Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 2, Part 70

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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Mr. Greig was educated at the public schools and the government school in his native town. After leaving school, at the age of sixteen, he served an apprenticeship of five years as a carpenter at Kirk- caldy. In February, 1881, he came to the United States, and after passing a year at Denver, Colo., he removed to the Flathead valley, and in August, 1882, located on his present home on Ashley creek, a mile and a half south of Kalispell, where he has since resided and been prominently identified with the substantial growth and development of his sec- tion of the state.

In politics Mr. Greig is a Democrat and as such was elected a county commissioner for Flathead county in 1896, being re-elected in 1898. His ser- vices to the county in this capacity were highly ap- preciated by the people, who looked upon him as a model official. He was also for six years trustee of school district No. 5, having begun his service in that office in 1883 when the board was first or- ganized, and when the district embraced all the territory later included in Flathead county. Fra- ternally he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Highlanders, holding membership in the bodies at Kalispell. At Buck- haven, Scotland, in February, 1881, he was united

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in marriage with Miss Isabel Dunsire, who was born there March 10, 1861. They have one child, a daughter Kate, aged twenty, who was born in Buckhaven, Scotland. Mr. Greig has been an in- fluential and serviceable citizen, whose active work and whose forcible example have been of great good to his fellowmen, among whom he is higlily esteemed in every line of life.

CARLTON HARPER HAND .- The immense mining industries of the Rocky mountain region of America have vastly multiplied expert knowledge on the subject of mines and mining and have given to the world new lines of intellectual effort. The schools of mines which they have engendered and the excellent technical training these schools afford- ed are fruitful of an intense and widespread ac- tivity in searching into the arcana of nature and bringing her hidden riches to the knowledge and the service of men. One of the products of this do- main who has won distinction in it by his skill and acumen as well as his wealth of learning, is Carl- ton Harper Hand, of Butte, whose services in every part of it have been valuable and highly appre- ciated. He was born at Portage City, Wis., July 4, 1859, the son of George H. and Helen (Ketch- um) Hand, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Courtland, N. Y. The father received a thorough classical and law education and when a young man came west to South Dakota, where he was a successful attorney and also attained promi- nence in political circles, having been secretary of the territory for eight years. He died in 1891 at Yankton, in that state, where his widow is still liv- ing in the home she has so long occupied.

Mr. Hand was educated primarily in the public schools at Yankton, and afterwards took a full tech- nical course at the Colorado School of Mines at Golden, Colo. In February, 1883, he went to Silver City, N. M., and for two years was there engaged in assaying and mining. In 1885 he came to Gran- ite, Mont., as assayer for the Granite Mountain Mining Company. The next year he removed to Butte and, in company with Henry C. Carney, opened an assay office under the firm name of Car- ney & Hand. This they successfully conducted from 1886 to 1898, and during this period Mr. Hand was employed as manager of various work- ing mines, including those of the Pollock Mining

and Milling Company, the Glengary Mining and Milling Company, and the Golden Leaf Mining Company, Limited. He was also expert for the Granite Mt. Mining Company in 1886-7, and has been called in as an expert witness in many of the big lawsuits which have occupied the attention of the Montana courts during the last fifteen years. From 1894 to 1898 he was manager for the West- ern Mine Enterprise Company, of Bannack. In 1898 he went to Sandon, in the Kootenai district of British Columbia, and there passed two years and a half as manager for the Payne Consolidated Mining Company. Since his return to Butte he has been manager for the Watseca Gold Mining Company, located at Rochester, Mont., and also employed as a general mining engineer.

In politics Mr. Hand is a Republican, but has taken very little active interest in party manage- ment. Fraternally he is a member of Butte Lodge No. 22, A. F. & A. M. He was married at Yank- ton, S. D., in 1893, to Miss Amelia M. Ream, a native of Kansas. They have two children, Arthur and Helen.

