Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 42

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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moved to Ohio from Connecticut about 1834 and from there in 1842 to Iowa, where the father fol- lowed farming and milling. Erastus was the first born of their seven children. He was early obliged to work on the farm, as the family was large, and has had less than one year of schooling. He is, however, a man of considerable general and technical knowledge, gathered by study and obser- vation.

Mr. Haynes worked on the Iowa farm until he was thirty-nine years old, and then, in 1881, came to Montana, locating on the ranch which he now occu- pies. It embraces 240 acres of railroad land, pur- chased by him, and is very productive, yielding large crops. Here he feeds numbers of young stock and carries on a profitable trade in cattle. In polit- ical affiliation Mr. Haynes is a Republican, and solicitous for the welfare of his party, but not an officeseeker. He is, however, deeply interested in matters which tend to the advancement of the community, and contributes his due portion to them. He was married in 1874 to Miss Edith Campbell, a native of Ohio, and has three chil- dren : Otis, Halsey and Daisy, all living at home, and well educated, doing credit to their ancestry and giving promise of abundant usefulness. The family ranks high in the community and enjoys the respect and regard of all classes.

H ON. GEORGE M. HAYS, secretary of state of Montana and a resident of Helena, was born at Punxsutawney, Jefferson county, Pa., on March 12, 1862. He is the son of John L. and Sarah E. Hays. The ancestry of his parents were Scotch and Irish and among the earliest settlers of Pennsylvania. John L. Hays has been for many years engaged in the building and loan business at Cleveland, Ohio. George M. Hays received his elementary education in the public schools of Cleveland, to which city his parents removed when he was fourteen years of age. Scarcely had he arrived at his majority when the wider opportun- ities and possibilities of the west attracted his at- tention, and in 1883 he came to Montana and lo- cated at Billings. This was the period of the or- ganization of Yellowstone county, and to its future success and improvement Mr. Hays has since de- voted much time and attention. From 1883 to 1885 he held the office of deputy county treasurer and clerk, and, when Billings was incorporated,

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he held the office of city treasurer for one year. In the fall of 1886 he was elected clerk and re- corder of Yellowstone county, and was re-elected in the fall of 1888. In 1889 he was elected clerk of the district court for three years. In November, 1886, Mr. Hays was married to Miss Jennie Jones, of Llangefin, North Wales, daughter of Thomas Jones, of the same country. To them have been born four children, Donald L., John Lambert, Ethel Maud and George M., Jr. Mrs. Hays is a member of the Episcopal church and in the society of Billings the family is prominent.

Mr. Hays was influential in the organization of the newly incorporated city of Billings and the state. In 1893 he was engaged as assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Billings, and in 1897 he came to Helena as assistant state treas- urer. In the November election of 1900 he was elected secretary of state for Montana, defeating A. N. Yoder, of Butte. The affiliations of Mr. Hays have always been with the Democratic party, and although in the past Yellowstone county has been strongly Republican, his recognized fitness, devotion to business and genial courtesy to all rendered him deservedly popular and he received the cordial support of many Republicans. Fra- tcrnally Mr. Hays is a member of all Masonic or- ders and a Knight of the Red Cross of Constan- tine, of whom there are but eleven in Montana. From 1899 to 1900 he was grand commander of the Knights Templar of Montana. He is also a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Lodge No. 394, of Billings.

Since coming to the territory of Montana the financial, political and social success of Mr. Hays has been most happy. He has been chairman of the Yellowstone county Democratic central com- mittee, a member of the Democratic state central committee, a member of the Montana board of World's Fair commissioners, and of many other important boards and commissions involving duties of the highest responsibility. At all times and in all places he has fully and ably sustained himself, thus winning the esteem and confidence of the community in which he resides as well as that of a host of friends and associates throughout the state.

