Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 40

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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Hall passed the winter of 1864-5 in Vermont, and upon his return worked some old claims near Sum- mit with such encouraging results that he pur- chased quite a large number which were supposed to have been worked out. In 1866 he began working these claims systematically, installing the first bed- rock flume ever built in Montana, and his opera- tions were most successful. He continued to be interested in mining until his death, and through this industry realized large profits.

In 1879 Mr. Hall was the prime mover in estab- lishing the banking house of Raymond, Harring- ton & Co., in Virginia City, the firm name being changed later to Hall, Harrington & Co. The business is now conducted as Hall & Bennett, and the institution is recognized as one of the solid banks of the state. The estate of Mr. Hall still retains its interest in the banking business. In politics Mr. Hall gave his support to the Republi- can party, but he never aspired to public office, being essentially a business man and being recog- nized as an able financier and executive, with ca- pacity for affairs of broad scope and importance. Like many others of the pioneers of the state he witnessed many of the stirring events of the fron- tier life. He owned the pistol which the road agent, George Ives, took from Southmayd, and to him was due the identification of the weapon, at the trial of Ives by the citizens' committee, which resulted in the execution of this notorious out- law. Mr. Hall had made an entry of the number of the pistol and this served to positively identify the same. Mr. Hall died on February 23, 1893. In 1876, in Virginia City, occurred the marriage of Mr. Hall to Miss Anna P. Griffith, who was born in Athens, Ohio, on February 1, 1847. Of this union four children were born, Jesse I., who is connected with the banking interests of Hall & Bennett and has charge of the affairs of the estate; Amos C., Frank C. and Harry E., at present attend- ing school in Philadelphia.

JOSIAH S. HAMMOND, M. D .- Among the distinguished members of the medical profession in Montana is numbered Dr. Hammond, a phy- sician and surgeon of nearly thirty years standing who has attained prestige by his marked ability and unwavering devotion to his profession. Josiah Shaw Hammond was born at North Abington, Mass., on September 10, 1844. He traces his line-

age directly to William Hammond, of London, England, and his wife Elizabeth, nee Penn, an aunt of William Penn. In 1634 Mrs. Elizabeth (Penn) Hammond, "widow," came to Boston with her son Benjamin and her three daughters in the good ship Griffin, arriving there on November 19, and settling at Sandwich. Benjamin Hammond married Mary Vincent, and from him the descent is thus traced to Dr. Hammond. John, Rowland, Captain George, Benjamin, George and Josiah S., all born in Massa- chusetts, where the name has been unusually promi- nent from the early colonial epoch. George Ham- mond was born at Carver, Mass., on June 21, 1815, and married Miss Susanna Shaw, a native of Abington. They had eight children, of whom only one is dead. The mother died in 1874, but, at the venerable age of eighty-six years, the father is still living on his California homestead.

Dr. Hammond, the fourth child, attended the public schools of Plymouth county until he was sev- enteen, when he removed to California, where his father was a pioneer, having located there in 1862. The Doctor here turned his attention to teaching, and later was a student in the state normal school at San Francisco, where he was graduated in the class of 1868. He thereafter was first assistant principal of the high school at Stockton, retaining this position until 1870, when he began the study necessary to fit him for the medical profession under the preceptorship of Dr. Asa Clarke, of Stockton. Taking later a course in the Bellevue (N. Y.) Hospital Medical College he completed his collegiate medical courses in the Cooper Medical College, of San Francisco, where he was graduated in November, 1873. Success ever treads closely on the heels of right effort, and Dr. Hammond is no exception to this rule. He began the practice of medicine at Lockeford, Cal., the family home, but soon removed to Nevada, where he was in success- ful practice for a full decade. In 1885 he located in Butte, Mont., where he has ever since been engaged in active practice. The Doctor is a close and thor- ough student, keeping in the line of advance in all matters pertaining to the development of medicine and surgery and in close touch with its best thought. He holds membership in the American Medical Association, the state and county associa- tions, and the association of military surgeons of the United States, being surgeon of the Montana National Guard, with rank of major. He was pres- ident of the Montana State Medical Association in 1890.

