Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 2, Part 131

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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After the coming of peace Mr. Gould removed to Nebraska, and engaged in farming and freight- ing, locating in Burt county. In 1868 he was elected county commissioner of Burt county, and in 1869 was elected as one of the commissioners of the state prison, and with his two associates had charge of the erection of the state penitentiary at Lincoln, the fine buildings costing more than $400,000, and occupying six years in completing the work, during which time he was secretary and treasurer of the board.

While he was incumbent of this office there oc- curred a serious mutiny among the 200 or more prisoners, instigated by the noted desperado, Mac- Waters, and they had captured the prison arsenal. There was almost constant firing all night between the mutineers and the guards, who had been rein- forced by a company of United States Infantry sent from Fort Omaha. It was a bitterly cold night, and in the morning Mr. Gould, who was the first on the scene of action, sent a messenger with a flag of truce to the mutineers. The prisoners wished to make a conditional surrender, to which Mr. Gould would not agree, but ordered them to pass their guns through a grated door of the prison. This they refused to do, and he then ordered them to open the door, which they did, and he went in alone, and disarmed and locked up sixteen of them before any other person was admitted to the prison. He agreed to protect them from the mob in case they would surrender to him, and all finally turned over their guns and made an unconditional surrender. The crowd protested against Mr. Gould taking this great hazard, but his fortitude and courage quelled the mutinous men, most of whom were sentenced for life or long terms. From 1876 until 1878 Mr. Gould was engaged in various speculative enterprises, and then came to Montana and engaged in trading on the Fort Peck Indian

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reservation, thus continuing until 1879. In 1881 President Arthur appointed him receiver of public moneys in the land office at Miles City, and he served in this important office for three years, re- signing when Cleveland was first elected to the presidency. He then became a soliciting agent for Keenan & Hancock, a leading Chicago livestock commission house, and in the second year shipped 25,000 head of cattle to Chicago. He remained with this house four years, during which time he was also trail veterinary inspector for the Colorado Association. In 1884 he became livestock agent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and has since held this office, having handled a gigantic business for this great corporation and proving an able official. Mr. Gould has ever sup- ported the Republican party, and fraternally is rec- ognized as a most distinguished member of the Masonic order. He has been master of several lodges, and in 1882 held this office in Yellowstone Lodge No. 26, A. F. & A. M., at Miles City. He has passed the degrees of the York rite and has been specially prominent in the ancient-craft or- ganization, having served for three years as grand orator of the grand lodge of Montana, and he has filled all the elective offices in that dignified body, being now a past grand master. His speeches be- fore the grand lodge have gained him wide reputa- tion in this noble fraternity. One of them was translated into German, and others have been widely circulated abroad. On the occasion when Hon. Samuel Word, of Helena, gave the magnifi- cent signet ring to the grandmaster of the grand lodge, this to be transmitted to each successive in- cumbent of the office, Mr. Gould made the speech of presentation. He affiliates with Mount Moriah Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar, at Lin- coln, Neb., and with Algeria Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Helena, Mont. He has kept vital his interest in the Grand Army of the Re- public, having been past commander of Post 25, G. A. R., the Department of Nebraska. He has been essentially a man of action and initiative, and his sterling character and genial nature have en- deared him to an exceptionally wide circle. He was a resident of Nebraska and a voter when that state was admitted to the Union, and the same holds true in connection with Montana. He has been successful in business, and maintains his home and headquarters in Miles City. In Decem- ber, 1860, Mr. Gould married with Miss Charlotte A. Outhwaite, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

CHARLES A. FALEN was one of the earliest ) of Montana pioneers, having come to the ter- ritory in 1862. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 28, 1821, and he died in Broadwater county, Mont., on October 29, 1896. For many years Mr. Falen followed the sea, but in 1862 he came to the territory of Montana and in 1865 lo- cated a ranch in old Jefferson county, now Broad- water, on which he continued in the occupation of successful cattleraising until his death. On November 20, 1887, Mr. Falen married Mrs. Amelia (Grandolene) Carlson, widow of E. A. Carlson, a native of Finland. Mrs. Carlson was born in Finland on May 24, 1844, and immigrated to this country in October, 1887. She has a son, John Carlson, born in Finland October 12, 1869. He came to the United States in 1880 and for a time made his home on the ranch in Broadwater county, but recently purchased a ranch in Sweet Grass county. Mrs. Falen still conducts the ranch and homestead, profitably raises hay and cattle, and is quite successful in general farming.

