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 | [...]eriod Beaverhead County History Book Association, and its express between "start and finish." One factor was our constant mission to compile this county's personal, dramatic, and emphasis on accuracy; every item was ca[...]into computer, and proofread by professionals. This process[...]With Beaverhead Museum president Helen Andrus and and well over 1,000 photographs which also required l[...]t Charles Stauffer directing recruitment sizing and captions. of volunteer workers, the venture immediately captured both enthusiam and total cooperation from regional residents. A[...]insure proper placement of titles, texts, photos and captions. artists, writers, computer specialists, financial leaders and Layouts and indexing presented time-consuming toil. educators[...]commended most highly for their dedication and generosity. The response generated a deluge of[...]sands of hours-as well as feature stories, poetry and song-along with a wealth of rare substantia[...]g. quality product which you now read and treasure. Editors checked spelling, grammatical and factual accuracy under a single mandate of "revis[...]all who aided in this venture, we offer our deep and necessary.'' Every attempt was made to retain the[...]t enduring gratitude. Our pioneers, our county and all of its era, the character of those pioneers, the humor and the pathos, citizens have been substantially enhanced through this the courage and the stamina in face of sometimes publication and through all who strived toward its success. overw[...]in their graphic manner of depicting those people and their times.[...]minantly with the post-1920 period, were withheld and ~ill be published in Volume II of Beaverhe[...] |
| [...]AH Represented by Ronald and Barbara Kenison[...] |
| [...]citizens who brave frontiers, establish cultures, and through individual personalities forge a character both inspirational and enduring. Such has been the role of Mrs. E[...]onifies the strength, loyalty, Born September 11, 1897, a[...]rents to Dillon as a seven-year-old, And that was but a beginning for this determined "Lad[...]In 1953, the resolute matron surmounted financial and bureaucratic obstacles to purchase the rapidly-de[...]famed gold gulch from a defunct mining firm, and, the following year, donated it to the State of M[...]d in Bannack being designated a national landmark and later a state park. Her primary role[...]states, including regional and national dignitaries. And work still remained to be completed.[...]secured in 1967 at a token price of $1,300 and transported down the hazardous mountain trail to[...]e Virginia City-Dillon Pony Express reproduction, and numerous pageants, plays and musicals themed In a region noted for vast human and mineral treasures, she is a gem of rare cut and[...]staff and visitors alike with charm, wit, and her remarkable memory of individuals |
| [...]Donnee Stibal Area 1, Wise River Liz and Louise Jones Area 10, Lima Bonnie Merrell and Area 2, Glen Dorothy Pete[...]Area 11, Medicine Lodge Area 3, Dillon North and Argenta Darlene Hildreth Agnes Mugaas, Alta[...]Estelle Blomquist and Area 5, City of Dillon Jane Johnson[...]West Area 15, Wisdom/Fishtrap Joe and Agnes Mautz Jack and Ann Hirschy Clayton and Barbara Huntley Area 7, Clark Canyon/Dell Dan S[...]ktail Prof. Frank Busch Fred and Helen Brown Prof. Dale Tash[...] |
| [...]Gleed ranch and the station was moved a mile north where it (INTR[...]was known as the Allerdice station and post office. Post Beaverhead County lived in plac[...]- The name was changed to Spring Hill in 1881 and later to ments, communities, towns, stage stations, railroad stops Lima. and landmarks in the county from 1860 to 1920. Please[...]hat Montana has many duplicate place Ames and located on Horse Prairie about three miles west o[...]per Centennial Valley), Marysville (near Bannack and story hotel and saloon. It had a post office from 1884-97, northwest of Helena). The creeks and mountains are worse. with Nancy Burnett as[...]n argument as to where Sage, fire in 1897, and mail was routed to nearby Alice until Grant Birch[...]opened two years later. shows many of the towns and stage stations. Resources used APEX-Loca[...]tion: and Big Hole river basins, Apex was a station on the[...]s on the Face of Montana." 1886-1929 and first postmaster was James Haining. Colorado R[...]ARGENTA-Located 13 miles northwest of Dillon and Dillon Tribune, 1880-1887.[...]ttlesnake Canyon, it flourished with gold placers and Eliel, Frank; "Beaverhead Revisited."[...]market. It is still home to a few dozen families and some of Johnson, Everett; Stage station map and description. the claims are being worked[...]igham; "North to Montana!" 1935, and now served by Dillon. Metlen, George; "Place N[...]Line, 1923 map of Montana and owes its existence to the Gilmore and Pittsburg Rail- Petite, Wm. Stibal; "Memories[...]miner, the town itself was located on the Utah and Northern Railway, 1881 time table Ogden-Mon- northwest corner of the Scott and Decker Ranch. Armstead tana.[...]came the starting point for the ill-fated Gilmore and Other newspaper and magazine articles, resource books, Pittsbu[...]- oral interviews of long-time Beaverhead people, and on-site on and Gilmore, Idaho. In the planning stage from 1902,[...]ch or story is meet with financial failure and closure in 1941 (some say taken. (If you know of[...]939). The railroad was also known as the "Get out and author so we can include them in an update in vol[...]Push" line. ALAMO- Located between Jackson and Fox in the big AURORA-Located in t[...]ded south curred near here on July 28, 1862 and the mining camp of along Medicine Lodge and the other continued west Bannack s[...]post office, es- through Horse Prairie to Bannock and Lemhi Passes, about tablished in 1863, wa[...]house. Horace Indians who inhabited the area and was changed to Ban- McIntyre ran the station, saloon and post office, which op- nack in 1898. It was d[...]Pass to Bannack. Two cemeteries are locat- months and when someone inquired about her, Horace said ed nearby, one on the hilltop and one to the north of the she had died from eating poison watercress and he had present day Bannack ranch[...] |
| [...]unties created on Feburary 2, 1865. Its name came and lost it to Virginia City the next year. It remain[...]rom the rock which Sacajawea pointed out to Lewis and county seat until 1882 when Dillon took it away i[...]town of Monida- and the Centennial Valley were taken from[...]Madison County and a few minor adjustments were made in[...]beaverslide hay stackers and beef stock. The Big Hole Bat-[...]Chief Joseph and his Nez Perce Indians fought General[...]John Gibbons and won.[...]but it was located at the county line and many of its resi-[...]post office from 1893-1935 and Benjamin Pidgeon was its[...]operated the toll bridge and a stage station.[...]ck (built in 1875) tween Dillon and Apex.[...]oject awarded by the legislature to William and Trail Creeks, historians believe that fur trappers led by Sturgis and James Ryan. Later Sturgis sold out and Ryan Finan McDonald came to this area in 1822 and lost several took his cousin, Michael Henneberry[...]out Ryan. In July 1875, Thomas M. station and later a water station stop for the Gilmore and bought Henneberry out and he ran a stage station that Pittsburg.[...]the first postmaster. post office from 1869-1871 and operated as part of the stage BROWNE'S BRI[...]place many historians authorizing him to build and operate a toll bridge over the believe to be whe[...]ted the bridge until his death in ing with Lewis and Clark in 1805. The Honorable Lew L. 1909. It was continued by his son and daughter, Joe and Callaway wrote in 1910, " .... we should preserv[...]1911 when it was turned over to the county as a and not suffer it to be dubbed with the all too common and non-pay bridge. In 1914, the present bridg[...]be- Rock will do; but may the gods of tradition and of history tween Lavon and Melrose, opposite Browne's Toll Bridge, f[...] |
| [...]71 by George Pettingill, Ben Peabody, Jack Rafter and Billy Vipond. They located the Pettingill at Deweys and added the names of Frank Graves and Pat Dempsey-storekeepers from Bannack, Bill Peck- saloon exchange keeper of Bannack, and Jerry Grotevent as members of the company. The following summer they went over the hill from Vipond and on August 27, 1873 they locat- ed the Lone Trapper lode. C. S. Weeks, Andy Tredeau, and Phil and Jerry Grotevent were included in the company. This was the beginning of Trapper City, Lion City and Hecla. These towns were located 15 miles west of Melrose. This section developed into the largest silver and lead producing area in southern Montana and flourished from 187 4-1896. Twenty-five to thirty[...]ntain Sheep, Elmorlore, Avon, At- lantic, Vitalis and other claims. BURFIEND STATION-Located north of Dillon, this stage station was operated by Chris, Henry and Hanna Bur- fiend until the late 1870s when they s[...]they mean the BURNT PINE-Located between Hecla and Glendale, it Centennial. It was named[...]semi-popular locale for homesteading in the 1890s and at the ed loosely from Butte to Franklin streets and Main (now turn of the century for hunting[...]of mid 1930s, a major portion of the Valley and the Red Rock Butte and Main stood a two story red brick building known lakes were purchased by the U.S. Gov~rnment and is now as "The Big Brick" or "The Red Brick Whore[...]rvices to the better paying gentlemen. Across and private residences in the Valley. Originally in M[...]. This request became a reality in 1911. the down and out population of Dillon, usually single men, cou[...]y poor farm further north (where the country club and golf course now stand). Across the alley on the W[...]ble for rent. Several were owned by Myrtle Taylor and her good friend Annie Lauren. Present day North R[...]Cabbage Patch. The cabins were razed in the 1970s and were replaced by Beaverhead Villa Apartments. The[...]dens nearby. CAVENDISH-Located between Bannack and Bonac- cord, it had a post office from 1891-93 wi[...]Wetmore Hunting Lodge Cemetery and where the Jones school was located. Some say[...]a on the north edge of Dillon in it never existed and only shows on one map.[...] |
| workers on the railroad and remained, settled and made ing countryside-a dell or seclud[...]s produce to the housewives, grocers, restaurants and S. Dewey, an early rancher who is cred[...]south of the Dillon residents in the early years and were referred to as Big Hole River and above the present location. Dewey, Celestial heat[...]along with John Pettingill, Jerry Grotevent and Jack Rafter bragging in the display advertisement[...]s name to Dewey, the post office reopened in 1890 and ran worked the claims of Jeff Davis Gulch in Hors[...]oint for curious visitors looking for Quartz Hill and Chinatown. Segregation was heartily approved and prac- Vipond Park mining areas. ticed[...]Railroad, it was officially created in March way and Lemhi Pass.[...]Terminus COOLIDGE-Between Elkhorn Hot Springs and Wise which had been founded on[...]rsonal assets to underwrite a bond issue for Utah and Northern turned it into a railroad stop. Later th[...]dd. The station was located where dogs and muddy streets were major concerns along with gun[...]stands. fights and lynchings that occurred with regularity. Wood[...]in Daly's Anaconda smelter. Many of the ranchers and woman who lived there gave the town its[...]Sidney Edgerton, it was established in 1878 and located on Donovan ranch in upper Horse Prairie.[...]1880. James Kirkpatrick was the postmaster and he and his per (later killed by Indians), Andrew Myers,[...]tore as did the Eliel brothers. When D. E. Metlen and W. A. Clark worked this camp and each the railroad reached the Dillon area, the Kirkpatricks and received $6,000 (some say $60,000) as his share of the earn- the Eliels moved to Dillon and that was the end of Edgerton. ings. From 300-400[...]ne time FARLIN- Northwest of Apex and located on Birch which lasted until the mid 1880s[...]e the mouth of the canyon. William by Chinese men and became known as China Town. Robert and 0. D. Farlin located rich lodes of silver, copper and iron Baine and Morris Jones were the last white men to work this[...]r flux. Indian Queen DELL-Located between Lima and Kidd, it was called mine was discovered by William Farlin and flourished for Red Rock (second) when the Utah and Northern terminus two or three year[...]for details. When the lise, Joe Annear and others reopened the Indian Queen and terminus moved, it took the name with it, and the tiny built a copper smelter. The[...]year. A general store, school, saloon and everything needed 10-Beaverhead History |
| [...]ated from 1905-06 with Gertrude Black as and Pittsburg. Postal service ceased in 1967. Some sa[...]upper Black- John Grant fattened horses and cattle in Horse Prairie in tail Creek about where the Keith Andersen ranch is now, it the 1850s and 60s, are positive it was named after the local was once part of Madison County and had a post office from man. 1892 through[...]nd of Big Hole Basin, it had a White and other prospectors from Colorado discovered a pos[...]Willard Creek, and established the town of Bannack soon FOX-Name[...]Fox as postmaster. The post office closed in 1918 and traded from the travelers along the California and Oregon mail was sent to Wisdom.[...]merly worked for the Hudson's Bay Company, and his two old freight road crossed the river and built on the south side sons John and James had several hundred head of cattle and of the road between Pipe Organ Rock and Daly's Spur. Run horses. Johnny Grant so[...]by a man named DeFreight, it consisted of a store and and established his home ranch near Deer Lodge. In 18[...]tion stop for the Oregon Short Line came through and put the ordinary freighter off the road. between Armstead and Daly's Spur. Fishermen would ride GIBBONS-Locate[...]ng where the cooperative er, northwest of Wisdom and named for General John Gib- conductor would drop them off and a later northbound bons, it operated a post offi[...]r the GLEN-Originally a Union Pacific station and called Hecla Mining Company. The name[...]Willis Station, the name was shortened to Willis and later 1880s from Lion City. A post office[...]ree places were the same or simply close by. and closed as the mining of silver surged and receded until GLENDALE-Post office opened in[...]gers would have to get out of the wagons, buggies and pany. It once supported a population of about 4,000 resi- later automobiles and walk . . . unless they were strong dents, much l[...]They lost this election by a narrow Barrett and Steinbrecker. A town and post office was estab- margin. Later they develo[...]national silver 1871, it reopened in 187 5 and closed again in 1888 when the crash brought the town to a halt and by 1890 much of the mail was sent to Ame[...]sion which boasted six fireplaces shoe and 45 by automobile." Its post office opened in 1896 and Brussels carpeting. The mansion burned decades ago. and Anton Jackson was the first postmaster. Jackson H[...]hort Line at Springs is located here and Lewis and Clark lingered at the -the turn of the century between Lima and Dell and a ranch- hot springs for several days in 1[...]ville, a school, post office it about four and a half miles downstream from Bannack. It and stage stop were built a few miles east on[...] |
| [...]pper Creek about town half way between Pageville and Point of Rock, for half a mile from the[...]Some think much of the gold in the of two stage and freighting lines which served Virginia City Bannack area has never been located and the "Mother and Bannack, it had a post office from 1871 to 1873 w[...]MCNIGHT-A station stop on the Oregon Short Line and Red Rock on the Union Pacific line, was renamed in between Dell and Kidd. honor of a passenger train conductor who was murdered MEDICINE LODGE (Area)-A creek and valley that about 1910 by a highwayman who had ro[...]Idaho border, the area gets its name from Monida and boarded the train in an attempt to escape. Medicine Peak where the Shoshoni and Bannock Indians LAKEVIEW-Near Red Rock Lakes i[...]mes called Sugar Loaf. ley, this town had a hotel and store, rusticating hunting Several large stock ranches operate in the area. The road lodges, and other businesses for a few decades. (See also joins Sheep Creek road and ends at Dell or it continues over Magdalen and Shambow.) The post office was established the pass and connects up with Idaho's Medicine Lodge in 1897 w[...]rea was bought for the bird refuge. and at one time was proposed to be improved into a ma[...]le River about half road. Monida Pass and the Beaverhead Wagon Road's easi- way between Bowen and Wise River. er rou[...]ing reality. LAVON-A station stop between Navy and Brown's MEDICINE LODGE-Located[...]ad traveled by the Sho- cine Lodge road and when the Gilmore and Pittsburg Rail.: shoni on treks down Trail Creek[...]t operated from headwaters of the Jefferson River and buffalo country. Here 1909-14 until mail was routed to Armstead. Laura Guyaz was Lewis and Clark rested, met a large party of friendly Sho- the first postmaster and Jules Guyaz ran the saloon. Hattie shoni with horses, and were able to get mounts for their trip Wellbor[...]mines used by the lighter freight wag- head and Silver Bow counties half way between Dillon and ons and coaches. The heavier wagons used Bannock Pass at[...]lerdice (Alderdice), then Spring Hill by the Utah and take the train. Northern Railroad, and finally received the name of Lima MIDW[...]on who came from Lima, Wisconsin. The and Brenner, this was the midway stop between Salmon,[...]1889 with William Bernstein as post- Idaho, and Amesville/Grant where the stage coaches master. The railroad operated a major machine shop and changed teams. Located east of Gottlieb Schooners home- roundhouse for decades in Lima and the town was a bustling stead, it had a hotel and boarding house run by Minnie community, but when the roundhouse was consolidated Snow, livery and stables that took care of 60 horses, and was with Pocatellos facilities, the town experien[...]ovided timber for the Bannack mining LION CITY and LION MOUNTAIN-A prospector a[...]ned by what he thought Grasshopper Creek and where the Taylor Road intersects to be a mountain[...]ntain was the site of many mining Bannack and Virgina City toward the Big Hole and points sites for the Hecla Mining Company.[...]fueling point MAGDALEN-Located between Shambow and Lake- for the tractors that ha[...]Valley, this community operated a Gilmore and Pittsburg rail head near Grant in the teens. post office from 1892-97 with postmasters being Emma and MONIDA-Named because of its closeness to the boundary Gene Williams and Herman Fisher. line between Montana and Idaho, the town was an impor- MARYSVILLE-Located two and a half miles from Ban- tant stop for stage coach traffic and freighting once the nack, it was named for Mary W[...]Great Beaverhead Wagon Road opened, and later _was the 12-Beaverhead History |
| first station in Montana Territory on the Utah and North- was built there, its design copy[...]e main ranch build- office reopened again in 1896 and continued to operate until ings on Blackta[...]ail line talking about the stage station and hotel operated there. was built from Idaho Falls[...]m Dillon on the road to Twin Creek, it was a gold and silver mining boom town, with a Bridges. Following the river grade and an old Indian trail, post office operating from 1[...]was this was a popular route from Bannack and later Dillon for H. D. Weed. The name was changed[...]. stage coaches, freighting wagons and later automobiles. Mr. MONUMENT- On Bloody Dic[...]low building that housed the hotel, post office and saloon was su~pected of shooting any who came to the area and plus some outbuildings for the stock[...]e mine shaft, thus the mine passengers and the gold the stages carried, the location pro- be[...]r the stage station with a large livery, a store, and a post office stage. Started in the early 1[...]years by Annie one time the town had a physician and a school. Many of the Martin, then Sim Estes, and later Ben Pidgeon. Until re- buildings still stan[...]cently the house and barn could still be seen from Highway MORRISON[...]west of Amesville on Horse Prairie road to Idaho and Salmon River mines OLIVER-Named for William Olive[...]crossed Birch Creek. A post office opened in 1872 and continued until 1874 when it was discontinued and moved to the Willis ranch at the crossing of Will[...]tion on the Horse Prairie route between Amesville and Grant. Point of Rock Hotel and Stage Station, 1895. PHILOSOPHY RIVER-Name giv[...]ed north of Bannack on Grasshopper River by Lewis and Clark in 1805.[...]v- included the Polaris Mine and later the Silver Fissure Min- er by Lewis and Clark in 1805.[...]es of road from PINE BUTTE STATION-Located one and a half miles the mine to Armstea[...]ows were used for markers on the charge, and has continued to operate to this day, alth[...] |
| [...]iscovered the dis- sengers could get off and catch the stage for Alice, Medicine trict. From 1[...]a one hun- Lodge, Horse Prairie, Trail Creek and the Lemhi Agency in dred stamp mill. Idaho and the Salmon River mining district. Later the Gil-[...]The original name, given in more and Pittsburg Railroad made Armstead its terminus Lewis and Clark's journals, to the cliff at Barrett's Station and traffic to Red Rock declined, leaving it a st ock[...]he· area. tion of the boundaries between Madison and Beaverhead REICHLE-Named for the f[...]ged to Glen. In 1878 the being declared the "real and true rock," Dillon and much of settlement was called Willis Statio[...]Idaho Territory to the mining camps at Helena and Butte.[...]e place was first called Sturgis, then Henneberry and[...]yan Toll Gate (until Ryan bought out Henneberry), and[...]and mail service was moved to Watson Station.[...]Creek about a half mile south of present day Dell and about eight miles north of Spring Hill/Lima. An o[...]became the first terminus in Montana for the Utah and Northern Railroad Company line. The railroad was[...]bove the 1879 with John Shineberger as postmaster and closed in 1923[...]all. when mail was sent to Armstead. The Shoshoni and Ban- nock Indians who lived in the area gave the river and the SHAMBOW-Located at the Shambow ran[...]SHEEP CREEK STATION-Also known as Red Rock and is considered by some to be the "true" headwaters[...]SHINEBERGER STATION-A relay and junction sta- RED ROCK (Third)-When the termin[...]tion with one route going toward Bannack and the other to took the name Red Rock with it, stop[...]se west of present day Red tion stop for the Utah and Northern Railroad after the Roc[...] |
| [...]ered a lode SPRING HILL-The name given by Utah and Northern there in April 1868. A po[...]y. er northeast of Dillon. It was a relay station and used to WATSON-Founded by Simeon Estes[...]he Great Beaverhead 1868 with Stone as postmaster and closed a year later. Vo- Wagon Road where[...]recincts were set up at a centrally located ranch and City. A post office opened that same year. Estes, who came often a school and a post office were located at the same to[...]n changed, dinner served to passengers, and a bed for the south of Dillon. It was named for W[...]r Major Watson, a prominent blacks- 1868. Sturgis and his partner James Ryan were granted a m[...]postmaster was Philip Lovell. The post office and stage through Beaverhead Canyon. Their venture re[...]was the Ryan toll gate. Sturgis, Ryan, Barrett's and post office's name was changed to Ryan in 1869 as[...]Watson were all near the Rattlesnake Cliffs and the Warm station, and later became Barrett's Station.[...]n for the picnic when the portable terminus tents and wooden structures area, the fishing along the Beaverhead River, and the East were set up as a rail point for construc[...]ing track Bench diversion dam. between Red Rock and Terminus. A post office was estab- W[...]he county dec- to sell a right-of-way to the Utah and Northern Railroad, 12 ades before Prohibitio[...]rsen ranch. businessmen in the area went together and formed a land WHITE'S BAR-Four miles below Bannack, this is the company and the transaction was signed on September 17,[...]Harris, E. D. Leavitt, George Hurd, Glen Peale, and J. C. TEN MILE-Located about ten miles southwe[...]WILLARD CREEK-The name given by Lewis and south and later for ks to Bon Accord and Bannack (via Road Clark in 1805 to the cre[...]through Bannack. Later Agent's Rock) to Bannack, and another turns northwest to it was change[...]e irregular crossroads, hoppers that summer and fall. an enterprising individual built a way stat[...]ater to fifteen miles a day. The teams could rest and the drivers became the Ardie Burgley's ranch between Monida and or jehus could get a night's rest and a meal or two. Some Lima, where.the stage[...]- Virginia City, second going west to Red Rock and on to cial records do not support this. A lone log cabin still stands Bannack, and a third to Glendale and Helena. Owned and to mark this once busy site[...]ed by Ben Williams, the station was built of logs and THORPE STATION-Located north of Dillon, this contained a hotel, saloon and the usual stage station. The stage station was bo[...]Later it became a station stop on the Utah-and Northern TRAPPER CITY-Located near Trap[...] |
| [...]Lodge and Silver Bow Counties, flanked to the east and west BEAVERHEAD COUNTY by the Big Hole, Melrose and Beaverhead Basins. The Ten-[...]doy Range (Lima Peaks) rises between Lima Valley and The southernmost county in Montana, Beaverhead[...]ng, 50 miles situated between the Beaverhead and Sweetwater Basins wide at the north, and 75 at the south. It is also one of the while th[...]he state, having been created February 2, Basin and Centennial Valley. 1865.[...]Missouri River, is by the Beaverhead River and the Big Hole south, west and north. The Centennial Range on the south River, principal tributaries to the Jefferson River, main and Beaverhead Range on the west form part of the Con[...]southeast the county from Deer Lodge, Silver Bow and Madison corner of the county at Uppe[...]ted at Counties. The eastern boundary is man-made and follows the head of Centennial Valley wh[...]bdivisions of land instead of natural geo- and as much as 15 miles across. graphical features.[...]short mountain ranges separated by linear valleys and eastward in a narrow canyon through the[...]long the val- tains, then southward to Melrose and Reichle. There it ley-basin floors to 11,000 feet[...]grees mark. Oliver post office was relocated here and operated from Early winter snow·, in[...]May or early June of the following year. Reichle and finally Glen.[...]county is snow Billy Orr ranch house between Kidd and Red Rock (third), free for the greater par[...]station was run by Mrs. Al Young who sold butter and With the major portion of its land in r[...]ted in the upper middle of the Big Hole and ranches having an average size of 6,800 acres and aver- Basin, this settlement was originally called Crossings, and age value of $300,000. when the post office w[...]through Blacktail Canyon to the National Park. A and Mrs. Noyes was in charge. It moved to the Ballard ranch subscription was started and our citizens responded liberal- and the George Stewart ranch before finally settling down ly, and a sum deemed sufficient to put the road in excell[...]en by Lewis gone out on the road, and the work of repairing has already and Clark in 1805 to the Big Hole River.[...]northern part of the Blacktail Canyon and build bridges across the streams the Big Hole Bas[...]office was opened in 1913 in Centennial Valley and repair the road thoroughly as soon with Ellen Pyl[...]addition to its being the shortest, it WYNO-Art and Wesley Salmon homesteaded near[...], 7/15/1882 coming over Bannock Pass form Leadore and Salmon. 16-Beaverhead History |
| [...]Willard Creek Ignited by brushgold and Poorman's diggings Re[...]y end Only to move on And leave ruins The afterglow[...] |
| [...]of Dillon, possesses fellow citizens' trust, and won a miner's court election as much historical[...]olence which lasted as first territorial capital and first quartz lode discovery- long as he was[...]as a State Park. on the road between Bannack and Virginia City. The road The first white men t[...]were said to have killed at least 102 individuals and Lewis and Clark expedition on their way up the Beaverhead[...]der Willard, a Vigilantes, other arrests and executions followed in rapid member of the exped[...]f Bannack. and two of his deputies were hanged in Bannack from t[...]mer had erected for the execution of a tain Men" and missionaries with the Indians in the years[...]eks all the known members of following the Lewis and Clark expedition. It is possible that the gang[...]shows some 11 graves. The original gallows and grave mark- Flatheads on the ways to the Bitterr[...]ty in March of 1863, almost 55 years after Lewis and Clark, when John White Bannack became part ofldaho Territory. The capital of this and party discovered gold, July 28, 1862. White stake[...]ristened it "Grasshopper nack saloon in 1863 and drew up a petition to Congress Creek" because of[...]not tures from the gold camps were obtained and $2,000 in gold benefit from his find and was killed by road agents several was raised[...]the "Grasshopper Diggins" Both Edgerton and his nephew, Vigilante leader Wilbur and was the topic of worldwide speculation.[...]nton ton to take the message to Congress. and then down the Mullan Road, up the Salt Lake Trail[...]ines, miners rushed to the was successful, and Montana Territory came into being on new "diggins[...]. Edger- upstream from White's original discovery and by early fall ton was appointed Governor and he declared Bannack the boasted a population of 4[...]government), many important nock is a Scotch word and means a cake cooked over an open laws were[...]s, the easily-gained placer gold disap- 21, 1863, and when the name was submitted to Washington, peared and lode mining increased. The first two lode claims[...]n for an "a". proved unimportant, and the first lode to be worked consis- As in the case of most early gold strike communities, the tently and successfully, was the Dakota (Dacotah), patent- m[...]tz but along with them came the outlaws, outcasts and ne'er- lode, Allen and Arnold constructed the first stamp mill in do-wel[...]contained old wagon parts, water powered and was located about more desperadoes anci la[...] |
| [...]as in July 1918, prohibition and declining population[...]And tempt old Madam Fortune-Root, hog or die. ists.[...]es were completed to bring water to Bannack, And some will be of low degree and some of high renown. |
| [...]ing constantly more difficult. Lewis and Clark in Beaver- Battling shoals and rapids, Clark's men were almost con- head[...]tinuously in the water, pushing and pulling the boats. The water was so cold and work so laborious that the men com-[...]y FRANK HARMON GARVER plained and asked to proceed by land. Only four miles were[...]covered that day (August 12) and camp was made about a (Frank Garver earned a Ph.D. degree from the Uni- mile and a half below what is now known as Lover's Leap- v[...]en climbed "a updated in 1964 by noted historians and WMC Pro- high point of limestone rocks" (Lover's Leap, just west of fessors Stanley Davison and Dale Tash.) the highway[...]utskirts of Dillon). According to Professors Tash and Davi- The first white men to set foot in what[...]son, there are "few places along the entire Lewis and Clark Beaverhead County were four members of the Lewis and Route where today's hiker can be so[...]stands Clark Expedition (Lewis, Drewyer, Shields and McNeal), exactly where the explorers s[...]and the next day entered Beaverhead Canyon, passing t[...]entails the stretch between Pipe Organ Rocks and Clark's party left the river and took to land travel; it was here that Canyon. the people of Sacajawea were met and horses secured for the August 17 was a d[...]untains; it was here that the ascent of the and Clark Expedition. In the morning, the two leaders[...]t Two Forks, Clark coming upstream from the north and journey. It was here, too, that the expedition re[...]rse Prairie Creek from the southwest after climax and felt comparatively certain for the first time tha[...]the expedition proceeded up the Bea- rived and camp was made. verhead River and sighted the Beaverhead Rock, also called[...]Cameahwait, chief of the Shoshoni, as her brother and the State Highway 41 crosses the Beaverhead River[...]rejoicing. The locality of Two way between Dillon and Twin Bridges). They camped that Forks[...]ition. Here, the main ary line between Beaverhead and Madison Counties. party camped fo[...]gust 17 to 24. Canoes were On August 10, Lewis and his three companions crossed unloaded and sunk and much of the equipment cached. the river and proceeded up the east side of the river, cross-[...]and with horses, instead ing Blacktail Deer Creek and followed a "plain Indian road of canoes, t[...]ver the present site of Dillon, the the Indians and at 10 o'clock Clark-accompanied by 11 party proceeded 10 miles and ate noon rations at the present men and most of the Indians-set out up the valley of Hors[...]turn trip down the Missouri the following Prairie and Red Rock Creeks. On August 11, Lewis ad-[...]ced 10 miles up the valley of Horse Prairie Creek and, filled and covered without discovery by the Indians. At 11 t[...]h must have been near the mouth of Trail and about 50 Indian men, women and children arrived from Creek-later Brenner's Station on the Gilmore and Pitts- over the divide and camped near Lewis' party. burg Railroad.[...]as crossing the divide, Clark was slowly and a mule and borrowed two other horses. He then broke pushing[...]ith navigation becom- camp at Two Forks and started up Horse Prairie valley. Six[...] |
| [...]of Trail Creek. The trek Sarviss Vally and rattle snake mountain and into the buti- resumed at sunrise on the 26th and before night Lewis and full and extensive Vally open and fertile which we call the his companions were out of Beaverhead County and Mon- Beaverhead Vally which is the Indian name." tana and across the divide into Idaho. At noon on July 11, 1806, Clark and his party passed Continuing their westward journey, Lewis and Clark Beaverhead Rock-leaving the county. reached the west coast on November 8, 1805 and spent the Thus concludes the account of Lewis and Clark's Expedi- winter at "Fort Clatsop" before s[...]Beaverhead Rock to Lemhi Pass, returning to Pass and camped for four days in what is now the southern Armstead and back again by the same pass; Clark traversed port[...]he county once from Beaverhead Rock to Lemhi Pass and separated, Lewis with nine men destined for the M[...]om Gibbon's Pass via Armstead to Beaverhead Rock. and its junction with the Yellowstone, Clark with 20[...]westward journey in 1805, the main party spent 17 and Sacajawea and her child departing for the Yellowstone days in this county (August 10-26), 10 days in travel and River at Livingston and on to the Missouri. seven in[...]Clark reentered Beaverhead County via Gib- and his party crossed the county in six days (July 6-[...]ead). the southeast (through what is now Jackson) and continued Many of the present names deri[...]at expedition, down Grasshopper Creek to Bannack, and eventually to including Jefferson and Beaverh~ad rivers, Beaverhead Two Forks where the cache of supplies and canoes had been County, Beaverhead Rock, Po[...]nt condition. Creek and Wisdom. From Two Forks (Armstead) to Beaverhea[...]er, were renamed. For trip was made by both water and land (canoes and horses). example, they called Willow Creek,[...]Creek, Track Creek, and Grasshopper Creek was Willard's "After breakfast we all set out at the same time and pro- Creek.[...] |
| [...]The Poindexter School was organized in 1867 and operat- 1896 6. Dewey Flat - 1896 7. Grant (Horse[...]later years was moved to the Carrigan Ranch and used as a Rock - 1897 15. Gosman (Kidd) - Oct. 19[...]97 22. Dell - 1897-1963 school was in 1895 and District 3 was divided in 1897. The 23. Upper Pol[...]School were Emily Martin, no salary listed, and Mary E. 1905 31. Barretts - 1906 32. Gibbons (Nor[...]l- The first term of school began October 1863 and lasted lon District 10 and Argenta School was declared aban- about three mon[...]iest teacher on record with a salary of Millpoint and Bannack Schools were both operating in[...]ast term of the Bannack School. The Millpoint and was annexed to Dillon on August 3, 1959. School b[...]ating from 1975-1978. It was de- clared abandoned and annexed to District 10, July 1, 1978.[...]t was declared aban- the efforts of W. R. Gilbert and James P~ Murray. Janie doned and annexed to Wise River District 11, May 22,[...] |
| [...]ict 11 This district was called Horse Prairie and included sever- The Wise River School Distr[...]r 16, |
| [...]school was for a period of four months in planned and encompassed a good part of the Big Hole Ba-[...]ncluded $25 sin. In 1892 the district was divided and District 18 was per month with board and room. The school was used as a organized as West[...]khorn School trict was declared abandoned and annexed to Armstead District 35, formed in 1911.[...]ol District 21 school districts of Briston, Bowen and Gibbons were an- nexed to Wisdom in later years.[...]The Polaris School District was established and approved operating. The old schoolhouse has been[...]n portion. The boundaries were finally determined and[...]ght several years in the Polaris as early as 1891 and 1892. The Bowen District was divided School and later served as school clerk until her death many[...]hool District 32. Later Bowen years later. and Gibbons Districts were consolidated with Wisdom D[...]- The Dell District had two schools, Dell and Gosman, op- ated until 1959. It was declared abandoned and consolidat- erating until 1937 when the Gosman School closed and all of ed with Wisdom in 1961.[...]rm in 1897. Craig district was declared abandoned and annexed to Jackson Snyder was the first[...]Glendale and Wise River Districts were divided to form[...]abandoned in 1928 and the district consolidated with Wise The first[...]n abandoned. The district was filed and approved in 1893. The new district Medicine Lodge[...]edicine trict 25 was declared abandoned and annexed to the Jack- Lodge for seven years before[...]rict 18 tendent of Schools. The schools, Armstead and Medicine was attached to the Jackson Di[...]st teacher listed Lodge, ceased operating in 1963 and were declared aban- in the Teacher's Register was Emily Martin, employed for doned and the district was divided and attached to sur- three months, salary $50 a month. The Jackson School is rounding districts 7, 10, and 12. still o[...] |
| [...]to Drummy in 1932. The A petition was submitted and approved in 1898 to divide Drummy School[...]905 to 1938, when the the Jackson School District and form a new South Kirk children were s[...]lary $50 a month. Two other schools, Meadow Brook and doned and consolidated with District 10. Mountain View, wer[...]The South Jackson District was declared abandoned and annexed to A petition was granted De[...]School District 7 and establish Brenner School District 30,[...]which also included Bloody Dick and Monument. Mabel Reichle School D[...]Wright taught the first term of school in 1905 and was paid[...]Conway may have A petition was filed and granted January 22, 1906, to taught the first fou[...]915. The Rock Creek divide the Riverside and Blacktail Districts and create the School operated until 1924 when it was closed and the stu- Barretts Station School District[...]h the Barretts School opened again in 1911 and continued operat- building was destroyed by fire[...]ing until March 1915. The District was abandoned and at- the same site will soon be completed. The stu[...]e Blacktail (Lovell) A petition was filed and granted January 25, 1905, to School District 27 by dividing a part of District 10 and all divide District 17 in order to create th[...]basis from 1907 to 1912, then declared abandoned and annexed to District 10 in 1958. combin[...]School reopened and operated until 1968 when it was con-[...]Nicholia School District 33 Fox District 18 and create District 28, commonly called East Fox. The[...]r Lima School beginning in 1904, taught by Lizzie Kelly, salary $60 a District to be divided t[...]s for eight months, students were sent to Jackson and West Fox for the balance taught by Miss T[...]the term. The Fox District was declared abandoned and School operated from 1906 until 1949. F[...]school was closed, one pupil going to Lima and the three[...]course. Nicholia reopened and operated until 1966. The[...]Whitworth School opened in 1914 and continued until 1949. A petition was granted S[...]School District 33 was declared abandoned and annexed in trict 2 and District 9 to create the Drummy (Jensen) its entirety to Lima Elementary and Lima High School, School District 29. When[...] |
| [...]trict 36. from the southern part of District 21 and the northern portion of District I to create Mi[...]Bannack School District 1 was declared abandoned and made a part of District 34 to be known as Banna[...]0 to Ward taught the first term of three months and Lillian July 1911, salary $55 a month. S[...]trict was declared aban- declared abandoned and consolidated with the Lima Dis- doned and annexed to District 21 and District 10. trict August 1953.[...]The Elk- quette) Buck taught two years, 1920 and 1921, _at this , horn District was abandoned and annexed to the Glendale school, salary $125 the second term. Upper Lakeview was and Wise River Districts on September 20, 1937. declared abandoned and consolidated with Lakeview Dis-[...]Lakeview was at- tached to District 36 in 1937 and the Doyle District con- solidated in 1965. The[...]rom 1933-37. The Red Rock School opened in 1955 and operated off and on until 1968. The first teacher at Red Rock Scho[...]11 to 1968. The district was declared abandoned and attached to Lima School Dis- trict 12 in its en[...]School District, was built in 1916 by Carl Hansen and Claus taught the first term of three months in[...]onth. The school terms varied from two to and Edith, along with Anderson's youngsters, Carl and Os- nine months but the school remained active[...]1933 the Jones School District 37 was abandoned and an- sen Ranch and was in use for five years. Desks were bor- nexe[...]funds to purchase a globe, pull-down wall maps, and a large Doyle (Excelsior) School District 38 dictionary. The desk bell and flag were donated by Carl[...] |
| [...]and Geese in the snow. 2[...]Elizabeth and Regina Rieber; Roscoe, Thelma and Susan Hand; Oren, Otto and Inez Sassman; Julia, Bud and Ray- mond Gransberry; Rosie, Mary and Katie Tadevich; Char-[...]lie, Robert, George, Cecelia and Cornelia Gransberry; Ella and Matilda Christenson; Isabell and Nellie Smack; Ed-[...]arguerite Connor, Genevieve O'Leary, Jennie Stred and Hildeg~de Larson. Mrs. McGrade and Miss Larson each[...]taught two years. Marguerite Connor Wilhelm and Hilde-[...]rhead Coun- from $90 to $115 per month and they paid $25-30 for room ty on the road to Brown's Lake. Thaddaus "Teddy" Mauz and board. donated the land for the school. In 1916 Christ Rieber, Fay Seventh and eighth graders went to Dillon in the spring to Gransberry, Val Tadevich and Teddy Mauz built a one- take the s[...]had to pass before room log schoolhouse. The wood and coal heater was located entering high sc[...]in the northeast corner. There was a large clock and framed tests. She also visited the school twice a year. I graduated pictures of Washington and Lincoln on the wall. A teacher's from gra[...]from the Rock Creek School finished high school and sever- We first entered a cloakroom where we put our coats, caps al completed college. and overshoes. A bucket of water and a long handled dipper, On Arbor Day a[...]to fill merry-go-round, roller coaster, swings and slides were a the bucket each day with fresh wate[...]great attraction. The many flower designs and green lawns washed our hands in a basin of cold w[...]were free for the were responsible for putting up and taking down the flag school children. each day. Every morning we lined up, faced the flag and We always had a Christmas program[...]d a part. The program included plays, recitations and One teacher taught all grades from one through[...]or two grades. The teacher had to build the fire and sweep the floor. The girls took turns washing the blackboard on Friday. The older boys brought in the wood and coal from the coal shed. All pupils walked to[...]ed about two miles on a trail over hills, gullies and fields. The Hand children had to cross a railroad[...]Big Hole River on their way to school. The Hands and Riebers had one and a half miles to walk. One year a Japanese boy, wh[...]games were Run Sheep Run, Pom-Pom Pull Away, Hide and Seek, Drop the Handkerchief, London Bridge, Farme[...]Rock Creek School, 1916 and Baseball. Sometimes the girls played house i!l th[...]Sassman Edwards, Eliza- trees, Otto Sassman fell and broke his arm. On stormy days, beth Riebe[...]we played indoor games such as Tic Tac Toe, I Spy and a Rieber and Otto Sassman. 28-Beaverhead History |
| [...]anch. She was the first child born to Blair (Bud) and Syr- ena Sprinkle. When May was about three years[...]e Poindexter School), which is still in existence and was used for many years as a granary on the Victor Carrigan place. There was also a store, a brickyard, and a cemetery. May attended the Poindexter and Dillon schools, gradu- ated from Beaverhead county High and Montana State[...]" She was so angry Billy Sunday. May was baptized and returned to devote her she refused transpo[...]of several miles. Since a high school deploma and the ability to pass State However, walking[...]l ton to Darby, from Bannack to Mill Point, and many others. (near Barretts), where she served th[...]then She used walking as a safety valve and a means of commun- moved to Willow View School, a[...]aught many other small Bannack, Grant and Nicholia. May served a term as County schools, among them Kidd, Brenner, Whitworth, and sever- Superintendent. aal others.[...]sistance they received from this dedicated teach- and throw her. This incident, on top of frequent smal[...]During her career she treasured all her young and older be undone in freezing weather and general misbehaviou- friends. Her teachi[...]amily home on South Washington songs. All parents and friends were invited. A school picnic Street.[...]as the big event at the end of school, with games and races children stopped by her house and conversed with her and as part of the day's activities.[...]ty for nine known most of their parents and many of their grandpar- years and then closed in 1925. The building was purchased ents. They were a source of company and joy to her. by Christ Rieber and is still used as a bunk house. All the During her final illness she was patient and uncomplain- buildings, fence and flag pole are gone now, but the trees we ing. May never wanted to be a burden and she suffered planted are still there-as are a wea[...]Cemetery, very near where she was born and served her -REGIN[...] |
| [...]Reichle School West Was Young and Boys[...]a The first class at Kidd School was in 1914 and was held in great cottonwood tree. The school soon filled with boys and an old grainery (with a room added on for a bunk[...]F. Johnson; others were Eve- to the community, and there the Reichle School was built in lyn Cochran and Vange (Van) Louther, who later married 1912. It was a beautiful rural school, and had as its first Leifland Watson.[...]rst few cozy barn for the students' horses, and nearby was a red coal years were Ethel, Ella, Everett, and Dan Peterson; Esther, and wood shed. During the years various teachers had the Emma, Fanny, Lucille, Ida, and Lois Butts; Dan and John children plant a tree on Arbor Day. Eventually a long line of Baldwin; Bessie, Elenore, and Emily Olsen; Walter and Es- trees lined the fence and irrigation ditch in front of the sie Hungate.[...]s was During the years many teachers came and went. Kather- bad, read on, and learn about other tricks of tricks. ine[...]s who Moran of Butte married Carl Kambich and stayed at Glen. would sit all day long, chew on pieces of grain, and then spit In the late 1920s the Rock Creek s[...]- the grain at the girls. Their aim was real good and they could dated with the Reichle school, and bus service was provided just about hit who they[...]he Reichle school. After the Darrell Peterson and Edward Butts were too old to attend Buhrer sc[...]they slipped out of their School. houses and took all of Arthur Butts' (Ed's dad) turkeys and Before television undermined community ge[...]. - 4-H meetings, P.T.A. evening meetings, and square danc- Butts found out about the turkeys and figured things out. ing, school plays and graduations, Easter egg hunts and The boys had to clean the whole school by themselves before Christmas and Halloween parties, Mother's Club and classes resumed. Reichle Booster Club and others. Also elections were held Usually Evere[...]ool needed a new to school. He would tie the hook and cheese on the end of a library. This addition was later connected with a second long string and lower the hook down a knot-hole in the floor school room, and the Reichle School boasted two teachers. of the s[...]for way so he could continually keep the teacher and girls upset the school, including television, computers, a copier, and the and the boys laughing. latest in teaching and pupil aids. For a time the school was Another time Everett and Ed filled an empty buckshot even the sou[...]wspaper printed by the shell up with black powder and put the shell in the school students themse[...]re der blew the stove lid off; it hit the ceiling and came down started in the original Reichle Sch[...]nearly all the community turned screaming galore, and mess galore. There was soot on every- out to help the Melrose and Dillon fire departments save body, everywhere, on everything, and anything. School their treasured schoo[...]learning was dismissed for the day. It took kids and teacher dear old building that had so many ha[...]passed and construction of a new school is underway.[...]LDRETH From the memories of Bessie Olsen Hildreth and[...] |
| [...]lished at Dillon in 1888 but students were scarce and the[...]s of 1892 included only two - Dr. Mark Poindexter and Roscoe Cornell, both of whom would occupy eminent[...]Rev. H. E. Cicu:e.~ marked its eighth annual-and final- commencement on Slumbe1· Song[...]Featherly, Blanche Morse, Sadie Graeter. Graeter and Marvin Poindexter.[...]Mamie R. McIntosh. 1901 and a new building was constructed. The first BCHS Voca l Solo- ''Fiddle and I ," Emma Burfeind graduating class[...]amie R. lllandol,:n Selection, McIntosh and Bessie M. Tyree.[...]The BCHS student body continued its rapid growth and The Lot.u,.,; Eah~rs, by 1913 has reache[...]. F em Scott, N ellie Ward, increase, a gymnasium and additional classrooms were add-[...] |
| [...]was renovated and expanded in 1907, followed by construc-[...]tion of the Women's Residence Halls in 1919 and 1937. The Dining Room and Recreation Hall were completed in 1921;[...]Library and Gymnasium, 1924; Swimming Pool, 1925; Awaits 100t[...]Auditorium, 1952; Student Union and Western Apart- ments, 1958; and the four Men's Residence Halls: Jordan ~~[...]1958, Davis 1959, Centennial 1964, and Bobby Clark 1967. ~[...]pus, were completed during the 1969-1971 biennium and[...]son Library and Administration Building 1969, and the Fac-[...]ulty-Office Classroom Building (housing science and math[...]lege in 1965, and to its present Western Montana College of[...]with bachelor of science degrees in Elementary and Secon-[...]ism and Recreation, Office Systems Technology, and an[...]e, a State University at Missoula, location, and its trademark of individualized and personal- |
| Early-Day Business and Professional People in Lima There were several bus"inessmen and well-known ranch- ers who have not been recognize[...]lroader but lost a part of his leg in an accident and the railroad helped with his dental education. Hi[...]d manage that. His family consist- ed of his wife and three children, Wesley, Marvis and Elroy. They moved to Troy, Mt., in 1922. The Grant family had the Opera House Cafe and Saloon, which was on the east side of the tracks.[...]as used for dances, road shows, home talent shows and community dinners, with a rooming house above the[...]inard; later Lawrence Brainard moved and William H. Boule. there and put in a movie theater. Lawrence had been a town · William H. Boule was a Civil War veteran and was very constable and his wife was postmistress for a number of[...]group of actors in Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky and was a The Peat Hotel Cafe and Saloon, on the west side of the very promi[...]racks, was operated for a time by John Peat, Sr., and later where he would serve as master of ceremonies. He bought by Charles Truax and his daughter Grace. There was a and repaired numerous dwellings and enjoyed his gardens. livery barn on the west end[...]He planted two crab apple trees and numerous lilacs, the Leo Truax owned and operated the Lima Garage. Leo and first in town. Because not all houses ha[...]er, his wife Laura were familiar figures in local and statewide trees and lawns were not considered essential. affairs of K[...]e was built in 1898 with brick John Peat, Jr., and his wife Julia owned the ranch border- made l[...]The brick section of modity for the steam engines and the railroad allowed the the old Bailey S[...]by lightning in well as patent medicines and a supply of drugs. Later, it 1916, they donated s[...]ob required keeping fires in the Sherman Vance and his wife, from Melrose, operated a different rooms and carrying drinking water from the stand- meat mark[...]sed her two girls, May sisted of Clarence, Verena and Marvin, who are all buried in McGown and Estelle Smith, during these years. Later she the[...]from Jackson, Wyo., named Fred Robert Schendel and Fred Waldorf owned and operated a Smith. They returned to Lima[...]r. Waldorf sold to F. M. Mer- the saloons and opened a new drug store in the Peat Build- rell in 1914 and moved to Dillon where he went into a similar ing. business. F. M. Merrell and his sons operated the store until Al Beardsley was a local bartender and his wife Minnie 1977.[...]el from Soda Springs, Idaho. Isaac Jacques and his family were active members of the Jack and his wife Jessie had three boys, Mathew, Jack Jr.,[...]ic community. Their family consisted of his wife, and the younger boy Warren, born after they moved to sons Joseph, Walter and Harry, and daughter Lillian who Dillon.[...] |
| [...]s President. Prior to that time it was unplatted and owned by the government with various people usin[...]buildings include hotel, store, bar and post office About the same time B. H. Paul came to the area, then called Spring Hill, and purchased half interest in the Burn- ida bec[...]the store; he bought out Mr. lowstone Park and also to Henry's Lake. The last remaining Burnside[...]administered by Mrs. Fi- stands in Monida and is owned by William Miller. field. The house also[...]e area. In the meantime, Mr. Paul built a and one hotel building was built in 1912 by J. J. Smi[...]ld various parcels to the railroad for some time; and the wagons from Helena and people as buildings were required. The store and various Virginia City came there to pick up suppl[...]buildings in town were eventually sold to 0. J. and Ossie E. the railroad from as far away as Salt Lake City and Ogden, Smith, who relinquished ownership[...]Centennial Valley and the surrounding area. Until the initi- All th[...]ng Hill, were made of ations of large trucks and livestock vans, Monida did a land logs and consequently as in many older log towns, the town[...]the fire to rebuild the hotel. The termi- sheep and 48,000 head of cattle per year. Consequently, the nus at Pine Butte had moved on by this time and the town town benefitted from this shipping and, at one time, had a was dubbed Monida. The name S[...]steady population of 75 to 100 souls and even sported a next terminus, now Lima. Mr. Burnsides and Mrs. Paul dispensery and a jail. built the two first houses after the fire and even planted The first school was a lo[...]Sunday School and held the sessions in her home.[...]the shipping by railroad gave way to large trucks and[...]and, due to the harsh winters, not an ideal place for[...]livestock operation. Because of this and the lack of railroad[...]1924 and actual Railroad documents, and old abstracts of[...] |
| Red Rock - Early Day Hub for Freight Wagons and Travelers Today the remains of what wa[...]nsisted of 90 head of horses, 14 Concord coaches, and 12 be located.[...]people, hauling 3,000 In 1866 M. B. Henneberry and his cousin James B. Ryan passengers and 1,200,000 pounds of freight and express an- received a charter from the legislatu[...]h modations between Salt Lake City, Utah, and Butte, Mon- the roadless canyon along the Beaverhead and Red Rock tana. The fare for a passenge[...]as Rivers. The road was completed in a short time and was $8 for a one-day trip traveling day[...]line operated until 1910 when the Gilmore and Pittsburgh up travel through the canyon and for many years, until the Railroad started service between Armstead and Salmon. railroad was constructed in 1880, long st[...]e century Red Rock was a thriving pulled by mules and oxen traveled down the Red Rock and community with a post office, the C. D. Hotel and Livery Beaverhead Rivers. Before this road was built, all traffic Stable, and a drug and general merchandise store, all oper- north and south came through Bannack. ated by J. W. and Laura T. Scott. There were a number of Joseph[...]terprises also. Below is a partial list of people and lished a ranch at this location and called it Red Rock. Other businesses in Red Rock at the time (taken from R. L. Polk houses were built and the town of Red Rock was founded to and Co.'s Beaverhead County Directory, 1907-08). _ serve the freight wagons and travelers of that time. Joseph Emerson Hi[...]irst postmaster of the new farm implements and vehicles; town. On August 6, 1867, Martin Barrett[...]ecorded. Miss Bella Rife was the first baby born, and John Porter, saloon; Harry Shineberger was[...]Red Rock in 1880. A few years later the Red Rock and George Jewell, blacksmith shop; Sa[...]d Rock & Salmon River Tele- began hauling freight and passengers. The stage ran from phone Service; Red Rock 68 miles to Salmon, Idaho, and the Thunder E. M. Ames, Manager,[...]Rev. Henry Roberts, Pastor, Methodist Church; and 6-horse Concord coaches, eight stages each day, and School house. additional freight wago[...]and Mrs. Henry Wombacher operated the Wombacher Fly[...]ach ... Red Rock to Salmon Co. and Gunsmithing Shop for many years/ Buildings still[...]and the old blacksmith shop. The foundation of the st[...]and a saloon are still visible. Red Rock's decline st[...]juncture of the Gilmore and Pittsburgh and Oregon Short[...]her information and material on Red Rock.[...] |
| [...]spaper corre- the owners are away and burn fencing, etc. spondent from Centennial Valle[...]Hank Stamps went to Butte to sell fish and came back[...]ents got a little too much oh-be-joyful one City, and occasionally for other regional newspa- day last week and proceeded to clean out the post office. He pers f[...]er did no serious damage however and now says he has re- writing style is forthright, sometimes opinionated, formed forever and ever, Amen. but always newsy and interesting. Upon occasion, Dillon[...]The stage robbers in the Park have been arrested and put and if she disagreed with his remarks, she would[...]in a later edition. The Wm. Fitch and wife both filed on desert land on Cedar excerpts[...]appeared. Lillian homestead Creek and intend to make it their permanent home, as the in the Centennial Valley in 1887 and lived there homestead on Peterson[...]strip that lay vacant between Mr. and Mrs. Fitch's land. It is wicked the way the yo[...]somehwere, but maybe it was only an accident. and we are told by good authority he got from 25 to 3[...]o get them The other day as Albert Metzel and Ralph Peterson were for sale. This ought to be pu[...]896: none here, and it is hoped they will not find their way to our Madam Rumor was right and Matt Collings, our oldest ranges. bachel[...]bounty on coyotes to $1 and raise it on wolves to $5? Why Messrs. Leeds and Stacy of Bozeman are looking up a could it not be raised on wolves to $5 and be left on coyotes location to put up a club hous[...]Wm. Reed of lower Centenenial has let his ranch and Madisonian - February 10, 1899: stock to Ben Wal ton for two years and is going east on an The Howe estate is no[...]a club is form- extended visit. Ben is a rustler and no doubt will manage ing to buy it, as Miss[...]father died. George Carner and wife take care of this beauti- Dillon Tribune - A[...]verhead County have been fruitful and we are now residents Mrs. Sherwood returned hom[...]eaverhead. The Virginia people are very congenial and 36-Beaverhead History |
| kind and obliging to do business with, but the trip there and their right to vote to take the trouble to register. If that is all back is very hard on both body and pocket-book. We extend the men care about[...]r Dillon friends for the interest they have and let the women step in. taken in the matter, and while we regret to say good-bye to Dillon T[...]or our valley yet, and we do not care for a call. Madisonian editor'[...]ibune - May 14, 1900: seekers, prize-fighters and gamblers, to look after the peo- Miss Far[...]s been rusticating in the valley for 10 days past and We hear it rumored that a saloon will be s[...]ley .in the spring, but we hope this is not true, and in The sad intelligence comes to us that J. Whitman and J. saying "we" I mean a large majority of the[...]nced to five years in Cheyenne not for whisky and the evils caused by it, there would not be pr[...]friends. She just had a child drowned, and now this afflic- C. M. Grimes, a cattle man from Portland, Oregon, is in tion. the valley and bought the beef steers of Massingell Broth- Madisonian - July 30, 1900: ers, and William Hollingsworth, also A. A. Hayden's and The base ball contest at Henry's Lake (Idaho) on the 21st Fred Hanson's and a few cows. The stock was driven to w[...]view boys won Monida today. Prices paid for 2 and 3-year old steers were again 37 to 26. A d[...]Mrs. L. E. Culver and son, Fred Hanson, have just re- The minist[...]el head trout from the United States fish day and preached an excellent sermon in the evening to a[...]ned preacher that has Mr. Hanson went to Monida and received them from the cared enough about the[...]Thursday night. About Hay is growing slow and even the mosquito is scarce but four inche[...]Sam Burnside has closed his saloon at Monida and taken have about 100 ponies with them.[...]Madisonian - December 5, 1900: ment to Monida and a convenience to the people of this[...]success, about 35 people enjoyed themselves and who par- past year to a large extent, and now she is trying to marry took of the boun[...]. The music was furnished by Bert Brey (sic) and Mrs. Mray (sic)-she play- ing the organ and Bert the fiddle. A fine supper was served at midnight and dancing kept up till daylight. Dillon[...] |
| They danced all night till broad day light and the young 12,000 passengers to the National Park this season and are people declared they were not tired out. The[...]have had to put provided by the Dingler brothers and J. Bray and gave on extra teams to accommodate the[...]in in speaking two pieces he had learned at home and by so doing the horn country and reaching along the north side of this won the praise of all, and especially Mrs. Smith, the hostess, valley clear to Beaverhead county line on Blacktail and just who declared she was going to get a boy if[...]ew. and comment. Will it benefit the people in general wh[...]ct near Indians are camped on West Fork and have quite a large Monida was suddenly dismissed and another put in her band of ponies wi[...]dollar more on a ton now that cattle are high and those There is or has been a wild cat in the t[...]s covered with ago. Wages are also high and lots of the hired help is incom- tracks.[...]ago are doing one should be willing to live and let live and do as they would fine and are now about eight or nine inches long. They are in wish to be done by. a pond by themselves and the Henry's Lake trout in an- Dillon T[...]It was 58 below zero at Levi Shambow and 46 below in The latter were placed in their pond about two years ago, Monida and 50 below at Lakeview the 16th-our coldest when about eight inches long. They now weigh three and day. The young folks in the lower scho[...]time skating. They form parties first at one home and then[...]Robert Boatman and H. Wetmore shipped cattle to Port-[...]land last Thursday. Boatman had ten cars and Wetmore one[...]hink that Mrs. Arthur Wilson sounds quite as nice and is Madisonian - June 9, 1902: much easier to spell and to remember. Henry Hackett is doing the carpen[...]e, where the latter teaching the many and prefer the one scholar. Another Cen- gentleman wi[...]this year built a new log house of Mrs. Culver and Freeman Marble had a slight misunder- modern structure and conveniences, including five gas standing recentl[...]the Summit hotel at Monida each meeting, and are now planning-and can even tell you for B. H. Paul. Her husband is[...]Dillon Tribune - November 29, 1915: The Monida and Yellowstone stage line has carried over[...] |
| [...], when several dis- Centennial Valley area, and why the mountain received that tinct earthquake s[...]cabins so the dirt came through the sheepmen and cattlemen. I do not think that was the reason. roof, making tables waltz around the room, and frightening Before the Taylor Grazing Act was adopted, a large part women and children so badly that neighbors went to each[...]other's homes to talk over the strange occurrence and to be battle over the range was between shee[...]ed were Danish tiful valley. Everything was white and there was six inches immigrants. My uncle Al[...]o effect, "They sure raised hell with until night and then followed frost for two nights which[...]Grazing fixed the wild fruit that was in blossom and some of the Act." gardens were affected.[...]ecause that is what he called a coyote. in school and more to go when roads get passable.[...]odd who operated a cattle ranch, ful time was had and a delicious luncheon was served. This now o[...]0: between sheep and cattlemen. In this instance it was not Mrs. Culver and son, Fred Hanson, drove to Lakeview true, as John Anderson and Jimmy Dodd were great friends. recently and made several calls and took tea at Mr. and Mrs. This murder was the result of an old feu[...]ls a long needed of Battle Mountain. want and is doing a good business. A grocery store is run[...]grass. It was somewhat of a game to mix sheep and keep Mr. and Mrs. Al Forsyth have gone south for the winter. them corraled so someone would yield and move to another (Note: Within a few years, the va[...]nts' life style. The federal govern- each other and feud over the range. ment would buy up much of the land around the lakes and It was a major step forward when the T[...]Bird Refuge. The hunting came into effect and some management was established on lodges would b[...]cabins would be demolished, used for fence posts and fire wood and possibly decorating walls of new Brown's Lake Resort family rooms and summer homes. The road through the valley is s[...]a resort at Brown's Lake. Clark engaged J.B. end and to Lakeview. It's a beautiful place to visit and camp. Brown, a builder, to develop that resort, and another at The trumpeter swans still nest, raise their cygnets, and Lake Agnes, located above Brown's.[...] |
| [...]baby, Wal- Albert Stamm (with cigar) and Bob Wing. Seated be- ter.[...]e today when you flag down a taxi. Albert Stamm and family were often invited as friends of The[...]- the Browns'. Guests would leave Dillon by train and arrive day and church picnics. The ranch was located 10 miles at[...]ith a surrey. Pretty Classy! of Bannack and developed his ranch into a very beautiful Accom[...]d for that recreation site - a summer house and pond surrounded by time. There were individual ca[...]aveling distance with railings, along with inside and outside dining areas. of horses for a round tr[...]er of Philip Lovell, former available for fishing and exploring the lake. Returning to mayor of Dillon and former County Commissioner who died Dillon, guest[...]and a party from.Bannack followed the agent back into[...]ade in 1872 by Wil- specting in Madison County, and at once sent them over. liam Spurr who discovered[...]en lode while on a The party located the Cleve and Avon during their first day trapping expedition a[...]iscovery of new claims came in fast order. Moffet and party to relocate the claim. While in the basin t[...]r lode. The discovery was credited by Harvey and Day. The Elm-Orlu was discovered by the to Jerry[...]the lode. A man while, sold it to Messrs. Sod and Hays. The Keokuk was was dispatched immediately t[...], but news of then discovered by Wash Stepleton and James Cameron. the discovery soon spread and created general excitement, The strong[...] |
| to attention. Armstrong and Co. discovered the Alta and used to transport the ore over rough and tortuous wagon Atlantis (later changed in spellin[...]horses were used daily in shifts for frequent and strenuous cations). Mulligan and Sloss, representing a Bismarck com- trips. pany, discovered the Fissure group. The Marc Anthony and The building of a 40-ton lead smelter at Glendale, 10 Ariadne were discovered by Dewey, McComb, and Bru- miles down the valley, by Dahler and Armstrong in 1875, baker who sold them to Messrs. Taylor and Pease. The shortened the distance of haul from mine to smelter and Franklin mine, situated directly back of the old[...]ern Montana as a town, was founded by Frank Giley and Ed Stevens. progressive mining re[...]a large ore carrying 140 ounces of silver per ton and a high percent- skating rink, two doctors, a l[...]ts reportedly were hauled loons, a brewery, and a community spirit that pushed it into by ox-team[...]e time. Into its thence by rail to San Francisco, and from there by water to smelter came the ores[...]of the area including those of the Highlands and Vipond as well as from ~melting facilities at tha[...]st mine bought The rapidity of new discoveries and the richness of the by the company was the[...]the same year Trapper lode attracted prospectors and miners from all over of its organization, and it gradually acquired other claims the northwest. Communities sprang up and for a time activ- until it controlled most[...]of the community life be- its management and acquired the smelter in Glendale. The came more r[...]on, tendered the position of public institutions, and of town law and order. general manager to H. Kni[...]apper Creek just below the business back east and established headquarters at Glen- workings on the[...]ing the large enterprise in three departments and appoint- city existed or are vague as to its loca[...]ss partment, George G. Earles, Glendale; and iron mine de- "Trapper City, Montana." A perusal[...]pointed cash- store, livery stable, butcher shop, and cabins. Therefore in ier. all probability the[...]Kilns and Teamsters at Glendale Smelter rough-hewn timbers spanning the creek, in a few stone foundations, and in one picturesque cabin which bears epic[...]d by Spring Creek. The Trapper mine was shut down and in the summer of 1878 the last citizen, Mose Morrison, packed up his traps and came over to Lion City. A continu- ous influx of miners and teamsters made Lion City a boom- ing community of between five and six hundred, with a school house, two general stores, two hotels, and the inevita- ble saloons of a mining town.[...] |
| [...].. ir.JJ and Ex- plore.[...]nin 4,200 ore and slag Compa[...]and sle ~. lluch slag 277,0[...]pUod Crom l:1nernl Resow-oes ot the tbited Stntes and the !.'.kero.l Year Book, and other aourc~a. 42-Beaverhead History |
| [...]it has been a good one but as the boarding houses and a number of cabins were erected at this foll[...]In 1912 the ore shoots known as the Atlantus and True slopes of Lion Mountain among the numerous e[...]trict and set up in Lion City, where it still stands today, In 1882, to handle the increasing output of ore and to practically dismantled. Electric power was brought into the minimize the difficulties and cost of haulage, a concentrator basin from the[...]ater flume from Trapper Creek, one-half mile long and erations. having a vertical fall of 200 f[...]house, four dwellings, office, stable, Darby and Penobscot Mining Co.) gave options to George B. and blacksmith shop. This community was given the nam[...]jointly by Messrs. F. C. Fearing, Franklin, Cleve and Avon, Marc Anthony, Cleopatra and consulting mining engineer of New York and Philadelphia, Ariadne, True Fissure, and later the Atlantus. These claims and Alexander N. Winchell, consulting geologist of th[...]der the trusteeship of H. A. dor, Minnie Gaffney, and Moffat and Maynard claims. Joe Stone and L. P. Stradley of Philadelphia with Mr. Conway Young & Co. owned the Keokuk. Joe Keppler and Co. as general mine superintendent[...]h were based on extensive claims. Messrs. Discoll and Lord operated the Elm-Orlu underground surveying and geologic mapping of all the old which during this[...]ed reports of the ed $230,000. Between 1921 and 1923, $152,000 was spent for Company show that it paid dividends of 6 % per annum and development work. To avert bankruptcy, th[...]e to stock under the guise of a new name and organization, Hecla $2,250,000. The quantity of o[...]ble 1gives the pro- shares of no-par stock and 1,000,000 par value of certificates duction of me[...]of indebtedness, for the purpose of purchasing and operat-[...]ing the Hecla properties. By transfer and issuance of the Period of Dec[...]gages on Hecla properties, interest, and miscellaneous Following 1901, production suddenly and drastically de- debts, was liquidated. clin[...]business, owing to the depletion of ore reserves and litiga- work was dispensed cautiously and in the attempt to make tion. The withdrawal of th[...]South Fissure, Ramshorn, Bluebird, New Atlantus, and pany dumps and tailings, and in th~ mining of small ore Cleopa[...] |
| [...]ves, further effort by the company was al decay and inactivity. Lion City consists of a score of old discontinued and by 1926 the district had reverted again cab[...]ed in into a leasers' camp under the supervision and control of G. the district since 1893 and who at the age of 75 remained as B. Conway.[...]its only permanent resident and first citizen. In Hecla re- There have been ot[...]ct. In 1927 the United States Smelting, Refining, and quarters by the present lessees. Glendale, the[...]g a lower tunnel from Charles L. Dahler and Noah Armstrong. It burned down in the Canyon Creek side, apparently in the hope of tapping 1879 and a new one was erected at the cost of about $20,00[...]operation. Over a 13-month period works and James Parfet as superintendent of mines at He- he drove over 1,000 feet of drifts and crosscuts off the old cla. In 1881, Henry Kni[...]. Earl remained superintendent of reduction works and Conway. More recently both the United States Geol[...]Samuel Barbar was superintendent of mines. Survey and the Anaconda Copper Mining Company have[...]ar as it is compared with four schoolteachers and two preachers. The known, no follow-up work has b[...]population was over 1,000 in the town itself and within the From 1930 to the time of his death[...]eviously had been shipping Glen- dentists, and the Hecla ·Hospital at Glendale had all up-to- d[...]medical supplies. It had a two-story schoolhouse and trict and leasing continued under his control.[...]of old as postmaster. There were Masonic and IOOF Lodges. In mine tailings and slag from Glendale as detailed in the fol- ·a[...]ps stored. ing the period of the First World War, and during the Sec- Henry Knippenberg's mans[...]r-lined clos- ond World War, government subsidies and metal bonuses ets, Brussels carpet, si[...]ble to ship the remainder of the slag dump in and some solid brass. It was set on a hill overlookin[...]centrator tailings in Hecla. In 1941, smelter and town. The smelter shut down in 1900 as the ore 5,963 tons of slag shipped contained 6.4 % lead and 7.8 % supply from Hecla dwindled. zinc. In 1942, 11,382 tons shipped contained 2.5 % lead and All that stands today of this once thrivi[...]d of Montana, are the smokestack, the office, and the school- mansion showing the mar ks of past gr[...]This vast valley, running east and west for some 65 miles[...]chel) Orr, when the P&O(Poindexter and Orr) first brought[...]tion and fearful respect. The days here can easily be[...]wrought with warmth and stillness as with wind, flinging 44-B[...] |
| snow and a cattleman's anxiety in all directions. An area[...]nside, for its excessive snow depth in the winter and, at the time, some of Burn- sides' relatives were[...]attle Country' with its abundant mountain grasses and profuse springs and creeks. The old timers tell of grass so lush you could have mowed hay on top of Monida Hill, and 'nutgrass' that was like oats for your horses. No wonder so many were drawn to this remote site and no wonder so many left after being deflated by it[...]ly. They arrived in 1888; it was an open win- ter and they thought they were in Paradise. The next win-[...]families were only to happy to leave the area and its turbu- name 'Ryan' (dated 1864, found some ye[...]nt winters after the provings but a few stayed on and put that there were at least some temporary inhab[...]as held during the PIERRE-JEAN DeSMET, MISSIONARY AND EX- summer months in various schools and homes. Teachers, for PLORER," states that Father[...]fountains that gave birth to two courtship and matrimony bound them to the Centennial. great riv[...]ey but services headwaters of the mighty Missouri and Columbia Rivers. were held in various h[...]in 1907 and 1908. The phone line ran up the Blacktail, A g[...]the Valley, around Red extensive study, exploring and examining the Missouri Rock Lakes and west down the south side of the Valley to headwat[...]Messrs. Jim Blair, William Culver, Henry Hackett, and Hinckley as operator. How long this was in operation is not Mrs. Lillian Culver and Mrs. Mary Blake assisted Brower, known. Lillian Culver wrote news of the Centennial Valley who wrote and published a book of his endeavors.[...]enry's Lake. Sawtelle's son Eben the whole Valley and fence the perimeter. Also, stating that later[...]er was Monida's postmaster. Eventually all valley and Cattle Company, or through various individuals acting mail came from the Monida service and was delivered three as his agents.[...]vers changed The settlers here were a hardy breed and closely knit, will- in Lakeview. ing to support each other through good times and bad. Most The Centennial Valley was orig[...]actions had to be done in Virginia ers to Montana and a number of Valley citizens had migrat- Cit[...]in winter. In ed from the diggings at Silver Star and Virginia City when the early 1900s manifold[...]n out. They took up homesteads hop- cattle and sheep summered in the Centennial, with Bea[...] |
| [...]ribut- territory was added to Beaverhead County, and $1-1.5 mil- ed by Ralph and Guy Jones and Sally Dingley.) lion dollars-quite a sum in thos[...]... Was in the Valley in 1897. He worked hunting and fishing. Trumpeter swans are native to the area for the different ranchers and was a very good worker. He as are an abundance of ducks and geese. The Wetmore lived at different[...]on October 19, 1933. He was trumpeter swan pairs and shipped them to zoos and buyers a native of Edna, Texas, where he w[...]ll over the United States. A large yield of ducks and geese 1878. He was unmarried and no relatives were located. Bill were harvested and sent to Butte and Virginia City and sold Calnon, who resided on an adjoining ranch and was missing to Chinese mine workers who preferre[...]ley citizens operating hunting clubs were Renfros and was never found, according to a former new[...]Club ARNOLD, Herb ..... Had a homestead and worked for the and Butanna Hunting Clubs were owned by Butte and Ana- P & 0. Probably proved up on his ho[...]first general mercantile store in This fertile and picturesque valley has been home to all Lakeview that later burned. kinds. First it was home and hunting grounds to prehistoric BEST, Billy ..... A bachelor who lived in the "swamp" man and Indians. Then came fur trappers, hunters and above the Upper Red Rock Lake. Also worked on different miners, homesteaders, dry farmers and squatters, cowmen, ranches. It's said that he had a housekeeper. This was not sheepmen and rustlers, moonshiners and revenuers. There the thing to do as far[...]ines, un- weren't greatly accepted for this and avoided by some. Some solved murders, a taxidermist and even a fish hatchery. were supposed to h[...]"Here The history of this place is facinating and colorful. Names comes Billy Best and Mother Worst." Billy only lived in the and places like the Corduron at Shitepoke, Wabash Roa[...]ley for a few years. Twitchell Bridge, Dead Horse and Bull Dog Hollows, Dol- BUCY, Louis and his family ..... The Andrew Bucy family ly's Gap, The Bullpen, Peat Bogs, Blake Slough and Hidden ranched on the south side of the Va[...]bered by only a few. The mail order Zene and Manley were the boys. Their sisters were May, romances, midwives, range wars, grass stirrup-high, and Goldie and Florence. Louis shot his brother Monroe. It is ni[...]s bought the Cowboy Bar in West Yellowstone and operated with locals providing the music or salmo[...]l ..... Homesteaded in the Alaska Basin. He hides and pulled like toboggans to be sent by rail to marke[...]elonging to Burt Edwards. He used to go to Selbys and time never to be experienced again. All of these people and drink homebrew with Fay. After a while he wo[...]"There were giants in the earth in those days: and also CAMPBELL, Joseph Adam ..... Worked for[...]ren: Bonnie, who married James Mailey; Lola, men, and they bare _children to them, the same became[...]lund; Julia, who married Arthur Holmlund; and Joseph. Vl:4[...]Julia lives in Twin Bridges, Montana, and supplied this[...]man for the railroad and its water tank. The whole family ality Sket[...]was very musical and they played for dances in Monida in[...]the piano, their Bill Miller, Linc Miller, Ethel and Raymond Bray, sons Earl the drums and Clarkson the violin. Henry Wetmore, Rita Egglesto[...]There is Willoughby, Mamie Nye Case, Alta Hanson and a large canyon which opens u[...]ked for Mrs. run a summer ranch in the Centennial and a home Culver and Fred Hanson about 1900 and later went to work 46-Beaverhead Histo·ry |
| [...]Monida and also had a ranch in the upper end of the Valley.[...]fiddle player and dancer and quite a ladies' man. He came[...]Granville (also known as Granny at times), Rollo and Ar-[...]chie. Rollo's children were Lillian, Berniece and Phillip.[...]and had a son Clark Gauchay, who lives in southern Ca[...]years he managed the Lakeview Mercantile and also drove COLE, Jim ..... Broke horses and rode for W etmores. A stage for the Moni[...]Vern ..... He was the depot agent in Monida Butte and married. and his wife, Isabelle, was the postmistress at Monid[...]tween GREEN, Willard ..... Came from Idaho and homesteaded the P & 0 cow camp and down toward the dam. Probably on the n[...]ows, he never married. In later years, DAVIS, Tom and Clara ..... Worked for Bucks and remem- having sold his ground to the But[...]va, who mar- lived with Wetmores in Monida and tended bar. Willard ried Tom Benson. He homestead[...]hat wereunbelievable. Some of the remem- divorced and she later married Frank Jones.[...]ida. For a time he operated the telephone company and it up. He would say, "By grab, that Gum Myr is great salve. took care of the lines. He was married and had three daugh- My friend had a spider cance[...]He put Gum Myr ters that we know of, Alta, Alice and Ruth. He and Bill on it and in just a few days he pulled that cancer out by t[...]d in the Red Rock ried Hope Van Anthwerp and had two boys, Gene and Ed- Lake. They lived at the old Blair place. Bob[...]ran the store in Monida for a time. Hope Hall was and known as an excellent teamster and had a great way postmaster there for a time. with horses. Both Duffs were from Missouri and brothers .. HANDY, Herman ..... Worked for J[...]. They had two children, Leona Annie Buck. and Bert. HAMILTON, Jack ..... He and his wife ran Al Forsythe's DUFF, Joe and Belle ..... She was one of the Valley mid- store in Lakeview. He worked for Blakes and some think he wives and called Granny. Dad Schroff was her first husband[...]ska. He is remembered as having a terrible temper and if Smith in Monida and they had a son, Farmer. you could get to the store after he and his wife had had a DUNHAM, Charley ..... Was anot[...]always asked for everyone's bread recipe and then added a Tom Creek. He was there several year[...]t understanding why her bread never Henry Hackett and moved to Odell Creek. He sold his place turned out. Both were kind, friendly people and especially around 1902 and went back to his home in Maine. Henry nice to children. At one time he was a driver for Miller and Hackett and his sister, Lillian Culver, were also from Maine Pike/Gayle who were freighters. They later went to West and may have known Dunham from the past. Yellowstone and operated a store and gas station. DUNHAM, Charlie ...... Bought[...] |
| [...]ly a squatter. His place few years. She and Eva Walters were twin sisters. Another was west of Lakeview. He was known as a great hunter and sister was Laura Van Anthwerp Cochran. He[...]Kent who lived on the northside of the Bob Luger and never found. His gun, a 32-40 rifle, was found in[...]er was Gene Kent who came to the Valley in loaded and ready to shoot. His brand was on the handle. He[...]PELOT, Lew and Ida ..... She was a Saunders. Lew worked KARBER,[...]flu epidemic within a few hours of each other and are buried Bill Hollingsworth place, later known[...]e children: Maggie, Glen drove for the M-Y and worked for Wetmores. and Doris. Glen and Doris attended the District 37 school. PRATHER, Alton ..... and his sister Alvira lived at the LAKLIN, Jesse ..... A Methodist preacher from Dillon and Idlewild Hunting Lodge, this side of Lake[...]above miles. Lakeview from Shambows and later sold to the refuge and SEVERNS, Monroe "Roe" . . . ..He and his brother Bee went to Oregon.[...]came to the Valley from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and had a LARSEN, Lars ..... A brother to Mayme Bray and Chris- place below Jeff Jones on the n[...]He tended bar in Monida for Joe Smith. His and built the school in Monida and the Jones house in the mother lived in Idaho Falls and he was the oldest of eight Valley. He married Myrtle Olive Jones and moved to Or- children. He helped his mother raise[...]his family. He never married. Two .brothers, Fred and Chick Larsen, SHARP brothers ..... Lived[...]nother of the Centennial bachelors. MARCOTT, Bert and Carrie . . ... His family came to the Bi[...]hine. Later they moved to Lakeview SUSIE and MATTIE ..... Two Indian women who stayed in where Carrie ran the hotel and Bert worked as a mechanic. a log cabin for[...]fix anything with a forge on north side. and lathe. They later moved to Pocatello, Idaho, wher[...]for Garrett Freightway. They had two girls, and two neices, Hazel and Ada. By 1910, he had a wife, Mary Beatrice and Lucille.[...]rowned in the Red Rock River. They lived with Jim and , and Al Forsythe. He ran a "speak-easy" in Lakeview for a Stella Edwards. Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Twitchell both while. A customer could get a[...]th his half-brother, Mark Karber, spring and fall in the Valley. He would stop at the Jones and friends Rom Noble and Doris Hooper. Don't know how place and spend a few days. The last time he was seen, he 1[...]dently didn't prove up on his. Tuck Jones and Will Dingler with team and wagon in According to Rom's brother, who still li[...]bottles of booze in a basket. He got on the train and probably sold his wares through the railroad cars[...]ome tax evasion. Noble had a still on concrete and could make 250 gallons a day. A brother of his hauled it to California and knew all of the law officers along the way[...] |
| [...]and the Vigilantes 3-7-77 signed those warnings. Howe[...]and actions were not restricted to just three.[...]Long after peace and quiet were established in the mining[...]usual time and place Sunday evening. As business of impor- Monroe "Roe" Severns and bride Myrtle Jones, new- tance has[...]eone. their origin, and their true meaning, remain a tightly-guard- WINSL[...]Jail Break the Valley and worked for Grandpa Jones on Long Creek. After Grandpa Jones died, he stayed on and worked for On last Wednesday evening[...]characters, by a bold and successful play, effected their YOUNG, Bert .....[...]Beaverhead County Jail. The three escaped the M-Y and the ground was later transferred to Joe Buck.[...]Frost at Spring Hill; Con. Conners and Charlie White, both (Note: Each person may remember people, places and charged with horse stealing. The man[...]lections our own personalities Jones: and experiences, age of maturity and famiy influ- "At supper time on W[...]Jones standing by, and the cook was at the stove. Suddenly[...]three of the six prisoners-Horner, Conners and White- rose from the table and jumped on Sheriff Jones. A scuffle[...]of them down. The Sheriff was overpow- Mystery and controversy surround the precise meaning of ered and his pistol taken from him quickly. The three men[...]ados. tied the Sheriff's feet together, and finding a pair of old Some said it was the dim[...]ave-three feet handcuffs, put them on him, and gagged him. The other wide, seven feet long and 77 inches deep. Others were equal- prisoners were driven back into the cage and secured, and ly certain that it represented a measurement of t[...]r than space-involving three hours, seven minutes and 77 bunch of keys, the worthies locked the d[...]cage, with the Sheriff, the three prisoners and the cook Those numbers would frequently appear[...]They stayed round until it was quite dark, and before occasions the numbers would even adorn hanging corpses. leaving, they went inside the cage and bid the Sheriff good- A tale made the rounds c[...]crawling the dreaded on the floor, gagged, tied and handcuffed ..... the desperate numbers on the ten[...]Jones offered a reward three hours, seven minutes and 77 seconds to leave camp, of $600 f[...] |
