Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 55

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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CAPT .. WILLIAM LOGAN .- None is more worthy of determinate representation in the pages of this work, as an example of that sterling

character which the Emerald Isle has contributed to the complex fabric of our national common- wealth than Capt. William Logan, whose loyalty to the land of his adoption was signally shown in the valiant service that he accorded as one of her soldiers-a service which ended only when he met the grim messenger of death on the battlefield of Big Hole, Mont., on August 9, 1877. It is with marked satisfaction that we here give tribute to his memory. He was born in County Louth, Ireland, December 9, 1830, of Scotch-Irish parentage, be- ing the son of Thomas D. and Margaret (Rohan) Logan, who passed their entire lives in Ireland. 'Of their family of three sons and five daughters, Capt. Logan was the only one to emigrate to the United States. His father was a clergyman of the Church of England, a man of high intellectual attainments and force of character. Of the sons it is worthy of record that Charles was colonel of the Sixty-first Highlanders, that Archibald was a captain in the British navy, Thomas is now a resident of Scotland, while Capt. Logan, the other son, has acquired na- tional fame by his gallantry.

William Logan completed his educational discip- line in famous old Trinity College, where he grad- uated about 1847, coming to the United States in 1848. He located in New Orleans, where he first found work at railroading, continuing to advance until he became assistant engineer. He resigned this office and enlisted in Company I, Seventh United States Infantry, as a private, the regiment having been recruited in New Orleans for service in the Mexican war. Capt. Logan served under Gen. Taylor on the Rio Grande, and later under Gen. Scott, with whom he served until the fall of the city of Mexico, participating in all engagements in which his command took part. He continued with his regiment as first sergeant after the war, this having been assigned to the work of guarding the frontier in Texas and New Mexico, and to opposing the depredations of the Indians. The regiment finally surrendered to Gen. Kirby Smith, in 1861, at the commencement of the Civil war. Captain Logan was paroled and sent to Rouse's Point, N. Y., where he remained until the regiment was ex- changed the succeeding fall. He again entered the service in the spring of 1862 with the Army of the Potomac, and was with his regiment until the bat- tle of Fredericksburg, where he was severely wounded in the shoulder and was conveyed to the hospital at David's Island, in New York harbor, where he served as hospital steward after he had

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sufficiently recuperated. Prior to receiving this wound Capt. Logan had participated in the bat- tles of Chancellorsville and Snecker's Gap. Hav- ing rejoined his regiment, he was commissioned first lieutenant thereof in 1864, and, after the sur- render of Lee, he went to St. Augustine, Fla., where he served as quartermaster-general until 1869, when he accompanied his regiment to Fort Steele, Wyo., where it was engaged in construc- tion work and in guarding the Union Pacific Rail- road, then in construction. Capt. Logan moved on to Fort Beaufort, N. D., in 1870, remaining at that station until 1872, which was the year of hisad- vent in Montana, and here he was one of the num- ber to take part in the Yellowstone expedition. Be- ing still in the military department of the United States service, Capt. Logan was called upon to show his mettle in conflict with the Indians, taking part in "Baker's fight" near Billings, and he was officer of the guard on the night when the attack was made by the hostile Sioux, and for his effective service on this occasion he received honorable men- tion. From 1872 to 1876 he was stationed at Fort Shaw, doing recruiting service at Dubuque, Iowa, during the first two years of this time, and in 1875 he was commissioned captain. In the centennial year he rejoined his regiment, was with Gen. Gibbon in the Sioux campaign, and was on the ground where Custer was killed the day after this memorable disaster. Returning to Fort Shaw, in the spring of 1877, he was removed to Fort Mis- soula, then in course of construction, where he re- mained until he was called forth to accompany Gen. Gibbon on the expedition which culminated in the battle of Big Hole, where he met his death at the hands of a vengeful squaw. His death ended a career of signal honor and valiant service of bravery and gallantry noted by his superior officers and was on the high road to further promotion. His loss was a distinct loss to the United States army, and it was deeply mourned not only by his companions in arms, but also by a very wide circle of devoted friends. His remains now repose in the national cemetery on the Custer battlefield, having been removed to that sepulcher in 1882.

