Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 58

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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fold and important interests, and two more able coadjutors than he and his brother could scarcely have been found. Mr. Power was a man of genial personality, unassuming in all the relations of life, ever imbued with a deep humanitarian spirit, chari- table in his judgment, and one of whom it may be said most consistently that he stood "four-square to every wind that blows." His faith in religion was that of the Catholic church, of which he was a communicant, and to whose cause he ever contrib- uted liberally and with pleasure, showing thereby his high sense of personal responsibility, even as he did in all other relations in life.

In political adherency he was stanchly arrayed in the support of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and it was but a natural sequence that he should be called upon to serve in positions of public trust. In 1890 he was elected a member of the state senate, and gave his constituency and the state the full benefit of his mature judgment and large business experience. A man of inflexible in- tegrity, his life was without shadow or blemish, and his career was one which reflected honor upon him- self and the state with whose history he was so con- spicuously identified. In 1883 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Power to Miss Nellie T. Kelly, who was born in the city of St. Louis, the daughter of M. L. Kelly. Their married life was ideal, but was of short duration, as the cherished and devoted wife was summoned into eternal rest five years after they were wedded and seven days after the birth of their only child, John Merlin, who is now in charge of the sister of our subject, in accordance with the dying wish of his mother. Mr. Power re- mained true to the memory of his beloved compan- ion and never consummated a second union. Stand- ing under the light and example of a life like his, none can find aught save incentive, encouragement and lesson, and this memoir is entered as a slight tribute to his sterling character and useful life.

H UGH J. McDONALD, M. D .- As one who has attained distinction in his profession, and who has been an earnest and discriminating stu- dent and holds due relative precedence among the medical practitioners of Butte, where he has been established in the active practice of his pro- fession for more than a decade, stands Dr. Mc- Donald. "Earn thy reward, the gods give naught to sloth," said the sage Epicharmus, and he to

whose life history we now direct attention has, by ceaseless toil and endeavor, attained marked success in his chosen vocation and has gained the respect and confidence of men. Hugh Joseph McDonald comes of stanch Scottish lineage, the original American ancestors in both agnatic and cognatic lines emigrating to America in an early day. He is a native of Alexandria, County Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, and was born on April 25, 1861, the third of the eleven children of Allan J. and Mary (McPhee) McDonald, who like- wise were born in Glengarry, where they still main- tain their home. Allan J. McDonald was long a wheelwright and carriage manufacturer and ac- cumulated a competency, and is now passing the golden evening of his life in retirement from active labor, enjoying that "otium cum dignitate" which is the merited reward of useful activities.

Dr. McDonald was reared in Alexandria, re- ceiving educational discipline in the public schools and being graduated from the local high school. A young man of strong mentality, his predilec- tions naturally tended toward a professional ca- reer, which he decided to be that of medicine, so in 1881 he matriculated in the medical department of McGill University, at Montreal, where he was graduated in 1885 as M. D. Coming to the United States he located at Chelsea, Wis., where he was engaged in general practice until 1890, when he came to Butte, Mont., where he has built up a most extensive medical and surgical business, having a marked reputation among his confreres and the general public. He is a close student, keeps fully abreast of the very rapid and startling advancements in the sciences of medicine and surgery, observes most closely the ethics of the unwritten professional code and is invariably courteous to his fellow practitioners.

He retains membership in the American Med- ical Association, the Montana State Medical As- sociation, the Rocky Mountain Inter-State Medi- cal Association and the Silver Bow County Medi- cal Association. He has been physician and sur- geon at the hospital of the Boston & Montana Mining Company for a full decade, practically cov- ering his entire residence in Butte. Dr. McDonald believes in the principles of the Democratic party, but natural inclination and the exigencies of his professional labors have withheld him from active identification with political affairs. At Minneap- olis, Minn., on July 11, 1889, Dr. McDonald was united in marriage to Miss Carrie LeMere, who

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was born in Baraboo, Wis., and they are the par- ents of four children, Hugh Allan, Frances Mary, Gertrude Esmerelda and Kenneth Frederick. The last named died on August 23, 1901, aged three months and fourteen days.