WV A. HARRISON, of Big Timber, was born at Galt, Ontario, on September 27, 1836. His father was John W. Harrison, of Toronto, and his

mother Eliza Galloway, of New York state. He had three brothers and three sisters. His father kept a hotel at Rockland, near Dundas, Ontario, where his early life and school days were spent. In 1854 he followed his father to Minnesota, and a year later returned to Canada on business which detained him about three years. He then went back to Minnesota remaining there engaged in lumbering until the spring of 1866. When the Civil war broke out he applied for enlistment in the Federal army, but owing to a defective limb he was not accepted. In the spring of 1866 he started for Montana, being guided by halfbreeds. When the guides left the train some of the horses went too, and one of them who remained as guide was suspected of aiding in the theft. Some of the party determined to hang the Indian, and others opposed doing this. The disagreement was settled by taking the halfbreed to Fort Benton for trial, and on the way he escaped.

Mr. Harrison arrived at Last Chance gulch on September 5, 1866, remaining until the spring of 1867. He helped to build a quartz mill on Grizzly gulch and then went down the Fort Benton road and erected a stage station at Bird Tail rock. He made various trips about the west seeking a perma- nent location, one to Salt Lake City and others to Nevada and Minnesota. In Nevada he built several stamp mills, one of them being for Hon. Leland Stanford. In the spring of 1870 he took up his residence in Montana, locating on White Tail Deer creek, where he spent about nine years. He assisted in the construction of the Centennial mill, the first erected in Butte, whose steam whistle was the first ever blown in that city. In the fall of 1879 he took up a desert claim on the Yellowstone at the mouth of Sweet Grass river, where he now has a ranch of 1,700 acres, on which he runs valuable herds of cattle and sheep. He was the first man to take water by ditch out of the Sweet Grass river for irrigation, constructing one ditch more than three miles long. His system of irrigation is very complete and makes his land fruitful in timothy and alfalfa, of which he raises some 500 tons a year. He is always looking for improvements, and has in contemplation an enterprise for securing additional water from the Yellowstone river.

In November, 1865, he was married to Miss Sarah E. Davis, a daughter of Jonathan Davis, of New York, and has three children. He has served his community for four years as an assessor, and has always borne his share of the burdens of good

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citizenship. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and takes an earnest and intelligent inter- est in every public improvement, showing that he is a progressive and representative man. He was postmaster of his town for eight years. Living on the frontier as he has, and having large holdings of cattle and horses, Mr. Harrison has had fre- quent adventures with Indians and other law- breakers, being compelled oftentimes to defend his rights and property by force of arms.

THOMPSON G. HEINE, M. D .- The special- izing tendency in the various professions with- in later years has been the natural outgrowth of mature judgment and has eventuated in inestima- ble good. This is peculiarly true of medicine and surgery, for in no field of human endeavor have more gigantic advances been made than in these sciences. The able physician realizes that by giv- ing particular thought, study, investigation and at- tention to certain classes of disease or to the dis- ease of certain specific organs, he may accomplish more for suffering humanity than he can by scat- tering his powers over a larger field. So this pro- cess of concentration is viewed with satisfaction by the profession and laity alike, and we here enter brief record of Dr. Heine, one of the leading spe- cialists of Montana, who gives special attention to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He has been engaged in active medical practice in Butte since 1895 and has attained distinctive pres- tige as a practitioner and marked popularity as a man among men. He is a native of New Bruns- wick, Canada, born on May 25, 1863, the son of Henry and Winifred (Williams) Heine, and both of his parents were natives of that province, where the father was an agriculturist until his death in the spring of 1900. His wife's death occurred in 1896. Her father, a colonel in the English army, carly came to New Brunswick, and established a home and passed the remainder of his life.