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In politics Dr. Hammond formerly gave alle- giance to the Republican party, but, becoming con- vinced that the principles of the Populist party rep- resented more nearly the best interests of the coun- try and its people, he showed his strong indepen- dence and the strength of his convictions by array- ing himself with this organization. He has always taken active interest in political affairs, but has never sought nor desired political preferment, be- lieving that the duties of his profession demand his undivided attention. In the fall of 1897, against his definite protest, he was nominated on the fusion ticket to represent Silver Bow county in the state legislature, but later succeeded in withdrawing his name from the ticket, and his successor in candi- dacy, appointed by the county committee, was elected. The Doctor is prominently identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Knights of Pythias. In the former he is past grand inaster workman of the grand lodge, and he has represented the jurisdiction of Montana in two con- ventions of the supreme lodge, at Chicago in 1895 and at Buffalo in 1896. He is now past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Montana. On September 25, 1867, Dr. Hammond was united in marriage to Miss Ann E. Simpson, born in Mis- souri but reared and educated in California, where their marriage was solemnized. They have had six children : Louise, Kate, Hattie, Delia (de- ceased), Nelson and Benjamin. In 1900 Dr. and Mrs. Hammond made a European tour in the Lit- erary Digest party of eighty representative persons from twenty different states, one from the District of Columbia and one from Canada. The tour lasted eighty days and the itinerary was interesting, the party visiting the Paris exposition, the quaint vil- lage of Oberammergau, Germany, where they wit- nessed the decennial production of the Passion Play, and many other historical and interesting places on the continent and in Great Britain. For personal reference the Doctor kept a diary, but was per- suaded to utilize it in preparing a story descriptive of the scenes and incidents of the trip, which was published in an attractive pamphlet of seventy pages, a copy being sent to each member of the party.

HI AVELOCK H. HANSON, M. D .- The Han- son name is one that has been long and con- spicuously identified with American history and in each successive generation its representatives have

been found conferring honor and dignity upon their several communities. Havelock Horatio Hanson was born in Fredericton, the capital of the Province of New Brunswick, Canada, and also of the County of York, on April 31, 1858, the son of Edgar and Helen N. (Hanson) Hanson, both of whom were likewise born in Canada, the original American ancestors, according to family tradition, coming from England to Massachusetts in the Mayflower, and their descendants thence going into Canada, where the family has been long es- tablished. The great-grandparents of Dr. Hanson in the agnatic line built the first log cabin on the site of the city of St. John, N. B. His father is now deputy provincial secretary of New Bruns- wick, a position which he has held for more than forty years and issuing all marriage licenses for the province in connection with his other duties. He and his wife still live in Fredericton, among its honored and prominent old time residents.

Dr. Hanson received his preliminary education in the public schools of Fredericton, after which he matriculated in King's College in the same city, where he was graduated in the class of 1876, with the degree of Master of Arts. After leaving col- lege he began reading along the technical line of medical science under an able preceptor, thus con- tinuing his studies for four years, also being iden- tified with the drug business. In 1880 the Doctor entered the noted Magill University, in Montreal, and after two years of diligent study there he still further supplemented his scholastic attainments by a nine months' course in the Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, at Baltimore, Md. He next matriculated in the celebrated Columbus (Ohio) Medical Col- lege, and there he was graduated with the class of 1881, after which he returned to Fredericton, where he was engaged in active medical practice for six months, serving his professional novitiate in his native city, overruling the traditional belief that "A prophet is not without honor save in his own country." The Doctor then for a brief period was located at far-famed Chautauqua, N. Y., where he was surgeon for the Chautauqua Iron and Ore Com- pany. Removing to VanBuren, Aroostook county, Me., he had there an excellent practice for two years, and then established himself at Andover, N. B., which was his home and the center of satisfac- tory professional labors until 1886, the date of his advent in Montana. Here he began his professional labors at Townsend, and two years later he lo- cated in Missoula, where he established a large and

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lucrative practice and where he remained for a full decade, becoming one of its influential and honored citizens.