M URDOCH L. GRAHAM .- One of the pro- gressive farmers and stockgrowers of Choteau county, and who is held in high esteem from his sterling attributes of character, Mr. Graham has had a somewhat eventful career, and has ever been dominated by energy and self-reliant enterprise of spirit. He was born in Rossshire, Scotland, on June 22, 1857, the son of Angus and Jessie (Mc- Leod) Graham, who passed their lives in bonnie old Scotland, where the father was engaged in ag- riculture. Murdoch L. Graham was reared on the parental homestead, receiving such educational advantages as were afforded by the public schools. That he was a self-reliant and somewhat adven- turous lad is evident from the fact that when he was but fourteen years of age he identified himself with seafaring life, being engaged in connection with the fishing and trading lines along the Scottish coast for four years. In 1875, when eighteen years of age, he came to British Columbia, then accept- ing a position with the Hudson's Bay Company, in trading with the Indians and in whale fishing. 'He was thus employed for four years, after which he returned to Scotland, where he remained six months, and then came to the United States, locat- ing in Illinois, where he was employed as a farm hand, later making his way to Manitoba, where he

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secured a homestead claim and there devoted his attention to farming for five years. In 1888 Mr. Graham came to Montana, and in 1891 he located on his present ranch of 360 acres, situated in the beautiful valley of the Milk river, six miles east of the village of Chinook, which is his postoffice ad- dress. Here he has since been successfully engaged in general farming and the raising of cattle and horses, being progressive and discriminating in his methods and thereby contributing a due quota to the industrial advancement of this section of the state. In politics Mr. Graham exercises his fran- chise in support of the Republican party, while his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, in which he was reared.

A BRAM GROSSEN .- This prosperous, enter- prising and progressive ranchman, was born in Switzerland on August 16, 1848. His parents, Gegland and Lizzie (Kanel) Grossen, were also natives of Switzerland, where the father was suc- cessfully engaged in farming and raising stock, and where both died in 1884. Mr. Grossen re- ceived his education in the public schools of his na- tive land, and there remained until he was twenty- seven years of age. In 1875 he was united in mar- riage with Catherine Glusen, of Switzerland, and who died there in 1877. Mr. Grossen then came to America and settled in Ohio, where he worked as a farm hand for two years. In 1879 he went to Osborn, Kan., and there worked in a cheese fac- tory for two years, at the end of which time he re- moved to Manistee, Mich., and passed a year work- ing on a dairy farm. In 1882 he came to Montana, and was employed for sixteen months as a watch- man for the Northern Pacific at Myers Station in Custer county. He then went to Pease's Bottom, and was a sheep herder for Nichols & Norton for two years and a half, when he bought Mr. Nor- ton's half of the sheep, and since 1886 he has been extensively and successfully engaged in the stock business. In 1886 he bought the old island at the west end of the bottom, in 1899 the Josiah Nichols ranch adjoining, and in 1900, the Rudolph Regan place, making his combined raelty in the valley 220 acres, which is surrounded by a vast range. Here he runs on an average 3,000 sheep and raises great quantities of hay. From a humble and unpretentious beginning Mr. Grossen has built up his large busi- ness through his own efforts, unassisted by for-

tuitous circumstances or the favors of friends. In politics he is a Republican, but is not an active par- tisan. He seeks no official station, but shrinks from no duty incumbent upon good citizenship.

JAMES W. GLADDEN .- Montana has recruited J: her citizenship from nearly every state in the Union, and Ohio has not failed to contribute. Among the Montana representatives of one of the old pioneer families of the Buckeye state is Mr. Gladden, now the postmaster at Lucille, Choteau county, and one of the representative sheepgrowers of that section. He was born on September 5, 1866, in Mansfield, Richland county, Ohio. His father, Leroy P. Gladden, was born in the same city in 1844, and was one of the influential farmers of Richland county, where he died in 1897. He was a son of James Gladden, who was of Scottish lineage and one of the pioneers of Richland county as early as I812. He married Levina Snyder, born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1847, of Pennsylvania Dutch descent. She now makes her. home in Per- rysville, Ohio.

James W. Gladden, after his education in the public schools of Mansfield and Greentown Acad- emy, at Perrysville, completed a course in the Mans- field Commercial College. He then devoted his at- tention to pedagogic work from 1885 until 1889.