EORGE T. MCCULLOUGH, M. D .- Recog-

G nized as one of the able physicians of Mon- tana, and established in a successful practice of medicine and surgery in the city of Missoula, Dr. Mccullough is held in high esteem as a distin- guished representative of his profession. The Doc- tor is a native of East Springfield, Jefferson coun- ty, Ohio, born on November 22, 1858, the son of Alexander and Beth Anne (Hammond) McCul- lough, both natives of Ohio, the father being of old Scotch-Irish stock. His father, Jolm McCul- lough, emigrated from the north of Ireland to the United States after the Revolution, becoming one of the early settlers and pioneer farmers of the Buckeye state and a life-long resident. Alexander Mccullough removed with his family to Howard county, Mo., in 1872 and engaged in farming and stockraising. There he resided until his death in 1884, his devoted wife having passed into the re- pose of death in 1880. They left four sons and three daughters. He served one hundred days in the war of the Rebellion as a captain in an Ohio regiment.

Dr. Mccullough, after attending public schools in Ohio and Missouri, concluded his literary edu- cation in Central College at Fayette, Mo. He then began to read medicine under effective preceptor- age, but temporarily abandoned his studies to as- sist in a government survey in New Mexico. He then resumed his technical studies in Missouri un- til 1887, when he matriculated in the medical de- partment of the State University of Missouri, where he was graduated in 1889 with the degree of M. D. He was engaged in practice for sev- eral months, after which he entered Bellevue Hos- pital Medical College, New York city, in which he completed a post-graduate course, graduating in 1890.

Dr. Mccullough then went to Mexico, but in June, 1890, he came to Montana, locating in Missoula, where he has since continued in practice, enjoying here a marked personal popularity and controlling a large and represent- ative business. In 1898 he took a post-graduate

course in New York city. The Doctor keeps in touch with the best medical literature and the ad- vances made in science, and holds member- ship in the State Medical Society, of which he was president in 1899, the Rocky Mountain Inter- State Medical Association and the American Med- ical Association. He is at present a member of the board of United States pension examiners for Missoula county, and has also served as county physician. A Republican in politics, he is iden- tified with various fraternal organizations, and is highly regarded in all the relations of life. In 1886 Dr. Mccullough wedded Miss Mollie Massey, who was born in Missouri, and they have two children, Massey S. and Maud B.

SAMUEL JOSEPH McGUIRE, regarded as one of the most extensive wheatgrowers in Gallatin county, is located on an elegant home- stead near the thriving city of Bozeman. Public- spirited and enterprising, he enjoys the esteem and confidence of a wide circle of acquaintances, and has achieved a handsome competence by the exercise of many sterling qualities. He is a native of Pettis county, Mo., having been born April 10, 1850. His father, William Ferguson McGuire, was a Kentuckian, his mother, Louisa Caroline (Johnson) McGuire, being a native of Indiana. The paternal. grandfather, Samuel McGuire, was of an old Kentucky family of Scotch-Irish origin that settled in the state many years ago. The maternal grandfather, Joseph Johnson, of Scotch ancestry, was also a Kentuckian.

It was in Missouri that William Ferguson Mc- Guire married, and in 1850, when Samuel Joseph was but three weeks old, the father started for California overland. Buffalo were numerous in those days, and several times the emigrants were in danger from stampedes. However, he was spared to reach the Golden state, and after four years' residence he returned to Missouri via Pan- ama, and settled down on the old homestead. In 1878 he went to Kansas, where he engaged in farming and stockraising, remaining there until 1893, when he died.

The school days of our subject were completed in Missouri, and in 1871 he came to Montana, bringing with him a herd of cattle. They were stampeded by a band of thieves in the vicinity of the Black Hills, but finally all were recovered

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and brought through safely to Willow Creek, Mont., arriving October 28, 1871. The following spring Mr. McGuire began ranching, but sub- sequently went to Nevada with a herd of cattle, remained in that vicinity, and for three years en- gaged in freighting, in those days quite a profit- able employment. Returning to Montana in 1876 he filed on a homestead claim, on which he now resides, but has since added by purchase until he has a fine ranch of 600 acres, well irrigated and handsomely improved. The principal crop is wheat, of which Mr. McGuire has, in certain years, harvested as high as 10,000 bushels. In addition to this industry he also raises a small number of horses and cattle.

The marriage of Mr. McGuire to Miss Delilah Ella Mckinney, daughter of William Mckinney, of Kentucky, occurred May 14, 1881. To them have been born eight children: Nellie, Joseph J., William G., Mary Louisa, Minnie, James Rad- ford, Jasper McKinney and Delilah. For a num- ber of years Mr. McGuire has served as school trustee and is in every way a most popular and highly respected man and citizen.

