Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 59

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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McKaskle's mother was Maria Ripley. She was born in Alabama, the daughter of Thomas Rip- ley, a wealthy planter. She was mother of four children, of whom three are now living.

William C. McKaskle, the third of his parents' children, was but three years of age when his parents removed from Missouri to Texas, and in the latter commonwealth he was educated in pri- vate schools. He was but sixteen when the di- vided nation entered upon the greatest internecine conflict ever recorded in history, and he ran away from home to join actively in the cause of the South, and finally succeeded in enlisting in the Army of the West, and was in active service in a number of the most notable engagements of the war. He was in the engagement at Peak Ridge (Elkhorn), Chickamauga and Stone river; in the last named he was slightly wounded, as was he in several other engagements, though never long incapacitated for duty. Mr. McKaskle was cap- tured in an engagement in front of Atlanta on July 21, 1864, and remained a prisoner until the close of the war.

After his military service was thus terminated Mr. McKaskle came to the west, making the overland trip to Colorado, the party having numerous encounters with Indians while on the way. He engaged in mining in Colo- rado about two years, and then followed the same vocation in Wyoming and Ne- vada, finally coming to Montana in 1870. He located first at Radersburg, engaged in placer mining for a time, and then went to Red Mountain City, or Highland, near Butte, following mining and prospecting there and later at Silver Star, Cherry creek and Red Bluff, at last taking up his residence at Pony, where he now maintains his home and controls valuable mining interests. He has attained a high degree of success, and is recognized as one of the representative busi- ness men of the county. Politically his influence and support are with the Democratic party, and fraternally he is identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. On October 4, 1881, Mr. McKaskle married Miss Katherine Beckwith, who was born in Maryland, the daughter of William Beckwith, a carpenter and builder, who was a resident of Montana at the time of his death, which occurred at Pony, in 1897. Of the three children born to Mr. and Mrs. McKaskle only one is living, Isabel; Helen and Bruce are de- ceased.

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ILLIAM LINDSAY .- The world judges the character of a community by its representative citizens, and yields its admiration and respect to those whose works and actions constitute a state's prosperity and pride. Among the prominent men of Dawson county is Mr. Lindsay, who has at- tained success in connection with industrial activi- ties, and who is an influential member of the Re- publican party, having represented his county in the state legislature, and who is honored for his ability and sterling integrity. He has been a resi- dent of Dawson county for nearly a score of years and is one of the most extensive individual sheep growers in Montana, an industry in which he began operations upon a modest scale.

Mr. Lindsay is a native of the Buckeye state, born in Poland, Mahoning county, Ohio, on the 20th of April, 1852. His father, James M. Lind- say, was born in New Jersey in 1828. When a young man he removed to Ohio, where his death occurred in August, 1898, in Fostoria, where he had conducted a barrel manufactory for fifteen years. At the time of his demise he had retired from active business and for several years had enjoyed the quiet and peace that an industrious and honorable life brings to age. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth J. Bebout, was born at New Brighton, Pa., in 1834. Her death occurred at Poland, Ohio, in 1867. Of their nine children seven are now liv- ing.

William Lindsay was educated in the public schools of Poland, Ohio, and New Brighton, Pa., and when attaining the age of twenty-one in 1873, he engaged in the hardware business at Beaver Falls, Pa., where he continued operations until 1883. In the spring of 1884 he came to Daw- son county, Mont., and located on Redwater, near the Missouri river, seventy miles from Glendive, the county-seat. Here he was engaged in the sheep business until 1892. In 1893 Mr. Lindsay located on what is now known as his homestead ranch, which is eligibly situated on Spring creek, twenty-five miles west of Glendive. He has a fine ranch property of 560 acres in this county and in late years he has run an average of 16,000 head of sheep, putting a large portion of his stock out on shares to three or four persons, and thus utilizing the open range to a considerable extent. He has made the best of improvements on the homestead ranch, where he passes a portion of each year. He maintains at all times general supervision of his ex- tensive interests. In 1893 also Mr. Lindsay bought

a handsome residence in Glendive, and this is the family home during the time not passed on the ranch. Mr. Lindsay has a clear and distinct title to the honor of having been the architect of his own fortune, for he has pushed forward to well-won success entirely by his own efforts. He has a deep and abiding appreciation of the dignity of hard work, and his course has gained the confidence and respect of his fellow men.