| [...]uch as dance and the e r d Nestled adjac[...]Fifty to sixty people lived in the town proper and nearl Allof thi par fth[...]ile radius. There were who helped e Ii h and demands and pursuit of others to be engaged in businesse[...]of the area people. Valley and the Red Rock Lake . Mr. E. A. Baily opened the first general merchandise store. Later Arthur Wakefield and partner owned the store. Al and Chris Forsythe had a store with Jack Hamilton. Glendale ha a complete working health r aniza i n and Osmer Upham was one of the last owners. Most of t[...]of mall-pox. Mr. George tager of Glen- machinist and could fix anything or make anything on his[...]all-pox which he contra ted a under- lathe and was also a blacksmith.[...]d to the pe thou e as oon as There was a Miller and Pike and later a Miller and Gayle the nature of his malady was a certaine[...]who were freighters. They had stores in Lakeview and sold 12/s /1881 merchandise they freighted f[...]rom Humphrey, Idaho, over the top into Peat Creek and on to Lakeview.[...]: Lake- on the stag~. The population had a school and post office. view Store and former Forsythe home. Second row: No town of that era was complete without a saloon or two Saloon and forgotten building. Third row: (Unknown) and others who made homebrew for added income. and Lakeview Hotel. Bottom row: both unidentif[...] |
| [...]urroundings. One Capt. William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition ren- of these was fur[...]Valley in 1824, only 18 years after the Lewis and Clark party The long valley just east of the C[...]re. southwestern Montana lies northwest of Dillon and south- The Big Hole River, whose he[...]the west of Butte. It is famed for its grass, hay and prime cattle, Big Hole Valley and fed by snow runoff from its lofty moun- fine fishing and hunting, lakes, mines, ghost towns, winter tain peaks, was named Wisdom River by Lewis and Clark. A sports and its western spirit.[...] |
| traversed the valley between 1850 and 1854. Chi[...]t to cut hay in the Big Hole. Jack John Murray and Henry Thompson discovered gold on Hicks was the f[...]had earlier crossed the plains with the Creek and the southeastern tributary of the stream was Fisk[...]n to settle in called Colorado Creek. George and Jacob Yearian, brothers, the Valley was Hattie No[...]ttening, on Christmas Day, 1883. Others inches and was built at a cost of $15,000. Ordinarily the ha[...]this, men like brothers hired about 30 men and operated five hydraulics. James and Granville Stuart of Deer Lodge, who bought[...]n they leased part lame oxen in Fort Hall in 1860 and drove them through the of the ground to some Chinese who often followed white Grasshopper and Big Hole Valleys to Deer Lodge for fatten-[...]in 1861 to Fort Hall to sell "China Diggings" and the settlement took the name of to pioneers headi[...]day, the valley is known throughout the Sam and the other by Hong W au Tau. It was reported they[...]he grav- top prices in the stockyards of the West and Midwest. els of the gulch until about[...]ces Horse Prairie, they killed several Chinese and robbed them under General Gibbon attacked the sleeping Indian camp of and burned some of their homes as many of their guns[...]ng Glass later captured with Chief Joseph. and their Nez Perce followers who were retreating fro[...]Nez Perce, for they escaped, J. E. Morse, and J. C. Brenner. These men operated the continuing[...]ear Paw Mountains, near was constructed and completed October 1, 1899. The boat Chinook.[...]was named "The Brenner" and was launched to float for Gen. William Tecumse[...]many a day as it had a mile-long basin to work and claims was in charge of Indian campaigns in the W[...]to inspect the monument erected at operated and elevator buckets held five cubic feet of materi-[...]n the recovered Teddy Roosevelt, who came to fish and hunt on Pintlar wealth, but rather upo[...]ek called barrel of whiskey, a tent, some grub and a few boxes of cigars Pintlar. Teidt told Al abou[...]ne Gulch using the rear hounds of their wagon and a yoke to of the 400 of New York, if I want to be[...]uing his former partner the fall before, and teamed with Harrison about violation of the "cust[...]e Brooks Brown (Crazy Brown), Bill Roe and Dave Metlen. ranchers' isolation perpetuated fellowship among men, for By fall they sold out and realized $7,500. harmony exists there to this day[...]-timers tell of Clark becoming ill with pneumonia and During haying season and roundup, ranchers help each Brown nurse[...]the fabulously wealthy mining ty- nock, Shoshone and Nez Perce.[...] |
| [...]Rife, and Mr. Potter, which comprised the Rife Ranch, later[...]bought by the Briggs families, and sold in 1979 to John Approximately seven miles[...]Jim Barrett. an historical place all of its own, and probably received its The Barretts have the F[...]a Mr. Randall who live din Johnson Gulch and played the Montana and Idaho, and is part of the Continental Divide. violin[...]feed in abundance for place. Charlie Law and Joe Metlen had places above the stock and game alike. Little springs and creeks crop up all Hildreth homestead that[...]ranch. Clarence and Daisy Hildreth Koenig and Jim Jensen The road itself is the old Corrine[...]on Pass or Medicine Lodge Pass. The stagecoaches and freight Ericson Creek. There is also a S[...]airie, old Jensen homestead. The Jensen and Koenig places, along turn through North Medicine[...]range going up to the Idaho Divide that connects and into South Medicine Lodge, (which is in Idaho), and with these places, now belong to the E[...]the Jim valley once bustled with cattle and sheep ranches, home- Barrett place, where there o[...]Cow Creek, then on to Medicine Lodge and not all of them make their home on Dead Man Creek and to Pioneer Pass. M[...]he main Medicine The trail was started in 1862 and was used until the late Lodge Creek were na[...]er on the Horse Prairie was Before and during the Spanish American War, work hauled over[...]rrett's home on the Cross Ranch. $125, and standing 16 hands high. A good saddle horse sold[...]ge has a variety of metals such as for $50 and a good milk cow sold for $40. After the Spanish gold, silver, copper, and coal that have all been commercial- American[...]e people on Medicine Lodge originally went to Red and fossils. An avid rockhound can find precious stones and Rock for their mail. Later the old G & P R[...]stu- drop a mail sack off at the Guyaz ranch and Lora Guyaz was dents to this area to study.[...]ail following families were original homesteaders and settlers. was once again delivered at the[...]odge with Starting at the mouth of Medicine Lodge and going south each family having its own[...]e a history. office for that area, plus a saloon, and this was a stopping One of Bob's special[...]of horses, depend- Next on the Lodge were Mr. and Mrs. Duke Davis. Be- ing on how big t[...]he horses hind the Duke Davis place was Virgil C. and Cecile May were rested and given their well-earned oats. The horses Coulter Given's homestead; next was Duncan and Emma knew where their resting and snacking place was and that's Bell Waddam. Then going south up the Lodge[...]he further they could be made to go, until rested and fed. following families: T. B. Craver, Nobles, Fr[...]It was an awesome sight to see these horses work and Bob's and Bess Gravely, Henry Whooley, Chris Mattson, Fred[...]uch an outfit. Johnson, Antone Swartz, Jim Alway, and Bill Climer. All In the early days[...]raver ranch, wolves, beavers, badgers, and most small wild animals na- later bought by Ras H[...]d to his there were no elk, or antelope, and very few deer or moose. nephew, Paul Hansen, who[...]ind the Hansen the Lodge in the Thirties, and antelope started to migrate place. Then fu[...] |
| [...]The two-story home on the corner of Pacific and Dillon the wolves and coyotes under control, young fawns had a[...]livestock the Lovell family, it is massive and of excellent proportions. and could in one bite break the hamstring on a cow's[...]strengthening the leg. Down would go the poor cow and the wolf would have a great expanse of the walls and also serve to frame the win- delicious meal on th[...]l-placed lattice windows add men tracked the wolf and finally killed the varmint. to the[...]xtra pocket money was made by bounties on coyotes and The home at the corner of Pacific and Cornell Streets was wolves. From about 1915 to 19[...]ve alteration at the The price jumped to $16 each and recently have been worth front entry was[...]nsens' hired man lives. Later the Boss and Winnie Emerick. It features arches and an inter- school was moved closer to the main Han[...]ck Gulch. Because of the school being so far away and bad road on South Idaho Street is overshad[...]d by personable Dr. Blake, a promising their home and were allowed by the county to hire teachers.[...]Smith, a community leader who was in the abstract and title Today Medicine Lodge is much the same as[...]e early days. Families, however, have electricity and phone keystone arches. The lintels on the front are supported by service and, of course, the road is in better shape. It is a[...]st. A deep Library at the corner of Idaho and Glendale Streets. Not layer of volcanic froth was[...]self well to saw or chisel, being light in weight and of all angles. a spongy texture.[...]landmark be built of stone as it was just a mason and cut blocks to size at the site and constructed hop, skip, and a jump over the hills northward to the Frying som[...]Pan quarry. Despite its quaint charm and the look of permanency, the The same vo[...]eons of the case of Dillon, timber was plentiful and near at hand. the earth's surface buckling, tumbling, and churning, much The first homes were built of logs[...]or decomposed. It is not consid- put into action and dimensional lumber was available for er[...]that purpose in early years. distinctive styling and the look of old-world durability.[...] |
| [...]westward and returned to Beaverhead County. School[...]ty on Medicine Lodge Creek and also proved up on a 640 Allen Duke Davis was b[...]Ford. After 11 years of living with dreams, he and Miss Cora kindred, being a nephew of Mrs. Dave (Venora Bridwell) got together in Tacoma, Wash., and were married on Christ- Metlen, and a grandnephew of Mrs. Eliza Harrison Mason[...]tate woman, adapted well to country life and shared her hus- Normal School for two years.[...]band's zeal for raising cattle, sheep, chickens, and pigs. Be- In 1905, he yielded to family pressures and went to Den- sides their devotion to rural life, they enjoyed reading and ver to work for the Pentecostal Union, a growing[...], includ- organization, setting up a bible school and print shop. Duke ing a copy of Duke's own pu[...]nd, but later, after a linotype ma- Mountain and Plain," published by The Pillar of Fire of the ch[...]were partment, where he did typing, proofreading and writing for of everyday life and experiences of cowboys and ranch "The Gospel Weekly".[...]op, he was In the early twenties, Duke and Cora, together with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Given, neighbors who lived on a homestea[...]School and social event for area ranch people. Prior to, and[...]preacher, and he delivered his brief sermons with fluency[...]and persuasiveness which held the attention of children and[...]ers and psalm singing. The children were permitted to[...]Families which took part were Duke and Cora Davis, the[...]dren, Carl Hansens with five children and Rasmus A. Han-[...]lunch was served, and the afternoon was given over to games and races; a sack race, three-legged race, wheelbarro[...]and a baseball game. If the picnic site happened to b[...]ets of this new religion - as he The Givens and Davises left lasting memories of good said, "They[...]ll the time." fellowship and spiritual inspiration to all those lives they A[...]ng experience when the peculiar ideas the founder and superintendent of the Bible sturdy log home caught fire and burned to the ground, con- school had about love and marriage." suming all[...]stal Union in New a smaller log house, and again established a comfortable Jersey. By 1914, Duke grew restless and longed for the wide domestic life. open spac[...]dy struck again in 1947, when Cora developed can- and dictatorial policies of the "Holy Rollers." In 1914, lead- cer and passed on. Duke stayed on at his little ca[...] |
| [...]creek. Two yearling colts got down into the creek and[...]to the barn and we kept them with our horses until we had to[...]Babe Buck by Jim turn our horses out and we took the colts with them and Blair, one of the earliest white men to come[...]Louie Derme and his partner lost all their cattle, Bray lost[...]most of his and they lost nearly all their horses on Elk Dear[...]e mountain but their I received your letter and was glad to hear from you and to horses were not used to so much snow and when a point know you were both well. I will try and give you all of the where the wind blew the[...]date of the hard spot. Finally hay gave out and the only place where they winter. Milt Bean can tell you but I think it was 1890 and could save part of their cattle was on the[...]Lake. Watson and I were in the cabin about 1 ½ miles from Hackett and I came to the Valley in 1887 when there were[...]cabin. It a few _cow outfits in the Valley, P and O on Clover Creek, was 14 feet by 14 feet i[...]there would be eight Metzel on Metzel Creek, and Ruby or Stinking Water outfit to twelve men in the cabin and it was sure crowded. The on Red Rock Creek ab[...]out 50 yards from the creek. One day during a and there was a cow outfit camped at the spring on th[...]the upper end of the Valley. Freeman Marble and find the cabin. I know I was not very far from the cabin and his father on Red Rock Creek, O'dell on O'dell Cr[...]ally someone in the cabin put wood into the stove and Maddox on Red Rock Creek where the old Bray R[...]o my face which gave me the position of 1 is, and a little deaf man on Elk or Shitepoke, and some the cabin. 1 relation of the Matt[...]got on the hills around Elk Lake where Picnic and Elk Creeks join. l[...]mount of stock that died as some Frank Watson and I were trapping around Cliff Lake, our lost all their herd and some only part. horses got uneasy and we took them to the Valley and A man by the name of Cooly from th[...]a few days there came a very between two and three hundred head. He tried to get them heav[...]ow Henry's Lake at the meadows. He ran out of hay and Valley, and from that time on it was one storm after an-[...]ime so one could not got a few head to Elk Lake and only one lived of the ones he get out of the cabin and those who had stock could not feed got to th[...]f I can help you in any way let me know. Ben Hart and and a man with a wooden leg came to the Valley in the fall of Milt Bean can give you information. 1890 and put up hay around the lakes by hand and later on The weather has been gloomy and stormy here all this brought their stock in t[...]t The little deaf man had left the country and Frank Wat- night. She is not well but a lot improved. I am feeling fine. son and I wintered in his cabin. We had a few head of hor[...]er from the Forsythes in Los Angeles. Al said and some hay put up to winter them. The hay was about[...]in Thelma's letter about the Platina Fox days and one did not dare go out in them on account of[...]nd their hay stacks, instead of pitching hay and took a look at them. I did not think much of them[...]a hole in the snow to tails were very small and very light, on the side of the neck find the stack and sometimes the hole would fill up with the[...]d not see the bellies but suppose they cattle and they would smother. The cattle would drift with[...]backs looked like a poor quality of the wind and when it cleared up you could follow where the[...]cattle. prettier and badger I think lots prettier. The whole fur was Frank and I had to turn our horses out on the hills and quite light. I have not heard from the Bean[...]. Elk Creek kept open all winter while. and there was lots of moss in it. We watered o[...] |
| [...]d Big and Ollie gained experience cooking on a wood stove i[...]ospital in Missoula. By flagging down the passen- and manual labor to that of the implementation of gasoline- ger trains and riding on the locomotives, Ollie commuted powered vehicles and labor saving equipment, the name the 18 miles between Missoula and Clinton. Ollie was fond which inevitably comes up[...]roduced such as bobbing her waist-length hair and purchasing a by him which revolutionized the tech[...]el "T" car. Brother Burl had to convince Ollie of and storage of hay in the Big Hole country. Because J[...]of the situation at the Hairpin Ranch before she and his wife, Ollie, were so well known to the citize[...]ollow him over the treacherous dirt roads Jackson and Wisdom, and their contributions so firmly into th[...]bric of the valley, it may be surpris- husband and remain for the rest of her life. ing for some to[...]f events that so often play a proposed to Ollie and they were married on November 14, pivotal role in[...]John Krause was born January 6, 1902, to Samuel and Jackson. Ollie went to work cooking at[...]he Great Northern railroad, second floor, and one evening in 1931 the stove used to heat but so[...]mith's shop near the river from Wendell Jardine, and with a stone where he saw an opportunity to make[...]cations, it still stands today. after his muskrat and beaver pelts were sold, he fashioned a Jo[...]ent. At the time, pair of wooden skis for himself and set out alone to cross the coyotes and wolves posed a serious threat to Big Hole ranch-[...]those days, coyote pelts brought $15 to $20 each and a on the snow, John became snow-blind by the time[...]t Monida; however, he was able to board the train and foot could be nearly impossible in dee[...]patented what he called a "screw propeller," and for a short was called. Later, Peterson transferr[...]were attempts to attach a motorcycle engine and propeller ed about the merits of his sister's coo[...]elp them make it through the remainder peller and a motorcycle handlebar to steer with, and looked of the summer.[...]h skis. Unfortunately, the weight of the Ollie and her identical twin sister, Olive, were born June[...]so John re- 3, 1898, in Red Rock, Okla., to Olin and Alice Flansburg. turned to the idea of us[...]s, which have one- The twins joined four brothers and three sisters. The family third the weight p[...]since he was soon bagging 10 to 15 came loggers, and this line of work took them to Bonner's c[...]Conkling Park, Idaho (near Coeur d'Alene), and wind. From this prototype the sleek snowplanes of the Milltown, Montana, and finally to Clinton in 1916, where 1940s and 1950s were developed. they settled.[...] |
| [...]a number of years John was a Standard Oil dealer and built were Herman Peterson and John Jackson, and their later on he carried Chevron products and sold Studebaker crafts were powered by a helicopt[...]Department. John's leisure time was spent hunting and airplane engines turning the wooden propellers. T[...]were made of fiberglass airplane cloth and trapshoots. He was well known for his generosity[...]on their luck. John was a very unselfish steamed and bent in the Jackson shop, were of oak or his- and unassuming person which was evidenced by his many kory, and had a running surface of sheet steel. friends and acquaintances, young and old. The Krause Garage could turn out a snowpl[...]for a period of time at the Dia- as three weeks, and by 1959, they had built about 75 of them mond Bar Inn and was a charter member of the original for ranchers[...]yoming, the Dakotas, Jackson Bridge Club and Jackson Friendship Club. She was Arizona and Alaska. The largest snowplane built used a 220[...]in the community for her seemingly endless Inn to and from the ski lift south of Jackson. Snowplane reservoir of cosmetic, creative and culinary skills. A lifelong races were an annual event, and the "snow bowl" as it was friend of hers rec[...]- called, was attended by over 1,500 participants and observ- thing and do it well. Once someone brought an armload of er[...]teer fire department even down the ladder and completing the dress in time to finish prevented[...]ling- ing a snowplane up to the burning structure and blowing the ness to share her many talents." f[...]sts, no matter how rakes (buckrakes), hay hoists, and created a fork-like appa- many or what hour the[...]the scratcher, which allowed ranchers to feed and Ollie observed their 50th wedding anniversary on[...]John never considered retirement and they lived in their Within a few years his devices were being purchased and Jackson home until John's sudden death on June 16, 1976. used by Montana, Wyoming and Idaho ranchers. In July Ollie passed away in the Dillon nursing home on January 2, and August (haying season), the Krause rake is as muc[...]KRAUSE publication in several national magazines and newspapers[...] |
| [...]White, who had developed her own style of worship and was bent on enveloping the whole world into the U[...]ssionary for 18 years in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and the Pacific northwest, she renounced the church,[...]evil" had was reclaimed." taken over the church and "it is impossible to conserve The sis[...]ations." whelmed by the pressure and was so completely caught up Shortly after the[...]ing first family, as well as the community, and in time, with the help come to Bannack as a teach[...]hanky- Valley. She taught but one term in Bannack and was re- panky, as it was not generally[...]iving too much time to plished. Bible reading and prayers in the school. She also taught one[...]he courts. Mob violence hindered the school three and one-half miles south of Dillon, and one course of law, and property was confiscated and held from term at the Nelson School, eight miles[...]sionary. They spoke briefly one day in a doorway, and it was ceived in the minds of so-called civil[...]r in 1887, she married Kent White in Denver, and the guilty will quake under the zig-zag lightning of Colo., where they were taking classes at the University and God's wrath ........ " lessons in elocution at the Tabor Grand Opera House. Alma and Charles, along with a growing number of con- Alma left two children in the care of her husband and her verts "kept the revival fires burning." T[...]preceded by street parades, psalm singing and shouted en- "lost souls at Bannack and Dillon." When she and her treatment. Alma wrote in one of h[...]ist Church to spread the make good shouters and prayers." Wave after wave of glory doctrine of holiness and deliver the Dillon souls "from the deluged h[...]ratory was profound. Her deliv- on a Saturday and shouted until he was so hoarse that he ery was so[...]he sent to Denver for a large tent, sermons, and singing, they gathered around the pulpit, which t[...]Colorado when no building knelt on knees and elbows, each voicing his own supplica- was availa[...]tion with much "Glory, Halleluia," and other emotional "We put it up in the center of[...]of Dillon had never seen anything like it before, and tions, and shouting amplified to the point of frenzy,[...] |
| [...]"Truth Stranger than Fiction, God's Lightning and overpowered the Reverend, and subjected him to an Bolts,'' Alma White; Courtesy Jim Womack Histori- uncivil perpetration-tarred and feathered. cal Library T[...]By J. W. SUTHERLAND lowed and described the scene. " .... his body was covered with roofing tar and then he was rolled in the leaves on the The[...]at Birch Creek. The ranch was north of the creek and member of Pentacostal Union of Denver, went to Dillon, east of the railroad and contained the tract Mr. Wilson Mont., for the pur[...]y cemetery. there. He was accompanied by his wife and family, and so There were three very friendly and congenial families on earnest were their endeavor[...]ed along Birch Creek in the 1880s-Ozias and Edna Willis, Fred and flourishingly. Margaret Hopp and Jasper and Jennie Wilson. All three "The peculiar methods[...]ostal sect did not women were good nurses and were always willing and cheer- suit the Dillonites. The former persisted[...]ful helpers when any neighbor was in need. ings and singing and shouting the ferver of its religious joy, I was at the Hopp ranch in 1899 and as I remember it, I while the oppositional feelin[...]s a baby in night while services were in progress and very effectually 1891 when his mother came up to our place and nursed my broke up the meeting. They took the preacher out, divested wife and baby for a day or two. Those kindly deeds one him of his clothing and applied a coat of tar roofing paint." cannot forget. Alma White was in Los Angeles at the time and read the I recall that the first wedding[...]me of Rev. thought it was a wonderful gift and immediately set two of C.W. Bridwell, a mob comprised of about 20 young men the hens and they each hatched a brood of chicks. Some- gathered and began to bombard the place. Without saying a[...]from word they proceeded to smash in the windows and break then on it was a scrap between t[...]hildren I remember-six of them-The- years of age, and striking a man on the head with a club who ophilus, Minnie, Mary, Edna, Lota and Fred. Fred was a attempted to check them in their violence. Later, they se- musician and Edna a natural-born cartoonist. They were a cured the leader, and taking him nearly a mile out of town, happy[...]work during the hay and grain harvests and it was always a Fearing possible danger to the[...]hem to go The three men-Hopp, Willis and Wilson-were veter- home and lock their doors, and suggested the out-of-town ans of the Civil War and many times I heard it being fought evangelists sh[...]ilsons when they lived near the depot his friends and followers. Alma wrote, "With difficulty they[...]The lro _k wu.s quarried the old Baptist Church and used only in mild weather, was and used to build the first section of tl}~ Dillon I ,P,lement struck. Personal effects were packed up and the evangelists Company building. Jim Conger[...]s to Kate's boy fell off a loaded wpgon and was killed.[...] |
| [...]today. Arkansas Slim' ran a still for himself and later the Roselles at both Sham bow Creek and across the Valley at[...]Teepee Creek. One day the revenuers came by and gave The early Centennial Valley was a locatio[...]ful chase. He ran off with very few clothes on and had to go to personalities who made use of availa[...]lated to this author, fencing was done with jacks and to another neighbor's where he holed up. The[...]Mountain. An sion of distilling a common practice and with prohibition, it interesting note here was[...]ed on law enforcement people that weren't welcome and This next enterprising woman made moon f[...]weather which made travel hazardous. As was and strained it through a baby diaper. She later move[...]network would Butte with her enterprise and made good. A gentleman from prewarn the residents[...]e Valley well Henry's Lake was a supplier and Henry Wetmore recalls ahead of his arrival. Could[...]Often the sheriff would go ahead of the revenuers and and his brother would drink, much to their father's w[...]aveled at night to avoid The Centennial Valley and Monida at one time would detection by o[...]rdough pancake batter. He had tana was still wet' and Idaho dry' the hotel in Monida would another p[...]had a hand in the still which overheated and blew him and his cabin up. An business, even the women who caused prohibition and who interesting note of this area is that[...]es, especially the flour sacks that had Yellow- and starve to death; that is where horses went to hea[...]tten on them. However, the sugar sacks were plain and in much more demand. Over the Monida Hill at C[...]of several ·, '·\°t"'t:-- l boys and each seemed to have his job. One sold moon to the hotel in Monida and later to their bar in West Yellowstone.[...]about him. The next place of action was a husband and wife team who could make so:rp.e of the' b[...] |
| [...]e hiding place was a beaver dam. A engine and taking it to Spencer for a dance, or following th[...]which one could say he sold the train in sight and generally costing the owner a set of tires. ranch and drank the profits. Another fellow ran a still on[...]Some tell of taking a keg to Spencer to a dance and filling local and upon his arrest he decided to reach under the bar[...]s which would readily sell. The customers usually and draw on the boys. The revenuers hit him along sid[...]noses from getting the last drop out of the head and carted him off to jail. By the time they got him[...]made bail, so he caught the return train back and they had a problem with one of the local resident[...]ation had out of commission for the night and also helped in the prof- just finished bottling a[...]depot restroom until the train started to leave and then the evidence. Clay threw a hammer out the window, break- throw the keg up on the coal car and hang on for the trip ing the evidence. There was[...]back to Monida. It wasn't a first-class ride, and a little Ora Roselle ran a still just out of M[...]llows so he could find his way back. train and follow it to Dubois or the nearest open road to L[...]o fellow bootleggers were over- boat to travel in and out. They moved to a location up Odell, heard in a cafe and followed to their still later that day, called Ross Spring, and worked there until the revenuers which[...]ll materials were trans- but when he returned and posted bail for the crew, they ferred by pipes and pumps, very clean, which made the forfeited it and Clay got a term in the federal pen. One of the Ro[...]o the pen in Arkansas for either this case or one and bottled, it became store quality, minus a tax sta[...]ottling Works There are more stories and people in the moonshine and and a IO-gallon charred oak barrel cost $2.50. The bottles bootleg business from the Centennial and Monida, but most came from a Salt Lake City whole[...]the stills were notable would supply sugar, yeast and molasses to the stores in people-the l[...]who rye, 75 pounds of sugar, one pound of yeast, and one gallon were born and raise<;i. in the area and knew of the bootlegging of molasses. Put it in a barrel and fill with water, let stand business, it appea[...]way of life. for nine days, strain the grain off and feed it to the hogs. The People worked together even if they weren't the best of liquid went to the still and made ten gallons of 100-proof friends. Th[...]ight on the Idaho border, a lot of view and perspective is somewhat correct. moon was transported over the state line and in many forms. Several that I have heard tell of[...]f a tire, with whiskey placed where the tube goes and engaging the Argenta was chartered Jan[...]oll it over the state line to waiting Montana and given its present name on December 30, 186[...] |
| [...]He pecks the eyes out of lambs and newborn calves and can[...]In the early Twenties, a group of ranchers and sportsmen[...]and the other ten miles south at Lovell's Lake, produ[...]8. pie eggs, count them and pay the bounty. The program was a Thomas "Tom'[...]ranch in the money-making enterprise and kept the town kids as well as late 1860s at the upper end of Horse Prairie and it became the country kids busy locating nests and climbing trees. famous for fine draft horses. Onc[...]snos (slips to haul dirt) to build a lake door and a back door. Occasionally a two-story nest could[...]s dug found, a home with an upstairs. and the horses all broke to work. That lake is still[...]Hamilton's guidance, a ish-black body and white wing patches. It is one of the few new brick residence was built. The house had 16 rooms and North American birds having a tail longe[...]le lays six to nine greenish blotched eggs before and $3,000. Considered a mansion in its time, it incl[...]d. and waited to gather the eggs until the clutch was complete. The Hamiltons were animal lovers and after long buggy Some of the more enter[...]7, in memory of her husband who had died in 1905, and flocks. established a $2,500 trust fund[...]Nest eggs were made of milk glass, the size and shape of a years. The fountain included a horse t[...]k advantage of the hen's fountain for the public, and a small watering spot for dogs built-in compulsion to reproduce; to lay more eggs and and cats. It is still in working condition, now used[...]amily. This was deception, of course, as the real and residents of Dillon, rather than thirsty horses, and is eggs were collected every day, but it k[...]The same principle worked on the magpies and they contin- South Montana Street.[...]died from infections caused by bites they and changed the rules the second summer. Already-hatc[...]r than eggs. The ranch was sold to Dr. Donovan and Dr. Morse, throat The new requirement[...]distressing to Hugh Bates, who had to count them, and to manager. In 1916, his wife Cora Rand began to[...]ter two seasons the program was discontinued, out and the ranch was owned by John Morse, Jr., but is st[...]In defense of this controversial bird, and recognizing the[...]states, disposing of carrion on the highways and country-[...]side. With his bombastic personality and pompous antics, The magpie, a carnivorous bird,[...]he is the clown, the buffoon, the tease, and the barnyard cattle and sheep growers since the livestock industry[...] |
| [...]ith relatives or in a schoolhouse built about one and a half miles north of friends, and since the early 1960's a school bus route from th[...]been running. In January 1989 over 40 students and three either side, and the door facing east. There were two rows of t[...]school built alongside the old one wooden benches and desks all the same size, whether the and a decision on what to do with the fine old brick[...], 1892 where the State Highway buildings are now, and school was held for six months with Miss Sims as teacher. Frank Wilke It is reported in the Herman and Antone family history has written in his memoirs[...]ith taught three months of the year at Fox, and taught the next the stage is now the community building, and the seats were three months at another schoo[...]- all double with two students in each seat. Rock and brick for side south of the present site of Ja[...]new school, built in 1914, came from Steel Creek and the of the Hairpin Ranch. The Jackson familie[...]m O'Neal's Sawmill on Sheep Creek. Paul and forth to the two locations to give their c[...] |
| [...]e summer of 1894 after the family arrived a month and had to board with families that had children from Indiana. There were no bridges anywhere and the chil- going to school. About 1897 a permanent[...]ee month railing, but the water ran over it and they nearly always got schoolterm. Holding school[...]wet! 1907. About 1912 additional rooms were added and this building was used until 1964, when a new two[...]hool, 1893 school with attached teacherage duplex and a multi-pur- pose room was built.[...]bors. This was a summer school and it sat about a mile[...]h are now Faded into the past are the East Fox and West Fox owned by Ed and Kim Bacon. Teachers remembered were Schools. They[...]ut Mabel Denim, Anne Bawyon, Olga Sandstrom and Mary eight miles north of Jackson. About 1897 the[...]Ferrell. Fire destroyed this school about 1911 and until divided, East Fox remained at Fox and another log cabin another could be buil[...]les government land at the junction of Burma Road and Peter- every day from the Bender place![...]900s this son Lane became the new West Fox school and boasted the district consolidated with the Gibbons district and this nice distinction of being a winter school of nine months instead building was torn down and the lumber salvaged. of the usual three or six. A[...]Bar Ranch to become an attractive ranch building and Dick Hirschy bought West Fox schoolhouse and moved it to the In 1905 the Gibbons School District was formed and land Dudley Ranch to be made into a bunkhouse. East Fox was abandoned and annexed to West Fox District 18 in 1953. West Fox was closed and annexed to Jackson District 24 in 1961.[...]It was built of logs by Dan Tovey, Daddy Stephens and Hiram Lapham in 1890. Ben R. Stevenson, later assisted by his wife, was one of the first teachers and had 31 scholars. It is also remembered by Earl Wi[...]chool, 1914, From Le#: (unknown), Cora Rob- house and school was held there about three years. The[...], Mrs. Celia Ruegsegger Wilson population shifted and once again the Briston School was (Teach[...]y, Mrs. Drake, Maggie moved to the Lee Shaw house and classes were held there Quigley,[...] |
| [...]time. Located along the road to Schindlers and Skinner later became the Asa Willey Ranch, now ow[...]re a Mr. Schroeder, windows), used as shade and shelter for livestock these days Al Covey, Weldon Else and other neighbors. Katherine - a testimo[...]held sporadically as school- closed for a while, and reopened in the spring of 1915 age chilren were there. It was eventually abandoned and through the efforts of Weldon Else, again becomin[...]18 a new schoolhouse was built at a new location, and Jess Tope bought the old log Another school with no available records to be found was school and moved it to his place, using three four-horse[...]Lester Lapham's field for the children of Jack and Rose Pender- Else Ranch after having been used as a bunkhouse and gast. blacksmith shop.[...]ey Creek School, Pre-1892 and elections, an occasional church service if the Ci[...]Rider came by, also basket socials and card parties. Here Although no school records can be found, it is remem- were the country dances and, by far the most exciting for the bered that a th[...]ful history few years. The children of the Herman and Antone Jackson of these districts lives in the hearts and memories of many. families, Callens, McVeys, Wratons and Paddocks and oth- With the consolidation of all the country schools into either ers attended here, before a Wisdom and Jackson District the Wisdom or Jackson Districts came drastic changes. was formed and no recollector can remember its demise.[...]acher. This records, given by former students and parents, also was probably also known by some as the Davis School at one from stories and essays written about Big Hole.)[...] |
| [...]Vigilantes and his presence was known in Virginia City on Marked[...]to Bannack in 1862 and began and operated a store there Dillon had three banks[...]organized in 1884 by the trio of Sebree, Ferris, and came to Bannack in 1862 after hooking up[...]e mercantile Barrett in St.Louis. Barrett and Shineberger formed the business in the Valley bef[...]the railroad. On Cross Ranch in Horse Prairie and remained partners until January 14, 1884, Howard[...]ris of Bozeman, Benjamin F. White, Leonard Eliel, and ranched on his own land near the Red Rock[...]The capital stock of the association was $50,000 and the area in 1862 and remained on the Cross supplying the min- bank ope[...]bree, Ferris, ers in Bannack with butter and other dairy products. White, Eliel, and Henry Burfiend were the bank's first di-[...]36 while most of Vice President; White, Cashier; and Klemm, assistant cash- his fellow founders[...]1885 from Kansas and moved to Dillon in 1888 where he White became the bank's president in 1891 and continued worked for the Dillon Implement C[...]original building location at the corner of Idaho and a checkbook, advised to go ahead and when he got through Bannack Streets. The 1.O.O.F. lodge owned the second floor to come in and sign a note for the amount drawn. No other and roof. security was needed."[...]ing methods when money was loaned on a handshake and ests in the bank to Marcus Daly and his associates, and in the local banker was bound only by his o[...]. On December 4, the drought, low grain and cattle prices, the next two dec- 1920, Governor W[...]t beginning to the largest livestock Montana, and the nation. bank in southwest Montana, with a foo[...]LIZA NICHOLAS lion. President of the Daly Bank and Trust Company of Anaconda, E. J. Bowman, was elected president of the First Natioal on January 11, 1921, and J. H. Gilbert, who had been cashier since 1903, w[...]SPEECH" the Panic of 1893 and closed its doors that same year. In[...]"corralled" the Indians, Bank, now the State Bank and Trust Company. It was orga- "corral" men[...]. Graves, William Roe, Joe dust. Shineberger, and Martin Barrett. The Bank's opening was[...]a has reliable authority that the most prominent and substan- chap to leave a room or ranch, or t[...]at has been was a veteran of the Confederate Army and after whom the tried-from running for Con[...]e didn't get a Graeter arrived in Bannack in 1862 and, after placer mining color" expressed[...] |
| [...]Ruby and Louis Adams Alpheus E. Adams Al[...]866, at Green- bush, Ill., came to Dillon in 1900 and resided here until his death in 1935. Mr. Adam[...]the oldest members of Apollo Lodge No. 15, IOOF, and a past noble grand of that order. His wife Jos[...]victim of the flu epidemic in Dillon. Both Mr. and Mrs. Adams are buried in Mountain View Cemetery.[...]would ice up and break so it could be up to 24 hours before the[...]wires could be found and repaired. Sometimes the waterwheels[...]would freeze and ice would have to be dynamited loose. Louis K. and Ruby Adams[...]ichland Center, lived in the Orr Mansion and had gone to Birch Creek for a Wisc. and was the son of Col. John Madison Adams (of the[...]that evening, almost Union Army in the Civil War) and Emilia Van Alstine Adams. everything in the house had been taken. Jewelry, bedding, and Louis came from a very strict family. He had one[...]re gone. The second robbery was on Sebree George, and a sister, Effie, all of whom had to work as soon[...]en including his coin collection he they were old and strong enough. The two boys were educated,[...]was a member of the Elks.Lodge, Rotary, and all of the Masonic bread and the children brown, which they all disliked.[...]of the Bagdad Tem- Louis went to Omaha, Neb., and was apprenticed on the ple in 1937.[...]to contribute into railroad to become a mechanic and engineer. He then became the Spokane S[...]aughter was a an engineer on a line through N. D. and S. D. and Minneapo- patient there many years late[...]tana Power Co. Now free, he spent winters in Tus- and three sons of John and Lucy Knox. John did not have a con, Ariz., and summers in Dillon. He died in Dillon November special trade and never settled in one place for long. Ruby was[...]ily later moved back to Kathleen Tayne and Loran Cashmore, great-grandsons Timo- Richland Ce[...]s. Railroad engineering took too thy Tayne and Alden Cashmore, and great-great-grandson much time away from his fami[...]rk in a Adrian Tayne. lumber company and a woolen mill. While working, he enrolled[...]he recieved his degree in Electrical Engineering and was also qualified as a stationary engineer. He w[...]ont., in 1901 30, 1879, to Frank H. and Mary Albee. He was their third child where he was manager of the power company for three years. and came to Montana in a covered wagon in 1882, ridin[...]Charles Herbert; a sister Allie Gertrude; and a younger brother, Louis worked for the light company and in 1908 he became the William. Four related familes settled in the Deer Lodge Valley manager and stockholder of the Union Electric Co. The plant[...]waterwheels for power. One was near Lovell's Lake and Washington. the lower one was located whe[...]property. 1897 he found work in the Big Hole and was so taken with the The work was not eas[...] |
| [...]nk H. Albee purchased the initial Gerhard, and Christine Albers place from William A. James 12 m[...]ng the first place. One of the wealthiest and most highly respected citizens in Soon brother Charles Herbert and sister Allie also filed on the Beaverhead Valley in the late 1800s and early 1900s was adjoining land. Allie's place bec[...]chools. father was A. M. Albers and his mother was Angle Hendrick. In During the next few years several acquisitions were made and 1851 he came to the U. S. with his parents and lived at West in 1910 he purchased the Dries Ranc[...]enworth for two years, he was held it for 30 days and sold it at a good profit. In 1917 the Big attr[...]that this Hole property was sold to George Arnott and Sons. They were country held. Gerhard cr[...]ner not the hardy type to make Big Hole cattlemen and in 1932 Don drawn by two yoke of oxen, via the Oregon Trail. The trip took the property and started to rebuild again. He built a large required 12 months and the train encountered several chilling new home t[...]nvited everyone he experiences with Indians and outlaws. saw and knew and on the night of the housewarming 419 guests[...]the guest book on a wet rainy night in September and stock tender for the Wells-Fargo station[...]He did his work well, saved his money, and after three years went to Kansas and bought 30 head of good grade Durham[...]cattle and a team of horses and brought them to this valley. He[...]ran his cattle on the range, and for two years was employed by[...]ntil 4:00 a.m., many sleeping in barns, buildings and became a large stockholder. cars, rather t[...]sed Meine. Born May 7, 1867, to Conrad Meine and Wilhelmina the historic 72 Secvtion P.N. Ranch No[...], Christine came to the U. S. tana, on the Judith and Missour Rivers. Don ran the P.N. until with[...]good care of his livestock, Gerhard and Christina had three children, two girls and one always fed them well, and was a good trader. He had several old boy. D[...]1884. John sayings he worked by such as "buy low and sell high", "always Albers was born July 18, 1887, and Leona Montana (Babe) have something to go to market when prices are high", and Albers was born November 1, 1900. The[...]ading area was from Aalmon, Idaho to the Flathead and from the Bitterroot to the Gallatin. His adven[...]lls including going through the ice on the Judith and Missouri for several days. An old bachelor living down river helped him out of the river and nursed him several days until well enough to repo[...]eating houses such as Gamers, Chequamegon uptown and Rocky Mountain Cafe in Meaderville. Mr. Albee retired to California and died in Palm Springs in 1963.[...]-FRANK SHAW Gerhard and Christine Albers[...] |
| [...]William R. Allen and Allentown After increasing his home ranch to 1[...]Albers acquired other ranches on the Rattlesnake and in the Big Hole William Richard Allen w[...]d from the Helena 9,000 sheep, 500 head of cattle and 150 fine horses. These peak Business College, and later took a post-graduate course at Har- operations were reached in 1887, and the year of greatest profit vard University.[...]ys they In 1893 he married Eliza Berkin and they had three children: were troubled some by ca[...]rs but not to any serious Esther, Mildred and Ruth. After Eliza passed away in 1917, he extent,[...]bore him three children: The 1909-10 Dillon City and Beaverhead County Directory lists Elizabeth, Gloria and William Richard, Jr. Gerhard Albers as owning 5,2[...]Street Railway and Water Works department, and in 1898 he Mr. Albers was a tall, well conditi[...]Gulch. He acquired more mining property there and formed the the popular sport of "long looping," w[...]actice of eating nothing but the neighbor's and McKinley lodes. Also, his men used hydraulic mean[...]d in Butte, Montana. He was sick only a few days and death came in Montana, and at the same time entered the timber business. su[...]rge quantities of Rattlesnake Creek on a Tuesday and received a small cut on one timber for charcoal at his smelter and for stulls in the Butte of the fingers of his le[...]t serious, he continued helping around the camp, and the small the timber to the railroad at Mi[...]ng in 1904, he served three terms in the Montana and within a few days, Mr. Albers became so ill that[...]Dillon. He grew 1907, he was Speaker ProTem, and was lieutenant governor rapidly worse and was brought to bis home in Dillon Sunday and (1909-11 ). Dr. Bond summoned. The physicia[...]d his After retiring from politics and selling his timber business, affliction a case of blood poisoning and ordered him taken to a Allen sought to bring[...]ife Insurance Company, which became was too late and Mr. Albers passed away within a few hours. Western Life Insurance Company and the Montana Fire Insur- The funeral was held at the Masonic Temple and was con- ance Company, which he later so[...]. Dodds of the Methodist Church. The large and Marine Company. Masonic Hall was filled to overfl[...]29. Dora married Franklin P. Bell April 21, 1910, and they lived on the Rattlesnake Ranch. Leona Montan[...]ather's death, lived with her mother at the ranch and later in town. She married John Gloss Septem- ber[...]titled "Livestock History," dated March 28, 1940, and from the obituary of Gerhard Albers in the[...] |
| [...]ctober 6, ,J895, Smith M. Ames was born. Richard, and in 1913, formed the Bostom Montana Mining Company. S. approaching 20 and somewhat a loner, set out to homestead the W. Hall, and other mining engineers who examined the proper-[...]llen constructed a 28-mile road from Wise and Los Angeles, California. Edwin Jr., who was not too inter- River to the mine and established a settlement, called Allen- es[...]is left A railroad was needed to haul supplies and transport people Smith and his mother to run the ranch, as his father Edwin M. to the new town and to haul ore to the railhead at Divide. In[...]hree Railroad in 1910. The passengers and freight from Salmon, Baldwin locomotives, 22 freight cars, three passenger cars, and Idaho, to the Union Pacific were now moved b[...]1940, the last rails of the cabaret, bars and a hotel, which was moved in from Red Rock. Montan[...]were removed. Smith and his mother built a home for her in Armstead. A[...]Butte. They were married a year later at Coolidge and a delegate to the Republican National Convention[...]hriving town with a large number of single miners and 20 to stillborn. On June 28, 1920, Thomas E[...]rating the ore. The mill covered nearly two acres and Then came the move to Armstead, where[...]came Margaret Anne in 1923, Dorothy Mae in 1926, and motors.[...]k in 1935. The financial depression in 1920-21 and decline of metal On July 5, 1928, Flo[...]y Albert C. and Pedersine Anderson The advent of the railroads to the west and the great curiosity Albert C. Anderson was b[...]s Sr., his wife, Florence, 1880, to Johann and Johanna Anderson. His father was a cus- and his son, Richard, to leave Cleveland, Ohio, and investigate tom butcher. There were eight sons and two daughters in the the unknown. Edwin M. Ames, Sr., born November 18, 1850, family. Five sons and one daughter emigrated to Montana to and Florence A. Smith, October 30, 1854, were married[...]ir son, Richard, was born June 1, 1878. and Christine Christensen. Their journey took them[...]E. Morse who owned extensive properties and cattle and sheep The Union Pacific Railroad was completed[...]80. operations. Still in quest of adventure and a more secure life, they heard After becoming acquainted with the country and accumulat- that a new stage line was starting fro[...]nge the Ames family had been seek- leased and government land. The feed on government land was ing; to homestead a parcel of land and to build what was to be free for the taking[...]for weary In 1910 Albert sold his sheep and returned to Denmark for a travelers and drivers, tack, feed and fresh horses for the end of three months' visi[...]ur- In the spring of 1911 Albert, Sine, and a number of young dened Florence brought her moth[...]is time, to help. United States. Albert and Sine waited to get married until they Their combi[...]ship, and his wife would automatically become a citi[...] |
| Mr. and Mrs. Albert Anderson, 1911 Alvan Anderson at home (420 So. Idaho) Albert and Pedersine were married in Dillon's St. James My father, Alvan L. Anderson, and his brother Clark, 74-Beaverhead History |
| Clark Anderson and son Leland Clarence and Laura Andersen the ranch. They had two sons, Leland born in 1910, and |
| [...]to Amer- brother Albert, William Bernstien, and J.E. Morse. He was the ica. To acquire the money[...]rd at Odense. It required a lot of physical labor and The children had to travel by horse and buggy or sleigh to the strong muscles for which h[...]school in Bannack, through severe snow storms and freezing He was 18 when he arrived in Dillon i[...]red Rife place in 1918 to his brother Matt and brother-in-law Berg Dairy and through his recommendation Hans obtained employ-[...]tend Gilbert farm. That fall Chester Gilbert died and Hans and his school. brother Thomas obtained a five[...]d the Grasshopper Creek, acquired a band of sheep and moved there. William J. Hollingsworth farm for $33,000 (located six miles Thomas and his family stayed there and finished out the two south of Dillon on Carrigan Lane). He bought for taxes, through year lease and then returned to Denmark.[...]or of Bon Accord. The buildings were torn down and John and Ras companionship so he returned to Denmark to vi[...]mber to the farm where it was used to build lamb- and while there married his childhood sweetheart, Kristine Ras- ing sheds, machinery storage, garages, and a chicken house. He musen, in June of 1902. They[...]achieving every one of his goals, blessed ington and Normal Street.[...]tal. May 25, 1904; Hans Christian, July 26, 1906; and Olga Eveline, He was a friend to everyone[...]When he placed his signature it was his trust and confidence in mark to visit her parents. While there she died two hours after business and mankind. the birth of her fifth child, Kristine H[...]ren were cared for by grandparents, Uncle Thomas, and Uncle Claus. Hans went to Denmark in 1914 and brought all of the chil-[...]was born December 6, family of eight sons and two daughters. When John was 16 he 1915. In 1919,[...]he from Denmark when she came to visit her sister and brother Ras spring of 1889. He worked on his[...]mployed by the Ames Sheep Co. and also received his citizenship papers. In 1907[...]In the early spring of 1892, he arrived in Dillon and went to Sheep Company, situated six miles west of[...]ilbert Ranch north of Dillon for two years. Hans, and Kristine; front row: Anna Marie, Hans, and Kris- Then John and a Danish friend of his, as partners, operated a t[...]Creek, and sold milk and butter in Bannack. After selling the[...]extensive properties and a large sheep operation. John began[...]working with the sheep and that business soon became his way[...]Dillon, and his brother Pete homesteaded on Robb Creek[...] |
| [...]n brothers in- the Argo Smelter. He met and married Ida Johnson on April creased their holdings and purchased the Max Lauterbach 18, 1896. Ranch and Livestock.[...]le for years, was instrumental in getting John N. and son, John, Jr., and three daughters, Edna, Marie and Clara. Ida to move to Beaverhead County from Denver. Upon ar- During their partnership, John and Pete continued to expand riving in the Big Hole, John went into partnership with his and bought the Beaverhead Ranch Co.'s holdings in 1918, and brothers-in-law, John S. Johnson, Gus B. Johnson and Carl Lower Larbee Ranch and Elling Ranch in 1919. By 1923, the Joh[...]ranch operating ap- short time later Gus and Carl decided to return to Sweden, proximately 28,000 head of sheep. In 1925, John and Pete dis- selling their share of the partn[...]on. solved the partnership, divided the property, and each continued John N. continued to manage th[...]imself. to John and Jennie Johnson in 1939 and moved to Dillon. John lived in Dillon for 28 years, from 1892 until 1920. In the He and Ida resided at 22 N. Pacific until his death in 1[...]ved his family south of Alder. John continued and her's in 1950. to expand his operation during his lifetime and the ranch is still Arthur, born in 1897, attended an automotive school in operated today by his son, John H. Anderson, Jr., and family. Kansas City and returned to become a partner in the ranch The ranch where John and Egidia lived in Alder is the home of with[...]emained there until his death in 1931. son-in-law and daughter, Karl L. and Edna Sauerbier. John H. Edwin S., born in[...]ctober of 1954. nia, and practiced there until his retirement in 1962. He[...]e. She married Ralph W. Huntley in 1926, John and Ida Anderson and had two children, Clayton Langford and Gail Karen.[...]She remained in the Big Hole until 1961 when she and John and Ida Anderson came to the Big Hole Basin in Ralph retired and moved to Butte. Ebba died in 1981. June of 1906.[...]versity of Mon- born in 1897, Edwin born in 1899, and Ebba born in 1905. tana and graduated from the University of Idaho in 1930. T[...]e taught Home Economics at Beaverhead County High and Helen in 1919. School and later taught in the Adult Education system for[...]San Francisco, where she continues to live. 1867, and came to the United States when he was 17. He[...]k English but was rooming with an met and married Thomas T. Cook. They have a daughter, Irishman who took the time and effort to teach him. He Carol Ann, who is married to Terry Logan and they have[...]left to right: Ethel Mads and Marie Andersen Anderson, Ida Anderson, Ebba Huntley and Helen Anderson.[...]Bertha and Mads Andersen[...] |
| Mads Olsen Andersen and Bertha Marie Madsen were Margaret began to cry. Harry consoled her and urged her on married in Dillon December 31, 1914.[...]al box. There was the most beautiful from Denmark and both came from the island of Aero, Mads[...]J. at the age of 10 from the district of Ll, Rise and Marie from Trappeskov. had helped h[...]sed the ring to her son upon her death. The tury, and Marie, born in 1890, came during the summer of promise was kept and he enjoyed it for many years. 1914 shortly after[...]ers of the North Sea. and invested the fruits of their labor into construct[...]on- during the following years. Mads died in 1963 and Marie in tana. When the hotel was com[...]165,000. Mr. Andrus was not only the builder, but and Ethel Hawkins, born 1927. Four grandchildren surv[...]il it was sold in 1969. In 1979 it was sold again and and Russell Jones of Bozeman.[...]eight children born to Horace Andrus and Mary Slaughter.[...]one Rosen- Harry E. Andrus, his wife Margaret, and their small daugh- baum, a carpenter, fo[...]mps, ter Fern with only a team of horses, a wagon and five dollars, building cabins for the miners and business buildings for the arrived in Beaverhead[...]nt, Colo., home. Fire destroyed their grain crops and Harry Andrus and Margaret Rosenbaum were married in spread to the[...]er, Colo., in 1887. To this union were born Albie and The diphtheria epidemic had taken their two small[...]Schuyler; Wilma 1898, who married Jack Colfer; and Harry J. their only choice was to make a new star[...]grew up in Dillon with his grandparents and attended Dillon until they were able to locate ho[...]on in the Sheep in San Diego in 1918 and attended Stanford University. In 1924 Creek streambed, they could shorten their journey to Dell and he worked for a bonding firm in St. Louis, Mo., and Chicago, Ill. the railroad. Large boulders in the[...]rket crash in 1929 ended this career. He returned and hazardous. In one instance, they were returning h[...]e part in managing the hotel a piano in the wagon and a pig in a crate. Margaret, concerned unt[...]Harry and Margaret Andrus years. The teacher generally stayed at the Andrus home and, as each found a husband in the community, anothe[...]1200 acres of land, some of which they cultivated and some used as pasture ground for sheep. Eventually[...]t one time Harry Andrus owned 7,000 head of sheep and had one of the best herds of Hereford cattle in t[...]Margaret with a special gift. Known for his jokes and great humor, he wrapped the gift in a larg[...] |
| [...]- January of 1888, son of Clinton Ellsworth Anson and Icy Dora Burn-It /Gee-For-Socks/ Holy-Cow,[...]was reared in Norwood, Ill., (suburb of Chicago) and[...]Frederick J. and Ida A. Arbour (Chicago suburb) in May, 1910. Both were 22 years old and he Frederick Arbour was born February 12[...]ber 22, 1869, in Cottonwood, Utah, to David Terry and Eliza- 1915 he began soliciting business for the[...]pply Big Hole cattle ranchers with Fred and Ida had three children born at Glendale, Montana: general supplies, groceries, staples, clothes and haying equip- Blanche B., born June 6, 1888;[...]1890; and Vivian Grace, born February 12, 1894.[...]Rochester, Montana, near Twin Bridges, and in 1900 he opened[...]and Ida inherited this, and on April 13, 1903, sold it to John G.[...]tana. Fred and Ida divorced on October 14, 1909. On November[...]rbour, born April 1826 Grace and Don Anson ment. In 1917 Don and two Valley Mere employees (Ross McKoen and Bob Stewart) purchased the Basin Mercantile Co. a[...]J.P. Lossl) from the Miller Development Co. Don and Grace Anson then moved to Wisdom and lived in a log house directly across the street[...]daughter, Helen Elizabeth, was born in May, 1917, and son, Robert Ellsworth, was born in March, 1919.[...]ers (McKoen/Stewart) retired from the busi- ness and numerous Big Hole ranchers became stockholders -~[...]etired in 1960 when his son-in-law Leonard Smith and daughter Helen Smith took over the business after a major fire wiped out the Basin Mere store and warehouses in Wisdom. Don was active during[...]r years he was active in Lions Club International and served a number of terms as an elected le[...] |
| Fred and Ida Arbour Mr. and Mrs. Herb Armitage ice Florence Stephens on Decem[...]Vivian Grace in the grocery, hardware, and blacksmith businesses until 1867 married Bess J.[...]William Albert Armitage, the oldest of six sons and one Butte City. She was the sister of A.[...]raphy published in Montana. Maud was born (Jesse) and Martha Armitage. In 1863 Joshua moved the fam-[...]69. She was the first person Mr. and Mrs. Will Armitage[...]apolis, not returning to Montana until 1878. Maud and Will were married August 14, 1881, and moved to Helena[...]was three years old and Herbert Stanchfield one. A year later[...]Will bought peoperty three miles from Wisdom, and the fam-[...]grubbed by hand and thousands of rocks to be gathered and[...]In 1901 Amy married Dade Stephens and moved to her new[...]course in Logan, Utah, and contract some road construction[...]shared happily at all kinds of functions. Agnes and Herb were married October 12, 1910, and their one daughter, Phyllis was SO-Be[...] |
| [...]eturned to the home ranch on Sunny Slope. Will and Herb worked well together - both being ready to t[...]rst Big Hole citizens to own a car. When tractors and trailers were introduced to facilitate moving. Th[...]ussed the idea with Herb, made a few refinements, and Herb drew blueprints which were sent to the patent office in Washington, D.C. A patent was granted to Dade and Herb, May 31 , 1910, for the sliding stacker, now[...]Annie Josephine Seybold and husband James Thomas Arp, in back stop and still later side wings.[...]omen's Club, a member of the Library Association, and active in other commu- natural childre[...]fairs. She was very ill the last year of her life and stayed in death of Thomas Arp, Annie married a man named Cook and Dillon with her daughter, Amy Stephens. She died there June they lived in Port Wentworth, Ga. She returned to Dillon and 11, 1927. Will continued to live at Sunny slope[...]times to visit her relatives. She died August 2, and responsibility. He died on the ranch June 21 , 1935. 1965, at the age of 96 years and is buried in Georgia. In 1945 Herb sold the ra[...]-SALLY GARRETT DINGLEY He and Agnes retired to Monterey Park, Ca. Retired? Well[...]strainer factory which, with the help of Phyllis and her husband, they improved and operated until their Joseph and Ermelinda Arrigoni deaths. Herb died March 20, 1967, and Agnes in 1976. J . T. (John Thomas) Armitage w[...]first came to America when he was 18 years old and went to jobs, including some building for A. J. N[...]e mines with a cousin John Arrigoni. Later Willey and they bought a ranch adjoining Dade Stephens prop-[...]r a few years, they sold to Dade, moved to Wisdom and 1898 for the Hecla Consolidated Mining C[...]with a dance hall wages were $3.00 a day, and board and room was deducted on the second floor. On the fro[...]y on November 8, 1885. Joseph Ivy died in 1919 and J. T. married Annie Elwood. They and Ermelinda were married February 27, 1906. The cou[...]J . T. sold the garage to his niece Amy Stephens and retired to Hecla and Joe went to mining again. By this time they in Bu[...]8, 1954. Annie lived for had two boys and one girl. The youngest son, Tileo, died in severa[...]metery. Hecla at the age of 13 months and was buried at the nearby[...]oved to Feely, which is located James and Annie Arp between Dillon and Butte, where they started a dairy farm.[...]After a few years there and some very hard times, Mr. Little is known abou[...]here he bought a he was born in 1869 in Tennessee and came to Montana Terri- small farm, t[...]rk for the Union Pacific Railroad at Dil- Seybold and Margaret Elizabeth Huff, born July 29, 1869, in lon and worked there until his retirement. McDonough Coun[...]hildren, bringing their total to Mo., a few years and later Thayer County, Nebraska before seven. Mr. and Mrs. Arrigoni received their naturalization comin[...]Hecla Mining Company. 1922. Tom and Annie were married in Beaverhead County in 1899[...]ns were all in the United States service. Raymond and lived in Lima until they moved to Georgia. They h[...]joined the Navy when he was 17 years old and served for 18[...] |
| Joseph and Ermelinda Arrigoni Vica, Samuel and Elizabeth Ashbaugh years. He went down with his s[...]school at the State N ormal College in 1923. Vic and November 13, 1942, in World War II. Andrew served[...]anch which became the Carrigan the Army in Alaska and France. John was a member of the place[...]ine Corps, serving in the South Pacific. and the road, south, became Carrigan Lane. Two daught[...]phine (Mrs. Nick Salvo), Dillon; Patricia and Donna, were born to this couple. Jewel taught for Delores (Mrs. Warren Glower), Butte; and Ida (Mrs. James many years in nearby co[...]us grandchildren Jewel died in 1976 and Victor in 1980. and great grandchildren.[...]EILE Mrs. Arrigoni passed away on July 29, 1935 and Joe suc- cumbed May 25, 1963. Son John Arrigoni and wife Eunice currently live on the farm and hope their son, Steven Raymond, will do so after[...]-EUNICE ARRIGONI Samuel and Elizabeth Ashbaugh |
| [...]her brother Jim, Nina, and their son J. T. Her brother Ray had[...]it later and it took him a long time to recover. Mom had it to[...]1851, at Poole, Illogan, England, and Elizabeth Ann Bray, born[...]July 9, 1933, at Dillon and Elizabeth passed away October 6,[...]Maude had four sisters and two brothers: Mary (Minnie),[...]Nellie (Doll), Edith, Charles, William, and Ethel.[...]Charles, Maude's father, had a blacksmith and wagon shop at[...]and Bannack, and was justice of the peace for Bannack. Eliza-[...]ude's mother, ran a boarding house there. Charles and Elizabeth moved to Dillon to retire and lived on East Sebree 1847, at Rochdale, England,[...]Raine in New Street. Diggings, Wis., and died there Oct. 11, 1899; George, born in[...]ngland, died at Salmon, Idaho; Ted was the and passed away there April 27, 1922. third child; Ma[...]rn Feb. 13, 1863, at New Diggings, never married, and died -BONNIE M[...]tallack. They lived at the mine in the summertime and moved into Bannack for winter and[...]Wisconsin, on January 31, 1867, to Lucas and Sarah (Jane) was also in partnership on the "Suns[...]Dick District with Geroge Tash, Robert Anderson, and H. F. sisters. Jackson. The mine was hi[...]f 14, he began working his way west with the gold and silver.[...]reached Helena in 1890 where he became a Ted and Maude had five children, all born in Bannack. Jam[...]nack on March 29, 1935. He married Nina Fessenden and items. Household goods, groceries, rent, wood, and even the they had two sons, J. T. and Edwin. George Ernest was born Helena Wa[...]ome of the entries listed. A daily June 14, 1896, and died June 2, 1948. He never married . Ray- entry for bread was $.05, meat was $.15 to $.25, and milk was mond Edmund, born Feb. 11, 1899, died No[...], born April 23 , 1901 , died Helena, he met and married a dressmaker, Adelia H. Hiett, Feb. 13, 1970. She married Ralph Turner and had one son, who died 18 months later[...]Ralph, Jr. Elsie Margaret was born Feb. 22, 1905, and married In 1897, he began looking for a[...]t not finding what he liam, Jr., Bonnie, Winibel, and Carol. She now resides in Dillon[...]Frank and Mable Bacon and has for many years. Ted and Maude went their separate ways about 1905 . My m[...]When she was three years old, a colt kicked her and knocked her flat, so she was always frightened of horses. She started to school in Bannack and remembers her grandma made her two flannel dresses to wear to school. She later lived with her mom and stepdad, Tom Gannon, in Stevensville, Helena, Anaconda, and Bonner. She lived with her Aunt Min and Uncle Joe Hunter in Stevensville and graduated from the eighth grade there. She lived with her brother Jim and wife Nina while attending high school at[...] |
| wanted until coming over the hill and seeing the Big Hole boys the meaning of hard work and its benefits. Five of the Valley. Here, the prese[...]ranch. The first heifer he bought in tis and in '36 was diagnosed as having arterial sclerosis[...]s, he had no fear for the future. had added a cow and calf for which he paid $35 and seven He continued working on the ranc[...]At age 82, he lost his left leg from a tumor and used a and a-few pigs. Having purchased traps in January for a wheelchair, crutches, and an artificial leg. When he became mere $.50, he s[...]Butte for trouble in his Wisdom once every month and sometimes two, for 10 gal- right leg[...]He began breeding horses along with his cattle and slowly On Frank's 65th birthday in '32[...]is sister Cora M. McCaffrey's. She had and we wonder how the time has passed." come from Wisconsin before 1899 and married a neighbor,[...]IH.BACON Charles McCaffrey. They had six children and they stayed until she died in 1913. She and her oldest daughter are buried in the Wisdom Ceme[...]hire a Iowa. He was the son of Humphrey and Philena (Davis) man to look after the stock, then[...]aconda Baily. He had two brothers, Eugene and Jason, and two to a job as an assayer for the winter. T hat way, he didn't sisters, Susan and Louise. Sometime during the 1870s, Josh- have to worry about a stable bill for his horse and he would ua and his brothers went to Wyoming to work on the "Tie[...]10, 1906. Mable Elizabeth an engineer, and Jason as a painter. Lawrence became the mother of[...]the next 15 They saved their money and purchased land on the east years: Lawrence - 1907[...]tain near Lake Hattie in Wyoming. In Bert - 1918, and Joe - 1921. All six were born at home with[...]ce, act ing as a mid-wife. A to Wyoming and they were married March 10, 1881, in Lara- doctor[...]erything turned out fine. Mable was very artistic and a another ranch in Centennial Valley, W[...]e of the boys would ask her to Eugene and Joshua moved to Lima, Mont., where Eugene draw a horse, she would stop what she was doing and free- entered the mercantile business and Joshua bought a ranch. hand one in no time. She loved gardening, writing and col- Joshua and Josie Baily had six children-Eugene, Clara lecting penny post cards, and developing her own pictures. Edith, Josephine, Philena Zebudah, Joel and Olive. Joel After a long, hard struggle with pernicious anemia and 14 Baily died of diptheria as a youngster and is buried at Lima. blood transfusions, she died o[...]In 1899 or 1900, Joshua sold the ranch and moved back to 46. She was buried in the Wisdom Cemet ery. Iowa with his wife and children. We are told his decision to Frank Ba[...]g livestock. He also ran a from Texas" and he didn't want his daughters associating lumber operation, going t o the t imber when weather and with the cowboys. He farmed in Linn County, Iowa, and other chores permitted. Starting with nothing, he[...]e had over passed away September 3, 1937, and Joshua passed away 60 head of horses. He sold som[...]are buried at Oak 30 head to use in haying season and for feed wagons. At one Hill Cemetery in[...]owa. time, he had over 100 head of sheep which he and the older Two of his daughters, Philena Zebudah and Clara Edith boys sheared themselves. He had over[...]brothers in Iowa. Philena married Arby Ray cattle and feeders on his place and the neighboring Bushong Fuller and Clara married George H. Fuller. Philena Zebu- pla[...]He was a shrewd businessman, knowing when to sell and January 15, 1887, in Lima and died March 13, 1970, in Linn when to hold. He was[...]ns, school board meetings, Stockmen's Association and Linn County, and died there January 15, 1931.Both Arby M_asons. He was a good husband and father, teaching his and Philena Fuller are buried in Blodgett Ceme[...] |
| [...]Landers and Boss Emerick, all well known Beaverhead[...]ty residents. Jay Baker was elected in 1912, 1914 and[...]elected and held the office until he retired as the last Bake[...]Born to John and Mary Baker were eleven children: (One[...]rove February Opera House (upper le~), water tank and company 4, 1903 (John Cosgrove was an engineer for the Union Pacif- house, Baily and Ford Stores (upper right) turntable[...]their children were all born in and bandstand. Dillo[...]ge- tral City, Linn County, Iowa. Arby Ray Fuller and Philena les. Jay Cosgrove, M.D. (1905-197[...]grove (1907-1962), died in Los Angeles. Roger ty, and had 16 children. We were told at one time by Phi-[...]in this writing came an accountant and moved his family to Portland Septem- from Louisa[...]died rest we have gathered from marriage licenses and in Portland. Phyllis Baker (Ennes) (1917- ), born in Dillon. birth records and recall from various family mem- R[...]- ly, and lon. Married James 0. Melton August[...]reat, great grand- rancher and operated the County Poor Farm at one time.[...]y Elizabeth Melton (Dastyck) (1924- ). John and Mary Baker[...]on June 20, 1917. Julius had two children, Marvin and popular public official in Dillon for many years until his and Wendell. All children born to Idanha and Julius were death in Dillon. At the age of 12 he[...]ame very proficient in the use of the Morse code, and at the age of 14 became a telegrapher for the Uni[...]r the railroad at various sites in Wyoming, Idaho and Mon- tana. He was married in Silver Leaf, Utah on[...]nt in Lima, he ran for the office of County Clerk and Recorder. He was defeat- ed by W.S. Staudaher. In 1902 he defeated W.S. Staudaher and the Baker family moved to Dillon. In the next eig[...]pler, Tom John and Mary Baker[...] |
| [...]writer, editor of the Dillon Examiner, historian and worked for the Dillon Chamber of Commerce. Neil worked as a telephone operator and was an accomplished pianist. Helen Baker (1898[...]. Roland was chief chem- Anna and Andrew Banks ist for the Anaconda Copper Company[...]and was a three year contract. He had leased approxim[...]lowed by Raymond, born in November of 1902, and Sarah, Albert Baker (1903-1985) born in Dillon,[...]1936. (Winnie 1911-1987). Albert was County Clerk and he had leased, which is now known as th[...]lon who run Marie, born December 7, 1908, and a boy, Coleman, born the Mitchell Drug Store. Chi[...]orn in Dillon; Mary Jane Baker Andy and Anna had nine happy, busy years together (Fitch)[...]in Idaho Falls farming and raising their children. All of the kids went to[...]rick school house down the road which is Andrew and Anna Banks[...]irginia, on October 17, 1867, to Charles W. Banks and smoke and accidentally set the hay afire. They were able to[...]ed his eyes before they were still young, Charles and Sarah moved to Topeka, Kan- had him tied and he ran back into the fire. The children sas, where they bought a home and settled down raising could do nothing but watch and listen to the horrifying their boys. Even as a bo[...]e good land Christmas, his wife was dead, and he had five children rang- with water for irrigat[...]er ing from one to eight years old to raise and a farm to run. His than try dry farming, he found a job. brother Jim and his wife helped by taking the children. In Andr[...]in the Philippine Is- with him. lands. He and a brother, John, who had also come west,[...]or until the war was over. One year later Andy and one of the horses. Eleven years after their mother the war was over and on October 17, 1899, Andy was dis- had di[...]r his discharge he went back to Topeka, Kan- and animals were sold. Under the supervision of their Uncle sas and on November 29, 1900, married Anna Hows. They[...]Avenue. The girls (Sarah, 17, Marie, 12,) and one brother, leased south of Dillon, which is now[...]Coleman, 14, lived in the house. Charles, 19, and Raymond, Ranch. The lease papers were signed on November 30, 1901, 18, got jobs and paid the living expepses. Whenever possibl[...] |
| [...]stillborn and Laura died in childbirth. Mr. Banning settled[...]his son with his wife's family and left Nebraska. He traveled[...]ted to Golden. Robert Raymond, Coleman, Marie and Sarah Banning was bo[...]d. Charles later became an automobile mechanic and spent The mining bug bit Mr. Banning again in 1889 and he his life in that profession. He married France[...]ing camp of Hecla, Mont. ber on November 2, 1926, and they had two sons, Norman In an article written by Mae Sprinkle for a local paper in Charles and Robert Mitchell. Charles died in 1979, and 1962, Mrs. Banning remembered the tri[...]pent their entire lives in Dillon 1889, Abe and I left Idaho in a covered wagon for Hecla. The and are buried at Dillon's Mountain View Cemetery. buggy horse was a leader and Robert's saddle horse was a Raymond Banks followed construction work. He was in- leader. Sis and Joe, the mules, bore the heavy part of the jured badly in World War II and had one stiff leg that load. It was n[...]mall boys, being always gave him pain. He married and had one daughter. spring we had lots of rain and mud to put up with." His last home was at Pasco,[...]- to become a humpback. She married George Graham and tage, and burying a nearby family of seven-only the moth- they raised their two girls and two boys in Dillon. Norm er and a three-year-old child were rescued alive. The sa[...]95, a young man named Lycurgus R. Banning came to and five girls. The last of their children was a set[...]had been recruited from the University of Ne- boy and a girl. Leo ran a sawmill on Birch Creek. When he[...]They er, they discovered they were father and son, who had not lived there until Leo died. Mari[...]er since the father left Nebraska 20 years stroke and, when her husband died, she was placed in a[...]s from Dillon on Rattles- ranches all of his life and died at the (Jack Brenner) James nake Creek[...]e Prairie. Lakes and was instrumental in the building of the Kelly All of Andrew and Anna Banks' children are dead now. Of Res[...]e as the the five children, three (Charles, Sarah and Coleman) made work was all done with slips and horses, mostly in the sum- Dillon their home.[...]mer. High water in the spring and bitter cold in the winter Andrew Banks came fr[...]for fill in know that one of them died very young and that two broth- the reservoir. Crops als[...]low. This reservoir holds back the water from the and married Dorothea Meine of Dillon on April 2, 1901[...]eir home. desert and was homesteaded as such.[...]rn after their move to the -NORMAN AND SHIRLEY BANKS ra[...] |
| and had only boys, heard of a lovely girl named Pearl at the Home in Twin Bridges. She and Mr. Banning fell in love with Pearl and she became one of the Banning children. Mrs. Bann[...]ranch, recalled how she had sold her butter, eggs and fowl to customers in town. She drove a horse and buggy to deliver and sold about 35 pounds of butter a week. The Metlen[...]est customer. She got 30 cents a pound for butter and around 75 cents for chickens while turkeys were a[...]James A. and Margaret E. Barbour too much work for Mama to mak[...]rhead County. They raised Bible every day and always kept her New England values their family in Dillon-one son Ralph, and four daughters: uppermost in the minds of her family. She encouraged her Della May, Pearl, Ethel and Ruth. children to attend school and to get good educations. Robert Banning married Hilda Lavine in 1915 and they Early in the 1870s the Barbours moved to Ottawa, Kan., had two children, Wallis and Irma. Hilda died during the flu where their two oldest sons, Webster and John, taught epidemic in 1919, so Grandma Banning took the two children school and studied law. Cora attended schools taught by her[...]to Montana as a teacher. child, was born, and Webster, their oldest son, was married They staye[...]en moved to Wiscon- to Mary C. Coon. Webster and Mary became parents of four sin, where they raise[...]e daughters: children: Clara, Maude, Lew, and Carrie Blanche. Gretchen, Mary and Helen. Homer married Nora Morrow in 1879, and they became Vilas Banning married Bessie Lavin[...]ents of five children·: Edmund, May, Ethel, Roy, and sister to Robert's wife, making their children double cous- Homer. Homer was a carriage maker, and later moved his ins. Vilas stayed on the ranch and worked with his father. family to Boise, Idaho. They had two daughters, Lucile andand Harold.[...]ly deliberation Dueard had not married in 1920 and was still living at ensued and they voted to go to Montana. The journey was a ho[...]r, Colo. From there it was an arduous James and Margaret trek by train and wagon through the mountains to Montana.[...]Finally they arrived in Beaverhead County in 1881 and Barbour[...]ents of James Ashton Barbour was born in 1820, and lived most nine children: Mable, Floy, twins Alta and Atha, Claude, of his young life in Vermont. Later he moved to Cambridge, Dorothy, twins Ashton and Odell, and Alice. It is assumed N. Y., where he married Margaret Emily Sutton in 1850. that John and Webster set up a law practice in Dillon about[...]was born in London, Ontario, this time and that Emma attended the local school. Canada, in 1[...]during The Barbours left familiar surroundings and journeyed the harvest. Passersby would of[...]he side-saddle operated a store, reared children, and learned to cope. Nine hangs today in the Beave[...]John 1852, Homer Caroline died in 1883 and was buried in the Argenta 1856, Lonzo 1857, Walte[...]1861, Caroline 1862, cemetery. William 1864, and Cora 1869. Lonza and Dennis died in Cora married Robert Joy in 1890 and they moved to his 88-Beaverhead History |
| [...]hey were the par- ary 2, 1840, son of Thomas and Nancy (McDonald) Barrett. ents of three children: Pearl, Maude, and Lee. When Martin was eight, his father died and his mother Walter married Sylvia Beaver in 1895 and they were par- emigrated to Canada with her n[...]n, of whom Mar- 1 ents of two children, Raymond and Laura. Walter served in tin was the sixth. T[...]farm near Hespler, the Spanish-American War, and later moved his family Ontario, where h[...]success in later years. He prominent attorney and later a judge. was an apt scholar and an industrious young man. Hence at In 1898[...]apprenticeship at the ried Stuart Hinderliter and they moved to Boise, Idaho. trade of tanner and currier, assisting in the support of his Marg[...]d. widowed mother and her younger children, a youth of ambi- In 1901 William married Ollie Malloy and three children tious spirit and determination to make for himself a place in were born to them: Juanita, Writtie, and Arthur. William the world." had his own[...]d in wagon freighting travel- both homesteads and moved his family to Idaho. ing to such places as Missouri, Utah and Colorado. In 1863 Webster, a popular trial attorney in Dillon, participated he and Joseph Shineberger became partners. They came to in m~y civic activities. He died in June, 1913, and was Beaverhead County by mule team where t[...]in Margaret Sutton Barbour was a dedicated and caring freighting and took up mining as well. All their ventures woman who raised flowers, tended the sick, and_delivered prospered but in later years the[...]andchildren. and Mr. Shineberger established his own ranch at Red[...]r known as the Roe Ranch. county as an honest and thrifty citizen. James and Margaret The Barrett ranch comprised about[...]in ran months longer. James died May 8, 1900, and after his death, around 2,000 high-grade Short[...]Dil- "equipped with the best improvements and facilities, in- lon. cluding a commodious and attractive residence, modern in The Barbou[...]tion of being pioneers in two its appointments, and shows on every hand the distinctive states, Illinois and Kansas, and early residents of Montana. evidences of refinement and culture of those who there They endured many[...]to make their home: the best of literature and fine specimens make a home in the West and by their devotion to principal of art production showing that Mr. and Mrs. Barrett thor- they made it possible for[...]ses of life, while the hospi- their footsteps and to build up the great state of Montana. tality of the home is unequivocal and most gracious."[...]zeman, who became instead the ranch- Chester and Mary Barrett[...]he War of 1884, son of Nancy Williams Barrett and Thomas Barrett. 1812, and her father a captain in the Civil War. He received his early education in Grant and attended high Mr. Barrett was a public spi[...]879. He served on the of Annie Kelley Desmond and Patrick Desmond, on Decem- local school b[...]They leased his father's ranch for several years and, fol- Bank of Dillon and served as a member of the board and vice lowing the death of Mrs. Annie Desmond,[...]retts' adopted son Desmond ranch in 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Barrett spent their Robert, their onl[...]Patrick Desmond Barrett, born June 12, 1920, and James G. edented sum of $350,000, which Mr.[...]wo Dillon banks, greatly aiding the local economy and -EVELYN BARR[...]rick home at 733 S. Pacific, now the Martin and Alice Barrett home of Jim and Norma Day. Mrs. Barrett died in 1926 and Martin Barrett was born in County Ma[...] |
| [...]Life to Chris was living and no one had learned this truth The Barretts, al[...]ed it more. He was always generous of him- berger and his sister Margaret Roe, endowed the Barrett[...]were of good quality from the Shine berger family and a land grant of seven acres and he wore them well with pride and importance. Family from the State Bank, made possible the building of the old and traditions were important to Chris. He was a marv[...]of pinochle, rides in his car, and food which he always said[...]Lodge, a member of the Farmer's Union Local, and the[...]a native of the province of Ontario, zation and faithful member and gave of his means generous- Canada, having been b[...]rett was educated in the public schools of Canada and legion, regarding sales, business transac[...]ents having moved to Kansas in 1868. and how he couldn't change a tire, or tell what was w[...]to visit his uncle, Martin with a motor, and how he kept records. Everyone had some Barrett, and was so impressed that he decided to locate in[...]the community where he lived, reared his railroad and shipping point. Mr. Barrett was a stalwart family, and spent his whole adult life was an honorable supporter of the Democratic Party and was elected a county loving position and on the day Chris was buried (September commission[...]ll the people in Beaverhead Valley stood in dairy and delivered dairy products to Bannack, about 15[...]unicant of the friend, their neighbor, and the one that comes no more to sit Roman Catholic[...]awhile with them and make them glad for his visit. Mr. Barrett was[...]d. In the spring of 1880 he Petra Jensen and Laura Larsen were cousins. They left wedded Nancy[...]s. They became their parents in Denmark and traveled together crossing the parents of four children: Elmer A., Chester M., Nancy E., Atlantic and the United States to arrive in Butte, where two and one child who died in infancy.[...]had a taxi cab take Mrs. Barrett died in 1887 and on February 7, 1888, Mr. them to a Butte h[...]ister, Marie, came for them. This rett was reared and educated in America, having come here was[...]appendectomy in a Thomas Barrett died in 1933, and Maria Barrett died in Butte hospital and, after leaving the hospital, went to Mrs. 1928.[...]in 1918. Chester Barrett seeing each other and were married December 27, 1910, in a leased the ranch for a few years and it was later leased to Swedish church in Butte. Anna Larsen and Jens Bay were John Peterson and sold to him in 1934. It is today part of the th[...]Chris and Petra Bay -EVELYN BARRETT Chris and Petra Bay |