D R. T. H. HANBIDGE was born in Ontario, Canada, March 30, 1856. His father, John Hanbidge, was a native of Ireland and his mother was born in Scotland. To these parents were born six children, of whom the Doctor is third in order of birth. He secured his early education in the public schools of his native province and graduated from the Callingword Collegiate Institute at the age of twenty-six. His professional training be- gan at Toronto Medical College and was finished at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York city, where he was graduated March 10, 1890. After six months' practice at Ogdensburg, N. Y., in partnership with his brother, Dr. W. B. Han- bidge, with whom he had studied, he came to Mon- tana, locating at Victor, where he practiced for four years. He then visited Germany and spent a year in the hospitals of that country, taking a post-gradu- ate course and special courses on the treatment of diseases peculiar to the eye, ear, nose and throat. Dr. Hanbidge then visited the principal cities of Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium and in the fall of 1897 went to London, England. where he spent nine months attending the hospitals of that city. On his return to Montana he prac- ticed for two years in Missoula, at the end of which

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time he returned to Victor, where he has been actively engaged in practice ever since.

In politics the Doctor is a stanch Republican and takes a great interest in the success of his party. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons and the Order of the Eastern Star. Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen and the Knights of the Maccabees.

T THOMAS C. HAND, the efficient and popular sheriff of Flathead county, is a native of Du- buque, Iowa, where he was born on August 5, 1864, the son of Patrick and Margaret (Hannon) Hand. His life was passed on his father's farm in Iowa until he was sixteen years old and the com- mon schools gave him a good practical education. Then his parents moved to the new lands of South Dakota as pioneers in the great emigration that soon thickly populated that part of the west. Pat- rick Hand became a proprietor and esteemed citi- zen of the state, and was elected and served two terms as a Democrat in the state legislature. Both himself and wife are residing near Elk Point, the place where they made their home in 1848. In their old age they are enjoying the fruits of a life time of honest endeavor, and are secure in the regard of the large community which they have seen develop from a wilderness. They have four- teen children, four girls and ten boys, of whom two, Thomas C. and a sister, Mrs. P. Graham, have been residents of Kalispell.

Thomas C. Hand, soon after reaching South Dakota, was made clerk in the local postoffice, where he remained two years. He then went to Winnipeg and was clerk in a general store for eighteen months and became so pleased with mer- chandising that he embarked in the business on his own account, at Winnipeg. Selling out at this point, he opened a grocery in St. Paul and continued in profitable trade until the unlimited possibilities of the wonderful Flathead valley drew him across the Rockies to become the pioneer grocer of the new city of Kalispell. He arrived here April 22, 1891, opened his business place in May, and from that time he has been a stirring factor in city, county and valley affairs. His store was situated on First avenue west, on the site now occupied by the White Front restaurant. The first sale was a one- pound can of pepper for fifty cents. In 1893 he sold this successful business to put several thousand dollars into a carbonated soda water plant, which

he, as the Flathead Bottling Company, erected on the Stillwater river, one mile east of Kalispell. This was an expensive and not a profitable undertaking, and in 1895 it was sold to the Kalispell Brewing Company. On account of his wife's feeble health Mr. Hand took a vacation of nearly a year, which was mostly passed in his old home, St. Paul. Re- turning to Kalispell that sagacious business man, James Conlon, understanding Mr. Hand's business qualities and popularity, secured him to take charge of the grocery department of his mammoth store. Mr. Hand had entire control for six years, to the full satisfaction of his employer and with promise of a much longer business connection with the house. But the people of the county willed other- wise. Always a representative Democrat, he had, in 1900, been placed in nomination by his party as its candidate for sheriff, and when the people re- corded their verdict in November of that year he was elected to that office by a very gratifying vote, running ahead of his ticket and receiving 386 ma- jority. His term of office expires on January I, 1903. Mr. Hand has varied business interests. He was one of the organizers of the Kalispell Ware- house and Cold Storage Company, organized in October, 1900, a stockholder in the company own- ing the Black Tail group of mines at West Fisher, and is connected with other enterprises.

Mr. Hand has been twice married, first on Janu- ary 9. 1888, to Miss Helen Schmitz, of St. Paul, Minn. Their only child is Thomas C. Hand, Jr. Mr. Hand's second marriage occurred on July II, 1901, to Miss Sarah Cavanaugh, a native of Prairie du Chien, Wis.