In 1854, in Texas, Capt. Logan was united in marriage with Miss Odelia Furlong, a native of the famous old city of Strasburg, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, whence she came with her parents to the United States, the family settling in Texas. To Capt. and Mrs. Logan were born thirteen chil- dren ; four sons and three daughters are now living :

William R., a resident of Helena; Frances, wife of Brig .- Gen. Comba, of the Fifth United States Infantry, at Fort Sheridan, Ill .; Thomas A., late of the First Washington Infantry, and who was in active service in Manila; Maggie, wife of Maj. J. T. Van Arsdale, now at Fort Davis, near Nome, Alaska, with the Seventh United States In- fantry; Sidney M., a prominent attorney of Kali- spell; Katharine, the wife of J. W. Luke, of Hel- ena; and Archie, who served as second lieutenant in the First Montana Regiment in the Philippines, and now stationed at Fort Davis, Alaska.

A sketch of the life of Capt. Logan would not be complete without at least a passing reference to a romantic incident following his death at Big Hole. As stated in the foregoing biography, Capt. Logan was descended from a Scottish family one of his ancestors being the Bruce. Those famil- iar with the history of Scotland will recall the am- bition of the Bruce to visit the Holy Lands, his death with that ambition yet unrealized, his request of the Douglas that, since fate had debarred him from the realization of his most cherished ambition, the latter carry his heart to the scene of the cruci- fixion ; how the Douglas, complying with the dying request of his chief, placed the heart in a silver cas- ket and how subsequently, in a battle with the Sara- cens, he cast the casket into the thick of the fight crying "Go first, brave heart, in battle, as thou were wont to do, and Douglas will follow thee ;" how the heart and casket were subsequently recovered, pierced with a barbarian spear, and how the "bleeding heart" has ever since been a part and par- cel of Scottish history and tradition. In that battle were two brothers of the name of Logan (origin- ally Lagan, a low place), Walter and Robert. One of them was killed in the battle and the other sub- sequently married a daughter of Robert Bruce and granddaughter of the Bruce. From that time the Logan crest has been a heart pierced by a passion nail surrounding by a belt bearing the inscription "In hoc majorum virtus." When William Logan started on his journey to America his father gave him a seal ring which had been in the family for many generations. The seal was the family crest engraven and enamelled on a violet-colored stone. During Logan's residence in Florida he became worshipful master of his Masonic lodge and when he moved north he was presented by his Masonic friends with a plain band ring covered with Masonic emblems in enamel. Both rings were on the little finger of his left hand until after his death. Capt.

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Logan was killed very early in the Big Hole engagement, and shortly after his death the troops were driven back from the main battlefield to a tim- bered point, the bodies of the slain thus being left in the possession of the Indians. Capt. Logan's body was stripped of its uniform, his scalp taken off and the finger bearing the two rings removed by the Indians. His widow vainly endeavored for

years to recover these rings, advertising in the Army and Navy Journal and in the territorial news-

papers. About three years after the fight a Nez Perce Indian was killed near the international boundary line by an Indian of another tribe and the seal ring was found on his body. It passed from hand to hand until it finally came to the notice of "Billy" Todd, in Fort Benton, who recognized it as the one formerly worn by his old friend, Capt. Logan. He redeemed it from the old trapper who had it and sent it to the commanding officer at Can- tonment Bad Lands on the Missouri river. An officer was sent to deliver the ring to Mrs. Logan at Helena and since then the ring has been worn by William R. Logan, oldest son of the Captain.

For years no trace was had of the Masonic ring and all hope of recovering it was given up by the family. In 1900, however, nearly twenty-three years after the fight, while William R. Logan was residing at the Blackfoot agency, a Piegan squaw entered his office to lay before the agent one of the many grievances with which the Indians are af- flicted. On one of her fingers she wore a band ring much worn, but still showing faintly the out- lines of many Masonic emblems. Mr. Logan im- mediately recognized the ring as his father's and easily succeeded in purchasing it from the old squaw, who gave this brief account of her connec- tion with it :

A few months after the battle of the Big Hole a hunting party of Blackfeet and Piegans encoun- tered a party of Nez Perces near the Cypress Hills in northern Montana and a brisk fight ensued in which a number of Indians were killed on both sides. Among the fallen Nez Perces was a buck who wore this ring. The finger was removed, pre- cisely as the corresponding finger was removed from the lawful owner of the ring twenty-three years before, and was worn by the victorious Pie- gan until his death, when it came into the posses- sion of his squaw who sold it to Capt. Logan's son. So after a separation of twenty-three years the rings again repose side by side.

TILLIAM R. LOGAN, oldest son of Capt.