JOSEPH A. MCELROY .- Going into the Fed- eral army in the Civil war as a private and coming out as a captain, traveling in his mili- tary service 27,000 miles, serving in. ninety-seven engagements and in five different commands, fighting under twenty-three generals in thirteen states and one territory in a regiment number- ing 1,177 when mustered into service, and which lost five officers and fifty-five men in battle, 194 by disease and forty-one in Confederate prisons, Joseph A. McElroy has earned the approval of a grateful country. And after the war was over, he endured the hardships of pioneer life in the great northwest. He was born at Mansfield, Ohio, on November 19, 1840, a son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Piper) McElroy, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Pennsylvania. His father was tanner and followed the business first in Pennsylvania, where he was married to his first wife, who died soon after, and then in Ohio, where he was again wedded and remained until his death in 1846.

Joseph A. McElroy, after attending school, learned chairmaking, at which he worked until August, 1861, when he enlisted in Company M,

Second Ohio Cavalry, under Col. Doubleday, and was mustered into service at Cleveland, where the regiment passed about four months, thence going to Camp Dennison, and on to St. Louis, Leavenworth and Kansas City to Fort Scott. At Independence, Mo., his detachment had an en- gagement with Quantrell's guerrillas and "cleaned them out." From Fort Scott they took part in the Blount expedition in the Indian territory, where they had a number of skirmishes. In the fall of 1862 they were in engagements at New- tonia and Prairie Grove and in many skirmishes. In December, 1862, their horses having died and many of their men, they were ordered to Leaven- worth and later to Camp Chase, at Columbus, Ohio, to be remounted and more fully equipped. Col. Doubleday having resigned, Col. A. V. Kautz, afterwards major-general, was assigned to the command and in the spring of 1863 the regiment joined Burnside in Kentucky and. during that summer was in pursuit of Morgan, the raider. The previous winter it had been consolidated, Companies I, K, L and M being merged with other companies, and four new companies being added. Mr. McElroy was put into Company D, which was stationed in Knoxville, Tenn., as an escort for Provost-Marshal Gen. S. P. Carter, and was in the city during the siege.

In January, 1864, the regiment was veteranized, and after a thirty days' furlough went to Wash- ington, D. C., with the Ninth Army Corps, where it was again remounted at Camp Stoneman, ar- riving at the front on the second day of the Wil- derness fight and taking part in the action on the right wing of the army, later doing flanking duty on Grant's march to Spottsylvania. It was moved to Hanover Station and was engaged in the valley campaign, routing the Confederates at the station and driving them into Ashland, Va., who, re- enforced by Mahone's division, then defeated the Federals. Here Mr. McElroy was taken prisoner and sent to Libby prison at Richmond, where he spent about six weeks and was then sent to Ander- sonville, but made his escape with eighteen or twenty others through a hole in the cattle car in which they were riding. This was on July 22, 1864, and he did not reach Sherman's lines until September 2, being compelled to go around Hood's army, traveling only at night and being aided by negroes. From Marietta, Ga., he was sent to Washington, D. C., and on the way there stopped at home, where he was invalided a short time by

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the scurvy. He rejoined his regiment in Decem- ber, at Winchester, Va. Soon after his first en- listment he was made a sergeant and in January, 1865, was commissioned second lieutenant in com- mand of Company D. When he arrived at Win- chester the regiment was going into winter quar- ters as a part of the First Brigade of the Third Divi- sion, under Gen. Custer. In February, 1865, he was commissioned first lieutenant, and they started up the valley on the last of Gen. Sheridan's raids. They routed Gen. Early at Waynesboro, went on to Charlottesville and down the James river, join- ing Gen. Grant's forces at White House Landing, passing through Ashland, where Mr. McElroy was captured the year before. From this time on he was in the saddle until Lee's surrender, being engaged with the enemy at Dinwiddie C. H., Five Forks and other places, in almost daily battles.