In fraternal organizations Mr. Hand has taken active part. He has passed the chairs in the Ancient Order of United Workmen, held many offices in the Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the Mod- ern Woodmen of America and of the Elks. In these bodies and generally throughout the county he is known as "Tom" Hand, which appellation alone indicates the strong hold he has in the esteem of the people. Probably no man in this county is more extensively known. Energetic, prompt and always reliable, he has been prospered in most of his un- dertaking's and attributes his success to good habits and strict and careful attention to the proper dis- charge of whatever duty, official or business, that has devolved upon him. Perhaps no better sum- ming up of his character can be given than the re- mark of one who has known him for years: "Tom Hand is all right."

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G EORGE W. HARDEN-Meagher county is signally favored in the character and peculiar eligibility of those who are serving in its official positions of public trust and responsibility, and in the case at hand we touch briefly upon the life his- tory of the present incumbent of the office of clerk and recorder and one known as not only an able and duly conservative executive, but also as a young man well meriting consideration as one of the representative citizens of this important political division of the great commonwealth of Montana.

Mr. Harden is a native of the state of Iowa, hav- ing been born in Montezuma, the official seat of Poweshiek county, on the 6th of March, 1870. He is the son of Thomas J. and Elizabeth ( Pat- terson) Harden, the former of whom was born in Indiana and the latter in Ohio. The grandfather of our subject in the agnatic line was Washington Harden, who removed from Indiana to Iowa in the early pioneer days in the latter state, and there devoted the remainder of his life to agricultural pursuits. There also his son, Thomas J., father of our subject, became identified with the same basic line of industry, and there he still maintains his home, being one of the successful and influential citizens of Poweshiek county, and a man of high mental attainments and inflexible integrity.

George W. Harden received his early educational discipline in the public schools of Montezuma, Iowa, completing the high-school course and being graduated as a member of the class of 1895. He then matriculated in the Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa, completing the scientific course and being graduated in 1895, with the degree of A. B. Mr. Harden then put his scholastic acquirements to practical test and utilization by engaging in pedagogic work in his native state for a period of about two years, proving a successful and popular teacher. He then came to Montana and for the two ensuing years was a teacher in the public schools at Castle, Meagher county, retiring in 1900, when he was elected to his present office, as clerk and recorder. He was the candidate of the Republican party, of whose principles and policies he has been a stalwart advocate from the time of attaining his legal majority. It may be mentioned that he is essentially a student, retaining an abiding and earn- est interest in scholastic work in educational affairs. In graduating in the high school of his native city he received the highest honors, while in his colle- giate course he manifested the same zeal and devo-

tion in his studies, and had the distinction of being chosen class orator. His practical and executive abilities are also pronounced, and his capacity for the facile and accurate handling of details makes him a specially able official in his present incum- bency. Imbued and animated by high intellectual and moral ideals, he is destined to secure still high- er honors in connection with the affairs of the state of his adoption, retaining, as he does, the confidence and good will of all who know him. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias, affiliating with Aztec Lodge No. 238, at Montezuma, Iowa.

ROBERT E. HAMMOND .- Nearly fifteen years of the useful life of Robert E. Hammond, of Kalispell, have been passed in Montana, and in that time he has contributed aid and inspiration to several lines of productive enterprise. He was born at Ashland, Ky., September 17, 1859. His parents were Robert and Rebecca (Gard) Hammond, the former a native of Virginia, where he was born in 1821, and the latter of Pennsylvania, where she was born in 1822. She died near Ironton, Ohio, in 1882. The father was connected with iron fur- naces in Ohio during his active business career. He removed to Jefferson county, Mont., in 1891, and died at Boulder in 1901.

Robert E. Hammond was educated at the public schools of Ironton and the normal school at Leba- non, Ohio. At the age of twenty he engaged in teaching school in Lawrence county, Ohio, and continued in the business there until 1887. In that year he came to Jefferson county, Mont., and taught in the public schools at Elkhorn for three years. He then taught at Helena for a year and during the next four at Great Falls. In 1896 he removed to Choteau, Teton county, where he served as principal of the schools for four years and in the fall of 1900 located at Kalispell. and after serving as principal of the schools for a year took a po- sition as bookkeeper for the Kalispell Water and Electric Light Company. In politics . Mr. Ham- mond is a Republican, and as such was elected to represent district No. 11 in the constitutional con- vention of 1889. He made a good record in the body and rendered his constituents good service. He is a member of Choteau Lodge No. 44, A. F. & A. M., of which he is a past master. He was mar-

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ried at Radersburg, Jefferson county, June 12, 1889, to Miss Luella Ritchhart, a native of Iowa, where she was born August 23, 1869. They have one child, Lillian. Both in his professional career as a teacher and in his mercantile work as a bookkeep- er Mr. Hammond has won high praise from those who have knowledge of his worth and his agreeable social qualities.

