Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 2, Part 23

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 March, 1869, Senator Clark was united in marriage with Miss Kate L. Stauffer, a highly ac- complished lady of Connellsville, Pa. The couple left on their wedding day for their future home in the Rocky mountains. Their first location was at Helena, and there their first child, Mary C., was born in January, 1870. In Deer Lodge, to which place they had removed, their other chil- dren were born, with the exception of their young- est child, Francis Paul, who was born in Paris. They had six children, one of whom, Jessie (twin sister of Katherine L., now living), died in Deer Lodge in April, 1888, aged three years. The eldest, Mary C., was happily married in April, 1891, to Dr. E. M. Culver, a successful physician of New York city. In that great metropolis Mrs. Culver is mistress of a beautiful home, where she dispenses a generous hospitality. Their eldest son, Charles Walker, is a graduate of Yale Col- lege. To the regular academic course he has sup- plemented a degree in mineralogy, thus fitting himself for a successful career in the mining world. He married Miss Katherine Roberts, of Helena. Mont., and resides in Butte, where he has erected a magnificent home. Katherine L. was married to Dr. Lewis R. Morris, an able physician of New York city, in May, 1900. William A.,. Jr., a graduate of the University of Virginia, and now a resident of Butte, is engaged in legal practice. He was married to Miss Mabel Foster, of Butte, in June, 1901. Francis Paul, the youngest of the family, while attending a preparatory school at Andover, Mass., was taken with erysipelas and died after a few days illness. The broadening influence of foreign travel Senator Clark has freely

accorded his family. They resided in Paris for three years, acquired a thorough knowledge of the French language, and passed two years in Dres- den, Germany, where they acquired a knowledge of German. During these years Senator Clark spent his winters in Europe, and with his family traveled extensively through Europe and portions of Asia and Africa. Aside from their beautiful home in Europe, the family has maintained a resi- dence in New York city, where a portion of each year is passed. But the happiest home canot bar the way to the visitation of death. On Octo- ber 19, 1893, Mr. Clark met with the greatest loss of his life in the death of his wife, which oc- curred at the family residence in New York, fol- lowing a brief illness. A fitting helpmate was she to her active and ambitious husband ; of rare intel- ligence and refinement, her death was sincerely mourned by many Montana friends.

Senator Clark is still making history. Although the rounding out of his high personal character is complete, he is evidently destined to play no un- important part in national affairs. That he is entitled to a place in the first rank of the brave, determined and energetic men of the great west will be readily admitted. As a good citizen, patri- otic and broad-minded, Senator Clark numbers thousands of warm personal friends in all parties and of all creeds. With many of them he has mingled as a pioneer and shared the hardships and the pleasures of early territorial days. To many he has given a helping hand and a cheering word of encouragement, and often liberal assist- ance. And today Senator Clark is proud of his state, proud of her manly, loyal men, of his home city, and the sturdy Montanians with whom he has for so many years worked hand in hand in the building of the commonwealth. At the opening of the state campaign in 1900 it was at once seen that Mr. Clark was the principal political issue. Certain heavy and well known corporations threw large sums of money into the state ostensibly for the defeat of the Democratic state ticket, but really in antagonism to Mr. Clark's senatorial aspira- tions. Newspapers were established and others purchased, enlarged and improved. In the equip- ping of these expensive plants and for their edi- torial conduction immense sums were expended while an extensive art plant was established and conducted in Butte apparently for the sole pur- pose of supplying political caricature directed against him. His personality was the target for

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every possible force of his antagonists, but then the result of the election was a sweeping Demo- cratic victory, a most flattering vindication of Mr. Clark in connection with the action of the United States senate following his election to that body in 1898. The election of Mr. Clark was practically settled on the night of November 6, 1900, when the votes were counted through- out the state. On January 7, 1901, the Mon- tana legislature assembled. Until the 15th, at which time the first formal ballot was taken, each house voting separately, the senatorial question was the absorbing topic. On January 15th, at noon, the first ballot was taken. The result showed a clear majority of two for Senator Clark after the distribution of a number of complimentary ballots to other parties. The legislature then ad- journed. On the next ballot, at noon, January 16th, Senator Clark received the solid vote of his party, fifty-seven to thirty-six, in both houses for the long term (being seven more than were necessary for election), to succeed Senator Thomas . H. Carter. This was as complete a vindication as was ever accorded anywhere to any man, and a vindication of which Senator Clark is very proud. He entered upon his official duties as a national senator March 4, 1901, and, by his democratic and affable manner and his familiarity with state and national issues, and his ability as an orator, he has added to his already enviable position as one of the national leaders of the Democratic party. Mr. Clark is still in the prime of life, enjoys excellent health and has, no doubt, many years of usefulness and happiness in store for him.