In his political allegiance Mr. Lindsay has ever been a stanch supporter of the Republican party. In 1896 he was elected to represent Dawson county in the lower house of the state legislature, and proved a faithful and valuable member of the legis- lature, his efforts being so satisfactory to his con- stituents that he was elected as his own successor in 1898 : he thus served in the Fifth and Sixth general assemblies. During the memorable senatorial con- test of the session of 1899, resulting in the election of the Hon. W. A. Clark, of Butte, to the United States senate, Mr. Lindsay was one of the four Re- publicans in the assembly who remained true to their party during the entire contest. Prior to his election to the legislature Mr. Lindsay had given most effective service on the board of county con- missioners of Dawson county, to which he was elected in 1892, and he held this office for the full term of four years. He is at all times public spir- ited, ever ready to lend his influence in furtherance of all things tending to the general good of the county and state. Mr. Lindsay is a valued member of that great body of evangelical Christians, the Methodist Episcopal church, and in May, 1899, was elected a lay delegate from Montana to the general conference of that church, held at Chicago in that year. Fraternally he is identified with Glendive Lodge No. 31, A. F. & A. M., and Gate City Lodge No. 37, of the I. O. O. F.

Mr. Lindsay has been twice married. At Beaver Falls, Pa., on the 7th of August, 1872, he wedded Miss Jennie Anderson, who was born in the old Keystone state, and who died at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1885. On the 26th of August, 1886, at Glendive, Mont., he consummated his second marriage, being then united to Miss Alice M. Reehl, who was born at Bridgewater, Pa., the daughter of Conrad and Ellen Reehl, natives of Germany and Scotland re- spectively. Her father devoted his life to manufac- turing. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay are the parents of two children-William LeRoy, who was born on the 15th of August, 1887, and Grace M., born on the 12th of May, 1893.

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J OHN MCINTYRE, M. D .- One of the able and popular representatives of the medical and sur- gical professions in Montana is Dr. McIntyre, who is established in the city of Butte, where he retains an appreciative support. He is a native of the city of Ottawa, Canada, born on March 16, 1862, the son of Andrew J. and Jane (McAdam) McIntire, both of whom are Canadians, of Scot- tish and of Irish lineage. They reside in the city of Ottawa, where the father is superintendent of the mechanical department of the local street railway. John McIntyre prosecuted his studies in the public schools, completing a course in the high school. His choice of vocation was indi- cated when in 1893 he matriculated in the medical department of Bishop's University of Montreal, where he completed a thorough course of technical study and was graduated in the class of 1897, and received his coveted degree of Doctor of Med- icine.

Thoroughly fortified by well-directed study and effective clinical work, Dr. McIntyre soon came to Montana and established himself in medical and surgical practice in Butte, where his ability and genial personality soon gained him distinctive patronage. He is a skilled surgeon and physician, keeps abreast of the advances made in the line of his profession, is an active member of the Rocky Mountain Inter-State Medical Association, the Montana State Medical Association, the Silver Bow Medical Society and the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, Canada, and local medical examiner for the New York Life Insurance Com- pany. The Doctor is identified with the Masonic order, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Select Knights and Ladies of Honor and the Royal Neighbors of America, being medical examiner for the three organizations last mentioned. In 1898, at Saranac Lake, N. Y., Dr. McIntyre was united in marriage to Miss Anna Kent, who was born in the city of Quebec, Canada. Doctor and Mrs. McIntyre occupy a position of prominence in connection with the social activities of their home city.

JOSEPH R. McKAY .- Throughout human his- J tory the horse has held the highest place of all animals in the regard of mankind, held it justly because of his usefulness, his beauty and the true nobility of his character. And the men who breed the best species of this fine animal and

develop his best traits in the highest degree earn and secure the commendation and good will if their fellows. In this class perhaps no one is more entitled to a greater degree of admiration and approved than Joseph R. McKay, known far and wide as one of the most enterprising and successful breeders of high grade draught and trotting horses.