Thomas G. Heine, the youngest of eleven chil- dren, in the public schools of New Brunswick laid the foundation for that broad and substantial scholastic superstructure which is now his, and later he continued his studies in the provincial nor- mal school at Fredericton, N. B., and was gradu- ated in the class of 1881. He then gave attention to teaching until 1884, when he removed to Min- nesota, locating in Minneapolis, where he began

the study of medicine finally matriculating in the Minnesota Hospital College, now known as the medical department of the University of Minne- sota. Here he was graduated in 1888 with the de- gree of Doctor of Medicine. Coming soon after- ward to the state of Washington the young physi- cian there practiced about eighteen months, then came to Montana and engaged in a successful practice at Phillipsburg, Granite county, until 1894, when he went to Philadelphia, Pa., and devoted six months to the special study of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, securing the most efficient preceptors and the best of clinical privileges. He then continued his studies in the famous Morefield and Golden Square hospitals in London, England. Six months later Dr. Heine returned to America, and after a short practice in California came to Butte, beginning his medical career here in the fall of 1895. Here in his special professional lines he has gained marked distinction and has been remarkably successful. He has the most improved instruments demanded in his special work, and has himself invented sev- eral instruments which have been highly ap- proved by his professional confreres. Dr. Heine has contributed articles for leading medical jour- nals describing treatment he has given and unique operations he has performed, especially in the re- moval of cataracts. He is an authority on diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and frequent re- course is had to his advice by other physicians. He is a man of genial personality and holds the esteem and friendship of those with whom he be- comes associated.

In politics Dr. Heine maintains an independent attitude. While a resident of Phillipsburg he was elected alderman on the Republican ticket. Fra- ternally he holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Independent Order of Foresters, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the Select Knights. He has held office in sev- eral of these organizations, and takes active in- terest in them so far as his profession work will permit. . A man of marked business ability, he is secretary and treasurer of the Tri-metallic Mining & Milling Company, with officers in Butte, which owns and operates extensive and valuable mines in Idaho. He has other mining interests and is the owner of valuable real estate in Butte, Seattle and Phillipsburg, a foundry and machine shop at Wal-

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lace, Idaho, and an interest in a plantation in Mexico. On April 30, 1889, Dr. Heine was united in marriage with Miss Minnie B. W. Sharpe, who was born in New Brunswick. They have two chil- dren, H. L. Bliss and Mildred L. S. Heine.

H ON. LEE MANTLE .- Of human life his- tory records mainly the bloody aspect. She delights in and expatiates on the doings of daring and violent men. The victory of Marathon-the defense of Thermopylae-the passage of the Gra- nicus, the exploits of Achilles, Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Napoleon-these and the like are the staple of her theme. Concerning the really great events in man's annals-the first use of iron, the invention of the plow, the spindle, the loom, the mariner's compass, she is almost if not entirely silent. Archimedes is rescued from oblivion by the ac- cident of his connection with the defense of Syra- cuse; while the invention of printing even, so re- cent and so mighty a transformer of the mental world, is claimed by different nations for different and still obscure men, though we know well who first compounded gunpowder, where cannons were first used, and where the bayonet was invented. The avenues and squares of our cities are rich in monuments to military and naval heroes. The statue of some proud commander looks down upon us on every side. Their deeds are written in all our chronicles and sung by all our bards. These are the heroes of destruction, and are preserved in bronze or marble and everywhere held up to admiration. From this bias not even the page of sacred history is free. Even in the Bible, to wnich we turn for lessons of peace and good will, we find the same vaunting story, "Saul has slain his thousands, but David his tens of thousands;" and this shout of triumph, of blood and battle, has rung echoing down the ages.

It is our more agreeable task to record in this column the story of one of the captains of con- struction, whose triumphs are none the less signal because won in the peaceful fields of productive enterprise, without clamor or ostentation, and for rather than over his fellow men.