| [...]six children to care at Dillon. William Jensen and his wife Christine were their for and Petra was only 11 years old. She was at the same[...]6, 1896. brother Chris, and later for himself. He purchased some Petra was[...]ginal generosity, patience, forbearance, charity, and sweet witti- buildings are on the site on Car[...]cism. She was not very tall; her skin was lovely and fair, but Jens kept neat farm buildings, raised small grains and very sensitive, her hair was light and her eyes were blue. She alfalfa hay. He fattened lambs for market and some years worked hard caring for the needs of he[...]o fatten for spring sales. rooms to college women and rented apartments when she He served on the district school board and the board that discontinued renting to college wo[...]band's business of selling Lutheran Church and the Danish Brotherhood Lodge. He meat. There was[...]to was a respected citizen in the community and greatly en- take, and business clients to make welcome. When she was[...]e a Jens was thoughtful, generous, warm and discerning. call to close a deal or buy animals f[...]-THEO BAY She was an excellent cook and many were the people she invited for meals, and the holiday dinners she prepared. Her coffee parties were famous for the wonderful fellowship and beautifully served food. She greatly enjoyed the hospitality of others, too, and delighted in every activity and festive invitation received. There were duties[...]ers Union, Elks, Danish Brotherhood of Amer- ica, and the First Lutheran Church that she served with interest and enjoyment to a very advanced age. House plants thrived for her and she had an old, old amarillys that bloomed to the happiness of everyone for years. Flowers in the yard and cut flowers indoors were always a real pleasure f[...]rgot the magic words: "yes, please, no thank you, and thank you." Her friends were countless and she was beloved by family and relatives. She died June 18, 1968. Elizabeth and Jens Bay (at top) at their wedding on[...]Christine and Wilhelm Jensen. Jens and Elizabeth Bay[...]ily |
| [...]ing picture was taken in the fall of 1920 when he and his[...]cowboy friends, Charlie Tears, Phil Lyons and Brighham[...]rough string," and all the things it took to be a cowboy. A[...]hard life, but one he loved and enjoyed to the fu!lest.[...]The Bean family was quite musically inclined and Jack and his father, Milton, played for many of the dances[...]ton played the violin and Jack the piano and guitar.[...]held true to this policy, and when Jack married Annis M.[...]wouldn't go without his bride. W.D. accepted this and On their return, they established the Baxter-T[...]d, "We'll make out!" They moved back to the P & 0 and chestra with Hayesl's brother, Francis Tonrey. Th[...]rs, until 1923. many as eight members in the band and traveled to all parts After quitting the P & 0 in the spring of 1923, Jack and of Beaverhead County playing dances. Anson worked[...]in Blind Canyon, a side canyon clerk of the court and eventually as manager of the Montana of Clove[...]0. She had been active in the Presbyterian Church and Eastern Star. Anson Baxter died February 22, 19[...]ated from Beaverhead Coun- ty High School in 1935 and Western Montana College in 1941. She married Lawrence Helfert and resides in East Helena. They have two sons, Lanny and Leo, a daughter-in- law, Tamera, three grandsons and one granddaughter. -BILLI[...]Charlie Tears, Phil Lyons, Jack Bean and Brig Andrew Jackson Bean, better known through[...]in the Centennial Valley. He was the tenth child and from Wolverine Canyon that summer. They were still living the fourth son of Henrietta Sprague and Milton Henry in Blind Canyon when, on[...], their first child, Bean. He spent his childhood and received his schooling in Helen Grace, was b[...]13 for Continuing to live up Blind Canyon and running a trap Joe Buck at the upper end of the v[...]s. Northern Montana, where his sister Rose lived, and worked He got out posts and poles, house logs, and contracted hay. in the flax fields. That fall he, with his brothers Sunny and On the 25th of December, 1927, their second child, an- Ellis, went through Yellowstone Park with teams and wag- other daughter, Norma Montana, was bo[...]in 1917. school. A neice and nephew also stayed with them to attend Too youn[...]mber 2, 1930, their last daughter, Beverly Valley and remembered well the U.S. Cavalry coming in to[...]told the story, "They always picked the best ones and left us the rough ones." A very active and capable cowboy, he loved horses and[...] |
| [...]gust 22nd, at the Jones Cemetery and was the largest[...]have had this season and kept many friends away.[...]and was dating W.D. Sandy, cowpuncher for the P &[...]0 Ranch. She was the second born and the first death Russ and Rosa Bean of a child for the Bean fam[...]Milton Bean and Levi Shambow were the best of[...]property using the land for hay production and graz-[...]and friendship were found in Emmy's trunk. ter of Milton and Henrietta Bean. She was born in Custer |
| he liked the timber country and would not move back to Montana. Ellis was invol[...]he asked Ellis to watch the kids. She had the flu and needed to rest. Ethel snuggled down in the back bedroom and when she awoke she could hear the noisy laughter[...]ck doors were open, the fire in the kitchen stove and living room had gone out. Ice had formed on the floor making it a perfect skating rink for Vernadine and Vernald. Where was Ellis? - sound asleep![...]Henrietta and Emma Bean (1902) She tells of another time when[...]e living at a road construction camp. He had and clothing that belonged to her. just left Seattle[...]Emma attended school until the eight grade and was an union. He was white as a dish towel. The n[...]llowed by grandpa, Milt Bean, after he take water and grub to Ellis until he was out of isolation.[...]was staying with The depression was in full swing and cost for vaccine was $2 mother, Roberta Bean M[...]op of him, killing him instantly. Farmer, $50 and signed by Milton Bean. One of the latter checks if Sunny and Milt went to Washington and brought him back April 11, 1939, to Roe and Fegan for 68 head of yearlings at to the Valley.[...]rights for Shot Gun Creek and Bear Creek, listed as Centen-[...]license of Milton and Henrietta, handwritten with pen and The first child born to Milton and Henrietta Sprauge ink on plain ruled pape[...]marriage licenses, one for the husband to retain and one for Emma was a midget and only grew to three and one-half the wife. The museum in Forsyth d[...]ld be the second tle Emmy" to all of her brothers and sisters. They were marriage. Papers showing registration and purchase price, forever bringing her presents whe[...]runk was brought for Emma by her 1912 and purchased by Bean in 1920. Numerous invoices grandfather, R.O. Bean, in Butte. Grace and Maude, her showing purchases of food, clothing, supplies and equip- sisters, had accompanied R.O. to Butte for a shopping trip. ment. He purchased the trunk, and while they were doing their The oldest[...]Mac McDowell when he worked for Monida Mercantile and ready to get back on the train, old R.O. was pret[...]ones ever However, the girls managed to get R.O. and the new trunk made), old style birthday and Valentine cards, letters from on the train but he[...]uld always bring her expensive gifts when he and news are included. Milt's fishing licenses[...] |
| dated 1864 in the amount of $20 that had been folded and carried in Milt's billfold for years, a Valentine to Grandpa from Loretta, and a letter written by me to Grandma in 1933, thanking her for a doll and candy are still in the trunk. This I must share[...]ote is written on an enve- lope from Baker, Heyne and Co. Union Stock Yards, Chica- go, Illinois. No ye[...]come, burn your horse in the field with the mares and take my horse. I may not be here anymore this win[...]'s note) "October 24, Mr. Bean - I got your horse and put my horse with the mares. I put the collar in[...]Farmer Bean and Raymond Bray Buck. On the back of the envelope we[...]s Milt had made, evidently to figure hay tonnage, and large because Farmer frequently had flat[...]m "Flat Tire Farmer". slang word he had picked up and wanted to remember to He married Et[...]n. They stayed on the Bean ranch for a short time and It is amazing, but in Emmy's trunk were letter[...]el's parents were run- attorneys, Milt's brothers and sisters, telling of the prob- ning the Grand Hotel. The next spring Farmer and Ethel lems they had in settling R.0. Bean's estat[...]that soon went broke because chased orange groves and other property, remarried a wid- there wa[...]s remote area on August 21, 1927 - two California and stayed for sometime to attempt to settle the[...]estate. Nine years after he died, checks written and signed Farmer and Ethel came back to Montana for Christmas in by Mi[...]ember 5, 1928 show equal payments 1927 and stayed with the Beans at Ziegler Hot Springs. of[...]ean, Farmer worked for W. D. Sandy that winter and they hayed to Solomon Bean, Emma J. Smith, Jordan Bean and Nettie for the Halligan ranch out of Lima the next summer. S. Crawshaw, sisters and brothers of Milts. In 1928 Far~er, Ethel, Vernadine and Farmer's brother[...]years. Ethel returned to Montana in 1929 and gave birth to might have something for you! Emmy'[...]e Sunny Bean books of Aunt Grace Judy, Uncle Jack and Aunt An- Ranch. nis Bean, plus th[...]ngton, Farmer worked in the timber in- Muriel Nix and my brother Dean McDowell have preserved a great p[...]mer Floyd Bean was born April 26, 1905, to Milton and Henrietta Bean in Salt Lake City, Utah, the last[...]is given name is Farner, but he was called Farmer and all his legal documents list Farmer as his given name. He and his sister Roberta shared the same birthdate with[...]tended Saunders School in the Centennial Val- ley and school in Monida. A report card that his son Vernald has shows excellent grades and an outstanding record of attendance, very good when you consider the distances and conditions of the times. As a young man Farmer drove an Farmer and Ethel Marie Bean with daughter Verna- old truck.[...]tly were older than the truck dine Marie and son Vernald Floyd[...] |
| dustry, road construction, and for the Reclamation Service about 3,000 head of horses and mules here. at Katcheese Lake. They lived at Katc[...]back from the Fair. The horses didn't buck, years and were snowed in both winters. It was during this[...]time that Farmer was sawing wood with a car motor and belt a flying machine and polo horse races, the best in the world. when a l[...]d by the saw. He hit the log with a Sunny and Buck Riley are guarding a man that tried to get double-bitted axe, which flew back and struck him in the away, they don't like t[...]n of all the boys in camp, 80,000 of us. Farmer and Ethel came back to Montona in 1936 for his Sept. 4-We are at another Fair. Mark and I haven't been mother's funeral. Farmer was worki[...]cons, which took the family to Pinky, Mark and myself, plus some fellows from Miles City. Cle El[...]ere hasn't been a Dillon boy throwed yet. Dillon, and back to Easton, Wash.[...]n Farmer died on Oct. 5, 1965 at Curlew, Wash., and is but we are bringing some life to the[...]ride with chaps, only have spurs and damm poor saddles.[...]Mark Owen Bean was born Feb. 21, 1888, to Milton and the first of next month. Col. Wells told[...]ter, trapper, cowboy, Sept. 15-Sunny and I are on duty at the barn but didn't bronc-buster, and violinist for dances. have anything to do. There is talk of making Cpls and Sgts Mark and his brother Sunny, who was eight years youn- out of us and keeping us here to train men-I hope not. We ger, were inseparable and worked together all the time. got out of quarantine last night. Tent city is full again and They contracted selling green-broke horses tothe[...]of us out. ment. They were about the same height and build, but Mark Sept. 28-We are to move[...]day. We only made KP once, we for the Blake Ranch and got into a fight about playing for a missed o[...]mas. break up the fight, bring them in for supper and send them Oct. 1-We are in quarantine fo[...]uenza, we were to leave here today. There Mark and Sunny were inducted into the Army July 21,[...]etters in Emmy's trunk that were written to and flu. They sent Mark to the hospital this morning, don't the family, tell of the army life and the flu epidemic. The know what he has got b[...]letters, in a small bundle, describe the history and times. feel today. Got a letter from Thelma,[...]s. Sunny is here in the same tent with Riley Buck and hours a day, men are able to drill. Lafe Elliott. Granny Grochet is in Co. 48 and I see him every Oct. 6-Mark is in hospital for 4 days, don't know how he day. Tom Gilbert and Dale John Anderson are here too. is. I[...]. I think I'll be in the Aug. 11-How are Tango and Sorrel Top (horses)? sup- pose they are fat and sassy; wish I had one of them here as it would beat this walking all to HELL. Aug. 16-Sunny and I, Lafe Elliott, Granny and Pinky Gist are going to ride in the State Fair on the 26th. The Colonel signed us up and we will be there for a week. This will be regular[...]lled a POW-WOW. Aug. 19-Sunny, Mark, Riley Buck and myself are in the same squad; we are all about th[...]rds. Aug. 24-We have our clothes, guns, bayonet and pack- outfits. I think we are ready to tra[...] |
| [...]handle them. So the ones that are able have to go and help out. Ran into Mark in the ward today; he has pneumonia and is pretty low but told me she didn't think he wou[...]de, Ro- Captain told him to get back on the train and return home.[...]urlough arrangements to send Sun- and Ellis at Bean gathering in 1931. ny back with Mark's body, and wanted Sunny to have a trip Henrietta wa[...]ried in the Jones Cemetery. seven and to the Rosebud in 1881. -LORETTA McDOWELL CASHMORE, Niece- Times and life for the troubled Bean family improved as[...]they settled into building homes and ranching. In 1884,[...]contacted the sheriff at Miles City; they Milton and Henrietta Bean were looking for R.O. Bean and said they heard he was on Milton Bean was born[...]f said "That can't be your man, he is Rupel Beene and Elizabeth Ann Harper in Gonzales, Texas, a family man and a respected rancher." Rangers replied the third o[...]hem, "Watch May 12, 1858; Solomon, Sept. 11, 1865 and Nettie, Oct. 6, him, he has only one eye bu[...]2, went to Indian Terri- nized them as Rangers and knew they were after him. R.O. tory (Oklahoma), l[...]riving Aug. 10, 1875. Pueblo was the nearest town and pistol, stepped his horse between them, s[...]miles. In the spring of 1876 the Gentlemen" and immediately turned his horse into the family moved to Los Pinos River, by way of Pagosa Springs, brush and escaped. Meantime Milt's mother got word to and began ranching near the Southern Ute Reservation. him and sent Milt with pack horses and supplies to find Rupel changed his name to Russell Owen, his father's R.O. and again they were on run. They headed directly west name, when he left Texas and Jasper became Milton when and came through the Centennial Valley. he left Colorado. This was necessary in order to confuse R.O. and Milt continued moving on, stopping for a while bo[...]in Spokane Falls, Wash., and then headed for Seattle. There In 1891 R.O. go[...]hey watched dudes trying to load cattle on a Milt and his father left Colorado, traveling light and moving freighter. They became involved in helping load the cattle, fast through the Utah and Idaho territory, finally stopping and were hired to take the cattle to Juneau, Alaska.[...]on Dobbs bring the family from Colo- Valley and built a cabin close to where the Bill Jones place[...]t was safe to return May 31, 1883, Milton Bean and Henrietta Sprague were to the Rose bud. m[...]church nor minister, they were married turned and took up a homestead. G.H. Scheid owns his in the[...]of Peace. Eleven children were property now and the original cabins that were the first born to t[...]home in the valley still stand today. Bean Creek and Russell (1886), Mark Owen (1888), Rosa Belle (189[...]Grace Leora (1893), Milton Henry family and they arrived in December of 1886. Brother (1896),[...](1900), Rober- Dobbs Bean brought Henrietta and the three children from ta Eunice (1903), and Farner Floyd (1905). ~he Rosebud and she took up a desert entry homestead near[...] |
| [...]ck was born in 1900, Henrietta developed milk leg and was taken to Salt Lake City for treatment. She wa[...]purchased a Mercantile Store in Cottonwood, Utah, and moved the family. They had this business for about two years and Milt liked the city life. His recreation was the same as most gentlemen of this era - playing poker and drinking booze. One night in a poker game he bet the Mercantile Store and lost the business on a turn of the card. Back to the valley again, came the family-and a mad wife. Milt knew he was in trouble so he stopped drinking and would never allow his sons or anyone to have liqu[...]Thelma and Sunny Bean ranch. Henrietta would not allow a dec[...]reek, building 3, 1899, the second child and first daughter of J.E. Blake cabins, barn and corrals, back in the cattle and horse busi- and Mary Shambow. Both of these important events were[...]ther as the law wanted Milt to move to California and go into business with allows. him. Milt tol[...]would deed one of the When she was two and he was five and the families were orange groves to him. R.0. refused and Milt stayed in the socializing, Sunny took Thelma by the hand and presented Valley.[...]His Since their families were friends and neighbors, they played mother, beneficiary of a government insurance policy, re- together and attended the same schools. Thelma received ceived[...]preferred the After the children were married and left home, Milt and open range and riding the half-wild horses, along side her Henrietta spent winters in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho and father, at Forest Hill Ranch, to the drawing room and knit- Ziegler Hot springs in Dillon. Henrietta di[...]velvet ridi-ng habit, Milt stayed on the ranch and bought himself a new saddle carrying her rawhide rope, and packing her .22 pistol. at the age of 75. On Apri[...]r, Roberta, in her home at Dillon rivers, and lake, and mountains around him for his private until his de[...]5, 1943, at the age of 82. Both hunting and fishing grounds. He learned to shoot, and ride Milton and Henrietta Bean are buried in the Jones Ceme- and use his fists just a little bit better than his c[...]es. Then, as now, to everyone's admiration, Sunny and his -LORETTA MCDOWELL CASHMORE-[...]aughter) of his hands from the pitch fork and the saddle horn to the[...]ddle bow has never been easy. As he grew Sunny and Thelma Bean[...]ing Bean family. However, Collins, granddaughter, and James Blake Bean, son there was a[...]f his broncs that seemed to need extra I of Sunny and Thelma for their Golden Wedding Anni-[...]hers soon got wise to 11 children, to Milton Bean and Henrietta Sprauge in a sod- the bit of merc[...]July found Sunny working on Clover Creek and Thelma in 98-Beaverhead History |
| West Yellowstone. Sunny drove a team and buggy to West Yellowstone to pick up his sweethea[...]re, won the foot race, the bucking horse contest, and the high jump, then dove Thelma back to West Yellowstone, and then back to Clover Creek. For those of you wo ha[...]couple that the courtship had to end. Sunny Bean and Thelma Blake were married in Butte, Montana, June 18, 1918. Probably because of World War I and the imminence of the draft, as it is today, both families criti- sized their quick decision and wondered how long it would last. After a brief ho[...]lls, the couple returned to the Centennial Valley and broke horses under much more convenient circumsta[...]Ralph and Bessie Beardslee on wedding day, Novem- ny was called into service and Thelma went to Butte to live[...]mother. Our new soldier was not long for the guns and drill field, Uncle Sam needed bronc riders for th[...]und himself "riding them Helena in 1924, and Elfreda in Shelby in the mid 1930's, out of the chute" in cities and towns across the midwest. leaving two smal[...]ng horse called Kaiser Bill to a Rose and husband lived in Harlowton, Mont., while Elda sta[...]he National Stock Show in DesMoines, Iowa, and family resided in different places in the state.[...]Washington State, where he was killed in a mining and Granny Grochet. When armistice was signed, Sunny accident. Arby and Carl formed a partnership on a sheep was transfer[...]cher, ry that he put to such good use for himself and his neigh- and moved to Shelby where they invested in oil wells.[...]hen Sun- 1930s they returned to the ranch, and Arby sold his share of ny was discharged in time[...]24, 1937. In the transition between military and civilian life, they Arby's first wife Louise died and he remarried in 1937. He broke saddle horses for $5 a head. Sunny tried mining; Thel- and wife, Nancy, moved to Tempe, Ariz., where they en[...]dent in Arizona in 1952. His 1920, they packed up and moved back to the Centennial body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered on his Valley. There the[...]while they built their first home, a Carl and wife Maude had no children. They raised four-room[...]she would have been 83. How sad, that both Sunny and Thelma, spent their last years of life hobbled in[...], in Ham- ilton Van Buren, Mich., to Dolly (Ames) and Alonza Beardslee. He had five brothers and sisters: Carl, Arby, Charles, Rose and Elda, who were also born in Mich. All of them cam[...]ive children: Helen, (holding Arby), Helen and Howard. Not pictured is Howard, Elfreda, Arby and Charles. Bessie died in Billings you[...] |
| Charles, a newphew and youngest of Ralph and Bessie Beardslee after Bessie died in 1919. Carl[...]Frank and Ella Bell the Gleed brothers on May 27, 1941. Mau[...]k Uber Bell was born April 11, 1886, in Red Rock, and her husband, Carl, died in 1945. Mont., to Samuel Lesslie and Alice Randall Bell, the oldest Ralph and son Howard worked on several ranches in the of five children. The family lived on the Bell ranch and southern part of Beaverhead County. In the 1940s[...]nack where Alice's mother, Sarah McIntosh, lived and Sam Ralph had 12 grandsons, 3 granddaughters and many could get work with the mines. Frank went to school great grandchildren and several great-great grandchildren. through the 7th grade and liked to reminisce about his life in[...]and gambling. Charles and Martha Bell[...]e they started a freight station. Charles Bell and Martha Erica Danielson were married in[...]wagons and gave service to the traffic going and coming den, in 1878 and came to Butte at age 18 with Amanda[...]Gypsies once stopped at the station and stayed overnight. Big Hole Valley and cooked on area ranches. She is said t_o[...]Walker. He was a great race horse and Frank ran him after eating.[...]hat Charlie Bell was born in Ishpeming, Mich., and came to[...]sive gambler and lost Walker in a card game. He never got learned[...]Ella was born to Franz Oscar and Margaret Pehrson Brit- two-story building (now the Conover Building) and laid the[...]ing, ranching and banking in the Beaverhead Valley. Mrs. Church, and it was known as the Bell House until levelled by[...]Linkindoffer hired Ella to help with the children and house- fire in the 1960s. A daughter, Catherine S[...]Frank met Ella. Although she prematurely in 1910 and died two months later. Sons Car-[...]she fell in love with the gam- los, born in 1913, and Frederick in 1917, completed the[...]Logan, Utah. They came back to Beaverhead County and When the United States entered World War I, so[...]Hotel. Francis Wisdom called Charlie "pro-German" and he immediately Tonrey and his sister Hazel Tonrey Baxter played for their went to Missoula and joined the Army, leaving his wife,[...]dance. small sons, and a prospering business behind. While serving[...]y worked in mines in Germany, his shop was looted and, upon his return, he was forced to start all over[...]family to Gibbonsville, Idaho, built a home there and continued to work in the Big Hole area, going from ranch to ranch, doing harness-making and repairing. He also worked throughout the county in Dillon, Horse Prairie, Dell, Grasshopper Valley, and Divide. A year prior to his retirement to his hom[...]te with beautiful flowers. She died there in 1964 and, with her hus- band, is buried in Wisdom Cemetery. Their sons, Carlos and Frederick, who served in World War II, settled in[...]FREDERICK BELL Ella and Frank Bell 100-Beaverhead History |
| [...]they went in business with Frank's sister, Dolly, and her husband Bill Hayes running a bar. The Bells next moved to Butte. They ran a pool hall and a bar across the street from the old fire station on Utah and Mercury Streets. Soon after World War I, Frank sold out and moved to Deer Lodge to ranch. It was there that Ella became sick and died unexpectedly. Frank never married[...]iam Bell Sarah Elizabeth Gatton Bell again and always talked about his "Darling Ella." The family lived mostly between Butte and Dillon while when Sarah was eight years old, and her father found it the children were growing up.[...]in a Catholic convent, where to school in Dillon and at other times in Butte, often staying she grew up and went to school. On May 24, 1855, Sarah with relat[...]Gatton and John Bell were married and made their home in , In the early 1930s Frank and Floyd took out a homestead Sangamon County until 1872. His sister Mary and husband over the Montana line on Horse Prairie, l[...]last ranch on Horse before. In 1872 John and Sarah and six children joined the Prairie in Montana belonged to his mother and stepfather, Keeton family. Here they helped on the Keeton ranch. Art and Alice Salmon. Here he tried starting a new life.[...]his barn up Grizzly again pulled stakes and headed for Montana, leaving behind Mountain. He s[...]ry Catherine Bell Townsend. Although he recovered and could run his ranch, he never did The fam[...]Frank sold his ranch to Curly McFarley in 1943 and lived home was in a half dug-out, half log cabin. They raised between Dillon and Butte. In 1945 his three children moved chickens and eggs and took them to town to sell. Sarah to Dillon and he joined them, where he lived the remainder finally moved to Dell and worked in the cafe to help make of his life. He died September 21, 1954, and is buried in the ends meet. When their childre[...]-DARLENE HILDRETH Rachel McIntosh and family. Sarah died June 5, 1911, and[...]buried at Grants Pass. John Bell moved back home and lived with his daughter and son-in-law Ephriam and Carrie John and Sarah Bell[...]from family histo- Both Frank Bell and Dan Peterson related stories of ry of John Bell's[...]friend of Abe Lincoln. They split ties on terson and Mary Little and from "The Sangamon the railroad, played some sort of ball game and Indian wres- County History Book."[...]He was born of his famous cases in Springfield and win it. Needless to say May 2, 1828, in Berkely County, W.Va., to Zebulon Bell and John was a strong Republican. He also serve[...]he fourth of eleven children. In May Dillon and had strong convictions as to what was right and of 1834 the family moved to Illinois in a covered[...]was somewhat stubborn, he was good, trip was slow and many stops were made along the way. kind, and patient. Because land could be had at such low price, the family John and Sarah's children included: Mary, who married didn[...]ard life but went to work John Townsend and raised a family in Colorado; Samuel, building a h[...]cabin in Sangamon who married Alice Randall and ran the stage stop at Mill- County.[...]point; John William, Jr. married Sarah Ann Gleed and John was brought up a strict Presbyterian. His father and worked in Anaconda; Alice married Snyder Hammond and grandfather helped build the church and organized the died in Dillon in 1911;[...]bath School Society." John worked on the and made their home in Grants Pass, Ore.; Emma marrie[...]addams-she died at Dell. Carrie Lee married mill, and split ties for the railroad. Ephriam Peterson and they made their home in Dell, where Sarah Eliz[...]k at age 18 Springfield, Ill., to Josephus Gatton and Mary Burtle Gat- during the flu epidemic af[...]of five children. Her mother passed away and Cafe. Harriet (Haddie) married Arthur Butts and they[...] |
| lived in Butte where she died in 1964. John's brothers and sisters were very musical, as were some of his children. Many played the fiddle at dances, and, of course, singing was a must. "Ole Dan Tucker"[...]e he used for his grandsons. John William Bell and his three covered wagon journeys and his wife Sarah with her two journeys are truly re[...]They moved to San Diego, Calif., in horse, saddle and bridle, and bought a ticket as far as his 1923. I left Montana for California in 1925 and got a job in money would take him headed west. In[...]to graduate from high school in 1927. cleaning up and sweeping out the place. Next morning, un-[...]hole in his head was sitting against by Eliel's and the State Bank for 18 years. it.[...]Company and was hired away from them to work on a gas[...]at age 80 and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery beside[...]parents, James Henry and Mary Fyffe Berry near Indepen-[...]ended school, pupils were taught geography, Louis and Margaret Bell with children (from left) Lil- and James was fascinated with the Montana Territory and lian, Anne and Ethel[...], a tenderfoot on the job, there were snipe hunts and such to C.S.A. from 1861 until 1865 and told Jim to stay out of it. toughen him up to the[...]. The Craver Naturally, he went to enlist and was rejected because of Ranch was his next st op-and also where he met my moth- "weak lungs." er. Margaret May Ellerman, cook and bottle washer, was So he and a friend decided to come to Montana, and at born May 16, 1876, at a place near Springfield, Mo. She and Dillon they got a job on the Graves Dredge in Bannack. Louis were married in January, 1900, and leased a ranch When the friend got fired and went back home, Jim stayed called the Matson Plac[...]tt near Armstead In a year he had a band of sheep and lived on the Hoffman and then had other jobs, finally leasing a ranch on t[...]ng settled in, he re- Ranch, 5 miles from Dillon, and Ethel Helen was born there turned to Missour[...]og house. Lillian Lambert was born April 4, 1907, and a Cora was born in 1903, Gordon in 1906, R[...]pe Ranch. In 1916 he built a Donald in 1911 and Laurence in 1917. house across the road fr[...] |
| [...]we'd walk out in the street where cars or winter and was water commissioner on Blacktail during the[...]UTH SCHUELTZ horse, with wild flowers all around, and a spring in every little draw. Then the homesteaders arrived, and he bought a threshing machine and the crops were tremendous. One Christmas I remember, he came home for the holiday and then went back out. He had a tent to sleep in, fo[...]g. They raised bumper crops for several years, and I remem- ber the grinding noise of the wheels of those big wagons full of wheat on the snowy roads, and it was cold. But then came the dry years, any moisture in the subsoil was gone, and the tumbleweeds took over and the home- steaders left, many of them on the nigh[...]of furniture. The bank on the corner of Glendale and idaho went broke and Dad was a heavy loser too. Dillon was once the largest shipper of wool in the state, Amede and Alzire Bessette with son Adolph and I remember those big loads of wool coming up Kent[...]Amede Bessette They sheared in June, and Gordon would get a wool tying Born March[...]ing at the Sam Peterson place in the cois and Elizabeth Bessette. Big Hole.[...]North Platte River and Yellowstone River areas from 1860[...]via the South Platte River route and the Bridger Cutoff. He[...]arrived in Virginia City on July 8, 1864, and soon after went[...]Wing and Elkhorn mining districts. Sadie and James Berry He also owned and operated various ranching interests, When Don[...]owned what is now till haying time. Burl Stevens and Don Light and I don't the George Shaffner Ranch. In 189[...]ng. In the horse days it was a long summer's job, and Pierce, wife of Tom Pierce, Sr. kids knew[...]lling to He owned a fine herd of horses and in 1882 registered a make some money. Gordon told[...]e in the upper Grasshopper ning a trapline before and after school. and Horse Prairie Valleys. In 1900 he sold his entire[...]the valley where horses to Thomas Clement and Randolph Paddock for $10 a people had irrigation,[...]m in the Bagley school, the nor Edgerton, and a member of the Vigilante group who fourth and fifth graders had to go to school at the Normal[...]for 35 years. The old double- We walked to school and walked home for lunch. If there barreled[...]his was a heavy snow we'd carry a lunch with us. And there escapades, saloon brawls and holdups was the envy of all the would be a[...] |
| [...]d him on the day Plummer was Best and several of his student friends saved eight lives.[...], They pushed a heavy plank out the window and across the short of cash, he sold it to Fred Pack[...]Floyd, set up a dental office in Alzire LeMays and Amede were married in Bannack and Dillon and practiced there for years, and also for a while in became parents of one son, Ad[...]as a fine musi- Butte. cian, taught piano and was active in a variety of musical Dr[...]or until Margaret Pearson performances in Bannack and Dillon. They were divorced arrived on[...]graduate of Iowa State University, June 26, 1891, and she left the community a few years later s[...]the chancellor of the University of Wyo- maturity and Alzire died rather young.[...]n the mining Mont. She taught for a year and then was caught up by the industry in Bannack and the neighboring districts. He al- dedicated bachelor and the two were married. ways predicted that Bannack[...]Normal College (now Western Montana College) and to Yellowstone Park in 1882. He took a large group to Gey- taught and tutored at a big dude ranch in Wyoming. And ser Land or Wonder Land as it was called then and they she continued that work at the Whiteman ranch and other camped out for a full month.[...]ings to soak in University of Chicago, and Northwestern University, being the hot water.[...]Amede's brother Olivier died early in the 1880s and left a While studying at Northwestern, sh[...]as a ian at Deering Library on the campus and, after graduation, great help to her and her family and was known for his continued that post[...]rn to the Dr. Bests in Dillon on October 6, 1916. and an Astrakhan cloak.[...]e Meade Hotel in Bannack where he died and graduated magna cum laude. February 28, 1918. He[...]on pop- his lot with the "old camp" for all time and he died in the ulation studies at the Univ[...]request to be buried beside his old-time friends and in the housing field. Then he was appoi[...]study group at the University of North Carolina and set up[...]his own communications operation with domestic and for-[...]ctions. He wrote several books on human rela- Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Floyd[...]ject. He and his wife, Lois, live in Chapel Hill, N. C.[...]Richey Poor, an Illinoi- The first child of Mr. and Mrs. 0. M. Best was Herbert san, in 194[...]oyd Best, born February 21, 1883. He grew up tall and fast son Hole. She had met Mr. Poor at Nort[...]n the first Best home at the corner of West Morse and ty, where he published fraternity and sorority chapter pa- Railroad Avenue. He attended[...]ecutive from a number of the original Vigilantes, and later witnessed a Fortune 500 corporati[...]While at Northwestern, Helen Ida and Winfield changed It was decided that the boy sh[...]was that it was easier desire to become a dentist and he enrolled at Northwestern to spell in the press, on theatre programs and on posters. University in Evanston, Ill., where h[...]carried on for several years even after her mar- and entered the Northwestern University Dental School[...]The Poors live~ first in Aurora, Ill., and then for seven During the dreadful Iroqu[...] |
| Oswego and Yorkville. In 1950, they moved to Clarendon Railroad and was appointed relief operator at Minidoka, Hills,[...]b, where Mr. Poor still resides. Idaho. So he and 'Ida moved there shortly. But when Ida They had t[...]to the centennial farm in Michigan to have ters); and Nancy Winfield Poor, now Mrs. William E. Hen-[...]y home near Lemont, Ill., (one daugh- there, and stayed for two years to bring up her little boy,[...]garet sought em- Railroad as head agent and telegrapher. His place of busi- ployment. She had[...]s the mountains who heard about the family's need and thought he might called Dillon. He and his wife were ecstatic, both being of help. Befor[...]ntal in having her ap- adventurist nature and there was a significant increase in pointed direc[...]. Montana. This, even though she was a Republican and he a So the young couple with their little boy arrived in the Democ~at. She and young Winfield moved to Helena, where Be[...]n from her the broad valley, the mountains, and names such as Beaver office.[...]shopper, Rattles- After Dr. Best was cured, Tom and Hughie Call urged him nake and Bannack. Over the ensuing years, in the growing t[...]in Ennis, because there was no Best family and its offshoots, it was often said that Herbert dentist in the entire Madison valley. So he did, and served Floyd Best had the good sense at age[...]upwards of 25 years, until his death Montana and bring his mother with him. at age 83.[...]d medical doctors in town: Dr. Clancy (long gone) and Dr. Brothers Company and the Montana Mercantile Company, Ronald Losee (sti[...]tered nurse. He also depended on the brothers and Faye Irwin, he founded the Wes tern Whole- then E[...]also was a partner in the nearby New health care and commiseration-locals, wranglers, hay dig- Departure silver mine and the Schwartz Sheep Company on gers, desperados, rodeo riders, ranchers, dudes and million- the Madison County side of the Gravelly Range. aire visitors from Indianapolis, Chicago and New York City. Looking for a manager to run the sheep ranch, he hired Heine and Tana reputedly made the best ice cream sodas in[...]d at age 96 in LGrange Park, Ill. ries and books, including a 1942 best seller, "Golden[...]names themselves. Thus, he became -0. M. and Ida Best widely known as "O. M." Best and built a suitable mansion Oly Menzo Best was bo[...]ome shortly after being graduated from and Railroad Avenue in Dillon. At his wife's insisten[...]h but he had not. He was a whiz at the Morse Code and places, upstairs and down, were faced with ornate cast iron. shortly secured employment as the agent and telegrapher The residence still stands,[...]was a tall, lovely young lady named Ida County and was reelected in 1934, 1936 and 1938. He also Elizabeth Pierce, an accomplished pianist and horsewoman served twice as county commissioner, and was city alderman who lived on an historic farm a[...]several times. He was on both the high school and public fell in love and were married on February 17, 1881. The s[...]20 years, he upwards of 200 guests in the mansion and connected sta- was trustee of the Method[...]as a lifelong member of the Masonic Order, Dillon and dozens of the guests had to be put up for the nig[...], Oly Best applied to the Union Pacific plar, and Bagdad Temple Shrine of Butte.[...] |
| [...]-DONALD R. POOR Dr. Frank and Marie |
| homestead in 1914 from Ernest Geary and Charles Calvert. machinery at a public[...]-ADELAIDE BIRRER BEARDSLEE alfalfa, grains and livestock, but were unsuccessful at dry land farming. Adelaide, Dorothy and H. Gerald were born, the latter[...]Charles Robert Blake, M. D. dying in 1919. Henry and Andrew dissolved the partnership Dr.[...]er. He took his medicine in the east and served one year as intern in the family back to I[...]rray Hospital at Butte. He came to Dillon in 1914 and returned to Dell in the winter of 1920-21. Charle[...]same year he married Elizabeth Groenvelt of Butte and they Between 1922 and 1929 five more children were born: r[...]h Pacific Street. Rachel, Emmett, Ruby, Herschel, and H. Theodore. Dr. Blake ende[...]r was pumped by pleasing presence and his sincere devotion to caring for the hand; laun[...]tove. As there was no electricity, kerosene lamps and lan- by Spanish influenza at age 33. Tend[...]us disease, he, too, became a vic- ming the wicks and shining the chimneys. There was a wall tim. Being in a weakened condition from overwork and lack telephone on a party line, but service was never restored of sleep, pneumonia set in and he died in a week's time, after vandals destroyed[...]leaving his wife and two children, Betty (3) and Robert (17 Margaret made clothes from flour sa[...]high regard the community held for this uncommon and refilled with new straw every fall. Horse and buggy was man was described in an editori[...]avorite team of horses, The Dillon Tribune and reads in part: "Seldom is an entire Dix and Ditto, was killed by lightning near the house. Lu[...]s Robert Blake. He was the embodiment of all that and livestock died during severe winters.[...]good .... his generous sympathies inspired a warm and Henry, a carpenter, remodeled his home and built other lasting admiration .... His[...]cut ice on the river, storing it for the summer, and cut firewood for himself and his neighbors.[...]e. Before Henry built a bridge James and Mary Jane across the river, the children crossed[...]Bitterroot Valley, James Edward Blake and Mary Jane (Mayme) Shambow settling in Hamilton. That fall Henry sold his livestock and were married on Christmas Day 1894, at the[...]Ranch in Lakeview. Ed Blake's mother and sister were there[...]livestock and milking the cows.[...]Mayme was born in Oregon (August 1879) and had come[...]was born in Virginia City in 1867 to Michael and Catherine[...]chael, Edward, Rose and Lizzy.[...]and four children were mentioned as well as several o[...]n Pipe Stone. Al Theodore, Clarus, Rita, Adelaide and Dorothy. Front Noyes was the teac[...]ing row: Margaret, Clifford, Rachel, Emmett, Ruby and executive, Roderick Legg[...] |
| [...]ple, relatives and friends, who could go along if they fur-[...]nished food, tents and bedding. There would be extra saddle[...]horses and the trip took about six weeks.[...]In 1915, after low cattle prices and hard winters, it be-[...]four horse teams and coaching dudes through the Park for a[...]couple of summers (1915 and 1916).[...]Blake's poor health, and obtained a rooming house on North[...]After the war Mayme became a midwife in Butte and Ed[...]per Tanks in Meaderville. In 1920 Mayme Vaneta and Ethel Blake with Pelott youngster started yet another adventure, traveling and selling a health traveled and worked in most of the Montana territory be-[...]en- tennial Valley he stopped at a spring to rest and water his horses. There he met a man who had take[...]low the knees years before. His name was Sprague, and he was anxious to get back to the Rosebud Country. Ed Blake had a team, a wagon, and a saddle horse. Sprague offered him the home- stead for the team and wagon and Blake accepted the offer and sent Sprague on his way. Ironically, two of Ed Bl[...]of Sprague's grandsons years later. When Ed Blake and Mayme SHambow were married, they lived there and raised a family. Five children were born to them:[...]ine in 1899, Michael in 1901, Ethel Marie in 1909 and Vaneta Montana in 1912. Michael died of pneumonia as an infant and Earl was drowned in the Red Rock River in the sum[...]nding high school in Dillon during the winter. He and Michael are buried in the cemetery in the upper end of the Valley. The Blakes raised cattle and horses on the ranch - strong Mayme and Ed Blake with Thelma (10), Ethel (1), and beautiful work horses, carriage horses and saddle and Earl ( 14) horses. Mayme became a fine cook and housekeeper as well as an adept horsewoman. She always drove a fast team and Monida Hotel for a year and then in 1925 they operated the buggy when she wen[...]Ed died November 22, 1928, of a heart attack and is them when she came home. There was great sadne[...]he two boys, but it was a busy life. Thanksgiving and In 1943 Mayme married James Palmer o[...]Christmas were times for celebration with family and and moved to California. After the second World War t[...]use no one years old. They retired then and lived a busy life until Jim could drive a team ho[...]died in 197 4. Mayme died at the age of 98 and is buried in were held on Sundays at some of the[...]LAKE WILLOUGHBY with races, bucking horses, etc., and a dance afterwards. Monida also celebrated July 2[...]James and Edith Blair grazing on the hills and the ranch hand was irrigating the James[...]er 12, 1878, son of supplies, food, clothes, soap and bedding and go through William Greenbury Blair and Emma Jane Firster. Yellowstone Park. Besides the[...]ere other peo- In 1917 he moved to Dillon and was one of the partners 108-Beaverhea[...] |
| EDITH AND JAMES BLAIR who built the Lloyd and Blair Garage and apartment house. Jim Blair and Centennial Valley friend He was engaged in busine[...]now part of the Red Rock Lakes Refuge. Masons and a member of Masonic lodges for 50 years.[...]1881, at -Liz and Sam Brenneman Wellsville, Utah. She was the fourth of eight children born to Timothy F. Parkinson and Jane Leishman Greer. She came to Beaverhead county in 1901 and had since resided in[...]her-in-law, W.E. Lloyd. gave his age as 18 and enlisted on October 10, 1861. He They were member[...]to Kentucky and two years later, in the spring of 1867, he[...]ed to Bannack later that year when he con- age 19 and resided in Madison and Beaverhead Counties tracted to carry ma[...]the mouth of Beaverhead Canyon) to Argenta and Bannack. He combined stock ranching in the Cen[...]und work in the with operation of a fish hatchery and was believed to be the Graeter placer diggings[...]d later become famous Michigan, to Mr. and Mrs. James S. Ferster and came to for its "monsters."[...]ts at the age of five years. While A sportsman and conservationist who loved the outdoors, livi[...]llie Jim guided many visitors on pack horse trips and big game May, 1874; Frank P., 1876, and James Frederick, 1878. hunting expeditions throughout Montana and Alaska. He During the early 1870s Mr[...]nsporta- collected numerous specimens from Alaska and later pre- tion business, running a stage line between Bannack and sented them to a library in Welleston, Ohio.[...]his time between Ban- Creek. He live-trapped elk and swans, which were shipped nack and Horse Prairie helping John Pierce with his cattle[...]responsible for However, he was with his wife and children in Bannack at stocking Blair Lake and Lake Lillian. the time[...]ef Joseph Following sale of his ranch to Mamie and Joe Buck in and his Nez Perce Indians, in retreat followin[...] |
| [...]National Bank and the Hartwig Theatre in Dillon for a[...]burn Thompson, March 11, 1929, and they lived for a few[...]them. She died September 1, 1973, and is buried in Moun-[...]tain View Cemetery, Dillon. Emma Jane and William Blair Timothy W[...]. Meade of Butte August stage line between Dillon and Virginia City, but in 1884 he 18, 1941, in Se[...]e died turned his attention to full-time ranching and developed his July 5, 1972 and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Butte. land on Horse Prairie into a fine stock ranch which he and his wife operated until they retired in 1915. Mr.[...]August 27, 1933, Mrs. Blair died March 27, 1937, and both[...], a revolutionary soldier. where they established and operated a fine stock ranch until His wife was[...]their marriage. Mr. Sheser died January 25, 1951 and Mrs. Dillon, Montana. They :were married Fe[...]victims of the cholera epidemic pleted a handsome and commodious dwelling which was the and both died within a short time of each other when[...]very young. In Missouri he was a farmer, owned and operat- October 13, 1902, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In addition to the ed a grist (flour) mill and a saw mill. Being a miller (mill- hotel Mr. Blair owned and operated the general store and right) he was conscripted into the Confederate Army of saloon in Grant until they retired and moved to California. General Price during the Civil War and was taken to Spring- Mrs. Blair died June 24, 1946, and Mr. Blair on March 18, field, Missouri, to[...]In 1865, at about the close of the war, he and his wife and James Frederick Blair was born September 12, 1878, in three small children (Mary, Sarah and Will) left Missouri in Bannack. He married Edith[...]ck, 1905; Nellie Montana, 1907; Gyme Edith, 1909; and a son Timothy William, 1911. Mr. Blair died in January 1953 and Mrs. Blair died October 3, 1967; both are buried[...]e. She married James Elmer Selway April 25, 1925, and they settled on Mr. Selway's ranch on Trail Creek[...]y operat- ed the ranch until they retired in 1968 and moved to Dillon. Mrs. Selway died February 20, 1974 and Mr. Selway died December 12, 1980. Both are burie[...]Geoge and Harriet Boatman 110-Beaverhead History |
| [...]center and he spent his reclining years there. He was a[...]staunch Democrat and an active member of the Methodist Jf/l! .JlRE HEREBY SUM.M:O.>, ED to be and appear in the Distric t Coiirt of,1 the~LJu,dicial District of the Ten·itory of Jlfonta,na, in and f or the CoztnhJ of Episcopal Church. We[...]t H onse in Dillon, in said in the Ruby Valley and in Dillon were Rev. Hugh Duncan,[...]Bros. Van Orsdel and Riggin, and others. SPrve as~d..Jnror. H[...]ranching and moved to Dillon from the Centennial Valley[...]1837 and died in 1922 at Dillon where he is buried in the a covered wagon drawn by an ox team and crossed the plains[...](References from "Pioneer Trails and Trials" of Virginia City as he had come west in 1[...]Madison County and from "Autobiography of Mary place available in Vi[...]Boatman Townsend'') where ·logs had fallen and were piled with dirt and built a lean-to and spent the winter there. A son Robert was born there. Boatman and Johnson worked that winter making[...]Robert Thornton Boatman spilings and mine timbers for mining gold in Alder Gulch.[...]new adventure and experiences. That was in 1881. He hired Stone Cre[...]out as a cattle driver and helped drive a herd of cattle to Boatman built[...]s employed by LG. Baker Co. a large cattle, horse and higher ground a mile from the first cabin. All th[...]rvice. At McLeod in 1885, in Jr., Harriet Lenhart and Ruby Minton).[...]ng outfit, the teams were commandeered Boatman and Johnson invested in a small herd of dairy by the Canadian Government and divided into four horse cattle which had been driven from Utah by Johnson and teams to transport ammunition and artillery. The Riel Re- others. They soon started a meat delivery route and pursued bellio[...]McLeod to Calgary and joined a large command under Ma- Creek Grist Mill and operated Silver Spring Mill which is[...]y no mater years. In tyhe ensuing years he farmed and also raised a what happened. The drivers were a little nervous and won- large vegetable garden; some of which he use[...]dered how the teams would act under fire. The men and the Virginia City with fresh produce.[...]en they saw Shinese miners chasing one another up and down the hills and gulliesd, yelling and swinging axes, picks, shovels and knives. It was a Tong War in progress. They could[...]erving this terrrifying sight, they turned around and went back home. In 1887 Mr. Boatman settled on[...]ad Ranch. Boatman improved the land by irrigation and made it one of the most valuable farms in that se[...]nown as Boatman Lake up near the Birch Creek area and helped construct the Essler Lake dam for irrigation purposes. He finally left this farm to reside in Dillon and lived in Dillon at 416 S. Atlantic Street and also Robert and Elizabeth Boatman honeymooning in owned ot[...] |
| [...]and somebody would yell "get off the line so I can ge[...]Thornton born 1907, died 1915; Harriet born 1910 and twin[...]Ed Roe and it was known as the 7L Ranch. In 1919 he sold[...]Centennial Cattle Co. He owned a home in Dillon and for a Haying with oxen on Boatman Ranch in Centen[...]Lodge In 1888 R.T. Boatman returned to Montana and worked 1 in Virginia City and also a charter member of the Elks for cattle outfits for a time. In 1892 he bought and shipped Lodge in Virginia City. horses and mules to Kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Ar- In 1922 he moved to a ranch in Idaho near Monida. He kansas and other southern states. For 25 years he was one of[...]dividual shippers of horses out of Montana. and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. Ma[...]ark Ranch in the Upper Boatman died in 1966 and she is also buried there. Ruby Valley. Here he bred horses and mules and ran cattle. -HARRIET BOATM[...]a History 1907 he moved his horses, mules, cattle and equipment to Book, Madison County History Book, and the Auto- the Centennial Valley where he had acqu[...]Ruby and Pearl Boatman to Utah and then to Montana; trailed from Monida to the[...]ranch in the Valley. The winters proved to harsh and the family was born in the Ruby Valley, Oc[...]wboy. He R.T. Boatman trained oxen to the yoke and used them to lived on his · horse, wore a[...]rge fields of wild hay. it was during one boots and spurs. of these haying operations with a crew of[...]t He homesteaded in the Centennial Valley and worked on he experienced the I.W.W. (I won't work) movement. He ranches for his brother, Robert and his brother-in-law, Will came home from twon one day and found all the hay crew Metzel. sitting around. They wanted more money and refused to He married Pearl Hosner who was his sister Etta Metzel's work. R.T. Boatman sat down and wrote out their checks for housekeeper at th[...]hem that was their problem. Centennial Land and Cattle Company which was buying up They all walke[...]e was a 14 year old boy in the group Ruby and Pearl lived in Dillon for a short time, finally w[...]They lived there until his death on May 29, 1961. and listened to the older men. I was never so glad to see a Ruby and Pearl had no children of their own but adopted li[...]n in my life as when I saw Monida from the hill and raised a girl. Pearl, who was born Feb. 11, 1890,[...]n a Missoula Cemetery. About 1908 R.T. Boatman and J.D. Doyle, a rancher who[...]INS lived near the Boatman Ranch, became partners and estab- lished a telephone company which ran up th[...]Otto and Ella Boetticher the lineman for the company. The office and switchboard Otto Boetticher was born F[...]is mother, Mrs. Elizabeth people who bought stock and had a phone. Sometimes this Boetticher, and worked for his uncle in the banking and 112-Beaverhead History |
| [...]first public school and later entered high school here. Otto married E[...]of the Bond Gro- who owned a ranch near Glendale and worked for the Hecla cery Company in Dillon and the brother of Dr. Harry Bond, Consolidated Minin[...]ian of that era. Both brothers died when the mine and smelter closed down. The Bateman fam- in[...]nd died January 23, 1964. Survivors included a ed and a number of the family still reside.[...]here they was educated in the Dillon schools and received a degree in reared 10 children and operated a grocery store. Some of the dentistr[...]father died. In 1945 he sold this business and, with his son Mrs. Henry (Frances) Meine,[...]ased) businessman raised by his grandmother and attended Dillon schools. He in Jackson, Montana, where his son Jim and family now died suddenly in 1982. resid[...]emi-re- the Civil War broke out, he enlisted and served through tired and former lawyer for the National Labor Relations[...]a College. up civil engineering and in 1881 he brought his family to Paul G. Boetticher and his wife, Verla, have remained Montana, settli[...]er- in Dillon, where they are active in community and church head Valley was ranching and later he was elected to several affair[...]terms as county surveyor. He and his wife had eight chil-[...]e of his children lived their lives out in Dillon and -VERLA BOETTICHER[...]Bond family to reside in the Beaverhead Valley and he Anna was the fourth of five children in the[...]medicine for 31 years here. During his many years and Mrs. Peter Wilson, Bannack pioneers who came to t[...]world in the Dillon area. He had four children and they also Mr. Wilson worked as a blacksmith at[...]miles south- last of his family to live here and she died in 1974. Dr. Bond east of Dillon. Anna W[...]s was seven years prior to the founding of Dillon and Carl Bond, a son of Benjamin Bond, lived[...]Poindexter school, lon. He married Anna Wilson and they had one son E. W. three miles south of what[...]ty in 1880, she attended the number of years and was active in civic affairs. His wife[...]and at the time of her death in 1964 was Beaverhead C[...]graduated from the Dillon schools and went on to receive a[...]business and with his son Phillip assumed management of[...]illon Implement Co. In 1974 the business was sold and[...]Adell. She married James Murray in 1891 and by that mar-[...] |
| [...]7 /00 - Their home was known as the "Country Inn" and was the 4/11/76) who married Alberta M[...]ed in Missoula, Mr. Murray was active in politics and was elected to the Montana, in 1924; Anna[...]ntributed to the welfare of the 1, 1922, and was a homemaker in Salmon, Idaho and Dillon; Beaverhead Valley for over 100 years with[...]he Hunt (died 1955) from Waterloo in 1927 and later farmed son of Dr. E.W. Bond. near Waterloo in the 1930's and 1940's; Lester Chester (12/[...]13/87) from Alpena, S.Dak., in 1932 and later became a George and Annie Bott landscaper in Los Banos and Mountain View, Calif.; John George Bott was born Nov. 2, 1869, and died Dec. 20, Henry (6/5/12 - 1/26/49) w[...]n 4/ 1940. His wife Annie was born Jan. 18, 1864. and died Nov. 6/12) in 1933 and later was a jeweler in Redwood City and 10, 1951. Both were born in Birmingham, England. Grass Valley, Calif.; and Edward Horace (6/20/16 - 8/13/67) After settli[...]e stopped mining, he became the first 1936 and later carpentered in the Missoula and Arlee Mon- caretaker of Mountain View Cemetery. He planted the ave- tana, areas. nue of evergreens and many other other trees throughout Charlie Bourquin gave up his homestead around 1917 and the cemetery. The avenue has since been replaced with new moved into Dillon where the family lived and managed a trees.[...]the bank of the on the Dillon Police Force and was an active member of the Blacktail River to ab[...]Vandegrift. He subsequently farmed near Waterloo and re- narrow, one-room building heated with a cookstove and a tired near Twin Bridges and in Dillon where he died Janu- small heating stove[...]e farming in the Waterloo area the Bourquins kept and then, as they had enjoyed in England. livestock and raised produce for their own needs. Mr. Bour-[...]ate out of the Blacktail River. They also had and great respect for the law. a large greenhouse. Th[...]-SAMUEL E. DA VIS use and surplus was sold to the Montana Mercantile Store. George had a beautiful voice and loved to climb to the top of the mountains and sing just to hear the echo. He sang for many year[...]ckly learned not to sing with that much gusto. He and wife made English plum pudding every Christmas fo[...]members. He left all his property to Miss Long and Mrs. Blackburn in exchange for care for his wife[...]of her life. The two women sold the Bott property and bought a home at 913 South Washington St., which[...]ie very well as she just wanted to be a housewife and a gardener and to be with George. Back row, from le~: M[...]Camella and Douglas; front row: Lester Chester,[...]MORE TAYNE John Henry and Mildred Wilson. Charles Horace Bourquin[...]. (shortly after the Civil War). He grew up |
| [...]meant that he and his friend Happy Hubbard, proprietor of[...]the White Cafe, spent many hours hunting ducks and deer[...]known by young and old and his sharp wit and memory[...]Jay passed away July 26, 1963, and is buried in the Lima Jay ... pumpin' away with f[...]Cemetery. in 1879, accompanied by his youngest and oldest sisters, he[...]e they took a stage to Virginia City, Livingston, and on to a health resort known as Hunt-[...]John and Mayme Bray ers Hot Springs where they had an aunt[...]ohn Harvey Bray was the third son born to William and one of the doctors. After turning the girls over[...]he began his life as a cowboy. His older sisters and brother The family moved to Centennial Valley[...]ed to go into Livingston where the magic of and was a driver for the Monida to West Yellowstone Stage. railroading began its appeal. He left the ranches and worked He met and married Mayme Larson at Lakeview on July 28, for[...]s venture, he went back to ranches in the central and eastern part of the state, working at one time for Harvey and Treglow near Miles City, part of the well known Hatchet Outfit. He met Margaret Mumey in Billings and they were married in 1889. Jay went to work for the Northern Pacific and began a railroad career that would span 30 years.[...]ed by the superintendent of the Oregon Short Line and after a few minutes of conversation, Jay decided[...]. , , J;, In 1914, Jay and his brother-in-law~ Charles Van Housen, purchased[...]ng in Lima, tending bar, when their first in 1919 and the drought of that year made the winter of[...]s little hay for the moved back to the Valley·and a second son Raymond Lee cattle, so Mr. Brandenbu[...]mber 6, 1909, at the ranch home where they Idaho, and then from Oregon. Finally he decided to ship[...]Idaho to save the cost of shipping Montana, and drove them over the divide to summer range feed.[...]l. Their daughter, Carrie Arlene, was born period and after his wife died, he decided to move back to[...]In 1917 they left the ranch and went into partnership with Jay and his old friend 0. C. Gosman went into a partner-[...]hom they later bought out. They raised Black ship and purchased the Lightning Service Station at the Angus cattle and rented the upper ranch from a brother and south end of town. The two old-time railroaders c[...]anch was home to the Van Antwerps, Laura was cook and "retire." He spent several years "fooling around"-which her three children (Roland, Hope and Kenneth) all went to[...] |
| [...]lked John C. into coming John Bray and Yearlings down to Dillon[...]was then a dairy farm supplying butter mer range and cow camp. Bobby Allen was chief cook. The[...]ught what was the Nye Place in 1936. It and Winters. In 1878, after the Battle of the Big Hol[...]They stopped at the ranch, perhaps for supplies and ban- Mayme Bray died in February 1965 and John in May dages; the cook panicked, shot at the Indians, and a fight 1965. They are buried in Dillon.[...]-ETHEL MILLER BRAY and one in the hayfield (other men on the haycrew esc[...]tana was unhealthy and left. William Bray was born at Tavistock, near[...]7, 1845. Eliza Jane Montague's estate, and added property to it. He and Cy McGaham was born August 14, 1848 at Bonne Terr[...]Salmon, Idaho country. Missouri to Corinne, Utah and then by covered wagon to John C. Bren[...]January 24, 1877; John Harvey, December 1, 1880, and Railroad Company, the Girard National Bank, and the Charles Lamott, June 22, 1882. Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., and an ardent Democrat. The family came to the Centennial Valley in 1894, and In 1874 John C. married Miss Isabel White[...]hildren, Henry the Red Rock Lakes. William, Eliza and son Albert played (Hal), William, and Charlie. In 1885, John C. moved his for dances.[...]Prairie. Albert died in the Centennial in 1901 and his father in The property continued to[...]. He met his wife Mayme Larson, Dillon) and it is said that John C. never rode horseback. It[...]h ever since. The three children, Barney, Raymond and Arlene. ranch headquarters was also a post office at one time and a Charles Bray met his wife, Helen Amy Curtis, when she stop on the Gilmore and Pittsburg Railroad. , came to t[...]ed July 3, Charlie toddled out between a mare and her colt. The mare 1910. They had three sons, Curtis, Kenneth and Jack. kicked him in the head. John C.[...]o blood horses died running). The doctor arrived, and dairy in Sheridan. The mother, Eliza, made[...] |
| [...]Mary's father was a dairy farmer in Elgin, Ill., and a Danish emigrant. Mary, after some time at North[...]dolph, John. Seated: Anna and Frank with Sam. the stones and gold from Mrs. Brenner's jewelry, but very little[...]og house was They moved to Dillon in 1908 and two years later to a built (Mrs. Brenner kept add[...]) which still stands where Frank did farm work and carpentry for various neigh- next to Montana High[...]an Savage, In the spring of 1920, Frank and Anna sold their home- who had been raised in Lemhi, Idaho. Her mother, Emma stead and moved to Dillon where the family resided for one[...]father, Tom, raised cattle. Tom Yearian's father and uncle Bridges where they purchased the Wheat[...]Following Frank's death in October of 1928, Anna and her stakes mining placer gold, and settled in the Lemhi Valley sons (Rudolph, John, George and Sam) continued to work of Idaho. Beth married Ben Savage, had one child, Tom the farm and acquired three additional ranches. Anna Savage, and divorced. After Beth and Charlie were married, passed away in May of[...]The 10 children born to Frank and Anna included Frank, William P. Brenner never[...]n, George, Carl (who St. Paul's in Concord, N.H., and college at Stanford Univer- drowned in an irri[...], he moved back to the ranch. He was a Sam and Michael. Frank, Jr., Anna and Michael died in noted musician. In 1938 while building stackyards, he ran a infancy and William at the age of 11 in Glen. sliver into his hand and caught blackleg, a cattle disease. This was befor[...]could not be saved. -RUDOLPH BROKSLE AND MARY BROKSLE RE- In 1926, John C. Brenner retired and moved to an apart-[...]Butte. He died in 1927. His widow lived in Butte and at the ranch until her death in 1938. John C.'s s[...]Alvin "Al" Brothers with multiple sclerosis and spent his last years in Walla Al Brothers and his twin sister, Alta, were born May 31, Walla, Wash., dying there in 1943. Mary and Hal were di- 1905, the 13th and 14th children of Samuel Brothers and vorced in 1925; their son, Jack, essentially was[...]uff. Twin Alta died within days of her older Beth and Charles Brenner. Thus, in the 1930's, the Brenner[...]h, 1908. Livestock Company was managed by Charles and William She is buried with her sister in the Lima Cemetery. Brenner and their nephew, Jack Brenner. Al attended school in Lima and worked for the REA, the[...]May, 1926. Helen worked in the Lima Post Frank and Anna Broksle Born in Yugoslavia in 1874, Frank[...]Al Brothers Frank moved to Butte and was employed in the mines. Anna Fortune came to[...]e States a few years previous to her arrival. She and Frank met and were married in Butte's Sacred Heart Churc[...] |
| [...]ne 8, 1914 at Dillon to Annie Elizabeth Patterson and Charles F. Brothers. While I was a baby, my parents moved to Big Sheep Creek Basin on the Thomas B. and Lois Patterson (my grandparents)[...]Annie Brothers and daughter Alta ranch. A short time later they moved to the Upper Basin and homesteaded. This did not seem to be a good ventu[...]he Patterson Ranch. years, and were later divorced. She will be remembered in[...]l, I went to the Beaverhead County as a kind and helping person, and for Lower School in the Basin, better known as Bu[...]e living with the Rosenbaums. passed away and is buried in Bozeman. My parents separated about this time, and mother and I moved to the Dell and Lima area. After my first year of high[...]ol (1929-30) at Lima, I went to Bozeman (Montana) and attended Gallatin County High School. I later m[...]Arch and Villa Brothers had two children, Vernon L. and Naomi Jean. I retired in Arch L. Brothers was the 10th child of Samuel Brothers 1976 and am enjoying my later years. and Ada Belle Huff, bo~n August 4, 1894, in Lima, Mon[...]THERS He spent his early years there and at one time he drove the[...]ployed as a teamster and on ranches in the Lima and Dillon[...]areas many years. He served in World War I and remained[...]Jose, Calif., to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tatro. As a child she[...]most of her life in the Lima and Dillon areas. Arch and Villa were married November 22, 1922, in Lima.[...]He was 28 and she was 17. They moved to Oregon for four[...]December 29, 1923 in Dillon, and lives with her husband Annie Elizabeth Patterso[...]uly 28, 1878, in Texas to Thomas Benton Patterson and Lois Ada Riggs Patterson. At the age of 10, she[...]g many a mile, driving a herd of Texas Longhorns, and settling in the Dell area in 1887. On March 24,[...]rhead County: Willis, Florence, Lowell, Clarence, and Hyrum, also known as Hy. On April 26, 1913, she[...]in Dillon Arch Brothers Helen and Willis Brothers 118-Beaverhead History |
| [...]March of 1931. born December 6, 1924, in Dillon and lives with his family in Charles and Irene Brothers lived in Menan and moved to Louisville, Ky.; Ernest Henry, born Marc[...]years later to T. J. child, was also born in Lima and now lives in Bozeman. May. Mr. May died[...]ntil Villa died in Lima on Idaho Falls. Charles and Irene are both buried in the Rose February 16, 1960, from complications arising from flu and Hill Cemetery in Idaho Falls. pneumonia. Arc[...]Ernest and Rosemond lo, Idaho, on September 29, 1976. Arch and Villa Brothers are both buried at the Mountain Vi[...]LY GARRETT DINGLEY uel Brothers and Ada Belle Huff, following twin boys who[...]ers Nebraska and moved with his family to the Lima area of[...]rn to He got his early education in Lima and worked as a labor- Samuel Brothers and Ada Belle Huff. He was born March 8, er and for the Union Pacific Railroad. Later he worked for 1881, in Blandinsville, McDonough County, Ill., and moved Garrett Transfer of Pocatello. with h[...]Territory as a He married Rosemond Jenson and their child died short- young boy.[...]ma Cemetery. He got his early education in Lima and worked as a labor- After a divorce, he marrie[...]lif., Park. He also carried the mail between Lima and Monida, where he died November 1, 1956. H[...]al Park in South Gate. He married Annie McNinch and they had a daughter -SALLY GARRETT DINGLEY Alta. Alta Lemon and her husband live in Bozeman. After Charles and Annie were divorced, he married Orea Flemming. They had a daughter, Effie Dell. Effie and Don Forbes live in Othello, Washington. Charles[...]14, 1884 at Ennis, Montana, the daughter of J. F. and Martha Finley Oliver. She grew up in Ennis and went to school there. She married Charles William[...]2, 1900, at Joliet, Mont. They lived in Lewistown and Butte, and in 1906 homesteaded at Mud Lake, Idaho.Charles Ke[...]Fred and Myrtle Brothers[...]and Ada Belle Huff, born May 23, 1892 in Springhill ([...]livery stable and then the Tanner & Cragun Construction[...] |
| Fred and Myrtle Brothers Sam and Ada Bell Brothers' four youngest children.[...]Front: twins Al and Alta. Rear: sisters Maud and Utah, to George W. Hill and Mary Ellen Harmon. Fred and[...]912, in Rigby. They moved to Pocatello in 1922 and he worked for the 1970, in Fall Brook, Cal[...]Garrett Transfer Company, drove an intercity bus, and of her relatives, lived in Chula Vista,[...]ace installer. 1970s, when she became very ill and was moved to Spring- In 1943 he began work for th[...]he retired. He was a strong believer in the and arthritis, as well as having had a hip joint replacement, need for low-cost public housing and followed through by Min Brothers Viles fle[...]ay Timerhus died in moved back to Dillon and resided in the Parkview Acres 1977. Berniece and Max Petty live in Reno, Nev. Neola lives Home[...], Ore. and is buried in Lima. · Fred and Myrtle were married for 51 years until Fred's[...]81. They are buried at the Restlawn Ralph and Lottie Brothers Memorial Gardens in Pocatello, Id[...]using authority in Pocatello is Samuel Brothers and Ada Belle Huff. He was born October a legacy of w[...]882 in Blandinsville, McDonough County, Illinois, and[...]love with Nellie Mooney. When he was just over 21 and Minnie Brothers was the 12th child of Samuel Brothers and Ada Belle Huff. She was born April 1, 1902, in Li[...]e experienced the loss of her older sister, Maud, and her younger sister, Alta, from scarlet fever and diphtheria within days of each other in 1908 and it had a profound effect on her young life. When her father left the family, she moved with her mother and brothers to Dillon. They lived on Kentucky Avenue[...]1921 at the age of 19. They were married 10 years and lived in Rigby and Ashton, Idaho. After her divorce, she worked at t[...]ht years. In Salt Lake City, she met John Viles and they were married on February 3, 1941. John made a career in the United States Air Force and they traveled as his job re- quired, spending sev[...]laska. John died July 10, Lottie and Ralph Brothers 120-Beaverhead History |
| she was only 16 years old, they ran away to Idaho and got married. Upon their return, family pressure r[...]f the marriage. Nellie went to school out of town and later moved to Southern California. He married[...]December 9, 1909 in Dillon. They had no children and were married 54 years until his death in 1963. They lived in Dillon and later Boze-[...]hild Alta, Ralph became a first-class carpenter and was a successful[...]-SALLY GARRETT DINGLEY Samuel and Ada Belle |
| Walt and Louise spent their honeymoon visiting Yellow-[...]head. He was out for only a short time and within the hour Centennial Valley for many years and later moved to Dillon. was back participatin[...]hildren. A daughter, Perssis, married Lee and bulldogging contests. He won a pair of silver-mou[...]n the dryfarm married Lee's brother, Ralph Jones, and also lived in the on the East Bench out of Dillon, and later that fall became Centennial Valley. They ha[...]h him before moving to the Sheep Vance Rex Ingram and they had three children. Now a Creek[...]worked up in the Sheep Creek area, and they became very Their third child was Eva Irma[...]born in Caplinger, Mo., on November 17, 1896, son and now lives in Moab, Utah. A fourth child and only and came with her parents William and Minnie (Ellerman) son is George W. Brothers, who[...]eep Creek Basin, just north of Dillon on a ranch, and Walt Brothers died in 1958 in Dillon and is buried in later in Dillon. For a shor[...]emetery. and a summer or two was spent in Oregon before Anna[...]promised to marry Jesse when he had it Jesse and Anna Brown[...]issouri, on hewn logs, with a dirt roof and board floors. Anna had December 20, 1892, to Thomas Allen and Ruth Ann (Hol- worked that summer and put her money into a pretty in- royd) Brown. From[...]g in Pratt, Kan., in the wheat fields when and laughed, but it was home and it was clean and new.They he met Henry Asbury. They decided to com[...]23, 1915, in Dillon. after the harvest was over, and they signed on to work on the The winter of 1915.:16 was very cold, and they found railroad in Idaho. Before they reached[...]s for home use. however, they changed their minds and instead trapped for However, it would free[...]Yellowstone Park. sary to chip the ice and melt it to get water. Once that winter The next s[...]ll for the dam at Jack- Jesse took the team and wagon to Dillon for a load of grocer- son Hole, Wyo., and tried their hand at the restaurant busi- ies.[...]aho Falls, in the summer of 1914. and nights, making travel impossible and forcing him to After hearing of the "Dillon Pow[...]blocks, and sure enough the pigs were still alive - - hungry,[...]cold and thirsty - but alive![...]In 1917 their first daughter was born in June, and they[...]the family, and they named her Rosa Lee. Both these girls[...]ty of rain and the wheat had grown as high as Jesse's waist,[...]But rain it didn't, and each year the debts would mount a[...]deeded the homestead over to Jesse and Anna Brown the bank and went back east. ... on their wedding day[...] |
| [...]he and his partner made $10,000.[...]es of land in the area of ed Molar Barber College and received his barbering license. the bridge and successfully raised cattle and horses. In 1925 Anna and the girls came back to Dillon to visit On April 9, 1872, he and Agnes M. Murray were married and discovered that a barber was needed in a little t[...]in 1839. She moved with her parents, Bartholomew and don who owned the shop which was located in the pool hall Ellen Murray, to Dubuque, Iowa. and a deal was made whereby Jesse could use the barber Joseph and Agnes Browne's wedding tour was by train chair in[...]ugh Denver, picked up the needed barber supplies, and Browne ranch on the Big Hole River near Bro[...]nt, Joseph A. remodeled it, included a barbershop and restaurant, and Browne, Jr. and Francis Vincent Browne. were the first people to have hot and cold running water in Joseph A. Browne was[...]Armstead. Two years later everything was paid for and they of Montana government. In 1869 and 1872, he was elected never went into debt again. and served as a representative to the Territorial Assembly. In 1936 a third daughter, Ruth Ann, was born and raised In 1881 he was elected a member of th[...]t built the Clark Canyon Dam over the little town and In 1884, he was elected a member of the[...]rmstead. Ironically some of the water vention and with Honorable J. K. Toole and W. A. Clark from this dam now irrigates the East[...]hose proceedings to Washington. first homesteaded and kenw was so rich - if only they had S. J[...]tana. Governors White and Toole appointed him to the from stories told by her mother and father) Joseph and Agnes Browne |
| [...]tive in the Beaverhead County Pioneer Association and served as president several terms. In addition to their ranching interests, Joseph and Agnes Browne acquired and developed Browne's Lakes into a beautiful mountai[...]alive with fish. Joseph Browne built landings and kept boats. As earl a 1893 he built cabins of hew[...]Sarah Brown Huff and her mother Elizabeth Mead grounds were landscaped with a gatekeeper and a uperin- Brown tenden[...]lding a ha time were made of their own provisions and cook. In addition to the fi hing wood and one night bi bu ine · had a narr w e cape hen there were grouse in the mountains and pheasant and age · be re taurant caugh fir . hens in[...]H. Guests traveled to Browne s Station b train and were then taken by horse and buggy to Browne s Lake. To reach Lake Agnes, visitors had to climb a steep trail. General and Mrs. Browne were highly re pected pioneer of Beaverhead County and had a wide range of friend o er the entire West.[...]gh voltage wire in the Mountain Con mine in Butte and wa killed in tantl . Agnes M. Browne died June[...]Browne died in August 1906 in Roche er Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Browne and their son Frank are buried in t. Patrick's Cemete[...]1888. The Da id on men were n e en mp red and both marriages failed. I i unknown if Th m and Elizabe h Thomas .N. and Eliza beth[...]daughter arah and her hu band al in Huff near Prie[...]Ri er, Idaho. Libbie died there n Jul 192 and Thom- Thomas Newton Brown was born January 1, 1[...]a Prie Ri er. Binbrook, England, to William Brown and Jane Bett -SALLY GARRETT DI GLEY Brown. He came to America when young and settled in Kingston, Green Lake County, Wisc. E[...]W.C. and Susan Brown Christian A. Mead and Anna Cornell Mead, born January William Charle Brown on of amuel and Anna Jane 12, 1855, in Kingston. Thomas and Elizabeth were married Carson Brown, wa bo[...]oldest of seven children. On Jul 4 1884 he and usan Libbie's father had come to Bannack in 1864 and she Matilda Haptonstall were married at Ft. cott and pent must have grown up hearing stories about the[...]rs working on hi father's farm. Their fi e Thomas and Libbie's first child, Edward E., was born July[...]birth the young Harry Lee, Ansle William, and Ethel. family headed to Montana Territory. Their[...]In 1897, they came West to take up a homestead and Sarah, was born October 4, 1880, in Bannack. Thom[...]illon in 1882, the Browns relocated to Dillon and tend horses. Later he and his family moved out to the 124-Beave[...] |
| [...]the flu epidemic hit. Susan got the flu, and on November 6 mail and stage ran six days a week from Dillon to Bannack.[...]d the men who worked With his wife gone and the children grown, Charles stayed and drove the stage and freight wagons to Bannack and the on the homestead only a short while.[...]s also drove the freight wagons from the and worked on area ranches for a while. He later went to stage stop at the Point of Rocks. Sometime later he and his work for the railroad, was stationed in[...]r the Nyhart Ranch. few years and then was transferred to Whitehall. On August ·when they had worked for several years and had enough 30, 1927, he was killed in an[...]his homestead. This was er jumped the track and he was thrown off. located six miles south on the[...]arl Holden, Kate Banning, Lee Brown, Ansle Brown, and homestead, getting his home built, and a barn. Most of the Ethel Sandland. Ethel[...]which they got from army, fought in WWI, and later worked on area ranches. Axes Canyon. The big job was getting a well dug. Family and Ansle homesteaded in 1914 in the Blacktail area on Timber neighbors helped each other with this job and many of the Creek. During the fall or win[...]kness in the Big Sheep area. While there, he feet and is still in use today at the Clay Smith feedlot.[...]g of 1908, they managed to get the necessary and made their home on the homestead on the Blacktail. In equipment and horses needed to begin farming. He was very[...]s born. Harold died in 1930. In 1920, a fortunate and raised very good grain crops, as did all his son Fred W. "Buster" was born. Fred and his family make neighbors. They were getting 50 b[...]their home on the homestead site. neighbors and families worked together with the harvesting[...]grain crops, it was a big job handling the grain and straw. It is uncertain from whom Charles bought the header, but Al Brubaker Charles and his sons Ansle and Lee found it to be a very wise Al Brubaker[...]or about nine years, working in a flour the grain and only a small amount of the straw off. Then it[...]team, in elevates the grain up into header boxes and is hauled to the company with seven young co[...]they did not find things as they expected. full, and then sew, tie, and pile the sacks. Denver was a[...]keable person who enjoyed known as Aurora and the other Denver. children. She was always willin[...]Iowa, Mr. Brubaker returned to work in the area, and was happy to share her time and many books with flour mill at Davenport,[...]John Bielen- started. It was known as Blacktail 2 and was also used for berg and former U.S. Senator J. H. Millard, president of the church and social events.[...]ar Montana. The party encountered many_trials and at times Susan and W. C. Brown[...] |
| [...]y 4, 1864. Mr. Millard started a banking business and Mr. Brubaker went to mining four miles below the summit of Alder Gulch. He remained in and around Virgin- ia City until the spring of 1868 and witnessed some of the stirring scenes in that sec[...]y worked at placer mining there for several years and then went to Dewey in Beaver- head County. He made his home at the junction of Wise River and Big Hole River, taking up mining claims in the area and building a mill to process their ore. Mr. Brubaker lived there for 43 years, respected and liked by everyone in the Big Hole country who kne[...]r others, especially the children. Along the Wise and Big Hole Rivers, Christmas never seemed like Chri[...]m Butte who visited the streams in that vicinity, and who never failed to find a welcome at the Brubake[...]atherings even when attending meant man and raised five children: Rita, Robert, Owen, Leonard[...]and Ellis. His son Everett Hiram remained in Dillon and Mr. Brubaker was caught in a storm going to his claim and founded the Brundage Funeral Home. He married[...]t before he could be ine Louise Staudahar and raised five children: Everett, Hi- helped he died[...]s 77 years of age when ram, Justin, Dorothy and Thomas. Dorothy and Thomas he died in 1916. He is buried in the Dewey[...]and his widow lived in Dillon until her death in 1966. Hiram Hiram and Elizabeth Br[...]1986). They had three sons: Hiram F., Walter L. and Lew D. Brundage[...]35, in Ontario, Canada, Hiram Brun- retired and his son Walter assumed the management. Wal- dage moved to Indiana and then to Pennsylvania. He ter married[...]ree learned the art of telegraphy in Pennsylvania and that led to children: Lew, Richard and Carol. Walter ran the funeral his interest in pub[...]st paper was in home until he sold it in 1978 and retired. Ft. Kearney, Nebr., in 1861. In 1863 he[...]John H. and Laura Mont., in 1879 and published the Sheridan Messenger. In[...]Brundage, married Laura Isabelle Boatman October and they had five children. Following her death in 18[...]Everett Hiram Brundage the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Boatman, Montana and John Brundage, remained in Beaverhead County. He[...]d wagon. She also has survivors in Madison County and California. attended school in Sheridan and resided in the Sheridan He sold the Tribune to Frank Foote in 1886 and moved to vicinity a number of years.[...] |
| [...]ra Isabelle, George Boatman, Robert Gene and Betty Jean[...](twins), John William, Everett Holiday and Etta Louise (twins), Reta Claire and Paul Rupert.[...]ther's name was Cartengale and he died when she was only[...]Centennial Valley. (This area was in was one and one-half years old, her mother remarried and Madison County until about 1913, when the county[...]ake her back. Elizabeth's grandmother was changed and it became Beaverhead County). A bridge still[...]ndage Bridge." The Brundages ran a herd of cattle and Quebec. Three days before the ship reached po[...]the later years they mother died of ship fever and was buried at sea. owned a small band of sheep, t[...]e ship docked, the captain contacted a Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Brundage had five children. They were: and Mrs. Elder, who had lost a daughter, and persuaded Reta Claire, born February 4, 1892; Rob[...]r she was Leonard Charles, born January 10, 1899; and Ellis Wesley, adopted until shortly before Mr[...]es, received a 15 years of age, she graduated and taught in the flat for teaching certificate from Dillon Normal and, after one year three years. At this point, she[...]go to the altar, she met a home at the age of 14 and came to Montana. He worked as a young man named William Bryan. He was a native of that cowboy and broke many saddle horses for the ranchers. He[...]by P & 0 Company, seek his fortune. Bryan and Elzie Murray had worked at which had holdings in the Centennial Valley when it was Bannack, and afterwards (in 1867) they established a part of M[...]t Argenta. Elizabeth chose to marry Reta Claire and Charles Franklin had 12 children. They Willi[...]cried and thought Bryan was mean because he wouldn't[...]stop the train and go back to find her earrings.[...]furniture from a firm named Bamberger and Bloom. Eliza-[...]$1,000 to ship it by rail and overland freight to Argenta.[...]rug. ard Brundage, Reta Brundage, Ellis Brundage and Staging the furniture fro[...] |
| reached Market Lake, road agents stepped out and held them up. The robbers discovered that the stage had nothing but passengers and not the payroll they were looking for and let them go. Elizabeth remembers the best thing s[...]ered at home. She adjusted well to the conditions and even organized a writing class. Mrs. Bryan had a cousin in Scotland who was her age. When he grew up and heard about Elizabeth, he resolved to find her. He came into some money and got as far as Sutton flat in Canada where he cont[...]ers. They per- suaded him not to look her up. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan had been married several years and perhaps the Elders thought she Alan and Jane Buck might become dissatisfied and return to her adopted home. table and everything they had in the way of furniture. She Elizabeth always wanted to go back to Scotland and look up stored their things in cardboard bo[...]was too busy rearing her brood of eight to and closets. She had no trouble knowing what was in e[...]so lived in Mel- box at a moment's notice and laughingly admitted in later rose where she enjoy[...]boards and closets. She always maintained, in spite of their[...]lth, those were the happiest days of Alan and Jane Buck t[...]Promise of homestead land in Montana induced Alan and In 1918, Alan's brother Herbert died of the flu and his Jane to leave Iowa and come west soon after they married in wife Bessie and little daughter, Anna, returned to Iowa. August 1[...]the train to Monida. Jane was Then Alan and Jane and small son, Charles Alan, moved to 18 years of age and Alan 21. the[...]ather, Herbert Sr. Alan's brothers Joseph (Joe) and Herbert Buck and their of Omaha, Nebraska. They rented for many years and final- families were already established in the U[...]ranch and Alan built the log house which still stands at the In September 1915, Alan and Jane filed for 320 acres on foot of the hill. He got the logs from the mountains and the north side of the Valley, not far from Joe Buck's ranch. hewed them. He and Jane built the house almost entirely by In later[...]al store, grocery store/hotel and, of course, a bar or two.[...]They all had good times and believed sincerely thateven-[...]tually they'd catch up with the rest of the world and have electricity and telephones, etc. They loved the Valley and[...]They raised Aberdeen Angus cattle and that was just[...]tion. Many of Alan and Jane's neighbors sold out and moved[...]The children were grown and gone and it became a lonely[...] |
| [...]sture, but eventually sold the land to Oren Selby and said goodbye to their old home. Alan died in October 1954 and Jane lived on in Sheridan for 32 years after his[...]THLEEN THORESON The Joe Buck Family |