PHILIP W. KORELL, a progressive ranchman of Fergus county, owner of the ranch which always produces the largest crop of alfalfa hay in the county, and to the cultivation of which he applies both brain and brawn in good measure, is a native of King's county, on Long Island, in the state of New York, where he was born May 28. 1857. His parents were Jacob and Catharine Korell, the former a native of Berlin, Germany, and the latter of Lorraine, a part of France when she was born, but now belonging to Germany. Her father was a soldier in Napoleon's army, and followed that great commander through many hard campaigns. He saw the eagles of the empire soar in triumph at Austerlitz and Wagram and

Borodino, cower in fear on the terrible retreat from Moscow, and go down in shame and ever- lasting defeat at Leipsic and the crowning disaster at Waterloo.

Mr. Korell's parents emigrated to America in their early life and located in New York, where the father rose to comfortable circumstances as a baker. He died in 1900, leaving four children, of whom Philip is the oldest. He received a good education in the public schools of his native place and at Albany high school, where he was gradu- ated after a thorough course of instruction. He then studied law for two years under the direc- tion of A. B. Pratt, Esq., of Albany. At the age of seventeen he took charge of the books of the firm of Sanford & Pratt, of Albany, and remained in their employ four years. In 1877 he came to Fort Benton on the steamer Rosebud. He was employed as cook on boats on the Missouri river for three years and then in 1880 located at his pres- ent home, a mile and a half southwest of Utica. The ranch comprises 1,160 acres, about 150 of which are in a high state of cultivation and pro- duce abundantly whatever is committed to their fruitfulness. All kinds of live stock range freely over its wide expanse, but sheep are the staple product. These are raised in great numbers and of superior quality, both their flesh and fleece hav- ing a high rank in the markets.

Mr. Korell was married December 13, 1881, to Miss Anna M. Blair, only child of Gen. and Dollie Blair, of Kentucky. Her father, a general in the Confederate army, was killed in one of the terrible battles of the Civil war. Her mother died in August, 1899. To Mr. and Mrs. Korell were born four children-Katharine, Louisa, Carl and Breathitt. All are living, but their mother died November 10, 1896.

In politics Mr. Korell is an ardent Republican ; and in fraternal relations he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

C HRISTOPHER KUKOLIAS, one of the ener- getic and prosperous farmers of Cascade county, residing near Eden, first came to Montana in 1887. He was born at Kalling Kou, Germany, February 20, 1849, the son of Christopher and Henrietta Kukolias, the father being a native of Kokaman, and the mother of Kalling Kou. The father was a farmer, dying at Bismarck, Ger-

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many, at the age of seventy, and the mother died at Rose, aged fifty. Mr. Kukolias was reared in Kalling Kou, and in his childhood attended the public schools, and between the ages of fourteen and fifteen he was set to diligent labor on his father's farm, and at twenty years of age, in 1869, he began learning carpetmaking, which business he followed quite successfully for some years.

Mr. Kukolias came to the United States in 1887, and from New York he came at once to Winne- bago, Mont., and his first employment in the territory was building snowsheds for the North- ern Pacific Railway. From 1888 to 1890 he manu- factured carpets at Great Falls. He also worked in the smelter. In 1890 he took up a pre-emption claim of 160 acres of land, and began to raise stock, commencing with thirty-five head of cattle. Twen- ty-five acres of this land he cultivated and in 1895 he supplemented his property by a homestead claim of 160 acres. He now has 320 acres, on which he raises bountiful crops and fine stock, and is in pros- perous circumstances. In 1869, before coming to the United States, Mr. Kukolias was married to Miss Anna Haguer, daughter of Gottlieb and Mary (Clay) Haguer, of De Julan, Germany. They were natives of De Julan. The father died at that place at the age of fifty-four, the mother at the age of fifty-six.

