Capt. Freeman, and he in turn by Col. Gilbert, and he by Maj. Chipman, who was the last and was in charge when the post was abandoned. While no great tragedy was en- acted in or around the fort, there were several small engagements between its forces and the In- dians. One occurred in 1877 between the soldiers and a party of Indians returning from the battle at Big Hole, and in this fight one Indian was killed. They had murdered a sheep herder and run off some stock from a place about eight miles away. In an engagement a year later several In- dians were killed. Troops from the fort were also in the Sioux campaign of 1876, and were with Gib- bons at the Big Hole. In 1880, owing to the neces- sity for establishing a fort farther out on the fron- tier, Fort Logan was abandoned and Fort Maginnis was built. The old fort was sold to the highest bidder and Judge Gaddis became the purchaser. He also has a ranch in Meagher county on which he raises Norman and Clyde horses.

In June, 1873, at Washington, D. C., Judge Gad- dis was united in marriage with Miss Margaret L. Young, of Washington, a daughter of John M. and Eliza W. (Merritt) Young, who lived and died in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Gaddis became the par- ents of five children, of whom only two are living, Eliza Merritt and Charles G. Gaddis. Politically the Judge is a Democrat, but he has never taken active part in party struggles. He was appointed United States commissioner and postmaster at Fort Logan, and held the positions for a number of years. Fraternally he is a Freemason of high standing and long connection with the order, hav- ing joined it in 1861. He is a Knight Templar and a noble of the Mystic Shrine.

JAMES B. FUREY .- A native of County Hunt- ington, Province of Quebec, Canada, of Irish ancestry, a farmer's son, the fifth of twelve chil- dren, with bone and sinew well developed by honest toil on the farm, later working with the same earn- estness and zeal in the iron mines of New York, pursuing with varying fortunes a mercantile career and lead and silver mining in Idaho, serving the

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public as deputy sheriff and later as sheriff, James B. Furey of Butte, sheriff of Silver Bow county, Mont., has seen life in many interesting phases. He was born on July 6, 1854, the son of Charles Furey, a native of Ireland, who emigrated to Que- bec in 1815. His mother was Ann (Hughes) Furey, also a native of Ireland, who was brought to Can- ada in her childhood. Mr. Furey received a good common school education, and worked for his father on the farm until he was eighteen years old, when he went to New York and worked in iron mines. In 1878 he removed to Idaho, remained at Atlanta for a year and a half, and then went into the Wood river country, where for ten years he conducted successfully a mercantile business.

Part of this time he was deputy sheriff of the county, under his brother, who was for four years the sheriff. Again he went to mining for lead and silver, and then made a year's visit to his native country, returning to the west in 1893 and locat- ing in Butte, where he has been mining and mer- chandising ever since. In November, 1900, he was elected sheriff on the Labor ticket, and is now (1901) actively discharging the duties of the office. He is a member of the Order of Elks and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In the latter he holds the rank of past master workman. He was also president of the Butte Miners' Union for four consecutive terms. Mr. Furey was mar- ried in 1887 to Miss Lydia May, who was born in Novia Scotia and removed to Nevada when she was five years old. He met her in Idaho, and they were married in that territory. He is a man of force of character and equipoise, seeing things clearly and acting upon them vigorously and in- telligently. His sterling qualities of manhood and his faithful performance of every duty have won him the good will and regard of all around him.

D R. WILLIAM H. GELSTHORPE, ex-treas- urer of Cascade county and an ex-mayor of Great Falls, Mont., is one of the most active and progressive citizens of the young metropolis. Since his first location in this city, 1890, he has thrown himself heart and soul into the advancement of its interests. He was born in Wellsburg, W. Va., in 1859. John Gelsthorpe, his father, born in Not- tinghamshire, England, in 1824, emigrated to this country in 1851. Two years after his arrival in America he was united in marriage to Miss Mar-

garet Rodgers, a native of West Virginia. He was long merchant and hotel keeper at Wellsburg, died in 1883. His wife is still living in the sixty- fifth year of her age. They had three sons, two of whom reside in Great Falls, and one at Goss City, Ind. Dr. Gelsthorpe was the second son, and in his native town he received a common school education, later utilizing two years at Bethany College. On the death of his father when he was sixteen years old, he was compelled to leave col- lege and direct his attention to the sterner activ- ities of life, but he subsequently found time to spend a few profitable months at Duff's (Pittsburg) Business College. Later he had charge of the cir- culation of the Pittsburg Dispatch for several years, and during that time he read medicine and after- wards entered the medical department of the West- ern University, now the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was graduated in 1885. On reaching his majority he returned to his native town and was elected city clerk and served one term.

Dr. Gelsthorpe came to Montana in 1883, locat- ing first at Glendive, where he practiced medicine for a year. He then returned to Cleveland and took a post-graduate course in medicine, follow- ing which he accepted an offer of the position of surgeon on the Northern Pacific Railroad for some 400 miles of its line, with headquarters at Miles City. He remained with the company until 1887. He then accepted a position as surgeon with a mining company at Rimini, Mont., and in 1888 received the appointment of surgeon of the Sand Coulee Coal Co., at Sand Coulee, near Great Falls. With this company he remained three years, prac- ticing his profession with gratifying success. At Sand Coulee Dr. Gelsthorpe formed the acquaint- ance of Col. Broadwater, then in charge of the mines. It was here, too, that the Doctor first be- came inspired with confidence in the future of Great Falls. He made several investments in real estate there, all of which proved profitable, and in 1890 he came to the city to live.

Since that time he has been prominent in pro- fessional and political life. In 1893 he was elected mayor of the city and had the distinction of being the only man ever elected mayor on the straight Democratic ticket. In this important office he served from 1893 to 1895. In 1896 Dr. Gelsthorpe was first elected treasurer of Cascade county, and he was re-elected in 1898, receiving the largest number of votes cast for any candidate on the

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 35

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