| [...]Bertha (March 3, 1887; died February 1971), and Henry Charles A. Burden died at Barrett Hospita[...]Emma Rebecca Burfiend, daughter of John Henry and tery in Dillon.[...]rfiend, was born in Oak Park, -ADELE ROUSE and LORRAYNE REBICH Illinois[...]was a native Hugh Bates, son of Will Park and Sarah Ella (Spencer) of Germany, born in Dollern,[...], Ohio, September 11, Dillon on February 2, 1921, and is buried in Mountain View 1881. Cemetery,[...]ed in 1884 at Dillon to Katharine M. Berg- and was graduated in 1904 from Beaverhead County High[...]When ill- 1867, at age 10, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Berg- ness necessitated an abdomi[...]linois. In 1875, Katharine drew from school and returned home to convalesce. From married a man n[...]Store in Dillon. the Shultz-Bergman union: George and Sophie Marie, and After her marriage, she accompanied[...]then to Montana they lived for awhile at Grant and then Henry Burfiend, the two children, George and Sophie Ma- moved to Armstead, where they[...]in Mizpah Chapter, No. 13, Order of Eastern Star and was an 1922. In Dillon she was the first[...]itary of the Methodist Church. service and left his home country for the United States, In January 1956, they sold their home in Dillon and embarking in 1858 in a sailboat. The trip from Ha[...]ia Cape Horn took about five months. For and her husband, Fred Gray. Their children were Willi[...]ith a Henry, born June 15, 1913, at Dillon, and Catherine Ellen, pack outfit and four men. He arrived at the site which would[...]alter S. Burnett ranch five miles north of Dillon and engaged in the sheep Walter S. Burnett, born in 1832 at Galt, Ontario, Canada, and cattle business. After 15 years (1880) he and his brother, had the American Dream like so many of his contemporar- Christopher, built a store and organized Burfiend Brothers, ies back in the 1870s and 80s. In the United States there was which later b[...]of business- homesteading of fertile land and a new life. So one day, man, including John Henry[...]acres Walter, his wife, Nancy S. (Ellis) and nine children left for of ranchland from Richard[...]averhead County) they de- National Bank of Dillon and John Henry Burfiend was cided, along with the Barrett and Shineberger families, to elected a director and vice-president. This bank is now the make th[...]ry of the He also owned stores at Dewey's Flat and Gibbonsville, first settlers "had begun" and they came to make their Idaho. He later took over the Dillon Brewery on a debt and homes and their wealth. They were still on the alert for ran it for awhile. He built a home in Dillon and later ac- Indians, but they settled in Horse Prairie and protected quired other property there before retiring in 1897 at age 64. each other. He was a Mason and a member of the Methodist Church. Homestead claims were made and livestock was acquired. Children of John and Katharine Burfiend included: After much hard labor, the acreage was "proved up on" and 130-Beaverhead History |
| [...]le Store, Ely, Nev.; Irvin, Tombstone, Ariz.; Lon and Alex,[...]On October 6, 1901, Walter had a second stroke and died Walter Burnett at home on the 12th. Family and friends accompanied the[...]y to Red Rock where the train was taken to Dillon and[...]illon; Joe Shineberger, Thomas Barrett, Wm. Blair and Al President Benjamin Harrison. The Burnett home was a Decker of Red Rock, and James Mansfield of Horse Prai- large log structure and became the Salmon City Stage Stop rie." (Dillon Tribune, October 18, 1901) on the Lewis and Clark Trail. With the help of her three Walter S. Burnett, Nancy S. (1837-1915) and other family daughters, Nancy prepared the evenin[...]ant Post Office opened in 1899 (by Joseph N esley and wife, Edith (Burnett) with Joseph Nesley as Postm[...]Sam and Anna Burnside small girl, recalls stopping there[...]operation to Monida. He had a saloon in Monida and also the west side of Bloody Dick Creek.[...]de. He closed the saloon, put in a grocery store, and rancher, stockraiser and dairyman. His branding iron was a built a house nearby for him and his wife, Annie. He had a "Pilot Wheel" with catt[...]contract to carry the mail through the S. Burnett and family, was obtained by his great-grandson, Centennial and over to Henry's Lake for several years. He Delber[...]Dillon was made bought the hotel at Lakeview and his wi~e ran it for a time. in the summer of 1976[...]After a few years he sold the mail contract and store to B.H. through the County Recorder's Office, the property record- Paul. He and Annie lived in Monida for a while then moved ed i[...]d. Delbert to Woods Livestock. knocked and announced he was the great-grandson of Wal-[...]r S. Burnett. Mansfield got a twinkle in his eyes and said, "I've been waiting for a Burnett to show up[...]to his desk, opened the bottom right hand drawer and brought forth a collection of Burnett family phot[...]rt had never seen. With Mansfield's di- rections, and in only walking distance, Delbert found the location, the foundation, remaining ruins of the home and the remains of the only fence pole drilling machi[...]e. Mansfield took Delbert to the rear of his home and showed him the part that was constructed from the[...]ained many relics such as oxen shoes, frying pans and etc. which he said had belonged to the Bur[...] |
| [...]Joe and Estelle lived in Kansas for several years, during[...]Florence L. was born May 6, 1897, and on September 17,[...]Joe and Estelle decided to move west and settled in Laird,[...], Ida., where Mamie L. was James and John Burt[...]better for his family, Joseph moved on to Dillon and worked[...]were born, Hugh E., in 1909 on October 16, and the last My grandparents, John McBride Burt from Scotland and child, Muriel A.,on August 16, 1912. Estelle was a small and Hulda Jorgensen Burt from Denmark, came to Springhill, hardy woman, but had worked very hard and had a large Montana Territory, from Utah in 1883.[...]all born in Utah: Caroline, Mary, Kathryn, James and monia and is buried in Dillon. John. The family came to Spr[...]es Harwood on his ranch for two years. In 1919 he and was deeded to the town by him. moved to the Centennial Valley and took up a homestead. Kathryn, born in 1877, and James, born in 1880, were the He proved up on the homestead and sold it to Frank T. only children to reach adulth[...]. He moved back to the Dillon area where he Poole and moved to Menan, Idaho. James McBride Burt[...]Gertrude Charlotte Evans on February 4, and this life suited him well. He had worked with hor[...]Evans was born in Laramie, Wyo., his life and was very kind to them and to all animals. in 1885 and was orphaned at an early age. She moved to Getting along in years, he moved back to Dillon and died Lima from Chicago, Ill., with her step-siste[...]n 1905, Earl Darwin in 1907, Mary Luella in 1909, and George Lynn in 1920.[...]y years boasted six saloons. My father Ike and Belle Busenbark filed a claim on the North Fork had a dray business and delivered beer and whiskey in bar- area in the early 1900s. The[...]e timber where they ranched for a number of years and and had a contract to harvest ice for the Union Pacific. The had four boys: Roy, Lee, Earl and Ike. ice was used on the dining cars on their trips from Butte to They built a large house and several barns and other Pocatello. The ice was cut at Humphrey, Idaho, and shipped outbuildings. They raised a little g[...]had sat in the sun. Roy married Bertha Covey and they had rail had to be unloaded, fed and watered approximately two children. For[...]Wisdom where they sold ice cream and other items. James and Gertrude operated a dairy farm at the original[...]homestead on the east side of town for many years and had a girl after they left the Big Hole and named her Flor- until the mid 1920s delivered milk by buggy in summer and ence. After Mr. Busenbark passed away, Mrs.[...]returned to work for Mr. and Mrs. Tope for a time. -MARY BURT BROTHERS Roy and Bertha separated and they each married again. 132-Beaverhe[...] |
| The ranch-was sold to the Coveys and later belonged to Ray stopped to see his father and found him slumped in a chair, Bacon. Their buildi[...]usenbark Gulch" had been in excellent health, and his death surprised the by the few old timers sti[...]me cows, put up hay, raised a nice little garden, and sent chil- on August 22, 1953, after an extende[...]t remains is the little Their sons George and John never married. Joe married spring with its c[...]dish plant Katie Bublich of Roundup, Montana, and they had two sons would come up every year for a long time, but now even that and three daughters. Katie now lives in Twin Falls, I[...]Mary Butala married Anton Boka and they had two daugh- -JENNIE ELSE ters and four sons. Maggie was married for a short time and[...]had one daughter. Hannah married Cecil Hubbard and had two daughters. Katie married John Hagge and they had two John and Margaret Butala,[...]Canfield Family country at New York City and came to Beaverhead County Bert and Joe Canfield came to the Big Hole from the during[...]ght out several other ranchers in the North 1866, and came to the United States to marry John in 1893. Fork area and were able to put together a good sized ranch. She made this journey across the ocean and clear across the The Canfields were good cattlemen, good horsemen and country by herself. expert ropers. Along with raising cattle and horses, they also John and Margaret were married in September, 1893, in[...]1903- 1967); Margaret with them for a while and was often seen riding an old white (1906-1962); Hannah (1910-1984); and Katie (1911). horse. The Canfields n[...]the ranch buildings they planted little crutches and later, a cane. He carved his own "peg leg" from[...]se small trees grew to be a big lovely cottonwood and fitted it to his stump. He drove a Model A[...]Ford by placing "cups" for his peg leg on the gas and brake Bert's wife, Clara, served as clerk[...]Their marriage became unhappy for both of them and on Canfields left the ranch about 1924,stopping in Wisdom as April 19, 1927, John and Margaret were divorced. Their they left[...]oungest child, Katie, was only 16 years old then, and custo- their belongings in the Armitage garage.[...]garet. She was allowed $60 per garage burned and the Canfields lost all they had. month alimony and $10 per month child support.[...]hey lived in separate houses, both on returned and worked at the Don Albee Ranch. Even though Barnet[...]treet about a block apart. (After their deaths, and could throw a rope as well as ever. John Butala, Jr. occupied Margaret's house and George Bu- The last news of Joe was that he had collapsed and died tala lived in his father's house.)[...]James and May Cantrell town he would make a point to[...] |
| Cantrell and mother Nancy O'Dell were farmers. Earl spent and did quite a jig with the girls and women who attended. his younger years working in[...]the family Earl was proud of his heritage and of his name. He often farm with two brothers and six sisters. joked and talked about the "rich Cantrell blood" he had[...]Cantrell, ried down through the family and his only great grandson to also came to Montana y[...]he family name uses that expression today. He had and they had a daughter Doris. She married Wayne Smith a strong work ethic and spent his adult life overcoming the and they had two daughters, Valerie and Christine. elements and the hardships of ranching in Montana. Earl and Tom settled in southwestern Montana around Earl suffered a stroke at the ranch and died November tfttH:rlffia and Dell area. Earl worked for several ranchers in[...]Hospital, Dillon. The ranch was sold in the area and became a partner in the sheep business with a 1949, and May moved to Dillon, where she lived until her Sc[...]e of 45, married May Martinell, daughter of Elmer and Addie Martinell. She was born November 26, 1893, and lived on the Walter and Marie Carlson family ranch until she married at t[...]to Julius Shortly after their marriage, Earl and May bought a and Hilde Caroline Frimand Carlsen. He had a younger ranch just north of Dell along the Red Rock River. Earl and brother, Axel, born in 1881, and three older sisters. Their May had two children:[...]mother died while they were very young and their father, a 1927, and a daughter, Viola May, born July 27, 1928. The[...]n Dell that their mother girls were adopted and a notice was put up in the local had attended as[...]church for someone to care for Valdemar and Axel. The boys Earl was loyal to his family back in South Carolina and were raised by the Laurits, maternal grandp[...]Pickens County visiting or working. Many cousins and mar's eldest daughter, here in the U.S. sometimes entire families would come to Montana and work Walter came to Am~rica at the ag[...]ng in immigrations. Making his way west, Carolina and buy a small parcel of land. He went back to he arrived in Dillon in 1899 and found work as a ranchhand South Carolina twice, once before his marriage and again for Nyharts. His first job was to[...]ur-horse team prior woman's place was in the home and that a man's place was to this. in the f[...]sic. He enjoyed attending the genson Hansen and Hans Peter Hansen. Marie's oldest community dance[...]brother was the first to come to America and he worked in[...]and she came up with an armful of wood. She quickly[...]and found work, again as a housemaid, for O.M. Best w[...]bring him in with a team of horses and he died before he[...]Marie and Walter were married February 29, 1904, in[...]on what is now known as Laknar Lane, and all five children James and May Cantrell we[...] |
| name of Osterman and moved back to Denmark where Wal- parents[...]e a fisherman. While in Denmark, Missouri and Colorado. Michael married Bridget Neenan in many[...]do. A year after their marriage, Michael, Bridget and he must be rich since he had been in America. Whe[...]a ing. A few months later he returned to America and Dillon. short time, then moved on to Alder Gu[...]nsus. Michael owned two ranches but moved to town and Place, five miles north of Dillon on the Butte-Di[...]arly schooling, he attended Carroll Col- Marie and Walter had five children, all born on the ranch lege in Helena and then worked briefly in the Butte Mines. on Webste[...]nts had come to The .eldest were twin boys, Elmer and Edward, who both Montana a few years afte[...]Mildred, hair, was considered a very pretty and vivacious girl, and April 10, 1909; and Holger, December 9, 1911. Holger was worked as a model in a department store. She and Frank only 15 months old on the two week crossing[...]anniversary in Dillon in 1951. In 1939, Marie and her two daughters again returned to Follo[...]derly mother. World War II Mont., for two and a half years. Mr. Carr was manager of a broke ou[...]eft the Cruse ranch for Chinook where out of food and water. Fr[...]Davidson Marie lived on the ranch with Holger and his wife, Marie, & Davenport Livestock Co. for[...]hes & Badcon. His main looked forward to visitors and always had a large assortment business was buying and selling sheep. He also owned sever- of cookies on[...]emained there until al thousand head of sheep and was a very prosperous ranch- her death on August[...]All the children now live in modern cities and recall ex- -BETTY CARLSON W[...]Montana mountains. Since the winters were so cold and[...]quite regularly and always managed to arrive about meal[...]on the floor and eat."[...]sheep ranch was three miles from the post office and[...]and all grades occupied the same room. The oldest sis[...]five children had some exciting times driving to and when he was 12 years old, came to America[...] |
| [...]chael, mother Mary, and a brother John settled in Detroit,[...]and priest agreed that John and Frank should go west in[...]unable to walk and, in exchange, young Frank would drive[...]unused herd behind the wagon train during the day and[...]early 1920s. Gladys and John[...]a time in Fort Benton, Frank was drawn to south- and they went tumbling out over the dashboard of the[...]ep the Gold Creek area in Powell County and later into Butte. enough to hide the fences and the temperature dropped to a It was in Butte[...]minus 30 degrees or more. A bear rug over the lap and grated from Ballyjamesduff, Cavan Count[...]iginally came to St. Joseph, Mo., as a young girl and then on the journey to school.[...]from attending the Whitford family. Frank and Annie were married in 1885 at Saturday night danc[...]anced too until they couldn't in April of 1886 and Mary in September of 1887. In 1888 stay awake any[...]stage Annie persuaded Frank to leave Butte and the hazards of beside the orchestra until the fol[...]omesteaded 160 acres near the leased his property and took his family to Portland, Ore., present s[...]on, Mr. Carr decided Dillon in March of 1889 and the other five were born in to sell the ranch. At[...]uly of declared the bank holiday, the bank closed and never re- 1895, and Charles in August of 1897. opened. Carr bought an[...]ity Fuel Co. at Only heads of families and single women were allowed to Dillon and operated this coal and fuel oil business until he make a homestead en[...]ok, April 9, 1914, now resides in Seattle, Wash.; and youngest son, John William Carr, born in Dell, Ma[...]-JOHN W. CARR Frank and Annie Carroll[...]Francis, John and William; (front row) Frank, |
| [...], script was issued which could be sold to anyone and who had a daughter Mary Louise. Mayme Purdy and Bill entitled the purchaser to apply it to any unappropriated Carroll were married in 1926 and had a daughter Ann in lands. This resulted in the end of open range and the intro- 1930. Bill died in October of 19[...]of years range land used by the Carrolls was lost and it became and owned a pool hall in Dillon until his death in 19[...]r which hastened the Car- (BCHS) in 1913 and was a student at Montana Normal roll family's mov[...]from BCHS in 1916, then earned a the Carroll home and their livestock. Even though the mine deg[...]ide contaminated the kane, Wash., area and was married in 1930. He and his wife Billings Creek water.[...]he fa~ily moving to the Big -ANN MITCHELL and MARY LOUISE KAJIN Hole Basin around 1900, first to the Fox Precinct between Jackson and Wisdom, and later to the base of Carroll Hill on Bull Creek i[...]home was also used Bill Carroll, Frank and Annie Carroll's fifth child of eight, as a stage, freighter, and cattle stop. was born in Bannack, Montana on March 28, 1892. The In 1903 Frank and Annie also purchased land in Dillon to fam[...]y High School in steaded land. Emmet, John, Mary, and two of Annie's 1911. His summers and holidays were spent at the ranch brothers, Hugh and Pat Smith, homesteaded on land that w[...]on "Dutch became part of the Carroll Place. Bill and Joe homesteaded Flat" during the school y[...]ill ranched on the Annie died on June 5, 1926, and Frank died August 19, Beaverhead River[...]Trail Creek in the Horse Prairie area and it was to this reer on the Rattlesnake where ranc[...]t his bride Lula. Bill mar- ed the Banning Ranch, and the Smith Brothers place. He ried Lou[...]to help run the ranch so that Mayme Purdy and Bill Carroll were married in 1926 at his brothers and sisters could continue their schooling. He[...]from the time he was a young boy until and her daughter Mary Louise. The family later moved[...]the Carroll Ranch in the Big Hole Valley. Bill and Mayme Mary lived at home until the death of he[...]Forest with Bill's eldest brother Emmett and third eldest brother Service in several states un[...]John sharing ownership with their father Frank and mother ried in 1926 and he and his wife Gertrude had two sons. Annie. After the deaths of Frank and Annie in 1926, all the Francis died at his home i[...]his wife Mayme, John married in Dillon in 1920 and he and his wife, Prox- and Emmett then owned the ranch until 1936 at which t[...]9 Emmett moved to the Rattlesnake Creek area and sold his and moved to the Bitterroot Valley. They later[...] |
| [...]miners and prospectors, and received five dollars a night for[...]dle horse and supplies. They set out for Salt Lake City and[...]Burgess Carter and Buschnell Bennett, ran their freight[...]they Mayme Carroll William Carroll and son Joe[...]ife Canyon in the Beaverhead. Mayme and son Joe. The ranch grew to around 13,000 acres. In 1867 Bennett returned home and Carter took up Bill was the last of the immediate[...]e age of 57 a highly respect- voted to ranching and acquired one of the most valuable ed and popular man. He was known for his generosity to[...]the financially responsible men of the city and county. He going on their own. Attesting to the respect shown Bill, the raised sheep, cattle and horses on the 1600-acre ranch. Veterans of Foreig[...]. After selling the ranch, she continued to and the only child born in America. The others were b[...]ptember, England. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. James Selway, 1960. Bill and Mayme are buried at Mountain View Ceme-[...]in 1864, arriving in Montana in -ANN MITCHELL and MARY LOUISE KAJIN three[...]Mrs. Carter possessed a lovable character and charming personality and was held in high regard by all who knew her. William B. and Anna Carter[...]s born in Geauga County, Ohio, near estate and ranching interests in a most capable way until Cleveland, on April 23, 1839 and was the son of J. H. Carter failing health slowed her down. She was also closely identi- and his wife, Caroline G. C. (Burgess) Carter, both Vermont fied with the social life of the community and was a member natives. The father died in Ohio at 75 years of age and his of Mizpah Chapter of the Eastern Star. mother died at 87. Carter was schooled in Ohio and worked The couple had four daughters and three sons: Carolyn on the family farm until he w[...]r who married George Edinger, Ada Carter who mar- and his friend Buschnell Bennett left to find their f[...]Backus, and Anna Carter who married Walter Brearly. Fred They stopped in Salt Lake City and then traveled to Carter married Zetta Landon, and Lee and Guy never mar- Bannack. Soon he and his friend, Bennett, went on to Alder ried.[...]sen Avenue and it was occupied by various members of the[...]W. B. Carter, C. L. Thomsen and L. C. Fyhrie were the[...]sor, and was responsible for many of the early-day[...] |
| He died Jan. 24, 1916 and was buried in the little ceme- nior Warden[...]of his dedicated work. He tery overlooking Dillon and the beautiful valley of the Bea- served on the local and state Council for Boy Scouts. As a verhead that h[...]helped in the planning of -BILL MITCHELL and PERRY BACKUS the present[...]isbanded. He with his trombone, Grace with Alfred and Grace Cashmore her piano, George Crowell and his clarinet, and a drummer Alfred I. Cashmore was born in Evans[...]as well as other dance ber 15, 1875, to Isaiah A. and Amelia Royal Cashmore, one of engagements. fo[...]Alfred Cashmore died December 2, 1950, and is buried in Dillon.[...]When he was 17, Alfred moved to the Metlen Hotel and Grace M. Cashmore, daughter of Ruby and L. K. Adams, became a house painter with Dan Adam[...]n in Mitchell, S.D., December 26, 1890. She began and Dan picked up their equipment, rode the train to Mel- piano lessons at four. rose, painted a house and returned to Dillon. Two days later Grace's[...]ent of Montana In- in the college orchestra and gave piano recitals. She took a fantry Company E[...]in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. and became bookkeeper for the Union Electric. He played trombone and baritone horn. He was badly wounded when his enca[...]1899. He joined Ringling Brothers' Circus Band and played with them and other circus bands for three years. Returning to Dillon, he became a traveling salesman for Chase and Sanborn Company. He received a gold medal for out[...]na Mercantile. The Elks Lodge bought the building and the grocery store moved to where the Montana Moto[...], Besty Hirchman. They sold imported canned goods and produce grown by Chinese gardeners north of town and The Adams' first Dillon home was over[...]by George Bott. They imported bananas from Hawaii and come Skeets' Cafe. Because her piano h[...]lon, Grace practiced at the college until her few and a few ran up his arms. Alf and Besty sold their store, father gave her one as[...]ldn't fit up the the Montana Food Market, in 1942 and retired. staircase so they had to take out a window and lift it through Alf was a lifelong member of the Elks Lodge at Virginia with block and tackle. City. St. James Episcopal Church made him[...]She played for traveling shows, dance troupes and plays[...]the "ladies" and their guests, but Father said, "No!" Grace[...]about cooking and only had a French cookbook with fancy[...]sack against the wall and almonds scattered all over. No one[...]there until she cleaned them up a few weeks later and bought a new cookbook. Alfred and Grace Cashmore with son Alden and She got so involved[...] |
| [...]d saw the smoke from next door, put out the fire, and went in to tell Grace, who was still playing her[...]- pal Church for 40 years. She gave music lessons and was Ralph McFadden's first teacher; he became pro[...]c at WMC where he later gave her daughter, Leone, and granddaughter, Kathleen, music lessons. Grace died April 1, 1976, and is survived by daughter Leone Tayne; son Alden Ca[...]Isaiah and Ava Cashmore leen Tayne and Loran Cashmore; grandsons Timothy[...]s to build the railroad from Corrine, Utah, Tayne and Alden Cashmore; and Great-grandson Adrian to Silver Bow, Mont. The rail workers and their families Tayne.[...]would settle down in each terminus, and the rail workers -LEONE CAS[...]Corrine, were taken apart and loaded onto flat cars and put Isaiah A. Cashmore[...]shmore was born April 4, 1849, in Yorkshire, and reached Dillon Oct. 15, 1880. It was a relief fro[...]wife, Amelia Victoria Royal, was hardships and fighting snowdrifts, at times higher than the als[...]Dillon started taking shape immediately, and, within 10 took over the making of gold leaf whic[...]days, the terminus post office, B. F. White's and Kennedy's sign-making. He then studied to become a railroad machin- freight-forwarding busi;nesses, and the Corrine Hotel were ist and steam engineer. He also was an accomplished cabi- up and in business. The building of the railroad was a must net maker. While studying and working, he made all his as the gold mines in Helena, Alder Gulch, and Virginia City furniture and the wooden trunks for packing it. The furni- were attracting a large population, and the staples, hard- ture was put together temporarily with wooden dowels; then ware, and food stuffs had to be brought by wagons. it was disassembled and each piece was wrapped and num- In the spring of 1881 the rails[...]into bered for the trip to America. All the boxes and furniture Silver Bow. Isaiah was the first[...]fter finishing his railroad appren- years and remained as a switch engine and helper engineer. ticeship, he married and they came to America on their Many time[...]tled, Isaiah began work for the Missouri rail and set the standard gauge rail on the outside of the[...]one. The new rails weighed 45 to 55 pounds and were steel; reached Omaha, Neb. He then joined th[...]ic the former rails weighed 35 pounds and were iron. The until they finished the railroad t[...]Idaho. At this crews had already put in longer and heavier ties on the line time, he changed to frei[...]e so the tracks could now carry more freight and heavier cars. his children-William, Lizetta, Alfred, and Edith-were The superintendent of the railroad set July 4, 1887, as the born between about 1871 and 1877. date the rai[...]proximately six miles each; 10 Depression of 1873 and the railroad strike of 1877.He and a men were assigned to each section. The cha[...]the size mines. The family joined him in Corrine, and they lived of the cars so they could go[...]t mil- by lifting the cars from the frame and wheels and putting lion dollars from the Union Pacific Railr[...]movable began constructing several sawmills and working around 140-Beaverhead History |
| [...]of Dillon at the intersection of the old highway and Benjamin Franklin Cheney, born in Campt[...]n Carrigan Lane. This cemetery was moved by horse and bug- 1857, and his wife Rebecca (Piper), born in 1859, were mar-[...]eral years ried in Van Buren County, Iowa, and lived in Overton, and some of the graves were not recorded so there are[...]en able to find, including Isa- John, Glen, and Victor, to Beaver, Idaho, where he worked iah's f[...]crews were relocated She was born Sept. 6, 1849, and died May 3, 1924. She had there. Frank and "Becky" were active in school affairs and come overland with her parents in 1880, the year Dillon was the Methodist Church and its Sunday School. Their three founded. She was a sister to Minnie Sassman. She and Isa- sons attended school in Lima, then w[...]force as many jobs were available on ranches and on the months before her fourth birthday.[...]railroad. Isaiah retired in about 1933 and moved to Lewistown to Frank and his brother Will had been very interested in live[...]he He is survived by grandchildren Alden Cashmore and fam- name of "Cheney Bros." So the brothers took up the hobby ily, Leone Cashmore Tayne and family, Howard Cashmore again while Will lived in Beaver. Then when Frank and and family, Franklin Cashmore, and Catherine Maxiner Becky moved to Lima, they opened a studio, as did Will and Gould and family.[...]scenic pictures and ranch photos. -LEONE CASHM[...]rley, Idaho. There were two chil- William and Anna dren born to this union-Benjamin and Lulu. About 1912, Frank and Becky decided to move to the Cashmor[...]hich William F. Cashmore was a son of Isaiah and Amelia they operated for many years. Royal Cashmore and brother to Alfred, Edith, and Lizetta, John and his wife had been living in Lima and Pocatello. all born in Evanston, Wyo. William wa[...]ife died in 1914, the grandparents took over the and arrived at Dillon in Oct. 1880 as the railroad te[...]ton where the chidlren attended schools. Dillon and, since he was a good mathematician, he became a[...]nkie, died in Portland worked as county assessor and ran an insurance agency about 1935. John passed away in 1959 and Susie in 1985. which was later the Hazelbaker In[...]oth are buried in Portland. to the Masonic Lodge and the Episcopal Church. John's[...]Anna Franklin of Salina, Kansas, in 1894. She and upon completion of his education, Ben went into this was born in 1875 and came to Montana with her brothers field of work where he was very successful. He owned nu- and sister and mother to begin ranching near Sheridan. She[...]decided to attend the Normal College in Dillon and came to which were well known in the buildin[...]v. Sidney Hooker. She very active in sports and civic events around Seattle and stayed there until her marriage. They had six sons: Dewey, who was born in 1897 and served in World War I, graduated from Bozeman College and became a salesman; Francis, born in 1905, became a · prominent doctor in Helena and a state legislator; Harold, born in 1908, was e[...]1920; Howard, born in 1911, became a mortician and owns businesses in Columbus, Lau- rel, and Billings; Franklin ("Pete") who was born in 1914, lived and worked in Dillon most of his life as an auto me- chanic; and the youngest, John Pershing ("Jack") born in 1918, moved to California and worked as a meat inspector. Of the six boys, only Pete and Howard are living.[...]B. F. Cheney, fourth from left, in white shirt, and W. -LEONE CASHMORE[...] |
| [...]nent in everyone's diet. Frank and Becky retired to Portland where Frank passed Lelia and Will attended the Overton school. On comple- away[...]the studies there, Will established his own farm and Portland.[...]Lelia attended the Normal school in Lexington and began Even as late as this article is being pu[...]res teaching. She boarded with various families and received with the "Cheney," "Cheney Bros.," and "B. F. Cheney" $7.00 per month in wag[...]892, identification marks are appearing with this and other arti- in Overton. cles which are links to the past and to these two couples. In 1894, Frank Cheney, his wife Rebecca and three boys -BONNIE CHENEY ME[...]Family wife and infant son Sylvan (born January 24, 1894), also[...]to work for the railroad. Bradbury Tuttle Cheney and Edith (Pierce) Cheney at their The bro[...]owa. raphy and took many pictures of the country and the devel- In 1873, B. T. Cheney sold his farm and moved his family opment of the railroad as[...]l cous- At the end of two years, Will and Lelia returned to Ne- ins and their families and made the trip by covered wagon. braska to[...]1870, in Brighton, N. Y., to Herman George Wilcox and his wife Lura (McCarthy) Wilcox. H. G. Wilcox was a hunting guide in winter and a carpenter and wheelright in summers. His old ledger tells of working on houses, caskets, wagons, and wheels for which he received a "peck of potatoes," a "basket of apples," and a bushel of grain or perhaps 25 cents in cash. Th[...]Early-day Lima Band frame house and gave my grandfather Wilcox one of his cows with t[...]Both Cheney brothers were now lumber. Both Lelia and Will mentioned many times what a working for the railroad and taking pictures. valuable addition this cow was t[...]Both Lelia and Will were active in school and church[...]years as well as serving on the Church board and seeing to the repair of the Church and parsonage. Lelia was Record-[...]ing Secretary for the Church for many terms and was always involved in the socials and home-talent programs that were[...]a source of income for both school and church. They and their son Sylvan were very interested in music[...]and were instrumental in starting the Lima band. When[...]funds were available the band purchased uniforms and built[...]and appeared in Armstead at the D.A.R.'s Sacajawea Ce[...]igh school in Standing (from left): Lelia, Sylvan and Dottie Lima. He was sec[...] |
| [...]y April 11, 1942. Lelia passed away May 19, 1946, and Will on Septem- ber 19, 1949. Both are buried in[...]lif.; Arline (Cheney) Arrive of Monterey, Calif.; and Ben of Meridian, Idaho. Sylvan died at the Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake City in January, 1969. He and Margaret are buried in Poca- tello. Dottie Che[...]oward Edgely of Pocatello; Ray of Florence, Ore.; and Richard of Salt Lake City, Utah. William Cooper died in July, 1967, and Dottie in May, 1980. Both are buried in Pocatello[...]ello, Idaho; Anita (Mer- Berg and Christine Christensen rell) Brown of Dillon; Joyce Merrell of Missoula; and Lila with children Ejner and Alma (Merrell) Harper of Missoula. began to learn the language and to make his way in the Max and Bonnie still live in Lima. They celebrated their[...]another by their common language and culture. They en- Berg and Christine joyed picnics and dances and established a Danish Brother-[...]hich was among the most prosperous and they settled on his small farm to begin a life together. and democratic in Europe. Danish citizens were relati[...]tant part of their lives. Christine well educated and might have been content had it not been[...]the continent to seek their fortune else- and a son Ejner in 1913. where. It was the feudal cas[...]ult Christine grew homesick for Denmark and by 1914 had for anyone not born into wealth to ac[...]upon her husband t o return for a visit. On their and his family. Many young men and women heard stories return to Dillo[...]ry Ranch at about oppotunity in the United States and left to see for Red Rock and he went into the sheep business. It was a themsel[...]9 years old when he made the success and within two years he moved his expanding family de[...]tucky Avenue. He sold the place at Red Rock and entered Arrival in the United States as an imm[...]r By 1919, with the war over in Europe and prosperity forget. Many were refused entry becaus[...]was able to buy the Cott onwood physical problems and those who were denied faced an un- Ra[...]number (a daughter, Betty, was born in 1926) and grew into Upon arrival in Dillon he went to wo[...]the newcomers. After a short while Berg and family get-togethers as many of Berg and Christine's was confident enough to homest[...] |
| [...]the United States and arrived in Bisbee, Ariz., where he had[...]mines and for the railroad as teamsters, as horses were al-[...]hay on the Frank Drees place, and they took their pay in[...]Matt and Olef's sister, Marie, and her husband Otto[...]Frotscher came to Montana in 1906 and were also ranching[...]erland, one of nine children. Her father Bertrand and[...]situation, and when Elvina' aunt, Cecile Wenger Hirschy, and her husband Frederic returned to Montana after a[...]Elvina was miserable, as she was 27 years old, and spoke no ily, Berg sold the Cottonwood Ranch and bought another English at all. When everyone was laughing and having fun ranch on Rattlesnake Creek, about seve[...]w why. lon. The place was known as the Stonehouse and became the Elvina's brother, James Tis ot[...]hing operations. About that time he ac- 1891 and probably settled in the Fox District because his quired holdings in the Centennial Valley, Sage Creek and uncle August Wenger was there. Jim had been[...]iss Taylor Creek which, together with the Bannack and Ratt- doctors that he had a serious lung ailment and that he lesnake ranches would make him, by the en[...]d been part of the Frederic II, a large landowner and one of the largest sheep producers Hirschy hous[...]1894. He worked for them and lived with them although he Both Berg and Christine cared for their community, but it had[...]he earliest opportunity in 1910, Elvina moved out and family. and went to Emil Zorn s where Jim was also working. E[...]ife had died, leaving him with two oung daughters and and his advice on financial matters was helpful. He contin- Elvina went in to help with the cooking and the girls. Matt ued to participate fully in the Danish Brotherhood and re- and Elvina must have discovered each other a the were[...]1958. He joined Lodge married August 23, 1910, and went to witzerland on their No. 1554, B.P.O.E., in 1930 and in 1956 received an honor- honeymoon. A treas[...]f his service. He was a member of the Rotary Club and he and Christine were long- time members of the Lutheran[...]hristine passed away in January of 1981 at age 91 and their son, Erwin, died in March of 1982. They are[...]Marie Elvina Tissot- Matt and Elvina[...] |
| [...]r, Albert-one large pocket sold to Wallace and Ann Christiansen. After the death of watch for Matt, and one small ladies watch for Elvina, with Matt[...]Squaw Creek Ranch was operated by El- their names and "Fish Trap, Montana" on the face of each vina and Lawrence Christiansen until 1960, when it was sol[...]to Wallace and Ann. In 1950 they purchased the ranch to Upon[...]ana, they settled in to start the south of and adjoining the Gorris, known as the Hen- their marred life at Fish Trap. Olef and their younger sister dricks, which had been ow[...]arie Rena, who had immigrated in 1909, moved out, and Olef Frotscher Hendricks. bought a ran[...]After the sale of the Squaw Creek Ranch, Lawrence and Elvina was working on improving her English, a[...]would speak only good Eng- Thompson Creek and the George and Charley York lish. What a tragedy when she and Matt spoke other lan- Ranches. The Albee[...]hild, Rita, was born in 1911. They 1986, and the York is still owned by his family. bought the[...]for his birth. Wallace was born January 12, 1915 and Leslie on[...]enmark for it became available. He was irrigating and putting up hay in a while and, when he was 12, they moved to the United the summer time, and raising cattle and horses. If loving States and lived for a time with their uncles Nels and Soren horses was hereditary, he must have instill[...]William, his brother Soren, and sister Victoria, and his[...]and one day after the kids had left for school at the[...]ool, their mother accidentally fell into the well and[...]never married and Victoria married a stagecoach driver[...]Helen and Lila, all raised on their ranch in the Big Hole.[...]1943 they sold the ranch and retired to the Bitterroot. They[...]Mary died on April 15, 1978, and William died in January,[...]Walter and Joanna Clapp The Montana winters were so very harsh and the schools Walter Clapp and Joanna Connell were married February so far away that in the winters of 1918-19 and 1919-20, Matt 25, 1900, in Bates County, Missouri where both had been rented a house in Long Beach, and sent Elvina and the raised. children to California, so that Rita and Lawrence could start Joanna was the youngest of three daughters of Mr. and to school. In the winter of 1920, Rita and Leslie became ill, Mrs. William Connell, who had also raised two orphaned and Leslie died on January 12, and Rita about two weeks brothers. The Connell.s were devout Quakers and for years a later. They were buried in Long Beach, and the family never Quaker church flourished ne[...]nter again. choir and her father was a "pillar of the church." Now there The Squaw Creek Ranch, as the holdings of Matt and remains only the old Sharon Cemetery t[...]od. homesteads, public land sales, railroad lands and Desert Walter was the only son in a fa[...]father Land entries. These were acquired by Julie and Georgie had fought in the Civil War on the Union side. He married Tong and in 1907 were sold to Charles Salefsky. In 1912, after the war and they left Indiana to settle on a small farm Salefsky sold to Andrew and Helen Davis, who in 1915 sold near Hume, M[...]me other played the fiddle for dances far and wide, and never lacked small parcels, made up the Squaw Cre[...]After three years of "hired hand" wages and when Horace Ranch from the heirs of Mary G[...] |
| across the land, Walter and Joanna left for Idaho. Walter until we moved to Fishtrap and ranching. secured work in a sawmill in Harrison,[...]r d'Alene. health and Walter died in a Dillon hospital on June 2, 1939. In February the mills closed, a baby was on the way and My poor mother had lost her "Rock of Gibra[...]Walter "rode the rails" to Dillon, their ranch and came to live with us where she was most Montana,[...]ttack in April of 1940. S-Six" ranch in Big Hole, and was hired. The "S-Six" Both are buried in the Wisdom Cemetery. ranches were owned by Beilenberg and Walker of Anaconda and the one where the Clapps worked is now owned by[...]a rented one room in a two-roomed cabin in Wisdom and settled down to await my arrival. Dr.[...]Fred Clark Sweet was the town doctor and he delivered me on May 6, Fred Clark[...]the 7L Ranch 1903. I was squalling when I arrived and kept right on for a for a number of years. H[...]year. First it was colic, then an ear infection, and no one got Blake Place. He was first married to[...]Tug Judy, and they had a daughter, Dorothy. Fred and When I was three my folks left Big Hole for Mi[...]i, deep in the Ozarks, in the spring Ranch and had four children: Clarence, Betty, Mary and and settled on forty acres of clay and rocks. The buildings Margie. The family lef[...]in the 1920s. weren't much but my folks "made do" and proceeded to put[...]ound produced well-tobacco, corn, grain, peanuts, and melons of all kinds. Mother plant- ed a huge garden and while father worked diligently repair-[...]Tom and Flora Clark ing, clearing more land and cultivating corn with a team of Hiram Thomas Clark (Tom) was born in Champaign, mules and a walking cultivator, she fought tomato worms,[...]s one of seven brothers, four of whom potato bugs and every other insect that decided to share her[...]ed school nearby. My fa- on Cherry Street and maintained it as a home for his mother ther had been elected to the school board and some changes and a cousin, Lizzie Benjamin, all of their lives. were made. There were two teachers instead of one and Tom was disappointed that he could[...]After four years of drudgery our place was sold and we job driving freight wagons from Corrin[...]. They used four or six head of oxen. The parents and we lived where Ann and Dusty Sparrow lived going was rough and the oxen's feet became sore from the for so long.[...]rocks, ice and snow and had to be wrapped in leather or Two years later back we went to Missouri and Mother's sacking to be able to travel. d[...]at first sight with the beautiful Centen- Kansas and Missouri line. This lasted only a year. My father[...]ountains that formed the Idaho-Montana had asthma and the muggy climate did not agree. So it was border were rugged and snow-covered a good part of the back to Big Hole and this time to stay. year[...]ds of wild game-elk, We went to work for Jones and Onserud on the Big Hole deer and bear, as well as mountain sheep and goats. Tom Ranch (now owned by Jack Hirschy). My[...]I went one year to the West was stirrup high and the many clear, clean streams and the Fox school and several years to Briston.[...]y folks bought the ranches formerly owned by Jack and He chose a spot about 10 miles west of Lakeview and Jim Paddock and went into the dairy business. Wisdom had[...]me every- Paddock place (now known as the Ferris) and moved to the thing was ready, the hired[...]very sick and needed a doctor. Tom fitted them up with a I had finished high school in Dillon and went to work at team and spring wagon to go to Dillon, where the family th[...]Tom's cattle business was very successful and in a few 1926. He worked for Carl Huntley and I kept on at the store, years he owne[...] |
| [...]Higgins was a partner there and ran it for several years.[...]common. The fall before he died, a team ran away and[...]Tom and Flora went to Long Beach, California, to spend[...]brought on by the injury, and died there in 1919.[...]Almeda and William The Clark Family (in light coats: Flora and Tom[...]Clayton (rear), Maude (center), and Virginia May (lower len)[...]to the Centennial Valley from Iowa in hard worker and a good manager. 1[...]ge, Mon- came shortly after my Mom's sister and her husband, Mamie tana, came to the Centennial to teach school near Lakeview. and Joe Buck. I was born May 3, 1914, at my Aunt Mami[...]ng the lady who delivered most of the babies near and Fitch. They had a large ranch just a mile or two northeast of far in the Valley, and as far away as Virginia City. Lakeview. Flora was pretty, lively, and full of fun and My folks bought the Henry Hackett Ranc[...]younger than Tom but he fell in love view, and it was here that my mother said she spent some of with her and decided that he wanted her for life. They were the happiest times of her life. They then sold this ranch and boating and picnicking on Lower Red Rock Lake when he spent one year farming near Idaho Falls, sold that and came "popped the question." He offered her one-ha[...]she would say yes. His 1918, being isolated and being the only family living there. I aim was quick and steady. They were married in Dillon, rem[...]was a month-long trip out of the Cen- flu and was buried yesterday." The 1918 flu epidemic took tennial along the edge of the lava beds and up to look over many people quickly, and it was in the middle of winter. the Medicine Lodg[...]l day's drive before realizing that stopped and had dinner and then left on their horses. A Flora had put the cash for the trip in her purse and stashed short time later one came back for hel[...]ht out. horse had fallen and rolled. The saddle horn got him in the After c[...]ent on to look at stomach. My dad took a team and wagon and brought him ranches in the Birch Creek area and on to see if they might back to our place. li[...]as Back of us on the south side of the road and a little west good as the Centennial. lived Jessie and Ike Marble. Ike gave me my first pair of skis, Tom loved to read and always kept a number of good probably about 1921. Ben and Mayme Holt lived nearby books and magazines around. One of them was a large and and my folks had them over for dinners, Christmas and beautifully illustrated volume of Milton's "Parad[...]lly taken in Civil War times. He also loved music and owned one of the first old Edison phonographs and a large collection of records. Old Irish ballads and John Phillip Sousa marches were favorites. The very long and severe winters in the Centennial caused Tom and Flora to move to Medicine Lodge before their first child, Maude, was born. When she was school age and a second daughter, Virginia, was a baby, they dec[...]ght a 10-acre place on the corner of Ninth Street and Holmes. Tom in- vested in several farms af[...] |
| Alfred Clayton, Grandma Addie Tibbles and Aunt The Clemow family, from le[...]Mary Elizabeth, Betsey, and Elizabeth (circa 1918). The Lakeview School h[...]ngland, on May 7, 1874, one of 10 children of Mr. and Mrs. Sometimes I skied or walked, but mostly rode[...]at time but he was issued a grant for his "yells" and in the spring at graduation time we danced[...]s caring for the livestock at the boarding school and this My folks raised Black Angus cattle and our registered became the background for h[...]om this in office half-way between Jackson and Wisdom, marketing 1945 and shipped it to Anchorage, Alaska. It is still in u[...]e no local Uncle Judd Tibbles was a carpenter and helped build our sales yards as we know toda[...]in the Big Hole new house in the mid 1920's. Judd and wife, Minnie, proved did not have many cows and calves so they bought two-year- up on their homes[...]e of Upper Red Rock old steers in the fall and fed them during the winter to be Lake in the 1920[...]lifestyle that had owned by Marshall Field and was later purchased by Thom- been going on for ov[...]in Mon- together of people for food, horseshoes, and baseball on the tana, in Dillon and herded them on foot until he got to the Fourth of[...]Tash gave him a horse to rodeos with bronc riding and calf roping. I ran a trap line in the winter, weekends and after school, and still have a camera that I bought with this money. My mother and I made our first trip as far as Fairbanks, Alaska, in July 1935. That same month Wiley Post and Will Rogers crashed their plane out from Nome and both were killed. In January 1940 I became a r[...]after World War II to see my mother were in 1945, and then again in 1946, when she passed away. My fath[...]Tom Clemow, Kramer, Helen Jardine; George and Elizabeth[...] |
| [...]George worked for Mr. Fox, earning between 15 and 20 passed through the area on their famo[...]given, the women and children were told to run to the George returned to England in 1904 and married Eliza- Meade Hotel for their prot[...]April 12, 1904. Elizabeth Ann, sion and panic with women shouting and children crying. daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Mortimer, was born in She had to cross Grasshopper Creek and was carrying the Sidbury, Devonshire, England, on[...]two younger children in her arms and leading Walter by the George and Elizabeth returned to the United States and hand. In her haste she dropped my father i[...]real as the Indians were reported to be close by and on the acre parcel known by the family as the "Upper Ranch." As war path. years went by, George and Elizabeth bought land and devel- Most of the information I have is taken from the historical oped it, adding land as time and need allowed. records at the Museum library in Helena and also from George and Elizabeth became the parents of four chil- court house records and newspaper files. James Colson is dren: Betsey Lil[...]y 25, 1907; of the Montana Pioneers and their records state that he Thomas Mortimer, born at Jackson, April 30, 1908; and "crossed the plains from Illinois and arrived in Virginia City Mary Elizabeth, born at[...]went back to England with the three youn- and conducted the first Public House there until 1868[...]unsurveyed claim of 160 acres and 100 head of horses." Elizabeth would tell of the long rides by horse and buggy He moved to the Beaverhead area, most likely in the early to and from Dillon when the children were little. They[...]70s but I found no exact date indicated. His name and would wrap the children in blankets and tie them in sacks brand are listed in repr[...]gram of the Throughout their lifetimes, George and Elizabeth were annual meeting of Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers active in county and state organizations promoting the cat- held[...]Elizabeth passed away on June 8, 1955, in Dillon and In a supplement to the Dillon Tribune da[...]mansion. Kirkpatrick Bros. and G. W. Dart built a brick William A. Col[...]. The log structure was Idaho. He died in 1914 and is buried in Dubois, Idaho. still standing when h[...]n family in Beaverhead when yet a teenager and was on his own at an Beaverhead County. The town[...]District. The family is listed as James M. Colson and his 1890s by Hansen Packing Co. of Butte as a[...]haire, 32, children: Walter 9, William 5, Ella 4, and told us of running several hundred head of H[...]opted by James Colson as was Co. steers and dry cows in Small Horn Canyon in 1896. His his br[...]od friend Sam Freeman, lifetime Beaverhead cowboy and Grandfather DeFrate who was Grandmother Thaire's[...]d to the In 1898 he went back to Idaho and married my mother, Beaverhead area. We know that[...]. Fayle of Small, Idaho, on January 28, 1899. The and his family were living at Bannack because my father's Colson ranch, where I and my brothers and sisters were half-sister, Ella, was born t[...] |
| [...]st of Dubois, within eight miles of good and wildlife abounded. As the later arrivals traveled Medicine Lodge Pass into Montana and Big Sheep Creek toward their new home[...]ous mining camp at that time. A Chinese laundry and sever- in early days by freighters between Corinne, Utah, and Ban- al other buildings nestled along the road and mountainside. nack.[...]ath of my father the ranch was sold to a man and enjoy themselves, sometimes becoming a little rou[...]ey found the Chinaman who ran the laundry at work and Idaho. William Colson died May 6, 1936, and is buried in they caught him and cut off his queue. He became so con- Dubois, Idaho. fused and frightened that he ran away and was never seen again. Bryan and Coiner Families[...]By Janey A. Bryan in Dillon and later worked in the Golden Rule Store. She My grandparents, William H. Coiner and Matilda Jane was married to Frank Bryan[...]she Indiana. They were married February 10, 1876, and two lived to be 96 years old. girls and four boys were born to this marriage: Mattie, Mar- The Coiner brothers raised horses and worked in the min- garet (Maggie), Chester, Arthur, Otis, and Vern Coiner. ing camp at any jobs that were available. William _H. Coiner Mattie married and stayed in Kansas. was school clerk for the Birch Creek school and was also My mother, Maggie Coiner, was born in[...]e place in the road at that time. My grandparents and my mother Margaret traveled on the train from Kan[...]west they were amazed at the beautiful mountains and other scenery, since they were not accustomed to such sights. They were on the train three days and three nights. They arrived in Dillon in the night and took a room at the Metlen Hotel. It was a beautif[...]t time. The next day they again boarded the train and went to Apex, Montana. A friend, Theron Morand, met them and took them in a spring wagon to spend the night at[...]Cora Bryan with daughters Elizabeth (left) and[...]Willard and Belle Combs had a small ranch at the very[...]location, surrounded by timber. Mr. Combs and son operat- ed a sawmill and sold lumber. He also drove the mail stage[...]try before 1910. After Mr. and Mrs. Combs died, the ranch[...]LSE The Coiners-back row from left: Otis, Mattie and |
| Oregon. The original family name was Van Koenhoven and is Dutch. His father, William, whose family owned[...].Y., married "beneath him," so he left his people and came west, arriving in Oregon in October of 1853. John I was one of five boys and five girls born to William and Tamara Condren Conover. John I married Harriet El[...]while. John became acquainted with Mr. Poindexter and Mr. Orr who owned the large ranch southeast of Di[...]p by horseback. John Albert went back to Yreka and brought his bride to Montana to live. They homest[...]John Conover II and Ruby M. Conover Sheep Canyon. They raised grain and hay, had a milk cow, chickens and turkeys, and worked for the P & 0. They later was swamp and there was no well or drinking water. They bought some sheep and pastured them on their place. At one used ra[...]. ed, but much wiser, and soon left for Grants Pass, Oregon. Three child[...]uby Myrtle John II went to California and washed dishes in a cafe and Conover, June 17, 1896; John Albert Conover II, F[...]a box factory in Oregon. John I, Harriet, and Ruby returned[...]and worked for the P & 0, and he also continued with the[...]and they lived at Monida a few years. They then moved[...]riage. They separated, and she moved to San Francisco,[...]worked in the larger hotels, and bought a home near the zoo and seashore. She became ill in 1957 and lived her remain-[...]ing years in Dillon with her brother, John, and his wife,[...]P & 0, trapped furs and did some cowboying. He worked for[...]the Frank Landon Ranch on the Blacktail and was Landon's John Conover I and wife Harriet Mahan private chauffeur, driving one of the first motorized vehicles 1898, and a baby that died soon after birth.[...]hn II also worked for several years at the John and Harriet maintained a home on North Pacific[...]He met Murlin Claire Street in Dillon so John II and Ruby could attend grammar Walker there, as her parents, Welby Leroy and Claire Ball school. They went home on weekends to[...]ved many times the Montana winters were too cold, and they here from Idaho. John II and Murlin were married on De- didn't make it back to[...]ir schooling ended By this time John I and Harriet were getting old and John about the seventh grade. II took them to live with him and his family near town. After this, John and Ruby helped their parents. John Harriet died in August, 1934, and John I in November 1935. Albert I was an accomplished woodsman and sold wood and They are buried in Mountain View Cemetery. kindling to stores and families in Dillon. He also sold wood John[...]land through the years. After to both lumberyards and this was hauled in a dead axle many year[...]passed away July 18, 1983, in Great Falls, and is buried at When John II and Ruby were in their teens, a sharpshoot- Mount[...]yed children - John, William, Mary Ellen and Dale. around the vicinity until he talked John and Harriet into trading some of their croplan[...] |
| Emil and Mabel Conger[...]the settlers by the French and Indians, but Mrs. Conger[...]was born in Albany County, New York, in 1759 and became[...]seven children and spent their whole lives in the service of[...]Milan, Erie County, Ohio, and at the Western Reserve Col-[...]lion of cavalry which he had recruited and which were desig-[...]usly wounded in a raid. After recovering he James and Elizabeth Conger. Mabel was born April 22,[...]ge of a force of 1901, at Argenta to James Melvyn and Martha Louise Jen- department clerks where[...]nt down the experiencing a flurry of mining! Emil and Mabel attended criminal. A detailed account[...]tity by a heavy gold stick-pin which bore the dry and Mabel went to work in Butte at Gamer's.[...]When the war ended Mr. Conger returned to Ohio and Army where he served in the 74th Balloon Company~[...]practice in survived the awful influenza epidemic and was honorably Illinois in 1869. Mr. Conger[...]ent of dup, Mont., where his brother Arthur lived and secured a Secrertary of War Stanton. He was[...]trict comprised Madison, Jefferson, Gal- Mabel and Emil were married September 18, 1920 in latin and Custer Counties. He served in this capacity for H[...]esumed his law practice in Dillon. In 1887 Laurel and all was going well until the bank accepted their[...]of Beaverhead County, daily deposit one afternoon and then closed its doors and the position which he held until the admissi[...]never reopened! The Congers were out of business and Emil to statehood in 1889. He was again elec[...]1923, in Laurel. It was a traumatic time as Mabel and Emil Ohio, in 1861. Three boys and one girl were born to this were quarantined becau[...]Poindexter, federal judge of the Hawaiian Islands and later who had to stay for two weeks because of th[...]ing family matters. In addition to Emil's parents and younger his son-in-law, J.B. Poindexter and his granddaughter, He- sisters Hazel and Lillian, Mabel's mother and sisters, Mar- len Poindexter. Margaret died many years ago in Dillon. tha and Vera Melvyn, still lived in Dillon so it was not[...]James and Elizabeth[...]Conger Everton J. and Emma[...]Listowell, Ontario, Canada to Billyat and Priscilla Dafoe[...] |
| [...]was born in 1903, George in 1904, and Thomas in 1907.[...]ing the cattle at night and following their logging wagons[...]They sold the ranch in 1908 and moved to Satsop, Wash.,[...]and Isabel were born there. In 1913 the family moved[...]to Montana and bought a ranch on Camp Creek near Mel-[...]rose. Later they bought the Horace Hand ranch and the[...]Monica and William were born at Melrose. They lived[...]there and raised their family until Patrick died in 1935 and[...]in Seattle, Wash.; and Bill in Whitehall, Mt.[...]Maria Ellis, born September 29, 1854. Elizabeth and James had ten children; the first four •were[...]ld 1 August 28, 1899; Hazel Rae on March 24, 1898 and Lillian Mae (Babe) on March 12, 1900. |
| George B. Conway Family George B. Conway and his wife Lilah were married in 1881 in Indiana and came directly to Montana. They lived in Glendale,[...]l 1900. All eight of their children - seven girls and a boy - were born there. One daughter, Julia, die[...]ily moved to Dillon. George was a mining operator and an active member of the Baptist Church. Five of the children-Helen, Ruth, Ora, Alice and Walter-attended Montana Normal School, now Wester[...]met a promising young lawyer, William J. Cushing, and left school to marry him. They had one daughter,[...]From Le~: Archie Henneberry, Willard Jensen and Florence worked as a telephone operator until[...]John Coppin (Armstead, 1910) and married Anthony French, a farmer from Argenta. Wh[...]f all trades." He Ruth married Gustav Bohstedt and they have lived in and his brother-in-law, Leo Talent, mined the New Dep[...]ture Mine. He became a carpenter, plumber, and electri- Ruth, who turned 89 in December, is the[...]build Beaverhead County High School. living. She and Gus, also still living, have two sons, Carl and Jimmy. Ora and Alice both taught for many years in Helena; neither married. Walter and his wife Thoma lived in Polson, Mont., where Walter taught and later was superintendent of schools. Thoma now li[...]o lives in Polson. Eunice married Ben Bratcher and they lived in Washing- ton, D.C. Eunice died at t[...]osephine Cushing Maxwell. In the 1920's George and Lilah and daughters Ora, Alice and Eunice moved to Helena.[...]John and Marie Coppin John and Marie Coppin Having no children of their own, John and Marie adopted[...]th his entered the Navy where he met and married Dorothy Viola 154-Beaverhea[...] |
| [...]Craig founded the Pioneer Dairy in 1870 and raised fine[...]ranching and owned one of the largest flocks in the territory.[...]udes the present Barrett Hospital, nearby clinics and the[...]land south to the Cornell Ranch buildings; and the west half[...]1812. As his operation grew, he purchased and leased several[...]Creek and Antone Mountain before the Forest Reserve was[...]scilla Morgan, was born in West Craig and Ann Eliza had four children--Isaac Roscoe Virginia and her father was a pioneer settler of Ohio, set- (1873), Estella (1876), Mary Viola (1879), and Myron Craig tling in Wayne County where she marri[...], Craig left the family farm on April 17, 1897, and had two sons-Harold Cornell (1902-1973) and 1864 and headed west to Grinnell, Iowa, the terminus of th[...], 1908. Mary Viola died November 24, from Chicago and left Grinnell near the end of April with 1926 at the age of 47 years and Estella passed away in 1963. four wagons drawn by[...]Roscoe Cornell. He attended Dillon schools and went on to company separat-ed, one portion travel[...]pany as a toff. They were not molested by Indians and arrived in mining engineer in the south[...]civic affairs and gave his support to several worthwhile[...]Montana and received a degree in foreign trade from the[...]Elsie Rouse in Dillon on July 11, 1937. Roscoe and Elsie had First row, le~ to right: Chas. A. Burden, Roscoe G. two sons-Craig Roscoe (1938) and Roy Kenneth (1940). Cornell, Craig Cornell[...] |
| [...]tnership was formed with Bert Crampton Al and Hallie Covey- (Fred's brother) and John and Russell Quimby (Mae's fa- Al and Hallie Covey came to the Big Hole about 1905 and ther and brother) and was known as the C.P.& Q. Ranch. filed on a claim[...]ed from Joe Butala. Bertha, Sadie, Clarence, Edna and Ada. They also had a r[...]Al cut cordwood for the A.C.M ran sheep and cattle. Smelter. He was an expert axe-man and built several log Needing summer pas[...]sherwoman. She would just step to Fred and Mae on the ranch near Dillon: a daughter Doris out the back door and have a nice mess of fish for dinner in a on June 3, 1919, and on May 13, 1921, another son, William. very short[...]C.P.& Q. partnership was dissolved in 1923. Fred and April 16, 1911, was a special day at the ranch home of the Mae bought out their partners' interests and retained the Coveys when their two oldest girls w[...]Hattie married cabin on the homestead and, after his retirement until his Garf Pomroy and Julia married Jim Vaughn.[...]s school. When spend time with son, Bill, and daughter-in-law, Dorothea, first built it stood in what was then the Covey field, the same and family, who had a ranch near Armstead. They made[...]ere around 1918, the Coveys sold out to Jake Louk and moved to the Bitterroot. They had a nice little p[...]-JENNIE ELSE Fred and Mae Crampton 156[...] |
| [...]service at Newtonia, Missouri, in 1864. Henry and Alex-[...]ander decided to keep trying for gold and went on to Ban-[...]men and opened a butcher shop. Beef cattle were readily[...]available at Deer Lodge and his earlier training on the farm[...]Noble Craver after Crawford gave aid and comfort to Jack Cleveland, a Civil War with Compa[...]rest in the area. Another Theophilus B. Craver and Mary D. Noble were united in reason was[...]to this not only was Crawford an honest and brave man, he was an union but only three lived t[...]zabeth - affront to Plummer's inflated ego and Plummer feared born July 12, 1875; Oleta Eda - born April 15, 1888; and Crawford knew of his position in the gan[...]ifle (this verified to me later by both my father and uncle, June of 1880 the family moved to the city of Butte and themselves both crack-shots) wounded Plummer by shoot- engaged in lumbering and grocery clerking. In the spring of ing him[...]im would bring to a close Plummer's raising sheep and cattle. v[...]mer's ha- He was very successful in his efforts and was known as one tred and he swore now he would kill Crawford as soon as he[...]in cold stood high in the esteem of the community and were promi- blood. nent in connection wit[...]e buried at confrontations between Crawford and Plummer took place, Mountain View Cemetery, Dillo[...]h 2, 1835, the sixth child of William L. Crawford and his wife, Lucretia Bur- hyte. He was 27 years old when, with his brothers Alex- ander, 29, and John, 25, he left the farm of his father to head for Pike's Peak. He was born in Cortland County, New York, and moved along with his family to Caledonia, Wis., in 1848, a pioneer farming family of Scottish ancestry and Presbyterian faith. After finding more men than[...]at Bannack. Brother John by this time had had it and decided to enlist in the Union Army, this being t[...]led while in the Phebe Jane, George, Frank and Henry Crawford[...] |
| home and he was informed that a young lady whom he was pre[...]was some- what common in those days, nursing him and others and giving him confort whenever he would return from[...]ar behind him, decided to return to Wisconsin. He and Phebe were married March 24, 1864, and had two sons, Frank F. and George G. Both sons were printers and Frank was a pioneer newspaperman in Fort Meade, F[...]ion to the larger world, includ- were born to him and wife Martha. ing Di[...]you know, had his neck stretched by the and Fred went by wagon to Fort Benton and down the Vigilantes of Montana and peace finally came to the coun- Missouri to[...]That fall Henry drove his team try around Bannack and Virginia City. to the new town of Dillon and went east by train. When they It is for this r[...]illon, Anna wrote in her diary, "It was the first and his gang now walk the streets of Bannack by night in of November (1880) when we arrived at Dillon and it was 13 this purgatory on earth and must continue doing so till the below zero. I[...]ate right to do. had been born and raised in the Gallatin Valley, attended Henry[...]State of Nebraska M.S.C., had been a teacher, and was then superintendent of in 1889 after returning West for a visit to Virginia City and Gallatin County schools. then once more becomin[...]City that winter. Fred and Pearl Crouse In 1865 George joined an ox train and arrived in Bannack[...]on June 16 or 17. He turned to freighting, and then settled The Crouse history in Beaverhead[...]6, on a ranch near Central Park. There he and Emma Street, 1864, shortly after Montana gained t[...]gold unsuccessfully at the Grasshopper dig- gings and then moved on with many others to the newer discoveries in Alder Gulch. The big strike still eluded him and in 1865 he returned to Illinois. But the lure of the frontier was strong and in 1866 he headed west again. This time he paid f[...]or several years he freighted from Salt Lake City and Fort Benton to the numerous mining camps. In 1869[...]of Bozeman. Henry returned to Illinois in 1877 and married Anna Mill- Fred and Pearl Crouse 158-Beaverhead History |
| [...]27, 1861, in Ottumwa, Iowa, to Judge Joseph H.D. and Emily Street. The family came to Lillian Culver Montana via the Old Oregon Trail and then north from Salt Lake City in 1865 to settle in Gallatin City. After Fred and Pearl had farmed successfully in the Springhill a[...]to Beaverhead County where land was much cheaper and dry- land wheat crops seemed to thrive. Several o[...]including the Brays, Sandquists, Mc Vays, Harpers and 0.W. Smiths who bought the ranch now owned by Ron[...]ly moved to Dillon in 1914 with a four-horse team and wagon and bought the Jack McLaren farm four miles east of town. For two years (1914 and 1915) Lillian Hackett Hanson Culv[...]1850, at Cos- per acre. Reporters, photographers and prospective pur- suth, Iowa, daughter of William George Hackett and Axa chasers came from Butte, Anaconda and surrounding towns Minerva Chapin Hackett. Her father was a surveyor and and the record crops were well publicized. helped mark out and select land for new towns as new set- Subseque[...]g west by the hundreds. About 1860, Wil- cutworms and grasshoppers. Wheat prices declined sharply[...]wheat to hold things together. He began a and she died in 1863. The father came home then and took shift into cattle and off farm work. his family to Maine where his parents and several brothers He had done considerable road[...]younger lived. Lillian, her sister, Mary, and brother, Henry, lived days and, having good horsepower and equipment, was able with various relatives. Lillian attended school in Libson to build bridges and construct and maintain roads for the Falls, Bradford, and Avon. The father went on a lecture tour county. He also found employment for himself and his to tell people about moving west,[...]also used his horsepower to ad- took Henry and Mary and later moved to Kansas, but Lil- vantage by joinin[...]she had to run several looms. The the Upper Ruby and the Selway shearing sheds on the girls were worked and controlled until she felt like she was in Blackta[...]ners. The huge she left that job. She was 16 and it was hard to find a good wool sacks were hauled[...]job. She stayed awhile with a Mrs. Stevens and with other horse teams. relatives and finally found work in a shoe factory at Lynn,[...]Mass. At Lynn, she met William George Hanson and they trees to decorate Dillon streets before decorative lights and were married February 17, 1873. Their son, Fred[...]home of his grandfather, George Hanson. mountains and brought to town by sleigh or wagon depend- The marriage was not a happy one so Lillian and her small ing on the weather.[...]first passenger train. Her brother, Henry, was in and the country school closed. In 1918 Fred bought a hard Dillon. Lillian cooked and kept house for Sim Estes that rubber-tired Ford s[...]nter in Montana. In the spring she rented a house and hauled the neighborhood children to school. Later he and started a millinery shop. She had a good business and traded it to Bud Galt for a touring car. Ben Davi[...]r did well until she contracted rheumatic fever and her fin- owned and ran Davis Motors for years, bought the bus and gers were affected. Then in 1886, her shop and home were took East Bench children back and forth to Dillon schools in destroyed by fire. Lillian and Fred moved to Centennial 1920 and 1921.[...]The Crouses had three children; Frederic (1910) and a ranch at Elk Springs, which later beca[...]rgiana (Andersen) (1913) both born at Springhill, and Ranch. Charles (1916) born at the East Bench farm home. Lillian loved the valley and picked out a place she wanted[...]They married in 1889, and both took up homesteads where -GEOR[...]Lillian had decided to live. They built a home and began to[...] |
| [...]Iowa. He came west looking for fame and fortune when he[...]was a young man. He was fishing and hauling fish for Ed[...]were married and took up land at the upper end of Centen-[...]base of a mountain there. It is a lovely spot and Lillian[...]cked it for her home. Bill liked to be on the go' and soon[...]ranching was not enough. He began to travel and buy and[...]sell cattle. He went in partners with Ed Blake, and they went to Oregon, Utah, and various places to buy stock. Since[...]valley and stayed here for quite a few years. He drove M-Y acquire stock. Things went well for a few years, but Bill and stages at times, and also was Post-master at Monida. Some- Fred did no[...]e was one persuaded him to go into politics and he ran for county not exciting enough for Bill and he began to get itchy feet. assessor but was[...]e was around the area for quite He started buying and selling cattle and went in partners a few years, but then rum[...]. He had with Ed Blake, buying steers to bring in and fatten. Some- a large share in the early day settling and affairs in Centen- times prices dropped and they fell behind. Lillian did not nial Valley. like this, and since he was seldom home, she decided to[...]ved to Dillon from Clinton, Mo., Reis, a good boy and a great help to Lillian. He married in 19[...]was born in Clinton, November 11, 1878, and came to Dillon They put a dam across the water[...]friend, Gene Johns. He took up homestead- springs and formed a narrow pond, almost a mile long. They ing in Frying Pan Basin, bought a wagon and team and set stocked it with Rainbow and Brook trout. In a few years she up a dray bu[...]h he operated the rest of had some beautiful fish and many eastern fishermen came his life. to fish there. She charged by the pound and lots of large fish His wife, Ivy, born July[...]called with enough lunch to feed herself and the children for the "Granny's Pond," but some of[...]homestead. Mr. Curnutt lived in Dillon and commuted to Lillian wrote the news of Centennial for the "Madison- and from Frying Pan on weekends and holidays. Rattles- ian" and the "Dillon Tribune." She wrote for the "Madison- nakes were plentiful in Frying Pan and the family lived in ian" as early as 1895 and was still sending news items into constant f[...]hey the "Dillon Tribune" in 1930-31. Matt married and moved bought a home at 516 North Pacific St. and lived there until away, and Fred spent most of his time in Dillon, but her[...]y both passed away in that grandson, James Hanson and wife, lived on the ranch and home. They were married in Clinton, Mo.,[...]ng cold spells, Mr. Curnutt sold his team and wagon and purchased a but she loved her home and did not want to leave. Granny Model T. Fo[...]trokes during the summer of 1935 but on, and continued in the dray business. He delivered the[...]to stay at Jim's in February as it was Railway, and was responsible for safely placing it in the mail a cold stormy winter. She became ill and passed away March car for many years. He al[...]grocery stores and did other hauling connected with the The Gover[...]his health warranted it. He was known and admired by the -SHERRIE HARRISON entire community and surrounding areas. He was a kind and 160-Beaverhead History |
| [...]always sparing the rod and spoiling the child. She was an ardent and willing worker and member of the First Baptist[...]president asked for volunteers to cut, sew, and fold pneumo- nia jackets and bandages for the soldiers. The entire group[...]My mother got to her feet and said "I'll take a dozen." Other[...]me is always first to offer." She lost her health and[...]f her husband. She passed Arthur A. and Ivy E. Curnutt away April 16, 1944, and could well have had this epitaph on devoted husband, father, and neighbor and was everybody's her tombstone, "To know[...]love her." friend. He kept one or two milk cows and gave milk to his Their family by names are: Maude, born December 31, neighbors and friends far and near, including any needy 1902 in Cli[...]him. went to Idaho Falls to work there and made that his home He left this world with a clean slate, with no debts and still until his death in 1978. He married June Beasley there and left provision for his wife as long as she live[...]rior to her marriage, was Hunt of Waterloo and they raised a family of three children. an A-Number-One housekeeper, wife, mother and neighbor. Loren, born in Clinton, Mo.[...]She was known as one of the best cooks in Dillon and truly a clerk in Dillon food stores. He married Jean Meeke and they mother to be proud of in every way. When L[...]. He died after an Armstead was on her deathbed and had lost her appetite, automobile col[...]memade bread." She married Vivian Thomas and had one son. Louisa lives in That request was m[...]y mother immediately Deer Lodge. and the next day a loaf of fresh homemade bread was d[...]marriage dissolved in 1942. She worked and retired from[...]Otto Sassman in 1980 and they live in Dillon. John, born[...]tory in California, married Dorris Linke there, and they[...]Prelat. They live in Lolo, and have three daughters.[...] |
| Dillon and if you look at the top of the Moose Bar building[...]g in the stonework. The Cushings Montana and located in Butte, Mont., until the close of the l[...]blocks from the fairgrounds. One daughter married and in Dillon where he practiced his profes[...]her teens. He made a specialty of mining law and also had extensive I believe both Edward and Lorenzo were in the shoe shop mining interes[...]ounty. He was active in with their father. Edward and his wife Fredricka were the the Beaverhead Mining Association and he was a veteran of first couple in Dillon to hav[...]War I. picture can be seen in the museum. Lorenzo and Helen had On September 3, 1901, he marr[...]ne son, Ralph. During his high school years Ralph and was born at Glendale, Mont., April 27, 1882 and was the some friends had a dance band, making $10 an evening. eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Conway. The Ralph was a well known architect and passed away in 1978. Conway family moved to Dillon in 1899 and she attended He has a daughter Helen in Lewistown[...]tana State Normal College. Dur- Washington, D.C., and a son Lorenzo in Denver. ing Wor[...]in verhead County Red Cross sewi~g units and was widely practice with John Collins. Will recei[...]4. marry young Will. They were wed Sept. 5, 1901, and had one The Cushings were the parents of one daughter, Jose- daughter, Josephine. Will and Helen lived in a house on phine, who marr[...]-HELEN SHAFFNER yer and mining man and in 1942 bought what is now known as the Western A[...]he house was first built it was owned by a doctor and used as a hospital. Later it was[...]ead County began verted the house into apartments and both he and Helen in 1912, when Charles N. Dansie de[...]area was where he want¢ to base his sheep buying and Josephine attended Montana Normal School and went to selling operations, after some ye[...]et Nelson Maxwell, a ranching in Idaho and Utah. railroad man. They were married and lived in Great Falls Charles began by leasing the McMenomy ranch above the and Spokane. They had two daughters, Jackie Melvin wh[...]ll is an extremely talented violinist in Montana, and Mary Jo Hildreth's place. To help get things[...]Charles had with him his sons Robert J. Dansie and Charles -MAR[...]Charles, Sr. also bought the Clark Canyon William and Helen Cushing[...]nch in 1913, which then be- William J. Cushing and his wife, Helen Conway Cushing, came the Da[...]ging the children Verona (Ronnie), Allen, Lyston, and October 25, 1876, the son of Henry and Sarah Ann Cushing. two-month-old Major from[...]ear. The family one from the Armstead hotel, and a blast of Montana's all lived many years in Utah[...]the too typical February weather-below zero and falling. Little shoemaking trade. When William wa[...]bath in the hotel lobby, family followed the Utah and Northern Railroad north and by the pot-belly stove in a tin tub suppli[...]rooms! The next morning Robert schools of Dillon and graduated from high school as a mem- came in from the Clark Canyon ranch and took them to ber of the class of 1894. He entered business college and their new home in Armstead. Winters were sp[...]stead, where the children attended grade school, and sum- tural College at Bozeman where he was in spe[...]e law depart- Robert prospered at buying and selling sheep, acquiring ment of the University of Denver. He graduated in 1898 and several permanent herds. During WWI,[...] |
| [...]cquired were the Al DeWitt place near Armstead, and the Chicken Ranch, just above the DeWitt ranch[...]Bannack area he acquired the Taylor Creek ranch and the Reservoir ranch. The family brand was[...]you could bend one side of a tin can straight, and use it for a brand, in case there was no iron h[...]ith occasional time out for fish- ing. Grayling and cutthroat trout were still available in the river, and brook trout were well established in Armstead s[...]him by his father. Major was an avid fisherman and built his first fishing rod while in his teens. Lyston was a superior horseman from an early age, and trained polo ponies in Palm Springs, Calif., as[...]were fixed so that when I In 1917, Margaret and Robert built a large Dutch Colonial wasn't sitting on it, it flipped over and covered whatever was home at 830 S. Washington[...]1919. The older children, Ronnie, Allen, Lyston, and I was sent to see how Granny Culver was[...]n Dillon, where Major was quarter- or so and usually stayed overnight. I often helped her clea[...]had feather ticks, and after I made them Granny and I Ronnie later married Orville Smith from Ra[...]would each take an end of a broom handle and go over them Creek, and had one daughter, Margaret. Allen married Mil- to smooth them out, and make them look nice and smooth. dred Jackson from the Big Hole, and Lyston followed suit, Dad often took her wood, and then we fished in her pond. marrying Mildred's sister Lucille. Lyston and Lucille had One time I was sent to see h[...]s, I opened the one son, Jackson, while Mildred and Allen had one daugh- door and called and called, iooked all over and finally found ter, Suzanne, who still resides i[...]ng she had been there I -WILLIAM DANSIE and MAJOR DANSIE don't know, but after getting her down, a fire built and some[...]nny's because she had an Ouija board on her table and Pete David, born in Denmark, and Annie Wormke, born always told ever[...]e was a bachelor who lived close by in a one Iowa and Nebraska for a time, they came west to Roberts,[...]sent to see about him. I found him sick one time and -This was in 1911. They bought a 210 acre farm and started had to go home to get my parent[...]ey looking for a ranch for him. The year was 1917 and the ranch they bought was called "Green Meadow Ra[...]lived. We lived in a log house, had a root cellar and a meat house. Art and his wife lived there first, but his wife didn't like it up there so they went back to Idaho. Mom, Dad, Ted and I moved up there for about three years, as I remember going to the fourth, fifth and sixth grades in the Centennial. I remember Miss Sims and Ma Buck as teachers. Some of my classmates were Frank O'Conner, Annie Buck and Amanda Hayden. Art and Clarence Hunt made me a little cart for my horse[...]it only had room enough Pete and Annie David (about 1922)[...] |
| [...]ll place near to go right over to the Post Office and buy thrift stamps with the road, not far from G[...]work for a living. He was a bachelor, friendly and nice to talk me buy my first pair of glasses with the money from those to and never bothered anyone. He sold to the Government[...]mother couldn't stand the altitude. Frank Perkins and his family lived in our house and ran the ranch for another three years or so.[...]Ben and Mazie Davis Dad finally had to sell the ranch[...]18, 1896, the seventh of nine sons of Henry Clay and the Centennial Valley.[...]and Vern Estel (12/1/01 - 12/31/82) subsequently made Mrs. Alice Davis and Frank their[...]Ben first moved to Dillon in 1917 and married Anna Mazie[...]until 1910 (born 2/25/20) of Dillon in 1946 and was a homemaker and when he sold his land. Later on she remarried and for a time teacher in Deer Lodge, Mont., and retired to Missoula, lived down near Lakeview.[...]jamin (born 5/18/26) who married Frank grew up and married. He and his wife, Margarite, Helen Marie Collins ([...]some years. They then worked at other 1948 and became an automotive dealer in Butte and a ranches and later bought land on the southeast side of the NAPA Parts Store owner in Elko, Nev., and Coos Bay, Ore.; lake near Gilbert Hunt. They had mostly sheep and when Charles Henry (born .11/23/27) who[...]Harkens (born 3/29/33) of Butte in 1952 and became an had a lovely cabin at the mouth of Big Hollow. They had the automotive salesman, dealer and entrepreneur in Butte and sunny slopes there for lambing. Margarite loved to ride and Dillon; Benjamin Robert (11/11/29 -11/24/58)[...]Francis Ryan (born 1/11/32) of Dillon in 1951 and became Frank became severely crippled with art[...]salesman in Dillon until his untimely death older and when the Government bought land for the Refuge,[...]one mile north of Armstead, Mont.; they sold out and moved to Eugene, Oregon about 1935. Ed[...]South (born 7/3/36) of Dillon in 1956 and became a math-[...]Schools, retiring there in 1985; and Samuel Eugene (born 1/[...]of Chinook, Mont., in 1955 and became university professor[...]and Alpine Texas.[...]south of Dillon. He then became an automotive mechinic . and shop foreman in Dillon at Fred W oodside's Montan[...]He returned to Dillon in 1931 and established the Davis[...]Conoco Service Station and, in 1939, the Davis Motor Com-[...]pany at the corner of South Montana and East Glendale[...]He was a prominent automotive dealer until his retire-[...]ment in 1968. Besides selling Conoco and Ford products, he[...]later sold the Packard-Studebaker line and Jeep-Toyota Margarite[...] |
| his family and community. He never forgot the basic prem- ise of[...]s, sweeping out the floorboards, checking the oil and, finally, giving a gentlemanly tip of his hat to the ladies and a "thank you" for the opportunity to serve.[...]Dr. Sheldon E. Davis On the day that Ben and Mazie were married, his co- workers played a successful prank on the bride and groom. They handcuffed the newlyweds together at[...]ises were longtime supporters of extra-curricular and recreational activities at Beaverhead County High[...]ent of Schools. Daughter Dorothy Elizabeth School and Western Montana College.[...]s Ben's favorite sport. He was of John W. and Idonia Raining Sutherland. active as a player on[...]year course. She Branch, Minn., to Charles Horace and Camilla Frances earned a teacher's d[...]a teaching diploma (home lege in 1911, and a bachelors degree in education from the economic[...]ng member of the Dillon Grace United ma, and two more years there subsequent to her university[...]nt of ~astern Star, the American Legion Auxiliary and the Order schools, 1919 - 1923. of The Ni[...]ished musician, Mazie was also Dr. and Mrs. Davis attended the First Presbyterian 3.ctive as a potter, a grower· of beautiful flowers and, along Church in Dillon where he often filled[...]Davis was a Sunday school teacher for many years, and Ben H. Davis was a member of Grace United Methodist was a member of the Ellen May Guild and later of the ~hurch, the Dillon Elks, the America[...]h orga- Masons, the Royal Arch Masons, the Royal and Select Mas- nizations. Dr. Davis was a ke[...]ial varieties of gladioli; many of :?ree Masonry and the Bagdad Temple of the Shrine in th[...]n September 1919, from lon" in 1955, and was district governor (Montana) during Missouri w[...], Panhellenic, Alpha Gamma Delta social sorority, and ife in Kansas and Missouri, exercising the teaching profes- f[...]ersity Women. She later Dr. Davis received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the Uni- served as state president of AA UW, and was made an honor- rersity of Missouri, did gradu[...]tional organization on September :hicago, Leipzig and Berlin in Germany, and at Columbia 10, 1982. Jniversity in New[...]oleman in Missouri in tion Association, and a member of the National Education )ecember 1911;[...]h Sutherland, then Beaverhead County and high standards of work at the university l[...] |