Logan, is a native of Texas, born at Fort Belknap on March 29, 1856. After educational training in the various sections of the country where his parents maintained their temporary home, attending St. Joseph College, Mo., for two years, inheriting the military ardor of his father, in 1876, he was a scout in the Sioux campaign. Being rec- ommended by Gens. Gibbon and Terry for a commission, he was ordered to Fort Shaw for ex- amination in the year mentioned. He successfully passed the examination, but refused to accept the commission, for it implied his assignment to the Ninth Cavalry, a negro regiment. In 1877 Gen. Sherman accorded him an appointment as post- trader at Fort Missoula, which he held two years. Soon after this he came to Helena, which city has since been his home and business headquarters. Here he is successfully engaged in the raising of sheep and cattle, and also has important mining interests. In 1898 he was appointed United States Indian agent at the Blackfoot agency, resigning the office in April, 1900, to devote his attention to his private affairs. In politics he gave a stalwart alle- giance to the Republican party.

In 1890 were solemnized the nuptials of Mr. Lo- gan and Miss Mary Redding, a native of Helena, and they have two children: Francis and Janet. Fraternally Mr. Logan belongs to the Modern Woodmen of the World. In social circles the fam- ily occupy a prominent position, their home being a center of refined hospitality.

SIDNEY M. LOGAN, fourth son of Capt. Wil- liam and Odelia ( Furlong) Logan, was born at St. Augustine, Fla., on March 2, 1867. He came to Montana in 1872 with his father, who was stationed at Fort Shaw, and here Sidney was reared, receiving his education in the schools of Helena and studying law with Wade, Toole & Wallace. He was admitted to practice in 1889 at the May term of the supreme court at Helena, but in a short time went to Seattle, remained one year, then came to Kalispell and es- tablished himself in that incipient city in 1891. In 1893, under the provisions of the law creating Flat- head county, he was appointed its first county at- torney and in 1894 was elected to succeed himself in that office. In politics he is a Republican. In religion his preferences are for the Disciples church; and fraternally he is connected with the

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Royal Highlanders. Mr. Logan was married on June 25, 1890, at Helena, to Miss Cleora Stout, a daughter of R. P. and Ella (Toole) Stout, and a niece of Gov. Toole. She is a lineal descendant of the gallant Col. Porter, of Revolutionary fame. Their children are Cleora L., Luella, Eula, Sidney M. and William R. Logan.

JOSEPH P. LOSSL has contributed largely to- ward developing the resources of Beaverhead county and thereby conserving the general wel- fare. Though a young man he is the pioneer mer- chant of the town of Wisdom. He is a man of ex- ecutive ability and force of character, and in all the relations of life his course has been such as to warrant the confidence and esteem of those with whom he has come in contact. Mr. Lossl was born in the beautiful little city of Racine, Wis., on March 6, 1860, being the eldest of the five children of Joseph and Louisa (Blessinger) Lossl, the for- mer born in Austria, while the latter was born in the famous old German town, Baden-Baden. The father came to America in 1852 and located in Racine, where he conducted a successful tanning business for many years, owning his own tannery, moved to Pioneer, Mont., in 1885, and died Decem- ber 9, 1900. His wife is still living at Pioneer, Mont.

Joseph P. Lossl attended the public schools of his native city and thereafter engaged in tanning in Wisconsin until 1882, when he came to Mon- tana, locating at Pioneer, Deer Lodge county, and engaged in placer mining, which he followed for five years. In 1885 he supplemented his edu- cational discipline by taking a course in a business college in the city of Helena. Eventually he opened a general merchandise store in Pioneer, conducting the same until 1895, when he came to Beaverhead county, locating in Wisdom, where he bought out a small store and opened the first gen- eral merchandise establishment in the Big Hole basin, there being but two buildings in the town at the time of his arrival. He also owns a good ranch of 160 acres contiguous to the village, also the ground and building where his store is lo- cated, and has an interest in a general store at Pioneer, being associated there with his younger brother, George Lossl, who has charge of the same. He started the first mercantile house at Jackson, Beaverhead county, but eventually dis-

posed of it. His business enterprises also extend still farther, for he holds an interest in promising quartz mines on Gold creek, Grant county. In politics Mr. Lossl supports the Democratic party, but has never aspired to the honors or emoluments of public office, preferring to devote h.s entire time and attention to his business interests.

On May 1, 1889, Mr. Lossl was united in mar- riage to Miss Anna Hegerman, who was born in Wisconsin, the daughter of John Hegerman, en- gaged in the boot and shoe business in Racine county, that state. Mr. and Mrs. Lossl have two daughters, namely: Loretto L., who was born March 14, 1890, and Gertrude E., born September 12, 1893.