Mr. McKay was born in Ottawa county, Can- ada, in 1849. His parents were Alexander and Elizabeth (Robinson) McKay, the former a na- tive of the north of Ireland of Scotch ancestry, and the latter born in Canada of parents also from the north of Ireland. They had five chil- dren, of whom Mr. McKay was the third. He received his education in the excellent Canadian schools and at a commercial college. He first en- gaged in business for ten years as a clerk and salesman in a general store in Ontario. He was then attracted to the lumber business, which he conducted until he was burned out. He then went into the employ of Hamilton Brothers, of Hawkesbury, where he remained eleven years. In 1885 he came to Montana, locating at Miles City, and began operations as a stockbreeder and dealer, and has since followed that business successfully. His specialties are draught and trot- ting horses and Devon cattle. He is the only breeder of this brand of cattle in Montana. Prior to 1899 he was engaged in the cattle business much more extensively than now. But in 1899 he sold off the most of his stock, since then car- rying only a small herd of the purest blood.

Mr. McKay is a great lover of good horses, and knows their points as thoroughly as any man living. He has given to the market many of high record, and is aspiring to better results. He is the present owner of Money Musk, an undoubted "comer," and likely to prove the fastest trotter in the world, he having already surpassed all rec- ords for a single quarter. This promising horse was bred and reared in Montana and trained in Montreal. He is as yet only a colt, but his per- formances are almost phenomenal. What he will prove at the full maturity of his powers can only be conjectured and waited for with ardent hopes.

In political affiliation Mr. McKay is a consis- tent and active Republican, and has given proof of the firmness of his faith by excellent service to his party. He was elected county commissioner in 1889, to the lower house of the state legislature in 1892, to the state senate in 1894, and to the

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post of county treasurer, of which he is the pres- ent incumbent, in 1900. In all these offices he has shown high character, breadth of view, a dis- criminating knowledge of public affairs, and fine executive ability. In the senate, when excitement ran high and conditions were chaotic, and when many good men seemed to drift from their moor- ings, he stood firmly by his faith and the caucus nominees of his party, and came out of the storm with the admiration and respect of all men of integrity. In fraternal connection he is identified with the Masonic order, being a member of Yel- lowstone Lodge No. 23, and also of the Royal Arch Chapter of Miles City. He was married in 1893 to Miss Mary Southward, a native of Columbus, Wis. They have two children, Scott and Joseph R., Jr. In his immediate community Mr. Mckay appears as a popular idol, to whom all men are deferential, many cordially friendly and some enthusiastically devoted; and through- out the state he is held in the highest esteem. In the sporting world he ranks among the best and most progressive patrons of the turf.

HARLES W. McLEAN .- One of the success- C

ful farmers and stockgrowers of Yellowstone county is Mr. McLean, whose experience in the west has covered a long term of years and whose well improved ranch is located about four miles east of the Musselshell crossing. He was born on January 15, 1862, in the Dominion of Canada, being the son of William and Christine (Ross) McLean, both of sterling old Scottish lineage. William McLean was a farmer, and Charles W., after attending the public schools of Canada until he was twelve years of age, went to Carroll county, N. H., and in Littleton, N. H., engaged in driving coaches in the White Mountains, during the summer months, and in 1873 he came west to Denver, Colo., later removing to Leadville, from whence he soon went to the Arkansas valley. where he engaged in stockraising, in association with Ed. Mulock, later with William Hammond; and finally he removed to Cheyenne, Wyo., and here he found employment as range rider with the S & G. outfit.

In 1883 Mr. McLean came to Montana and lo- cated on the Musselshell river. Here he was for five years employed by stock outfits, and in 1888 he made his home on a ranch four miles east of

Musselshell, which is his postoffice, where he has been since very successfully engaged in stock- raising, using much discrimination in his opera- tions and retaining uniform respect and confi- dence. In politics he supports the Republican party, and while a resident of Fergus county he served as school trustee. On November 14, 1891, Mr. McLean married with Miss Jessie Mc- Jelvry, daughter of Duncan McJelvry, of Boston, and her death occurred on March 2, 1892. She was the mother of twin sons, Charles and Duncan, both of whom are dead.

LION. SIDNEY H. MCINTIRE, ex-judge of the First judicial district of Montana, is a leading member of the bar of the state, and a highly esteemed resident of Helena. He was born in Savannah, Ga., April 8, 1862, the son of James and Frances (Noyes) McIntire. The father was a native of the north of Ireland; the mother of England. In 1840 they came to the United States and setttled in Savannah, where James McIntire was long a prosperous merchant. He died in that city in 1862, leaving the Judge fatherless at the age of only a few months. The mother passed away in 1895. To them were born seven sons and five daughters. Four of the sons are now highly respected and successful residents of Helena.