In 1898, wishing a more metropolitan field of operations, Dr. Hanson located in Butte, where he soon attained a standing and clientage which has kept him in the front rank of the leading physi- cians of the state. While the Doctor has a practice that is general in character he devotes. special at- tention to surgery, being a competent and judicious operator and having gained as such a high repu- tation among the members of the profession. He retains membership in the New Brunswick Medi- cal Society and the Montana State Medical As- sociation. On April 14, 1879, Dr. Hanson was united in marriage to Miss Hester E. McKeen, born in New Brunswick, Canada, the daughter of William and Ann (Hammond) McKeen, likewise natives of that province, but now residents of Mis- soula. Dr. and Mrs. Hanson have two daughters, Margaret and Nellie, and the family home is one where the gracious amenities of refined hospitality are ever in evidence.

H ORATIO HANSON, a native of Kaaters- kill, N. Y., on the banks of the romantic Hud- son, where he was born February 24, 1833, was edu- cated and attained the age of nineteen. He then left his picturesque, old-fashioned home, and crossed the isthmus to California in company with his father, where they engaged in mining and carpen- tering for three years. Horatio Hanson had his young life well seasoned with adventure and the change of scene so dear to the youthful heart. And, as if he were destined to a continuance of the ro- mance, after three years of work in his new loca- tion, he and his father returned home by way of Nicaragua, arriving in that country the day after Gen. Walker landed with his celebrated filibus- tering expedition. The Asiatic cholera was pre- vailing in the Central American states and sixty of his fellow passengers died on the way to New York, himself making a narrow escape. In 1855 the family removed to Wisconsin, locating at Whitewater. There his father followed carpenter- ing and building with good success, dying at the age of eighty-six and his wife just three months later at almost the same age. Mr. Hanson, their only child, was left alone in the world, and, in 1860, concluded to go to Pike's Peak. He remained there

until 1864, engaged in quartz mining. Before leaving Wisconsin, however, he had married Miss Jennie E. Warren, a native of Middlesex, Vt., daughter of Samuel and Eliza Dean (Holden) Warren, whose ancestors were early emigrants from England to America, and took an active part in the war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Hanson had nine children, of whom three are living: George, Nettie and Rettie. Those deceased are Fordie, Katie, Cora, Flora, Tunis and Frankie.

Mr. Hanson and family started for Montana on March 24, 1864, making the trip with horses, and arriving at Virginia City June 2. Thomas Hunt and the late Ira Phillips were their traveling com- panions, and the families are now near neighbors. In December, 1864, they took up their residence on the ranch they had located in September on Willow creek, where they were the first settlers, and where, on many occasions the women would be left in the camp while the men were in the woods getting out timber or doing other work. One day while Mrs. Hanson was alone about forty Indians began dig- ging up the vegetables in her garden. She felt no fear, promptly ordered them off, and they went. The next day they came again and she again or- dered them off. The next day the chief called and asked her what was the matter. When she told him she wanted the vegetables for use in her fam- ily he said the Indians thought that as they were in the ground anybody could take them. She con- vinced him to the contrary and he promised she would have no more trouble from his people and kept his word. In 1865 two of their friends named Campbell and Noble were killed by the Indians on the Yellowstone, and she was always afraid after this. Once she was alarmed by their dog hastily running to the house and howling. She thought the savages were after them, but it was only a bear. Still there was danger in the presence of a bear, as Mr. Hanson found out when one suddenly con- fronted him in 1870, and biting through a pair of trousers and overalls, gave him an ugly gash in the thigh. He happened to have a plug of tobacco in his pocket, and the bear got a mouthful of it, which probably deterred him from further attack, for although he ran after Mr. Hanson twice more he did not come close enough to harm him.

In 1867 they sold the original homestead and moved to Helena, where they kept a hotel three years. They then returned to the homestead, and remained until 1877, when they removed to their present location at Pony, just outside of the city

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limits, where they have a beautiful home, the resi- dence well shaded, and the ranch in a fine location and in a high state of cultivation. Mr. Hanson is active in behalf of every public interest and enter- prise. He has been a school trustee for a number of years, and is prominently connected with all af- fairs of general interest. His father was also a public man, serving as a member of the Wisconsin legislature, and as a justice of the peace in that state and in New York. Mrs. Hanson has a valu- able collection of the bugs, butterflies, etc., of Montana, and specimens of quartz and other curios peculiar to the state. Two of her daughters were educated in Bozeman, and one, Miss Cora, in the Wisconsin Normal School. The family is greatly interested in educational matters and in all means of intellectual and social culture.