W ILLIAM LAHERTY .- Among the pioneer citizens of the state there are none who merit representation in this work more assuredly than do Mr. Laherty and his estimable wife. Mr. Laherty is a native of County Tipperary, Ireland, born on April 11, 1823, the son of William and Alice (Cos- tello) Laherty, natives of Tipperary, who passed their lives in the Emerald Isle, where the father was a farmer. William Laherty received a limited educational training in the national schools of Ire- land, and he early learned to depend upon his own resources. At the age of fifteen years he started for America, landing in New York in 1838, after having suffered disastrous shipwreck off the Ber- muda Islands. From New York city he made his way to Lawrence, Mass., where he remained six months, then located in Bangor, Maine, and there learned the trade of ship carpenter, and followed this vocation for some time, after which he removed to Wisconsin, and was employed in lumbering for three years, after which he went to Chicago, then

scarcely more than a straggling village, and as- sisted in erecting some of the first grain elevators of the west. He was ever ready to take up any honest occupation and to accommodate himself to circumstances, and his aim was a definite one, that of making a home for himself. Thus his ultimate aim was never obscure, though he was compelled to seek the desired goal by a somewhat circuitous route.

Finally Mr. Laherty became identified with rail- roading, and as a carpenter aided in the erection of the first railroad station between Chicago and Detroit, on both the Michigan Southern and the Michigan Central Railroads, which were practically the first to enter Chicago. His next business ven- ture was radically different, for he went to St. Louis, Mo., and found occupation on steamboats plying on the Mississippi, Tennessee and Cumber- land rivers and also running to ports on the lower Mississippi, including New Orleans. In 1862 Mr. Laherty made the long and hazardous trip across the plains with ox teams, his first stopping place being at Fort Bridger, Wyo., where he found em- ployment in the mercantile establishment of Judge Carter. In the spring of 1863 he continued his journey to Montana, attracted hither by the dis- covery of gold in Alder gulch, where he devoted his attention to mining for two years, then, in 1865, re- moving to Blackfoot City, at that time in Deer Lodge county and a flourishing mining camp. In the fall of 1866 he took his family to Bitter Root valley, to afford the children the educational facil- ities there provided, the scholastic institutions on the frontier being few and far between, with facil- ities of most primitive order. In the following spring he returned to Blackfoot City, and until 1867 was engaged in business at Carpenter bar, in which locality he made his home. In 1867 also he removed across the range to Lincoln gulch, and thence in 1869 to Vestal, near Marysville. He con- tinued to live in that vicinity until 1881, when he took up his location on his present ranch in the Nevada valley, three miles east of Helmville, Powell county, which is his postoffice address. Here he has since devoted his attention to diversified farm- ing and to the raising of livestock, and he has realized his ambition and established an attractive and valuable home, from which an assured income has been derived during all the long intervening years. Mr. Laherty accumulated additional tracts of land from time to time, and after giving much of it to his children, he still retains a fine farm of

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260 acres, well improved and under effective culti- vation.

No man in the community is held in higher es- teem, and, notwithstanding his advanced age, he is hale and hearty, remarkably active and energetic, and counts himself able to compete in the work of the ranch with many of the "young fellows." His wide and varied experiences make Mr. Laherty a most interesting conversationalist and raconteur, and both he and his estimable wife relate many in- teresting tales of the pioneer epoch. He has never been identified with mining since leaving Alder gulch and wherever he maintained his home prior to lo- cating on his present ranch he raised cattle, con- ducted meat markets, and was identified with other enterprises. In politics Mr. Laherty gives his sup- port to the Democratic party, but has never sought office. In 1864, at Alder gulch, Mr. Laherty was united in marriage to Mrs. Catherine Coghlin, nee Maher, the widow of David Coghlin, one of the pioneer miners of Colorado. She was born in Coun- ty Clare, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1846, practically alone, save the companionship of a few of her old neighbors. She encountered shipwreck on the voyage, as did also Mr. Laherty at the time of his emigration to America. Her par- ents passed their lives in Ireland, but she had de- termined to make her own way in the world, and her self-reliance and sterling character gained her uniform respect and confidence in the strange land and among strangers. She first located in Quebec, Canada, and was later a resident of Cincinnati, Chicago, and finally of Sioux City, Iowa, where was celebrated her marriage to David Coghlin, with whom she crossed the plains to Colorado in 1860. His death there occurred soon afterward, and in 1863 she came to Alder gulch, Mont., where she married Mr. Laherty. By her first marriage Mrs. Laherty is the mother of four children, Maurice, Cornelius, Mary A., wife of Thomas McCormick, and David. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Laherty are Kate A., wife of James W. Geary, Wil- liam C., Edward J. and James P.

