Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 2, Part 12

Author: Bowen, A.W., & Co., firm, publishers, Chicago
Publication date: [19-?]
Publisher: Chicago : A. W. Bowen & Co.
Number of Pages: 1092

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In the spring of 1863 he removed from Iowa to Montana. The family enjoyed a pleasant trip across the plains, arriving at Horse Prairie in August, 1863, and shortly afterwards removed to Virginia City, Madison county. Here Mr. Doggett engaged in mining and here his son, Jefferson, was born amid the industrious bustle and excitement of a western mining camp, in the spring of 1865. The family passed the summer in Helena, in the fall go- ing to Missouri valley. Moses Doggett here took up a homestead and engaged in ranching until his death in 1895. His family consisted of seven chil- dren : Charles B., born in Iowa ; Jefferson D .; James S., born near Virginia City; L. R., who has been mining in the Klondike country for three years ;

Ida M., now Mrs. Lling, living in Hassel, Mont., and B. F. and Lillian, both residents of Townsend.

On November 18, 1896, Jefferson D. Doggett was united in marriage with Miss Amelia Schreiber, a native of Pomeroy, Ohio. Her father dying while she was of tender years she came to Diamond City, where she had a brother engaged in the mer- cantile business. In 1898 Mr. Doggett purchased the Tinsley ranch, his present home. It is a beau- tiful place and here he is profitably engaged in sheepraising, and has just completed an elegant residence with modern improvements. All the surroundings of the home have an air of prosperity, and the ranch is well equipped for the business. Mr. Doggett is a member of Broadwater Lodge No. 34, K. of P., of Townsend, and in politics is a strong Republican.

JAMES H. DONLIN .- Prominently identified with a line of industrial activity which ever has important bearing on the development of any com- munity, that of contracting and building, Mr. Don- lin is recognized as one of the progressive and in- fluential citizens of Great Falls. He was born on a farm in Susquehanna county, Pa., on July 21, 1861. His father, John Donlin, was likewise born in Susquehanna county, and there passed his en- tire life as a farmer, his death occurring in 1883. He was a son of John Donlin, who, born at Easton, Pa., became a farmer in Susquehanna county until his death. His father was a native of Ireland, whence he emigrated to America at an early day, locating in Pennsylvania. His wife was born in Philadelphia, of Irish lineage and her maiden name was Mary Fox. She now makes her home with her children in Scranton, Pa.

James H. Donlin received the advantages of the public schools of Auburn, Pa., and also assisted in the work of the parental homestead. When eight- een he associated himself with his brothers John and Thomas, in contracting and building at Au- burn, Pa., where they remained a short time and then transferred their activities to St. Paul, Minn., where they operated until 1891. Then Mr. Don- lin came to Great Falls, Mont., where he has since been successfully and prominently engaged in con- tracting and building. Among the more import- ant buildings he has erected here are the Vaughn block, the McKnight block, the old courthouse, the two Conrad buildings on Central avenue and

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Fourth street, and the central high school, while many fine private residences stand in evidence of his skill. He ever maintained a public-spirited at- titude and is ready to help every normal project to promote the interests of the city and county. Mr. Donlin has been an active worker in the Dem- ocratic cause, and is recognized as one of the wheelhorses of the party in Cascade county. At St. Paul, Minn., on September 5, 1880, Mr. Donlin was united in marriage to Miss Mary Flynn, whose father, William Flynn, is an extensive farmer in Fillmore county, in that state. They have an attractive home in Great Falls, where a gracious welcome is ever extended to their many friends.

A NTHONY DOUGHERTY .- The career of the subject of this review has been a peculiarly eventful one, and his experiences, if recorded in detail, would make an interesting volume. Mr. Dougherty has the typical characteristics of the higher element of the Irish race, both of his parents having been natives of the Emerald Isle, in the northern part of which the Doughertys were origi- nally a ruling race. Our subject is a native of the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was born on January 6, 1855, the son of Patrick J. and Cather- ine (O'Donnell) Dougherty, who came to the United States about the year 1835. The father was a tanner by trade, but after his arrival in Brooklyn he was successfully engaged in the boot and shoe business. Anthony attended the public schools until he had reached the age of twelve years, when his alert and self-reliant nature led him to start out in life on his own responsibility, which he did by ship- ping as a cabin boy on a steamer, making eight trips between New York and Glasgow and Liver- pool, serving on the White Star, the Anchor and the Allen lines. At the age of thirteen he was left in Glasgow, Scotland, where he remained five years, working during the day in the wholesale liquor establishment of Archibald Arnold & Sons, and in the evening utilizing his time to good ad- vantage by attending school. Two years later he se- cured a position as fireman on the Caledonia Rail- road, eventually being promoted to the position of ticket collector. This life not satisfying the ambi- tious youth, he sought new fields, shipping as as- sistant ship's baker, and thus visited Australia and New Zealand. He next made a few trips on coast- ing vessels running to Belgium. Returning to