)ICHARD A. HARLOW ..- Representatives R of the Harlow name have added honor and dignity to the social fabric of the nation in every generation from the landing of the Pilgrims, and we must accord particular attention to Richard A. Harlow, who is distinctly one of Montana's men of progress and has strongly impressed himself on the material prosperity of the commonwealth. Richard A. Harlow, vice-president of the Montana Railroad Company, is a native of Pekin, Tazewell county, Ill., born March 5, 1859, the son of George H. and Susan (Baily-Dorsey) Harlow, natives of New York and Maryland. George H. Harlow was a man of prominence in Illinios. He was secretary of state from 1872 to 1880, and had the distinction of being the founder of that powerful organization, the Union League of America, of which he was grand secretary. He eventually engaged in the grain commission business in Chicago, where his death occurred on May 15, 1900. The family traces back to Puritan ancestry. Several generations maintained residence in Plymouth, Mass., where members were numbered among the earliest set- tlers. In the maternal line Mr. Harlow's ancestry is of English and French extraction. His maternal grandmother was Mary Dorsey, of Howard county, Md., and his maternal grandfather was Samuel P. Baily, a Philadelphia Quaker. Records ex- tant show that on either side his ancestors did valiant service in the Continental army of the Revolution.

Richard A. Harlow, of Helena, received his pre-

liminary education in the public and private schools of his native state, after which he continued his studies under tutors and in Germany. Having de- cided on entering the legal profession he matricu- lated in the Union College of Law, in Chicago, where he completed his technical studies, being graduated with the class of 1885 and admitted to the bar. Mr. Harlow began legal practice in Chi- cago, where he remained until 1886, when he came to Montana, locating in Helena, where he was in practice about one year, simultaneously engaging to a considerable extent in real estate speculations. He has, however, retired from professional prac- tice.

On August 28, 1895, Mr. Harlow was united in marriage with Miss Josephine Maude Barnaby, who was born in Rhode Island, and they have one child, Catherine Dorsey. Mr. Harlow's identifi- cation with the railroading interests of the state has been so intimate and important as to entitle him to special prominence among those who have through this great avenue of enterprise contrib- uted to the development of the industries and natural resources of the northwest. As early as 1890 he gave inception to the organization of the Montana Midland Railroad Company, which even- tually completed the line from Helena to Canyon Ferry. The original officers of the company were: R. A. Harlow, president; W. J. Fuchs, secretary ; W. H. Haven, chief engineer. In 1891 one mile of the road was constructed within the city limits, and the line was completed to the ferry in 1893.

In 1895 the company began to construct the line on Sixteen-mile creek, which they com- pleted from Lombard to Leadboro on November 19, 1896. The next year the road was washed out, but was repaired, and before the close of the year was opened for traffic. In the spring of 1899 the company began the Martinsdale extension, which was completed in November, after which they ex- tended the line to Harlowtown, which was form- erly known as Merino, now a thriving town. This extension was completed in June, 1900, the road giving outlet to one of the richest stockraising districts in the Union, and affording transporta- tion facilities to valuable mining properties. The president of the Montana Railroad Company, as the corporation is now known, is H. D. Moore; Mr. Harlow is vice-president, and Robert Rantoul, gen- eral manager. The road is owned and controlled by the two gentlemen first mentioned, and its value to Helena and the state is certain to be cumula-

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tive. Mr. Harlow is a Republican, but he has never taken a particularly active part in political work, his important personal interests requiring his en- tire attention.

EDWARD W. HARNEY. - Serving with marked ability and discrimination as judge of the district court of Silver Bow county and recog- nized as one of the talented members of the bar of Montana, Judge E. W. Harney is one of its leading legists and jurists. He is a native of Rock Island, Ill., where he was born on January 19, 1862, the son of Matthew and Winnifred (Corbett) Har- ney, both of whom were born in the Emerald Isle, and were of fine old Irish lineage. The father has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. His re- moval to America occurred about 1852, and since 1857 he has maintained his home in Illinois. They had twelve children, of whom Judge Harney was the sixth, and of them eight are now living.