In 1889 Mr. Gladden determined to try his for- tunes in Montana, and, coming to Choteau, he was employed on various ranches for about four years. In 1896 he located on Pondera coulee, about twen- ty-five miles from the village of Pondera, renting the Froggie ranch of 160 acres, on the old McLeod and Fort Benton trail. He eventually purchased this place, and has since added to it until he has a fine ranch of 900 acres, thoroughly improved and devoted to the raising of sheep of high grade. He is a discriminating and enterprising business man and has been duly successful. Since he was ap- pointed postmaster at Lucille he has performed the duties to the satisfaction of the people, being well known in the community and standing high in popular esteem. Fraternally he is identified with Sylvan Lodge No. 240, I. O. O. F., at Loudonville, Ohio, where he was initiated in 1888. In 1900, at Great Falls, Mr. Gladden was united in marriage to Miss Rula N. Hathorn, who was born at Terre Haute, Ind., on January 9, 1877. They have one daughter, Gladys, born December 10, 1900.

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E L. GREWELL .- It is generally conceded that this intelligent, and progressive farmer is one of the most forceful men in his district and has one of the finest ranches in the county. He was born in Saline county, Neb., on October 12, 1870, the son of Henry C. and Annie- (Williamson) Grewell, natives of Ohio and of Pennsylvania, re- spectively. The Grewell family is of French origin. Its representatives settled in Ohio among its pioneers, but the oldest member now living, the grandfather of our subject, is residing in Nebraska. He and his wife, nee Wilson, celebrated their gold- en wedding in 1897 and they are still (1902) in vigorous health. Mr. Crowell's maternal grand- father, Wilson, died in 1887, aged 103. The father of Mr. E. L. Grewell left home when he was a young man and settled in Iowa, where he married and in 1870 took up his residence in Nebraska, en- gaged in farming until 1882, then removed to Loveland, Colo., and there is still his home. His son, E. L., passed his school days in Nebraska and Colorado, having been graduated in 1887, after which he engaged in mining until 1889. In that year he came to Montana, and followed mining at Granite until 1892, when he located his present home three and one-half miles east of Joliet, in Carbon county. His place is well irrigated and in a forward state of cultivation. In addition to cereals and hay, he gives attention to vegetables and small fruits, and is especially interested in a very promising young orchard. His cattle are Herefords, of which he has usually about 150 head. His farm is a model of thrift and taste, showing every evidence of skill and intelligence in its cul- tivation, and of enterprise and foresight in the character and arrangement of its buildings and other improvements. Mr. Grewell was married on December 25, 1897, to Miss Grace Hobbs, a na- tive of Wisconsin, and daughter of John Hobbs, of that state, who joined his sons in Montana, and died soon after his arrival. They have two chil- dren, Carrie and Vera.

R OBERT S. HALE .- The subject of this re- view is one of Helena's best known, most sub- stantial and most progressive business men. He is a native of Kentucky, but was reared in Mis- souri, his parents having removed to that state when he was a young child. He had probably about the usual experience of country boys in the

middle west, attending school in the winter months and working on the farm or at some other occupa- tion until he grew up. In 1864 he came to Mon- tana, making the journey across the plains with a wagon train under the command of Capt. Joe Knight, coming by way of the Bridger cutoff, and arriving at Virginia City July 10, 1864. On his arrival at his destination Mr. Hale purchased the building in which the five notorious road agents had been hanged, and therein engaged in the drug business in partnership with Mr. Clayton, the firm name being Clayton & Hale. The following year he came to Helena, and established his present business. In 1866 he bought out Mr. Clayton's interest, and in 1872 formed a new partnership with a Mr. Hudnall, which lasted until 1884, the firm being conducted as R. S. Hale & Co. Since 1884 Mr. Hale has been the sole proprietor, and very successful in the business. Mr. Hale is largely in- terested in placer and hydraulic mining and owns and controls a large number of water ditches in Lewis and Clarke and Jefferson counties. He is also extensively interested in real estate in Helena, and in quartz mining at Eureka, Iron Mountain and War Eagle. He has long been recognized as one of Helena's representative business men, and his success is due entirely to his own energy, per- severance and business capacity.