S AMUEL DINSMORE .- It has been well said that he who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one had grown before is a public benefactor, and in considering the life history of Mr. Dinsmore we are constrained to admit that he is truly a public benefactor, for it is an absolute truth that no other man in Montana has done so much to develop the fruit-growing industry in this commonwealth and to demonstrate its great pos- sibilities. Cultured and rare discrimination, study and determined application have insured him suc- cess, and he stands today the most prominent fruit- grower of the state. He was born at Fort Madison, Lee county, Iowa, on June 26, 1867, the son of Samuel and Mary Dinsmore, the former born in Ire- land, while the latter is a native of Iowa. Samuel Dinsmore, the father, was a contractor and builder and erected many important public edifices in Iowa, and some of the finest business and residence struc- tures of the state, among others the state peniten- tiary. He later turned his attention to farming and stockgrowing in Iowa, where his death and that of his wife occurred in 1879. They had four sons, of whom Charles H. is associated with Samuel in his industrial enterprises.

Samuel Dinsmore of this review received his early educational training in the Iowa public schools and Burlington (Iowa) College. At the age of twenty- one years he removed to Lincoln, Neb., and eighteen months later to Salt Lake City, where he en- gaged in real estate transactions, acquiring valuable properties and doing a large business. He re- mained in Mormon City for five years, and is still the owner of valuable property in that locality. In 1894 Mr. Dinsmore came to Butte, Mont., as state manager of the Etna Savings & Loan Company, re- taining this incumbency for one year, within which time he was seeking an eligible location for fruit- growing. In 1895 he came to Ravalli county and purchased 320 acres of land, five miles south of Hamilton, later adding to it a contiguous tract of

160 acres, while he subsequently increased his fruit farm to 640 acres. The same year he planted 10,- 600 fruit trees, including the best varieties of winter apples, a few of all other kinds and also other fruit. The next year he largely increased his orchard, set- ting out 33,000 trees, and 400 acres of his 640 are now given to this enterprise. From the first or- chard three car-loads of fruit were taken at five years of age, but Mr. Dinsmore did not permit the orchard to bear any considerable amount, believing that the best results were to be obtained by allowing the trees a growth of from five to six years before demanding a yield of fruit. The wisdom of his course has been demonstrated by practical experi- ence and careful experimentation. At Florence he owns the Dinsmore poultry farm, which comprises 320 acres and which is devoted to the raising of fruit and high-grade poultry, in which latter line the farm has a reputation throughout the state, the enterprise being one of the most extensive in the northwest. He owns also the Morrison and Dorman farm of 160 acres, with 5,000 winter apple trees, all in bear- ing this year, and one-half interest in the Missoula nursery, having 500,000 trees in stock, and likewise one-half interest in the Higgins block in Missoula.

Mr. Dinsmore also established and owns the Or- chard Home, which is practically an addition to the city of Missoula and now comprises 1,440 acres, which he has divided into tracts of five and ten acres, upon which have been planted 16,000 fruit trees of the best order. He has disposed of nearly all of these tracts. This year, 1901, there will be 6,400 more trees planted and here will be one of the most attractive residence localities in the state, while the income from the orchards will be cumulative for a long term of years and on the 1,440 acres it will average one family to seven acres. When Mr. Dinsmore commenced the industry which he has done so much to advance, fruitgrowing in Montana was greatly neglected, but through his well directed efforts fruit-raising is now assuming its proper po- sition of importance in the productive industries of Montana. He is also interested to a consider- able extent in mining, having valuable properties near Clinton and at the head of the Bitter Root river. He is a member of all the fruit-growers as- sociations and societies in Montana and the north- west, in whose deliberations his counsel is held in highest estimation, while he is the honored presi- dent of the Fruit-growers Union of Montana, add- ing prestige to its meetings by his dignified ex- ercise of his powers as a presiding officer.