(`HARLES H. LOUD, judge of the district court of the Seventh judicial district, at Miles City, is known as one of the able jurists and legists of Montana, as one who has served capably in positions of high trust and who has been identified with the industrial activities of the commonwealth in which he has made his home for more than a score of years. He was born in. Weymouth, Norfolk county, Mass., on the 20th of November, 1858. The family dates back to colonial days in New England, and the family name is more than once enrolled on the muster rolls of the Continental army of the Revolution. Cyrus Loud, father of Charles H. Loud, was a man- ufacturer of boots and shoes at Weymouth, Mass., for many years, and that state was his home until his death in 1897. His wife, whose maiden name was Betsey Loud, belonged to a collateral branch of the family, and, like her husband, was born in Massachusetts. She is now seventy-two. They had two children, George B., who is now a man of forty-six years, and Charles H. Loud. In the public schools of Weymouth Judge Loud was prepared for Harvard College, but from the force of circumstances he did not at- tend that famous institution, but instead turned his attention to reading law under the effective direction of Judge E. C. Bumpus, at Weymouth, with whom he studied nine months. He then iden- tified himself with civil engineering work in the office of the city surveyor of Boston, where he re- mained three years, and gained an excellent prac- tical and technical knowledge. At the expiration of the period noted he became an employe in the engin- eering department of the New York, New Haven

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& Hudson Railroad, with which he remained one year. He then, in 1880, entered the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad as leveler in an engineer- ing corps operating in the construction of the new line, and for three years he was identified with construction work on this road, and was assistant engineer on the Park branch, from Livingston to Cinnabar. Returning then to the east, he, in com- pany with eastern capitalists, organized the Here- ford Cattle Company. He then returned to Mon- tana and as manager operated for this company in the cattle business on Pumpkin creek, a tributary of Tongue river. In 1886 they met with severe losses and Mr. Loud eventually withdrew from the company. In 1889 he located in Miles City, re- sumed the reading of law, was admitted to the bar in 1891, and thereafter was in active practice. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1889 which framed the organic laws under which Montana was admitted to the Union, and, in 1890 and 1891, he represented Custer county in the lower house of the state legislature, so that he has been intimately connected with the framing of both the constitutional and statutory laws of Montana. He later served two terms as county attorney, and in 1896 he was elected to the bench of the Seventh judicial district, comprising the coun- ties of Yellowstone, Custer and Dawson, and he has since been incumbent of this exacting and dig- nified office. He was unanimously re-elected in 1900, having been nominated in both Republican and Democratic conventions.

Judge Loud has ever given an unqualified al- legiance to the Republican party and was long an active factor in its councils. In his fraternal rela- tions he is prominently identified with the Masonic order, affiliating with the lodge and chapter at Miles City and the commandery of Knights Tem- plar at Glendive. He is also connected with the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, being a member of Algeria Temple, at Hel- ena. During the regime of Gov. Ricards Judge Loud served as a member of his military staff. He is also vice-president of the State National Bank, of Miles City, a member of the firm of Lakin, Westfall & Co., who are engaged in a general mer- cantile business at Miles City, and senior mem- ber of the firm of Loud & Kitzfeldt, who are in the cattle business in Custer county. On the 21st of December, 1886, Judge Loud was united in marriage with Miss Georgiana W. Burrell, who was born in the state of Massachusetts, the daughter of Joseph W. Burrell.

LBERT L. LOVE .- Hiram W. Love, a native of Ohio, where he was born in 1830, removed to Iowa in early life, and was a manufacturing dealer in tinware until the time of the Civil war, when he joined the Second Iowa Cavalry and served through the war, rising to the rank of major. After his muster out at the close of the war he lived for a time in Washington, D. C., and then removed to Oregon, where he now resides on a fruit farm, from which he real- izes large returns. His wife was Amanda Ma- gill, a daughter of Samuel Magill, one of the substantial citizens of Cumberland, Md., and both were of Irish ancestry. Albert L. Love, son of this worthy couple, was born in Iowa on August 30, 1853, attended the common schools and the state university of his native state, and took a special course in business training at a commercial col- lege, from which he was graduated in 1872. He then went to Kansas City and learned the tinner's trade. After following this for two years he be- came a clerk in an Iowa bank and later in various stores, becoming then traveling salesman for a Chi- cago house, until he became ill in the fall of 1877. After recovering his health the next spring he went to the Black Hills, in South Dakota, and for four years engaged in bookkeeping. In 1882 he re- moved to Montana, driving a bull outfit to Bill- ings, arriving on August I, and the next day ac- cepting a position in a bank.