Sidney H. McIntire, the youngest in his par- ent's family, passed his early boyhood in Savan- nah, and attended the public schools. acquiring the elementary portion of what was afterwards am- plified to a complete and finished education. This was afforded him by a superior school in London, England, and in the School of Darmstadt, Ger- many. He remained in Europe three years, and on his return to the United States he matriculated at the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Polytechnic Institute, and after finishing the course and graduating he entered the law department of the Columbia (N. Y.) College, and was graduated therefrom in 1883. He was immediately admitted to practice at the October, 1883, term of the supreme court of New York. In 1884 he came to Montana and settled in Fort Benton. Here he associated himself in legal practice with his brother, Henry G. McIn- tire, and, opening an office, remained in Fort Ben- ton until 1886, when he was elected county at- torney of Choteau county, which office he held

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one term. In 1889 he came to Helena and was appointed city attorney by Mayor Curtin in 1892. He served most acceptably for two terms. In 1896 he was elected judge of the First judicial dis- trict of Montana, a position he filled with dis- tinction. Judge McIntire has been a life-long Dem- ocrat, and one ever alive to the best interests of his party. Among the members of the Mon- tana bar he is well known and highly esteemed, not only for his superior legal ability, but also for his generous and manly qualities. He is a man of deep learning, broad-minded and liberal, and one who possesses the confidence of clients, busi- ness associates and personal friends.

C H. McLEOD .- There is an innate and orig- inal fitness in many men for certain lines of activity and when given opportunity in those lines they demonstrate the fact and make a gratifying success of their business or profession. Mr. Mc- Leod, general manager of the Missoula Mercan- tile Company, has this fitness for conducting large enterprises involving a multitude of details, and it has been quickened and cultivated by a wide and varied experience. He was born February 14, 1859, at New Brunswick, Canada, where his parents also were born and prospered, won the respect and regard of their neighbors and faithfully performed the duties of life. The father was a farmer and blacksmith and died in 1871. The mother still survives. The McLeods are of Scotch ancestry, the great-grandfather of C. H. McLeod having been a soldier in the British army, coming to American in that capacity. Mr. McLeod, until he was fourteen years, attended the public schools, assisting on the farm and with the home duties between times, and then began clerking in a small store and continued at that occupation until 1880, when he came to Montana, locating at Missoula, and entering the employment of Hammond & Eddy as a clerk.

In 1885 A. B. Hammond, R. A. Eddy, E. L. Bonner, J. M. Keith and Mr. McLeod organized the Missoula Mercantile Company, an outgrowth of a business enterprise previously con- ducted first as a private concern under the firm name of Bonner & Welch, next under the style of Eddy, Hammond & Bonner, and from 1875 to 1885 as Eddy, Hammond & Co. At the organi- zation it was merged into a stock company with a

capital of $300,000. Mr. Hammond was made president and Mr. McLeod vice-president and general manager. Under this new management, through the stimulus of Mr. McLeod's tireless energy and unusual business acumen, assisted by able coadjutors in every department, the enterprise has grown wonderfully and has prospered in pro- portion. It now does a business of over $2,000,000 a year, and keeps more than 100 persons regu- larly employed. In 1890 an extensive enlarge- ment of the building was made and the capital stock has been twice increased until it now ag- gregates $850,000. In addition to its principal store at Missoula, which occupies a two-story and basement building 240 feet wide by 135 deep, the company operates two branch stores, one at Kalispell, in Flathead county, and one at Victor, in Ravalli county. It is one of the most exten- sive and prosperous commercial houses of the state. Mr. McLeod is also interested in the Mis- soula Water Company and the Missoula Light & Power Company, and is president of the latter. He is a director of the First National Bank of Missoula. He was married in 1886 to Miss Clara L. Beckwith, a native of New Brunswick. They have two children, Walter H. and Helen B., and stand high in the regard of their friends and ac- quaintances.

FLETCHER MADDOX, one of the leading members of the Montana bar, an ex-reporter of the supreme court and a resident of Great Falls, first located in this beautiful and progressive city in 1896. So far as the state is concerned, how- ever, he can be justly termed one of its pioneers, for long before Montana was admitted into the Union he was industriously engaged in mining in its rich gulches and obtaining an experience that has since to him been of incalculable value. He was born in Washington, D. C., on December 23, 1861. His parents, Thomas H. and Marion E. (Fletcher) Maddox, were natives of Virginia and New England, respectively. For many years Thomas H. Maddox was a prominent official in the United States postoffice department at Wash- ington, but died when his son Fletcher was but a child, and was not long survived by his devoted wife. They left three sons, two now residing in New York city.