After Lee's surrender they were ordered south to re-enforce Sherman, but at Roanoke river they learned of Johnston's surrender and returned to Washington by way of Richmond. After the grand review they were ordered to St. Louis, passed the summer at Springfield, Mo., and were mustered out on September 19, 1865, at Colum- bus, Ohio, Mr. McElroy bearing a captain's com- mission. Returning to Mansfield Mr. McElroy again began working at his trade. In 1873 he went to Portsmouth and took charge of a planing mill until 1876, when he started to Montana, trav- eling by rail to Corinne, Utah, and from there by wagon to Bozeman. He homesteaded his present residence in 1879, and has increased the ranch to 320 acres by purchase. It is located at the base of the mountains, about six miles south of Boze- man, part of it on the slope, which furnishes nec- essary timber for fencing, buildings, etc. He was married on February 15, 1871, to Miss Clara Johnson, born on November 21, 1846, at Mans- field, Ohio, the daughter of C. W. and Sarah E. (Couch) Johnson, both natives of Ohio. They have three children, Harry S., born on May 9, 1872, a graduate of the scientific department of the Indiana Normal School and now principal of the East Side public school in Bozeman; Sadie E., born on December 6, 1873, a student in the Bozeman schools, and Hugh C., born on January 6, 1876, a graduate of Bozeman College and of the law department of the normal school at Valparaiso, Ind. Mr. McElroy's home is one of the most desirable in the valley. The residence is a fine one and all the outbuildings are substantial,

well-built and in good order. The ranch is in an advanced state of productiveness, showing skill- ful cultivation. Oats, wheat and barley are the principal crops and give large yields. The only fraternal organization to which Mr. McElroy be- longs is the Grand Army of the Republic.

W ILLIAM T. McFARLAND .- In all time to come too much cannot be said in regard to the sturdy and heroic men and women who came to Montana in the early days and here laid broad and deep the foundations of a great and enlight- ened commonwealth. Of signal relevancy in this work, then, is a consideration of the life history of Mr. McFarland, one of the honored pioneer citizens of Fergus county, and late incumbent of the important office of public administrator, at Lewistown.

William T. McFarland is a native of Butler county, Ohio, where he was born on the 22d of May, 1842, being a son of Dr. Joel B. and Eliza- beth (Taylor) McFarland, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Dr. McFarland was long engaged in the practice of medicine in Ohio and Indiana, was known and honored as an able physi- cian and a man of unbending rectitude, his death occurring in 1861 in Indiana. He was a mem- ber of the constitutional convention of the Hoosier state in 1850, was very prominent in public af- fairs, and one of the cornerstones of the Aboli- tion party of the northwest. William T. McFar- land and Mrs. M. B. Child, of Helena, are the only representatives of the family in Montana, whither his mother and her two sons came in 1867. The brother, Demas L. McFarland, is now dead, los- ing his life by suffocation in a burning cabin at Round Up on the Musselshell river.

William T. McFarland was reared and educated in Indiana, where the family maintained its home until 1867, when the widowed mother came with her two sons to Montana. The trip was made by boat up the Missouri river from St. Louis to Fort Benton. Here the mother passed the resi- due of her life, her death occurring in 1886. Mr. McFarland began the active duties of life as a freighter between Helena and Fort Benton, but his initial first trip between these places in this capacity was also his final one. He made his home in or near Helena until 1882. In 1868 he was engaged by the government to assist in the

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surveying of the state, and was thus employed until 1880. Two years later he came to Fergus county in the employ of the Montana Sheep Com- pany, and was located for some time in the Flat- willow section of the county. He finally removed to Maiden, and thereafter devoted his attention to surveying and to the occasional practice of law, for as there was only one other lawyer in the place at that time he was forced at times to ap- pear and help as he could those in difficulties. He took up his abode in Lewistown in 1890 and he has since made that enterprising city his home. He first visited Fergus county in 1875, being then with his brother, who had a contract of govern- ment surveys. It is worthy of note that Mr. McFarland still devotes more or less attention to work in the line of surveying, in which he has has wide experience. His technical knowledge has also caused him to receive the appointment of deputy United States mineral surveyor. He is well known throughout the county and has a wide circle of friends. His bachelor "den" and office in Lewistown is finished in natural wood, and is at once a music parlor, museum and li- brary, as well as office and dwelling.

Mr. McFarland has been a life-long Republican and is a stanch supporter of the party. After lo- cating in Lewistown he served for six years in the office of justice of the peace, and is still hold- ing that office. He feels proud of the fact that, in the last approval of his bond by the district judge, that official in his letter of transmittal, called attention to the fact that during the past six years in all of the appeals to the district court from his justice's court, Mr. McFarland's deci- sions had been never overruled, either by the court or when tried by a jury. Some time since a controversy in the correspondents' corner of the Cincinnati Enquirer led Mr. McFarland to have published an accurate account of the burning of the steamer Sunnyside on the Mississippi river, in November, 1863, by which forty-five lives were lost. Mr. McFarland was a passenger on the ill-fated steamer, and saved a young girl named Blake by swimming with her to the shore, and he also, with the assistance of the barber of the steamer, brought to shore and saved an old man who had gone down for the third time.