| [...]Decker and J. W. Scott owned a hotel and a ranch in the[...]mstead to Salmon. A townsite was plotted by Scott and[...]tmaster on January 22, 1907. By 1909, contractors and equipment for the Gilmore and Pittsburg railroad were[...]pouring in, as well as construction people and the usual[...]business which was much in demand. Happy and Dellar Front row, from left - John Sutherland, Jo[...]for a school for the much respected by educators and honored by many state children became evident. Scott and Decker donated the and national bodies. He served on state and national com- land for the school which was built and ready to be opened mittees and commissions appointed to study educational[...]nt, a shy young girl from Butte had just teaching and government, and co-authored a "Geography of finished her su[...]fessor J. Ford McBain of the Normal rie and was asked to make application for the new school[...]Armstead. An interview with Alph Decker by Davis and McClure, as a textbook, so that it went[...]contract, the sala- through twenty-five editions, and sold roughly one million ry was $50 per month[...]keepers, collected the money from the townspeople and A very good public speaker, Dr. Davis gave man[...]one room, good light, odds talks to civic groups and various associations. He occasion- and ends of desks, a good supply of books and 25 pupils. A ally spoke at national education meetings, and contributed pot-bellied stove in the middle o[...]ency. He took a great interest in the development and landscaping of the campus, seeing to the planting[...]lped form, serving for several years. A friend and counselor to many students, Dr. Davis was honored for his impartial and progressive administration. Sheldon Davis[...] |
| outside the door and kindling left from the building con- struction kept everyone warm and comfortable. Nellie re- turned for the second ter[...]d several admirers as soon as he came to Red Rock and Armstead, as indicated from a post card album in[...]ool teacher really caught his eye! Carl Decker and Nellie Nugent were married in Dillon on July 3, 1[...]ouple were Albert N. in 1912, Mary Helen in 1914, and Edmund Carl in 1916. Carl operated a dairy in Armstead and delivered the mail from the train to the post off[...]che, was born in 1921. Nell's health was not good and the next few years were spent with grandparents in Butte while doctoring. A trip to Mayo's for cancer and thyroid problems helped Nell and stabilized the family once more. Carl Decker,[...]Blanche and Glenn Decker Nell, a great believer in educati[...]ton, Wisc. On October 7, 1904, being left a widow and finished her education at Western a son,[...]s recom- Sheep Creek, Armstead twice, Lima twice, and Grant from mended that he go to a high,[...]Rock-Armstead area. Leaving his wife and small son in -[...]months. He worked outdoors and his health steadily im- Glenn and Blanche Decker[...]the startlingly beautiful scenery, the charm and challenge of Glenn A. Decker was born August 5,[...]- the West. He became a skillful fisherman and hunter, which er and Ida Knickerbocker Decker, Stafford County, Kans., brought him great pleasure. Soon Mrs. Decker and son Cla- in a sod house on the prairie, where his father had home- rence joined, Glenn, and thus began a new life in the devel- steaded. Not[...], the family gave up to the oping West, and they became lifelong residents of Beaver- drought and returned to Indiana, then Michigan, the father[...]years was hardly a living. Glenn and Blanche were among the earliest residents of Gl[...]boxcar on a side track. Armstead worker, jeweler, and accountant. He served in the Army was[...]emoirs Company A, 35th Michigan U. S. Volunteers, and kept in contain numerous tales of the period, and sketches of the touch with his Army buddie[...] |
| [...]h rail line to Salmon, Idaho, William and Katye Dennis homesteaded this piece of called the[...]that Lumber Company of Dillon opened a lumberyard and store opportunity to "populate the Arid[...]eek, about 16 miles east of Monida. the groceries and the few housewares. At that time, a band Katye loved the ranch but she and husband William lived of Indians from the Lemhi s[...]originally from the farm country of Oregon and she longed ters was born there and named Blanche for Mrs. Decker, for the[...]bolt of red flannel for the baby. The Indian and family would visit on weekends and holidays. women did excellent beadwork on deerskin gloves and moc- My mother used to tell wonderful[...]hey sold or traded about town. and her friends had at the ranch they called "Glen Dennis." Family history repeated itself in 1912 when Glenn and When Katye and William died, the property was inherit- Blanche h[...]ed by their children-Imo Dennis Sulgrove and Clay Den- father had been driven off a homestead[...]John Richard and Georgia 1914, bringing the household to four memb[...]John Richard Deputy, the son of Charles Henry and Deckers, used coarse flour so that the soldiers c[...]orn in Dillon on October 5, 1897. the best. Sugar and other foodstuffs were in short supply. When[...]stead's women sewed heavy coats for the military, and father died in a tragic accident. He and some friends were knitting needles were in consta[...]es to Twin Bridges. They were riding in a gloves, and socks. The population was hard hit by the influ- horse and buggy and when one of the horses started to act enza epidem[...], he aided other strick- on ahead of the others and was thrown from the horse. His en families by delivering food and doing ranch chores. friends found him o[...]Septem- Jack attended Dillon grade schools and played on the ber 1, 1919. Marjorie Blanche, the[...]ll sold the meat company, Jack went to California and pressed his joy in having come to Beaverhead Coun[...]st that life had to offer was in Southwestern and worked as a butcher at the Dillon Meat Company. M[...]-MARY D. KURTZ 13, 1895, and grew up on a ranch near Bannack. Her parents[...]were Henry Randall and Mary Margaret Paddock. In 1913[...]she came to Dillon with a sister and brother. She and her William and Katye Dennis[...]John and Georgia Deputy 168-Beaverhead History |
| [...]rived in ,Dillon on the evening train from Butte. and two other members of the senior class enlisted in[...]us at the depot which looked much as it does Army and were sent to France during World War I. Many of today. Each child carried a suitcase and our father carried the girls in the class obtaine[...]e of the critic "Jack", they were known to family and friends as "Big teachers whom I re[...]g, Miss Jack", who was six foot four inches tall, and "Little Jack", Alma Vandewalker, Miss Amy Lees, and Miss Delia Dor- who was five foot two inches. The[...]f a Paxson painting for their classroom. 8, 1922, and Charles Henry, born on May 21, 1925.[...]Our father taught classes in education and geology at the[...]a gifted pianist, played for almost every Patrick and Annie Desmond wedding and funeral at the Methodist Church in those early[...]out mention of Laura Tolman Scott of Armstead who and secured employment on a river steamship in the ea[...]of the interest in Beaverhead His rise was rapid and within a few years he had obtained a County history that existed at that time. And Catherine captain's rank. Later, he operated stea[...]umbia River in Oregon. In 1880 he came to Montana and School, was another woman who playe[...]. Club. And the life-sized statue that stood in the southwest Mr. and Mrs. Desmond had one daughter, Mary, born[...]anage his grandfather's Civil War farm in Grant and Eleanor Finch[...]by Helen Finch Dial and went on to a position in the Department of Englis[...]ana playwright Robert Finch, youngest of the fam- and recalls sitting in the living room at the Bishop house on ily, was active in the theater in New York and in the Depart- Idaho Street with her mother and Miss Jean Bishop as they ment of Playw[...]istinction. and to write the volume of western one-act plays whic[...]Iowa, accepted a published in New York and also in Great Britain. The plays position at West[...]rain in order to keep our two shetland ponies fed and watered. (Helen Finch Dial is a highly-talented violinist and Our mother, Eleanor Davis Finch, came out by t[...]Judson and Gundel Dickson try of Iowa.[...] |
| [...]July and the family returned to Idaho the first part of Se[...]drawn by a team of horses, driven by Jud, and a buggy[...]Jud worked with his hay crew and Gundel cooked for Gundel Dickson[...]them and took care of the family. They usually had ten or and Nancy Shipley Dickson, was born February 21, 1873[...]hased extensive holdings in the had nine brothers and sisters by his father's first marriage Grasshopper Valley. He moved his family to what was and ten half brothers and sisters by his father's second known at th[...]They lived there and raised their family until 1938. Jud (Judson) and his brother Bill (William) eventually By[...]sheep herders in the Evanston, Wyo. ried and lived nearby. Christmas and Thanksgiving were area.[...]always happy times as all the married children and grand- Meanwhile, Gundel Martha Lyman was born[...], the daughter of Rasmus Peter Lyman cook and always roasted a goose and a turkey which were the and Wilhelmina Hansen Lyman. She was the seventh ofte[...]was taking turns cranking the ice-cream freezer and sam- one month after Wilhelmina had given birth t[...]Gundel loved flowers and was a pioneer rock hound. She Being widowed wi[...]r was well known for her beautiful flowers and lovely rock family to Thornton, Idaho to be near[...]e Jens collection. She also made many quilts and had an outstand- Hansens. Gundel spent a lot of time as a child and young ing button collection. woman with he[...]s 19 years old, she got a job cooking for about and Jud moved the family to Argenta for a year. He th[...]e sheep herds were His health soon failed and shortly after they bought the trailed into one ce[...]t daughter, Stella, who It was there Gundel met and fell in love with a young died on August[...]Gundel stayed on the farm for a couple of years and then on October 6, 1902 in Richville, Utah. Jud's father, Bishop sold it and moved to Dillon. She passed away on May 1, Dougla[...]1950, leaving six surviving daughters and many grandchil- The young couple made their home in Thornton, Idaho. dren. Jud and Gundel were both buried in Mountain View They bou[...]og house in -FAY WALDEMAR McCRACKEN AND Thornton. All seven of their daughters and one son, who VIOLET DICKSON died a[...]ril 20, 1906; Blanch Margurite, Dillon and Long Families Jan. 20, 1909; an unnamed baby boy,[...], 1913; Virginia Paulene, Oct. 23, 1917; land,and came to the United States when he was 12 years Lois Margret, Jan. 30, 1920; and Nola Rae, Aug. 23, 1922. old. He worked in[...]Jud started taking his family to Montana in and married Mary-Ann Holland. Patrick came West to Ma[...]eaverhead County with two babies, Addie and Mary Ann, came to Fort Benton[...] |
| on a steamboat and then across country to Marysville by Paci[...]ime, she was the only white woman in 1884; and again from November 26, 1890, to May, 1892, Marysville. Dick, Sally, Winifred, Holland, Elizabeth and when he was elected Chairman of the Board,[...]ought the "Wood's house" at Dewey 1812, and died on June 9, 1892. where Patrick and Mary Ann retired. Holland served in[...]as a "water boy" in the France during World War I and then returned to Dewey track departmen[...]where he had a print shop, egg business, sawmill, and fire- part of the New York Central Lines). In[...]number of small roads, or 1929; Mary Ann in 1932 and Holland in 1963. branches of[...]ught at the school in Glendale where she met and in Canada. His ventures were profitable and he gained and married Sanford Shepherd. The Shepherd family his[...]. in 1890. She attended Butte Central High School and Mon- His first association with the Uni[...]tock of the Credit Mobi- Creek School near Helena and at Twin Bridges, Dell, Jack- lier of America, in March, 1865. son, Dewey and Wise River. She married John W. Long in[...]c Railroad Company in October, of Charles E. Long and Virginia Teeter Long. When he was 1866, and was elected president of the Credit Mobilier in 1[...]or railroad boxcar, loaded all their belongings, and came West director, or trustee, in the affairs of the trustees, and of the to northern Idaho, where they homesteaded[...]h credit mobilier, until the liquidation and dissolution of that near Weippe. John became a fo[...]ferred to the Beaverhead National Forest in 1918, and 1866, to June, 1892. When Jay Gould came into control of was Ranger at Grant, Melrose, Sheridan, and Wisdom. Ha- Union Pacific in 1874, he made Dillon president, a post he zel and John had four children, Dorothy, Lorna, Jack and held until June 17, 1884. He was succeeded[...], in turn, succeeded on November 26, Mike Gynkiss and they had one daughter. She then married 18[...], he was elected Chairman of the Leonard Erickson and they had two sons. Lorna married Board. Edward Long and they had two children. Lorna died in 1985 The city of Dillon was named in his honor. and Dorothy in 1986. Forrest and his wife Santa live in Chicago and have six children. Elizabeth and John had one daughter, Mary Virginia. "Billy" and Jean Dingley After John retired from the Forest S[...]miner, where his parents, John Tabor Dingley and Mary Ann Es- carpenter, guard for the Butte mines[...]fter the end of the Civil War in which his father and for the Forest Service at Wise River. He died in[...]mily. the son of Lucile Langdorf Hoyrup McPherson and Fred They settled in Butte City wher[...]ey rider" although he was only 12 residents. Mary and Dan live in Helena where Dan is retired years[...]tature of many Dingley men. children: John, Diane and Catherine. John, his wife Phyllis His brush of fame came in 1888 and 1889, after moving to and daughter Laura live in Chubbuck, Idaho. Diane, he[...]e of the jockeys who worked husband Alan Haviland and son Michael live in Chubbuck. and conditioned the famous race horse Spokane while he Catherine and her husband Mark Simkins live in Helena.[...]on home. who made a fortune in the Hecla mines and turned to raising[...]large circular barn three stories high and one hundred feet[...]l Downs, the March 11, 1874, to January 25, 1880, and of The Union American Derby at Washington Park, and then the Ken-[...] |
| [...]dges. Spokane was the only Mon- tana bred, foaled and trained horse to win the Kentucky Derby and set a new record for the mile and half distance in 1889. Will married Jean Montrose and they had at least two Fred Dingley children: a daughter Mary and a son Montrose. Young Mon- trose Dingley died as[...]Billy as a young man, he went by Will as an adult and ranched near Clark's Canyon. He died in Bozema[...]wagon load of grain. He fell during the accident and was run over by the team and wagon, some years after 1902. Jacob (b. 1642), John (b. 1670), Jacob (b. 1703) and Jacob -SALLY GARRETT DINGL[...]hn Tabor ica on the Mayflower. Dingley and Mary Ann Estes, was born October 29, 1858 in Jacob (b. 1727) took his family and moved to Lewiston, Mobile, Ala.[...]grand- He studied for the bar in Boston, Mass., and was admitted son William (b. 1774), great-grandson Levi (b, 1807) and there. When his parents and younger siblings moved to Fred's fathe[...]Lewiston, Maine. Montana, he joined them in 1879 and lived in Butte City, Fred and his brother Royal grew up hearing stories about w[...]s Uncle Sim Estes who had come to Bannack in 1863 and He was admitted to the Montana State Bar in 1881.[...]ing law in Basin, he became one of Dillon's first and in 1877 and the seeds of-destiny were planted. most highly re[...]nse His sisters Nellie Augusta Dingley and Grace May Ding- attorney for clients facing his uncle Simeon Estes, who was a ley and brother Charles Franklin Dingley remained in just[...]ears in Beaverhead County. If Maine, but Fred and brother Royal came to Beaverhead his client was found guilty, he would be incarcerated in the Valley and the bustling town of Dillon on the first passenge[...]ing work. In 1900 Fred lived in the Red Rock area and moved to California where he practiced law for fo[...]arrett's for Graeter, across the Beaverhead River and just In 1891, while in Idaho, he was seriously[...]o the places ady labeled "softening of the brain" and this brilliant young was piped from the warm s[...]t the hospital at the age of 41. He never married and had no children. He was buried in the McCune fami[...]rst of five children of Wil- liam Jackson Dingley and Rachel Eliza Estes. He was born October 16, 1863,[...]Dingley, had come to America from England in 1638 and settled in Marshfield, Mass., after[...] |
| they all had warm water year-round for personal use and for the livestock. When the Graeter ranch became[...]r an interest in the company. This venture failed and Fred lost everything. The property was later owned by Ben Slanger and now the Williams family. In his later years, h[...]was a man of very small stature but big of heart and determination. Known as Uncle Fred to his many relatives, he never mar- ried and had no children. -SALLY GARRETT DINGLEY John and Mary Ann Dingley |
| Roy and Harriet Dingley Royal Simeon Dingley was born[...]hildren. His parents were William Jackson Dingley and Rachel Eliza Estes. He came to Dillon in the 1880[...]Hattie Dingley at Red Rock and at their uncle Simeon Estes's place at Watson Sta[...]e. Harriet Cather- ine (Hattie) Huff was the 14th and youngest child of Wil- liam Hamilton Huff and Sarah Ann Graham. She was born on a farm near Wilcox, Nodaway County, Missouri, on April 7, 1874, and came with her parents, her sisters Sivilla and Angeline and her brother Calvin on an immigrant train to Eagle[...]Royal Simeon Dingley Roy and Hattie were married on August 22, 1894, in Dil- and his bride, Harriet lon by the local Justice of th[...]They reached Middle Creek on July 1, 1913, and stayed ber, 1898, when Hattie was pregnant with h[...]with the Edward Drown family until Roy Dingley and Ed Roy's sister, Nellie Augusta Dingley, came by[...]Their neighbors included Ed Drown and his wife Alma Nellie Ann was born January 14,[...]s Hattie's niece; Louis Anderson, who spring, Roy and Hattie gathered their young family and became Alma's second husband; Frank Sey[...]one in time to be counted on the 1900 cen- and Sam Hardisty and his wife, Margaret Huff who was sus, which shows[...]atson Station with his Hattie's sister, and Alma's mother. uncle Simeon Estes and working as a farmer. Their fifth Their last child was born on November 28, 1915, and was child, Myron Frank, was born September 17, 19[...]s close friend ton, Maine. Roy went back to Maine and the Dingley family Louis Montrose. returne[...]ntana in 1921. Hattie lived with his aunt for two and a half years. and her young son Montie rode the train to Fred Dingl[...]eo- place at Barrett's, then traveled by team and wagon to Hat- dore and Hazel Grace near Dillon. Carrie Mae arrived Sep-[...]tember 22, 1905, Estella Alice on July 30, 1907, and Kather- Dingley and the older children, with the help of their cousin[...]legal matter with a local cattle drove a team and wagon containing food and bedrolls. rancher, and although the charges were false and he was Later the family moved to Arms[...]'s place near Horse Prairie, later rented Al sets and left a bitter taste in his mouth toward lawyers o[...]land bankers. The family moved to Payette, Idaho, and farmed. at the Pfiffner place (known as t[...]n the house but had the use of portant belongings and headed for Middle Creek, Idaho, only two rooms. The children went to school at Red Rock. and a desert homestead. Roy drove the team while Hattie Hattie received a severe scratch from a cat and became ill and the youngest children rode in a horse-drawn buggy. The with blood poisoning and erysipelas, an acute disease of the older[...] |
| ered, she lost the use of her arm. They moved to Dillon and lived on Thompson Avenue where Hattie died of bre[...]the Prophet place, where the Super 8 now stands, and farmed potatoes and alfalfa for several years. He married Sarah Silve[...]t attack on May 1, 1933, at the Prophet place. He and his son Montie lived in a tent on land he rented[...]was sent home to purchase land on Madison Street and built a cabin. He died there August 31, 1942. Roy and Harriet Dingley are buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. During the depression, Roy and his son Montie went to Two-pole derrick on Dishno Ranch the woods and cut firewood, selling it by the cord to custom- nie and Laura, to the new ranch. They were operating a ers in Dillon. For a while he had a team and did custom dairy farm in Lemhi County (I[...]ARRETT DINGLEY the basket rack and onto the stack. They put up 140 tons of[...]hay the first 28 days, doing all the pitching and stacking by hand. Silas and Melinda Dishno[...]x, N.Y., on January 6, 1858. living. The land and hay were ideal for stock cattle. They In June 1879 Silas and his wife, Melinda, along with his were fattened ready for market on nothing but good home- father and mother, Charles and Rosella, left upper Michi- grown hay. Melinda soon filed on a 320-acre desert claim gan and came to Bannack, Montana Territory. During his and Silas filed on another 120. They were soon joined by his first decade in the west, Silas and his father worked many father and mother, who each took up desert claims adjoin- jo[...]everal of his neigh- work, took logging contracts and freighted ore and supplies. bor's parcels of 320 acres each. As[...]e acreage close to 4000 acres. timber claim and a 160-acre homestead relinquishment[...]stock Company emerged with Silas re- with a house and barn, rake and mowing machine plus 2000 corded on offici[...]s manager. The well-known poles, all for $450. He and his father thought this was a good brand was a simple C on the left ribs, Charles Dishno having deal and the transaction was closed. Silas loaded up a fou[...]building his own spread, Silas made many contacts and moved his wife and four children, Fred, Edward, Min- with many regional cattlemen and buyers. He discovered[...]that there were good profits in buying and selling livestock.[...]He soon started buying feeders in Idaho, Utah and Arizona.[...]Silas and one of his sons would ride to Red Rock, leave[...]their horses and take the train to distant places to buy all[...]Red Rock and finally trail them to the Big Hole - about a[...]ive-day drive. There are many stories about Silas and his early day cattle drives and rail shipments. He was a true[...]ranch to Fred Hirschy and went to Dillon to live. After[...] |
| became a logger in Oregon, and Laura was a housewife in Washington. Silas died[...]youth in Colorado with his parents, two brothers and two sisters. One brother Clyde and wife started the resort at Desert Hot Springs, Calif. Jimmy was a resident of Beaverhead and Silver Bow Counties since 1890. While in Butte he was mar- ried and had two sons, James "Buster" Dodd and Jack Dodd. One of his main interests was ranching and the cattle industry. With this interest he became involved in cattle buying and was probably one of the best in this area. He had[...](holding Shirley), and Buster[...]a lady (Augusta Simonsen) to care for the family and later[...]lena and Augusta also lives in Helena now. Jimmy built two[...]Staudenmeyer lives in now and the one behind it.[...]Isaac Dodgson, his wife, Margaret, and sons, George and[...]Territory of Montana and settled in the area of the Big Hole Beaverhead Co[...]to become a millwright. He worked at his trade of and fed them until fall when he would sell them. In those millwrighting in many of the gold and silver strikes in Mon- days there were no contrac[...]is Young boys, along with Jimmy's own two, Buster and Jack, work was to be seen until recent y[...]the Big Hole River. This where they were weighed and shipped to different destina- arrastra mill was used to reduce the rock and ore from the tions. The boys were tickled to death to get a couple dollars Keystone Diggings, and was intricately put together with which went a lo[...]still standing today. an English mathmetician, and is best known for having As his buying became[...]Butte. Although he was a very derland" and others, under the pen name of Lewis Carroll. busy[...]died in 1914, tion. He bought a Pierce Arrow car and a boat and would go and is buried at the cemetery at Dewey. His wife, Margaret, over the hill by Henry's Lake and spend a few days fishing at was born in England in 1838 and died in 1914. She is also Hebgen Lake near Yellow[...]ranch. Their sons, George and Tyson, were both ranchers for His wife[...] |
| [...]Montana, where he raised his family of three boys and one daughter: Sherman, Issac, Wil- liam and Hazel. George Dodgson lived on a ranch near Wise River. He and Olive McClain were married March 16, 1882. They h[...]ren, Millie (Millicent), May (Margaret), William, and Frank. George Dodgson was preceeded in death b[...]hed near Wise River until 1943, when they retired and moved to Polson, Montana. Mary Dean was the daughter of Clara Truman and Abra- ham Lincoln Dean. Her mother, Clara Truman, was the daughter of Caroline Shaw Truman and John B. Truman. Mary and Emmett Douglass There were 10 children in the family and they lived a few miles up Wise River.[...]d on January 20, 1962, in Polson; parents and also with an uncle until November, 1909, when Mary Dodgson died in Polson on July 25, 1976, and both are the West beckoned to him. After com[...]o Divide, Gilbert Dodgson was their only child and was born on Montana. From there he rode t[...]loyer, George Woodworth, who owned the C-D Caryl, and I reside in Wise River.[...]their busiest time and required 80 teams to be harnessed John Clarenc[...]every morning. Breaking in new horses and repairing equip- John Donegan was born in 1870[...]ment after a "run-away" was never-ending. and later worked for R. T. Boatman on his ranch in the In the spring of 1915 Emmett and Dresdin Shields pur- Centennial Valley. Donegan was an expert horseman and a chased the Shelly ranch and started a sheep operation. They very capable man[...]ped from 1917. On October 15, 1915, Emmett and Mary Plettner, also Texas that my father brought[...]s my mother would place a lamp or they moved and lived on that ranch until selling out in lantern[...]s going to be gone for awhile. Several days and Mary: Katherine and Emmett, Jr. later the mail carrier put a puppy in[...]ear road from the house. We could hear it yelping and Thornton Whitehall (Montana) and the Centennial Valley near Mon- ran and got it. ida, running both sheep and cattle. During their years in John had the repu[...]sh in the stream. years and 12 years as a board member for the Whitehall Jo[...]hers in the valley, the Public Schools. Brays and the Centennial Cattle Co., to name a few.[...]hen moved to man, Montana, to spend the summers and usually traveled St. Anthony, Idaho, where he die[...]and around Brawly-a great challenge for him during th[...]golden years. Emmett and Mary Douglass[...]mmett Douglass was born September 30, 1889, to Al and and Mary passed away in 1983 at the age of 91.[...] |
| [...]ers and Dolly McNinch; half-sister, Kate Burkett, second[...]The parents, John and Sarah Downing, arrived in Lima[...]Andrew Jackson and brother Grant returned to Texas to[...]and Fern Margaret Goodman, born March 9, 1918, at Kid[...]best deals because of the excellency of the ranch and equipment and the superior stock that goes with it. Mr. Douglas[...]nly; everything else goes, even to his automobile and household goods. On November 1, Mr. Baird and family will move in, as the Douglass family leave[...]ises 2,407 acres of land, together with the stock and machinery belonging thereto, and 1,900 head of two-year-old ewes. Mr. Douglass[...]man has no chance to expand. Link and Belle Downing with sons Claude and Seth Ten years ago, Emmett Douglass came here[...]road, then went back to ranching at Dell and Lima. Born in a green Buckeye and went to work for $40 a month. Is there Cla[...]November 17, a spot beneath the sun where brains and energy do more for 1941, and is buried in Lima cemetery. a man, young or old,[...]ley of the Big Hole? Ulysses Grant and Elizabeth Rowena Downing's first The echo answ[...]Grant's parents, John and Sarah Bickly Downing, arrived Andrew Jackson ([...]family, consisting of William, his third (Link), and Ulysses Grant, half-brothers John Adams and wife Sarah Elizabeth Long, their only daughter, Elizabeth Richard John; sisters Ella, Molly, and Dolly, and a half- Rowena, and sons John, James, Charles and William sister Kate.[...]lysses, born November 30, 1866, in Peoria, Kans., and abeth Rowena). John Adams married Della Mc[...] |
| [...]1893, and returned to Lima where their last child, Sarah[...]ployed by the railroad and built the Downing Hotel in Lo-[...]children grew up and moved out to different areas, Grant and Lizzie became nomads for a while, after selling t[...]Grant passed away in 1944 at age 77 and Lizzie followed Pete Downing (u[...]night before we left, our sod shanty caught fire and tion of the Doyle family in Centennial Valley. burned up the first pair of shoes I'd ever owned and I had to In 1902, Johanna (Jo) Noonan came[...]ita Falls to join the Downings on May family, and served as-postmistress. This enterprising young[...]ere she was ed for the "green grass of Montana" and a new life. The long born on June 16, 1881. I[...]ered a contest selling trek lasted seven months and the group arrived so late that subscriptions[...]· build shelter or forage feed for their cattle and by spring nors, had a ranch. While there she[...]a trip to the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904, and a Lizzie's father had tried many careers. Fi[...]rld's ied at Columbus, Ohio, to become a doctor and practiced for Fair trip she came to the Valley and "took up" a homestead six months before decidin[...]after his four sons by the first wife. She died and he gave up archi- parents died in Prince Edw[...]October 27, 187 4. He drove stage for the Yel- and a black horse" as Lizzie told it, soon returned t[...]r the Sher- marry his first wife's older sister and start a bank.The bank mans. failed and he lost everything. That wife died also and he Jim and Jo were married at a nuptial mass in Meaderville[...]began courting his former wedding dance and party that Mame Blake had arranged playmate whe[...]younger brothers when her mother developed cancer and before buying the O'Connor Ranch in th[...]posi- Noonan. They raised shorthorn cattle and good horses and tion to his courtship, went back to Texas as a[...]had three However, in 1890 he returned to Lima and Lizzie's father, daughters, Nell, Margaret, and Isabell (Tim). Both Jo and who by now had become a Justice of the Peace, r[...]the school board and even allowed a room in their house to[...] |
| [...]and at the Montana Mercantile in Dillon. James attend[...]Mr. and Mrs. Doyle lived on the ranch until 1944, when[...]Doyle continued to live in Dillon with Tim and Pete Lasich,[...]taking loving care of their daughter, Jo K., and keeping[...]Parish affairs and was an ardent bridge player until her[...]-JENNIE ELSE Jo and Jim Doyle, 1907 |
| [...]George· and Marion Duck George and Marion Duck came to Montana from England[...]in 1912. They were married early in April and came over on[...]trips across the ocean. He worked first in Kansas and[...]Thomas and Dorothy, were born. They would walk over to[...]the Kidd station and flag a train to go shopping in Dillon. At The D_r[...]their two younger daughters, Ivy and Lillian, were born. gun and got off two shots before Ed could fire his revolv[...]It is now owned by James was shot in the stomach and lingered until that night when and Elaine Munday. While here their two older childre[...]r adult lives in until their family grew up and left home. George and Marion Idaho, Oregon, California and Illinois. Gertrude Drown moved to Dillon[...]n walked across the married William Harry Dingley and- lived in Beaverhead fields to Gosman Sch[...]mer's The family name was spelled Drown, Drowns and Drone Ranch. by various members over the decades. Alma and Louie An- At that time there were dry y[...]where he leased land from 750 acres of grain and never pulled out a binder-some he Woods Livestock and grew hay and grain. cut for hay before[...]where she grew enough vegetables for the winter and having Alma had 32 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. enough to give some to the neighbors. She also raised and -SALLY GARRETT DINGLEY sold chickens and their eggs. Her turkeys were known all[...]over the valley. William and Harriett Their four children all married and remained around in[...]the valley. Tom married Edith McClain and they had four Drummey[...]children. Two of them are still in the valley and two are in Washington and Oregon. Dorothy married Earl Peterson William F. (born 1853) and Harriett E. (1859) came to and they had five children. Only their youngest lives[...]as known as Anderson Lane, before ming, and one in Boise, Idaho. Their oldest daughter was mo[...]l log home on Ken- The Drummeys had eight boys and eight girls. One of the tucky Avenue was always a show place in the summer with girls remained in Dillon and married H. M. Brundage. shrubs and flowers. George liked nothing better than work- T[...]e Funeral Home from 1924 ing in the yard and gardening. It seems he missed all the until 1950. The district school in that area and time was moisture they had in England. He se[...]when he was irrigating in the spring and summer. William died in 1929 and Harriett in 1939. George and Marion had always planned on going back to[...] |
| [...]se of the war. With a awhile. family of four and numerous other problems, they couldn't Jimmy and Stella moved to Eugene, Oregon, after leaving aff[...]ted them to move to California. Jimmy passed away and sisters in Canada so they renewed their acquainta[...]-MURIEL NIX George passed away in 1956 and Marion died in 1963. Both are buried in Dillon.[...]-DOROTHY D. PETERSON George and Sabina Eighorn ---Frank Albert (Bert) George and Sabina Eighorn came to the United States[...]Hecla Consolidated Mining Company earning sawmill and wore an artificial limb. He was 19 years old at[...]born in 1889 in Glendale. Other during the summer and in the winter he carried mail from children born in Glendale were Lilly, Elizabeth, and Anney. Lakeview to Henry's Lake with a dog team.[...]A son, Henry, was born in Birch Creek and two other sons, Bert married Bessie Housner in 1913. They lived on the Willy and Walter, were born on the ranch in Melrose, which Idaho side, above Henry's Lake, for a number of years and George bought in 1900 after the smelter closed down. He operated a fox farm. Bert and Bessie divorced in 1932. also ranched a bit in Birch Creek, and in the fall he would Bert married Peggy McPhers[...]ka Basin the first threshing machines and steam engines in the valley (upper end of the Centennial) where they lived until 1956. and had some trouble crossing county bridges, as the steam They sold to Tobe and Betty Morton and moved to engine was quite heavy[...]n Kenewick, Washington. Peggy passed away in 1960 and traffic for which the b_ridges were[...]ly died young from appendicitis. William K. and Susan Henry served in the U.S. Army in World War I and was[...]wounded in the Argonne Forest in Germany and died the Edwards[...]"Shorty" Eighorn died in 1948, Walter, "Will" and Susan Edwards came to the Centennial Valley "Washy", in 1964, and Rose, the first born, was the last of in the earl[...]a died in 1941. of the Valley. They raised cattle and put up hay while Will George "Jim" Eigho[...]-JIM EIGHORN and operated a sawmill up Reed Canyon. Will and Susan moved to Lima for a few years, then to Wood[...]here they lived until Will's death in 1917. Susan and her younger children moved from Wood- ville to An[...]rried Stella Tessimond at Monida on July 1, 1908, and they lived in Lakeview and operated a hotel there. Jimmy drove stage from La[...]Hotel in Monida for George and Sabina Bighorn 182-Beaverhead History |
| [...]1930 with Adolph dead, Leonard dying and Frank becoming Adolph, Lambert and Frank less and less active, the management of the store became h[...]charge, pride, and responsibility. In the late 1920s he mar- They[...]he cottonwood- ried Eirene Hollingworth. They and their children, Lambert marked river bottoms and across the sagebrush flats and III, born in 1930 and Eve, born in 1934, moved to the house passes. They followed the men, shivering in winter and at 830 South Washington in 1936. sweatin[...]y, prehistoric Lake Bonne- early 1960s. He and Eirene traveled for about eight years ville up the volcanic canyon and across Monida Pass into and finally settled in Mesa, Arizona. In 1977 Eirene[...], Ariz. Lambert married jackets, underwear, socks and heavy work shoes, the phar- Ethel O'Brien i[...]Cathedral in Helena in 1979. maceuticals, Levis, and squaw gloves. And they sold them, I The next year Lambert and Ethel returned to Dillon when am told, at a fair[...]T ELIEL III sell, they joined the other merchants and bought that land for $10,500, and promptly gave the railroad a right-of-way. Mr.[...]Ellerman Family and city government and slipped candy into children's Eight members of the William Henrick and Amelia Aehle pockets; Lambert, who managed the "o[...]from Cedar County, Missouri, to bonsville, Idaho, and who surprised the other three brothers Beaverh[...]ury, though not when, in 1888, he went to Chicago and brought home a wife, all at the same time. T[...]o came in 1898. Because of their enthusi- health; and Frank, omnivorous reader, member of the State[...]ollowed. In the order of their ages, Legislature, and one of the men dedicated to the founding not the date of their arrival here because that is not avail- and continued existence of what is now Western Montan[...]College. Their cousin, Milton Davidson, also came and took John Thomas (1868) stayed and worked on various up sheep ranching in upper Blac[...]w years, then returned to Missouri where he Jones and Davidson. died in 1930. Lambert and Milton didn't stay long. By the turn of the[...]ntury they both had moved to Los Angeles. Lambert and lins in Missouri and had three children when they came. Lizzie were with her family and Milton entered the printing They settled in t[...]After a few years business. By 1908 both Lambert and Lizzie were dead, leav- they went back to Mi[...]Margaret "Maggie" (1876) arrived here in 1899 and went fessor at Stanford; Leon, one of the founders and the long- to work at the Craver Ranch as a co[...]Louis time president of Fairchild Aerial Surveys; and Lambert, Jr. Bell. They were married in Januar[...]adored Aunt Ada. All of them visited Dillon often and available. She worked as a cook at the Frank[...]n the early 1920s Lambert, Jr. returned to Dillon and the on the Blacktail for many years. She mar[...]One of Milton's children, John, lives in Laguna and in the late 1920s moved to Hanhattan, Mt. She pas[...]away in 1943 and is buried beside her husband in a Bozeman As t[...]ildren. They settled on a dry farm east of Dillon and raised wheat. Both were musical and played fiddle and pi-[...]Anna (1882) came here in 1907 and was married to Ray[...]He worked on several ranches in the county and at one time[...]World War I, and spent 11 months in France fighting to[...]cy." He never married. In Adolph, Frank and Leonard Eliel later[...] |
| and her husband Bill Kenison. He passed away in 1947 and passed on to us and all her grandchildren by the many is buried in th[...]tions to this area should not be for- Bannack and Dillon. We have had family reunions there gotten. and made many trips there, but it was never the same[...]Thomas Henry Ellis nack, to Nellie Cleveland and Robert Jaggers. There were Thomas Henry[...]ch 2, 1845, in Boston, six children in the family and she lived there until being Massachusetts.[...]bury Ellis, She went through school at Bannack and to the Method- later married a man by the[...]of Christmases in Bannack between 1847 and 1862 and the family moved to Missouri. where the community celebrated together, with toys and There were six children in the family.[...]homas (Tom) went west, as men climbed on a ladder and called names for presents. crossing the plains with oxen and arriving at Bannack in Mother talked a lot of the people and happenings in Ban- 1863. After two years he[...]a third time to return to Bannack in mer was hung and had a boarding house at that time. A lot of 1[...]father worked on the first dredge that came there and nack and there she met Thomas. They were married Octo- she[...]redge. Her father ber 4, 1876, with Robert and Susan Gray as their witnesses. died in Bannack in 1918 and is buried there, as are many Tom and Cordelia had eight children but their second othe[...]ck. They were married in Dillon in the bie and Ted. Tom freighted by oxen to Pioche, Nevada, fal[...]arked that she until the railroad was buHt, and in 1877 he hauled infantry had never seen such po[...]He followed ranching and stock raising for about 34 years My parents had eight children and thirty-two grandchil- in Beaverhead County. They lived at Bannack and Polaris dren, plus many great grandchildren. Jack Ellis died in during this time and neighbors their children best remem- 1959, and she went to work at the State Hospital in Black- bered were the Marchesseaus, Tashes, Harrisons and Grays. foot. She worked until she was 68 and still said she could Thomas and Cordelia moved to Colville Valley in Wash- have w[...]n Pocatello, Idaho, December ington in 1913 and later that same year to Meyers Falls, 1, 1979, at 90. She remained alert and in her late 80s we took Washington, where Grand[...]fruit trees, berry bushes, chickens and a cow named Charm. Mother always had great lov[...]the daughter of Ted Ellis, their youngest child, and[...]Maude, Cordelia, Lulu Ellis Mcinnis and daughter Blanche B. Jaggers Ellis, 1912 Ella, Edward, Joe and Thomas 184-Beaverhead History |
| [...]a dirt floor. A happy memories of my grandparents and Grandpa's obitu- short time later, he b[...]ritten by someone who knew him as I barn and sheep shed farther down the river. did. It states: "His sight failed in later years and the last Fred located about two miles away[...]sufferer river. He sold his holdings to O.B. and Clara Canfield about and possessed a wonderful memory to the last. 'Daddy El- 1911 and moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas, where he lis,'[...]d by hundreds in Montana, was bought a farm and married Miss Capitola Halbert. He died loved by old and young alike and is mourned by a devoted in 1929. family. His place was always open and a popular place for In 1895, Fred and Weldon received a letter from Superior friends to gather. It can truly be said he lived long and containing a message their father had been[...]accident. He was delivering axes to a mine and fell off a -KATHRYN ELLIS KA[...]fast and as hard as they could, couldn't get there for the[...]On September 7, 1905, Weldon Else and Annie Hopkins[...]ington, December 24, 1884 and her parents had an adjoining[...]ranch. The newleyweds, with Wilford and Myra Hopkins,[...]horse and buggy days and they camped along the way.[...]She had appendicitis when she was four years old and[...]Big Hole for a number of years and was married to Estelle[...]Hole and is married to Ray Bacon. Mabel Agnes came along[...]Ro- main, Lulu Ellis Mcinnis, Ella Mcinnis Leslie and Cordelia Romain Ellis Weldon and Annie Else |
| [...]e for a large family. There was a hill for skiing and sledding, ponds for skating, a wonderful swimming hole behind the barn, plenty of horses to ride and a stream to fish in.[...]en came down with whooping cough. Annie caught it and hers turned into pneu- monia. She died leaving We[...]ing fixture and burned with an open flame. This type of[...]lighting proved to be dangerous and eventually gave way to Frank Esterwold, of Dut[...]led these generating plants during the teen years and Katherine M. Brown, in 1917, a homestead from Ann[...], in 1920, another tract from Katherine M. Brown, and the thirties. in 1929, a homestead from Je[...]the late teens he leased the ranch to Carl Hansen and -EDIT[...]fornia. This adventure proved to be disappointing and he returned to livestock raising on Coyote Creek.[...]as born February 10, 1834, in Lewiston, Shaffner, and Don Shaffner. Maine, the third of 10 children born to David and Mary Ann Frank moved to Dillon. He was married[...](Grant) Estes. In 1855 he moved to Mobile, Ala., and se- ties but this partnership did not succeed. cured a position as overseer and later engaged in the pur- His later years were[...]se of damaged cotton, which was resorted, rebaled and worked for the city of Dillon in the Street and Alley Depart- sold. ment. He died in 1958 and is buried in Mountain View When war seemed inevitable, Simeon left the south and Cemetery.[...]Captain Fisk disbanded the party and presented Simeon Estes with four mules and a wagon, and left in his care a 12-[...]Vigilance committee whose task was to capture and execute[...]involved with the hanging of innocent boys and men.[...]In 1865, he transported Governor Edgerton and his fam-[...]attacked by Indians and had to barricade themselves be-[...]hind the wagon. The Indians rode away and they arrived[...]me, Upper Coyote Creek River and farmed and raised livestock. In the spring of 1866,[...] |
| [...]and came to Dillon in 1880 as a young widow with two[...]children and opened the first restaurant called Railroad[...]Boarding House. She and the children moved to the stage[...]Her two children were A. Albert W artham and Mary[...]Edna Wartham (later Mrs. Oscar Creasey). Sim and Hattie Estes farmed 450 acres in wheat, oats and hay, raised fine cattle and horses, and had an apple orchard. Country[...]dances were held at the Sim Estes place and people from[...]Later Sim and Hattie moved to Dillon. He operated a Simeon Este[...]saloon and contracted to house the prisoners sentenced by[...]ings, who the local Justice of the Peace and the jail was located in the was also a Maine nati[...]He ran a livery stable in Dillon in Bluffs, Iowa, and were married there, then came together to 1896 and 1897 with his partner, Robert W. Bammer. Montana Territory by way of Lander's cutoff and Soda "Uncle Sim" was instrumental i[...]Maine residents to Montana. His sister Mary Ann and her property to Mr. Shineberger in 1868.[...]69, he had a special concern for roads. As a and Royal Dingley, came to Dillon in the 1880s. His s[...]priation of $25,000 for the purpose of laying out and Culver), came to the Watson Station in 1880 and was Sim's building a road from Silver Star in Mad[...]millinery shop. His sister Jeanette Estes Hackett and his (today's Bannack Pass?). He also introduced House Bill 7 brothers Hark and Reuben Estes also migrated to Montana, asking Con[...]der in Utah living in Beaverhead, Deer Lodge and Jefferson counties. to Helena in Montana Territor[...]s died on October 8, 1904, from stomach can- bill and it was passed.[...]rett's his step-daughter's home in Dillon and is buried in Moun- from Philip Lovell and operated the stage station, post of- tain View Cemetery. fice, hotel and general store on the old stage line between[...]ren of his own, he left a heritage Salt Lake City and Fort Benton, known as the "Great Bea- to many relatives, friends and neighbors, and as Justice of verhead Wagon Road." the 1870 censu[...]d Valley all his life. dinner for the passengers, and a bed for the night if needed. Among his acquaint[...]chief of the Lemhi. Rebecca Estes died in 1880 and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery. They had no[...]Charles Wesley Fairbanks Watson closed in 1881, and the stage station soon after, partly put out of b[...]est idea what he was who refused to give the Utah and Northern Railroad per- talking about. He[...]achers lived at the various homes of the students and, sunny day (September 16, 1880) and involved 428 acres. when Wes star[...] |
| [...]of a pair of shoes, tied one end to the telephone and the[...]r around Evelyn's neck, stood her up on the chair and[...]-WES AND EDITH FAIRBANKS[...]odge Center, Minnesota, Tom Edith and Wes Fairbanks[...]young man he drove a dray in school with a horse and buggy. Apparently she wasn't very St. Pa[...]ose, North Dakota, where their first son, Charles and run over him with the buggy wheel. He didn't dare[...]by) sup- an improvement, shortening the distance and time, when plemented the family incom[...]en Lake. Other jobs includ- Ages ran from 6 to 17 and 18 years old. ed survey work and reports to the Department oflnterior, as At re[...]he Valley for taking the little boys by the heels and dipping them head Beaverhead County. fir[...]ward evening a neighbor, wet, so she cut the arms and legs off. The larger boys took Freeman Mar[...]had a 1916 Model T Ford so when Doyle and Herb Buck in between. His eyes were glazed and threshing time rolled around he went to Harlem, up through staring and he finally stammered out this story: "I was in the Milk River, and on up to the Canadian border with a th[...]f the time he was feeding the straw side and climbed up on a pile of fence posts, they fell do[...]gine to provide the power. Hard work, but and all over me. I ran to Jim's, there wasn't nobody[...]. Since they went to work before daylight and they was all gone at Herb's too. I thought the world was and quit after dark, they were served five meals a day, mid- coming to an end and everybody had gone and left me here morning and mid-afternoon in addition to breakfast, lunch all alone." He was very superstitious and uneducated so it's and supper.[...]ay, neighbor, Monte Kent, had in the early years, and at age 14, he stacked hay all one been h[...]at down to summer. He had to get off the haystack and trip his own supper, Old Mother Nature[...]king hay They had to keep shoving dishes and silverware back on the contracts from the other r[...]nice meal. One day when he was six, Fannie (4) and Evelyn (2) were Someone said to Tom, "How[...]e parents were out doing chores was short and to the point,"Im not crying. My bladder is just and an electrical storm came up. They had one of the[...]was over, there were still chores to do. Lan- ing and lightning came in over the wires and knocked the terns needed filling so Tom[...]nother escapade. Tom right in the eye and replied, "You can go straight to They were alone at chore time again and Wes and Fannie hell! I'm not going out[...] |
| [...]Jesse was a mail-order bride and she came from somewhere[...]talents in watercolor painting and oils. She sold many of her[...]paintings as well as giving them to her children and grand-[...]-WES AND EDITH FAIRBANKS Joseph and Ann Faller |
| [...]Anna and Joe reared five daughters, all of whom married[...]and had families, giving the Fallers 19 grandchildren and 27[...]five cows daily, separated the milk and cream, delivered it to[...]bits and chickens, and cultivated a large vegetable garden.[...]politics and damned the New York Yankees. He was the[...]-JOAN F. DA VIS Joseph and Ann Faller (1921 wedding photo) David and Florence 190-Beaverhead History |
| [...]rn at the wrong time-too young to fight Indians and too old to fly airplanes. One of his uncles was[...]Gebhard Fassler at Ernest Farrand and Florence McIntyre were married[...]6, 1878, in Page County, Iowa, to John McIntyre and Margaret Fraser Mc- Intyre. Florence was a prof[...]attended a tailoring school in St. Louis, Mo., and used to go to well-to- do homes and make clothes for entire families. She came to visit her sister, Lillie Sweeney, and stayed in Beaverhead County, teaching school in the Centennial Valley and later He and Florence Streb were married in 1925 and contin- in the Big Hole. There she taught at the Kirk School and ued to operate the ranch. lived with th[...]was a crack shot, a wonderful hunter, fisherman and trapper. Florence was a good outdoors person and a good driver. Not many women could drive a car[...]ten days. They delighted in taking their nieces and nephews It is not known just where Dick Faten came from, but he camping and fishing.[...]returned to Montana about 1928. Ernest cattle and horses. His horses were good ones, but they were[...]carrying the sheep. He then worked for Sweeney and Rogers. mail for awhile and it took a good team to make those hard They[...]e Ernest passed away June 9, trips. 1953, and Florence on May 17, 1959. They are buried in[...]and did not last very long.[...]d a lunch bucket for school. He was a pipe smoker and Gebhard Fassler followed his two older brothe[...]old time tobacco cans on hand. No called "Al", and Francis Joseph, known as "Frank," to Mon- o[...]dule. It was later died as infants, one in 1906 and one in 1908 and are buried in learned that Faten received a fin[...]hered. Browne's Gulch a few miles from Glen. He and Alice Leary There was (and still is) a great spring on his place. It has w[...]decided city life would be better, happens. and moved to Butte then later to California. In 1919 he sold out to Weldon Else and moved to the Gebhard Fassler was born Feb 9,[...]teroot. It was later learned that he bought a car and many, and came to Beaverhead County in 1912. He was 17[...]one knew he had never years old when he arrived and was unable to speak English. been married.[...]n 1924 he bought the ranch which George and James Featherly came west with their par- was o[...]ose on Trapper Creek. ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Mauldin, while still teenager[...] |
| [...]the county farm. He sold it to the county in 1890 and bought the old Stodden farm, which remained in th[...]George Featherly married Louise Ehrick of Butte and the young couple went to the ranch of the parents. George was active in community affairs and was credited with organiz- ing agriculture commit[...]ght in such mechanical aids as the potato planter and digger. He helped organize the farm institute in[...]rhead County, lured by the discovery of gold. Mr. and served in the sessions of 1918 and 1919. George and Febes was born in Ohio December 4, 1838, and came west Louise had nine children.[...]c. He later came back to Dillon Febes and a partner found $3,000 worth of gold in one where[...]helping the Vigilantes return law and order to Bannack and Georgia, born 1884 in Butte, married Frank Hen[...]windled he became Butte. The couple had four boys and four girls. partners with a Mr. Hi[...]horse busi- William was born in Dillon in 1889 and worked on the ness and had their corrals at the forks of the Blacktail.[...]rn Montana College. Albert R. was born in 1895 and married Sarah Hasting in There is a story[...]im". 1915. He worked for the county as a mechanic and drove the This came about when a stranger sto[...]ding now stands. failed to keep his promise and when he returned two years Fred was born in 1894 in Dillon and married Josephine later asking to camp at t[...]presi- small man so he grabbed a pickhandle and beat up the dent of the First National Bank and a prominent Dillon stranger. figure. They[...]tal in bringing Joe to Dillon. Mr. Febes remained and worked on the ranch for many years before moving[...]all of his life. He died in Dillon June 10, 1912 and California.[...]ountain View Cemetery. Martha was born in 1905 and went to several colleges. She[...]-JOE FALLER (1965) married Andrew Gilbert and had a dairy on the ranch for a few years. They moved to Seattle and later divorced. Walter was born in 1899 and married Roxie Goodwin in[...]er, active in the Dillon St. Elmo Commandary 7 and acted as Jr. and George, were born to this couple.[...]e Guard in 1896. Louise Featherly died in 1931 and George in 1944. Clara Anderso[...] |
| [...]aimless motion.,The trains came, were switched and depart- Railroad Played Major[...]ustle of steam, clanking side-rods, ringing bells and, Role in Lima's History[...]ngtime em- roundhouse was partitioned and eight stalls removed from ployee of Union Pacific[...]the roundhouse was torn down, a new wall erected and The Utah and Northern Railroad and Union Pacific only four stalls were[...]le, too small to handle the big 2-12-2s then 1880 and the first locomotive maintenance facilities in Mo[...]signment at Lima rose to a total of 11 Mikado and 2-10-2 time and in it all necessary repairs could be made to the[...]"drop pit" where an engine's spections and for repairs of more than the running variety. boi[...]ith war's end, the Union Pacific acquired diesels and fully equipped with lathes, a shaper, drill press and small this released super-power steam engin[...]driving thunder of 3500 class 2-8-8-0 Malletts and marveled It also powered a direct current electrical generator for at the flashing speed and brute power of the Challengers. roundhouse, depot and yard lights. The 3[...]ity bulked over straight track between Dell and Red Rock, pulling the con- the surrounding instal[...]he Butte Special, casually behind it. The lead and service tracks at the roundhouse and coal But diesels came to the North End[...]ndless, scurrying, seemingly fell to one, and 10 more jobs went. Car inspectors and then[...] |
| [...]Dr. L. C. Ford in his Lima Drug Store and Post Office ( 1910) mechanical foremen were elimi[...]of operation to Dillon. It is a fact that movers and The passenger train was cut from daily to tri-[...]Dillon once attempted to persuade the Union vice and two more fell. Then a loss of two jobs at the depot in Pacific to move its shops, yards and all appurtenances to fairly recent times. That ch[...]tion call is "RD," house was stripped of machines and burned in 1957. The taken from Alerdyc[...]some years coal chute, carmen's shack, oil house and locomotive water ago on this railroad, but[...]9 years metallic Morse standpipes were taken down and service tracks removed. code sang down[...]emories for some of us. There is the sound, track and the "wye" on which an occasional engine is[...]ork needed to get once owned by the Union Pacific and occupied by employ- the train out of to[...]alations of compressed air. Hot by railroad crews and the last vestige of the operation will be cinde[...]te apron in a dusty black $0, the bone, muscle and blood were slashed away long torrent into an empty tender and water by the thousands of ago. The last move comp[...]gest payroll, in dollar amount, there are And in the dark night a conductor twirls a twinkling,[...]four members of the flamboyant "high ball" and the Hogger widens on the throt- town council and the mayor had to leave. One of the town's tle. And Morse will clatter in a sounder, "RD RD RD," some[...]sage, calling dozen schoolchildren, church, lodge and service organiza- Alerdyce, callin[...] |
| [...]ing 130 miles of track in the territory in AND[...]proposal was also turned down and the line was eventually THE COMING OF THE[...]roximately $1 million in freight charges per year and it was From the time of the Stevens survey in 1[...]ontana's silver mining boomed in the late 1870's, and when mining began to convert from placer to hardr[...]e developed. The Both the Northern Pacific and the Utah and Northern ap- mines around Butte and Glendale were particularly in- proac[...]olved, as they were producing ore of such quality and in building to the heart of the silver m[...]875 as to justify a railway to haul their and Helena. The Utah line had the shorter route and product to smelters. There were no smelters in Mo[...]Utah. As the Utah and Northern pushed north, they exper- This situati[...]line at Promontory Summit north of the and rejected until one official hit upon the idea of[...]-west ed to. This was quickly accepted and some Indians enjoyed route. It was considered unl[...]end of the reservation, ride to the other end, and then wait Missouri River at Bismarck, Dakota Territory, in 1873. Be- for another train and so on. cause of the depression and financial panic, the railhead The nar[...]five years. Around 1878 the line Falls) and proceeded north. The southern border of Mon- began to revive with federal land grants, and at the same tana Territory was aproached in the fall of 1879, and the time construction was starting in Utah to ext[...]Dell, Mt.) before winter, but the severe weather and south of the Union Pacific Lines. By 1878 the lin[...]ange in plans. been acquired by the Union Pacific and renamed the Utah When the construction headquarters stopped at Beaver and Northern. In the spring of 1878, the railroad con[...]y miles of a track north of the Utah-Idaho border and was an instant town that was established wh[...]the voters failed to pass it by a lon, and Melrose, all in Montana.[...]ite. White, a man of many of hot steel, hot steam and hot oil. talents, h[...]year 1969, the Union Pacific engaged er, and a fruit grower. In 1879, he was the principal age[...]g of Boulder, Colo., to do the the Utah and Northern. For a commission, his company of pictur[...]received shipments of merchandise, Lima nestles, and did a water color sketch. He wanted it on warehoused them if necessary and then reloaded them on the calendar, but it was fa[...]Other residents of Terminus were carpenters and tent So, another time will come too soon. Train[...]ntled, or re-built buildings as the through Lima, and they will fill the night and the day with moves demanded. Blacksmiths, hotel and restaurant or sa- the snarl of 20,000 diesel horses and shake the earth with the loon keepers, dry goods clerks and other merchants kept hammer of steel wheels on st[...]very busy. A dozen Chinese cooks and washermen were And they will be strangers in this, the first[...] |
| dentist), and assorted hat makers and jewelers. There was On September 8, 1880[...]Charles Lefever, Howard Sebree, J.M. Barrett, and Estes. Washington Dunn decided to renew the laying of rails. It They went to Deacon's place and asked to discuss the pur- was expected that the[...]ents prepared two eight-ounce silver plate, and they talked while consuming biscuits, sow belly,[...]criptions: "Welcome (Montana fried potatoes, and coffee. to Idaho) U. & N. RW'y." Weather prevente[...]Monida Pass. raised the price to $10,500 and would not budge from it. William Dodge, the dentist, led the crowd in a few songs and Several of the group objected and wanted to end the discus- a Miss Rilla Lingo opened bottles of champagne. Telegraph sion then and there. Sebree and Morse took Deacon aside, messages were received from the mayors of Butte and He- offered him $100 cash on the spot and the balance before lena. Telegraph wires were att[...]of September 13. Deacon accepted, Morse gave him and the hammer. Captain F.T. Hulaniski, General Agent for $100 from his own pocket and wrote up a simple agreement the U. & N., tapped o[...]on a scrap of paper. nus drove the second spike and Montana celebrated the The land was surveyed and layed out in lots. Helena and arrival of railroad transportation.[...]pposed the town would center around them. An auc- and Northern would take. Businessmen from Butte and tion of lots was planned for the fol[...]call arguing the advantages of their cities. Utah and Northern the new community Washington City[...]al of Deacon from the By May of 1880, the Utah and Northern had decided they railroad's path,[...]s there road, for the honor. The group agreed and the place became would make it possible to haul a large volume in freight and known as Dillon. Sidney Dillon never saw the[...]13, 1880, the Dillon townsite group . The Utah and Northern planned to make a winter camp[...]Before the track-laying lected the money and gave it to Richard Deacon. The deed crews reached[...]on Estes, Louis C. Fyhrie, Charles Lefever, river and Blacktail Deer Creek. A 47 year old Irish bachelo[...]e ranch that George Smith, John W. Lowell, and William F. Wood. Jus- included all the bottom lan[...]ave chants had already put up some tents and two young men the railroad only one choice, they could buy the entire ranch named Sweet and Baldwin were operating a general store for $8,000[...]th- minus with a deal. If they would buy the land and provide a east corner of Montana and Helena streets. James Kirkpat- right of way, he g[...]amp at rick, Joe Schlessinger, Leonard Eliel and E.N. Ratcliff pur- that spot instead of further n[...]r similar prices. In less than a day most Dunn and the businessmen knew the offer was an attrac- of the prime locations had been sold and the town company tive one. The Deacon ranch could[...]a town- quickly sold $14,000 worth of lots and made a profit of site and lots could be sold at a good profit. The town would $3,500. be the shipping point for freight and passenger traffic in The instant town of[...]e a boom Terminus post office arrived and B.F. White brought his until at least the followi[...]freight forwarding business. The portable cloth and frame 196-Beaverhead History |
| Corinne Hotel, constructed so it could be disassembled and and freight traffic for 40,000 people was all through Dillon. loaded on flat cars, moved in and became the leading hostel- Dillon became the railhead for the Beaverhead and Jeffer- ry. Through trains connected Dillon with[...]son valleys, the Alder Gulch mining district, and even the 347.6 miles of three-foot gauge track w[...]Gallatin Valley. gauge line in the world. Utah and Northern crews operated In the spring o[...]nty-three locomotives, 400 freight cars, six mail and bag- Butte. It was rebuilt to standard gauge in 1887 and merged gage cars, fourteen passenger coaches and three Pullman with the Oregon Short Line[...]arly a continuous stretch of also traveled north and south. Three stage lines, one owned wood sid[...]replaced with well built brick structures. mule and oxen trains that carried freight throughout Mon- The Corinne Hotel was a victim of fire and was replaced on tana. By December of 1880, B.F.[...]ree million pounds of freight had arrived by rail and near- ed by the townsite company for a school was bounded by ly twelve and a half million pounds had left the territory the Bannack, Washington, Glendale and Pacific Streets. When same way.[...]ermi- floor contained the county offices and the second was used nus through a series of temp[...]ke Dillon a permanent one. Townsite offi- and a dance hall. cials not only sold lots, they als[...]in 1883 where the aside free sites for churches and a school. B.F. White opened Jaycee Park is now located and the school block was given to a bank and several substantial buildings were constructed[...]'s bank loaned $4,000 for construc- along Helena and Montana streets. On October 5, Terminus t[...]asses. The original building was replaced in 1905 and 1913 corpse." The Dillon postmark remained Termi[...]t its own post office. On June 1, 1881, Thomsen and C.Y. Reeder were early day school board Melrose secured a post office and Terminus officially ceased members, as was Jo[...]structed, including tana Territorial Legislature and introduced a bill calling for that of William C[...]annack to Dillon. began his house about 1883 and finished it in 1884 or 1885. Residents of Dillon[...]large homes in the same area for the legislature and the election held before the resumption of[...]ublishing a Dillon pa- built along Montana and Idaho streets. In 1885, Dillon be- per called th[...]f twenty-two men, came an incorporated city and B.F. White became the first a combination of townsite officials and ranchers and farm- mayor. White remained the recognized[...]road arrived, for the next forty years and served as the last territorial pledged $20,000 t[...]ana. Several other Dillon men have served Dillon and to provide good court house accommodations[...]George M. held on the first Monday in May (1881) and Dillon became Gosman, and J.B. Poindexter who was the governor of the the[...]ss. Sev- Dillon's population climbed rapidly and the group of far- eral things worked in Dillon's[...]d merchants looked optimistically to the future. and continue to grow. Butte was surrounded by[...] |
| [...]ot to the bert Eli el, and others). river grade above Dewey, the[...]broken leg and they had to shoot him but other than that, Divide[...]nd of the stage on the running gears of his wagon and Line, Early 1900s[...]From what I can learn, this stage line was owned and we picked up the Oregon Short Line passe[...]of Beaverhead County, quarters in Wisdom, Mont., and in the store at Dewey. I where we lived.[...]om my old friend, Dave Hirschy, Wise River, and rode in the inside compartment. I don't who was raised, lived, and had a ranch a few miles north of remember any other passengers but they changed the team Wisdom, and who on some occasions drove the stage when at Dewey and after we left town we passed an automobile at the[...]hy from this machine because it ing the equipment and harness, and kept the many head of was a curved-dash O[...]rate the stage line. model, and the owner, Roy Wells, was standing beside it. It[...]wn the road that en't afraid. passed our ranch and pick up the mail sack for the ranch. There was only one other automobile in the area and that The drivers were all friendly, liked kids, and passed along was owned by a fellow named Str[...]Wisdom, and it caused many a runaway of horse rigs. I think[...]. vide. At Dewey they changed the four-horse team and left When we got to Divide, the stage[...]lick Hotel, where the driver left the stage and Charley Wun- Dewey to Divide. A fresh team was put on at Dewey that derlick took off the lead team and set me up in the driver's took the stage to Ralston, where the driver and passengers seat and got up and rode alongside of me on the way to the ate their[...]it seemed a long way from the seat to the ground and I changed teams again. The Squaw Creek team took[...]thinking I might fall off as the stage to Wisdom and that completed the trip. The stage that left rocked back and forth. Wisdom that same day made the same changes and met the As a rule the stage drivers[...]as young as 16 would take the stage out. No Dewey and Divide. ·[...]by a young Mexi- time the stage team broke loose and came by our house with can. Dave said the s[...]g like a runaway chariot around with people and something he said to the young race. A few hundre[...]- Mexican fell ow was taken in the wrong way and the Mexican sor (my uncle Seth or Big Al Halbert) was installing a bridge pulled his gun and shot him. across the irrigation ditch. He had the[...]ugh I was only five years old, this fellow was my and when the stage came along the driver thought he could friend and my parents allowed me to go to his funeral. I can[...]in the front axle broke, it left the horses free, and they left the afternoon beause they had to br[...]body hd been pre- The driver came to our house and we tried to phone our pared by his friends and it was long after noon when the neighbor, John La[...]the team drove beside an outside porch and proceeded to remove the with the two wheels had j[...]y made body from a big box filled with ice and place it in a home- the Galbraith Grade, near the Big Rock and the Watercress made coffin that had been built, lined and prepared by some 198-Beaverhead History |
| [...]d that there was no tourist service tana and Idaho. Monida was the site where the first railro[...]park. At this time the Huntley the Utah and Northern (a branch line of the Union Pacific) Sta[...]from Cinnabar, located entered Montana and became a source for tourists to be[...]ley, over the Divide, past Henry's Lake in Idaho, and back It was a bad time for me and I insisted on seeing the body. into Montana[...]a grown lady crying twelve 11-passenger and four 3-passenger Concord coaches, and · I couldn't understand it because I thought that old 80 horses, two buggies and 40 employees. It grew much people didn't cry. My[...]e the end of its operations. was the boy's mother and it was all right for her to cry. It[...]a depend- In later years I talked to Otis Mudd and my friend, Dave ing on the excursion one[...]from the train at Monida where there was a hotel and a friend. They both told the same story about the[...]couple of saloons at which they could stay and entertain followed the murderer and how they corralled him in a themselves until the stage left. patch of buck brush as he fled, and before they could cap- Horses were sw[...]of Divide, the town where the office and two bars. They also had a good blacksmith who Wis[...]e George Sham bow ranch where he leased buildings and a the coal for the Divide Pumping Station in the days when stable to the M-Y for a lunch and horse-switching station. they used steam power fo[...]A man named Bob Duff worked for Haynes and would and from there to Butte. Teams and wagons hauled the coal hire his drivers[...]down driver would take the whip from him and how the man held when they had no more need for i[...]ad station was moved to the top of sional and knew their trade well. They would hold the whip F[...]that still coiled in a certain direction and if the need arose to use it the displays the Divi[...]river would pull the whip straight out behind him and then houses along with the long line of warehouse[...]off the ear of a horse with his whip and never touch the The warehouse platforms in ear[...]The Concord stages were considered the best and most hauled them to Wisdom before haying season b[...]e ocean. They were painted bright red and were kept as clean always assured of a piece of P[...]as possible. The drivers wore hats and dusters which looked A short way up the road stood the old Wunderlick Hotel like raincoats. and stage station. North of town was the railroad sto[...]some people equipped with cattle-weighing scales and loading chutes. say, which they would k[...]o if a horse got collar or foot sores, Hole Basin and for the surrounding area.[...]in. That four), would lease their horses and themselves as drivers to was the starter o[...] |
| Cost of the round-trip between Monida and the west en- served as clerk for both opera[...]epending on how well by horses using fresnos and in the large cuts they used black a passenger knew the driver. This cost did not include the powder and steam shovels. Andy Burnham was the engi- ride in[...]eer. The stage line did suffer a few accidents and runaways. There was a large section house[...]west of One time, between the Continental Divide and Henry's Grant while the station at Gra[...]ountain road, went around ore bins in Grant and the ore was then loaded in freight cars. a sharp bend too fast, and the stage rolled. A woman passen- Steam engine[...]water tank was at the Donovan station on the west and died at the scene. From then on that stretch of r[...]tember. built to Whitehall and the ties were already piled at the side This h[...]the Barrett Hospital in Dillon. However, distance and minated because of the advent of faster and more efficient insufficient customers along[...]uilt from St. Anthony, Idaho, to West Yellowstone and North of Brenner's was an ore dock where[...]ived in the West Yellowstone from Goldstone and Saginaw mines was dumped, to be vicinity on June[...]ght. The Goldstone andSaginaw to West Yellowstone and the Monida to West Yellowstone Mines wer[...]horse-drawn transportation in the Park ers and rock. The scale for weighing ore was a short distance was replaced by motorized buses and private vehicles. During its brief existence,[...]o the economic base of the Valley, although sheep and cattle ranching was by far the mainstay of settle[...]& Pittsburgh Railroad The Gilmore and Pittsburgh railroad began building in 1909 for the purpose of transporting ore between Armstead and Salmon, Idaho. The golden spike was driven May 10[...]rom Armstead to the depot at the G & P but Salmon and Gilmore (Idaho) to Armstead. The first train[...]bout a mile. did not go over the route until 1910 and on January 18 the The switchback was on th[...]nnel at the top of Bannack Pass so as not to day, and Friday, then returned on Tuesday, Thursday, and endanger the lives of the passengers with[...]engine. During the winter when the snow was deep and the the railroad and telephone company. Larry McGivney go[...]the valley were called Nip and Tuck and therefore the creek[...]which hauled mail, freight and passengers and traveled ev-[...]engine, and on the Horse Prairie side was called the "Gal-[...]loping Goose" (get out and push). 200-Beaverhead History |
| [...]N LODGE 16". He had already done the pro- dollars and it was in debt about twice that amount when it ject I had set out to do and had done it much better shut down. The scrap iron was sold to Japan and shipped to than I could ever hope to. With some editing and addi- Seattle, but Pearl Harbor occurred before i[...]nty was Meriwether Lewis, co-captain of the Lewis and[...]thought was to extract the wealth from the sands and then[...]tt Langford journeyed to St. Paul, Minn., in 1854 and curity and all the other marks of civilization were absent was one of that city's first bankers and Masonic leaders. from their minds. It was al[...]mmand of the first Fisk Expedi- individual, and there was no order. Law was the law of each tion[...]in 1862, he conducted (with two for himself and just what a man could enforce with his own others[...]mal Lodge of Masons on the Continen- two fists and his gun. It was natural that the criminal ele- ta[...]would find fertile ground here for their growth, and first Worshipful Master of Bannack Lodge. Followi[...]a territory in 1864, Langford was ap- Secretly and powerfully they organized into one of the most po[...]lector of internal revenue. efficient and deadly gangs the West has ever known. Be- After subsequent affiliations with Virginia City and He- cause their identities and strength were unknown, no man lena Lodges, he was[...]in 1866 by dared lift a hand against them; and the honest miner, not the Grand Lodge of Montana[...]with that neighbor. Road agentry ruled the land, and jor honors: Election as Grand Master of Montana Masons robbery, murder and lawlessness were allowed to run almost and appointment as governor of Montana Territory by[...]rk what was then called "mount~in fever," and he requested marvels in August of 1870. He was ap[...]. Langford gives us intendent of Yellowstone Park and remained in that post just the simple facts, bare and unadorned; but certainly the from 1872 until 1877[...]lay dying; we can almost see the scene and feel, with Lang- An exemplary public servant and outstanding Mason, ford, the intense emo[...]n a skinny, Langford returned to St. Paul in 1876 and died there in 1911 fever-shrunken claw was thrust out from the covers, and his at the age of 79.[...]tion, and we can reiterate with Langford his promise to try[...]in due and ancient form in accordance with the last sad and BEAVERHEAD COUNTY[...]olemn rites of the craft. By FIELDING H. GRAVES and F. LEE GRAVES Langford te[...]embers of the fraternity were in the camp; papers and facts I could find. I was about halfway[...]the day of Brother "BEGINNINGS OF MONTANA MASONRY AND Bell's death."[...] |
| [...]e time granted the then moved to larger quarters, and there the first meeting, Bannack Masons their charter, and issued under the hand under roof, of Masons in Mo[...]'s Master; Brother James Dyke, First S.W., and Brother John funeral, and he states that from that first meeting the breth-[...]on, First Junior Warden. ren often met informally and within a short time made Before t[...]ge of at Alder Gulch on May 26th, 1863, and Bannack became Nebraska.[...]ned in the possession cious attentions of Plummer and his road agents who felt of Brother Langford for several years, and he later placed it that the brethren might be plo[...]t fire. keep the lodge's activities in sight; and while his position as In the next year or s[...]leader of the banditry was not known at that time and he City, Helena and Montana City, acting under dispensations was generally respected and liked - any number among the variously from Kansas and Colorado, and in 1865, these fraternity would have been willing[...]na Grand Lodge. According- tion - still, Langford and one or two others had already ly, they met on January 24, 1866, and the Grand Lodge was correctly judged Plummer's true character and refused to formed at that time. allow h[...]road agents Lodge for a charter early in 1871, and on October 3, 1871, held the fraternity when we r[...]e Plummer gang, not tian Mead, P .J. Kelly, Senior Warden, George M. Brown, one of those 102[...]Junior Warden, P.H. Poindexter, Treasurer, and A.F. statement made that none of the road agents[...]ilantes than present day internal affairs and in the life of the town. We note that the histori[...]g it in a joint Virginia City, one man in Nevada, and four in Bannack, undertaking with the[...]floor. This building stands today. organization. And this is accepted as quite a remarkable[...]To me there is too much evidence, both direct and indi- Spur, while hunting horses, discove[...]croppings of an ore deposit which he located and named the meeting was held in Virginia City about[...]ectors ber, 1863; the Vigilante oath was sworn to and signed at and miners who pushed a little further into the wilde[...]the date December 23, 1863, but the men and found rich ore in quantity on a high limestone mountain of Bannack were too soon aware of these happenings, and at the head of Trapper Gulch. Other cl[...]icate all too well that they were fully in- and soon two thriving towns, Trapper City and Lion City, formed and were acting in harmony as an integral part of the[...]housand I feel that this rules out coincidence and that if the truth dollars a ton, was hauled to Corinne, Utah, and from there were known, Sanders, who had been at t[...]on his return to Bannack a few days Dahler and Noah Armstrong realized that a smelter would late[...]rethren as to what was be profitable here and erected a small, 20-ton furnace at the taking place in their sister towns and secured the coopera- crossing of the main[...]that he could not have called a public meet- and "Glendale" being the names proposed. Glendale won[...]s a water-works Masons were meeting at this time, and these meetings were system and fire protection furnished by the company,[...] |
| [...]a Special Communication of a Mason, incidentally, and later a charter member of Dillon Grand Lodge was called to lay the cornerstone of this pre- Lodge) and in future years to become state superintendant[...]the ceremony and delivered the main address. There were three h[...]g camp of Glendale began to eight grocery stores, and 13 saloons. There was a bank, Noah decline in the early 1900s, and it became necessary for our Armstrong and Co., two drug stores, two shoe stores, a fine[...]Lodge 30 on February 22, 1908, with graph gallery and a weekly newspaper, the "Atlantis." Glen- Grand Master S.C. Kenyon present and in charge of the dale also boasted a fine brass b[...]ceremonies, the consolidation took place, and henceforth more that 25 years. the Masons of Dillon and Glendale worked together as Dil- The Masons of[...]Wm. C. ing the pattern of all such mining camps, and were shortly Orr, senior warden; Phil Anderegg, junior warden; RD.Tat- meeting informally and then making application for tersall, treasurer, and George W. Dart, secretary. The lodge charter. The[...]worked under this number for the next 14 years, and then, Jam.,1ary 9, 1880, by Grand Master Hiram Knowles, and the on May 12, 1921, a Special Communicati[...]rand master of Masons in the State as, Treasurer, and Rufus A. Furster, secretary. There were of Montana, was present and took charge of the craft. He 21 Mast.e r Masons, one Fellowcraft and one Entered Ap- found the proper endorse[...]charters of Dillon 23 and Bannack 16, and informed the In 1880 the Utah and Northern, a narrow gauge railway, brethren that henceforth this lodge would work and act as pushing northward into Montana to connect[...]mines with the Union Pacific rail points of Idaho and Utah, then stated that the first order of business was the election came into the Beaverhead, and where the rail terminus of officers of[...]Year. day city of Dillon. The town grew rapidly, and it soon be- By unanimous vote, all offic[...]r; Jack Here again the Masons early became active and applied for M. Nemeck, senior warden; Gran[...], 1884, the charter was granted, signed by Duncan and R. Chapman, senior steward; Thomas E. L[...]dges, Grand Secretary, which steward; and A.S. Rife, tyler. made Dillon Lodge 30 a regularly constituted lodge under Thus were the fortunes and earliest days of Dillon Mason- the jurisdiction o[...]Gil- unique in Montana Masonry. Our history and activities, bert, J.W.; Philip Lovell, treasurer;[...]ester, secre- through our brethren of Glendale and Bannack, are the tary; George W. Dart, S.D.; F.F.[...]in the state. No other lodge has been so colorful and S.S.; J.A. Davis, J.S., and Jacob Shauver, Tyler. has so exciting a past, and we can take quiet pride in the fact In additio[...]our ancient brethren at Bannack, the early Dart, and P.H. Poindexter who had all been charter mem- history of Montana and the early history of Masonry were bers of Bannack Lodge. A few other names among Dillon's one and the same. charter members which might be of inter[...]Chapman, M.K. Davidson, A.E. Graeter, and had the hearty endorsement of the Dillon Lodge. O[...]cretary H.D. Pickman, G.T. Paul, P.E. Poindexter, and H.N. Cornelius Hedges and was passed by the Grand Lodge that Woods.[...]nds. warden; L.C. Ford, junior warden; and W.B. Dean, secre- We note that the lodge at first[...]t there was thought of acquiring larger quarters, and in June Lima has grown to 42 as of th[...] |
| [...]backward to pay homage for a moment to our father and September 20, 1906, and listed 23 members compared with ancient brethren who gave o much to u · and to our land. 45 in the latest Masonic census. The[...]The roots of our fraternity are deep in the past, and from the Charles E. Miller, worshipful master; Ch[...]senior warden; William Montgomery, junior warden- and However, a Ma on we mu t ever remember t[...]traveling upon the Level of Time and that our eye mu t It is fitting now and then that we pause and turn our gaze always can the h rizon ahead.[...]0. Hansen, Alice Han- son Ralph, Margaret Nels en and small son How- sen, Edward[...] |
| [...]growth and today, over 80 years since its founding, lists a[...]-THEO AND CLIFFORD BAY Lodge No. 273 - Dillon, Montana At the turn of the century and shortly after Montana became a state with homeste[...]un- married men began arriving from other states and coun- tries. And so it happened that to _this southwestern corner[...]ish families develop in this area. To preserve and promote their Danish heritage, to strengthen family unity-and, undoubtedly, to combat homesickness-they moved t[...]odge which would offer benefits to members, wives and children as they prepared for naturalization and citi- zenship in this huge state of Montana. A[...]was a popular Sunday New Year's Eve, 1908, 75 men and women, together with pasttime. They did[...]the ranch home of Peder C. Peterson visited, and probably courted. The memorable photo, taken in t[...]iscent of those "good old days." Jackson, Polaris and[...]-MARY LOUISE PURDY KAJIN Brotherhood charter, and this new sense of ethnic commu- |
| [...]with the sledgeman would drop his hammer and grasp the drill, the top-notch events in the state. People came to town from and the former drill man would begin using the sledge[...]arnesses made rhythm of the sledge-beat, and could drill a hole at a rate of brilliant by ribbons and multi-colored celluloid rings. better[...]mount the bandstand for the oration of the day. And it was eight o'clock, the crowd was dense on the[...]sives, but small boys would not be denied long, and the bordered on one side by the business houses and on the speaker would, as a rule, even[...]he All afternoon there would be races and at night the Indi- railroad to see the special tr[...]r dance. Following that would be the cow-catchers and cat walks on the engines would be crowd- fireworks display and people would eventually crawl into ed with member[...]wheel, tacked to a tree at home, canvas leggings, and campaign hats. Throngs of Butte peo- had[...]he trains, among them the members of the Bos- ton and Montana Band, said to be one of the two best band[...]tion at that time. When the Butte militia fell in and[...]dely distributed shale beds covering the southern and one from the Red Mens' Lodge, and a couple of hundred portion of Beaverhea[...]the beds would be great pools of the black gold, and so the its team with a flourish, and several volunteer firemen fever began.[...]attempt to drill for oil was made in the the top and slid back to the ground. Perhaps by this time[...]planks lined the outer edge of abandoned, and the company disbanded. Thus, the fever the sidewa[...].... .. walking or standing. The din was terrific and sustained. The interest of oil develo[...]"cannon crackers" about 15 or 16 inches in length and about four inches in diameter. I remember that so[...]eg blew half a block away. There were 14 saloons, and all did a flourishing business. About ten o'cl[...]ormances would be- gin. There were straight races and novelty races, both on foot and on horseback, all taking place in the main street[...]A team consisted of two men, one to hold a drill and the other to hit the drill with Proud ow[...] |