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is to be presumed that such surrounding conditions contributed greatly to that force of character and indomitable perseverance which has won his later success. He received his earlier education in Germantown, Pa., and in 1877 was graduated from Chaltenham (Pa.) Academy. Mr. Maddox passed one year in Philadelphia, and in 1879 first came to Montana, where for two years he was en- gaged in placer mining in Mitchell gulch and other gulches throughout the state. But a larger field of influence and usefulness was then opening to him. In 1882 he entered the law office of Chum- asero & Chadwick in Helena, studied with them two years and was admitted to the bar in 1884. He first located in practice of law at White Sulphur Springs and later formed a law partnership with N. B. Smith, which continued until 1887. Mr. Maddox then returned to Helena and associated himself with Carter & Clayberg in the firm of Carter, Clayberg & Maddox.

This business connection was continued for eighteen months, when Mr. Maddox returned to White Sulphur Springs and there remained in ac- tive practice of his profession until 1896 when he came to Great Falls where he has since resided and built up an extensive and lucrative legal prac- tice. He was appointed supreme court reporter in 1890 and served until March, 1897. Mr. Mad- dox was married in 1887 to Miss Jessie Coburn, a daughter of Robert Coburn, a pioneer of Last Chance gulch, of whom personal mention is made on other pages of this work. Two children have been born to them, Coburn F. and Marion F. In political affairs Mr. Maddox has always taken a lively interest as a Republican, and in numerous campaigns through which he has passed has been enabled to render most efficient service to his party. During his long residence in Montana he has made many warm personal friends and he is highly respected at home and abroad.

MA AJ. MARTIN MAGINNIS .- "Act well thy part; there all the honor lies," is a truism which has a specific and determinate application and exemplification in the life of this distinguished gentleman, who has been a factor of eminent use- fulness in the development of Montana from the early pioneer days, who has rendered to the nation the valiant service of a gallant soldier on many a battlefield, who has been identified with those

productive activities which have advanced the prog- ress and prosperity of the country, who has hon- orably held positions of high public trust and who has had that deep appreciation of the elemental rectitudes which ever implies a life true to itself and its possibilities.

Martin Maginnis comes of that stanch nation- ality which has had so valuable an influence upon the history of the American republic, his parents, Patrick and Winifred (Devine) Maginnis, having both been born on the Emerald Isle, descending from a long line of Irish ancestors. They emi- grated to the United States in 1836, living in New York until 1852, when they removed to Minne- sota, where they died at the conclusion of useful lives. They were the parents of three sons and three daughters, the Major's brothers, John and Charles, being now residents of Duluth, Minn. Martin Maginnis was born in Wayne county, N. Y., in October, 1841. His childhood days until he was eleven were passed in attendance at the public schools and Macedon Academy and his edu- cation was continued in Minnesota. He eventually entered Hamlin University, but it was only a short time before his patriotism led him to leave school and give his personal assistance to his country, then menaced by armed rebellion. On April 18, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, First Minnesota Volunteers, and was mustered in as its first ser- geant. After the first battle of Bull Run, where he received a gunshot wound in the cheek, he was made second lieutenant, and thereafter his regi- ment accompanied Gen. Shields on his campaign through Virginia and Maryland, after which he was transferred to Sedgwick's division of the Second Army Corps, participating in the siege of Yorktown, and the battles of West Point, Fair Oaks, Peach Orchard, Savage Station (here he was wounded in the left shoulder), White Oak Swamp, Glendale and Malvern Hill. He was next with Gen. Hooker in the second fight at Malvern Hill, his regiment forming the rear guard of the army and being the last to cross the bridge when the Union troops retreated. From Malvern Hill Gen. McClellan went to Fortress Monroe, and the Second Corps, under Gen. Sumner, went to Center- ville to reinforce Gen. Pope. After the second battle of Manassas Gen. McClellan assumed com- mand. The regiment was actively and prominently engaged in the battles of South Mountain and An- tietam. At Antietam Lieut. Maginnis' company lost twenty-five per cent. of its members, he him-

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 1, Part 59

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