Scotland he enlisted in the volunteer army, and after one year's service returned to his home in Brooklyn, where he was variously employed for a number of years. Having always maintained a lively interest in military affairs, in 1876 he en- listed in the Eighteenth United States Infantry, was detailed to the medical department and serving three years. His regiment was in South Carolina at the time of his joining its ranks, and was sta- tioned for three months in the state capitol during the Hampton-Chamberlain trouble. The regiment left Columbia in the spring of 1877, proceeding to Pittsburg, Pa., where it was in active service dur- ing the railroad riots of that year. After remain- ing three months in that city the command went to Atlanta, Ga., in the fall of 1877, and was there engaged in the work of apprehending illicit dis- tillers of liquor, or "moonshiners," until 1879. In the spring of that year the full regiment came to Montana for the purpose of building Fort Assinna- boine, where Mr. Dougherty remained until fall, when he went to Helena with Gen. T. H. Ruger, being detailed for duty at headquarters. At the ex- piration of a year he removed to Fort Assinnaboine and was placed in charge of the quartermaster's department. In the winter of 1880-81 he accom- panied his regiment on an expedition in pursuit of the doughty old Indian chief, Sitting Bull, and as- sisted in capturing the impedimenta of the chief and his warriors, depriving the savages of property of no little value. He then returned to Fort Assinna- boine, where he received his discharge from the service, in September, 1881. Mr. Dougherty then determined to devote his attention to more prosaic pursuits, and, coming to Helena, he engaged in the hotel business on the Bozeman stage route, thus continuing until the fal of 1883, when he became identified with the same line of enterprise in Helena, conducting a hotel until 1890. He then associated himself with John T. Britt in the livery business in Helena, which they have since successfully con- tinued under the title of Britt & Dougherty. Both gentlemen are known as enterprising and reliable business men, enjoying a marked popularity in the community.

In 1881 Mr. Dougherty was elected second lieu- tenant of the Helena Light Guards, an independ- ent military organization, and held this office until its disbandment. He organized Company C of the Meagher Guard, in 1886, being elected first lieu- tenant, and in 1888 assisted in organizing the state militia, Captain Ross Degan, of Company C, being

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elected lieutenant-colonel of the regiment while our subject was chosen as captain. He continued to serve in the militia until 1892, when he was mus- tered out. On April 9, 1882, Mr. Dougherty was united in marriage to Miss Anna McKenna, of Brooklyn, N. Y., she being a native of Flushing, Long Island.

G EORGE W. DOUGHERTY .- A native of Fredericton, in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, where he was born August 21, 1852, subsequently clerk and buyer in a ship-building establishment, then engaging in ship chandlery on his own account, with all his thoughts going sea- ward, now the postmaster in a little rural town in western Montana, engaged in mining and other pursuits pertaining to the interior, with all his thoughts turned on and into the land, George W. Dougherty has had a wide range of vision in his half century of existence and has acquired from it a wealth of knowledge, spirit of progress and adaptability to circumstances which make him one of the most enterprising and useful citizens of his county.

His parents were Gilbert and Jane (Drinkwater) Dougherty, the former a native of New Bruns- wick and the latter of Maine. George was the eldest of their seven children. He attended a good private school until he was fourteen, and then was two years at a high school at Blaine, Me., after which he served two years as clerk for a ship- building firm, being then promoted to a position which gave him charge of the yards and made him buyer for the vessels. . In this he remained for four years. Then forming a partnership with one Skillen as Skillen & Dougherty, they engaged in the business of supplying ships for two years, fol- lowing this with three years spent in the manu- facture of spools and bobbins. A year later, with his brother-in-law he began merchandising at Woodstock, N. B., in which he continued four or five years. In 1887 he came to Montana, located at Corvallis and for seven years was manager of the branch store of the Missoula Mercantile Com- pany. He then went into a mercantile business of his own and continued for five years in its suc- cessful operation.