G EORGE LAMBERT, postmaster of Winston, Broadwater county, is also one of the most progressive and enterprising merchants of that city. He was born in Bethnel Green, E. C., Lon- don, England, on November 20, 1850, the son of George and Betsey (Bennett) Lambert, natives of

Suffolk. They were married at Ipswich and made their home in London, where Mr. Lambert engaged in the wholesale and retail tobacco trade. He died in London in 1854 and his wife in 1890. Their children were Elizabeth, Rosetta, Alice, Betsey, George and James. Both the paternal grandfather, James Lambert, and the maternal grandfather, George Bennett, were natives of Bramford, County Suffolk, where the families had been residents and farmers for many generations. George Lambert, Sr., the father of the Winston merchant, was one of a family of two sons and four daughters.

George Lambert, now of Winston, after attend- ance at the parochial schools, enlisted in the Royal Artillery in July, 1867. He served in England until 1872, when he came to Halifax, N. S., with his regiment, continuing with it until 1873, and at the exercises contingent on the arrival of Lord Dufferin Mr. Lambert as a bombadier fired the salute from Georges Island. He left the Royal Artillery in 1873, and received an honorable dis- charge during the Queen's jubilee. He then en- gaged in farming in Maine until the spring of 1881. Mr. Lambert removed from Maine in 1881 reaching Beaver creek, Mont., in April. He has resided at Winston from that time, and has been very successful, financially and socially. At first he engaged in the hotel business and merchandising, but of recent years he has confined his attention to commercial pursuits.

Mr. Lambert is in close touch with the Dem- ocratic party and is an influential worker in its ranks. In 1886 he was elected county commis- sioner of Jefferson county and was re-elected in 1888. He was chairman of the board during the important period of the construction of the court house at Boulder. In 1892 he was elected justice of the peace, and was appointed clerk of the dis- trict court by the legislative assembly on the or- ganization of Broadwater county. For a number of terms he served as school trustee and holds the commission of postmaster of Winston, and the duties of the office, like all others he has held, are discharged with fidelity and popular satisfaction. Fraternally he is a member of the United Workmen and has been an Odd Fellow since 1873, joining the order in Halifax, N. S.

On August 29, 1879, Mr. Lambert married Miss Celinda Bennett, of Waldo, Maine, the daughter of George and Mary (Mitchell) Bennett, who had left Ohio and settled in Maine. The maternal grandfather, John Mitchell, had come from Eng-

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land to the United States, and in Ohio married a lady named Sawyer. Mr. and Mrs. Lambert have had three children, two of them having died in infancy. Minnie Maude is the sole survivor.

JOHN MARTIN SMITH, of Martinsdale, Mont., is a native of Fairfield county, Tuscar- awas county, Ohio, having been born in that place October 6, 1833. He is a son of Valentine and Fan- nie (Phillips) Smith, the former a native of West- moreland county, and the latter of Pottsville, Pa. The subject of this sketch comes of a long lived race, his paternal grandfather having been born of English parentage, who came to America and settled in territory which is now Pennsylvania, prior to the Revolutionary war. J

James Smith, the grandfather, married a daugh- ter of John Heninger, against the wish of his par- ents, and in consequence was disinherited, there- fore when a young man was thrown upon his own resources. He died in early life leaving a wife and two sons, Valentine and John, the former of whom is the father of our subject. John Heininger, the maternal grandfather, was a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war for a period of seven years. He was a man large in stature and of robust make-up, and fol- lowed the vocation of farming and blacksmithing until eighty years of age. He died in his ninety- ninth year, while his wife died at the age of 109.