JOSEPH HAGEN .- Cut off in the prime of life, with his hopes and aspirations still in progress, and while working them out with gratifying suc- cess, Joseph Hagen, of Bozeman, who died at Astoria, Ore., on September 7, 1889, in the forty- fifth year of his age, had won for himself universal esteem, and his death was a source of deep regret to the community in which he had lived. He was born on June 14, 1845, in Switzerland, where he had a long line of ancestors. His parents were Joseph and Elizabeth (Stoltz) Hagen, both natives of Switzerland, where they were engaged in farm- ing until the death of the father in 1867. Mr. Ha- gen was educated in the government schools, at- tending them until he was sixteen years of age. He assisted on the farm until his father's death, after which he conducted it for his mother until he was twenty-seven years old, when his mother di- vided the property equally among her five children. Mr. Hagen got the farm as part of his share, and he lived on it until 1882, when he removed to

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America and located at Bozeman, Mont. After re- siding six years at Bozeman he went to Astoria for his health, but it was too late to recover it, and he there died nine months later. Politically he was a Democrat, and in religious faith a Catholic. He was married in 1872 to Miss Mary Kopp, a native of Switzerland, a daughter of Joseph Kopp, of that country, who was there born on March 14, 1820. In his early life he worked at his trade as a car- penter and in later life he was a farmer. He came to America in 1875, lived for a time in Illinois, then went to Iowa and engaged in butchering. In 1878 he came to Montana for a year, then made a visit to Switzerland, and then lived for a time in Oregon. He has passed much of his life in traveling, and is now (1902) living with his daughter, Mrs. Hagen, in Bozeman, in good health at the age of eighty- two years. His wife, Anna M. (Schmidt) Hagen, was born in Switzerland on February 6, 1819, and there died on March 7, 1871. Mrs. Hagen re- mained in Oregon a short time after the death of her husband, then returned to Bozeman, where in February, 1898, she built the Bozeman steam laun- dry, of which she is the owner. She has built up a profitable trade, which is constantly expanding. She has eight children living, Mary Pauline, now Mrs. H. Topel, of Bozeman ; Mary Elizabeth, Mary Ida, now Mrs. Michael O'Connell, and Joseph, Mary, Clara Julia, John Carl and Anna Louise. Mary Ida and Joseph Herman, are dead.

JOHN S. HALL .- In the winter of 1860-61 a young man scarcely out of his teens left Wis- consin and started for California, by way of New York and the Isthmus of Panama, then the popu- lar route to the Golden Gate. This young man was John S. Hall, who was born in England in 1841, but while still almost an infant came with his parents to the United States who located in Wis- consin in 1848, where he was reared and received the rudimentary principles of an education. His parents were William and Lucy (Atkinson) Hall, both natives of England. The father, however, did not live long in his new home, dying in 1850. He was a farmer and the family continued his labors. The mother died in Michigan in 1898. Mr. Hall remained in California for seven years, and in 1868 came to Montana and was one of the first settlers of Lewis and Clarke county. Here he remained only about a year, going thence to Deer Lodge

county and settling in the Helmville valley where he has since continuously resided upon a magnifi- cent ranch five miles southeast of Helmville and which is well stocked with cattle, sheep and horses. Mr. Hall is married to Clara (Bignell) Hall, a sis- ter of J. Samuel Bignell, also a resident of Powell county, located near Helmville. They have five children : Frank W., Lucy P., John H., Lillian V. and George A. Hall. Fraternally Mr. Hall is a Master Mason and financially he is one of the most successful ranchers and stockmen of the coun- ty, appearing to be one of those who have made every year add a little to former accumulations.

JAMES GOUGH, a well known Montana pio- neer miner of 1865, is now a prominent sheep- grower of the state, residing near Gold creek, Powell county. He was born in County Routh, Ireland, in April, 1841, the son of Peter and Ann (Finagan) Gough, natives of the same county, where they were married and passed their lives. Mr. Gough as soon as he was "old enough to weed potatoes," was taken from school and hence- forth gave attention to hard work on the home- stead. When seventeen years old he came to the United States and found employment in a Massa- chusetts rolling mill for four years, in 1862 he went to San Francisco by the Isthmus of Panama, en- gaged in mining two years, and then followed the same business in Idaho. He came to Montana in 1865, locating at Beartown, mining in Bear gulch, where he secured good claims. In June, 1867, he went to Fort Benton, thence down the Missouri river to Omaha and on to New York, where for a year he engaged in the wholesale flour business. The same year he married Miss Bridget Finagan, a native of Ireland, a daughter of Lawrence and Mary (Mccullough) Finagan, and in the fall they returned west, going to San Francisco, where they stopped for a year, returning to Montana in 1870, and settling at Cedar creek, where mining excite- ment was running high, but, while a few paying mines were developed, Mr. Gough was not among the fortunate ones and he returned to Bear gulch. Six months later he removed to Pioneer, and for four years worked at mining. Securing a pre- emption claim of 120 acres in Hellgate valley, one mile and a half from Gold creek station, in 1876, he has since resided here engaged in stockraising,