Hon. Lee Mantle, of Butte, former United States senator from Montana, is descended from an old family long resident in Birmingham, England, where he was born December 13, 1853, the youngest of seven children who blessed the union

of Joseph and Mary Susan (Patrick) Mantle. He came into the world shortly after the death of his father, wich left the family in very straitened circumstances. But there was heroism in the mother, and she bore courageously and successfully the burden of rearing her children. After ten years of struggle in her native city, she transported them all across the fretful Atlantic and over the wide expanse of the United States to Salt Lake City. It was necessary to make the most of the family resources, so the future financier and publicist was "put out" to work, herding cattle on a farm for his board and clothes. This he did for four years; and then continued at the same place two years longer for the munificent compensation of $50 a year and his board. At the end of this time he was sixteen years old, and began to feel within him a spirit awakening and demanding more ambitious efforts. The Union Pacific Railroad was built as far as Utah; and, going to where the men were pushing the construction forward, he obtained em- ployment as a teamster, hauling ties, etc. He was thus employed in 1869 when the Union and Central Pacific met and were completed at Promontory in Utah. The next year he gathered his small be- longings together, and walked to Malad City, Idaho, one hundred and twenty-five miles. There he met B. F. White, afterwards governor of the territory, and by him was employed in driving an ox team, hauling salt from his salt mines in castern Idaho to Boise City in that state and Virginia City in Mon- tana. While he performed this drudgery cheerfully, and rejoiced in the chance it gave him to earn an honest livelihood, it was far from satisfying the longings of his aspiring young soul. In his com- munion with nature, for which the lonely drives furnished ample opportunity, she became a living presence, a solemn yet cheerful companionship, and taught him his capacity for a more exalted field of usefulness. Under her ministrations he realized and was reverently thankful that the same high stars, which, shining so brightly on the palace, the university, the senate-house, had kindled the souls of philosophers, sages and statesmen in times past, then looked down as kindly, as inspiringly on him ; and in the fact that they touched an answering chord within him was an earnest that their sug- gestions were nevermore to be sullen or fruitless. Then when the hour for his advancement was ripe, the open door was at hand. On one of his trips he met W. N. Shilling, afterwards a prominent banker in Ogden, but at that time telegraph opera-

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tor at Malad, and made an agreement with him to keep the line in repair through the winter for the privilege of learning telegraphy. His progress in the art was so rapid that soon everybody along the line was praising his capability, energy and prompt- ness, and in a short time he secured the position of general repairer for the Western Union Company, on the main line between Ogden and Green river on the Union Pacific Railroad. From this time his promotion and the increase in the number and im- portance of his functions were rapid, steady and continuous. He was at the same time telegraph operator, postmaster, stage agent and owner in a toll road. In 1877 he removed to Butte and opened an office for the Wells-Fargo Express Company and two years later took charge of the first tele- graph office and the first insurance office opened in that city. The hard work and close confinement of these various occupations entailed upon him made serious inroads on his health, and he was compelled to seek an active outdoor life, so he entered into partnership with William Owsley (afterwards mayor of Butte) in the livery business. The knowledge of the conditions in and about Butte gained in his new occupation, soon led him to see that the village had outgrown its swaddling clothes and ought to be transformed into a city and invested with corporated garments better suited to its development. He made a vigorous fight for the change, secured the incorporation of the city, and in consequence was one of its first aldermen. About this time, feeling the need of a wide-awake, aggressive organ to voice the sentiments and con- centrate the forces of his party in politics, there being no daily Republican paper in the state west of the mountains, he organized the Inter-Mountain Publishing Company, took charge of its business management, made it the champion of progress and development in its section of the state as well as the director of party politics, and pushed it into a position of commanding influence. In 1882 he was elected to the lower house of the territorial legis- lature, in 1884 took a leading part in a great con- test over the delegation from the territory to the Republican national convention, and was chosen as an Edmunds delegate, Col. Wilbur F. Sanders being his colleague as a Blaine delegate. That fall he was again nominated for the territorial assembly, but was beaten by a small majority through the combined opposition of the gambling element,. be- cause he would not pledge himself against inter- ference with their business. In 1885, when Gov.