Mr. Dougherty is easily one of the most pro- gressive and public-spirited men in Corvallis, where his home is an ornament to the town in its architectural beauty and a credit to human nature

in its domestic happiness and refined and genuine hospitality. He is interested in mining and has extensive real estate holdings in Missoula and else- where. In politics he is an active Republican and has been postmaster for the last five years. Fra- ternally he is identified with the Masons, holding the rank as past master in his lodge. He was married on September 12, 1878, at St. John, New Brunswick, to Miss Jennie M. Ruddick, daughter of Dr. William and Abbie Ruddick, and has two children, Rie and Edna G., to whom his home is indebted for much of its light and life. Mrs. Dougherty is well known throughout the town and surrounding country for her judicious philan- thropy, her activity in every good cause and her many social graces.

THOMAS M. DORAN .- Prominent ranchman and merchant, and contributing in a leading way to the creation and direction of public senti- ment in behalf of every good cause for the ad- vancement of the community, Thomas M. Doran is one of the most useful and highly esteemed citi- zens of Ravalli county. He is a native of Wash- ington, Va., born on March 2, 1850, his parents, William C. and Helen (Leedy) Doran, being na- tives of Tennessee, who removed to Virginia in their early married life, and, in 1854, took up their residence in Missouri, where Thomas received his education in the country schools, until he was eighteen years old. For some years before and for two years after he quit school he worked on the farm with his father, then farmed for himself in the adjoining county of Greene until 1882, when he removed to Montana, locating on a rented farm on the Shalkaho, two miles south of Hamilton, which he conducted for four years. He then pur- chased 160 acres about one mile south of Hamil- ton, part of which he has platted and sold in one and two-acre tracts of the Doran addition. He has still ninety acres which he farms and constitutes his beautiful home, being well improved with ex- cellent buildings and the conveniences of life here attainable.

In the 'nineties Mr. Doran engaged in mer- chandising in Hamilton with his son-in-law, R. L. Perkins, but sold him his interest in 1900, and has since devoted his time exclusively to his farm and real estate operations. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order and in religion affiliates

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with the Christian church. Mr. Doran was mar- ried on October 17, 1869, in Greene county, Mo., to Miss Mary Summers, daughter of Logan and Mary O. Summers, of that county, and has four children, all living in close proximity to the parental residence. They are: Mary E., wife of Alexander M. Chaffin; Nora S., wife of Henry L. Myers; Edmund L., who married Mamie Wyley while he and she were school- mates at Valparaiso, Ind., her home being in Wisconsin, and Katie L., wife of R. L. Perkins, Mr. Doran's former partner. Mr. Doran is truly a representative citizen and an orna- ment to the community which he has aided so materially in building up to its present state of progress and development, and as such is held in the highest esteem.

JOHN DUFFIELD .~ For a period of thirty J years John Duffield has lived in Montana, and is one of the worthy pioneers who have labored to goodly ends, contributing in due measure to the material prosperity of the state. He is also one of the early settlers of Fergus county, where he lo- cated in 1881 and where he has since been recog- nized as one of its leading farmers and stock- growers.

Mr. Duffield is a native son of the state of Mis- souri, born in Randolph county, on the 26th of March, 1849, the eldest of six children born to Frederick A. and Catherine Duffield, natives re- spectively of Virginia and Tennessee and repre- sentatives of proud old southern stock. Soon after their marriage the parents became pioneers of Missouri, where the father developed a good farm in Randolph county, where both he and his wife died. He was an ardent Democrat, and she lived her life in accord with the Presbyterian church, of which she became a member in early life. Their children were: John, Josephine, May, Benjamin, Julia and George W. The mother died in 1877, the father surviving until 1889.

John Duffield grew to maturity under the in- vigorating work of the homestead farm, and at the age of nine he began to hold the plow, and con- tinued to aid in the cultivation of the home farm until he had attained his legal majority. His priv- ileges of education were only a somewhat desul- tory attendance in the district school of his home. However, in the years of an active and varied busi-