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for the past sixteen years making a specialty of sheep, having at present between 4,000 and 6,000. In addition to his original claim he owns 3,500 acres, affording an excellent range for pasturage. Mr. and Mrs. Gough have had seven children, Mary E., Annie M., James A., John T., Lewis A., Peter J., deceased, and Francis V. Although not an active partisan Mr. Gough is strictly in line with the Democratic party. He is a man of integ- rity, liberal-minded and progressive.

G EORGE L. HAMMOND .- To start out in life at the age of sixteen years, with a capital of but $13 in greenbacks, worth only sixty-five cents on the dollar (the half of this sum to be shared with a brother), and to achieve success, shows a fertile brain and an industrious nature. The life story of George L. Hammond tells how this was accomplished. He was born at Van Buren, Me., a son of Andrew B. and Laura Anne (Coombs) Hammond. The father was a native of New Brunswick and of English ancestry. By vo- cation he was a lumberman and farmer, in Maine and in New Brunswick, and in this province he died in 1866. The mother, Laura Anne Ham- mond, was also a native of New Brunswick, of English-Irish ancestry, and after an eminently use- ful life she died at Missoula, Mont., in 1895.

The brother with whom Mr. Hammond left home to carve out a fortune, is A. B. Hammond, the well-known millionaire, now extensively en- gaged in numerous western business enterprises as president of the Missoula Mercantile Company ; the First National Bank of Missoula, and numer- ous other corporations involving large capital, and whose business ramifications cover an extensive area. The boys located at Bangor, Me., and for two years worked faithfully in the lumber business. From here they went to Williamsport, Pa., where they continued lumbering on the Susquehanna river. Often they conversed about going west, and thoroughly canvassed the question. It was at last decided that they would go to Colorado and proceeded on the journey as far as St. Joseph, Mo. But they missed the train. Their determination to go to Colorado was reconsidered and they decided to come to Fort Benton, and boarded the steamer Imperial and reached the fort in the fall of 1867.

At Fort Benton George L. Hammond con- tracted to supply wood to the United States gov-

ernment. This enterprise was continued for four- teen months and proved profitable. In 1868 he came on to Helena and later went to Missoula, where he entered the employment of Mr. George White, one of the most prominent men of the day. Later he bought horses with his brother, taking them to Puget Sound for disposal. Remaining there six months he went to San Francisco where he worked at lumbering in Nevada county, Cal., for three months, then went to Salt Lake, pur- chased horses and returned to Montana, re-enter- ing the territory (as he had left it) accompanied by horses. He again settled at Fort Benton. In 1870 Mr. Hammond accompanied J. J. Healey to the Northwest Territory, where he assisted in the erection of the celebrated "Whoop up" fort, and conducted merchandising for eight years. Re- turning to Fort Benton, Mr. Hammond gave at- tention to farming until 1882, when he came to Missoula, where he interested himself in the firm of Eddy & Hammond, now the Missoula Mercan- tile Company. On October 2, 1885, he located a fine ranch in the Ovando valley and since has been extensively engaged in farming and lumbering on the Blackfoot river. While the family mostly maintains its home in the handsome Missoula resi- dence, Mr. Hammond devotes much of his leisure to the ranch, which is situated one mile northwest of Ovando, and contains 2,037 acres of excellent land. He makes a specialty of the highest thor- oughbred stock. The ranch is a model one, thor- oughly equipped with all modern conveniences. Mr. Hammond married Miss Rosa Wells, a native of Minnesota. Among their children are Jose- phine, Bertha, George, Leonard and Hattie. He is . a man of progressive views, excellent business judgment and courteous bearing, and is very proud of his family.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 2, Part 131

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