Crosby, at the invitation of President Arthur, vacated his office to accept that of first assistant postmaster general, Mr. Mantle's friends urged his appointment to fill the vacancy. The sectional feeling, however, between the eastern and western parts of the territory secured the appointment of another; and the next year, 1886, he accepted another term in the assembly for the purpose of se- curing, if possible, a registration law as a means toward honest elections in the territory. In 1887 the Northern Pacific Railroad tried to wrest patents to large grants of mineral land in the territory from the United States government. The people rose against the "grab," and held a mass conven- tion at Helena to devise means to prevent it. The Mineral Land Association was formed, and Mr. Mantle was chosen its permanent president. In this position he fought so vigorously for the people that the issuing of patents was stopped and has never been renewed, and when subsequently the case reached the supreme court of the United States, the contention of the people against the railroad company was triumphantly sustained. In 1888 Mr. Mantle was again elected to the assembly, and was honored with the position of speaker of the house. By his influence laws were passed providing for a registration of voters and the Australian system of balloting. This was the Sixteenth and last ter- ritorial legislature, Montana being admitted into the Union as a state in 1889. That summer Mr. Mantle, by his personal influence and diligent activity, secured the nomination of Hon. Thomas H. Carter for a seat in the United States house of representatives, and later his election by a large majority. In 1890 he was himself a candidate for the United States senatorship before the first state legislature, but was beaten in the caucus by a majority of two votes for Hon. Thomas C. Power. He kept in harness, however, and continually at work for the success of his party without re- gard to his personal advancement, serving as chairman of the state convention and was in- defatigable in the work of the succeeding cam- paigns. In 1892 he was elected mayor of Butte by a large majority, and during his term in the executive office successfully launched the city public library scheme, procuring plans and letting contracts for the building. Again he took his place at the helm as chairman of two state conventions and of the state central committee, and managed the campaigns with such skill and tact in the mass- ing of forces that his party swept nearly every-

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thing before it, elected Hon. John E. Rickards governor and almost captured the legislature. Un- fortunately for his hopes they did not quite suc- ceed there, and the result was a memorable dead- lock over the election of United States senator in the session of 1893. In the Republican caucus Senator Wilbur F. Sanders secured the nomina- tion for a second term over Mr. Mantle by a ma- jority of one vote. But after three weeks of fruitless balloting for him, he was withdrawn and Mr. Mantle thereafter received the vote of his party until the session ended without an election. Upon the expiration of Senator Sanders' term of office, Governor Rickards immediately appointed Mr. Mantle to succeed him, but the senate refused him the seat on technical constitutional grounds and it remained vacant for two years, when it was filled by his election at the next session of the legislature, which was Republican on joint ballot through his masterly management of the campaign of 1894 as chairman of the state central committee, a position to which he had been unanimously re-elected.

The senatorial toga well became his form. In the most exalted, dignified and imposing deliberative body in the world he so bore himself that none de- nied, and all respected his forensic powers. His knowledge of men, of methods and of self-his breadth in grasp, accuracy in application and felicity of utterance, of governmental principles- all acquired and strengthened by his long previous training in almost every form of physical, mental and emotional exercise, made him thoroughly at . home in the broad arena of national legislation, and well equipped to measure swords with even the veterans of the senate, while his lofty independence, intrepid courage and unyielding honesty kept him true to his people and consistent with himself, re- gardless of partisan or personal considerations in all matters affecting the particular interests of his state. These qualities gave him influence in the senate, whereby he was able to secure, along with other desirable legislation, an appropriation for a much needed federal building in Butte, and to render valuable assistance in making similar pro- visions for Helena. Before he left the senate, he was appointed on the national industrial commis- sion, composed of men representing various shades of political conviction, to make a thorough ex- amination of the labor question in the United States, and to report to congress on the subject. The term for which he was appointed extended three years beyond his senatorial term; but he was obliged to

resign from this commission on account of other pressing duties. In the legislative session of 1901 he was the caucus nominee of his party to succeed Hon. Wm. A. Clark in the senate, Mr. Clark, who had been previously elected, having resigned, but as the legislature was Democratic, he was of course not elected.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 42

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