At the time of Mr. McFarland's arrival in the territory of Montana there were eleven counties composing it, and he has carried, as his "load of sin," the solar compass, chain and pins in nine

of them, Missoula and Dawson alone being ex- cepted, and, as chief clerk of the state surveyor- general's office for several months, he became so familiar with these as to feel that he had been there also and helped to run their lines.

JOHN T. McGUIRE .- One of the many fine J

farms in the beautiful Gallatin valley is that owned and operated by the subject of this re- view. Recognized as a progressive and scientific agriculturalist who has attained success through timely and effective efforts, Mr. McGuire has won the esteem of the community by his strict observ- ance of those amenities which should ever be ob- served in all relations of life. Mr. McGuire is a na- tive of the city of Sedalia, Mo., from whence Mon- tana has obtained many of her best citizens, the date of his nativity being September 16, 1855. He is a son of William F. and Carrie (Johnson) McGuire, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Indiana, the ancestry on the paternal side being Kentuckians for several generations. The father of our subject removed to Missouri in an early day and engaged in farming until 1880, going thence to Kansas, where he continued his agricultural pursuits until his death, which oc- curred in 1890. His widow is living in Pettis county, Mo. They were the parents of five sons and two daughters, of whom our subject was the sixth in order of birth.

The early years of John T. McGuire were passed in Missouri, where he grew to maturity, securing his education in the public schools, while his youthful labors assisted in the work of the farm. He accompanied the family on removal to Kansas, where he continued to make his home until 1892, when he came to Montana, and upon his ar- rival $125 represented his financial resources. Mr. McGuire and family located in Gallatin valley, where he purchased the James Dartis ranch, com- prising 160 acres on East Gallatin river, five miles cast of Belgrade postoffice. The entire tract is under irrigation, Mr. McGuire controlling a water- right of 120 inches. The ranch is devoted to gen- eral farming, the principal crops being oats and wheat, large yields, as high as 110 bushels of oats to the acre, having been harvested during the season of 1900. Mr. McGuire also raises Norman and Clydesdale horses and shorthorn cattle, and in every branch of his ranching operations he

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brings to bear mature judgment and the most effective methods. Through energy, ability and close application he has attained marked success during the few years of his residence in the valley, and taking into consideration his limited means, is strong evidence that Montana offers extraor- dinary advantages to those who are willing to "work out their own salvation." In politics our subject gives his support to the Republican party, but has never been an aspirant for public office.

On August 5, 1883, Mr. McGuire was united in marriage to Miss Belle Carter, who was born in Iowa, the daughter of James and Samantha Car- . ter, natives of Ohio, both deceased. The father was a farmer by occupation. Mr. and Mrs. Mc- Guire have four children : Clyde M., Carrie E., William Lloyd and Bertha Beatrice.

W ILLIAM C. MoKASKLE .- A scion of old Scottish stock and with the name he bears identified with American history from the early colonial epoch, his grandfather having served with distinction in the Continental army during the Revolution, dying from the effects of wounds re- ceived in that great struggle, the personal career of Mr. McKaskle has been one of varied char- acteristics, and now as a resident of Pony, Madi- son county, he is conspicuously identified with the great mining industry, through which Mon- tana first gained prestige. Mr. McKaskle was born in Benton county, Mo., March 22, 1845. His father, Bruce McKaskle, born in North Caro- lina, was a man of wealth and influence. In 1844 he removed to Texas, but soon returned to his old home, thence went to Alabama and to Mis- souri, where he became a resident shortly before the birth of his son, William C. He was born in 1812, and his death occurred at Preston, Tex., in 1857. He was a son of Angus McKaskle, who was born in Scotland, a descendant of one of the proud old families who emigrated to America and located in North Carolina in an early day, where he established large iron works and owned a plantation and many slaves. He was an influ- ential man and prominent in public affairs. He entered the Continental army of the Revolution and was severely wounded in the battle of Guil- ford Courthouse, N. C., dying from the wound a short time afterward. The maiden name of Mr.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 58

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