ness career Mr. Duffield has not failed to gain val- uable lessons through experience and personal ap- plication, becoming a man of good general inform- ation and mature judgment. At the outbreak of the Civil war his sympathies were naturally en- listed in the cause of the seceding states. Accord- ingly, in 1863, he enlisted as a private in a Missouri regiment of the Confederate army, and was in act- ive service until victory crowned the Union arms. Then Mr. Duffield turned his attention to the at- taining of the victories of peace. He worked for wages as a farm hand until 1872, when he started for the long overland journey on the 17th of May, 1872, making the journey to Montana with ox team and arriving at Twin Bridges, Madison coun- ty, on the Ioth of September. Here he resided for five years, doing freighting, employed by oth- ers for the first two years, when he invested his savings in an outfit of his own and conducted a very successful business for three years. Then Indian troubles menaced operations to such an ex- tent that he sold the business. He thereafter en- gaged in ranch work, taking cattle on shares until 1881, when Mr. Duffield received as his share 310 head of cattle and seventy-five horses. This stock he drove through to his present location in Fergus county. His ranch now comprises 1,400 acres, and is eligibly located three and one-half miles east of Utica. Here he has ever since been engaged in farming and stockgrowing, increasing the scope of operations as rapidly as good judgment dic- tated. He is now recognized as one of the promi- nent and influential men of the county. His cattle and horses are of high grade. Mr. Duffield takes active interest in the county and state, and is an in- fluential member of the Democratic party, while fraternally he is a popular member of the Knights of Pythias.

E P. DURNEN, proprietor of the Durnen House, of Winston, Broadwater county, first came to Montana in 1873. He was born in Iowa county, Wis., on December 12, 1851, the son of Thomas and Mary (Wall) Durnen. About 1846 the father came to the United States and lo- cated in Iowa county, where he was mar- ried, and later the family removed to Kan- sas, where they resided until 1883, when they came to Montana. They had four sons and three daughters. Mr. Durnen's early life was passed in Wisconsin, and he was educated at the

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public schools of his native town. He celebrated the Fourth of July, 1873, by arriving in Helena, Mont., at that time just emerging from the primi- tive conditions of Last Chance gulch. He had come up the Missouri to Fort Benton on a steamer, and from there by wagon to Helena. He continued on to Boulder valley, now in Jefferson county, and was employed in ranching for the winter. Later he taught school fifteen miles from Helena. In the spring of 1874 Mr. Durnen went to Missouri valley and taught school, remaining there until 1877. He was then engaged in freigliting, which he profitably continued until the Northern Pacific was well under way in the territory, and on it he secured a contract for grading.

He found plenty of employment for his teamis until the completion of the railroad, and then turned his attention to cattle raising and ranching, con- tinning this for several years quite profitably. He then sold the property and engaged in the hotel business, at which he has been successful, being proprietor of the Durnen house at Winston, which is known as an up-to-date hostelry and having a representative patronage. Mr. Durnen married Miss Annie Moran, who had come to Montana at the early age of eight years, on November 30, 1876. Their eight children are Thomas, at Iron Age gulch ; Mary, Mrs. Henry Detour, of Winston; Hattie, Mrs. H. E. Johnson; Maggie, attending high school at Helena; Edward, at school; Rosie, William and Cleveland. Politically Mr. Durnen is a Democrat and an active worker during the cam- paigns, standing high in the councils of the party. I11 1898 he was elected county commissioner of his county, and he has been school trustee for a num- ber of years. He is popular as a hotel keeper, and highly esteemed as a man of superior business abil- ity and integrity.

JOHN G. ELLIS, one of the successful and en- terprising young business men of Choteau county, is a native son of the city of Fort Worth, Tex., born July 25, 1868. His father, E. S. Ellis, was born in the state of Missouri, and accompanied his brothers, James F. and Menda G., to Texas, where they purchased a large tract of land, upon a portion of which the present city of Fort Worth is located. After about twelve years the father of our subject disposed of his interests at Fort Worth and removed to Menardville, Tex., where he was

engaged in the stock business for nearly a decade, while the succeeding two or three years were passed at Fort Concho, Tom Green county, on the Concho river. He then returned to Menardville and there his death occurred on July 23, 1884. His wife, whose maiden name was Julia Howard, was likewise born in Missouri, but maintains her home at Snyder, Tex.