Valentine Smith, the subject's father, was but a child of three years when his father died, and was reared to manhood by Col. Halferty, of Westmore- land county, Pa., with whom he remained until sixteen years of age. At this early age Mr. Smith started in life empty handed, and worked for a time in coal mines, later emigrated to Ohio, where he continued coal mining and for a time worked on packet boats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers be- tween Pittsburg and New Orleans. While living in southeastern Ohio he was married to Miss Fannie Phillips, who proved to be a valuable helpmeet through life. They became the parents of nine children, of whom four sons and three daughters grew to man and womanhood, namely, James P., Jolın M., Eva, Armina M., William A., Andrew A. and Fannie. In the year 1840 Mr. Smith removed to Williams county, Ohio, and settled in the woods, and here lived the life of a pioneer, and reared his family. He improved a forty-acre farm from the forest, and was for years a local minister in the

United Brethren church. His death occurred in 1864 at the age of sixty-three years. The wife and mother continued to reside on the homestead farm until her death in 1873, aged seventy years. She too had been a lifelong member of the United Brethren church, and was well and most favorably known in that locality.

John M. Smith was the second son and third born of the family of nine children, owing to the lim- ited facilities for schools on the frontier of Ohio, he received a meager education. He remained at home with his parents until the age of twenty- one years and contributed by his labor to the sup- port of the family, and in addition to this by work- ing for meager wages for the neighbors and cutting · cord wood for twenty-five cents per cord, he paid for twenty acres of land adjoining that of his father, which was heavily timbered and with his own hands at odd times, chopped and cleared the entire tract, and presented it to his father.

In the year 1854 desiring to seek his fortune in the west, Mr. Smith took passage by steamer to Panama, thence to California. Here he engaged in mining until 1860 with varying success, when he went with the rush to Virginia City, Colo., and here prospected during that year in the vicinity of Gold Hill, or the famous Comstock mine. While in this vicinity the Ute Indian war took place which made frontier life very dangerous. Return- ing to California, he remained until 1863, when he went to Portland, Ore., thence to .the Dalles, and from there he with several associates with pack animals went to the territory of Idaho, lo- cating at Placerville, where he continued to follow the occupation of mining. The following morn- ing after his arrival, he witnessed a gambler, known as Snap and Ante, kill a man with a pick handle, and about one hour and a half later Mr. Duncan, an auctioneer, had the murdered man's goods up and sold at auction to pay funeral expenses. In the year 1864 he joined the stampede up Snake river and across the lava bed into Camas creek country, and here for the first time saw a mirage. At the latter place, he and his party met the out- laws, Fred Patterson, Joe Peters and others of the same class, several of whom afterwards met tragic deaths. In the spring of 1866 he came to the ter- ritory of Montana, locating in Last Chance gulch, where he engaged in mining until fall, when he went into the Gallatin valley and run a threshing machine, which was engaged in the business of custom threshing. They were paid at the rate of

of the Smith

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twenty-five cents per bushel for wheat and twenty cents for oats. During that fall he threshed the crop of Hon. David E. Folsom, who lived on Willow creek, and now a prominent citizen of White Sulphur Springs. The year following Mr. Smith farmed a ranch in Gallatin valley, but the grasshoppers harvested the crop, and for nearly twenty-five years, at intervals, he carried on placer mining in Thompson's gulch. During the winter of 1871-72 he helped to build the first cabin on the Musselshell river near where the town of Martinsdale now stands. In 1873 he located a ranch and built a residence on the Musselshell, about four miles southwest from Martinsdale, which has been his home ever since. At that time in partnership with his brother William A. Smith, purchased 100 head of stock cattle in Idaho and drove them into the Musselshell valley with a view of engaging in the cattle business. Two years later the Smith brothers in company with Mr. McDonald, under the firm name of Smith Bros. & McDonald, purchased 900 ewes of John Haley, of Boise City, Idaho, which they trailed across the country into the Musselshell valley. The part- ners did their own herding and managed their busi- ness in a careful and economical manner, which proved quite a success. In 1877 the firm of Smith Bros. sold their cattle at $12.50 per head and in company with Mr. Grande, firm name Smith Bros. & Grande, purchased 2,000 stock sheep of John Haley, which were driven across the country by William A. Smith and this copartnership continued one year, when the firm dissolved and divided their stock and near the same time the firm of Smith Bros. & McDonald also dissolved and divided their stock, after which the firm of Smith Brothers continued in business.

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 2, Part 23

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