| [...]worked dili- gently sinking prospecting wells in and around the shale bed in Smallhorn Canyon, two of[...]d that the shale bed in Smallhorn was the richest and largest known deposit in the United States. Prope[...]or to the possibilities of the oil develop- ment, and again the fever began to intensify. Early in 1917 C. W. Robnett and Alex Walker of Butte, Anna J. Perrault and Alex Hansen of Anaconda, and James H. McKay of Dillon incorporated the Dillon Oil Company for the purpose of mining, refining and marketing oil from the shale. Pres./Gen. Manager[...]own money) moved to Dillon to establish the plant and encourage the support of[...]s time period that Edgar Kenison, Phillip Thorpe, and Judge Henry G. Rogers became major stockholders and Following are the names of the trustees and major share- actively participated in the venture. holders: Albert and Hans Andersen, J. F. Bishop, Charles The refin[...]form of distilla- Kenison, H. A. MacMillan, and C. W. Robison. Some of the tion but little more w[...]ell guarded. (Note: The picture were: H. C. and R. M. Gilbert, Grant and John Kenison, J. of Edgar Kenison standing beside[...]picture read as follows: "This Lumber Co., and Anna, Anthony and Matt Zugel. is the way we get the oil out of the[...]wo years. They soon they mined, refined, marketed and shipped oil. Their first realized the tech[...]$84,000. However, disbanded the company and returned to their respective their liabilities were more than that amount and they were professions knowing they had giv[...]ssful. The company was declared insolvent in 1920 and Mr. Robnett left Dillon, probably to look for wor[...]Lucrative Trade For all intents and purposes, the Black Gold fever was broken at this[...]Products Co. They used for $30 per 100 and potatoes at $6 per bushel. A small the forfeited equipment, property, and leases and trans- fortune was realized in the sale[...], their motives were to 10 parts of water, and equal parts of tobacco and cayenne develop a stable industry that would prov[...]pepper to taste as well as to provide color and potency. Price for the growing numbers of young m[...]was four gallons of that stuff. main in the area, and economically benefit the entire com- munit[...] |
| [...]ice as a rope and pulley assembly, powered by a team of[...]horses, whisked the ice up and over the hump into the shed[...], for which ply Dillon with ice from a small pond and tiny ice-house in a more pay was received. swa[...]ay. A layer at a time, the ice hundred yards wide and about one-quarter mile long. Ice was add[...]packed around the edges between the walls and ice, and over Near the pond and the ice-houses, a frame residence (still the top of the ice for insulation. occupied in '80), barns and other buildings were built. The With summ[...]ndred acres were largely pasture for a few horses and Cards in the windows- a red cardboard rectangle about milk cows. Chickens, dogs, cats, and other assorted domes- 8X10 inches, with ICE in big black block letters, and S.S. tic animals were cared for there.[...]usely, carpeting the bottom taken by phone and the "regulars" relied on the ice-man, of the empty pond during the summer, some debris and with never a worry about a card, call[...]was first filled in John Holm was the last and best liked of the "ice-age- the fall. All this wa[...]men." For years he covered his route carefully and conscien- would not tolerate dirty ice. At that t[...]en melted water from the drip pan Trout, greyling and whitefish were easily available to the bene[...]one. An few cheerful words with homemakers and dispensing ice eight foot bamboo pole and a grasshopper baited hook chips from[...]n shed where a transfer to (though two feet could and did happen some severe win- smaller rou[...]d cord placed the horse-drawn vehicles and the electric refrigera- snapped against the ice m[...]t the proper spacing, also about 18 caution and be vaccinated.-Dillon Tribune, 12/17/1881[...] |
| [...]protection. Granville Stuart found them here, and with We do not know when the first primitive[...]ly changed their way headwaters of Horse Prairie, and there is a Medicine ring, of life, allowing them to travel great distances, and carry the perhaps the farthest west that one has[...]Early man used natural shelters like caves and rock over- shortly after the glacier ice sheets s[...]o. hangs where many artifacts have been found, and the roofs Arrow points typical of the Avondale[...]s. 500 AD are found in a site just out of Dillon, and there are These caves are found here and there about the coun- numerous buffalo jumps and animal traps in our area. Sho- ty.They also[...]ered with bark, material from rotting trees, and covered An~ient men, probably the forerunners[...]have been around for a long time. Historical- and keep out the cold air. We have had a number of these ly, Lewis and Clark met the Shoshone Indians from the[...]ny have disappeared having Lemhi on Horse Prairie and traded for horses with them. been destroye[...]e against the Indians that year after year and used the same rocks to hold down their were in th[...]but also tools, soapstone bowls, grinding bowls, and named it the valley of the ground squirrels. The Indians knives, scrapers, bone needles, stone mauls and horse hob- would travel in large bands for mutual[...]ave along with Blackfoot into the buffalo country and after the buffalo bone meat chippers. The a[...]s where they would pre-history Indians and of their more ancient forebears. break up into small bands and live in areas where there was Trapping brought the fur trappers and traders into this an adequate food supply for the[...]ould travel on the old Indian took Indian women and adopted Indian ways. The fur bri- trail (which wa[...]side of the Gravelly, crossing wares, Iroquois and even natives from the Sandwich islands. the Madis[...]son They brought trade articles, guns, sugar and whiskey to range to near Mammoth Hot Springs, across the Yellow- create a demand for their goods and entice the Indians to stone and up the Lamar River into the Crow country where[...]ce of sweetening was the inner bark of cottonwood and On the North Fork of the Big Hole, General Gibbons certain pine trees, which they stripped, and the tools used caught Chief Joseph and his band of Nez Perce Indians and can still be found in certain groves of tree[...]nite monument When gold was discovered and the country became popu- was brought to mark the[...]e, one of the two lated, fur was already gone, and the Indians were displaced, most famous Indian battles in the State of Montana, and is eventually to be confined on reservations.[...]ans frequented early butcher shops in Bannack and Virginia the Indians. The marker for Beaverhead R[...]destroyed, and it was only a short time before they were Fath[...]ing slowly up the Centennial rendered powerless and placed on reservations. Valley with the Flathead[...]ndoy grounds of the Bannock, Shoshone, Nez Perce, and Flath- eloquently remarked, "Life was hard." ead Indians because of its comparatively mild and open Chief Tendoy was a highly respect[...]in a poker game with the P & 0 Chinese cook and some of[...] |
| those old characters around Dillon. Both Chief Tendoy and gardener of the Indian profile, the natural[...]profile, just the waterfall. Only at development and print-[...]Mr. Weenink. Why didn't Mr. Weenink simply go out and[...]t, he discovered that the water had been diverted and[...]views and Dillon Tribune article)[...]ley Indian Reservation and would come to Medicine Lodge head Valley[...]each year to hunt, fish and gather berries. Beaverhead Valley has been the[...]he object of much curiosity from the seeds and carried them back in buckskin bags to their win- time of the first white explorers and fur trappers until re- ter village in the Lemh[...]but some of the poles are still Clark Canyon Dam and not far from the site of Camp Fortu- standing. nate where the Lewis and Clark party left their boats and After the Lemhis moved to Fort Hall, the[...]turned to the Medicine Lodge through Sheep Creek and obtained from Shoshoni Indians who lived in the a[...]ed The well-marked profile is visible for miles and facial Rock Valley, and back to Fort Hall, making a circle. details are r[...]The group of Indians that Bob knew well were Jim and caused some people to believe that the profile may actually Roy Tendoy and their little groups. There were about 20 have bee[...]groups usually came abounds with ceremonial spots and is believed to have been in alternating years, Jim's group one year and Roy's the a crossroads in the route of tribal mig[...]he meadow by man Scott, who ranched near Armstead and was an amateur the Medicine Lodge Creek.[...]oots, deer, rabbits, sage hens, squirrels, beaver and ing the image over the years. When she sto[...] |
| [...]s, wild meadow ,rass, swamp grass, timothy grass and pine nuts. They used age for flavoring. They al[...]rries, wild aspberries, gooseberries, rose hips and serviceberries. ,ome roots they used were thistle, tobacco root or bitter- oot, cactus root and wild onions. One must be careful with he tobacc[...]t Bob did see them fish. They would use a villow and string made from sage brush bark. They called he[...]mal. Gvery portion was used including the paunch and entrails, an or a white man had killed game depending on ·whether hich were washed thoroughly and then wound around a the skull had a h[...]u wanted yellow leather, they amrod of some sort and held over hot ashes until cooked would[...]gh. They usually ate the warm raw kidneys, spleen and you wanted brown leather, they would dry[...]The liver is supposed to taste green willows, and if you wanted a white skin, the hair of the ery[...]tting 1 Their women wore their hair unbraided and parted in the it with warm water for sever[...]ed red. They The Indians made gloves and moccasins for Bob. They sed pine cones and porcupine quills tied to a stick for als[...]mother to make him a .ombing their hair. Both men and women wore accessories jacket. This jacket lasted him a lifetime and he mostly .hat struck their fancy such as polishe[...]me. He still has it. nd teeth, porcupine quills and weasel skin. They wore eagle Bob asked Ji[...]en he showed rnaments that hung from the saddle and bridles. Bob how wood would let sparks fly and burn little holes in They liked all types of[...]the teepee, but sagebrush would just smoke and give off :tees, and were good sports.[...]children because they didn't want the 1e hides and made the tanning easier. From then on, Bob[...]brains away when he wanted the hides and were very courteous. Bob considered them fine peo[...]of the night by squealing, yelping, howling and chanting[...]died and came to life again, and this may have been during[...]Indians. The Indians were always their friends and they[...] |
| [...]years, more artifacts were recovered by digging and sifting. verhead[...]logical Survey made a study of the cave and its contents. Quring the winter of 1857-58, Be[...]e a scientific the refuge for the Stuart brothers and their party. They report of their findi[...]ing in the terri- Tukadika Shoshone Tribe, and inhabited the cave between tory of Utah, then known as Deseret. The United States 1830 and 1870. Davis described the Tukadika Shoshones as s[...]ne The Mormon troops were patrolling all roads and the nation, who used horses for travel and transport. The arti- Stmrrtparty was caught in th[...]ettlers moved into the living in elk-skin tepees, and eating wild game. area. The Indians were quiet and friendly. They spent their In the ye[...]ickiup was still standing time visiting, hunting, and trading with the natives. Gam- near Elkho[...]wo plunges. A small wickiup five or six his hands and shift it from one hand to the other until he felt[...]between Blacktail Creek ming pools. and the Beaverhead River, probably to the confluence[...]y are two streams, between the townsite of Dillon and Lover's smaller, the framework is cove[...]look-out for the other suitable brush, and they are immovable. Tepees are a camp.[...]est side. In an pine trees for framework and covered with dressed buffalo excavation on west S[...]hammerhead skins sewn to proper size and shape. The smoke hole at the turned up and a pestle was found by John David at 511[...]draft, and depending on the wind direction, can be reposi-[...]ream. This site provided protection from the rear and a broad view of the valley below. A prom-[...]ending diagonally from the crest - cores, spalls, and fine flakes. Workable material available of[...]agate, ja- behind which the Indians would hide, and rise up, shouting spar, and quartzite. It has been a century since Indians and waving skin blankets to stampede the buffalo herd. As made stone tools and that evidence is inches deep in grass the[...]EDITH PALMER armed with bows and arrows or spears to dispatch any ani-[...]ls not killed by the fall. Specific circumstances and prop- Wickiups in Beaverhead[...]a secluded cave near meat from the bones, and salvage animal parts for other Big Sheep Creek. I[...]a narrow part of the canyon. Early settlers in and securing arrowheads and feathers to shafts in arrow 212-Beave[...] |
| [...]Skating Pavilion Meat was cut into long strips and hung to dry, or smoked A roller skating c[...]e. Another method of preserving meat was by and Dillon was no exception. The Dillon Skating Pavilion, making pemmican. The meat was ground by pounding and located on Main (Montana) Street next[...]mixed with wild berries. Since sugar is a and harness shop, opened its doors on Thursday evenin[...]possesses the same pleasures of the waltz, and the delightful Pishkins were used over a perio[...]sensation superinduced by the excitement of music and the the Indians acquired horses in large numbers.[...]proximity of a handsome companion, whose light and lithe- preferred to kill buffalo on the run, usin[...]spears. some figure gracefully sways in unison and motion with your One pishkin site in Beaverhea[...]danger of producing a concussion partment of Fish and Game. of th[...]as well as the Admission was 50 cents and opening night guests were cliff. Sites have been[...]ree-mile race, then a free-for-all layer of bones and stone tools which remain. race that anyone could enter and that lasted late into the The Antiquity Law of[...]MER forming both speed skating races and artistic dances. A[...]with the Pavilion providing costumes and masks if needed.[...]Pavilion contin- Twenty miles north of Dillon and a few miles west of Glen ued to grow. Concern[...]children preferred to skate than to go to church, and when capture deer and possible mountain sheep. The trap is in t[...]skip worship service, voices began to the timber and consists of winged runways, a ramp, and a cry out from the local pulpits. corral. The runways are bordered by cribbed logs and follow By March, 1885, several attempts a[...]were forced into the run- nipped in the bud and the youth of Dillon were warned to ways, up the ramp, and into the enclosure. behave[...]hod tablished their individual reputations and races were being used by the Indians to down trees was with fire. The tree customized for these men and women and boys in such trunk was wrapped with a band of mud[...]es from categories as midget, lean man, and couples. That same the ground to prevent the fire[...]began to declare war against Intermittent burning and hacking with a stone blade would skating r[...]. of the logs used in the structure average lic and Methodist clergy accused the rinks of promoting s[...]the late elopements, clandestine marriages and social evils of the 1940's, but enough remained t[...]ey were guided to the site by the country, and promised to control the problems. Trouble James L[...]continued to plague the rinks as the press and pulpit came working in the Lost Creek area. James[...]are permitted to come in close contact, the rinks and use. Scientific evidence suggests the trap was construct- are breeders of seduction, elopement and divorces." Legis- ed sometime between 1800 and 1850, very probably by the lation was pr[...]-EDITH PALMER illness and prepare themselves for the fall reopening.[...] |
| [...]razy over skating were having "a chance to reform and[...]t:-4 blocks of businesses and residences, some men organized t:"-4[...]C> the Dillon Hook and Ladder Company, the city's first sin- =[...]-~ and the souls lost to Roller Skating had returned to[...]been laid and the brick walls, under the supervision of Mi-[...]~ opened and operated in the 1930s and 1940. O>[...]and again in the bunkhouse at the Dave Metlen ranch o[...]George Metlen, 23-year-old son of Dave and Eliza Metlen, ~ve:ryl;:,ody :C:c.[...].. ,.. . .. . . . ... 0 0 Oo:n :t,w. Harness, and Irish Jack, a drifter, were at the bar. Hunter,[...]the bartender, and Metcalf were quarreling. There was bad[...]m the clergy on the townspeople was taking effect and were in the[...]one (Parris), and Abner Leacock (grandfather of Dillon Post- of Dil[...]the morn- Red Rock and Salmon, Idaho. The shooting, which occurred ing, a fire broke out at the saddle and harness shop next[...]y door. Dillon's usual stiff breezes were blowing and the fire violen[...]a chair was broken, blood was evident on the ion and spectators said it melted away in a sheet of hot[...]floor, on the broken glass, on the chair, and outside, as well. flame. A carpenter shop next do[...]door, just beneath a wall telephone, his face and hair cov- Montana Lumber Company owned the Pavilion and the[...] |
| [...]being willfully, feloniously,and of his deliberate, premedi- Noah Faubert, in[...]tated malice aforethought, did make an assault, and that telephone extension, "The telephone is a ci[...]calf, a certain pistol, to-wit, a revolving end, and a wire running from the saloon to the house." pistol, then and there loaded and charged with gun powder Mrs. Hunter, in the dwelling adjacent to the saloon, was and leaden bullets, which said pistol he, the said Pa[...]asked to have calf, in his hands, then and there, had and held, then and Dave Metlen summoned. He would know what to do. there willfully, feloniously, and of his deliberate, premedi- Dave and Jules Guyaz washed the remains in preparation tated malice aforethought, did discharge and shoot off, to, for removal to Dillon for Coroner J.P. Holden's examina- at, against and upon the said Frank G. Hunter, and that the tion.[...]was sitting on the the pistol aforesaid, then and there, by force of the gunpow- ground outside the saloon "in a drunk stupid condition and der aforesaid, by the said Paul Metcalf discharged and shot did not seem to take notice of anything." off as aforesaid, then and there, willfully, feloniously, and of Metcalf and Harness had fled on horseback, but appeared[...]bunkhouse. Paul was holding a penetrate and woundhim, the said Frank G. Hunter, in and bloody rag over one thumb which had adeep cut and had upon the left side of the head of[...]er, giving to him, the said Frank G. Hunter, then and The bleeding thumb accounted for the blood seen a[...]ets aforesaid, so as aforesaid dis- in the saloon and in the yard. Frank Hunter's blood was charged and shot out of the pistol aforesaid, by the said Pau[...]he telephone. Metcalf, in and upon the left side of the head of him, the Pa[...]mortal wounds he, the said Frank G. Hunter, then and there George Metlen tried unsuccessfullyto persuade him to give instantly died. himself up and stand trial. Paul continued to ramble mind- "And so the said Everton G. Conger, county attorney as[...]aforesaid, who prosecutes as aforesaid, doth say and charge, friends here to stand trial ..... the son[...]hink I can get away .... " in the manner and by the means aforesaid, feloniously, and And he did. Paul and Alden rode out into the darkness of his[...]Four months had passed before Metcalf and murder. Contrary to the form of the statute in su[...]ri, his home state. He was arrested for made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the murder and returned to Montana for trial. He would sit in[...]teamsters at the scene of stupidly drunk, and is with a familiarity impolite, if not the crime[...]ead was billed for expenses: degree and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Lawyers for the[...]e appealed on several counts of illegal procedure and $13.60.[...]. Judge he broke jail, eluded the sheriff, and once again was on his[...]Conger prosecuted, and attor- notified that one Paul Metcalf was in c[...]Henry R. Melton and W. S. William F. Smith to proceed to Oklahoma and bring the Barbou[...]s dead." hundred and ninety-four, at Case closed.[...]e of Montana, in and upon one Frank G. (Sources: Horse Prai[...]ine Hunter, then and there and Beaverhead CountyCriminal Records) 21[...] |
| [...]dentist, H. R. Melton-lawyer, and J. R. Holden-painter. -Independent[...]bake sales and dinners were held to help pay off the unex-[...]the Sunday School pupils, and liberal contributions were[...]moral and religious growth of the city.[...]e need of Dillon for a suitable library building, and he[...]Built l886 chairs gave way to pews and a carpet was laid. For several Among the peopl[...]factor in the were those who believed in churches and schools to make church growth, always read[...]ing services in homes, in the school hardships and discouragements along the way. house, in the skat[...], Tabor Dingley's home, on the corner of Glendale and Main 1896-98; Henry C. Cope, 1898-1903; Wm. Remington, 1904- (Montana) Streets, and organized the "Regular Baptist 05; Horac[...]t Baptist Church of Dillon." Philip Poindexter and John Dingley were appointed to pick a location fo[...]orted there were five lots on the corner of Idaho and Sebree Streets which could be had for $800. The determined group of Bap- tists voted to buy and pay cash for the property, which is still held by[...]sters. Bids were accepted for the construction and the contract was won by Michael J. McCune, who wo[...]80 feet, with the corner vestibule 12 feet square and a Baptist Parsonage, l89[...] |
| ter M. Corll, 1917-18; Blanchard, 1918-19; Hamstra, 1919; and George MacDougal, 1920-22.[...]ther Kellaher came to this country from Eng- land and was appointed pastor, residing in Virginia City.[...]ther Kellaher attended the missions in Beaverhead and Madison counties, comprising an area of about 300[...]rvice, he built the first church in Virginia City and also one in Laurin. Father Dols took over duti[...]hrough his la- bors a nice brick church was built and dedicated to St. Rose[...]Father Pudenz arrived about 1906 and helped erect the The dedication ceremonies, he[...]in an additional attended by both Roman Catholics and Protestant faiths. structure in the back of the church which later became the The celebrant and orator of the day was the Right Reverend[...]r Dols, until the new rectory was built. of Butte and the Rev. J. J. Dols, the local rector. According Father Foley became pastor in 1908 and served for the to the ritual, the people were req[...]ain outside next 22 years. He was a "good and faithful servant who until the church was blessed[...]as too became assistant pastor at St. Rose and attended to the small for the number of people assembled and many went missions which, with increa[...]get seats or find standing room. more and closer supervision. Bishop Brondel preached an[...]'s Mass in D." was rendered by Mrs. H. N. and continued with the responsibility of the missions. Blake, Thomas Baker of the Madisonian and Eugene Stark Father Lechner came in[...]er Dols was transferred to Great pleted and ready for dedication. Falls as its first rector.[...]cting data for "Stewart's Il- been donated by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stamm, Sr. This lustra[...]ri- Glen, Browne's Bridge, Melrose, Horse Prairie and Centen- tory of artists and gentlemen to complete the history is nial Valley.[...]iling of histories, arrived at Bozeman last week, and During his administration he revitalized the work[...]ention by collecting all church, both spiritually and temporally. New altars and data in readiness. Patrons and subscribers to the work may memorial stain[...] |
| [...]streets were sold, and the ground on which the church, guild St. James Episcopal Church hall, and rectory now stand was purchased. The church was[...]transept, chancel, the vestry, and choir room. In the spring[...]of 1911, the consecration took place and, after 30 years, St.[...]one time, it contained a stage and many community activi-[...]ties from banquets, bazaars, wedding receptions, and even basketball and roller skating have been held there.[...]ing made in Dillon for hold all the metal and wooden pipes which ranged from 1/4" construction[...]in Montana, Wooden pipes were square and metal pipes were round. traced the history of the[...]99, written to Rev. Hooker of Dillon. organist and a tuner three days to tune the organ. The "My[...]irst organist was Grace Cashmore, who played from and the three Dunlap children. I visited Bannack every year 1919 to 1960. thereafter until and including 1880. I held service first in Th[...]atured leaded colored glass that was also painted and fired Bishop's school house September 10, 1879. I[...]sed the paint into the glass. This Augusta Selway and two of her children in the home of process shaded the figures and made them more life-like. Thomas M. Selway on Sep[...]hilo- year up to 1880, I held services in Argenta and Poindexter mella Palmer for Dr. H. D. Pickman and his wife Virginia. school houses."[...]Brewer arrived in by his sisters Bertha and Anna, the window by the organ for Montana to succeed Bishop Tuttle and held his first service Andrew Price by his w[...]y his wife, for Elizabeth French by her children, and for center of the block in which the church is no[...]in the back of the church was given for Sara and Philip given by the Dillon Townsite Company, now the site of Thorpe and the Baptismal window for Rev. Sidney Hooker. Elie[...]was paid $10 per month, the janitor $8 per 1882, and the first service was held November 19, 1882, by[...]in 1882 as an assistant missionary in Beaverhead and Madison counties. He had charge of pastoral work in Dillon, Glendale and Silver Star, but he lived in Virginia City. Under[...]e 1885, Rev. Drummond resigned due to poor health and Rev. Sidney Hooker was sent to take charge in Aug[...]on was making more plans by 1890. Lots at Bannack and Idaho Mrs. Sidney Hooker Ente[...] |
| [...]Ii home in which to rear their families and for their own spiri- tual strengthening. This exc[...]h with Pastor H. 0. Svare of Ana- conda presiding and acting as recording secretary. A consti- tution o[...]drafted, a name for the congrega- tion was chosen and a slate of officers was elected. Following[...]ngelical Lutheran Church God to beware of all sin and scandal and to conduct himself in a Christian way; b) With prayer and concern to use the Worship services[...]build- means of grace that faith may be quickened and increased ings, private homes, and churches of other denominations. and conferred, strengthened by love; c) To participat[...]ourage- congregational meetings, that it may grow and develop; d) ment and support to its sister church. Without benefit of[...]d to hear the Word at the congregation's expenses and to the preservation and every opportunity. It wasn't until 1[...]le 15 of the 1906 constitution stated men aged 21 and over had voting privileges. The minutes of the 19[...]Frieda Abernethy years 1908, 1914, 1915, 1916 and 1919. Election of trustees, trea- Myrtle Pewe surer and secretary was conducted at each meeting. If other[...]Gladys Seidensticker matters were considered and decisions reached, it must have been done during coffee time and never recorded. During those 13 years, there w[...]aints put aside every possible dollar to buy lots and begin a (From Dillon[...]County date to events such as weddings, baptisms and burials of loved ones 1880 when employee[...]o called frequently found shelter and protection at the prominent themselves the Scandi[...]ivery stable located where Safeway is today Cross and putting soldier kits together. The club later[...]aners, William Caspers, owner of Busy Bee Market; and rather than in the name of the congregation, and in the style Theron Sargent, later[...] |
| [...]t house would be built in 1881, across the street and a short way from the present Methodist church. The school was built in the fall of 1866 and the Sunday School organized in the spring of 1867[...]was the most prominent mover of the Sunday School and was elected superintendent, secretary, treasurer, librarian and chorister. From that time on, religious services[...]dist church. First the Sunday School is organized and conducted by the faithful, original 188[...]acher, the organizing Ladies Aid Parlor, and Sunday School room. The belfry of the class, and the building of the church building.[...]Mrs. Selway inviting him to $3,100. come and preach. He preached the first sermon ever heard[...]From here he went to Ban- memory of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Selway, Mrs. Eunice N. nack where a[...]ducted. Selway, Mrs. William Smith and Mr. Henry Cushing. By Monthly visits were made to[...]2 the average attendance in Sunday School was 120 and The school district was rearranged and moved three miles the membership was once[...]expan- south. The original building was torn down and a new one sion. built. This new distri[...], Elder, Norris, Mills, Shannon, Ingersoll, Wilks and tion was taught by Mrs. Anna Hart in 1870. The Su[...]as the new site, rapidly increasing in attendance and influence. known as the "Marrying Parson" and signed many marriage It was the only public gathering in the valley and was at- licenses of both churched and non-churched couples during tended by young and old from near and far. that era. Robert Sm[...]1903, A. A. Luce 1904-05, S. A. Laugh (Law) and Rev. Jones Rev. Riggin. The Beaverhead Valley Sun[...]sie part of a circuit that included Virginia City and Bannack. In Lacklin 1910-14. Rev. Albert Ha[...]to the valley. have an automobile, came and left in 1914. H. G. Humphrey "Brother Van" was as[...], then Edward Smith from 1918-25. next five years and in 1880 Rev. Shippen came. In the fall of The Methodist church and its people have played an im- that year the townsite of Dillon was bought and surveyed. portant part in the developnm[...]st Church is located more than 124 years and will surely be involved in service to were donate[...]ilding a church thereon. Rev. Shippen, pastor, and Rev. Van Orsdel, the general -Excerpted and edited from booklet titled "Pioneer missionary, were instrumental in securing the lots and rais- Methodists", written by Margaret and Mark Pyeatt ing the money for the building. Const[...]in 1966. ately and was finished and dedicated the next summer. Bishop I. W. Wiley ded[...]n 1895, it became necessary to enlarge the church and the Spiritualism in Dillon new[...] |
| [...]Rachel (Wm.) Orr, Miss Bella Rife, Mr. and Mrs. Abram S. called meetings, sessions or sittings, where believers gather Rife, and Mr. and Mrs. John Shively. to receive spiritualistic mess[...]the Dillon area, the bath School grew and became known as the Sunday School. Spiritualist m[...]eached. Many of its During the winter and spring of 1888-89, Dr. McMillan followers would go to their regular church services and then preached every two weeks, receiving[...]to a seance. Some made decisions based on dreams and lost penses. Services were held in Dar[...]the city hall, schoolhouse, old courthouse, and Dart's Hall. England States in epidemic form. It[...]ere was no mention of financial gone mad over it, and where the only talk is of seances and status until the minutes of the January[...]w from the Ladies Aid Society of the Metlen Hotel and at such distant places as the upper end of[...]s the Centennial Valley. Some of the Ouija boards and tables Hall." are still in the families[...]r of the organization of the Territory of Montana and Beaverhead County. Rev. Smtih had prepared to go[...]to go to Africa than Montana, he came to Bannack and Virginia City. Rev. Dr. Duncan J. McMillan, a cousin of the late Lois Brantley Hazelbaker and president of the College of Mon-[...]"The In June, 1892, specifications and design of the church Presbyterian Church In Monta[...]in 1906: building were accepted and the buiilding committee was " ...... January,[...]to build a church according to the plans offered and rough board shanties at the temporary terminus of[...]cellar, chairs, furniture, lamps and small sundries $392. The reached that point a few[...]r entirely by January 1, 1893." obtain a minister and organize a church. But before I could Th[...]asted from get a minister, the Methodists came in and organized. I December 14-16, 1893. s[...]ited by the Methodist minister to ministers and the Manse was built in 1900. In 1901 it was come and organize a Presbyterian church and help him save reported that Dr. Gwynne[...]g in the Methodist church Sep- of $1,000 and have free use of the Manse. In 1902 Dr. A. B. te[...]s. He had former- The charter members were Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Bir- ly been president of the College of Montana at Deer Lodge. chard, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Cunnard, Mr. and Mrs. Finley The record states, "He m[...]death ra Goetchius, Mrs. Charles Hirschman, Mr. and Mrs. John on January 8, 1910,[...] |
| [...]nent to Montana filled with both humor and pathos. For years "the faithful few" pioneered th[...]mes to berg, pioneer, stockman, financier and mining investor is enhance the work of Christ as[...]y the church. A significant for the active and prominent role he played in missionary society was organized in 1906 at the home of Mrs. the history and development of Montana. Frank McFadden (nee Nelli[...]iven at His half-brother Conrad Kohrs and brother John Bielen- ranch homes. Conveyances wer[...]nsport the berg preceded him in 1862 and 1864 respectively. His broth- women. In 1907 the group went to Argenta and was "royally er Charles P.H. Bielenberg a[...]ll brothers became residents of Deer ing children and eight men. Eighty-three women attended a Lodge City, Montana and were butchers by trade. meeting at Mrs. Ewing's h[...]Business" from Henry Edger, one of the dis- home and a New England supper was held at the Herbert[...]Montana in 1863. His brothers Conrad Kohrs and John Featherly and Owens homes north of town and by Madames Bielenberg "staked him." John and Evan Innes on the Rattlesnake.[...]entertained the Bap- shop to Simpson and Company and purchased the Prowse tist Society of Women who re[...]r 50 years. They also gave receptions for college and high which became one of the foremost businesses of its kind in school students and faculty. the[...]berg became associated with J. K. Mallory and D. D. Walker -GEORGIANNA ANDERSEN in a livestock and butchering operation forming "Bielen- berg and Company" in Anaconda. Nick Bielenberg is cred-[...]d to have exceeded that of the Henry Plum- and extensive. He not only lived to see Montana take[...]ia City. Despite the efforts of many search and fear no one." parties, it remains hidden to this[...]ge for his weight in gold. Oldtimers feel cache and I'll leave the territory forever."' there is a st[...]he ever looked for the gold, Owsley recalled, "I and gold dust were buried near Robbers Roost, the road was convinced Plummer spoke the truth and I spent several agents' hangout south of Sheridan[...]ars. But the William Owsley, a Montana pioneer and member of the gold was never found." V[...]e corral. Owsley narrated the bags of dust and nuggets, thought to have been stolen from a follo[...]er. January 10, 1864, he threw his arms around me and said, The remainder of that road age[...]for modern-day treasure hunters. to Robbers Roost and if the gold is not where I say, you can cu[...] |
| [...]ordered from Chicago during the Melrose, Wooden, and Feeley. wint[...]dutch ovens, guns, ammunition, Clara Anderson and James A. Fellows were married at and camp equipment. Two hogs were killed and a portion of Melrose in 1891. A daughter, Beatric[...]fried sausage and patties packed in grease in preparation for James A. Fellows and Clara Anderson separated and were the trip. divorced in 1897. Fellows[...]atrice Fellows lived in the Dillon, Butte, Helena and Crow Indian Agency and on through the Crow Reservation Salmon areas. She[...]ttlefield. They journeyed on to Fort Cus- a miner and worked the mines in Butte, Helena and Idaho. ter at the mouth of the Big Horn[...]r to the Yellowstone Riv- her son where she lived and worked as a cook. She died in er and followed it to its very source in Yellowstone Park. 1963 and is buried in the Dillon cemetery.[...]about 1900 married Abner C. Livingston, and the town of Gardiner at the northern en- Leacock[...]ed Rock-Salmon Stage trance to the park. and the Thunder Mountain Stage.[...]the Metlen Ranch on Horse into Idaho and into the Henry's Lake country where they Prairie. Court records and news reports gave a colorful de- visited a[...]oved in the early 1900s to a mining claim and into the upper end of the Centennial Valley at Red located at the junction of Napias and Panther Creeks near Rock Lake. Cobalt, Idaho. They engaged in mining, farming, and oper- They then followed the Oregon Short Line Railroad and ating a stage station. They maintained banking in Dillon the Beaverhead River to Monida and continued on past Red along with family and business contacts. Rock, Dillon, Divide, and Silver Bow, stopping in Butte Abner C. Leacock died in 1943 and was buried in Salmon, where they camped f[...]the home of Bruce Watters in 1954 Valley, and after visiting friends they knew in Butte, they and was buried at the Dillon cemetery.[...]the family decided to move on to William and Grace Sal[...]demy, Grandmother 28, 1890, to Walter Laurie Kerr and Margaret l,Jrsulla Kerr. taught school for a term in Salmon and was working as She, the youngest of five siblings[...]a postmistress in the post office when she met and married homestead eight miles northwest of Norton[...]ntana, in a log cabin which is still standing, on and after two straight crop failures due to a lack of rain and March 16, 1886. He was the son of Jefferson Da[...]much hail, a decision was made to pull up stakes and and Cynthia Hollis. He had an older brother, Charles,[...]a, their destination being the in 1882, and a sister, Mattie May, who was born in 1891 but Fl[...]the same year. · All through the winter of 1895 and 1896, the family made His early years were spent in and around the Big Hole plans and preparations for the trek westward. Two large[...]in the Quartz Hill covered wagons were purchased and prepared with bows, area in order to provid,e a living for the family. During this canvas, and side-boards extending out over the wheels to time, Grandad attended school when he could and ultimate- accommodate bed springs for the trip. Mr. Kerr ordered and ly graduated from the third grade. His aca[...]- received a black powder, 45-90 Winchester rifle and a 10 ed at that level. gauge, double bar[...]ough the mining camps in fully anticipated larger and more plentiful game. Montana, Colorado, and Idaho, and his father consistently[...] |
| [...]ne mining location to stop work for a short while and move on to another location when the word spread that a strike had been made. Life was rough and very one-sided for a twelve-year old boy followin[...]e to be com- pleted. His father was not a drinker and usually provided him with plenty to eat and with adequate shelter. When Father Ferguson made[...]a disagreement with his father, Grandfather left and stayed with the Charles Ralston family in the Big[...]l he was grown. During this period my Grandfather and his brother Charlie spent a short time[...]Edgar and Clara Ferris living in Butte and driving a team for the Hanson Packing stead, Mr. and Mrs. Ferris moved to Leadore, Idaho. They Company[...]became the parents of a son, Edgar Francis and a daughter, In 1910, Grandad moved to Salmon, Idaho, and was work- Margaret Louise, both of whom wer[...]anching in Idaho, the Ferris family ber 11, 1910, and was attended by guests with the brothers ret[...]lish a permanent home on the old Charles Ferguson and Owen ~err acting as witnesses. Freder[...]roductive ranch, never forgetting their Edgar and Clara Ferris faith in Christ and loyalty to the Methodist chruch. Clara's[...]rcle". years old, Edgar left his home in Missouri and traveled with Reminiscing about the early da[...]traveled with him until they 1884. She and her twin brother were swept into their fa- reache[...]rom ther's arms. He had preceeded his wife and children in com- his young master, joined another[...]e. Another fond memory was returning to Mi$souri, and made the long journey back to attending Mo[...]died in 1927. Clara died in 1965, and was buried beside her Very soon /after his arr[...]metery. work helping gravel the streets with team and scraper. Later he became a student at Link's Busi[...]James S. Ferster was born January 20, 1819 and went where other siblings were born. Among these[...]n to California in 1849. He married Lucetia Amos, and sister Jessie Louise, who later moved to Dillon.[...]respected born to them, a son Rufus A. (1855) and a daughter Emma and much loved Dillon banker.) Jane (1858). The family crossed the plains and settled in In the late 1890's Edgar had become a cattle buyer, and Bannack in August, 1863, where Mr. Ferster[...]he mining. He died December 11, 1892, and Mrs. Ferster died worked as cattle foreman on the[...]was here he met the girl who became his wife. He and Clara Bannack, Montana. Margaret Schuler wer[...]Ferster was born November 16, 1855 in New Charles and Ola Burden as attendants. The wedding took[...]Bannack in 1863 and became well known in the county. He The couple[...]stman House where he resided. It was deter- Addie and Jessie, after the death of their parents in Oregon. mined that death resulted from natural causes and he was After a brief venture into the butc[...] |
| [...]A saddle horse put a foot in a badger hole and fell on Mr. Mich., also crossed the plains with h[...]73, in Bannack. They had cold spring water and a smell of mountain air. He was afraid three children, Nellie May, Frank P. and James Frederick his ranching days were over, so he just gave up and passed Blair.[...]would last forever, and talked the ranchers into selling out[...]to make the Red Rock Bird Refuge. William and Virginia Fitch Virginia Fitch sold the cattle and horse and spent her last William Fitch and Virginia Miller Fitch owned and years in Idaho Falls. ranched a large place about a mile north and west of Lake- -AUTHOR UNKNOWN view. They were successful ranchers and loved the life. Vir- ginia always had a fine saddle horse tied in the shade, away from flies and mosquitoes. After feeding the men a hearty[...]ast, she would prepare a hot meal in a dutch oven and This history book contains names of coura[...]ng wagon. That done, she rode hardy pioneer men and their families we are proud to for relaxation. write about and to call our own. It would not be com- Always a[...]ris. / grazed. It was time to jump on a horse and go open the gates Morris Fitzharris and his wife Kate came from Ireland on the road to Lakeview, where a rival bull was roaring his and settled in Dillon about 1883. They purchased land and heart out. It was "get the gate open before the b[...]started a business of limestone, sand and gravel from his Summer was a busy time of preparing for the long and quarry in the Frying Pan Basin. Material[...]pile the size of a small hill had to be horses and wagons into Dillon and were contracted to sup- sawed and stored in the shed attached to the kitchen. That[...]aterials for buildings, such as the Abstract Land and was a chore for the kids. Title building, courthouse, library, and D.I. Hardware. Virginia loved music and played and sang very well. She After Morris' death[...]h six chil- had her piano brought from Deer Lodge and played while dren to raise: Michal, Sarah, Mollie, Margaret, Judith, and everybody joined in a fun evening of singing the old songs. Elizabeth. Kate knew the business well and desperately One day a hired hand was cleaning his[...]en to stay on in her employ, which they did. one, and shot the leg off the piano. It had to have a "make Kate expanded the business by adding more teams and do" leg from then on.[...]ith the men, causing the Bill Fitch was a kind and good natured person. The kids business to p[...]ng D.I. Hardware. Martyn. He didn't like ranching and livestock so moved to Tragedy struck Ka[...]Kate became known for her strong compassion and generos-[...]Dillon and spread so rapidly that nearly every family lost a[...]Bond and Dr. Blake, who worked feverishly, around the[...]word out to "call Kate". Kate assisted and nursed many[...]lie 26, and her older brother, John Burke, to the flu a few[...]Maymie Fi- had washed John's body and had his clothes neatly ready for scher Holt, Virginia F. Fitch and Cornelia Boatman the undertaker to dress and put him in the casket. She[...] |
| [...]metery in Butte. looking down on her brother John and remarked: 'You know[...]Leonard and Hazel Flint Richard Nolan of Dillon and they ranched in Argenta. Kate George and Catherine Smith of Parker, Idaho were the Fitzhar[...]entertainment, and just being a likable fellow highly[...]ll who knew him. In his late teens he left Warren and Hannah Flager Parker and went to Grant, Montana, to work at the Dave Ha[...]ck team during She married Dr. Holmsen in Norway and they emigrated to haying. The followi[...]he helped break eight teams of oxen (or steers) and was also a general practitioner in the Big Hole.[...]two children were born to the union, Cato Holmsen and ers across Red Rock Lakes to Swan L[...]from Dagmar married Carl Huntley, was divorced and later Mammoth to Canyon. In 1916 he[...]iew to Henry's Lake, a distance of were divorced, and he remarried in Long Beach, Calif. Both about 30 miles. Dagmar and Cato lived in California the rest of their lives. Hazel, second daughter of George and Ellen Shambow, Dr. Holmsen also moved to California, remarried and had was born September 25, 1898, on a ranch near Lakeview. two sons, Edgar and Arthur.[...]ild, Hazel became children: Warren, Forrest, Bill and Gladys. Hannah died in adept with all the housekeeping tasks and became an excel- Wisdom at the age of 46 on July 27, 1924, and was buried in lent cook. Her special int[...]Butte. Gladys was adopted by piano, and horseback riding. Visiting relatives out of town Carl Huntley in September of 1928 and now lives with her and state were also important. daughter, Carolyn Cheek Rhoades. Leonard and Hazel were married July 3, 1917, at 8 A.M. at[...]rmed the Milo, Iowa. His parents were Joel Flager and Priscilla cermony. At 11 A.M. that[...]set of dishes On April 29, 1898, Warren enlisted and served as a corporal and some cooking utensils. They spent the rest of the[...]family. They returned to the Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection Centennial Valley to make their home and living. Their first and received an honorable discharge September 8, 1899[...]came to Wisdom, but he their log house and all the buildings needed for their live- met Hannah Digsen Holmsen there and they were married stock. From thei[...]n, Leo Carlton, was Forrest, Carl William (Bill), and Gladys. Bill Flager of Al- born April 8,[...]ey moved to a home in der, Mont., is now retired, and his sister Gladys is still living. Lakeview. Th[...]their large herd of Warren died in Tacoma, Wash., and Forrest in Ontario, Black Angus cattle and their big herd of horses that were Calif.[...]used for riding and for the haying season. The month of Mr. Flager operated the Ajax Saloon, Billiards and Pool August was extremely busy cutting and stacking the hay in Wisdom for many years and was also a barber by trade. that would feed the livestock during the long and cold win- He also worked for Hans Lauesen, operat[...]ter months. In December, 1954 Leonard and Hazel sold this from Butte to Salmon City, Idaho.[...]6, 1979. Hazel passed Faulkner's Picture Machine and Capehart's Orchestral away[...] |
| [...]the mouth of Big Sheep Leonard, Hazel, Donald, and Leo all deserve a special Creek, where P[...]he property are dated August 17, 1902. were solid and their contributions and dedication were Annie Flynn received a[...]--Inez Flint Their sons and daughters married and lived in the area of Dell and Lima. Mary Elizabeth married Clay Patterson. She James and Annie Flynn owned and operated Dell Mercantile and also the Dell Ho-[...]Dillon; both State of New York. James Percy Flynn and Annie Murphy are deceased. They had two children, William and Mary K. Conner were married in 1871. They had both been previous- William died several years ago and is buried in the Lima ly married and both had young children. Annie had a boy, Cemetery. Mary K. married Mr. Thornberg and they live in William, about two years; Percy a daughter, Sadie, about Muncie, Indiana. the same age, and an older child. They lived in Fairfield, Conn., where Mary Elizabeth and James Percy, Jr., were born in 1873 and 1874. They then Terence and Mary Flynn traveled west to Nebraska where Charles and Annie Caro- Terence Flynn has had a s[...]tional advantages as were afforded by the public and pro-[...]n 1872, he decided to try his fortunes in America and[...]business and such other occupations that came to hand.[...]vessel to French Guiana, The Flynn Kids and "Old Lady"[...]with the Indians. One Indian liked Percy's and he returned to Salt Lake City in 1874. In that fall he red hair and tried to scalp him. He had a scar across his[...]In October 1874, he came to Beaverhead county, and pur-[...]gated and all available for cultivation. Here he gave atten[...]to farming, raising large fields of wheat, oats, and al- falfa and raising cattle and horses.[...]sangunity. She was born in Ireland and came to the U.S. in[...]Patrick, born August 19, 1885; and Hubert, born February[...]of their lives at the ranch. Pat and Hubert never married.[...] |
| [...]Lucie, son Lewis Clark Ford, Jr. and two daughters, Lucie Thomas and Mary Flynn and Adda.[...]Leitrim, Ire- spent his early youth there and married Lucie Miller Ohler land, where he was bor[...]August 16, 1878, at Sonora, Ill. He became a M.D. and twelve children of Patrick and Katherine McTiermon practiced medici[...]re Dr. Thomas Flynn was educated in the public and parochial Ford continued his medical pract[...]te Vista: Lucie Miller Ford on December 18, 1880, and the United States. His father died when he was 14[...]6. his brothers preceded him to the United States and were The Ford family arrived in Lima o[...]cian for the Mr. Flynn came to Montana in 1876 and was employed by Union Pacific Railroad, Or[...]vate Blacktail Creek, with property of 2600 acres and leased 1700 practice serving the entire sounth[...]County. In addition, he owned a drug store and a hardware In addition to raising large crops of wheat, oats, and al- store in Lima at various times. He also inv[...]shorthorn cattle. of pieces of real estate and expanded his property to include During the se[...]l losses when a large portion of his stock per- and a fumigation house. ished. His misfortune did not discourage him and he recov- Dr. Ford was the classic country d[...]as in the city of Butte, November 22, illnesses and delivering babies. He later developed a yen for 1[...]was united in marriage to Mary Laden fast and powerful cars and owned a Jeffers, a Stutz Bearcat who was also born in Ireland. She came to the U.S. when she and several Buicks of the day, sometimes painted fire[...]g was legendary in in 1883. Her parents were John and Mary Laden. the 1910's and the 1920's. There were no children born to the[...]is now owned good citizenship in the community and was involved in all by Roy Forrester. manner of things in and near Lima, He owned a gypsum[...]mine on the North Fork of Little Sheep Creek and had a[...]would rush off by horse and buggy and later by auto to get a Sr. Family[...]sons, member of Zabud Council 2 of Butte and a Shriner at[...]5. His wife, Lucie, survived until 1942. Dr. Ford and his[...]and high school in Nauvoo, Ill. and in Lima. He attended[...]n Dillon, helping to start Lucie and Lewis Ford the first football team that school had in about 1897, and 230-Beaverhead History |
| [...]George Wilson of Butte and they lived there until divoced in[...]the late 1920's. Adda and Billie moved back to Lima. Adda[...]died in the early 40's and Billie, after marrying Mickey[...]O'Brien in 1932, moved to Oakland and later to Winters.[...]Winters, Calif: and Mike O'Brien of Davis, California.[...]ert Blaine Fordyce The Ford Girls-Adda and Lucy[...]became a teacher. Teaching didn't stick, however, and he When his brother Percy got home from[...]ater taking up his rancher. Around 1900 he raised and broke horses for the old own homestead. He[...]r" at least half of his stage line between Monida and Yellowstone Park selling the life. When he was friendly, out-going and gregarious, it was 4- and 6-horse teams complete with harnesses and 2-wheel all the way; yet, he was also ve[...]e Union Pacific Railroad in the Lima yards and was friendly with all of them. He loved to play w[...]and if there were any around you could always find hi[...]e'd pack homesteaded southwest of Snowline, Mont. and ranched up his things and leave. After a few weeks, or months, he'd there u[...]Mr. Ford conducted several merchandise operations and piano and organ player, plus a beautiful singer, so he was[...]served as Jus- always popular at parties and dances. He was well like by tice-of-peace in Lima[...]sheep. being a past master of Evergreen Lodge 45 and a past Part of the time he'd spend s[...]e hotel in patron of Elva Boardman Chapter-O.E.S. and Mrs. Ford Monida, while running his[...]Mr. Ford died very suddenly on February 12, 1948 and When World War II started, he enlisted and spent almost Mrs. Ford passed away on October 12,[...]three years on active duty until wounds and illness brought terred in the Lima cemetery. They[...]tended recovery. He served under General Patton and The son, Lewis C. Ford, III left Montana after completing hated him with a passion. college in 1941 and has since lived in Schenectady, N. Y.,[...]his sheep on the summer ranges in Spokane, Wash. and in Portland, Ore. where he lives with Id[...]-WES AND EDITH FAIRBANKS tleman named Maurice Ring after college and was last known to live in Long Beach, Calif. Mrs. Walker moved to Lima in the late 1930's and liv~d with her sister Adda until Percy C[...]e Adda Susan Ford also went to school in Linma and mar- Percy was born July 4, 1887, in Siam, Iowa, and came with ried a gentleman named Richardso[...] |
| [...]king a homestead in the upper end of the Valley, and working on various ranches. When World War I[...]at Ft. Lewis, Wash- ington, he was sent overseas and remained there until the Armistice was signed. Si[...]all his time as a courier, carrying messages back and forth between units of the army. His comment was,[...]mud, from one foxhole to the other. Crawling over and through bodies was bad enough, but knowing that i[...]termit- his father had learned in Scotland and, in association with tent stretches and he did a lot of illegal liquor hauling down Jo[...]over the country. He was a natural houses and blocks. Some of the attractive stone buildings "h[...]cian. He were built with stone he quarried and brought from the could play any instrument by ear, and had a beautiful voice. Frying Pan. At one ti[...]erful in She was born in Baltimore in 1860 and had come West with the nation in the early days o[...]a freight a leader in the managing of school and social entertainments train. He was a very talented artist, in oils, and had so very given ih the camp." much potential[...]me on, as he engaged in the great zest for living and love of life. He . liked people and contracting business. They built a home at 53[...]died as he had lived. He went to Rexburg, Idaho, and in 1890. Mary Jane Forrester was active in ch[...]by her (only 6 miles away) he was going too fast and couldn't make family in later years, almost[...]shing it, pillar of the Methodist Church." and killing himself, still in his forties.[...]2, don would call for him in her buggy and take him home for they moved to Ogden, Utah, and he died there March 7, weekends. He r[...]e, where his father was -WES AND EDITH FAIRBANKS plastering, t[...]the train came into town, he and his friends would go to the John and Mary Jane[...]town water. He loved the outdoor life, hunting and fishing. Forrester[...]summer, fish hooks in his pocket and fishing line wrapped John S. Forrester, grandf[...]when he was California at San Francisco and Alameda, where he met eight, first to Ohio, and then to Utah, coming to Dillon with Irene Wuerz. Born in New York City, she had come from the Utah and Northern Railroad after Dillon became its Connecticut with her father and sister, and had gone to terminus in 1880-81.[...] |
| [...]In the winter, transportation was by sleds and a good co, celebrating the opening of the Pan[...]t Monida early in the morning, back to Dillon and worked for the Montana Mercantile, also from Lakeview, and from Lakeview to Henry's Lake. travelling over Beaverhead County. In 1916 he and Irene The pay for just hauling the mail wasn't very much so he were married in Alameda and came by train to Montana. added to his income by hauling freight for others and gro- Mary Jane, anxious for her son's bride t[...]led just had a seat met at Barrett's Station, and Roy's pal, Bud Hartwig, drove on the front; often the passengers walked and followed the them into town, past the gothic[...]warmer weather, it done was with wagons. The and down South Atlantic Street to their new home. route was much longer in those days and very uncomfort- John Forrester and Mary Jane built a house for them- able. S[...]s at 833 South Atlantic, across from the college, and a more sleds or wagons and teams. house next door at 835 for their son and his wife. After John Al hired lots of men to[...]he man at each location to care for the teams and clean up. Al house to Ralph and Irene McFadden and lived in an apart- lost the mail contract in 1930 to Paul Zinc. Al and Chris sold ment in the house. She died in 194[...]holdings in Lakeview to 'Curley' Flint about 1944 and Roy and Irene enjoyed the social life of the town, and the moved to Butte. Al died in Butte on May 13, 1949, and Chris fishing and camping trips that highlighted their life togeth-[...]own the Bea- Dillon. verhead, Jefferson and Missouri rivers to Great Falls, camp- They were a well liked couple and always enjoyed friends ing at night along the[...]dropping by for a chat and coffee. In 1919 their son, Roy William, Jr[...]tory from this time belongs to the twen- ties and on, as their daughter Ethel Mary was born, and the The Foster Family close-kni[...]ing Dillon commu- With the spirit of hope and adventure, Rodney Eugene nity. Roy, Sr. becam[...]siness man, a well- Foster, his wife Emma, and four-year old son Rodney Chur- known sportsman, and after WWII, a rancher on the Black- chill[...]d that gone to spend the winter with his wife and granddaughter the "R" in the initials "R.E[...]Rodney became "Bob" and was so known in Montana for Ethel Mary mar[...]children were: Kay Sheridan, Alan, Jr., Roy, and Forey Ce- Bob had worked for the railroad[...]trous head-on collision between his train and a circus train Roy, Jr. married Dorothy An[...]brought a promising railroad career to a noisy and chaotic William, Holly, Joyce Sexton, and Jennifer Tolton. halt! Regardless of[...]TER involved were dismissed, and young Foster found himself with a wife and child and without a job. Bob's brother Tom,[...]however, was already in Montana at this time and had been Burnell (Al) La France[...]working on ranches in the Beaverhead and Ruby valleys. Forsythe[...]tunities in Montana and so it was that the family of three - Al Fo[...]with fourth on the way - packed their bags and boarded a married Christina Larson, a sister[...]1908, only a few months after their arrival. and ran a store for Sam Burnside. Chris was the postm[...]or Billy Foster family, the Brundage house and the house which Reed and Billy Hollingsworth.[...]Street where they managed a store for Miller and Pike. Al later which was planned by Mrs. F[...]ily lived for bought the store, remodeled it, and made living quarters in many years, and were joined by Emma's mother, Mrs. Addie the[...]born in Dundee, Mich., on January 19, lodging and meals. Later Al got the contract to deliver the 1880. He was the fifth of six children born to Mr. and Mrs. mail and freight to Sherwoods at Henry's Lake. The[...] |
| [...]the first telephone exchange in Hannibal and the second[...]erts, Idaho, and they lived at the Foster home on South[...]Foster became manager of the Selway Sheep Company and Bob, Hilda, and George lived there for five years before[...]g an automobile accident while he was his liking, and he soon found employment with the railroad t[...]Her father was a hardware mer- chant in Hannibal and Emma grew up there. Later the family moved to Kansas City, Mo., and it was there that Emma and Bob were married in June, 1903. In Hannibal, E[...]ents, the McDaniels fam- ily, owned a candy store and her uncles were schoolmates and friends of Mark Twain. The McDaniels Candy Store is mentioned in several of Mark Twain's books and in biogra- phies of Twain. It was written that wh[...]McDaniel family of Han- nibal spread their talent and influence to Dillon. Two of the brothers, Henry and Dana, came to Dillon and made candy for the Sugar Bowl - - a candy and ice cream parlor which the Fosters opened a few y[...].C. Penneys where Western Union was later located and still later Mountjoy Flowers and. Gifts. The Sugar Bowl thrived for a number of years and was a favorite R & R gathering place for Dillon matrons and their children. Bob Foster's first job in Dill[...]e saw the opportunities existing in a boom- he and his son, Walter, were feeding sheep on Kansas wheat ing sheep business and he began buying and selling sheep. fields for market. He was bu[...]ebruary 2, 1977. During the 1920's, Bob Foster and George Melton decid- -DOROTHY FOSTER ed to pool their talents and formed the partnership of Foster and Melton. George was a graduate lawyer, but he foun[...]W.W. and Mary Francis him than law. The partnership was dissolved after a number Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Francis came to the Big Hole Valley of[...]ted even though they later from Butte in 1885 and joined their son Charles in locating became keen[...]Their other son Fred, who had been trapping and hunting in denly following what her family had thought was to be rou- Nevada and Arizona, took up land on Sheep Creek. W.W. tine s[...]missed by many but especially by the Francis and sons had the first sawmill in the valley and young people of the community who had found the F[...]led) built the first frame home to be a congenial and happy gathering place. Grand- house in the Big Hole. This house had six rooms, lathed and mother Addie McDaniel Churchill returned to Kansas City plastered with a big bay window and a circular staircase 234-Beaverhead History |
| [...]became known that she was a good practical nurse and midwife. Mrs Francis or "Grandma" as everyone cal[...]se she was old but because she did have gray hair and everyone loved her) never refused to go when any[...]tie her old black satchel onto the sidesad- dle, and away they would go. In the winter she would drive[...]Novem- ber, 1897. They had two children, Wallace and Evelyn, born in the early 1900s. Great-grandfolks David and Mary Wraton came to Big[...]e May 8, 1883, with their three girls, Etta, Dora and Bertha. My grandfather, Fred Francis, married Dor[...]er 19, 1888.Three children were born: Don, George and built. Oleta Eda continued to live on the[...]t 24, 1969. She is buried at Mountain View hunter and hunting guide, and he loved to fish. Cemetery. Grandad Frank H. Pendleton came into Big Hole in 1885 and started a ranch in Briston, where he raised horses and cattle, including a race horse or two. He worked[...]r tana, November 9, 1867, son of George D. and Elizabeth two half-brothers, Tom and Dave Thomas, and family in Hughes French, who arrived[...]baptized in 1868 at Bannack by Daniel S. Frank and Mary Ann's children were Frank H. Jr., Elen- Tuttle, Montana's first Episcopal bishop. ora, Beth and Rula. Don Francis married Beth on July 1, The French family moved to the smelting and mining 1915, in Missoula, Mont. Their children are Melba and Della, town of Argenta in 1870. Tony grew up in Argenta but also both born in Dillon. Don and Beth went to school in Big felt that Ba[...]cause he spent much time Hole as my sister, Della and I (Melba) did. Beth went to there with relatives. High School in Dillon, Don in Indiana and California. Don He married Florence Co[...]27, 1912. She was went to College in Logan Utah, and like his Dad Fred, Don the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Conway, her father liked to hunt and fish. He was also a Government trapper. a[...]21, 1885, at Glendale. She was educated and spent her entire[...]life in Beaverhead County. James R. and Oleta After Tony and Florence were married they ranched Fr[...]ntil his retirement in 1944. They then made S.C., and moved to Beaverhead County in 1909, working on their home in Dillon and celebrated their golden wedding area ranches. Ole[...]1963, he was one of neer family of Theophilus B. and Mary D. Craver. the eight remaining members of the Society of Montana James R. Freeman and Oleta Eda Craver were united in Pionee[...]aver (1917), Thomas Lynn (1919), Mary Eda (1920), and Marguerite Ellen (1922). Marguerite[...]Alva and Clara Garr "Susie" died in 1958, and is buried in Mountain View Ceme- Alva G. Garr and Clara M. Coons were married December tery, Dillon[...]27, 1891, in Moulton, Iowa. James and Oleta Eda owned and operated a sheep ranch Alva's brother[...]Mon- on Horse Prairie. James died July 30, 1957, and is buried in tana and was so infatuated with the weather and blue skies Mountain View Cemetery. that he returned to Iowa and persuaded Alva, his wife and The Bureau of Reclamation bought approximately 262 two small daughters, Gladys and Grace, to move West. They[...] |
| [...]finished grade school and two years of high school, and[...]ano and arranged music lessons for Nettie, who was an apt[...]pupil, and this was an asset later in her teaching. By 1917[...]Nettie took teachers' examinations and received a teacher's[...]Otto and Nettie were engaged before he was sent overseas.[...]ded (from left) to finish out the term and stayed on for the 1919-20 term. Mrs. Alva Garr, P[...]lding which burned in late 1988 and Alva Garr. was seven years old at that time, and one of the first-class arrived in Dell in the spr[...]y. There was an original build- as a ranch worker and later acquired their own ranch. ing wit[...]fenced yard, a well with a pump, two Sons Paul and Montana were born in Montana early in outhouses and a barn, for some of the pupils came by horse. the[...]f 1919-20 Nettie stayed at cation in Dell. Gladys and Grace attended Montana State home, across the Big Hole River, at the Lavon ranch and Normal College at Dillon. Paul and Montana graduated rode her fast and spirited little black cowpony the 10-12 from Lima[...]in Montana for mile round-trip. nine years and married Ray Martinell September 1, 1928, in[...]taught seventh grade in Butte. Two children, Lois and Wend ell, were born to this Junction City,[...]ladys taught in the Montana schools several years and Wash., during the summer of 1921, then retu[...]Paul attended Montana State College at Bozeman and 1922. then worked on the family ranch[...]She taught in the Billings schools 1922-25, and at Ogden, ence Mercer.[...]tana State University in Missoula in 1929 and from 1929 to War II and was in France during D-Day. He returned to the[...]ng members of the Garr family are Grace Martinell and Montana Garr of Lima.[...]d, born November 19, 1899, the daughter of Horace and Maggie Hand, pioneer ranchers at Wise Riv-[...]went with her two older brothers to visit school and was accommodated with a desk of apple boxes- one to sit upon and one upright as a desk. Having had introductory wo[...]cher, she enjoyed the day, went back the next day and continued as a student or a teacher for th[...] |
| at 420South Dakota in 1933, four rooms and a basement, for the cows before she wen[...]n. would get dinner and then go back to the fi elds to help At a home[...]before supper, which she always cooked and then milked the married John Bernard Garrison, a[...]Charles Calvert was born Sept. 1875 and died in March Farmers Union Trading Company and she worked as book- 1951. keeper and secretary. Ernestine Geary Calvert was born March 1883 and died In 1944 the Garrisons adopted a baby boy,[...]ra Leonard Calvert was born July 1905 and died July 1977. Co. Parks and lives in San Jose, CA.[...]ttack. Nettie He married Betty Sloan and died May 1973. passed away from cancer on June 4,[...]Francis Calvert was born February 1911 and died April raised by Susan Hand, their guardian.[...]Lester Calvert was born February 1915, married and is still living. Ernest and Annie Geary[...]-BETTY CALVERT Ernest and Annie Brookes Geary came to the United |
| [...]the north edge of the valley to was magnetic and with a subtle sense of humor. They knew round up[...]ng in work all the rules of good manners and never said an unkind word horses which had been t[...]m- about any person. selves. The broom-tails and jug-heads were driven to the They bot[...]These cigarettes would not hold a fire and several matches nery) in Butte.[...]ch they While living at the Guyaz place, Garry and Gladys held visited, they always managed[...]before leaving. During the war they lived at Dale and Ella Campbell came out from Armstead and set up a bar Metlen's Selway Place on the north edge of Horse Prairie. of fifty-gallon barrels and rough-sawed 2x4's in the willows They got into the pig-raising business and made good. Fol- adjacent to the corral. The call[...]reshment was lowing this successful venture, and after driving a beat-up "Decorate the Mahogany"!![...]all those years, they bought a new pick-up truck and The Geiger's favorite pastime was playing joke[...], just outside the kitchen door. The social and cultural leader in the city and held an administra- plan came together perfectly.[...]rely Armstead several times to visit Garry and Gladys. They in the face, resulting in two black eyes, and bruised nose and housed her at the newly built Buffalo Lodge cabins. She forehead. As long as the black-and-blue lasted, they drove helped them locate[...]ed for breaking a flyer out at the airport, and scattered Garry's ashes over horses to lead. On t[...]Horse Prairie. by a halter to the end of the pole and the merry-go-round Garry and Gladys leave no descendants to tell of the went round and round.[...]of the most lovable people I've ever known and two of the horse was in a vicious mood and Gladys helped Garry get best friends I'[...]lf-mile down the road, he lay down near the horse and pretended to be unconscious (or John and Anna Gelhaus dead). Gladys, on sighting this pros[...]my father's family were short, climbed the fence, and rushed to his side. After she born in Virginia, the next six in Maryland, and the last child had gushed and honeyed over his limp body for a minute or[...]ad red hair. My father, John two, Garry raised up and extended his arms to return her J. Gelha[...]ed up a rawhide spent his early boyhood and school years in Mt. Savage, quirt, and lashed out. Garry ran to the willows and secluded Md., and the family moved to Iowa when he was in his teens[...]earned to decided to follow their trail and came to Glendale in 1888. drive a car. Most of th[...]und the mountains so beautiful, the air so fresh, and all the driving. Garry, reluctantly, opened and closed gates. the people so friendly that, as[...]aved enough At one gate, between the Hansen ranch and Metlen's, Garry money, he sent for his br[...]people, with a large school, a doctor, a lawyer, and not have a gear shift. There were three pedals on[...]l saloons. Dad secured a job in the local smelter and from left to right: low gear, reverse, brake. Gar[...]eir honeymoon at the World's Fair in dollars here and there on any short term job that was avail- Chicago, but Dad's money was stolen-so they embarked able and within their realm of skills. They rode the grub-[...]the two railroad fares which had not been often, and were always welcome at any ranch where they[...]at mealtime. Garry was articulate Dad and Mother had a house in Glendale two doors away and could tell stories and relate experiences with a style that from the Knippenberg family, and here my brother Albert 238-Beaverhea[...] |
| [...]the wrist, so the doctor removed the finger and Dad kept it[...]exhibits; and after the finger had been brought out yet again[...]one day, she grabbed the bottle and tossed it into the kitch-[...]ensuing explosion blew the lids off the stove and cracked the[...]Grimes, the Conways, and the W oodsides. Except for the[...]of town (which was owned by John and Anna Gelhaus the DeCelles), only the foundations-and the walls of the and sisters Helen and Dorothy were born. Knippenberg was[...]e. The the owner or manager of the mine in Hecla, and he had built Knippenberg house was torn down and replaced by a ranch- an 18-room house complete with balconies and gingerbread. style home. They once gave a party and sent to San Francisco for calla D[...]decorate the house. Calla lilies were everywhere, and his brother-in-law, John Streb, was killed, and he then ran their scent was so overpowering that[...]to leave in the stage between Melrose and Glendale, leaving my Uncle the new dress she had[...]ious jokes that Dad served on the school board and in this capacity drove he and Minnie Kau, the waitress, pulled during those times. to Melrose to meet each new teacher for the school and take Albert was sent to his grandmoth[...]people of Melrose breathed easily for nine unruly and mean, so this became quite a frequent task. On months. Mother was enciente and, not wishing to be seen by one occasion, Dad met the new teacher and thought to him- travelling salesmen, a brick house was rented and there I self, "This little runt will not last a d[...]d it Dad went into business in Armstead and later in Dillon. on his desk, and said, "I will use it if I have to." He lasted Albert joined the Air Force during World War I and later two years at the job. How different now, wh[...]ith his the University of Arizona and at Adams State College in weight-lifting and trick shooting. A man from New York,[...]dent of stopping in Butte, heard of Dad's prowess and came to Southwest College Regis[...]a rifle-a feat never before ac- trar and librarian at Western Montana College. I became an[...]Come with me to New accountant, and continue to live in Dillon to this day. York and in a year I shall make you the world champion,"[...]-ADELAIDE GELHAUS but Dad replied, "I have a wife and three children plus a good job, and I cannot be chasing around the country." On one o[...]John and Jane Gilbert ber holding up a dime for Dad to sho[...]bituary, published in the Dillon up a Monarch can and Dad shot the eye from the lion on the[...]was educated in England and came to the United States in My brother Alber[...]of head-shaking 1860." He was a miner and a mining engineer and worked in amusement to the neighbors but was the[...]mines in Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, and California parents. On one occasion, Mother dress[...]rted by the Masonic white dress, combed his hair, and admonished him to be on Order to ha[...]away. Soon a series of loud explosions was heard, and little Highland City, Radersburg, and Butte, and was superinten- Albert-his dress tattered and charred, his hair and eye- dent of the Alta Mine in Wickes and operated the Helena brows singed-came running in and said, "Mama, I am Mining and Reduction Works at Wickes until that facility sh[...]period he was interested in ranching in Madison and Bea-[...] |
| verhead Counties and acquired ranching properties in such the s[...]ounties, as well as properties in Missoula County and in the their long-time housekeeper, at the Gilb[...]grandfa- After the closure of the Wickes mines and the smelter, the ther, and now owned by Buck and Kathy Loomis). John R. family returned to the Bea[...]Arizona gold dredge at Bannack for several years and later was dep- Mine at Kofa, Ariz., (near Yu[...]owned by Wil- uty State of Montana mine inspector and then operated liam A. Clark of Butte.[...], at the mines in the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora. age of 56. John R. Gilbert[...]ss, in addition to mining. The Gil- liam A. Bumby and Sarah Jane Bumby. The Bumby family berts ran sheep, cattle, and Percheron and Morgan horses. had emigrated from Leeds, England,[...]the horn" mined near Silver Star in 1864 and later was in charge of a by boat to San Francisco, thence by rail to Corinne, Utah Radersburg mine and operated a store in Silver Star before (where they acquired teams and wagons), thence to Fish moving to the B[...]wo of their sons, one of whom had come to the and William R. Gilbert had some joint interest in ran[...]ivil War properties in the Beaverhead area. and the other joining him several years later. There[...]er, Mary rated Gilbert Livestock Company and in 1916 and 1918 sold Brook, who was accompanied by her husba[...]eaverhead County properties, purchasing children, and her (then) seven children. the ranches on the upper Ruby known as the Larabee and John H. (Harry) Gilbert was born in Radersburg[...]lley, Madison County; State Bank of Dillon, and later becoming president of the Frederick A. Gilbert and Norman S. Gilbert were born in First Nat[...]e, Montana; Herbert F. Gilbert, Wilbur G. Gilbert and mining in Arizona and Mexico and was a livestock trader Thomas E. Gilbert were born in Wickes; and Minnie E. and renowned teamster. Before the U. S. entered World Gilbert (LeKander) and Zetta C. Gilbert (Gosman) were War I,[...]the entire family (except the father train. and Fred, who were mining near Chihuahua, Mexico) was Fred returned to Montana about 1918 and joined Herb stricken with typhoid fever. Sarah Bumby, the grandmoth- and Norm in operating the Gilbert Livestock Company e[...]er 3, 1897; the ranches. W. G. (Duke) Gilbert and Tom Gilbert each be- daughter Jennie Lois, aged 17, died November 6; and Jane came lawyers and practiced in Dillon. Minnie Ellen Gilbert Ann Gil[...]ef impetus to the establishment of go, Ill., and Zetta C. Gilbert married George M. Gosman, a the[...]William R. and Emma[...]19th century, Billy Gilbert left England and emigrated to[...]adventure and a search for a better life would not be the[...]and the rising concept of personal liberty were major[...]Brothers (left to right)-Wil- Montana and Alder Gulch. bur (Duke), Tom, Herbert, Norman, Fred, and Har- His native Cornwall was a mining area and perhaps his ry; sisters (left to right)-Zetta and Minnie. experience there le[...] |
| [...]er Charlie, who was a forest ranger. They married and[...]1976), Chester H. (1915-1983) and Walter R. (1930). Chester and Nydia managed the Lima Hotel in the early[...]College of Education and became a teacher. She later at- Willam Gilb[...]ert tended Montana State University and the Denver Conser- Virginia City and later at Silver Star. The surface mining of vat[...]never lasted for Monida, the Big Hole Basin, and Divide in Beaverhead long because it depended on isolated, eroded deposits and County and also at Dixon and Peerless. not on the large "mother lodes" lying b[...]EBBA ANDERSON GILBERT tana and more expensive methods of mining using heavy equi[...]James and Katie Giles In 1872, he moved to Dillon to tak[...]had two sons, 28, 1874, the son of James T. and Ann Giles. He came to Thomas, in about 1875, and Edward E., a year later. The Montana in 1909 and was employed by the Hollingsworth marriage ended in divorce in 1882. and Reed Ranch south of Dillon. He later purchased la[...]1857-1945) was trav- the Centennial Valley and made a home for his family there. eling in Montan[...]. Macklen He suffered a stroke in 1938 and was forced to dispose of his (1855-1899). Soon after arriving in Dillon, she met William ranch holdings and retire to Dillon where he died in Febru- R. Gilbert. and they were married by the end of the year. ary 1945. They lived and worked on their ranch north of Dillon (later[...]d of the fact that she was a direct in Beaverhead and Madison Counties. descendant of the founder of Yale University. Billy and Emma had two children, Chester H. (1884- James and Katie Giles were married in Albany, Mo., in 1950), and Montana (1892-1954).[...]len, also an active Mason, stayed in Dillon and Eleanor born in January 1908. When the children were and lived there until his death in 1899. He was survived by just babies, Kate was told she had tuberculosis and must two other sisters in Montana, Mrs. Catherine[...]limate. The family tried Ogden, Utah, in Bannack, and Mrs. J. A. Myers, of Butte. 1908, but were flooded out and so moved on to Montana in At his death on Octo[...]irly large estate. It consisted of the Home Ranch and another 520 acres on the Rattlesnake, just two mi[...], south of Dillon. After William's death, Emma and her children moved into Dillon from the ranch. Sh[...]r death on November 25, 1945. Emma was a lifelong and active member of the Methodist Church. Both Chester and Mon- tana went to Dillon schools. Chester went to college in Iowa and returned to work in Norman, Eleanor, and Kate Giles (1916)[...] |
| [...]old lady she still loved going to the Fred and Florence were active in the Wise River commu- mountains to gather Christmas trees and to picnic in the nity, very loving and fun neighbors. They both played active summer. Sh[...]the June, 1927, flood, coordinating rescue oper- and allowing her to enjoy her children, grandchildren, and ations when the dam broke on Wise River. Fred and Flor- even her great-grandchildren. Katie died af[...]ecember 1967. and Anaconda, trailing stock in the late Thirties to[...]hows. Eleanor married David Moffet of Colorado and they lived Fred died of a heart attack in Wise River, September 1, in Billings, Gillette, Wyo., and Idaho Falls, Idaho. She 1964. Florence also[...]in Falls, Montana, February 12, 1986. Atlanta, Ga., and has four children. Her daughter Jean has three children and resides in San Diego, Calif.[...]-VEDA RITZSCHKE -JACK and LYNN GILES Ferd and Carrie Gilliam Fred and Florence Gill Ferd and Carrie Gilliam were ranchers on a small place of[...]about 500 acres on the lower North Fork. Ferd and his Fred Gill was born in Dewey, Mont., Novemb[...]for B. B. Lawrence helping in the hay Joseph Gill and Ellen Isbell Gill. After Joseph died, Ellen field the summer of 1914. Ferd later married and started Isbell married Pete Woods. Fred for years[...]ith his ranching, he carried the mail for Charles and Laura Flanagin. They, with their family, moved[...]Wisdom, back to Bowen that night. At Florence and Fred eloped to Butte, traveling from Wise tha[...]folks getting mail at River. Fred rode horseback and Florence rode on the buck- that Post Office.[...]as an excellent cook. She didn't seem to follow a and were married May 12, 1914. This marriage lasted 50 recipe, just used a dash of this and a pinch of that, but she years. Following their elopement, Fred and Florence lived could turn out a delicious cak[...]ere born: Veda Florence, Iowa. May 13, 1916, and June Elizabeth, July 29, 1917. Veda mar- Th[...]ily." It was a sad day indeed Joan Green Bennett, and James. Bud Green was injured in when they l[...]everyone heard about it. 1956 in a car accident, and Veda Gill Green is now married Carrie moved to Wisdom and ran the hotel for a while. to Leonard Ritzschke o[...]son, David. ished it and it was barely livable. Later he tried gardening[...]r married Clarence (Tex) Clark. Their children and raised some great head lettuce, selling it in Butte. are: June Evelyn Bertrand, Kay Keil, twins Douglas and[...]NNIE ELSE Donald Clark. June died August 2, 1980, and Tex died Duke and Clara Gist[...]Seeking broader and more exciting opportunities, he then[...]journeyed to Montana and for two years worked in the[...]purchased the business and operated it for three years. He[...]then entered the ranching profession and developed a fine[...]He married Clara Sharkey, daughter of Neil and Mary[...]County (1903-1909) and was active in Masonic and Odd 242-Beaverhead History |
| [...]ily lived above the jail at the County Courthouse and Mary was good-naturedly cited as" ... the only gi[...]y jail." Mrs. Gist succumbed in October of 1926 and Mr. Gist died in April of 1927.[...]Amanda and Isidoro Giudici Isidoro Filpe (Doro) Giudici w[...]g. Since there was no time to change owned horses and freighted over the mountains into Italy[...]lt in 1882. The family lived in his wife and daughters still with him, and actually finished Giornico in a large house that[...]o a misunderstanding about religion, he left home and jour- Amanda's sister, Josephine, came from Chicago to visit neyed to America, and eventually California where he had and stayed to marry Isidoro's brother, Attilio (Frank) and cousins living. He secured work freighting over t[...]i home on what is now part tains into Reno, Nev., and the 1880's found him working of the Fer[...]rated a dairy in Brown's became a nurse and now resides in California, and a son Gulch near Butte.[...]g man. In 1890 he arrived in Beaverhead County and his first Of the two older daughters,[...]. W.F. work was with the Rife family who produced and sold milk Schnell, lives in Moscow, Idah[...]estern Montana Smoland, Sweden, to Chicago, Ill., and had in 1877 jour- College) and has a son, Philip Henry and two adopted neyed to Sheridan, Mont., to visit wi[...]rved as Beaver- family, managing household duties and caring for the chil- head County Sheriff for a number of years, and raised two dren. (Mr. White was president of The First National Bank sons: Warren who is deceased and Jack who lives in Seattle. of Dillon and was also the last Territorial Governor of Mon-[...]- Isidoro and Amanda were married in the Methodist Other children of Isidoro and Amanda, all born on the Church in Butte on January 20, 1892, and made a home on Giudici ranch, are Pauli[...]l from the University of Washington and served a lifetime Meine Ranch) which were managed[...]career as a librarian, first in Cleveland, Ohio, and later in daughters, Carrie in 1893 and Grace in 1894, were born in Seattle. She has two <laughers - Martha of Portland and this first home. In 1895 they purchased 480 acres of land four miles north of Dillon from Harvey Sullivan and worked at developing the land and establishing a dairy supplying milk, butter and cheese to Dillon and Butte. Later they acquired land for pasture for t[...]etwater area from where they brought milk, cream, and butter in a buggy drawn by horses in the cool mor[...]ation was gradually changed to a beef cattle, hay and grain ranch. Isidoro, because of a lifetime in[...]me associated with Marcus Daly of Butte, boarding and exercis- ing some of his horses. The story is tol[...]e horses loved to race. Races were held in Dillon and this horse was often entered as a way of training. One race day Isidoro took his wife and two little daughters with him in the buggy to town. They got a rather late start and arrived just Giudici[...] |
| Carol of Seattle - with whom she now divides her time and team took the family to the Malad Valley i[...]s. S.L. Hilby, graduated they homesteaded and farmed 160 acres. George and his from Montana State Normal College in Dillon. Mr. and Mrs. brother Henry helped build the Oregon[...]ting business. In this raised two daughters, Joan and Pat, both of whom reside in line of work, G[...]llips' 20-year-old daughter Emily in 1884. School and has two daughters, Mary and Molly, both resid- As a wedding gift, P[...]Mont. and persuaded the newlyweds to join him in filing for[...]one mile north of the present town of Lima. Peder and Mary Nelson - in the same Methodist Church in[...]he old stage station (near Butte where his father and mother were married. They Allerdice Spring) and his father-in-law had a place just spent most of their years in Butte and Dillon areas and are down the river on what is now known as t[...]n View Cemetery. Ranch. In 1885, Phillips and Gleed trailed their cattle to Another son, Carl Francis, resided in Beaverhead County Springhill, and George set to work building a cabin. In May, all his life and is buried in the family plot in Mountain View 1886, Emily and her ten-day-old son, Edward Reece (1886- Cemetery[...]back to cabin with dirt floors, sod roof, and hand-hewn furnishings. the year 1478, and 400 years later a celebration honoring Emily never told George how disappointed she was with the past and present family members was held in the communi- dirt floor home and the furniture he had worked so hard to ty of Gior[...]p Henry Schnell, a grandson of Isidoro make. and son of Carrie Giudici Schnell and his wife of Carmel, In the years that followed, four more children were born: Ind., attended and were recognized. Anna Bertha (1888-1974), Hazel (1891), Alice (1893), and[...]baskets of eggs, cheese and butter to sell to her customers. Louis Giv[...]but the children hung stockings by the stove and Santa left Louis Givogre was born at Fulizzo, I[...]eside each bed. Often there were as He left Italy and arrived in New York in 1889. From there he many as 25 people invited to Christmas dinner and a favor- went to Rock Springs, Wyo. and received his naturalization ite entertainme[...]a card game papers there. He then moved to Butte and drove a delivery called "smut," in which t[...]883. They were married in Butte on his land, and in doing so, received criticism from his neigh- O[...]ou," they kidded, but in time they saw his wisdom and Louisa 1904, Ada 1908, Pete 1912, Victor 1916, Wilma and built fences for themselves. George was also the first ranch- Wilmer (twins) 1918, and Clifford 1920. er to put up hay, and during the long cold winters, traded Louis and Ada were in business in both Walkerville and the excess hay to other ranchers in excha[...]wo head of cattle. He was diately started a store and restaurant which was located then able to[...]r ranch was on the old stage route, Indians hotel and the Givogre's business was located.[...]m eager to the street in the J. P. Lossl building and this was known as barter and in exchange for her skill in mixing bread dough t[...]from their flour and animal fat, together with her own yeast[...]venison and beaded buckskin gloves. The children wit-[...]nared burrowing squirrels, then coated George and Emily Gleed the whole unskinned animals in mud and buried them deep George Gleed was born in Pardi[...]e eaten by peel- tember 7, 1861. With his parents and eight siblings, he im- ing away the charred[...]Once Emily was brushing out Anna's long hair and, to 244-Beaver head History |