Edward W. Harney received educational discip- line in the Illinois public schools, the State Uni- versity of Iowa, at Iowa City, and at Tabor Col- lege, at Tabor, Iowa, and from this last somewhat noted school he was graduated in the class of 1885. Having determined to prepare himself for the legal profession he began his technical reading of the law under the preceptorship of J. C. Pepper, of Aledo, Ill., and later continued study in the offices of Ellis, Murphy & Gould, a leading law firm of Davenport, Iowa. He thereafter located in Ne- braska, and by careful and discriminating study and indefatigable application so acquired an ex- tended knowledge of the law that he was admitted to the bar of that state upon examination in 1889. He then commenced practice and continued in it at Valentine, Neb., until 1895, when he came to Mon- tana and established himself as an attorney in Butte, and soon gained high reputation as an ad- vocate and counsel. While a resident of Nebraska he served as county attorney of Cherry county, and, in the fall of 1900, he was elected to his pres- ent office of judge of the district court in Silver Bow county. He was elected by a majority of 1,334 votes. His name having appeared on the fusion ticket his candidacy was promoted by the local Democracy, as he has ever been a stalwart advocate of the principles of the Democratic party and an active worker in its cause. His rulings on the bench have shown him to possess the intrinsic

judicial mind, while his powers of analysis are so well developed that he arrives at decisions with facility and by safe and legitimate avenues. Judge Harney was associated with E. B. Howell in the compilation of the Montana miners' code, which is now the uniform standard throughout the state.

Fraternally the Judge is identified with the Mod- ern Woodmen of America. While a resident of Nebraska he became identified with the national guard of that state, serving three years. He was made captain of the company of which he was a member, which was organized for the Sioux war in 1891, and stationed on active duty at Valentine, the county seat of Cherry county. On January 8, 1890, Judge Harney was united in marriage with Miss M. Dell Kistler, who was born in Rock Is- land county, Ill., the daughter of William and Jos- ephine (Gorton) Kistler, who now reside on the old homestead in Rock Island county. To the union of Judge and Mrs. Harney three children have been born: Ethel Lucile, Maurice, William and Eugene Edward.

REV. CORNELIUS HARRINGTON .- One of the Catholic clergy now serving with zeal- ous devotion in the diocese of Helena and who has the distinction of having been ordained for his holy office by the venerated bishop of this diocese, is Father Harrington, now assistant priest of St. Pat- rick's church in Butte. In this work will be found individual mention of many of the Catholic clergy, and it is with pleasure that we also enter record concerning this earnest young pastor. Father Har- rington was born in County Cork, Ireland, on De- cember 1, 1870, the son of John and Honora (Har- rington) Harrington, both of whom were born in Ireland, where his father devoted his life to agri- cultural pursuits, and was called fromn earth in 1895. His mother still resides in her native land. Of their nine children Cornelius was the youngest. He received his early education in the national schools, and in 1888 became a student in St. Michael's College, at Listowell, County Kerry, where lie com- pleted the classical course. In 1891 he matriculated in St. Patrick's College, in County Carlow, where he devoted two years to the rhetorical course and literary and philosophical studies, and then gave three years to the theological course, liis studies having been directed with the view of consecrating himself to the work of the church, as one of its

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ministers. In 1898 Father Harrington came to America, and at Montreal, Canada, continued his divinity course in the Grand Seminary until June, 1899, when he came to Montana and presented himself to Bishop Brondel, by whom he was or- dained to the priesthood in the cathedral of the Sa- cred Hearts, at Helena, on November 1, 1899. The next day Father Harrington went to Butte and he has since been the zealous and efficient assistant priest at St. Patrick's church.

DOBERT COBURN, of Great Falls, is one of the best known stockmen in Montana. Of this extensive industry he is a pioneer of pioneers. While at times he has deviated from the strict line of this profitable business and turned his attention to the seductive interests of mining, his life work in the main has been connected with the cattle in- dustry. In this he has found profit and achieved an enviable success. A complete biography of Mr. Coburn would constitute a most interesting and instructive work on Montana stock raising. Mr. Coburn was born at Smith Falls, Ontario, Canada, on October 12, 1837. His parents were Joseph and Anna (Halliday) Coburn, both natives of County Monahan, Ireland. They were married in that country, emigrated to Canada in the early 'thirties and subsequently their lives were passed on Cana- dian soil, Joseph Coburn being a lumberman and farmer. They had four sons and six daughters and both died when Robert was a child.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 40

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