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W ILLIAM HARRIS .- A native of the domin- ion of Canada, where he was born October 12, 1838, in the province of Ontario, and where he was educated and married, and afterwards settled down, apparently for life, William Harris, the subject of these paragraphs, was none the less loyal to the land of his adoption, wherein his ac- tive and suggestive career was made. His parents were James and Margaret (Erwin) Harris, the former a native of New York and the latter of Ireland. They removed to Canada and engaged in farming, and there reared a family of nine chil- dren, of whom William was the second. The latter remained at home until July 13, 1865, when he was married to Miss Sarah Pickett, daughter of Thomas E. and Annie C. (Smith) Pickett, also Canadians by nativity. Mrs. Harris's grandfather was Rev. Daniel Pickett, of Virginia, and one of the earliest Methodist preachers in Ontario, and her grandmother was a Miss Elizabeth Ingersoll, the daughter of a large landholder and farmer in whose honor the town of Ingersoll, Ontario, was named.

The children who have blessed his marriage are : William Arthur, who is now superintendent for David E. Folsom ; Edwin H., deceased; Lottie A., now the county superintendent of public schools ; Samuel Elgin, deceased; Albert Orville, now in ac- tive management of the home ranch; and Jennie May, William Edmond and Herbert Stanley, all still at home. The surviving children have been edu- cated at Bozeman College and the University at Helena. Of the sons, William Arthur and Albert Orville are members of the Masonic fraternity.

After his marriage Mr. Harris remained in his native place for three years. In September, 1868, he removed to South Dakota, settling at Vermillion, where he remained ten years engaged in farming. In 1879 he removed to the Black Hills with his family, and continued ranching there until 1883. having sold his property in South Dakota soon after leaving the territory. In 1883 he came overland to Montana, locating first near White Sulphur Springs, but soon after removing to the ranch now occupied by his family, and which was his home up to the time of his death, which occurred March 6, 1897.

The ranch consists of some 5,000 acres, is well improved with excellent buildings, and has been brought to a high state of cultivation by skillful and judicious farming. On it Mr. Harris raised large numbers of cattle and horses, and carried on a suc- cessful, pleasant and profitable agricultural busi- ness in a very satisfactory manner.

Mr. Harris was a fine example of the best citizen- ship of America, and as he lived in the full enjoy- ment of the respect of his fellow men, so he died deeply regretted by all classes of the community, to whose advancement he had given freely of his time, attention and substance. In business thrift, pro- ductive enterprise and social virtues his sons are worthy followers in his creditable footsteps, and all the members of his family do honor to his memory in the uprightness and usefulness of their lives.

JOHN E. HAUF .- Every land and every nation-

ality has contributed its quota of energy, ca- pacity and mental forces to the development of the great Northwest, and no country has surpassed Germany in the character and the volume of its con- tributions. Among the number of those who have come from the Fatherland to aid in the growth of our country, and especially the state of Montana, 110 one has a higher place in public regard or is more entitled to appreciation for his services to the community than John E. Hauf, the subject of this immediate review.

Mr. Hauf was born in Morobach Post, Thalny- assing, near Munich, December 21, 1860. His par- ents were John and Theresa Hauf, natives of the same country, who were prosperous and dutiful citizens of the Fatherland, and reared a family of five children. The subject was educated in the public schools and worked on his father's farm and in his store until he was twenty-one years old. He then came to the United States and worked in a machine shop for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany, at Johnstown, Pa., for a year and a half. afterward came to Montana and worked in a ma- chine shop in Anaconda, and then took charge of a concentrator for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company for three years. At the end of that time he removed to the Bitter Root country and, after making an effort to do business at Darby, bought 172 acres three miles west of Corvallis, where he has given his time to general ranching, raising cat- tle and growing fruit. He has elevated the standard in each line and given to the market an advanced grade of products which have brought credit to his section of the state, and are the result of extensive and judicious experiments in every line of agri- cultural enterprise. His orchard embraces twenty- eight acres of the choicest fruit trees, and its output

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Progressive men of the state of Montana, pt 2, Part 70

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