| [...]and Delmar, all deceased. Anna and Lew are buried in[...]first in the Big Hole Valley and then coming to Lima where[...]children: George Gleed, residing in Dillon, and Olive Marie[...]and burns received from mustard gas used on his plato[...]and a butcher shop which he operated until it burnoo-.-He Franks, Olive Franks, Annie Roe and Walter Fagan.[...]r a time Children in foreground are George Franks and Alice they owned the Gleed Home Ranch, and then "Doc" worked Reeder.[...]Cemetery. Hazel, at this writing, is 97 years old and Indians. Anna shrieked with fright at this, and Emily looked resides at the Parkview Convale[...]drive. They The Indian later befriended the girls and, as they played ranched north of Lima and had two children: Gordon of with their dolls, he would sit crosslegged at the toy table and Dillon and Emily (Stansell) of Billings. Their ranch is now[...]pboard for more. One spring, as the Cemetery and Alice, who is 96 years old, resides in a rest Ind[...]ryan (Bill) Gleed (1896-1967) was called to Hazel and Alice. George kept awatchful eye on his children serve in World War I and upon his return married Mae A. for several days t[...](Pierce) Nelson who resides in Blackfoot, Idaho, and Ber- woman's grave below the ranch in a cave along the river. nice (1927-1969). Bill and Ed formed the Gleed Brothers Upon the death of[...]self as one of chase the homestead of that family and move his family into Montana's largest cattle and sheep operations with holdings the larger cabin o[...]o Lima. After sever- in the Centennial Valley, and from Snowline south to the al years, a two-story home was built on the site and was old Gallagher Ranch north of Dell. Bill and Mae are buried equipped with indoor plumbing and electricity from a Delco in the Dillon Cem[...]een moved Henry (George's brother) and his wife Ida homesteaded into Lima from the original homestead site and is now occu- on what was called the George[...]a ruptured went on to Utah State College at Logan and worked out of appendix at the age of 53.[...]he married Iris Candice Peeples of Paris, Idaho, and they -VELERIA EMILY PIERCE and GEORGE had three children: Veleria Emily (Pierce)[...]RANKS Marvelyn Laura (Carpita), who died in 1960; and George Edward of Las Vegas. Ed served several terms as Mayor of Lima and was instrumental in procuring electricity and Albert and Emily Gordon telephone service for Beaverhead County and the Town of Albert G. Gordon was born August 13, 1909, in Chicago, Lima. Ed and Iris are interred at Shrine of Memories in Salt[...]na married Lew Barbour, son of a Dillon attorney, and Fox, Montana, in the Big Hole Valle[...] |
| Albert G. Gordon and Emily L. Olsen .were united in marriage September[...]Dellar and Lillian Gordon union: Marilyn Louise, born May 1,[...]ecember 24, 1932; Donald Roscoe, October 7, 1934; and burg, Tennessee, to John and Mary Jane Correy, the fifth of Francis Albert, December 21, 1935. Donald died at the age five boys and two girls. of one year and is buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Dil-[...]re he had two brothers in Armstead - Robert (Bob) and After their marriage, during the Depression years, Albert Elmer (Happy). He came by train and when he arrived in was able to find jobs and be employed. He worked for Moun- Dubois, Idaho[...]installing They all worked on the Scott and Decker Ranch. Dellar phone lines in the area. He[...]hen the highway was being built through Armstead; and at at the Union Pacific Depot, where he drove[...]rid- that depot to the depot of the Gilmore and Pittsburg, better ing back and forth on horseback each day. He also worked[...]illie) Lippert was born in Brown's Gulch in owned and operated the Armstead Garage for several years.[...]until 1900, when she was sent to Twin Bridges and lived installed. Albert served in the United Stat[...]d War II. Later they moved to Sacramento, Calif., and Twin Bridges area. Lillie also worked in the[...]ert was employed for over 30 years as a Dillon, and was a telephone operator for awhile. Lillie I sal[...]y. moved to Armstead and worked at the hotel owned by Scott Albert died July 11, 1983 in Sacramento and is buried at and Decker. This is where Dellar and Lillie met. They knew Mountain View Cemetery, Dil[...]each other about one year before their marriage and were Emily continues to make her home in Sacram[...]Elmer and Mary Gordon[...]burg, Tenn. He moved to Montana in 1910 and worked for[...]small meat market and store in Armstead. Elmer R. Gordon and Mary Gray were united in marriage[...]n was born to this union- Emily and Albert Gordon[...] |
| [...]was born March 8, 1873, in Malad, Idaho, and came to Lima[...]Zetta Gilbert, and Frank, who married Ruth Weinick.[...]Mr. Gosman died September 18, 1945, and had been af-[...]filiated with Evergreen Lodge A. F. & A. M. and Elva Board-[...]Chapter, O.E.S. in Lima; Dillon Chapter 8 R.A.M. and[...]St. Elmo Commandery in Dillon; Zabud Council and Bag-[...]Mrs. Gosman died March 19, 1941, and was a charter[...]member of Elva Boardman Chapter O.E.S., Lima, and a[...]Dillon. Elmer and Mary Gordon[...]born March 15, 1915. He died during World War II and is buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Dillon.[...]They operated the "Inn Hotel" in Armstead. Elmer and Augustus F. Graeter was prominent[...]y history of his brother Dellar hauled passengers and freight between Beaverhead County and throughout his life did much to- the G & P Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad Depots. ward the up building of business and commerce in the area. After the hotel was closed[...]orn in Wurtenburg, Ger- many years, raising sheep and cattle. many, March 16, 1803, was educated at Liepsig and Stutt- The Bureau of Reclamation purchased their property gardt and came to America in 1828. A book and newspaper when the Clark Canyon Dam was built. In[...]their home. Elmer died Novem- Hoffman and young Augustus was the second of eight chil- ber 24, 1965, and Mary on July 24, 1976. Both are buried at[...]-EMILY GORDON father farmed and also ran a brewery. Young Augustus[...]spent his early days there and received his education in the[...]hen he was 20, he returned to Pennsylva- Otto and Annie Gosman[...]for a short time in Lohr, Germany, June 1, 1864, and came to the United before going to Wi[...]returned to Warren, then went to Florence, Nebr., and on to in Milwaukee and in his early youth took up railroading,[...]eard about the Idaho gold fields so between Huron and Pierre, S. D., and in 1889 came to Lima, went with a party t[...]Arriving Montana. He was a conductor between Lima and Butte on there, they found the camp[...]ed from the railroad in on the Grasshopper and he joined the rush for Bannack, 1905 to enter ran[...]ut August 15, 1862. He worked County Commissioner and thus embarked upon a 27-year in the placer mines during the fall and sent to Salt Lake career of public service in Bea[...]visions. In 1908 he was elected county sheriff and was re-elected He became associated wit[...]d by ditch was completed in 1863 and it marked a major expan- Albert Yiek in April of[...]ed county commissioner. He was re- lo and Humbug Gulches. · elected to the board in 1926 and served until January, 1933. In 1864 he went to Virginia City and was engaged in He became associated with J. D. Br[...]er Gulch during one season. He prospected the Oil and Gas Company and they operated that business for next year in the Helena and Blackfoot areas. Mr. Graeter many years.[...]was a member of the famous Vigilante Committee and was[...] |
| in Virginia City at the time Boone Helm and four other Iva Beaulah Holder was[...]6, 1889. She came to Montana at the age of seven and In the fall of 1865 he resumed his mining oper[...]Joe E. Brown ranch, which is now part of Bannack and also engaged in mercantile business, forming a[...]tnership with A. J. Smith under the name of Smith and Fay and Beaulah were married in Blackfoot, Idaho, No- Gra[...]the In 1871 he purchased a ranch on Horse Prairie and gave rest of their lives, ranching on[...]d for awhile at the Oasis Cafe. boat built by him and his associates in the Gold Dredging They had four children, a daughter and three sons. The Co. is said to be the first ever[...]o The two older sons, Edward (Bud) and Raymond are both dredges in operation.[...]8, 1860, at Anaconda. Florence, Nebr., and they had two children, Luther D., who[...]22, 1971. married Birdie Miner of Arcata, Calif., and Blanche A., who[...]eka, Calif. Mr. Graeter's first wife died in 1878 and is buried at Highgate, Vt., her birth- place.[...]Brunswick, September 26, 1849, daughter of David and Eleanor Sinton Taylor. She came to Bannack with her brother, W. Tate Taylor and his wife, arriving there on March 16, 1881. Th[...]ime of his death. These included the Graeter Park and Realty Co., the Graeter Grocery Co. and he helped organize and was a mem- ber of the board of directors of the S[...]raeter Electric Co., which he later dis- posed of and it became the Union Electric Co~ Mr. Graeter w[...]A. F. & A. M., he passed all the official chairs and was a past master of the lodge. Augustus F. and Mary J. Graeter had three children: Ar- thur; Edith, who died when she was eighteen; and Sarah, who married E. L. Poindexter. Mrs. Graeter[...]Padley. He died on January 17, 1924, after a long and illustrious career as a pioneer and leader in Beaverhead County. Fay and Beaulah Gransbery with Edward (Bud) and[...]The Gra velys Seeking a Fay and Beaulah Gransbery[...]As a young man Jim Gravely and his younger brother Fay Gransbery was born Sept[...]a sheep ranch in the summer of 1912. They stayed and his sister and at age 19 journeyed to Montana by train. He worked until late fall and then returned to South Carolina. came to Glen, th[...]his brother that he liked Montana and that he would return 248-Beaverhead History |
| [...]quit. He went home and asked Bess if she would like to try[...]cooking for the family and a couple of hired men. Bess[...]thought about it for a couple of days and decided to try it. She was pregnant again and thought it would be a good idea[...]out and see other people once in a while. She did enjoy[...]cooking and she also helped with the housework.[...]her little girl wouldn't live and being as how Bess had just[...]little Alice. Bess nursed both Alice and Mae for about four[...]cook and help out at the ranch and Jim continued helping[...]decided that the cabin was Bess and Jim Gravely too small and that they would have to move back to Arm- after h[...]knew he could get some kind of work at the G & P and was married in September of 1915. They stayed in Railroad, otherwise known as the"Get Out and Push Rail- South Carolina until after their first[...]to Montana, telling Jim was a hard worker and remained with the railroad until her that it woul[...]it was done away with. raise their children and make a fortune. Now the kids were in school and they were both very busy, Times were difficult[...]et their social life came alive with card parties and dances. up and left South Carolina by train. They never realized[...]. It house. People would bring their children and put them to took a week by train to get from Sout[...]danced in the other until four or stead, Montana, and it was a long, tiring trip for R.C. who fi[...]ix months old at the time. He cried a great deal, and home and do the chores and then try to catch a snooze. Jim one night in particular, the porter of the train came and could really jig and looked forward to the dances held each asked if h[...]At one of the last parties, Bess was chosen Queen and buttermilk as R.C. really liked it. The old porter said "You Parke Scott was chosen King. just wait and see," and off he went. The Gravelys thought he Jim[...]ad drunk about half of the glass, he settled down and went fortune. After she was alone, Bess di[...]t him. airplane) and went to visit her children and grandchildren. When arriving in Armstead, Bess[...]ears later in 1979. Today four of the from here?" and Jim told her, "Be patient, we're almost to[...]ren are still living, as well as 11 grandchildren and the end of our traveling, someone will be here to[...]one great grandchild. It's about 12 miles more and then you'll be able to see your[...]amily to be carried from a nearby spring, candles and kerosene In 1909 Oscar J. Gravely (18[...]ard Hansen Ranch) on Medicine for 10 years or so, and at times this little cabin tended to get Lodge.[...]ight, yet Bess never Price (1885-1953) and they returned to Beaverhead County complained.[...]. Gravely's late brother's camp tender, chore boy and a handyman seven days a week. (E. F. "D[...]rt while when the camp cook Fitter Ranch and the Henry Birrer Ranch at Dell. The[...] |
| ranch acquisitions in their entirety were both sheep and cattle operations. To the Oscar J. Gravelys fiv[...]surviving children were Henry Gravely (1918-1983) and Jean Gravely Detton (1927). These children along[...]George Gray two separate operations. Don and Jean (Gravely) Detton continue to own their ranch[...]0, in Clark County, Mo., the eldest son of Robert and Susan Gray. He arrived in longer necessary.[...]rimarily for the Bannack with his parents in 1865 and grew up on their stage stop where the Jackson and Dillon stage met at noon ranch, attending the Ban[...]lived his entire life to exchange passengers and cargo. Hunters and fishermen in the Grasshopper Valley. George was a great story teller, came and stayed for days, often bringing guests and their relating many wonderful tales of his early[...]f which families to enjoy the fine hospitality and excellent meals went to the grave with him. One t[...]plant. sympathy for the plight of the Indians. He and his family Millpoint was also the site[...]functions. were lifelong friends of Chief Tendoy and his tribe. The Many basket socials, costume parties or get-togethers took beaded mocassins, gloves and money bags given to the Gray place there, and the large dining room often served as a family by[...]ic, including On October 11, 1882, George Gray and Mary Jane Stevens fiddlers such as Jon Pe[...]a came to play. midway between the Bob Gray Ranch and Bannack. The George and Mary Gray were progressive people, ready to rock remained there for years and was only removed in take advantage of[...]ter the Grays arrived. automobile. George and his daughter, Babe, decided to try it Mary was self-reliant and thrifty, a skilled seamstress and out on a trip to Grant to visit their frien[...]an- They travelled the short back road and midway the Maytag nack, she was always ready to h[...]few years later, Mary She helped lay out the dead and often served as midwife. raised enough b[...]Mary Gray died suddenly on October 31, 1923, and she is George and Mary worked at various mining camps in the[...]r the first years of their marriage. George mined and and hotel with the help of his son, Guy, and daughter and Mary boarded the miners. Some time was spent at Hecla son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Reed Featherly. He lived at the and the Old Faithful Mine on Dyce Creek. Three childr[...]e stages no longer met as a were born: Grace, Guy and Gladys, better known as Babe. round-tri[...]stop-over for ranchers trailing cattle to and from ranches or Meade Hotel for several years at[...]ea school teacher. style in the large dining room and were prepared for 60 or Millpoint was leased and later sold after his death on De- more people. Wh[...]laid to rest in the Bannack Ceme- clined, George and Mary established a ranch north of Ban- tery and a Masonic service was held following his burial.[...]George was well known for the fine driving horses and Masonic Lodge and later Dillon Lodge A.F. & A.M. He was Arabians he[...]Basin survived by daughters, Mrs. Leo Hatala and Mrs. Reed was settled, Millpoint became a handy halfway house be- Featherly, and son, Guy E. Gray. tween Jackson and Dillon and continued so until the advent of cars and better road conditions made a two-day trip[...] |
| [...]life. Both liked fishing and hunting and spending time, Guy E. Gray[...]shing in Grasshopper Creek. During this time, Guy and Mrs. George F. Gray. He spent his early life in t[...]sshopper Valley, attended grade school in Bannack and pressure of his work took him out of to[...]unfair to the council members, he resigned and Lee in Deer Lodge. He was active in high school s[...]rt attack on October 11, 1958. He was Guy Gray and Ruth Knotts were married at Dillon in[...]the couple: Guy Russell, Virginia Kaddy; and sister, Gladys Featherly. He was Virginia and Dorothy Ruth. The Gray's first home was on[...]-VIRGINIA KADDY ranching and Ruth began to learn to cope with life in the country with no conveniences.She had always lived in town, and she told of her struggles learning to churn butte[...]as Keokuk, Iowa, in his youth where he met and married Susan she called her father-in-law, sympa[...]children were born to the couple - - Will, John, and made gentle suggestions as to how Mary did it. A[...]George, Henry, Ed, Arthur (known as Arch), Susan and friendship grew between them and lasted a lifetime. As a Artie. The youn[...]uth They left from Clark County, Mo., and crossed the plains became more sure of her own ab[...]grueling trip. It was said that they lost a child and a away, and what wonderful neighbors they were. Ruth could[...]ped that continued for all their lives. and established an extensive livestock operation.[...]Bob, as he was known, was a true pioneer spirit and a good the babies' blankets. Guy and Ruth started to build a house productive citizen. He and his family were active in commu- on a homestead o[...]social functions of the community. surer in 1916 and the family moved to Dillon where they[...]ook ill while preparing Sunday dinner for guests, and moved there from Dillon and remained for several years, died in 18[...]death until he sold the good ranch, a nice home, and were opth~istic as to the ranch to H.R. Paddock. He died in 1921 and is buried in the future. Things went well until t[...]er ranchers, Guy never fully recovered Ed and Arthur; and two daughters, Susan (Mrs. George from the Winter of 1919. In the settling of his father's estate, Tash) and Artie (Mrs. L.C. Chandler). he lost some of his land. That,and other factors, caused him The former Robert Gray Ranch is still in operation and is to lose everything that they had worked so har[...]he old two-story log house built of was separated and there were several years when the future hand hewn logs and replaced it with an attractive modern looked blea[...]recognized Guy's superior knowledge of livestock and hired him as a[...]James G. Greer buyer; first of horses and then cattle. Guy was most success- James Gaven Greer was born April 21, 1843, in Glasgow, ful and enjoyed working with livestock and dealing with the Scotland. James' parents John Black Greer and Jane Gaven ranchmen he had known all of his life.[...]rchants in Johnstone, Renfrew, Scot- his fairness and honesty. land, where they owned and operated a paisley shawl fac- He married Mildred Kenison Lyons and they had a happy tory. When empl[...] |
| [...]. Graves, Jr. the Mormon Church, a riot broke out and several men lit tured Road Agent lieutenant Ned Ray. Sears kept Ned torches and set fire to the factory. Ray's Army Colt .44 cap and ball pistol from the time of James' father was disinherited by his family and driven Ray's capture and subsequent hanging on January 10, 1864, out of Johnstone. The Greer family left Scotland and sailed with Sheriff and Road Agent leader Henry Plummer and for America, first settling in St. Louis, MO. Whi[...]t. At the time of Sear's St. Louis, James' mother and two younger siblings contract- death, the pis[...]to F.L. Sr. who hung the weapon ed Black Chlorera and died. James and his father left Mis- on elk horns over the counter in the Graves Store. When souri and moved to Nauvoo, Ill., where his father secured a[...]r to the store from the Graves family home across and crossed the plains to Salt Lake City arriving in October the street and would eye the intriguing pistol and would 1852. James father remarried and the family moved to inevitably ask his[...]o Partage safety's sake, Lou took the pistol and soaked it in water so on the Idaho territory line[...]on. James' first wagon loaded with flax, tobacco, and over 50 years before. Lou in later years recalled how the caps coal was freighted to Fort Hall, Idaho, and onto Helena and were green from corrosion and age. When Lou died in 1926 Virginia City and back to Red Rock. the[...]inter outside Dillon in 1873. ed its history and delighted in showing it to anyone who In his jour[...]he temperature dipped to be- asked. low zero and the snow was as deep and high as the wagon F. L. Graves, Jr. wa[...]& A. M., and served as its Worshipful Master for five differ-[...]g building to the corner of Hangman's Gulch and Main Street Louis Graves, a prominent merchant and businessman of on the southwest corner. The store also served as the Ban- Bannack, and his mother was Leotie Nay Graves, the[...]ears. On March 31, 1926, the Graves Store Wyoming and Montana. and Post Office purned and Lou died in the fire which After attending schools in Dillon and Helena, F.L. Jr., consumed everything compl[...]ts of the town. By this time, however, the Lou and F.L. Sr. used to "grub-stake" quite a few miners building was a mass of flames and nothing could be done to in the area, many of who[...]A. Frank Sears, the Vigilante who cap- and he had evidently been aroused and had made a vain 252-Beaverhead History |
| attempt to save valuable records and papers kept in the two many years. A. L. Tra[...]was found lying afterwards known as the Trask and Graves Store, and by the partition that separated the store from th[...]Graves bought Office. Both of the safes were open and the contents were Trask's interests and moved into the "Long Cabin" at the entirely destr[...]head of Hangman's Gulch and just west of the site of the[...].L. was also engaged extensively in placer mining and Fielding Louis Graves, Sr.[...]dredge in the world. He was the first president and a direc- ney Jane Daugherty. F.L.'s great-grandfather was Thomas tor of the State Bank of Dillon and held that position for Graves, a Revolutionary Wa[...]elve years until 1912. He was a lifelong Democrat and ticipated in the siege at Yorktown.[...]her, Colonel John Robinson Lodge 16 and was instrumental in building the Bannack Graves,[...]Ban- Under the command of General Sterling Price and his nack Masonic Lodge as Worshipful[...]the battles of Lex- record in Montana Masonry and probably in the entire ington, Wilson's Creek, Pe[...]is com- den of the Grand Lodge of Montana and in 1873 he was manding officer at the Battle of W[...]rved as secretary Army at the Battle of Pea Ridge and was remanded to the for many years. Fede[...]Kentucky. Through intervention of ming and Montana" who ranched at Mill Point and ran a Governor Robinson, both men were paroled under the stage station at Bannack. F .L. and Leotie had two sons and promise never to bear arms against the Union agai[...]s that Governor Robinson's son broke his and later married Dr. R. H. Ryburn of Bannack; Fielding parole and spent the war fighting in the Confederate Army. Louis, Jr. (Lou) was born March 3, 1880, and was associated After F .L. was released from S[...]64 he left Lexington, born February 23, 1882, and married A. R. Jacobs of Mis- Mo., on the long, ov[...]Bank; Harry being made up at Leavenworth, Kans., and on March 1, Clay, born May 15, 1886,[...]or Montana driving a mule team for Thomas and in 1942 moved to Hood River, Ore., where he died[...]. The wagon train, consist- August 13, 1965; and, Lelah who was born March 6, 1890, ing of approximately 50 men, arrived at Virginia City, Mon- and married Chandler W. Stallings of Bannack. tana Te[...], in Ban- at Helena was discovered July 14, 1864, and F.L. decided to nack at the age of 80. On December 22, he suffered a paralyt- move to Helena and work for his friend, T. J. Murphy. In ic[...]rundage with Masonic Rites conduct- The Graves and Murphy Store occupied a building for- ed[...]e interesting note was told to Fielding H. Graves and F. building still stands today. In July of 1871 Graves and Mur- Lee Graves by Walter Brundage. When F.L. Graves' casket phy sold the building to John McMeen and A. F. Wright was exhumed at the Bannac[...]the building for lon in 1925, the casket and contents were checked at the[...] |
| [...]sus dated June 19, 1880, lists Clay as a resident and an occupation of ferryman. The "Grimes" from "Grymes" until about 1800. census relates that he boards and rooms with James and My grandfather, Lowell Thayer, was t[...]"carrying hod" for his father who was a brick and stone Clay's death.[...]arge of a shotgun, which he was carry- back and when I think of him I recall that hump, the laugh[...]lines at the corners of his dark brown eyes, and his glorious, from Bannack to Dillon in a buggy and when about 10 miles thick, coal-black hair[...]ge of 78 in Dillon. gun, slipped out of the buggy and presumably the wheel Walter, his son and my dad, was born in Maryville, Mo., in struck the[...]riking Mr. Graves in the left rose, Montana, and Dad grew up in the mining camps of side, just above the hip. Mr. Graves pitched forward out of Glendale and Hecla. He had a younger brother, Alan, who at the buggy and was dead before Mr. Graeter could stop the[...]onths drowned in a small creek at Hecla. Dad team and get to his side. used to tell stories of the mines and the miners and I enjoyed ... was a member of the Pioneer Soc[...]Kentucky in 1864. From Helena he down, and now it is too late to ask him to tell them again.[...]famous madam at the mining camp. She passed away and in the mercantile business in company with his br[...]was placed in a wagon. The driver, the wagon, and the re- throughout the state, being prominently c[...]mains headed for Melrose. THe trail was rough and rutty, state and county politics, being at the time of his death on the hills were very steep, and the horses high-strung. The his way to attend the[...]which team eventually engaged in a runaway and the box bounced convenes at this place tomorrow."[...]-F. LEE GRAVES the local gentry and especially those of that 11-year-old boy[...]school for a while and in 1912 began his postal career. He[...]Stephens went to work as clerk in 1912 and in 1919 was promoted to[...]ainly did not know that served as postmaster and at the end of that term he 344 years later his ar[...]noted in a history book- switched professions and worked ten years as a bookkeeper this book prepar[...]r Eliel's Store. During this time he was studying and pre- Montana. The family remained in Virginia sev[...]day when he could have his own business. In tions and genealogy studies show that several member[...] |
| he maintained corporate ledgers and prepared many, many 1892, never married. She served as postmistress in Arm- corporate and private tax returns. He, of course, never di- stead from 1920 to 1956 and died in 1975. vulged any information about his cl[...]walking the two miles northward across the bench and "Repairs" along with the gas and oil! through the meado[...]g holes. He could Dad played saxophone, viola, and most notably, the trom- be seen at a distanc[...]ied a 12 foot cane fishing bone. During the 1920s and 30s he was a member of the pole. Baxte[...]throughout southwestern Montana as well as Salmon and -[...]e who danced to their music still talk about them and wish they could hear them again. They danced a lot in those days and Dilmont Park (north of Henry Fran[...]al talent by playing in the Dillon City Orchestra and the Dillon Military Band. Walter served as cler[...]meant going from door to door to record the names and ages of[...]s elected to two terms on the Dillon city council and was secretary for the Interstate Building and Loan. He married my mother, Thelma Jensen, in 1[...]the old Barrett Hospital. Bruce lived in Missoula and I live in Dillon. In 1952 he married Lillian Ul[...]ngest child of William George Hackett Jules and Anna Guyaz and Axa Minerva Chapin Hackett. The mother died when[...]Henry was four and when his father came home from the A Frenchman[...]Civil War, he took his family (Lillian, Mary and Henry) to Red Rock, Montana, in 1870, by way of B[...]'s father married Jeanette Estes. They took Henry and quired a few head of cattle, and enjoyed living off the land - Mary and moved to Kansas. hunting, fishing, trapping, and prospecting for gold. Henry must ha[...]75, perhaps on his way to, old Horse Prairie Road and the Medicine Ledge Road, the or from, He[...]llon when Lillian ar- route of the freight wagons and stage coaches running be- rived there in 1880. In 1886 he came up to live on the James tween Bannack and the nearest railroad at Corrine, Utah. Bl[...]o with him This location was ideal as a rest stop and a change of horses and keep house, so she took her son Fred and went to Cen- for freight wagons and passenger coaches. tennial[...]themas he was a good carpenter. About 1900 Lora, and Sophia. Anna made herself available as a midwife[...]nearest leased the Charley Dunham ranch and they lived there that doctors being at Bannack, 15 miles distant, and at Dillon, 30 year, but Thaire went back to Dubois and Henry left the miles away. A post office was established at this station in Dunham ranch and worked for other ranchers again. 1909 and was in use five years, with Lora Guyaz as postmis[...]built some sheds for Tibbles over at Teepee Creek and tress. In 1914, the mail service was moved to Arm[...]orked as a watch- Henry, born in 1888, married and had three children: man in Dillon and was a police officer at one time. As he Lora, Dell, and Frances, now living in Salmon, Idaho. Lora, grew older his health failed and he was ill for some time born in 1890, married Walter West and moved to Longview, before he passed away[...]ree children: Louise, Margaret, Dillon. and Walter. Lora died at her home in 1930. Sop[...] |
| [...]s Continental Divide. Pos- sessed of a wiry frame and a keen mind, Leo was able to recall details furth[...]ip over Big Hole Pass to the Big Hole country. He and his brother were driving shorthorn cattle-"no Her[...]Leo and Pansy Hagel (1912) the present road. Gibbonsville[...]plines at the Bannack into the Big Hole to Wisdom and then over the head of Rock Creek, Moosehorn and other Big Hole tribu- Pass. Before a group of Val[...]Pass road, stage passengers would have to get out and walk red fox, weasel, skunks, coyotes and "anything else we could the final steep mile up F[...]n, which ter of area ranchers Thomas Henry Willey and Sophia B. brought up to $15, compared t[...]for some other Pendleton Willey. Around 1913, Leo and Pansy homestead- species. ed just east o[...]e 1120 Ranch is located. By the time he got water and make a living, including cutting logs and piling slash for other improvements on the land,[...]aho. was cutting wild hay on the Pioneer and hauling it over the Although the settlement wa[...]e only place I remembered when people still lived and worked placer gold mining claims at Pioneer. The[...]the area. They patented their claims before 1900 and were still working their quartz claims by 1913. M[...]In exchange for his caretaking, Morgan got board and any gold he found on the place. Downstream fro[...]ng the early 1900s two men passed through Pioneer and decided to camp next to another fellow's claim. T[...]travelers already had unloaded their pack horses and weren't about to leave. After an argument, the miner grabbed his gun and killed one of the hapless would- be campers. The[...]Leo Hagel placer mined at Pioneer for nine years and he believed "there ought to be some pay in there[...]rancisco Mint. The going price was $_20 per ounce and Leo Hagel at his homes[...] |
| knew where you could find native clover and timothy which term was John W. Sutherland,[...]Seth and Emma Halbert ran it over the Divide into Gibbonsville and sold his popular Seth Henry Halbert, better[...]nge County, Ind., March 16, 1857, the third child and only with a bottle of whiskey for his hospitality. Lech was crafty, son of Enos and Susan Halbert, who named him for his never crossi[...]me place on the Divide twice in a row paternal and maternal grandfathers, Indiana pioneers. and he was never caught. However, one day he got into[...]ent argument with another moonshiner over his dog and Seth, then 18, received his apprenticeship[...]along Montana's Great Di- the gold rush and later had served as captain of a supply vide-mining, ranching, logging and trapping. He witnessed train for Sherman i[...]what the land could produce in utilitarian terms, and One reason for this move was to get[...]eason was behind the settlement of Oregon, Leo and Pansy had no children. Pansy died August 3,[...]uried in the Gibbonsville, Idaho, Wabash, and in Missouri had to post night watch while cemeter[...]-ANN HIRSCHY horses and particularly a fine stallion. At East St. Louis t[...]a woman died and arrangements had to be made for her The H[...]nge town. Otherwise, the journey was pleas- Mr. and Mrs. George Raining (Rosanna), with some[...]the smelter at railroad flag stop of Apex. George and Rosanna lived on the Glendale. It was here h[...]s, both spending their last years in friend and later his partner in freighting and his brother-in- Dillon.[...]as here he became known as Big AL The five sons and daughters surviving their parents into Big Al and Horace used to tell how the rattlesnake prob- mat[...]irch Creek ranch from his loose to kill and eat the snakes. Hogs suffered no ill effects fath[...]elicacy! years he followed the trade of carpenter and lived on Bar- With the decline of mining activities in Hecla, Al and nett Avenue. Annabel Raining married Hamilton Bot[...]ilities in ranching. Together they looked in 1890 and moved to Missoula 15 years later, then lived in[...]tion at drive stock for Granville Stuart in 1878, and was express a lower elevation. agent for t[...]finally located near Wise River on adjoining 1879 and 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Smith lived in Anaconda for ranches[...]e school during the 1883-1884 gether, Al and Horace also delivered some of the biggest[...] |
| [...]death he was survived by his widow, Emma Halbert, and his two stepsons, Wallace and Chester Campbell, as well as five[...]ters lived in Colorado and California.[...]Montana, and he saw the roads change from pioneer trails,[...]n, Sr. Seth Halbert with eight-mule jerkline team and and Petter Halligan, Sr. -came from Ireland to Montan[...]ettled in the lower part of the Centennial Valley and devel- and tied tip-first behind the freight wagons to help[...]upper Red Rock River basin. These back the load, and dropped here where the road levelled off. pro[...]ing Big Al drove the Concorde stage between Dewey and Divide. their residence in the Lima area,[...]ses because of the short route. possessions and their cattle increased. ntil the time of Big A[...]ad work for the county. After a flood they and land owners in the section. John Halligan became[...]wey from Wise River. At one time, cancer, and died in October, 1916. Petter Halligan bad be- in[...]the county. come afflicted with arthritis and a mu cular crippling di - Beebee Hay and Grain, of Butte, bought up good wild hay ease and had been confined to the ranch quarters for about from Al and his partner. There was a market for this high-[...]The Halligan brothers had other brothers and sisters liv- had two sons, Wallace and Chester Campbell. ing in Ir[...]er, niece Maggie Halligan came he gave a milk cow and a calf as a wedding present. John's from Ireland to live with and assist the Halligan brothers in 13-year-old broth[...]nd to assist his three days-one day to Wise River and two days on the sister in that opera[...]n the Halligan railroad, was built between Divide and some mine property Ranches. This niece, C[...]alled Nel- above Wise River, Al was ready to sell and move out of the lie by relatives at the Ha[...]e a daughter Eileen Helen stepson was the driver, and Al sat in the front seat, door held Richardson was born on June 5, 1910. The family moved open, one foot and his cane on the running board. This man fr[...]d. and he was employed on the Great Northern Railroad at Big Al and his family lived on the Wise River ranch until[...], a second daughter, 1926 when the ranch was sold and they moved to Hot Margaret, was bo[...]oved to the Halligan Ranches at Lima where George and retained his genial disposition to the end. At the time of his wife Nellie assisted Maggie Halligan and John Halligan Jr. 258-Beaverhead History |
| [...]leaving a half-hewn plow and a freshly dug grave, their[...](8/2/1882)and James Robert (11/24/1883) were born there.[...]The verdant valley and nearby Bitterroot Mountains of-[...]fered unlimited ranching, hunting and prospecting on his 400-acre timber claim and 160-acre homestead claim, a life[...]he savored for the next eight and one-half years. Clark Smith and Henry Mallory both had timber claims and often[...]worked together; they trapped beaver, otter, mink and bear[...]and weeks at a time using the little log trapper's ca[...]s. and shelter from the weather. The Richardson children, Eileen and Margaret, attended Lima Public Schools. Eileen, u[...]tended Western Montana Teachers College at Dillon and became a public school teacher. While teach- ing[...]Eileen met another school teacher, Gifford Jones, and they were married on August 10, 1939, at Lima. The couple taught public schools for 37 years and retired in 1975 to Yakima, Washington. The sec[...]Ben Hamby High School in 1936 and married George Ed Fults, a gra- duate of the Mont[...]is couple three children were born: John, Daniel, and He- len Fults, all three to become graduates of t[...]he United States Bureau of Reclamation. George Ed and Mar- garet Fults retired in 1968 and made their retirement home Ben and family attended a Thanksgiving party at Al near S[...]18, 1887 writes, were operated by Maggie Halligan and assisted by her "Ben Hamby took the contract to carry mail from Wisdom brother John Jr. and sister Nellie until 1941 when the up to[...]per week per ranch. Ben is the ranches were sold and Maggie Halligan, John Halligan Jr. boss on snowshoes!" and George Richardson (whose wife Nellie died in 1944 and It was toward the end of haying season on[...]window. She yelled for Ben and he grabbed his gun and gave -GIFFORD and EILEEN JONES the beast a parting[...]bear had been in his barnyard on other occasions and killed[...]e trap- Young Claud Lapham jumped on a horse and rode up to per's cabin, the log bear trap, the mountain lake, the home- the Quigley and found a couple of trappers who came to ,tead, the[...]arch for Ben. They found his body lying face down and 3.ttest his sojourn in the Big Hole River Valley.[...]far from the cabin, across the river in the Ben and wife Orlena left their native Missouri aro[...] |
| bushed from behind. Fred and Charley Francis with a sev- bune. Ben's w[...]sters emptied their kept the faith!) chambers and felled him as he advanced toward them. Clark Smith and Henry Mallory made the casket and buried Ben in the willows under three tall pine t[...]Horace and Maggie Hand Elzy attended the burial. Four childr[...]Horace Hastings Hand was born to William and Mary valley: Mary Jane (Mayme) 8/10/1885, Benjima[...]Woodstock, New Bruns- 7/12/1887, George 4/6/1889, and Parker Potter 10/23/1892. wick, Canada. Jo[...]anada for his service in the British Navy William and Louisa P. Nix Hamby who had migrated from[...]ved to Maine, Kentucky with William's father John and his Indian moth- Horace, at 15, worked in the woods for $13.50 a month. His er, Bradbrook, and his brothers Amos and Silas in the 1830s. next move was to Denver,[...]. On November 22, 1879, to Ogden by train and from there by team and covered Ben then 26, married 18-year old Orlena Adeline Potter, wagon to the silver mines of Hecla, and the smelter town of born 11/9/1861 to James T. and Mary Jane Dunaway )?ot- Glendale, Beave[...]snows, profusion of wild flowers, willow thickets and the Idaho, Indians took all their food, leavin[...]until a settler befriended them with a quarter of and sad, never to return to the "Land of the Shining Moun- veal and some staples. They passed through a herd of 10,000 tains" that had lured Ben Hamby and kept him there. steers being driven from Oregon to Omaha by 30 cowboys Third, fourth and fifth generations of Ben and Orlena using 300 saddle horses. They s[...]trapper cabin, the wagons using 225 oxen, and other outfits using mules or log bear trap beside[...]I11dians were not the only hazards. At Mountains, and are proud of our heritage, the beautiful land[...]ock, now Idaho Falls, then terminus of the narrow and it's people, from whence our roots are entwined! gauge Utah and Northern railroad being built to Butte, they[...]had two pairs of mules shod for $5.00 and sold a dog for (I have interwoven stories told by[...]0. At Glendale the smelter was under construction and Francis; Mary Paddock Berthold; Harry Lapham;[...]r Clark Smith; with family sto- Benton and return as a wagon boss for the J. T. Murphy ries and documents, and articles from the Dillon Tri- Transpor[...]ace moved to Dewey, and in partnership with Seth Halbert,[...]Horace and Big Al bought adjoining ranches at Wise River[...]but kept their freight outfits, with Al's mules and Horace's[...]Virginia City, and hauled flour from George Boatman's Sil-[...]rup and after miles and years of this Horace continued to[...]ter; he had a big 45-60 rifle but was a poor shot and or 6.)[...]hunted. In the fall of 1892, soon after the Utah and 260-Beaverhead History |
| [...]they were back in Montana, and bought the Donovan[...]In the spring of 1917 they sold out and bought the Earl[...]and put up a big white ranch house. In 1919 they sold out and moved to Junction City, Oregon for a year and a half. Early[...]for her fine flowers and vegetable gardens as well as her skill[...]in many arts and crafts-sewing, quilting, embroidery, knit-[...]crocheting, sketching, basketry, pottery, weaving and spinning. Maggie and Horace Hand on Wedding Day July 5,[...]Children of Horace and Maggie Hand were John Hand, 1892,[...]son, 1899-1950; Roscoe K. Hand (Rock), 1904; and Thelma sister of Big Al, a graduate of the Beloit[...]ool Hand Kalsta, 1909 (all born at Wise River); and Susan Edith came to teach at Dewey. Maggie, born[...]-SUSAN HAND Halbert and Susan Shirley Halbert of pioneer Indiana fam- ilies which traced back to 1709 in Virginia and had partici- pated in the American Revolution, War of 1812, and the Civil John and Ida Hand War.[...]Dewey two terms for $65 a month, Mag- Hand and Maggie Halbert Hand at Wise River, Montana. gie H[...]He grew up there learning about ranching and also freight- They had to make the 50 miletrip by horse and buggy be- ing from his father and uncle, Zeth Halbert. In 1910 the cause of a railr[...]return friends were ready family sold the ranch and decided to move to Maine to make with a charivari[...]the Wise River ranch where disillusioned and came back to Melrose, Montana, in De- they lived until the spring of 1910 when they sold out and cember, 1910. They rented a house until Feb[...]to when they bought the Jim Donovan ranch and started buy a farm. According to John Hand, who w[...]to violence erupted between the cattlemen and sheepmen. tie their cows in the barn all winter and put dope (commeri- Sheep were being shipped i[...]on the land in the spring." Before Christmas and that was when the trouble started. Someone burned[...]sheep wagon and then at night the wheels were rolled into[...]the band of sheep killing a nunber of them and then some-[...]loaded on the train and shipped back to Idaho.[...]Horace Hand in mining. Hecla and Glendale had been good producers and Glendale, 1880[...]at Butte and attended night school to become a hoistman.[...]n the meantime the family had sold out at Melrose and[...]is John's sister. John helped off and on at the ranch and also[...]On April 11, 1917 he and Ida Hartwig were married at the[...] |
| [...]lry, in 1908, Carl Hansen John and Ida Hand eloped with[...]m he called Kristi. She slipped away in the night and home at the Foote Ranch, then the Hand Ranch and then to met this dashing young fellow abo[...]f their homeland a few of the many moves for John and his family. In Hecla he was the little seapor[...]sbjerg. They eloped across an worked in the mines and Ida ran a boarding house, then ocean and a continent to Armstead, Montana. back to the ranch where hail and water problems forced him Their first place of employment was at the Dave Metlen back to Butte and the mines, then to Rocker, Mont., just out ra[...]rked in what he called the "slave sta- hand and Kristi shared household chores with Mrs. Venora t[...]d 16 hours a day, seven days a week for and Dale, 13, taught these two runaways to speak and read $4.75 a day. From the "slave station" he moved back to and write American English. Within a year they were s[...]hat was repairing the ing American history and government in preparation for railroad bridge tha[...]ranch at on the construction of the Gilmore and Pittsburgh railroad Reichle and then back to Argenta where the family finally in the Grant area. He and Kristi lived in a tent near the settled. At Argen[...]that he really loved. He acquired mining property and a He then worked as a ranchhand for Ne[...]us A. Willis, Montana, to Fredrick Julius Hartwig and Pauline Graeter, Bannack pioneer, in the 1860s and consisted of Pfeifer Hartwig. She grew up at the family home near Willis, wild hay meadows and bench land on the south, with early going to school at the Reichle school near her home and water rights in two streams, Horse Prairie and Medicine occasionally visiting relatives in Butte and in Boise, Idaho. Lodge Creeks. Carl and Kristi lived in a tiny log cabin in the She told[...]tions in these larger towns, going there by train and horse and buggy, of the fancy dresses they made for themselves and yards and yards of material required, the corsets that were so tight you could hardly breathe and all the fun they had as kids and young ladies. Ida was a very good cook, cooking for family, friends, and boarders. She was noted for her pies of which she made many. No one came at mealtime and went away hungry. She always said there would be[...]ould "just put an- other bean in the pot". John and Ida had a family of seven children: John who died[...]/2 of spinal meningitis, Shirley Hand Hunt Groff, and Horace Hand. Ida died December 27, 1967[...] |
| [...]this time there were babies, Alice, born in 1909 and Third generation descendants: Roy, 19[...]aken to Bannack Born to Alice Hansen and Byron Orr: where she stayed with Tom and Charlotte Underwood and James Byron was tended by Dr. Ry[...]child, Edith, arrived twins, Thomas Carl and William Crosby IV ahead of schedule, and was born in the tiny log cabin. Mrs. Born to Daphne Dell and Carl 0. Hansen: Jules Guyaz, a midwife living[...]cal practice to Born to Lucille Higgins and Chris 0. Hansen: Dillon in 1912, was sent for. He arrived by horse and buggy Roy Christian three days later,[...]tion. The Beaver- Born to Monica Simpson and Thomas Carl Orr: head County Directory of 191[...]ss interests. Born to Joan Stevens and Joseph Hansen: In 1913, Carl and Kristi bought the ranch. With money Christine Daphne saved and a loan from a Dillon businessman, this property[...]Kir- Armstead with nothing but two suitcases and an accordion. sten, Kirstine, Christine, C[...]d to the benchland, with the Ejner (Amos) and Anna purchase of a tract known as the "Carlson Place," between the railroad and the old Horse Prairie road. In 1921, a desert[...]Two more boys were born to this family, Carl (Kelly) in Ejner (Amos) Hansen (1892-1959) and Anna Kirstine 1 1914, and Chris (Kesse) in 1917. Overgaard, the name of[...]land to the United States and began a new life in America. Alice started[...]America. His brother Carl Hansen, the Gilmore and Pittsburgh railroad, known locally as the[...]ly immigrated to America, by that time "Grunt and Puff," or the "Get out and Push." She would owned a ranch on the H[...]boy for the Metlen Ranch on Horse lunch pail, and ride the four miles to Grant. Prairie and helped to drive cattle from Grant to the railroad In 1916, Carl and a neighbor, Claus Anderson, built a log at R[...]so they called him "Amos." He later children and two Anderson boys, Carl and Oscar. This, ap- officially acquired the n[...]f the Medicine Lodge World War I began and Amos registered to fight for the school distr[...]adventure of working on a tin sons moved away and the the school was abandoned. dred[...]life on enough floor space for that many feet and lunch pails. Win- the Horse Prairie called h[...]after his discharge. stuck in snowdrifts and everyone had to get out and push. In 1919, on the eve of her arrival to Dillon and destination After one year of this grind the[...]e family together On March 31, 1920, Anna and Amos Hansen were married until each was on his own. Carl died in 1945 at age 60 of in Deer Lodge and for a short time had a small farm there.[...] |
| [...]enmark, only with Joe Metlen in his Cadillac and Tom Pierce in his Stutz to soon come back to live[...]"America - the Bearcat. land of opportunity" and to settle in Beaverhead County. During[...]children: As- boys were born, Morse, LeRoy, and Bruce, named for Bruce trid, Mary (Jones), Anna (Meyer), Bernice (Lowney), and Joe Metlen. Ejner, who lived their childh[...]also lived in Madison County and then moved to Butte Amos was killed by lightni[...]-Edith Palmer Rasmus and Marie Hansen[...]Hanson was born in Brentwood, New Hampshire, Ras Hansen[...] |
| [...]women and children, other than General Ray who moved to[...]er when the Hecla mines began to play out. Kansas and married Caroline Stitabower on December 12,[...], with Samuel worked with his father in Kansas and later as a parents from Kentucky and Tennessee, so researchers have machinist for the[...]Hardesty, living in Indiana, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Minnesota.[...]ogether across the midwest, following a come west and apply for a homestead. Samuel moved his[...]wagon road that is now paved and identified as U.S. 136, as family to Montana in 1908 and took up a homestead on the[...]d, tana Territory. Esta, Ruby, Vera, Dale, and Basil. The family lived in Dillon -SALLY GARRETT DINGLEY until Samuel and his family could get a house built. Fred and Howard were old enough to go to the timber in Axes General and Sivilla Har- Canyon where they cut logs for the house. That home was later used as a barn, and a four-room house was built. di[...]mestead but late in the fall would move to Dillon and stay there during General Ray Hardisty was the ninth child, born in Wil- the winter months. Ruby and Vera would start at the coun- cox, Mo., in July 1859 to Christopher Ray Hardisty and his try school in the area and finish in Dillon where the family wife Sarah.[...]tayed with her aunt his second wife Malinda, and several minor children. Ma- and attended the full term in Dillon so that her educ[...]dale to live with his older brother James, and got work in the Samuel farmed his land for sev[...]Mo., the 10th child of William good price, Samuel and his family went back to Minnesota, Hamilton Huff and Sarah Ann Graham. As young children, where they ran a cafe. Samuel's son Basil was born there in Sivilla and General lived two doors apart in Wilcox and 1916. Sometime later the family moved to California and probably played together. made their home[...]William and Sarah Huff, her younger brother Calvin and two younger sisters, Angeline and Harriet. By age 15, Sivilla Hardisty F[...]was working as a chambermaid. Sivilla and General lived[...]o come to Montana A romance blossomed and on March 25, 1881, at the age of Territory was pr[...]other, Christopher Ray Hardisty, had several sons and by the mid 1870s several had come to Glendale to work in the mines and smelter in the district. The oldest son, James, and his wife Nancy, and their children, Mary B., twins Ida and Ina, and son Charles 0. settled in Glendale. James' younge[...]a neighbor girl, Sivilla Huff. Brother Charles and his wife Clarinda A., daughters Emma and Cora E., son Loren and a one-month-old un- named baby boy are shown on t[...]Two doors down lived a brother or cousin Arch and his wife Mary Jane and their two sons, William and John. Brother Andrew was living in a nearby boarding house. Walter Hardisty, son of General Ray and Si villa Har- Four doors away lived another brother or cousin, Mark, and disty of Glendale, MT (1883) his[...]disty house several houses away. John L. Hardisty and his family (1[...] |
| la's brother-in-law John Vinson Seybold and General's Tommy Haw, called the White[...]ary, A year later a son was born of this union and they named 1908, Ned's father shipped him a tr[...]t through Kansas to Armstead. He bought hay and fed them until the Glendale/Hecla area in 1883. Sivilla Hardisty and her spring and then trailed them into the Basin. young son Walte[...]Five more children were born, three boys and one set of When the mining activity began to p[...]mp. A pair of ester. He married again in 1888. He and his wife Nora ran sheep shears hanging in a tree fell and punctured his heart. the Hardisty Hotel in Roches[...]rom the gate at the home ranch. managed the hotel and Nora ran the dining room. As a The c[...]doys, were coming from Idaho, who was half French and half Danish, named across the Divide to s[...]riding up on the range and harrassing the squaws and their Later General Hardisty ranched in the Tw[...]ff by the squaws brandishing area. His death date and burial location are unknown. big knives.[...]ns in the house waiting for them. Ernest and Arabina The Indians would trade them ponies for flour and sugar. In[...]fact, Tine lived up there for three years and never saw any Harkness[...], perfect lady. They removed their six guns and hung them on and Arabina Ham was born November 9, 1876, at White-[...]rabina died June 13, 1946 at Menan, Idaho. Kans., and lived in Kansas until 1898. Two sons were born The children grew to adulthood, married and all moved to in Kansas, Ernest and Miles. Following Miles' birth in 1898, other ar[...]rry. They built a small cabin on Cottonwood Creek and and lived there until 1929. In 1925 a son Bernard was[...]st Montana winter there. Even the dogs lived in and in 1927 a daughter Bonnie was born. the cabin to[...]rnest contracted to buy the home ranch from night and screamed. his father, Ned, and they moved up there to live. The ranch They moved down on Nicholia Creek later on and built still operates as the YA Bar Livesto[...]l owners. son (now the Briggs Ranch), the P. & 0. and other ranches Ned's father, Kelton Wilson Harkness, had been a pall- around Dillon and Twin Bridges until 1908. bear[...]a pallbearer at Lincoln's A., Ernest B. and Earl D.; front row, Jessie N., Ned,[...]al. Tine, and Bessie M., twin to Jessie. 266-Beaver[...] |
| [...]ild, Mrs. Jessie Jensen, lives at Di- 2, 1928, and Phyllis Harrison Stocks born May 30, 1934. vide[...]As with most pioneer families, the hardships and heart- -BONNIE MCNINCH aches were many. George and Hazel's greatest sadness was[...]ldest son, Ralph, November 24, 1969. Mr. and Mrs. George[...]loved playing cards and was an avid fisherman. He complet-[...]ed in early rodeos, riding saddle bronc, and enjoyed working and breaking horses. He was one of a group of men that was George was one of twin boys born to James Cooper and instrumental in starting the Annual Dill[...]Harrison, who had homesteaded a deo and at one time served as its president. ranch on th[...]Valley. He had four older sisters: George and Hazel celebrated their 60th wedding anniver- Car[...]n, grandchildren, McKown, Mattie Harrison Kellum and Elizabeth Harrison great grandchildren and many friends in Dillon. Smith. He had one older[...]edley Harrison died at his home in Dillon at age and two younger brothers, Russell Adrian and Hollis Carter 82 on October 22, 1980. Hazel[...]dren born to Thomas and Margaret Harrison on December[...]tucky and Illinois and December 23, 1880, married Olive[...]his marriage, Cooper came to Montana and located in Bea-[...]Cooper, as he was known, moved with his family and[...]machinery and three horses. George and Hazel Harrison[...]Nine children were born of Cooper and Olive. Two were Hazel was one of seven child[...]ntucky. Carrie (1882) married Sylvester Hirsch- and Mary Ellen Evans Hartzel on February 19, 1898, in[...]in Butte in 1904. They had two daughters, Dorothy and Bloomsburg, Pa. She had two brothers: Harry and Charley, Bernice. Onie (1886) married James Crook in Butte in 1909. and four sisters: Laura, Lillian, Velma and Pauline. She later married C. D. McKow[...]n in Beaverhead Coun- worked in a match factory and later in a carpet factory. ty: Mattie (188[...]Hazel developed a heart condition at age 17 and, on the sheriff. They had two children, Harrison and Martha Jane. advice of the family doctor, trave[...]918 during the flu epidemic in Dillon. Hazel and George met in 1915. Their courtship was on[...]horseback to basket socials, dances, ball games and picnics dren were J. Dwight, Frank (Bud), Robert, Betty, and Beryl. in the Bannack, Millpoint and polaris areas. They were George and Ralph, twins, were born in 1897. George married[...]d in the mines. In Ralph, William, Phyllis, and Jerald. Ralph was killed in · 1918 they returned[...]Russell (1901) married Myrtle Smeby in 1924 and they Their five children were raised on the ranch: Lucille Har- had three daughters: Lorraine, Pat and Melva. Hollis (1904) rison Weaver Novich[...] |
| [...]William and Alice Harrison[...]descendant of William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Har- rison. Evelyn and Shirley.[...], 1892, in Bates, Several of Cooper's brothers and sisters were also in this Mo. She moved to Sheep Creek Basin with her parents, area. Franklin and Charles had a furniture store in Ana- Andrew J. Lounsbury and Ida Mae Kenison Loumsbury, in conda. Franklin lat[...]abeth came to about 1907. Bannack in 1873 and married Dillon Mason. Her ranch is S[...]e Hark- now part of the Harrison ranch. Cooper and Olive's home was at one time the only stop travel[...]illon on the ranch known as Fairview. With a team and buggy, Olive supplied mining towns with meat, poultry, and dairy products. She also served as a nurse and midwife, and as trustee at the Polaris School where Cooper was[...]county. His home is now part of the house of Ruth and Dwight Harrison. He prided himself on having the best in bulls and cows. Cooper is said to have been a great student of the Bible, unassuming and law abiding. While vacationing in California he d[...]Bill Harrison and Ernest Farrand on Continential out her life at th[...]ness and Kenison families. She remembered a big birthday Cooper and Olive's son, James, was born August 10, 1896. party given for herself and Miles Harkness. They were He married Agnes Gauthi[...]five children: J. Dwight, Bill Harrison and Alice Lounsburg met at a birthday par-[...]They drove by sled to Dell with Alice's parents and baby[...]in Beaver Canyon on the divide between Montana and Ida-[...]Dillon. Bill and Alice were married in the office of the Clerk[...]April 24, 1913, in Sheep Creek Basin; and Nina Beryl Harri-[...]For a few months after they were married, Bill and Alice Harrison Ranch, "Fairview"[...] |
| [...]Evelyn also remembers the music in their home and her[...]mother reading "Ivanhoe", "David Copperfield", and "Ben[...]and sold furs to help buy food and clothing. Leo trapped muskrats, weasels and rabbits. Everyone worked hard to[...]Ben and Julia Hart Bill and Alice Harrison with children (from len) Eve-[...]ial in 1889, was born lyn, Nina, and Leo[...]in Sheep Creek Basin. Blair and a couple of other fellows when all of the cattle They built a log cabin and a barn there. Big hills sur- froze to death standing up. rounded them and the big one to the south is still called[...]elyn was born in a mans. On July 8, 1900, he and Julia Jones were married. In cabin at the head of[...]erders 1919 he sold his homestead to Ed Roe and moved to the and Indians. The cabin belonged to either Harknesses or Bitterroot and tried his luck at farming. It wasn't long until K[...]In 1915, the Basin was surveyed by the government and the Centennial to care for Grandpa Jones and to take over property lines were drawn up. The Ha[...]he Keni- years there then sold to Haligans and moved to Dillon. Ben son ranch and the Earl Rogers ranch. Bill moved the build- passed away in 1946 and Julia in 1963. ings on Cabin Creek, log by log, with team and wagon to the Ben and Julia had five children: Frank passed away. Abe n[...]Nicholia Creek where they were put togeth- and wife Florence live in Shelton, Wash.; Mary Van Ant- er again as a cabin and a barn. werp liv[...]rty, there were lots of native grasses. The and Ben is married to Orlene Shanholtzer and lives in Dil- whole family grubbed out sagebrush and carried away rocks, lon. getting the land r[...]coming to Monida on a freight train began buying and raising cattle and horses. He also worked and having only 12 cents in his pocket. Bill Culver p[...]nches to help pay the bills. him up and took him out to work. Nicholia Creek was full of rainbow trout and sage chick- ens and ducks were in great abundance. -ORLENE HART AND MARY VAN ANTWERP After a new schoolhouse was bu[...]Creek, Harri- sons moved the old log schoolhouse and added it to their Fredrick and Pauline cabin giving them, what seemed to the chi[...]stle. All the good times with box socials, dances and parties that had[...]enport, Iowa, to Fredrick and Katherine Buller Hartwig Evelyn Harrison rememb[...]t teacher. Evelyn regarded the remarried and moved to New York, leaving him to be raised school children and other parents as all part of a big family. by r[...]She remembers her grandfather, Andrew Lounsbury, and years after the city was founded, going[...]so an expert banjo Working for his uncle and others he was able to accumu- picker and played harmonica. Wonderful times were had at[...]cabin for his these gatherings at the schoolhouse and at neighbors' bride, Pauline Pf[...] |
| [...]and pigs as well as grain and hay. Their home was haven for[...]family, friends, and travelers. Their entire married life was[...]ent on the ranch with an occasional trip to Butte and Boise to visit relatives and friends.[...]Julius died December 27, 1943, at his home and is buried[...]diabetes and is buried beside her husband in Mountain[...]Harvey-Boetticher Julius and Pauline Hartwig[...]the time that Julius lived here he saw the horse and were three children born to this union: Ju[...]railroad steam engines change to 1868, and Otto in 1872. diesel, cars and airplanes (Fred Woodside landing his plane[...]on: Edward H. in 1865; change its name to Reichle and move north about a mile to Charles A. and Mayme Harvey. what is now the town of Glen. The W[...]vey married Julia H. Boetticher in Indian- damage and destruction to the valley but the Hartwig home[...]nterested in the com- ing Co.'s Commissary and the boarding house for the min- munity and served on the school board for many years.[...]early mining town near Butte), to John P. Pfiefer and Bar- were lucky. Ed stayed in the commissa[...]to South Boulder, pany, in the store and at one time was in charge of the Jefferson County, where they imported from Germany and charcoal kilns on Canyon Creek. He wor[...]trees in the area. It was here that two Melrose and later worked in Butte. Nez Perce Indians tried to[...]re E., 1902-1902 where they operated a stage stop and inn. Pauline and her (9 months), and Louise I., 1906. sister Louise attended the St. M[...]William was drafted into service April 27, 1918, and dis- Lodge. While living at Nissler the 1877 Batt[...]ed Fredrick Julius Hartwig on September 20, 1892, and There were two children born to this un[...]Montana, Beaverhead born June 1924, and William D., born June 1931. Bill hauled County.[...]rom the Pauline always had time for her family and friends. Ev- old smelter in Glendale, and worked in the Melrose Store. In eryone spoke high[...]ere he died in 1953. ly called. She loved to fish and on a lazy summer day she Karl J. worked as a stenographer and bookkeeper in could be found fishing on the Big Hole River. It has been Butte and Helena, except during his time in the service. He[...]was drafted in the fall of 1917, and discharged September 4, Julius and Pauline Hartwig had a family of four: Ida[...]e Armistice. He never married. Karl drick Hartwig and John F. (Pete) Hartwig who died August[...] |
| Otto B. enlisted in the Army, June 4, 1917, and arrived in Prairie Creek to Grant and over the pass to Bannack, over France on December[...]killed in action July the hills to Ten Mile and across the Rattle Snake Creek and 22, 1918. Memorial services were held in the Presbyterian down through the Frying Pan Basin and across the Beaver- Church in September. In July 1[...]d Rock (Allerdice Stage Sta- returned from France and interred in Arlington Cemetery. tion), and finally across the bench to Robber's Roost Q.nd Maurice E. married Gladys Dennis in 1931 and they lived Virginia City. in Missoula. Two[...]road reached Red Rock (now Dell), Archie in 1932, and Eunice M. in 1934. Theodore E. died in infancy stopped freighting and became a cowboy. He herded Wine- from pneumonia.[...]na Dillon. They raised two sons, Samuel and Archie, and a where she died August 15, 1944.[...]came up through Wyoming to Billings and thence to Dillon The Harveys came to Montana ab[...]y operated the stores in Glen- nial Valley and returned to cattle ranching. They raised dale and Lion City (Hecla) for the Hecla Consolidated Min- some of the first Angus cattle in the area. ing and Smelting Company.[...]ied Julia Red Rock Lakes Wildlife Refuge and moved to the Dillon Boetticher and Charles married Alice Boetticher (both[...]erg) in a very impressive marriage ranching and various occupations. ceremony of that time. When the mine and smelter closed down, Edward moved[...]-LUCY HAYDEN AND AMANDA HAYDEN to Wise River, where he later built and operated the only[...]Kansas, on February 18, 1878, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney J. -VER[...]Kansas, and in 1897 was graduated from Kansas Normal[...]In April 1898, he came west to Montana and settled in Samuel Hayden came to Alder Gulch i[...]ime he was just 20 years old. He attended Montana and William, rode the train from Iowa to Corinne, Utah, the State Normal College at Dillon and, the year following, end of the railroad. There they purchased a pack horse and taught school in the Big Hole Basin. In 189[...]ntile company at Wisdom, a step father for a time and moved on to Washington. soon f[...]e six feet under soon enough without owner and operator of the C Bar D Ranch in the Big Hole spe[...]t important in the state's live- Utah, to Bannack and Virginia City. As the railroad was stock[...]aveled in what is now Beaverhead County and for many years secretary of the Beaverhead-Madiso[...]er to the present Farm Loan Association and was also secretary of the Water location o[...] |
| [...]practically every civic movement and in cooperative causes[...]but his active effort, and frequently his leadership was deci-[...]estate and abstract business, owning the Southern Montana[...]Abstract & Title Company; and was connected with numer-[...]BPOE, and with many Masonic bodies.[...]two children: Lois and Theodore Brantly Hazelbaker. Mr.[...]ventures and was active in community affairs. Following a[...]e Convention of 1904, he was designated secretary and in every succeeding[...]then made his way to tion for Secretary of State and from that time onward was the Big Hole and worked for Bielenberg and Walker, at engaged almost continuously in party s[...]epublican State Committee three times tilda and six children came to Montana. They arrived on the and served for one term as State co-chairman. train at Silverbow in January and drove a· wagon to the In 1920 Mr. Hazelbaker[...]e older boys walked the journey. Three more chil- and in 1924 was reelected without opposition. In the legisla- dren were born to the family: Mabel, George and Howard. tive upper house he exercised the leaders[...]906 from typhoid fever. his standing in the party and by his force and character, At first John did surveying work and built irrigation irrespective of partisan conside[...]d ditches. In 1908 he purchased the Fox Ranch and opened the conduct of State affairs. In 1928 he was nominated for the post office and store. The children attended school at Lieutenant-Governor by his party and was elected with the Fox. rest of the tick[...]rt- standard bearer in the gubernatorial campaign and again in in-hand letter. In 1918 they moved[...]yet he was defeated on on this site. George and Mabel went with them. John died in each occasion by the narrowest margin, due to national 1922, and is buried at the Jackson Cemetery. During Car- De[...]er was active in many other fields of public and died in San Diego in 1933. service. He served as executive commissioner of the board In 1908 Harry and Clarence made a gasoline wood saw representing Montana at the Panama- Pacific Exposition in and for 12 years furnished firewood for the homes in the San Francisco in 1915 and the San Diego Exposition that- valley. In[...]st same year. It was largely because of his skill and judgment in auto garage in the valley. Grover, Harry and Clarence served collecting the exhibit that Montana's agricultural display in World War I. Harry and Clarence moved to Wisdom into 272-Bea[...] |
| [...]919 they moved into what was then the Ajax Saloon and made it into a garage. The business is on that si[...]developed the first electric system in the valley and, when they sold to the Rural Electrification Asso[...]n, operated a freighting business between Jackson and Dillon. After moving to Wisdom he opened a sawmill. After retiring, he and his wife Ruth moved to Perma, Montana. They had a son named Morris. George went to school in California and then moved back to the Big Hole where he worked for Harry and Clarence until 1944 when he purchased the telephone company. He married Essie Hungate and had two children, Frances May and John. The telephone company is still in the family. Kate married Jack Hurley and they owned the Elk Club and ice cream parlor in Wisdom. They had two girls, Doro- thy and Marian. Horace died in 1934 and is buried in the Wisdom Ceme- Rollo and "Dutchie" Henderson tery. He had one daughter nam[...]to Pocatello in 1960. He twin daughters, Beatrice and Beverly. She died in 1986. died there in[...]catello in 1971. Clarence married Julia Kramer and lived the remainder Resoltha, called "Dutchie" by her family and friends, was of his life in Wisdom. He died in 19[...]nison of Dillon. Harry married Mary Jane Woody and had one son, Bruce. Her son, Floyd McCo[...]illon. Harry Lake City. They had two girls and a boy. died in 1974.[...]n the Army Airbase Chapel where he Rollo and Resoltha was[...]steaded. He was a brother Michael and Midge of Mrs. Earl Rogers of Sweeney and Rogers in Sheep Creek Basin.[...]ry family was one of the very early pioneer He and Resoltha Sholl McComb were married September[...]dren from her mar- riage with John A. McComb. She and Rollo raised the daughter, LaVera, while the son,[...]18-19 put them so far in debt they left the ranch and Roll went on the railroad. Henderson Gulch on the[...]to Lima the next year where he was made a foreman and filled various sections until they located north[...]Grayling Section. They moved to Armstead in 1925 and to Tetonia, Idaho, about 1929. They went back to[...]n 1942, they moved to Michael A. and Midge Henneberry[...] |
| Archie, May and Paul Henneberry Arlo, Ingeborg and Joe Hermann berry was one of 11 children born to[...]brother of William who was born in Baden, Germany and his wife Margaret. Michael B. came across the pla[...]his family in 1857 Alder Gulch in 1863, where he and his cousin, James Ryan where they locate[...]store. In 1866, Michael B. established his ranch and one of the largest brick manufacturers in the[...]t Beaverhead Wagon toll William Hermann and Lizzie Lawlor were married in St. road. Before th[...]ng her husband The road was operated for 10 years and then sold to Mr. and two small sons, Joseph K. (6) and William N. (4). Barrett who operated it for three[...]who was born April 10, 1858. In 1882 William and Elizabeth, Michael Angelo Henneberry lived his[...]along with Joseph Killian, born July 25, 1880, and William ranch south of Dillon. He married Midge Nelson and they Nicholas, born March 19, 1882, came to Dillon and settled had three children: Archie, Paul and May. After Michael on a ranch north of[...]usinesses, including Archie married Lillian Ulm and they lived on the ranch the Metlen Hotel, the Odd Fellows Hall and the Conger for many years. At the time of his dea[...]rving in World War I. They had two sons, Paul Jr. and R. William is remembered as a stern man[...]nia but returned to Mon- ed-stemmed pipe and his horse and buggy. He never owned tana for several years and operated the Pipe Organ Lodge. a car and was noted for the horse he drove for a quarter of a Paul Jr. was a pilot in World War II and was killed on a century. One summer he w[...]each side of his spring buggy reading, Francisco and still owns part of the original ranch.[...]ce 1882." May Henneberry married Francis Tonrey and, with the In the early days, Joseph K. (Joe) and William N. (Bill) exceptions of some winters in C[...]ranched in the Dillon area. Bill never married and he was a Dillon. In later years, she told many in[...]erd of Hereford cattle, which ing railroad siding and they often flagged the train to come was sum[...]of 87. Rocky Hillers (wild horses) and wrangled the work horses[...]Joe and Bill, part of a famous Dillon team, enjoyed play-[...]ing baseball and were close friends of the Quackenbush Wi[...] |
| August 1, 1887, to Knut and Karen Syrstad. Knut was a 1932. farmer[...]th him to drive the While growing up, Ingeborg and her brother would some- Model T Ford. Joe[...]ch old Highway 91. He operated a team of horses and fresno. others' mind via E.S.P. One of them would[...]the page Bill made his home with Joe and Ingeborg until his death, number and the word chosen. They would also levitate ta- October 4, 1945. bles, etc. Their older brothers and sisters were unable to do Ingeborg raised a huge garden and always had a large this. Ingeborg and her brother became so good at it that it flock of chickens and turkeys to supplement the farm in- frightened their parents and their father finally put an ab- come. Much of[...]borg was a long time member of At 17, Ingeborg and her cousin came to America by ship in the Dil[...]it perfect- music; Kate Smith was a favorite and in her later years she ly. After seven years in M[...]e's remains were returned from struck the iceberg and sank. Belgium[...]Roy and Edith Herndon stead, near Dillon.[...]for Lottie Kim- father, Col. Alpheus Decker, and the Scott & Decker me- bel. Later,. she moved to[...]ice in Ludington, Mich., living with her Aunt Ida and borg met 36 year-old Joseph K. Hermann and it was love at Uncle Albert Decker, when her father and Uncle Walter first sight. Ingeborg, barely 30, ma[...]ing activities and promising future of the Scott & Decker To this[...]children were born: Joseph Syrstad family and enterprises. (May 30, 1918), Carmen Charlotte (July 17, 1921), and Arlo Alpheus Decker had come west in 1882. His wife had died William (January 8, 1923). Joe and Ingeborg dryland the year before; her collapse and death, after nursing him farmed and raised sheep in the East Stone Creek area. After night and day through weeks of typhoid fever, ended the sev[...]railroad tracks about one mile from town, in and his brother Albert. As soon as he was strong enou[...]City, Mo., and then headed west. Edith lived there with her[...]Aunt Jenny Chapman for 10 years, and then with other aunts and uncles in Iowa, Indiana, and finally Michigan.[...]Scott, in a partnership which owned and operated C D House in Red Rock and a ranch near Armstead. By the time[...]1904, he was elected to the State Legislature and served two[...]rights and other water legislation.[...]Edith, too, enjoyed Montana and served as Red Rock[...]postmistress. She used her clerical training and legal exper-[...]ise to help local ranchers with their paper work, and busi- From le~: William, Bill, Ingeborg, and Joe Hermann ness travelers to and from Salmon with their letters and[...] |
| [...]and they could not pay their grocery and supply bills at the[...]Scott died. Roy and Edith decided to move to Armstead to[...]1928 campaign, and served as Deputy Clerk of Court until "Colo[...]Colonel Decker died in 1929, Roy Herndon in 1950, and Scott & Decker family and had a wide circle of friends in Edit[...]n in 1958. They are buried in Red Rock, Armstead, and Dillon. For 10 years this was the Mo[...]John and Pauline Herzog the legislature; for the next two[...]is the story of the years Pauline Reichle Herzog and fully exciting time, working long hours under pre[...]s now Glen, participating fully, too, in the pomp and gaiety of Helena's Montana. elegant soc[...]rn in Stuttgart, Germany, the oldest social life, and also in affairs for the legislative staff (theater, daughter of Adolph William Reichle and Elizabeth Well- opera, dancing parties, the Chari[...]t, he also lost his estate in order to the Scotts and Deckers in the now thriving town of Arm- pay off his men and his obligations. The stress of all this was stead[...]too much for him and he suffered a fatal heart attack. On September[...]ere he homesteaded a ranch. He wrote back to over and try his work; she agreed. Soon she was a full par[...]ts of fortunes to be made in pant in the business and social life of this growing mining ranching and mining that it convinced his brother Adolph and ranching center on the Salmon River. She did not get and his wife Theresa, his young brother August Reichle, and back to Armstead even to visit for almost a year. his mother and sister Pauline and her husband John to She met Roy Herndon soon after her arrival. A year and a come to America. They stayed for some time in Chicago and half later, they were married in The Inn in Armst[...]me was assessor for William and his wife had built a large hotel and saloon on Lemhi County. He had come to Idaho in 1[...]s soon Big Hole River to the Richards and Garrison and Cocon- involved in Democratic Party affairs and served in the Ida- augher ranches. The[...]e present site of Glen in order to give the Roy and Edith led a busy, happy life in Salmon. In 1910,[...]rtbreak. On May 16, baby Elizabeth and get over the top and on to Apex. Therefore, many labor- was born dead, and Edith was not well for most of the year. ers were employed and needed food and lodging. Two years later, on August 4, Jane Decker was born. Then in That was where Pauline and her family helped William 1918, they decided to adopt a child, went to Boise and Reichle's wife take care of all the cooking and other house- brought back Ethel May, who became J[...]hold work. Pauline was an extremely capable nurse and In 1916, Roy and Edith bought the general store in May, mid-wife and helped bring many a newborn into the com-[...] |
| I tress for some time, as were her brothers William and her ' younger brothers August after Asiah Willis[...]ad. Adolph definitely did not enjoy rural life and sold his homestead to one of the Birrer brothe[...]rees along the ditch for each of her children, and they were there for many years after her death[...]re was more · chance of making money in the city and soon joined his brother Adolph in Butte. He pu[...]Atlantic Saloon with his partner, Mr. Schimf, and made a fortune before retiring with his family[...]er August Reichle left Willis, his sister Pauline and her husband John Herzog remained at Willis and helped Wil- liam Reichle with his business. Th[...]ners in much later years. It was at this place and in the hotel build- ing where my mother, Clara Herzog, was born. She joined a brother Carl and sister Elizabeth Herzog. A small brother Joseph had died a couple of years before Clara's birth and was buried in the Reichle cemetery beside his[...]Dingley, Alice M. Dingley. Mamie and Alice are Pauline Herzog and her husband built a house in Butte 1[...]daughters of John Tabor Dingley. and there raised their family. Another son, Joseph (n[...]dead young brother), was born in Butte as and they were married in Butte City on July 27, 1898.[...]s a fine painter of brother Will Dingley and her cousin Nellie Augusta Dingley early art, and painted the beautiful cherubs and angels from Lewiston, Maine, were witne[...]tte. 1:fis name is now born July 29, 1910 and Lorraine born July 24, 1913. listed as a primi[...]n County. Alice's widowed mother Mary Ann Dingley and Clara Herzog Moran's daughter Frances came[...]e family. school at the Reichle School in 1935 and was married to John died in the teens and widow Alice Hildebrand Stephen Kambich's son,[...]e is known of the family after that move John and Alice Hildebrand[...]nd was born in May, 1860, in Pittsburgh, Pa., and came to Montana as a young man to seek his for- tune in the mining world. His parents were Henry and Jane E.W. and Bessie Hildreth Hildebrand.[...]the youngest daughter of John ry Olsen and Ida Hirschy Olsen at Fox, Beaverhead County, Tabor Dingley and Mary Ann Estes, was born September 3, Montana. She was the oldest of six girls and attended school 1875, in Lewiston, Maine. She came to Montana Territory in the Big Hole and Kidd schools. She graduated from with her family in 1877, first living in Butte City and later B.C.H.S. in 1922. moving to D[...] |
| [...]milk they wanted. The first chance Bob and Laura got, they[...]and yuk! What awful tasting milk. They quickly buried[...]evidence, washed out the cups and started for home. Just[...]then a shot rang out and then another. They thought the[...]They ran faster and another shot rang out. The next morn-[...]had shot. The lion had been in a tree and the sheepherder[...]trap and came face to face with a big grey snarling wolf t[...]was caught and was gnawing his foot off to escape the trap.[...]cling around and around in a large circle. On investigation E. W. and Bessie Hildreth there w[...]e feeling leader. They used to take bamboo poles and put them in the trapped by a bunch of curious cows. •ditches and brace themselves and take a big leap and clear Deer, elk and antelope were very scarce. As more wolves the di[...]on to the poles. They used to play at this and coyotes were killed the population of wild game i[...]to had saved up enough coyote hides to sell and then left for resist.[...]. He brought One day their folks went to town and left Elenore and home many souveniers and still talks about that great ad- Bessie to take care of things. The girls were about 14 and 16 venture into the world. years old. Eleno[...]make an elegant supper The Hildreths and Olsens were very good friends, living and surprise the family when they returned. First the[...]en the children were going to made a sponge cake and it flopped. Next suggestion from high school. Through this association Bob and Bess met and Elenore was to kill a chicken and have a nice chicken dinner were married Nov[...]ks. (Pat), Bill, Gene, Lowell, Raymond and Barton. All the boys Next they tried wringing th[...]ve close by. The folks retired to Dillon in 197 4 and still ens got away. Then they tried to step on t[...]' heads make their home on South Atlantic. and pull them off; that didn't work either. Needless[...]l- Millerton, Calif., to Henry Jonathan and Laura Ann Hall dreth and Harriet Jane Phillips Hildreth, the third of eigh[...]ve onto Ione, Calif., to Theodore Patrick and Sarah Frances Wood their homestead on Medicine Lodge Creek, where Bob grew Phillips. Henry and Hattie were childhood sweethearts and up, had most of his schooling and lived until he retired to were married Jun[...]ould ever want. Many of his adven- hopes and dreams were high, basing and guiding their lives tures dealt with wild animal[...]y as a young boy Bob found a cute little cub bear and Henry and Hattie went to work for Herbert Selway herd- was trying to befriend it. The horse whinnied suddenly and ing sheep, first living in a sheep wagon and later a small took off. Out of the trees came th[...]cabin. Laura Frances was born August 11, 1894, and Emph- down on Bob, who was able to catch up with his horse and rey William "Bob" April 4, 1896. During[...]canned now known as Morrison, Hildreth and Medicine Lodge milk, to take to the sheepherder. Laura and Bob couldn't Creeks. Henry continued to work for wages and hired Pat have any because it was expensive and they had all the cow Sweeney to build a cabin and Fred Tachuchman to fence for 278-Beav[...] |
| Back row from le~: John, Emphrey, Daisy and Tom; Henry Hildreth, up[...]aura (holding Dorothy), were taken and home-developed. Hattie, Laura, and Daisy and Harriet. were fa[...]f those early days. Henry had his first homestead and Henry purchased a band of 750 Hampshire[...]Isaac Rifes and was the first one on the Lodge. Henry and Henry went East in 1911 to purchase Rambouillet[...]ir first car, a "Ford", in 1916. improve his herd and later added Oxford Down sheep from I[...]for $30 a to 3,000 head. He also raised Percheron and Belgian work- month plus board and room. Laura taught her younger horses which sold for $125 during the Spanish American brothers and sisters the 1915-1916 term. The Dillon Public War. Saddle horses sold for $50 and milk cows $40, with Schools and Dillon Normal College provided further educa- ope[...]re rented in Dillon until 1917 when a perma- land and Hattie filed on a Homestead connected to the[...]sion of the 20s, losing much of the ranch and range. Henry Daulton, February 16, 1903; Naomi Gr[...]developed a heart condition early in life and after several and Helen Dorothy, September 3, 1914. The seven child[...]r father aided by a the age of 52. Hattie and the younger children moved to neighbor lady or vi[...]al visit to days due to the long distance to town and doctor. "Up Home". Hattie became[...]a good living from the her grandchildren and other young people of the area. Hat- land, raising sheep, cattle, milk cows, horses, pigs and chick- tie died on September 25, 1948, at the age of 75. ens. Gardening, berrying, fishing and hunting added to their Laura married Henr[...]er 25, 1924. menu. Sagebrush was grubbed, ditches and roads made, Their lives were dedicated to the educational field. Laura timber cut and used for fencing, bridges, buildings and fire- attained her Masters and Doctorate in Sociology from the wood. Extra money came from trapping coyotes and wolves. University of Washington, and at the time of her death, July Work was exchanged between friends and neighbors. Trad- 2, 1944, was Assistant[...]he Valley Department of the University. and the Chinese in Bannack proved beneficial.[...]tually owned the Medicine Lodge Ranch and had six sons: were moved from grazing land to gra[...]the open Sterling, Raymond Frederick, and Edward Barton. range. A good lamb crop was 60 % i[...]eared around came to work for Henry in 1917 and they married June 1, seven pounds with the cost o[...]k, Medicine iodge, worked for Union Pacific and operated a where it was shipped to Dillon[...] |