John G. Ellis received his education in the pub- lic schools of his native city and in a private school maintained on the Concho, where the family home was maintained for some time. His advantages were limited, however, since he was but twelve years of age at the time of his father's death, and shortly afterward he went to western Texas and thence to the Canadian river, where he devoted his attention to herding cattle for two years. The fol- lowing two years he was in the employ of the Rumery, Kellogg & McCoy Cattle Company, at Snyder, Tex., and thereafter, for an equal length of time, engaged in the livery business in that place, after which he made a trip through New Mexico and Arizona, and then re-entered the em- ploy of the company last mentioned for the pur- pose of driving a bunch of their cattle through to the ranges on the Yellowstone river, Mont., where he arrived in the year 1890. For the following ten months Mr. Ellis was in the employ of the Slaughter & Kyle Cattle Company, and then en- tered the service of the D. H. S. Cattle Company, at Malta, where he remained from 1892 until 1893. In the spring of the latter year he made an engage- ment with the John T. Murphy Cattle Company, with which he remained until 1895, when he estab- lished a hotel at Rocky Point, on the Missouri river, and conducted the same until 1899. In the meanwhile he had invested in cattle and kept the same on the range in this section of the state. In the year noted he went to Landusky and effected the purchase of the Clark Hotel, which he con- ducted until June, 1901, when he assumed and is now in charge of the store and postoffice at Phil- lips, Choteau county, where he is now located, the place being about twenty-five miles from the vil- lage of Harlem. Malta is the nearest railroad point.

In politics Mr. Ellis gives his support to the Democratic party, and for four years he was regis- ter agent at Rocky Point. On April 19, 1899, at Landusky, this county, Mr. Ellis was united in marriage to Miss Annie Reeves, who was born at Totney, England, January 29, 1869, who came to

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Winnipeg, Canada, in 1882, and to Great Falls, Mont., in 1893, being engaged in hotels there and at other points until her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis have one son, Edward, who was born Jan- uary 31, 1900.

AMES C. EMERSON .- Among the able of- J ficials of Cascade county is Mr. Emerson, in- cumbent of the position of chief deputy under Sheriff Benner. He has been a resident of the state from the early pioneer days and is well known and distinctively popular. He was born on the homestead farm, in Holt county, Mo., on Sep- tember 30, 1845. His father, Robert G. Emerson, was born in Carolina county, Md., on November 12, 1812, and in 1844 removed to Missouri, where he engaged in farming and stockraising, also serv- ing four years as sheriff of Holt county. In 1864 he came to Montana, locating at Virginia City, where he remained until 1867, when he trans- ferred his residence to Helena, where he was engaged in merchant tailoring for seventeen years, while the following eight years he devoted to stockraising in Teton county. He removed to Great Falls in 1892, and there his death occurred on October 22, 1894. He was a man of sterling character and was honored as one of the pioneers of Montana. His wife, whose maiden name was Nannie Evans, was born in Virginia, in 1820, and died in Holt county, Mo., in 1849.

James C. Emerson attended the military school at Oxford, Md., until he was thirteen years of age, after which he studied one year in Pleasant Ridge Academy, in Platt county, Mo. In 1863 he went to Colorado Springs, Colo., where he was identified with the stockraising business for a year, and in July, 1864, he came to Virginia City, Mont., and was engaged in mining and freight- ing for three years. In 1867 he located in Helena, from which point he had conducted freighting operations from 1864, and he did not abandon them until 1882. He freighted from Salt Lake City to Virginia City, and between the latter point and Helena, meeting with the experiences and dif- ficulties characteristic of the pioneers days, while his operations extended to various other points in Montana. A memorable disaster occurred in Helena on August 21, 1881, when one of his freight outfits, loaded with 6,090 pounds of pow- der, was destroyed by an explosion, the driver, a

Mr. Shipley, and the team of fourteen mules being killed, entailing a financial loss of $5,000. From 1882 until 1892 Mr. Emerson engaged in farming and stockraising in Teton county, and in 1892 he removed to Great Falls, where he was connected with the Boston & Montana and the silver smelter until January, 1901, when he re- ceived his present appointment as chief deputy under Sheriff Benner, in which office he is dis- charging his duties with signal ability and dis- crimination. In politics he gives unwavering al- legiance to the Democratic party. In Helena, on January 11, 1883, Mr. Emerson was united in marriage to Mrs. Rebecca S. Bowen, of St. Louis, Mo., she being a daughter of Peter Ruff- ner, of that state.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 2, Part 12

Author: Bowen, A.W., & Co., firm, publishers, Chicago Publication date: [19-?] Publisher: Chicago : A. W. Bowen & Co. Number of Pages: 1092

Author: Bowen, A.W., & Co., firm, publishers, Chicago
Publication date: [19-?]
Publisher: Chicago : A. W. Bowen & Co.
Number of Pages: 1092