The next spring the bank concluded that its interests demanded a branch bank and sent Mr. Love to establish one at Livingston, making him its cashier, a position he held for five years and achieving a notable success and reputation. He resigned at the end of the time named and re- moved to Crow Creek valley, in Jefferson county, and engaged in stockraising, but sold his stock in 1897 and in 1898 took up his residence in Boze- man, where he was appointed register of the United State Land Office, a position which he still holds (1901). He has always been active in political affairs on the Republican side and in 1894 was elected to the state legislature. He later was the candidate of his party for state auditor, but was unable to fully overcome the heavy adverse ma- jority in the state. Mr. Love was married on May 15, 1884, to Miss Jennie Goughnour, of Living- ston, Mont., a daughter of Emanuel Goughnour, a native of Pennsylvania. He was interested in mining, among other official stations having been vice-president of the Cokedale Coke and Coal Company, of which Samuel Hauser was president.

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He is an active and zealous member of Bozeman Lodge No. 463, B. P. O. E. Whatever he has ett- gaged in has prospered and he is regarded one of the reliable business men of the community.

PHILIP LOVELL .- Time has thrown more or less of a glamour over scenes and incidents of life on the frontier during the early pioneer days of Montana, and it is not strange that those who were closely identified with the events which served to make history in those days of privation, danger and excitement, find a retrospective review of the dim past rapidly melting away under conditions of today. The advancement seems phenomenal and the march of improvement almost beyond belief. Well it is, then, that there should be left a per- petual record concerning those who aided in laying the foundations for the great commonwealth, and fortunate it is that many of Montana's pioneers yet remain to personally accord the information upon which may be based a resume of their respec- tive careers. One of the representative citizens and honored pioneers of Beaverhead county is the gentleman whose name introduces this paragraph, and it is a pleasure to give his recollections place among others of the old-timers who lived and la- bored to goodly ends.

Philip Lovell is a native of England, born 'in Yorkshire, April 12, 1840, the eldest of the five children of Jonathan and Anna (Abbey) Lovell, both natives of England, where they passed their entire lives. The father was for many years en- gaged in the butchering business in Yorkshire, and was a man of sterling character. His wife was a member of a prominent and well-to-do family of Yorkshire, received the best educational advan- tages and was a woman of gentle refinement. The subject of this review received his educational dis- cipline in the public schools of his native country, where he was reared to maturity. At the time of his father's death he was but nine years of age, and was then taken in charge by an uncle, with whom he made his home, and his initial business experience was in connection with the butchering enterprise, with the details of which he became thoroughly familiar. In 1860, at the age of twenty years, Mr. Lovell determined to come to America, believing that he would here find better oppor- tunities for individual effort. He bade adieu to home and native land in March, reached the west-

ern hemisphere and located in the city of Toronto, Canada, where he remained during the ensuing summer, thence coming to the states, locating in Wisconsin, where he worked on a farm during the summer and attended school during the winter. In the spring of 1861 he went to St. Paul, where he was employed in connection with the butchering business until May 3d of the following year, when his adventurous spirit led him to start for the western frontier. He joined a company of emi- grants who made the trip across the plains to Montana by the northern route. This train was composed of bull teams, and Mr. Lovell had a wagon in partnership with the late F. E. Curtis, of Butte. Their equipment included three yoke of cattle and one cow. The train passed through the village of New Ulm, Minn., soon afterward the scene of the memorable Sioux massacre. As they approached this point their Indian scouts urged them to make haste, as an outbreak of the Sioux was momentarily expected. The party had not proceeded far after leaving New Ulm before they were overtaken by a band of Sioux, who began to cut open sacks of flour and commit other depre- dations. They were finally prevailed upon to leave the train, being presented with various gifts and paid a sum of money ; thereafter the company en- countered no further difficulty with the Indians while en route. In the earlier days of the trip the train had two halfbreeds as guides, but after a short time the company secured other Indian guides who directed them on their course to Fort Benton, arriving in July, and found only the old adobe fort and a few primitive cabins to mark the site of what soon afterward became a thriving vil- lage at the head of navigation on the Missouri river. There were eighty-two men in the party, and at Deer Lodge they separated, some going on to Walla Walla, Wash. After spending about a month on Hot Springs creek Mr. Lovell went to what afterward became Bannack, the first capital of the territory, and there engaged in mining for a short time, but subsequently entered the employ of Conrad Kohrs and Henry Crawford, who were there engaged in the butchering business. In 1863 Mr. Lovell entered into partnership with the late Col. C. A. Broadwater in the butchering busi- ness, eventually purchasing his partner's interest. At this time the road agents and border ruffians were much in evidence, and so great was the men- ace to life and property through this source that the law-abiding citizens were soon constrained to

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 55

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