| 1964 and Daisy in 1977. Their three children were Boyd, Ruth Harriet and Norma Jean. Tom was on the BCHS basketball team[...]in 1920. He married VaNita Kohl November 25, 1921 and moved to California. Divorcing in 1928, he returned to Dillon to work with brother John and Clarence Koenig on the Superior Dairy. He died Ap[...]ed in athletics. He attended Normal College. John and Clarence Koenig purchased the Superior Dairy nort[...]l McConnon products, worked on the Fort Peck Dam, and then joined the Dillon Police Force. Naomi graduated from Normal College in 1933 and that year married Survantus "Heavy" Kerr. They mo[...]Dave and Cecile, "courtin' years" attle during WWII, where Naomi lived until her death in in Red Rock and then Dewey, Montana. Her third and last 1986.[...]r a whirlwind courtship they were married in 1934 and married Tom N. Chapman on February 11, 1937, 1912 and moved down to the Quit Owen Ranch, six miles in B[...]This ranch was referred to as Point Lookout and was used[...]ge stop from Divide to Wisdom. It is also Dave and Cecile Hirschy[...]l 27, 1888, the sixth of 12 children born to Fred and Cecile and freight through the deep snow drifts from Divide[...]estead. Times were tough in those stopped and were fed overnight. days but the family survived and prospered by milking cows Because this was a stopping place with many people com- and making cheese. This was hauled to the Butte Brewery, ing and going, Helen's memories as a small child included 90 miles away, with teams and w~gons. such notable characters as Jack Hauseman and his dog When Dave was eight years old his fath[...]"Coon." Jack's expertise was wrestling bears and he had small roan horse. Dave called him "Tom Thu[...]mous midget. Dave was eight, the horse was eight, and the gious proportions. "Crazyhorse" Jack He[...]d horse in the open by charming him. Jim LaMarche and rode with his father for many years, traveling th[...]day world the Big Hole, wintered on Big Hole hay and then trailed out champion bronc rider; Bill[...]was made over to the (the great actress), and many others who spun yarns and Bitterroot Valley with teams and wagons to stock up on entertained her with amazing tales of the west. vegetables and fruit for the winter. This was always a family[...]rs Dave became well known in five western affair, and Dave has told many times about the steep hill states and Canada as a Beaverslide Derrick builder. These fr[...]f Ross's Hole. hay derricks were invented and used in the Big Hole for Before going down they always cut a big tree to drag behind years and were so successful that there was a demand for th[...]500 derricks - the last one he built at age 86. and his sisters and brothers made the trip alone one time - Cecile passed away in 1973 and Dave died in 1979 in their father was to meet them in Hamilton. All went well Dillon. and they made good time till they came to the pass and had[...]t the tree. He said, kid-like they forgot the saw and for tools had a dull axe and a pocket knife. That slowed them down considerabl[...]Fred and Flora Hirschy the first snowstorm. Fred and Flora Hirschy, cattle ranchers in the Big Hole[...]r who Valley, were married in June of 1915 and raised four chil- started teaching when she was 16 years old and taught first dren, all of whom (at t[...] |
| [...]active in the local church and the Jackson Friendship Club.[...]in 1893 and brought his family out from Indiana the follow-[...]ing year. They traveled by train to Dillon and from there to[...]and after school each day. In the year 1910 he borrow[...]oximately $200 from an area bank to buy some land and[...]an extremely good businessman, a tireless worker, and over[...]he years other ranches were added to the original and his sons, Jack and Dick, joined him as partners. Flora and Fred Hirschy It was Fred's nature to be reserved and he earned a great Flora ~haw Hirschy was born o[...]n quiet Hawarden, Iowa. Her parents brought her and her sisters, way he could be a bit intimidating. He was a modest and fair Vera and Eva, to Butte when she was five years old. She person, and very generous. One time, a neighbor with a attended Butte grammar schools and Butte Business Col- family was having financial problems and had to sell all his , lege where she received a teaching certificate, and after cattle. Fred bought one of the milk[...]first job near Big Sandy. She taught eight grades and he loaned money to local people so they could[...]nly 16 years old. She taught also at Twin Bridges and ness. He loved to tease, and he had a knack for saying a lot in later at Wes[...]n- because none of it ever came out." loving, and strong in character. Fortunately she was also Fred belonged to the Masonic Lodge in Wisdom, and to strong physically and emotionally for her life on the ranch the Bu[...]e was a Beaverhead County Commis- was difficult and strenuous. She was interested in people, sioner and was also on the Board of Directors of the Mon- was always "there" if anyone needed help, and would for- tana Stockgrowers Association.[...]have made She had a wonderful sense of humor and enjoyed nothing outstanding and distinguished contributions to livestock more t[...]ranch for a year or so tapped her on the shoulder and said. "Hello, Mrs. Hirschy." Flora stared at hi[...]Frederick and Cecile ment and then with a sudden look of recognition said, "Oh[...]keeps me in heat!" Flora also had determination and tenacity, so when she It was the tent[...]irst saw the valley that would be home to sons, and soloed in February 1948. Then she took up them and their children, grandchildren and great-grand- skiing .. her first lesson being in Sun Valley. She arrived children. Carly and J. Blaine Anderson, ages eleven and five home from that trip excited because the Sh[...]on of this ranching family to live in the there and had spoken to her! When asked what he had said,[...]de-Fonds, Switzerland, and his wife Cecile Wenger Hirschy She was interested in, and involved in, local and state was from Bienne, Switzerland, born there in 1860. They met politics and was a 1952 Republican delegate to the National in a German-Swiss settlement in Ohio and were married Convention in Chicago. Along with[...]in 1880. Seven children were born to them in Ohio and campaigned long and loud for improved highways into the India[...]orthy Matron of Eastern Star, Frederick and his cousin had come to America on a cattle Wisdom Chapter 67, and a member of the Daughters of the boat, working in the galley for their passage, and Cecile had Nile, Tirzah Temple, Butte. Also a member of the State and journeyed to Ohio to visit her brother, Augu[...]years she was the Hirschys to come to Montana and the Big Hole Valley,[...] |
| [...]of spring road conditions, and the next day was the begin-[...]ning of a new life and a very busy time for the families. The men and boys started getting out logs and building a new house and sheds on the homestead. Another son had been[...]born in June to the Hirschys and a school was soon started[...]and at first they were milking about 50, building up[...]would be helping with the milking and making the cheese.[...]that joined August Wenger's place, and his family was set- Cecile Wenger Hi[...]was the nearest post office to his aging and storing of the cheese and butter, a big corral and homestead. There were good opportunities for a ma[...]mostly done by the family to file on a homestead and a desert claim. Both a man older Hirschy children and their parents. Young Fred and and his wife could file on desert claims.[...]son August, traveled to Montana the morning and again in the evening. in 1893 to see for himself, and not far from his brother-in- Fred Hirschy, Sr., took wagonloads of cheese and butter law's home found good land on a large creek with a fine to Butte, Anaconda, Dillon and other surrounding towns spring. He returned to In[...]year, bringing the wagons back filled with 1894, and they began the task of moving to the Big Hole ranch supplies and family needs. After about five years, it Basin. T[...]livestock, served in the raising of cattle and putting up the wild hay and the family. They could cook and sleep together in the that was abundant in the high mountain meadows. The same car, and the journey took five days from Fort Wayne,[...]y became a well-known midwife for the area, teams and wagons to take them to his ranch near Fox. An- also being called upon to minister to the sick and help out other neighbor, Jorgen Jorgenson, helped[...]ad to help the new mother get on her feet, and assist with the traveled with them on the train from Indiana. He had been a other children and household chores. Five more children cheesemaker there and they planned that together with were born to the Hirschys in the Big Hole and more land and Wenger they could operate a cheese factory to mak[...]near Boise. Lena married Soren Nelson and they ranched[...]to the valley to teach, and their two sons are ranching in the[...]neighbor; they later moved to Dillon and raised five daugh-[...]close by, and two of their sons are still operating the family[...]ranch. Dave Hirschy also married a school "marm" and[...]extensively in western Montana and Idaho. Emma married Jack Childers and they lived here for a time before moving[...]eastern Oregon to raise their family of two boys and two[...]to" (1927) Bessie, Bill, Mabel and Ellen. They were educated in Spo- 282[...] |
| kane, Wash., and Southern California and married and raised their families there. Mr. and Mrs. Hirschy retired to LaMesa, Calif., after sel[...]ranch to son Fred. The elder Hirschy died in 1933 and Cecile in 1950. They are buried in Chula Vista, C[...]he Woods Livestock Company. Ben liked what he saw and returned to home- stead and ranch there. Mayme and Ben Holt Joseph Benjamin Holt was born April 26, 1869, in Jeffer- son County, Montana, to James R. and Julia A. (Thompson) Ben and May Holt were joined by his youngest son, Holt: Ben's father James was born March 8, 1837, and his George, who married a north-side girl[...]ltzer. They sold the Alaska Basin place to George and Bea October 3, 1861, at Beaver Creek in Clinton County, Ill. Ben and left the Centennial Valley for Idaho Falls. Ben had been was the fourth son in a family of five boys and four girls, in poor health since 1941, but did not leave the ranch until most of whom were born and raised in Jefferson County on January of[...]d Lillie Florence Tins- Chapel on June 10, and he is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery ley, the third child of William Bailey and Lucy Ann (Nave) in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Tins[...]Mother May stayed on to help with the ranch and the 16, 1871, in Gallatin County, Montana.[...]years she had returned often to the Valley she and Ben had vember 20, 1892; Nellie Neoma, February 1, 1896; Lawrance settled in and loved. Lamar, March 24, 1899; and George Tinsley, July 23, 1901.[...]-LILY HOLT RILEY Only Clarence, Nellie and George survived to adulthood. Ben worked for M[...]Harry and Kathryn When Marcus Daly died in 1900, Ben went t[...]Hopkins Woods Livestock. Lillie and Ben were divorced and both later remarried. Harry Hopkins, a[...]Returning to the Centennial Valley, Ben Holt met and try, was the son of William and Esther H.Qpkins. He was married school teacher Ma[...]ted a small place on the north side of the Valley and ents, five brothers, two sisters and he moved to Glendale, lived there for several yea[...]about raised a fine bunch of bum lambs every year and carded her three months during the summer o[...]mule team and wagon, camping along the way. The boys They sold this place to a larger cattle outfit and moved to walked a good deal of the way. The fam[...]aho. Ben worked there for a while hauling and Vipond Park before moving to Dewey's Flat (now called gravel by horse and wagon for city building. They both Dewey), where he attended school. missed the Centennial Valley and soon returned to home- Dewey was a busy little town where, at that time, a lot of stead and start another small ranch near the town of Lake- Chinese lived. One morning Harry and some of the boys view. The Holts sold this place[...]rnment were hiking up a canyon east of there and came upon a came into the Valley and began to buy up that area for the Chinese m[...]e in a tree. It didn't take the Red Rock Wildlife and Bird Refuge. boys long to return to Dewey and report it. It was never Once again, they start[...]spring Hole River. He took up a homestead and built a cabin on it. near the hills and is one of the last places you see before Aft[...]ent to work on the Ruby Ranch, crossing the hills and heading for Henry's Lake, Idaho. Part which w[...]r Smith of Butte. of the ranch still stands today and is owned by Huntsman Kathryn Knudsen, called Katie, daughter of Jens and Ranches.[...] |
| [...]ess traveled wagon roads up through Eastern Idaho and[...]Three Island Crossing, Massacre Rocks and Old Fort Hall.[...]Trapper Creek, Glendale, Canyon Creek and finally to the Harry and Kathryn Hopkins[...]aching five years in Wisconsin, ford's father and uncle "took up" land. It seems at that time she came to the Big Hole. She planned to teach and visit a it was "squatters rights." It is not certain when the family sister and brother-in-law who were ranching on the North[...]r-in- kilns run by his family. law with a team and buggy. They arrived at 3:25 p.m. at her By[...]. She taught a six-month school at North Fork and his five brothers had become young men. They turned and then a six- month school at Briston.[...]ands to almost any task that would bring Harry and Katie were married in Butte, June 24, 1908,[...]cash such as mining, trapping or "working out" on and returned to live on the Ruby Ranch where Harry wa[...]worked at blacksmithing, carpentry Katie's family and friends. The years on the Ruby were busy and freighting. but they did have neighborly picnics[...]life, he learned the wheelwright's trade, ground and holiday get-togethers. During these years two a combination of woodworking and hand blacksmithing. daughters were born, Vera Ruby on July 18, 1911, and Jessie Wilford was employed at Gibbonsville[...]ded one In December, 1916, they moved to Wisdom and pur- chased a livery stable and blacksmith shop and they had the contract for the Wisdom-Divide Stageline for the next year. Harry joined the Masonic Lodge and Katie became a Rebecca. She also worked for the church and was a Sunday school teacher for many years. Dur[...]business until September, 1948, when they retired and moved to Butte. Kathryn died November 5, 1956, and Harry passed away on June 19, 1957. Vera Hopkins[...]-JESSIE HOPKINS McCLENNAN Wilford and Myra Hopkins |
| or two years to his age and joined the cavalry. His regiment was the Second V[...]ho. She was the youngest daughter of George David and Mary Wallace Anderson.[...]erick born in 1908; Winnafred Hope, born in 1912; and Lois Montana, born in 1915. The latter three survive. At the age of four, Rose became ill with appendicitis and was hospitalized in Butte. She never recovered. Soon after their marriage, Wilford and Myra took up a homestead on the benchland northea[...]bbonsville. This ranch William, Esther and family left Walla Walla in the early proved too small for their needs and they moved back to the summer. It took at lea[...]The baby, who was born in May, died on the way and was when Myra became ill and was hospitalized in Anaconda, buried in[...]choolteacher sister, Aura, "came over to help out and never There was no school in Vipond Park or[...]re older, they Herbert developed severe asthma and it was thought the attended school at Dewey[...]moved to Canyon Creek where they operated Wilford and the kids and Aura went out to Seattle. He had a the charco[...]Hole ity, sharing their home with many relatives and friends. River, about 13 miles from Wisdom[...]andfather, built a nice set of buildings where he and Myra, Wilford and Aura are all buried in the Wisdom Esther[...]Else Ranch so they George Works, a nephew of Myra and Aura Hopkins. could be near my mot[...]and seamstress. She spent the rest of her life in her little William and Esther Hopkins[...]live-in grand- William J. Hopkins (1843-1916) and his wife, Esther mother or one who lives[...]after the Civil War ended. He was born in London and she was born in Liverpool. In 1871, William left his family in England and migrated to the United States, settling in Walla Walla, Washington. In 1873, he sent for his wife and their two small sons, Wil- liam, Jr.(1870-1911) and Joseph (1872-1945). In Walla Walla, William wa[...]s brother, Fred (1838-1908) Annie Hopkins Else and Esther Hopkins Ritschel[...] |
| [...]is home with his brother until he cattle and tended the chores. Then he turned his hand to the died and was buried in the Wisdom Cemetery. kitchen and cared for the family. William J. Jr. (Will) wo[...]hooked a motor up to Lewistown when he became ill and died. a cart of some kind and drove the streets of Wisdom. Need- Joseph (Joe[...]ss to say, it was a sensational caper. He trapped and did He worked in mining as well as other jobs. He[...]nursing home in Dillon and died there. Wilford (1876-1959) - (See Wilford[...]Mark worked at driving butcher's wagons in Butte and various other jobs. He had a Sarah Wadams Pratt small house in Dewey's Flat where he retired and took care of his brother, Arthur, who had lost a[...]Howard runaway with a team of horses and a mowing machine. Sarah Wadams wa[...]in Bannack with her parents, Wilson and Mary Jane Bay- Arthur (1881-1957) was a World[...]rs in the Big Hole. He did a lot of paper hanging and Ill. The family came west to Colorado, then on May 16, 1862, painting as well as carpentry and other work. left Colorado inte[...]Montana where their friends Granville and James Stuart William and Esther arrived in Beaverhead County with resided. She and her brother Dick walked almost all of the their y[...]they got to the ily, with the exception of Esther and her baby brother, are Beaverhead Valley, the[...]was 12, he was taken to Ireland by his aunt and put in a[...]o become a priest. He made friends Stories told and retold, grow and romance with each tell- with a ship captain and when he was in his early 20s, the ing and make good listening. Perhaps this was the case of[...]a stowaway on his yarns told about Jack Houseman, and yet perhaps not. ship. George went to[...]f a man, about 6'3". No one seems to horses and soon after started west with a wagon train. know[...]came to the Big Hole Valley (or his He and Sarah W adams Pratt had three children born at or[...]ry 4, 1865; that he had been a professional boxer and an opponent died Samuel Edwin, born February 23, 1867;and Sylvia May, from a blow delivered him by Jack's f[...]November 11, 1868. Sylvia died December 4, 1868, and he that he never entered the ring again. is buried at Bannack. George and Sarah divorced soon after "No man has the right to take another man's life," Jack her death and George took his two sons and headed with his said.[...]28, 1870. He was born in Warwick, Canada, and had moved Those who knew him, especially childr[...]life. He served in the Union member him as a kind and gentle man. One winter he hap- Army in 1[...]l with the flu. "Why didn't Bannack in 1866 and spent 11 years there engaged in min- you send for[...]ing. hastened to the barn, harnessed up the team and fed the Sarah and George Howard had two children: Danny, who[...] |
| was born August 12, 1876, died April 10, 1877, and is buried to the ranch to care for her. She slowly grew weaker and died at Bannack; Maggie, born May 31, 1878, died[...]at the age of 51. She was laid to rest in Silver and is buried at Dillon.[...]f years to care for Dad while he gaged in farming and they then moved to Dillon around put up hay to feed cattle in the winter and sell them in the 1909. The Howard home was on Railroad Avenue in Dillon. spring. When he met and married Maud Leland we left the George H. Howard died September 17, 1913, and Sarah ranch. He died December 24, 1938. She sold the ranch and Howard died September 27, 1941. They are buried a[...]-RHEA LEONA MEADE Samuel and Evelyn Howell[...]The store was located on the corner of Montana and Helena |
| Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Huber Calvin Hardisty Huff and wife Sarah Brown, about[...]lowing Fritz's death the jewelry store was closed and Thomas Newton Brown and Elizabeth "Libby" Meade, the contents sold. Someone bought the pendulum clock and long-time Bannack residents. She was born[...]years later Fred Woodside located it, bought it, and in Bannack. An older sister was born in Green[...]he Huber Estate, willed to the Wisc. Thomas and Elizabeth Brown probably came to Ban- Barrett Hospital and the Episcopal Church, was sold at a nack because Libby's parents, Judge Christian Meade and large sale. It contained many beautiful antiques.[...]-HARRIET WATKINS Blackfoot, Idaho, and upon their return settled in Dell.[...]Davidson was a violent, abusive husband and Sarah left him[...]ff Taylor befriended her. Fearing for Calvin and Sarah Huff Sarah and her young daughter Alice's safety, Angie sent C[...]River, dinsville, Ill., the 11th child of William and Sarah Huff. Idaho. After spending his earlie[...]to take up land in Mo., he came with his parents and three of his sisters to this remote area of[...]agle Rock (now Idaho Falls) on an immigrant train and logs from the surrounding woods and survived in a harsh then journeyed to Glendale, M[...], known previously only by the Indian tribes that and wagon, arriving there in October 1879. passed through the area and the early mountain men and As a 12-year-old, he attended school in Glendal[...]er, remembers him telling stories of Cal and Sarah pledged their vows to each other on March w[...]ad. A son, William Hamilton day for wheeling slag and worked a 12-hour day. Huff, was born on September 24, 1901. The marriage and When the mines began to play out, he moved with[...]n the circumstances parents to farms on the lower and upper Grasshopper as when living long di[...]s county seat that we now take for granted. Cal and Sarah had were poor and he left home to ease their burden and to find five more children: Myrtle, Sivilla,[...]as still mostly unexplored Ronald Eugene, and Mary Ellen. and he moved to Rathdrum, Idaho, and on to Priest River. Cal Huff, Sr., made[...]He homesteaded in the Blue Lake district in 1892 and made bearing animals in the winter. He was featured in a 1906 his living raising stock and trapping all his life. issue o[...] |
| [...]h described a fur trapper's true nature as "cruel and unsportsmanlike destroyer of game and a disgrace to civilization." The author, W. H. Wright, wanted the moun- tains of Montana and Idaho declared a wilderness area, off limits to hunters and trappers. Cal returned to Dillon many times to visit his aging par- ents and his sisters, Angie Taylor, Hattie Dingley and Ada Brothers. His beloved wife of 44 years, Sarah[...]ldren, Myrtle Hirvonen, Sivilla Paul, Calvin Jr., and Mary Ellen Black were all able to attend a Huff r[...]randparents' home- stead on the upper Grasshopper and were thrilled to visit the country where their fa[...]ff Sarah Ann Graham Huff er had been born and were equally impressed with the pres- T[...]Margaret married John Vinson ervation of the town and its buildings. Seybold. John, along with his father and five brothers, Sons William died in 1982, Ronald in 1985. Myrtle and heard about the mining boom in Montana Territory and Sivilla live in Sedro Woolley, Wash., while Cal and Mary headed west, taking his bride and young family along. Ellen live in Sandpoint, Idaho. The original homestead near In 1879, William and Sarah Huff, along with their four Priest River is still in the Huff family and is now owned by youngest children, Sivilla 14, Calvin 11, Angeline 7, and brother James Huff's great-granddaughter, Juanita Savage. Harriet 5, said goodbye to their relatives and friends and moved to Montana. William was 54 and Sarah 49. The fam- -SALLY[...]he first part of September, 1879. From William and Sarah Huff there they went by team and wagon and arrived in Glendale,[...]on the 1880 Federal census, William is shown many and lived in Pennsylvania before migrating to Ten-[...]y. school, and the two youngest are still at home. Sarah Ann[...]y out, Her parents died in a wagon train accident and she was the Huffs lived for a few year[...]ed near Barrett's Station south of Dillon and in the Red Rock to western Illinois when that lan[...]k up a homestead on by war land warrants. William and Sarah were married in the lower Grassho[...]possibly in Schuyler County, Ill., when he was 20 and Shaffner ranch), and on the 1900 Federal census they were she was 15.[...]Of their children, Dora, Missouri, Richard and Theodore Eliza Jane in 1849, Anna Mary in 1852, J[...]1859, Richard in 1860, Ada Belle in son and remained in Nodaway County, Mo., but traveled to[...]ove to Nodaway William purchased and sold property many times but his County where the[...]signature was always an "X". William and Sarah were re- Theodore in 1870, Angeline in 1872 and their last child, presentative of many o[...]County who worked the earth, first mining and later farm- Farmers most of their lives, they c[...]h of a better life. Their children began to marry and persevering. leave home, moving on to Nebraska and Kansas, but one William was well o[...]ficant effect on their lives. five feet, petite and trim all her life. They were married for[...] |
| [...]Pioneer diggins on the old road between Wisdom and Gib- obituary reads, "Mrs. Huff was a quiet, home-ioving person bonsville. He and Lucian Eby, who spent some time in this and had many friends." They practiced a Quaker-like reli- area, were partners and they worked a claim on Ruby Creek. gion all their[...]character in the Big Hole. He panned for gold in and dark and they lived quiet private lives.[...]lives with their daughter, Valley in Montana and the other into the Salmon Valley in Ada Belle Bro[...]lon. Both Idaho that are named for him and called "Hughes Creek." funeral services were cond[...]th shaven, white hair with clear blue snappy eyes and a A Tribute to Barney Hughes[...]r of Barney Hughes was born in Ireland in 1827 and came to Granville ever bringing home a g[...]re this country in 1839. He caught the gold fever and mined in than we did Barney Hughes." California, British Columbia and Idaho before coming to The last year[...]of the Big He came to Bannack in August, 1862, and worked wash- Hole Battlefield. He died at the age of 82, and there is a little ing gold from Grasshopper Creek[...]the weather, Tom Cover, Henry Edgar, Bill Sweeney and Harry Society of Montana Pioneers. It bears the words, "Barney Rogers, and they left together in 1863 to join up with James[...]ible are the words, "One of the with Crow Indians and never caught up with the Stuart Disco[...]ld prisoner by the Indians but managed to escape, and Barney described the escape route as follows,[...]ck Pace "After reaching the divide of the Madison and Gallatin·we The Helena Independent Newsp[...]9, Mon- took the old Bannack Trail for a distance and came out on tana Historical Society, Hele[...]anville Stu- of Alder Gulch. We crossed the river and followed Squaw art Gulch down to the divide of Alder Gulch and went into camp about a mile above where Virginia[...]s Bill Fairweather took the pan they cooked in and washed George Hughes at age 24 rode a b[...]first business block north of Bannack Street. He and a current site of Dillon, and reached Bannack on June 1. This partner, Hu[...]y, the man who sold him dy, cigars, gifts, and novelty items. The business name was the property did not own it and he couldn't recover his Hughes and McCaleb. money.[...]mbia, at an earlier time, he met Oliver, and they had one son, James Emerson, born in 1904. Ge[...]Couch, who was raised in Pony, Montana, and came to Dil- honest and hard-working fellow when he first met him, and lon to work in Eliel's store. it was with[...]him end his life as he did In 1918, George and Dorothy bought a ranch in the north- a few years[...]ned in the elled roads, offered seclusion and spectacular mountain see- 290-Beaverh[...] |
| [...]ndance Hulsizer, mainly in Silver Bow and Madison Counties, of native hay with a consta[...]e hills south of Bannack, 10 miles ofno avail and to date I have found virtually no data on her. distant. The water flowed by aquaduct built of logs and Edward 0. Hulsizer lived with his dau[...]- heavy timbers. It was known as "The Flume", and traffic tently, and the last bit of information on him consisted of a[...]1897. His Two children were born to Dorothy and George Hughes, granddaughter thought he returned to New Jersey and ap- Preston and Shirley Ann. Their early schooling was by a[...]re. teacher living in their home at the ranch and later at the John Hulsizer married Etta Rhodes of Butte and resided Grant school.[...]Anna Florence Hulsizer of Glendale, Dorothy and George retired in 1942, selling the ranch to[...]also of Glendale. They Emerson, son of George and Lilly May. homesteade[...]n was raised "gulch" named after Albert Cline and he and his family on the ranch. He married Louise Piazzola and later moved were well respected ranchers[...]-EDITH PALMER February 18, 1891, and after completing his schooling he[...]second child, Minerva C. The Hulsizer Family and Cline,[...]Minerva and Jim resided in a new home at Wise River, J[...]Ada M. Hulsizer married Abraham Lincoln Ryan and 1833, was the eighth child of 11 children born to Joel and resided in Glendale, Butte and Sheridan. A daughter was Margaret. Old record[...]0. Hulsizer born to this union in 1900 and the family moved to the grew up in New Jersey[...]Anna Florence Hulsizer (Septem- ber 18, 1862) and Ada Malvina Hulsizer (January 20, 1868).[...]A. P. and Eliza Hungate Old school records from the[...]l., died February 5, 1911, in Summerfield, Kans., and teacher where he received $.50 each for the students and is buried there. Eliza Short was born in Kentucky. When room and board. One employer states "This is to certify th[...]her father I have examined Edward 0. Hulsizer and find him of good James Short died when[...]ars old. Her mother moral character, learning and ability, and I do license him to later married a widower, W[...]jah Piatt Hungate. Eliza Angeline Short and Adonijah were sey, dated March 27, 1857." married and lived in Illinois for a time, then in Iowa and I have no data on how or when the Ed 0. Hu[...]hat a Hulsizer lived in Glendale as early as 1882 and for years. ran a hotel and restaurant known as the "Stager House." A[...]belonging to Minerva Hulsizer shows en- and stopping overnight at the stage depot on the same[...]$75 paid to Jas. L. Jones, Practicing Surgeon and Ac- put his hand on "Nige's" shoulder, and in pidgin English coucher, dated October 8, 1[...]were mining claims filed by Edward 0. Hulsizer and John P. Nige, however, jumped up and immediately forsook his fish-[...] |
| [...]the latch with his nose and pushing it open and closed with[...]Basin to a ranch twelve miles out of Wisdom and ranched with my uncles Fred, Floyd, and Walter Hungate. Later all[...]then moved to Lima and Dell to ranch on the McKnight place and the old Scott place where Ed died April 2, 1934.[...]ndegate, which the British corrupted to Houndgate and[...]Revolutionary, Civil, Indian and all of the United States'[...]s. The Hungates: (back row, from le~) Eliza, Emma and[...]n 1867, died in Cora; (front) Adonijah, Ed and son.[...]rried Adonijah had a rollicking sense of humor and a ready wit. Andrew Jackson "Pete" Downing, second marriage to Elba He loved horses and seems to have passed this trait down McNin[...]January 26, 1900, where Ed took a job freighting and stage route to Melrose, died May 6, 1908; Essie, born January 27, 1904, died Octo- Glendale and over the Gibbonsville Pass to Salmon, Idaho, ber 31, 1974, married George Helming; Walter, born June and on to Ketchum where the old stage coach is still[...], Twin Bridges, on to Virginia City, where'he met and Baker, second marriage to Mattix. married Oll[...]er 30 years. Ollie was the daughter of Martha Lee and Sylvester Shepherd. After my grandfather quit freighting and stage driving, he worked as foreman on the Thompson Ranch at Red Rock, Dell and Kidd. He stayed with the Thompson Ranch for about 25 or 30 years and the ranch had grown to be a whole string of ranches and summer ranges before he left. Ed was a large m[...]ng, hard riding, hard drinking, all-around cowboy and stockman. When he was getting along in years, my[...]ide, nobody can." He had his saddle horses broken and trained so that Ed and Iva Hungate 292-Beaverhead History |
| (Most of these genealogical and historical records were taken from five volumes[...]Clarence was born in Webster, Mass., in 1871, and lived to be about 86 or 87. He was the Tom Sawy[...]errible blow to his ego, so he got on his bicycle and came out to Montana, ending up in Centennial. H[...]ence Hunt, Ann decided to retire from the world and become a hermit, but Upham Tiegs Hunt and Hattie Amelia Hunt Fair- he was too much of an[...]He settled in Lakeview which was the headquarters and tance to the flesh that was involved und[...]n the area, including the retrieve his catch and take it in for his money. ones through Yellowst[...]ned a blacksmith Dick Rock (a friend and associate of Buffalo Bill) and his shop and plied his trade for several years. It was standard wife had a combination working and "Dude" ranch at Hen- procedure to work 16 hours[...]s. Sometimes he used to give "Tanzy", the water and shelter.[...]tographers. Of course this made the buffalo angry and ' after he'd lost his girl by death following an[...]es he'd let the buffalo follow him around while and took up a homestead. He decided he'd like to have[...]asing him clear into built a flume out from it, and dropped the water into a the house and then battering the front door. Since no one tur[...]horns under his body, toss him way up in the air and back on, but there was no way this could be, so[...]f. and start the whole process over again. She sent for[...]ng his trapline he found a rence, who came and shot the buffalo so they could get the bear cav[...]hammer was held -WES AND EDITH FAIRBANKS in place by a rubber band. Nevertheless he crawled in and shot his bear. He was brash and didn't know the meaning of fear. He used to tra[...]girl died with typhoid fever. That was the first and last specimen. He got the feet tied together wi[...]woman in his life. He contracted typhoid and, after a long thongs, put a stick under its jaws to hold the mouth away recovery period, his hair and whiskers had turned snow from him, and started for home. Fate was out to throw "a fly[...]it a soft place in the He came to Centennial and filed on his homestead, after snow, the tips of his skis went under the snow, and he and living several years with brother Cl[...] |
| [...]octor Clarence to Eunice Huntley in 1922 and their children are Dwain wanted Gilbert to sew hi[...]ck on for him. Dewey, born 1922, and Richard Thomas, born 1926. However, Gilbert was such a sensitive and squeamish per- In 1924, Carl contracted tuberculosis and went to Califor- son he couldn't force himself to[...]nia for treatment. At that time, Ralph (1902- ) and Clark boiled a spool of black thread and a darning needle. Cla- (1904-1982), Wil[...]29. a definite crook. All three fingers grew back and he had use Will Huntley built the origin[...]oor was never Clarence, being a practical joker and very much the extro- completed. It remained that way until Ralph and Ebba vert, used to always say "Look what my broth[...]modeled it in 1949. do. I can point over the hill and around the corner. I'll bet[...]uneasiness for Gilbert but he was much too gentle and even-tempered to ever get angry about it, or even[...]For economic reasons Oscar Truman Husted and his -WES AND EDITH FAIRBANKS brother, H[...]Murray, Iowa, and came to Montana. With a sense of adven-[...]seph Schindler, father of the late Emil Schindler and Bank, had loaned Bob Jones money to buy the ranch and he grandfather of Francis who now own[...]name by took possession of one-half of the ranch and Jones kept the which he was thereafter known. Jack and Pearl sold this other half.[...]homestead to Joseph Schindler and parted company. Pearl Will Huntley was involve[...]farming with several other brothers. mian Brewery and large holdings of wheat and barley land Jack journeyed to Sout[...](1891- eventually returned to the Big Hole and purchased a place 1929) to manage the ranch in th[...]in partnership with Mr. Carl managed the ranch and acquired the Ruby ranch, Weenink. I[...]The lazy JF the Swanson ranch, the Francis ranch and the Elliott ranch. brand is still in use[...]ny of the photographs taken in this era of people and[...]neers Fredrick and Cecilia Hirschy. Estella was known as[...]"Esta" and "Ces." Jack and Esta were married December[...]and Esta lived on the Fox Place for three years, sell[...]present ranch owned and operated by two sons of Jack and Esta, John and William Husted. Carl Huntley William Huntley Jack and Esta set up temporary living quarters in a[...] |
| [...]brothers Jack and Horatio arrived. He married a widow,[...]Emily Stanchfield and they lived on the Pendergast Place,[...]recently known as the Blaz Lugar and Bill Harrison Ranch. Frank and Emily moved to Wise River on the ranch where[...]Vern Stanchfield and his sons Frank and Dean now live.[...]After Emily's death Frank moved to California and was[...]John and Jimmie Dell[...]John Hutchins and his wife, from Mineral Wells, Texas,[...]Harry Hopkins and, with the help of Weldon Else, built a[...]ins were very hard workers, Jack and Esta Husted milking cows, helping to put up hay and any other work they barn while having a house bui[...]he house found to do. was completed in 1913 and is currently home for William, After several years they moved to Jackson where they had John and his wife Dolores. The house has been remodeled a store and meat market. They took a little girl to raise and several times since the original construction was[...]name of Keith (Cooney) Boetticher. born to Jack and Esta and are still living: Edith Husted Hutchin[...]usted (Knudsen) 1917; was always busy and worked at many different jobs. Some- William B. H[...]was able to make a trip back to visit in Jack and Esta raised sheep in the late 1920s and early 30s. Texas once while they lived in the B[...]emember how she always called him "John his mouth and riding horseback to Dillon to have it extract-[...]Joseph and Louisa was ever discarded", she said. Clothes wer[...]out", was the way of life Joseph Hutchens and Louisa Vincent were married and for many folks of that day.[...]ents came originally from Surrey, England, second and third generations moved west to Indiana and probably via Salt Lake City. Some of Louisa's family were in Iowa and were also farmers. Jack was the seventh of 12[...]to the Deer Lodge area, children born to Horatio and Sarah Jane (Day) Husted. He while a sister and two brothers lived in Salt Lake City. was born in 1876 and died at the family ranch home in the Jo[...]4. Louisa Vincent Hutchens was born Jan. 8, 1842, and -DOLORE[...] |
| [...]horse and wagon or horseback for many years, and winter[...]John and Bertha Inabnit[...]g dislike of oatmeal mush. From len: Harry, James and W. G. Grose; and Nellie[...]ong the Big Hole River near Fox. Fox was the nia, and were buried in the Glendale Cemetery. A family mail stop and a gathering spot for the Saturday night story is that they saved money and buried it in the yard. It dances. The music consisted mostly of fiddles and mouth- was still there when they died. Later, a n[...]en rode miles to court the young ladies. new team and wagon. It was suspected he had found the[...]John became a partner on the ranch and eventually 1914; Eliazbeth Hutchens Siria, married to Noah Siria and bought out August Wenger. He was joined by his mother, the couple had six children; and Emily Louise Hutchens Anna Wenger Inabni[...]was still a territory. sister, Anna Hunsicker, and her daughter Frieda also joined The couple had four children: Laura and Lottie who died at them. ages five and six; Bessie who married James T. Grose, and Bertha Schlunegger, also of Grindelwald,[...]er, Margaret Nelson, in Wisdom. born at Glendale, and Bessie and Nellie went to school Her husband Fred was a U.S. Commissioner and a Notary there. The Hutchens name may have been H[...]White of Wisdom. With the death of Orren in 1928 and his wife, Emily, in 1937, Alice Bertha Inabn[...]the two-story white it disappeared. Two grandsons and their families, James frame house on the ranch at Fox on August 26, 1917. In and Harry Grose, are the only direct descendants. The[...]anch now owned by the Hirschys. The When Orren and Emily were running the ranch in lower Nelsons, Anna Inabnit and the Hunsickers moved to Long Brown's Gulch, she w[...]-working woman of scarcely 100 Mr. and Mrs. Christ Deutschman, John's sister Marion, pounds. At that time the hay was pitched onto a wagon and also had a ranch along Bloody Dick Creek four miles south hauled to a stackyard and stacked. She would stack the hay of Jackson. They decided to move to Long Beach and per- on the wagon while Orren pitched in the field. On occasion a suaded John and Bertha to buy their ranch. A neighbor rattlesnake[...]o have been a very neat person. A grandson and moved to Long Beach. John became a cattle buyer f[...]Most of the students rode horse- lon, using horse and buggy to get to Brown's Bridge, which back t[...]ths Alice was one of the many stops between Butte and Dillon. stayed with Anne and Wendell Jardine in town. Besides Emily lived i[...]tayed with her to to have indoor plumbing and a warm sunken bathtub. The 296-Beaver[...] |
| [...]Bertha and John Inabnit with daughter Alice tub, of course,[...]died in But having washtub baths, kerosene lamps and an outdoor[...]il stage came in from Dillon for the upper valley and one could travel by that stage to Dillon.[...]Agnes Kau Pierce Ingersoll was born to Matthew and jacks for the winter and the batteries were brought in so[...]all mining town which was located east of Melrose and the Jackson Mercantile, operated by Mr. and Mrs. George[...]Within the next few years she and her family moved sev- learned to dance at an early age and often ended up sleeping[...]times, Agnes spending one year in a Butte school and on benches near the stove. Dances lasted until th[...]time in Melrose and Wise River where her father worked on hours with[...]rant School until graduating from eighth age. Mr. and Mrs. Ford had a much admired new "Cord"[...]hone operator at the which their daughter, Sadie, and Alice borrowed for a drive[...]ake City, Utah. U.S. mail truck. The irate driver and other adults were[...]Lorrayne and Dick. lucrative. After the drives the usual sprin[...]Tom became ill and died at the young age of 30 in 1928. that included irrigating and repairing harnesses and ma- Ag[...]Fero left the ranch and her brother-in-law, George Smith, Hayhands entered the valley for jobs and housewives became foreman until the boys, Tom and Dick, became of cooked for large crews until the[...]It is interesting to note that Agnes and two relatives were The Inaqnits retired from ranching and moved to Long[...] |
| [...]and resided there until 1927 when he returned to the[...]area and ranched on Rattlesnake Creek with his brother[...]rlton. In 1930 the family moved to Salmon, Idaho, and[...]1948. He returned to Dillon and served as city police magis-[...]trate, Beaverhead County Justice of the Peace and custodi-[...]1885, to M. H. and Mary Armstrong Briney. She came to[...]Mr. and Mrs. Innes had three sons: Evans G., Jr., Joe, and Gilbert. Mr. Innes died July 19, 1962, and Mrs. Innes died[...]John and Catherine Innes[...]ada, in 1836 and was educated there in the field of mining[...]engineering. He migrated to Bannack in 1862 and partici- Falls to Butte in 1928. pated in mining and ranching until his death at Dillon. Late in 192[...]John returned to Ontario numerous times and married Pacific Street in Dillon which she kept f[...]Agnes married Rufus Ingersoll on April 8, 1948, and nes, was born in Goderich, Ontario, on[...]returned to the followed by Martin in 1868 and Mary Lyle in 1869. ranch for a few years before retiring to Dillon where Rufe In 1873 John and Catherine made their permanent resi- died Februar[...]esidence at 232 So. Washington -ADELE ROUSE and LORRAYNE REBICH[...]treet in Dillon in later years. John died in 1919 and Cather-[...]December 7, 1867, in Ontario, Can- Innes and Catherine Young on May 8, 1868. He spent his ada, he was the son of John C. and Catherine Young Innes. He came to Bannack with his parents in the early 1870s and later located with them on a ranch north of Dillo[...]ecame associated with his father in stock raising and later acquired a ranch on the Rattlesnake Creek,[...]-HELEN SHAFFNER Evans and Jean Innes 298-Beaverhead History |
| [...]ch but moved to Bannack with his fam- ily in 1873 and was raised on his parents' ranch. Martin's wor[...]took a supply wagon out to the scattered ranches and was welcomed by the isolated ranchers upon whom h[...]ad come to Montana from Listowel, Ontario. Martin and Matilda Mary L. Innes raised two children: Ruth (1900) and James (1907). Martin died of a heart condition in 1925 and is buried in Dillon. John Stephen Innes was born December 6, 1873, in Mon- tana to John Innes and Catherine Young who raised him on their ranch near Dillon. He married a widow with three children and farmed in the Jocko Valley near Missoula. He was[...]nack on Au- gust 10, 1878, daughter of John Innes and Catherine Young. She· was raised in the Dillon a[...]ch. Euphemia graduated from high school in Dillon and later will never be erased. attended Pra[...]." in a room in the old St. James Parish Hall and there Miss vately for her friends.[...]brary. She gained her early li- Euphemia Innes and Gilbert Wheat were married June brary[...]1906. They raised two children, Lois Lyle (1907) and and when the new library was built in 1902, she assisted Winifred Winona (1910). Euphemia and Gilbert raised their there. In 1903, she w[...]one of the acting librar- family in Virginia City and later in Bozeman, Montana. ians. She as[...]00's. Mary Lyle Innes, the daughter of John C. and Catherine She continued her education by t[...], the University of California at ada of Scottish and Canadian descent. She moved to Bea- Berkeley and Columbia University in New York. · verhead County with her parents in the early 1870's and Miss Innes died April 24, 1964 and is buried at Mt. View spent her entire life here.[...]tury, then joined the Bagley School staff in 1895 and taught there until her retirement in 1938. Ray and Olive Irion On January 17, 1939 a plaque honor[...]ndreds of former pu- son of John Irion Sr. and Susan Osborn Irion. He was born pils gathered for[...]mmunity." Miss to eastern Montana to farm and raise livestock. Innes was additionally honored i[...]third of seven children born to Charles A. Coon and Etta Miss Innes also devoted many years to the[...]e Coon family lived in Eastern Montana, of Dillon and in 1962 she was honored by the City Council[...]ved in Phoenix, Ariz., for short periods of time, and named Librarian Emeritus. In August, 1963, her many making the trip by team and wagons. My mother was a small friends honored her[...]lly Mary," commissioned by her fellow townspeople and paint- my grandparents settled in eastern[...]his canvas now hangs years. in the library and is a tribute to a gallant lady whose influ- M[...]oung people through the gift of knowledge 1915 and I was born there July 17, 1916. My brother[...] |
| [...]n Miles City, September 4, 1918. We both and two children, Hannah, three and a half years, and John, attended grade school in Armstead and I atten'ded Beaver- fourteen months. Antone became a naturalized citizen and head County High School. Loren was killed in an a[...]Eda brought with Feb. 28, 1939. My parents, Loren and I lived on a dry farm in her barrels and trunks filled with all the necessities for eastern Montana but my father hunted coyotes and wolves household including clothes, fabrics, feather beds and for bounty and also as a government trapper.[...]In the fall of 1920 we moved to Beaverhead County and Traveling to Bannack, Montana, Antone applied for and lived until May, 1922, on the Hart place in the C[...]ons, horses, milk cows, chickens, pigs, food, and all the tools Monida was a team and sleigh. We went to Dillon for a short needed for building and surviving. time and then to the Mayfield dry farm and later to the April 1, 1884, brought th[...]Hannah, then four, and John, 23 months, were not too much My parents were divorced and my mother married my help getting thin[...]e winter. uncle, Farber S. Irion, who also hunted and trapped. In the Antone hauled logs, cutting them with an ax and swede saw. spring he went to the Cook Sheep Co. t[...]He constructed the cabin living quarters and a barn to house dens when the pups were still sma[...]so an old-time the livestock, using dung, sand and clay to chink between fiddle player for dances. I[...]e sod. A fireplace, the main source of that Loren and I could attend school. Previously my mother heat and cooking, was made of rocks, clay and sand. Its had taught us the 3 R's so we were not[...]es. fry pans and dutch ovens set on racks in the fireplace for[...]wagons and stored for the livestock. Keeping predators Antone H. and Eda Jackson[...]these, along with smoking island between Denmark and Germany, in 1882, arriving at and salting fish and meat, grinding grain for food, churning Ellis Isl[...]t a busy Leadville, Colo. After mining in the day and lighting the time-but they were adequately[...]onths, he sent winter. The help always offered and accepted by the other passage for his family to c[...]wife, pioneers, trappers, miners, settlers and Indians made all[...]All the wild animals so prevalent then made a gun and ammunition and traps necessary, not only to secure food,[...]but for wearing apparel and trading items with the Indians, fur traders, and buyers. Bartering was the most-used ex-[...]bear, bobcats, badgers and weasels were predator fur-bear-[...]deer, bear, buffalo and beaver (tails with beans). The Indi-[...]preserve and prepare the animals. There were no willows or[...]elk in the valley in the late 1800s and buffalo and cow chips[...]ests. All travelers, cattle riders, and residents were welcome[...]ous, but there was always enough and everyone was welcome[...]Ida, May, and Henry who was born January 13 during a[...]estead site. They then moved to John and Margaret Jackson[...] |
| [...]Late in 1880, brothers Herman and Antonne Jackson and their wives Henrietta and Eda (who were sisters) left[...]hleswig-Holstein. Herman had an infant son Martin and[...]north of Wisdom. In 1936 a Antone and Eda Jackson[...]Martin was the only winter devastated the cattle and all died when green grass fourth generation[...]ll the cov- were frantically driven to bare spots and high places, fed cut ered wagon of that trip to Wisdom and that his mother's willows along with hay pitched[...]n) served as the seat hay stacks up onto the snow and then into sleds, but to no in the wagon. It[...]rothers moved their families to the upper Springs and established a boarding house and post office. end of the Big Hole and located on Bloody Dick creek on the Antone was ap[...]nown as the Hairpin. The winter of 1886 was 1896, and the location was then named Jackson after him. A long and hard and the hay supply ran out. They turned the daughter,[...]ail by horseback from Jackson to settlers at East and survive on the spots the wind had blown bare but the cattle West Fox, Briston, Gibbons, Bowen, Wisdom, and Fish all perished. Trap. By this tim[...]20 wagons only students were the Jackson and Lapham children. In with six to eight teams each[...]e home a bride, Margaret Ibey, from New Hampshire and Association. In 1890 Herman bought a[...]as the bought the ranch from his parents. Antone and family then Summers Ranch, now owned by To[...]. This property remained in the family un- and built a two-story house, full basement, running w[...]f the first modern homes in the valley. Antone and Eda's granddaughter, Eda Shepherd, is the[...]ter in Jackson, the eleventh since Antone. and three daughters. The oldest son (Martin) was the[...]daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dishno, who were also The Antone Jackson family: Antone H. (1852-1926) and early day pioneers of Idaho and Montana and who with Eda Hansen (1857-1916) married in 1877 and had seven their son Silas ranc[...] |
| [...]ad found them a house Montana) "To William Farlin and to him alone did Butte in Bannack-anoth[...]unaided. The fever left Cora with a bad heart and teeth. "Grandma Dishno" was the only nurse and midwife in the It was decided that p[...]est of the Big horse reacted to a side saddle and the long riding skirt the Hole river and south of the Miner Creek Lane to his son women all used at that time. George put on Cora's skirt and Martin. In 1913 Herman sold the home ranch to Geo[...]ine but George felt Clemow, retired from business and moved to Dillon. that the side saddle and the dress were an unbelievable Martin and his bride made their home on the property[...]le log house they made had to be lifted on and off by others. Gradually, her strength their home[...]of the present residence although not returned and soon she was all over the area on horseback. disc[...]Atwater. A female doctor was quite unusual and perhaps daughters, Mildred and Lucille, and a son Noel were born of the first in Montana[...]ater trained Cora to be her this marriage. Martin and Emma continued to ranch at that nurse and together they would go to places they were need- location until their deaths, Emma in 1945 and Martin in ed on their horses. Many stabbings, shootings and births 1947.[...]In 1885 Antonne Jackson was appointed postmaster and Harvey worked at Argenta as a caretak[...]de, now the Clarks met her with their horse and buggy and she known as Carrol Hill, in the winter except on[...]the fumes got intense, and they wore handkerchiefs over After Martin's death, his eldest daughter and his son Noel their faces. She was glad to get back to Bannack. divided the ranch. Noel and his son Martin added more Cora and Harvey ran the Goodrich Hotel in Bannack and ranchland to his share. In 1964 Mildred and her husband employed a Chinese cook who also made the pies. Henry sold their portion to Noel and his son Martin. Martin and Plummer's guns were on display behind the[...]Cora through the Fairweather Inn in Virginia City and Twyla.[...]16 years. The post office was in the same Harvey and Cora Jackson building and Harvey was the postmaster. They lived in the C[...]e, as she had County, Iowa, one of eight children and the eldest daughter had that "habit" many times before, Harvey didn't get up of Lewis Tash and Mary Elizabeth Weeter. She used to tell im[...]the clothes the family of 10 people on fire and they could not save the building. The house that[...]1884. It was also signed by Noah M. coach and freight line. She would tell of her pride watchin[...]While she was in the store and post office, her brother Cora and Harvey were married March 22, 1888, in Afton,[...]rado" to the hotel, cuffed him to the table fever and was gravely ill. The doctor thought she might and handed Cora a gun to watch him while he went after survive if she went west. They sold their belongings and another desperado. She always had[...] |
| [...]in the hospital and in people's homes. She seemed to spe-[...]in-law, Earl, finally put his foot down and said "no more[...]mer to visit relatives in Twin Bridges, Melrose, and Dillon. Her grandchildren-Robert and myself, Patricia-were[...]hip in November of 1955 and died at Cut Bank, June 26,[...]age of 20, who had her children at the ages of 37 and 41, lived[...]Beer and Lynda Kaye Beer.[...]-PAT BEER Harvey and Cora Jackson She said he could have left and she'd not have gotten in his[...]al factor of Cora's life was that she was and came to Montana in 1871 with his father, Sam Jagg[...]tographer of the first electric who mined and ranched in the Grasshopper Valley. James dredge i[...]life mining in the Bannack area except for dredge and then to look at present day Grasshopper Creek is[...]rather astounding. The company bought the camera and Lodge. supplies. She developed her o[...]sums up the incident and begins with the caption, "Jaggers Cora and Harvey moved to Twin Bridges in 1906 and Gets Eighteen Months." The article c[...]les today sentenced born. Harvey sold real estate and farmed in the Twin James K. Jaggers,[...]joined his brother Jay in a venture to sell and passing it with intent to defraud, to 18 months in the mines and homesteads in Mexico. They ran excursions by pen at hard labor, and fined him $100. When Jaggers was train. A financi[...]pe that the court would be mer- time Cora, Donald and Dorothy visited family in Iowa. ciful[...]ng, still the court thought he passed the Doctors and nurses along with patients were dying. All sur-[...]the hospital. getting rid of a lot of it, and stood ready to literally flood the Cora put her early training with Dr. Atwater to work and community. The jury had recommended him[...]t say. The maxi- hospital for three to four weeks and the hospital never sent mum punishment was a sentence of 10 years and a fine of them a bill. During the time that Cora and Harvey were in $5,000. He would give him one and one-half years and fine Butte, Grandma Tash took care of Don and Dorothy. Both him $100. Jaggers made n[...]onsidered that he got off lucky. Jaggers was room and wet sheets boiled in lysol water were hung all[...]James Jaggers, knowing that the Sheriff the farm and Cora went to work in the Orphans' Home.[...]na State College, Bozman. forever lost and not able to be used as evidence against him. F[...]A witness saw the fateful plunge of the sacks and notified to work again. She became a practical nu[...]es" gold dredge was brought in home with a family and nursed the ailing back to life, mov- and dredged the creek about where the sack was cast and ing to another position when no longer nee[...] |
| ing him once and that he only had one leg and a six-shooter school there. Born August 4, 1886, the son of James and on each side of his lap. Jeff was about age six a[...]Eleanor (Wandlass) Jaggers, he worked in mining and (which would date the incident about 1916) and his old ranching and was a foreman on various George Ditty grandfather[...]funeral was conduct- born February 12, 1910, and Hope Jaggers (Lucas) born ed in the family home b[...]the flu epi- Mrs. E. D. Reed of Pocatello, Idaho, and Mrs. Myrle Ender- demic swept Beaverhead County, killing Roy and Hazel a ly of California.[...]grandmother, Montana Elizabeth Mathews, and aunts and uncle, Georgia, Bertie and Berry Mathews. The Jaggers[...]children were adopted by the Mathews in 1917 and hence go Samuel and Jane Jaggers by the name of Jeff Mathews and Hope Mathews (Lucas). Samuel Jaggers was an early rancher and stockgrower in[...]was born in Beu- lah, England, on March 21, 1832, and at the age of 16 emi- gratd to the United States, arriving in New Jersey and mov-[...]was accompanied by his mother, J. Fred and Augusta Jahnke came from Clinton, Mass., Elizabeth Knott Jaggers, his brothers Robert and Joseph where they had a tailor shop, to Butte, before coming to the and a sister Mrs. Anne Bastion. He resided near Galena for Big Hole in the early 1890s. They were German and always 24 years, farming and operating the United States Hotel in spoke[...]n. and Lydia. He married Jane Moore, a native of Ireland, and they had The Jahnkes took up land about a[...]ile south four children: James, Mary Anne, Joseph and Robert. In of where Fred Rutledge's low[...]arried Mary Catherine Hamil- died in 1894 and Mrs. Jahnke died in 1919. They are both ton from Huntington County, Pa. and they had four chil- buried in the Wisdom -Cemetery. Paul and John never mar- dren: Harry, Gracie, Fannie and Magdaline. ried. Gus was married for a few years and lived in Salmon, In the spring of 1866 he came to Montana, arriving first in Idaho, running a store and meat market. He moved back to Virginia City and later settling in Bannack. During this time th[...]n to Missoula. he was successful in quartz mining and prospecting business Martha was married to a Mr. Jones and they farmed at and worked at the Del Monte Mine (on the road between[...]ith their four children. Mr. Jones died in Dillon and Bannack), the Springfield Mine, and at one time 1926. was owner of the Davis Mi[...]Lydia was married to a Mr. Winkler for some time and In 1877 he took up a ranch on Horse Prairie whi[...]rs went by. He was one of the extensive and moved back to the ranch with her brothers until s[...]ig on January 9, 1925. She died in freight wagons and teams between Salmon, Idaho and Red September of 1936 and is buried in the Wisdom Cemetery. Rock, Montana.[...]in mining and had a claim near Philipsburg. It paid well for[...]The ranch paid well and they were well off, but still re-[...]dom, Big Hole Battelfield and later at Butte. There was also James Jaggers was born in Galena, Ill., in 1856 and in 1871 a mine claim in Nevada. moved with his[...]-JOAN WILKE he too engaged in mining and ranching. He married Eleanor W andlass, a native[...]hildren in Bannack: Ethyl (Hunt), Myrl (Enderly), and Roy. James Louis and Eliza Jane died in Dillon on April 29, 1927.[...]Born in 1866 to Harmon Jakway and Mary Arkshire in Roy Jaggers[...]nt. in Beaverhead County but the first to be born and attend Eliza Jane Huff was the t[...] |
| [...]Lou and Liza Jakway moved to Market Lake (now Rob-[...]mercantile establishment in both Roberts and Camas, Ida-[...]Liza died sometime after 1925 and was buried in Roberts[...]Angeline Huff Taylor, and they continued to live in the[...]Roberts/Market Lake area until Lou's death. Lou and Liza[...]Mose and Lucy Jardine[...]Moses Dudley (Mose or M. D.) and Lucetta (Lucy) Jar-[...]the same year and they later sent for the rest of the family.[...]Dudley, was born in Nantyglo, Wales, and came across the[...]addock, came from "the east" (LaPorte, Lou Jakway and bride Eliza Jane HuffI Hainline Ind.) to work in the open air and recover from consumption (1898 in D[...]and later sent for Mame (Mary Abigail Francis), also from Huff and Sarah Ann Graham. Born 1849 in Blandinsville,[...]h her family to Wilcox, Mo., in 1869. 1878 and two years later her brother Jim. On January[...]e of the first settlers there. The County, Mo., and had two sons, Thomas and Hardin. Sever- route led south from Butte,[...]trip, possibly a cattle drive. Norie of the men and up into the Big Hole Valley south to north. This[...]seen again. Liza raised her sons alone. Liza and her sons moved to Montana in the 1890s. She settled in Lima where hr,r sisters Ada Huff Brothers and Margaret Huff Seybold lived with their families[...]is aunt Ada Brothers for a while. He was sickly and became deaf as a child. He returned to the midwest, married a woman named Maude and lived in Elkhart, Ind., where he was a successf[...]Hardin lived with his grandparents, William and Sarah Huff, near Polaris on their farm in 1900 and later returned to the midwest. Hardin and his wife Annie lived in Burling- ton, Colo., and had a daughter Ruth. In Lima, Liza met Lou J[...]s J akway's first marriage. He was 17 Mose and Lucy Jardine on their wedding day May yea[...] |
| spring, May 1884, Warm Spring Creek was flooded, and the crossing was tricky. The buggy driven by Mam[...]ely. The wagon, driven by John, hit a steep bank and almost overturned. Lucy, age 6, and Jim, age 3 and a half, were frightened, and Lucy wanted to change drivers and ride in the buggy with Mame. Uncle Charlie Franci[...]Mose Jardine came to the Big Hole in his teens, and worked on the ranch of Bill and Jim Montgomery, near Wisdom. Later Mose bought hi[...]lope area. This ranch was later owned by Joe Shaw and after that by Bill Ritschel. To this ranch he brought his bride Lucy in 1901. Mose and Lucy were married in Dillon. The ceremony was pla[...]THE JARDINES-Front row, from le~, Len Pendle- ies and other supplies. Besides the wagon, there were fas[...]er: Walter Jar- moving buggies carrying relatives and friends who came dine, Annie Jardine, W[...]ospel" R. P. Smith dine, Jim Jardine and A. J. Noyes. was witnessed by James F. Paddock (L[...]dings by hallway or porch. Anyone who Woodsworth, and Mrs. A. J. Noyes. I'm sure Grandma[...]ince this was a stopping-over place for travelers and book. freighters, there was also a large barn and corrals. One early After a wedding breakfast i[...]r morning the barn burned, a spectacular fire and there was home. With the wagon already loaded, bride and groom rode barely time to get the horses o[...]dal gown of white china silk, with ruffles, tucks and pearl stands. The new barn was painted gray, wh[...]s- roof. A smaller, almost identical, cow barn and storage area ton ranch. Their two children were b[...]log house south of Wisdom. The many of them and was proud of his Belgians. Only the sire doctor w[...]eautiful big bay named May- vey, was born in 1905 and a daughter, Helen Susanne, in or De Orr. And there was always a race horse on the ranch, 1907.[...]s. I remember the Ames, the Harrison, Mill Point, and side saddle and long skirts. She told of seeing large herds of the Ten Miles between Jackson and Dillon. In the winter antelope in the valley.[...]ear with the teacher California in 1955 and was buried in Cherry Creek beside "boarding aroun[...]. In 1911 Mose bought the B. 0. Fournier place and hot -HELEN JARDINE SEELY springs from B. A. "Horse" Smith and moved the family to Jackson. Son Wendell was age[...]Wendell H. and Anne and all somehow connected. There was a cement plunge[...]ch would now be called a pool) with a board floor and benches on one side. This was all covered and connected to Anne Marie Jorgenson[...] |
| [...]member of Dillon Elks. Anne and Wendell had one son[...]the Jardines sold the ranch and moved to a retirement com-[...]Jardine worked there and his wife, Jane Thompson Jar.dine[...]War as a 16-year-old drummer boy, and worked after the Wendell H. Jardine[...]ew York, where he met Jane. conda, Mont. to Hans and Amanda Jorgenson. She was |
| [...]n his young wife visited him in the new territory and could not deliver their third child, it took two days for the doctor to be reached and to arrive from Bannock. After the death of his wife and child, William returned to Hespeler to rear two o[...]the death of her husband. She became a seamstress and then buyer at the Eliel Brothers' drygoods store[...]f early pioneers: Isabell married Justin Brundage and Beatrice married Wil- liam D. Ross. Effie's son Jardine returned to Ontario, and her second son, Bruce, entered business in Southe[...]-ISABEL ROSS HARVEY Wilhelm and Christina |
| was still a single man and would soon be 33 years old, so it Chevrolet F[...]he good graces of her parents to mortgaged and in a shambles. Things got so bad in 1928 that court her. He managed that and being a handsome adven- Fred had to lease his home to sharecroppers and go to Wis- turer, he promptly swept her off her feet. consin and bury his mother, and, as it turned out, salvage Her name was Annie[...]ts from about 1895. Annie May, Fred and May survived the Great Depression of the 30s, the[...]1898, into a family of 15. raised their family and lived out their lives in Dillon. Fred and May were married in November, 1915, and moved[...]CCAULEY to their homestead in time to get settled and plant a field of flax the following spring. As[...]ohnson, as he was known, was another elu- joining and undertook to look after the homesteads of May sive and colorful character, shrouded in mystery and on the and Mrs. Carlson.[...]had a "diggins." The son was some 20 years older and a sturdy, capable mature vein began about[...]e birth to Sigfred with only of his mine and looked like copper-so gold would surely be Mrs. C[...]was there. He dug back into the hill by hand and carried the dirt a few days old before a doctor c[...]t. But, alas, at a distance of about 25 feet, the and Fred came home to see his son.[...]completely. A small crop was harvested in 1916 and 1917 but not There is a Johnson Lake, supposed to have been named enough to live on. Fred and C. D. had to give up. In 1918 after him. Fred pledged his homestead and possessions to borrow His endeavor[...]Butte was one such enterprise. The traps were set and 1918, 1919, and 1923 three more children, Bernice, Beatrice, baited with salt for capturing mountain goats, primarily. and Elinor were born. These were better times for May[...]ad moved from the homestead. They visited friends and and secured between two pack mules. Thus, the captive[...]they married. were conveyed to level ground and then delivered by wagon Sigfred started school and May learned to drive the old 1916 to buyers.[...]He appeared and vanished, leaving added color and sen-[...]Swan and Jennie Johnson[...]in Kansas, Minnesota, and North Dakota before coming to Montana and the Big Hole in the 1890s. He walked to Fox,[...]he cleaned the livery barn and split wood for the hotel to[...]earn his supper, breakfast, and night's lodging in the hay[...]and then was associated with Sam Peterson in business[...]Swan made three trips back to Sweden by ship and on the[...]to join him in business. Gus was single and Carl and Hilda[...] |
| and the children came also. Swan's sister, Ida, and her hus- band John N. Anderson and family came from Denver. On June 19, 1910, John Harvey was born to Swan and Jennie. Swan and Jennie rented the Watson ranch for one year. A partnership was formed between Gus, Carl, and Swan Johnson, and John N. Anderson and the Andrews place was purchased in 1911. On June 19, 1911, Nora Christina was born to Swan and Jennie. In June of 1912, Swan and Jennie purchased the Chauncey Brown ranch and moved there with the family. On September 22, 191[...]grade school in Jackson. During the teens, Gus and Car1 and family sold their interest in the Andrews place to John N. Anderson and Albreen and Martha Jones family and moved back to Sweden. Swan and Jennie contin- ued to live on the Chauncey Brown[...]Albreen and Martha Jones -JOE JOHNSON Albreen F. and Martha Russell Jones and family of six Albert Jones Family[...]Valley in the late 1800s. They were born and raised in Blue Albert Arcellas (Tuck) Jones and Eva Belle Adams were Field, Va. They resided in Missouri and Nebraska, also in married by Mr. Levi Shambow, Ju[...]Albreen (W oodtick) was born June 16, 1846, and Martha at Hazeville, Iowa; Eva Belle Adams was bo[...]ren were Dora B., who After the marriage, Tuck and Eva (Belle) lived on Tuck's married Harry Rash[...]de Joneses); Jessie A., who married LeRoy Sperry; and dren, Leona, born October 13, 1904 and Alberta L., born Franklin T., who married[...]died as infants, Belden R. and William J. Leona remembers walking to the one[...]Evidently my grandfather had the wanderlust and was far from the Hayden's and attending school in the summer looking for[...]he story I remember of how my grandfather got the and they usually didn't have a full, nine month schoo[...]ng She also remembers carrying water to the house and how how bad the woodticks were that sprin[...]f Grandmother Leona met Earl Huggins at a dance and they were married Jones. I would have just m[...]11, 1924. Earl ran the mail for corncob pipe and sent back to Virginia for her tobacco. Blaz Lugar from Monida to Lakeview and later the Summit Albreen Jones died January 3, 1913, and Martha Jones Supply Store in Monida for Ora Rosel[...]1935. Both are buried in the Jones Ceme- station and worked for White Pine in Missoula. Leona and tery in the Centennial. Earl have two sons, Jack born September 20, 1925 and[...]Gene, born August 23, 1926. Jack has two children and lives in Las Vegas and Gene has four daughters and lives in Missoula. Leona has 10 great grandchildr[...]oved to Dillon after selling Clara L. Davis and her daughter, Eva, moved to Monida the ranch and he passed away there June 26, 1956. Both are[...]etery in the Centennial. in Monida and then worked for Mrs. John A. (Pap) Jones on Earl Huggins and Albert Jones are both dead and are their ranch in the Centennial. There[...]issoula at the Clark Franklin (Frank) Jones and they were married in Dillon by Fork Manor.[...] |
| was married to Albert Arcella (Tuck) Jones. Tuck and Frank Jones were brothers, being two of the six children belonging to John A. (Pap) and Mam Jones. Frank, Clara, and Eva, Clara's daughter, lived on Frank's homestead[...]ow located. Eva went to the Blake School. Frank and Clara eventually moved to Dillon where Frank drove a taxi for a while. Frank died in 1972, and Clara died in 1975. Both are buried in Dillon. Eva moved to Minnesota in 1945, and lived there until moving to Missoula in 1980. Eva[...]y, Nebraska on October 17, 1881. He never married and worked the ranch[...]and Charles Jones[...]and a daughter Mabel who resides in Chelan, Washingto[...]Frank died April 12, 1957, and Florence died December[...]-RUBY SPERRY SWANK with his father and brother Franklin on Long Creek. After their fathe[...]Jeff and Rachel Jones operated the ranch for many years.[...]Phillip Jefferson Jones, known as P. J. and also Jeff in his Charles was a very good neighb[...]oldest child of Alverene Franklin "Frank" needed and a very special person to his nieces and nephews. Jones and Martha Russell of Nebraska. He was born July He d[...]. 27, 1868, and came to Beaverhead County with his family in[...]Jeffs father took up a homestead on West Creek and later[...]ecame known Frank was born November 3, 1876. He and his brother as the north-side Joneses.[...]achel Catherine "Kate" Jones, daughter of Albreen and Martha Jones, they operated together from[...]alley. With 1913 to the early thirties when Frank and his family left the the help of Monroe "[...] |
| [...]lene White and had a son.[...]Jones, Shambow, Doyle, Lakeview, Upper Lakeview and[...]caused a swell in school-age children and the county super-[...]er the country. Many taught for only a short time and became brides and retired to be full-time ranchers' or busi-[...]keeping quiet in class and was spanked with a ruler many[...]Ralph and Guy rode horses to school in good weather and[...]depending on the weather and work to be done. Ralph com-[...]grade and worked fulltime on the family ranch. The nearest[...]on Lee, mother Rachel Catherine "Kate", son Cleve and fa- ther Phillip Jefferson "Jeff". (Taken Weenick[...]Lee married Perssis Etta Alvey (Brothers) in 1930 and they had two children. Later he married Mrs. Wins[...]He married Ada Belle Brothers in Rexburg, Idaho, and they had six children. Later he married Rebecca Winstead and had three daugh- ters. Guy Gilbert Jones was b[...]P. J. Jones children: (L-R) Ralph, Maude and Guy Barbara Hill and had two children. Later he married Dar-[...] |
| [...]Red Rock Lakes. As boys, they watched the coming and going of the rich men from Butte and other cities and a few from Dillon. Hunting ducks was the excuse to get away from city life, drink and party, and unwind in the rustic atmosphere. One of the b[...]t Henry's Lake, Lima, Monida, Mack's Inn, Spencer and Humphrey and any other place that could find the space, draft two or three musicians, and gather a crowd. As the boys grew older, Monida dances were favored, because the crowds were rowdier and with the availability of the saloon, one could us[...]t for young men who wanted to meet "mature" women and experience the more worldly life style. Prizes[...]k their share of prizes. As boys, they trapped and hunted coyotes, wolves, bad- gers and other game, selling the pelts to Frank Bassett and most of the summmer on Frank's ranch. All who[...]w. enough to work built fence and worked in the hay field. The best part of livi[...]rned, was the outdoor life, riding horses help and called them Cox's army. Later that fall John took and working the stock, and the freedom that went along up a homeste[...]south side Joneses and north side Joneses, about twenty The downside[...]the miles east ofMonida. The older boys and girlstook up home- unpaved roads, the remoteness of the area, and the winter steads also making the Jones ran[...]d be turned given them a team, saddle horse and milk cow to help them to the advantage of a deter[...]eze over in the twenties, some of the Jones and daughters Julia and Jane cut grass on the ditch residents would drive[...]on the frozen river to Lima bank with scissors and carried it in a bed sheet to feed the to attend t[...]animals. They trapped and sold pelts that winter and ate The north-side Joneses were not affected by the coming lots of deer meat. of the bird refuge and they continued to live there until the John'[...]r her husband died. She passed away at the -RALPH and GUY JONES and SALLY GARRETT ranch in J[...]DINGLEY overlooking the ranch and Valley for a cemetery, and several[...]friends. It is called the Jones Cemetery and his mother was[...]leased to John Delila Jessup, was born in Indiana and they were married in Bray for summer cow camp[...]Lou, had loaded all their belongings in a boxcar and didn't have Matilda Jane, Charles Franklin, and Addie May. Johnny enough money for train fare for the family, so they rode in married Dora Walton and they had three children: Eliza- the boxcar also. When they arrived in Monida, they were beth, Glen and Gertrude. Kate married Jeff Jones, from the met b[...]ick). The family spent north side Joneses, and they had eight children: Cleve, Myr-[...] |
| [...]and Anna Peterson. She attended schools in Sweden and[...]ster Ingrid Peterson Nelson (wife of Nels Nelson) and her[...]couple on the train noticed her plight and shared their food with her and she reached Montana safely.[...]the local seamstress for a short time and then went to the[...]eterson. John's From le#- back row: Tuck, Johnny, and Frank; sec- ranch was adjacent to Hans Jorgenson's ranch and Amanda ond row: Jane, Addie, and Kate; front row: Mother and Hans soon met. Delila seated, Julie, Emma, and Father John Pap They married at[...]1905 with John Peterson and Marian Jorgenson as wit- tle, Earnest, Jeff, Lee, Ralph, Guy and Maude. Tuck mar- nesses. They made their home at Hans's ranch, west of ried Belle Adams and they had two children: Leon and Albert. Julia married Ben Hart and they had five children: Ben, Ruth, Abraham, Franklin, and Mary Jane. Emma mar- ried Fred Hansen and they had four children: Jim, Chester, Ella, and Lila. Jane married William Miller and they had five: Florence, Bill, Ethel, Ted, and Lincoln. Frank married Clara Belle Adams, they had no children. Addie married Matt Reis and they had three children: Gladys, Raymond and Lucille. All lived in the Centennial at one time.[...]-ETHEL MILLER BRAY Hans and Amanda |
| [...]nsons were having a phone installed in their home and the wiring was incomplete. Lightning struck and trav- eled through the phone wires into the house setting it afire destroying their home and all their possessions. They quick- ly rebuilt a place to live and cook. They also built shelter for the haymen as h[...]ich still stands today on the Ranch. Hans, Amanda and Anna returned to Denmark and Sweden to visit their families in 1910, and returned to Mon- tana in 1911. Charles and Tilda Benson (Amanda's sister and husband) had just sold their ranch on the Gibbonsville road in the Big Hole and offered to take care of the J orgen- son_ranch so[...]Hans was a Wisdom School trustee for many years and the instigator of a two year high school in Wisdo[...]were both active in Eastern Star, Masons, Shrine and Daughters of The Nile. One of the yearly social h[...], not even a gopher. However, after Shrine events and go shopping. They always spent several scouring the entire area he spied a black and white object days at the Butte Hotel, a popular p[...]nothing, so he proceeded to skin it and prepare stew. That Their daughter, Anna, marri[...]ne in 1928 night the fellows were tired and hungry, and when they and moved to the Jardine ranch in Jackson. A few year[...]neph- They praised Bob's culinary effort, and they ate voraciously ew, Elmer Jensen and they moved into Wisdom. In April, unt[...]were eating. 1946, they sold the ranch to Harold and Mae Nelson. They They looked up in surprise and shook their heads: When lived in Wisdom until the[...]them it was skunk, they dumped their plates, held and Hans in October 1952. their noses, and threw punches at him. Bob really enjoyed[...], Bob did sentinel duty. He had en- Robert and Cora Joy[...]voked trouble and blamed it on the Indians. Robert "Bob" Joy was[...]d curdling voice kept He attended school in Ohio, and then set out in the 1870s to them moving onward, even if it sent cold shivers up and seek his fortune in the West.[...]d, When they reached Ogden, Utah, Bob and Jim left the but his restlessness beckoned him westward to Lucas Sta- prospectors and started out on their own. There was no tion, Iowa[...], so they actually of back breaking drudgery, Bob and his buddy, Jim, joined "hoofed" it most[...]. Fortunately Life under the stars was rugged, and it wasn't long before they met several ranch[...]ded herders for their their food supply dwindled, and Bob was summoned to hunt sheep, and these greenhorns needed a job. for food. T[...] |
| [...], he in Dillon. forgot all about gold mining and settled down to thoughts of Lee Joy served[...]ld War I. After his The 1880s passed rapidly, and Bob became so involved in discharge he joined his father in partnership on the ranch. working and saving money he paid little attention to wom- The Joys bought their first Buick in 1918, and toured en. However, one day he chanced to meet a[...]Joseph Pace in Silver Bow tracted his attention, and it wasn't long after this that he County, Nove[...]Grace Leora Bean Edwards In 1891 and 1892 he bought land from William Barbour and Joseph Kambich. Judy Cora and Bob became parents of three children: Pearl[...]born June 5, 1891: Maude born September 28, 1892: and Lee Milton and Henrietta Bean, early settlers in the Centennial[...]She attended schools in the Valley and Salt Lake City. The Joy girls attended schools at Willis and Dillon. They The family moved to Salt Lake fo[...]Valley. Bob purchased more land and expanded their homestead William Edwards was born to William and Susan Ed- into a working cattle ranch displaying[...]rried Earl (Francis) Green, a railroad engi- and took up a place in the lower end of the Valley on the neer, in Dillon, on June 16, 1913. Maude and Francis were north side. Bill received his schooling in the Valley and in the parents of two children: Genevieve born March 22, 1914 Lima. at Lima; and Archie Born September 22, 1915 at the Joy[...]for several years. She married William (Bill) Ed- and Maude Green and her children made their home with ward[...]lon. They lived in Monida for the Joys. Genevieve and Archie Green attended the Reichle a time,[...]They later worked on the Paul Brothers Ranch and on the Pearl Joy married Jake Mittelmeier in Butte, January 4, Staudaher Place for Poindexter and Orr (P&O). Two chil- 1915. They were parents of o[...]s lived in Dillon where Jake was employed and a daughter Muriel on May 16, 1916.[...]Bill filed on a homestead on Clover Creek in 1917 and[...]time and also worked on other ranches. They were working[...]on Clover Creek and went t9 families with the flu to take[...]cook for their help. She and her children lived at the Stau-[...]duhar Place part of the time and part of the time she lived at[...]he P&O Ranches. They contin- and Pearl ued working on the P&O in the Valley and also on the 316-Beaverhead History |
| [...]Edwards and Jim Edwards; Front: Stella Edwards and Muriel Edwards[...]1889, to Joseph and Lucy Judy, the third child in a family of[...]Tug spent his boyhood and received his schooling. He was[...]nicknamed "Tug" as a boy and the name stuck with him[...]Tug came to the Centennial Valley in 1909, and worked[...]when he returned to the Centennial Valley and again[...]They then moved to Dillon and made their home. Bill, Vernold and Grace Edwards[...]Tug passed away April 19, 1964, and is buried in Moun-[...]e his father in the Jones Cemetery. Grace, Tug and Muriel moved back to the homestead in 1921. Grace proved up on the property and received a pat- ent to it in the 1920s. The place was called the Judy Ranch. Everyone stopped at the ranch and was always welcome. The cowboys stopped for a meal of Grace's excellent cooking and perhaps to stay overnight while trailing cattle t[...]Centennial. Grace was a loving, caring person and was always willing and ready to help those in need and in illness. She also delivered several babies. She loved the outdoors and went fishing whenever possible. Grace and Tug sold the place and moved to Dillon in the late 1940s. Grace passed away March 17, 1959, from a heart attack and is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon[...]-MURIEL L. NIX Grace and Tug Judy[...] |
| [...]lightning and killed instantly. He was 32 years old. Katie and the children remained on the ranch and, with the help[...]and the children then moved back to their home in Dil[...]The ranch was eventually sold and is now owned by Mr. and[...]Two children were born to this marriage; Danny and Dor-[...]nia, Bill Kajin and Kathryn Kajin (Franks) of Dillon, Dan[...]Bok a of Las Vegas, Nevada and Dorothianne Boka Kajin Family (from le~) Albert,[...](McDowell) of Lind, Washington. Mary, Katie and Kathryn Matt, Katie and their son Albert are buried in Mountain[...]-KATHRYN KAJIN FRANKS Matt and Katie Kajin Matthew Kajin Jr. was born July 6, 1891, in Butte to Matt and Annie Kajin, who operated a neighborhood grocery John and Oshula Kambich store. Matt had one younger brothe[...]hn Kambich was born in Semic, Austria in 1854. He and father sold the family business and moved to the Dillon came to this country as[...]and at area where they purchased a ranch from Mr. and Mrs. Glendale, Montana. George Rebis[...]At that time, there was nothing but brush and rocks cov- year and in 1900 sold the ranch to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph ering the land. He cleared the land using a grub hoe and Butala. They moved their family to the Lima area[...]Government. wagon with a board for sides and drawn by horses. The ranch is now a part of the Steve Hess Land and Live- It was very hard clear"ing the la[...]rnment land which was located about a tion and it was hard to make ditches through the rocky mil[...]where there were huge boulders, large sagebrush, and On January 23, 1912, Matt Jr. and Katie Pershe of Dillon tall rye grass. Most o[...]marriage by Daniel Foley, Pastor of the St. and shovel. There were many places where a ditch coul[...]de of born January 23, 1890, in Kuti, Yugoslavia, and at age 21 boards was built to carry the wat[...]ne by train across The towns of Glendale and Hecla, a mining town 12 miles the U.S. to Dillon[...]Staudu- from Glendale, soon started mining gold and silver. These har.[...]two towns became active mining camps and work was plen- In 1913, Matt and Katie sold their ranch to Mrs. Mary tiful.[...]population of around 5,000 Calvert, Lloyd Munday, and at present by Richard Gosman people. of Lima), and moved to Dillon where they purchased a home Work was still hard and the roads from Glendale to Hecla from Milton and Mary Elliott in the Thompsen Addition were drifted with ice and snow in the winter. Then, the (now Thomsen Avenue[...]teamsters, John included, had eight or ten and sometimes born; Mary, Albert, Kathryn and William. more horses hitch[...]rt Selway, dale for smelting. Dart Hardware and Implement Co. and then became Yard The panic of 1893[...]He then pur- when the price of gold and silver hit rock bottom and mining chased a ranch north of Dillon from Jens P[...]ng, single-edged blade on Plutt, Martin Markovich and the Kajin ranch. Across the a bent wooden shaft. Hay had to be pitched on to and off the road was a slaughter house owned by Chest[...]ed in the middle with a rope to release the catch and it 318-Beaverhead History |
| was raised up on a derick made of two large poles and cross poles at the top. When the hay reached the right level and[...]cult to harvest. It was cut then tied with string and men and women would go into the field and stack the bundles of grain with the heads of grai[...]Oshula Kambich married John Kambich in Austria and came to America as a bride. She came by boat and was sick most of the way. They came to Montana to homestead land by wagon and saw very few Indians. Oshula Kambich, better k[...]me she was barefooted as her family was very poor and only the very rich had shoes. Even in the winter while herding sheep, she would be bare- footed and have to sit on her feet to keep them from freez- ing. After leaving Austria Grandma and her husband settled in Glendale. They cleared off[...]a tool shaped like a pick only four inches across and not pointed. They had to chop down trees and clean brush from the land. Living was very hard and the winters were especially severe. Glendale s[...]started mining at Hecla, 12 miles from Glendale, and the smelter was located in Glendale. Mining both gold Stephen and Anna Kambich and silver brought families to the area. Glendale[...]This account of the life of Stephen Kambich and his a brewery, a general store, and a post office. Grandma baked family is written[...]law, Frances Moran 15-20 loaves of bread each day and sold them as there was no Kambich. The followi[...]of bakery in town. She churned butter, molded it and sold it, the Kambich family told to me by my husband, Carl J. too. Summers were busy and people bought her vegetables Kambich who[...]preserved in the fall for use the of Austria and Germany. He used to say his father's farm rest of[...]was so situated he could put one foot in Austria and the hams, ribs, etc. were put into brine for weeks and then other foot across the fence into Ger[...]se or scrapple. The intestines were farm, and in the late 1870s, Stephen and his brother, John, cleaned and sausages were made. Some were smoked.[...]o the United States. Some of their Grandma cooked and preserved in large crock jars. Pork had countrymen settled in Idaho, and this is where they first to be cooked well and packed just right for it would spoil if stopped[...]cial care wasn't taken. Even the feet were cooked and friendships again. Later, they heard stori[...]town of Glendale, Mont., and there they journeyed. Fish were salted down to[...]John got a ranch on the outskirts of Glendale, and Steve washed on a board all Grandma's life. She c[...]town. It was there his little daughter Anna, wood and carried it into the house. Grandma and John had named for her young mother, was born. She came before two seven sons and one daughter. She died in 1964 at the age of brothers, Steve and Louis. The mother Anna was a young 102.[...]lady of fragile health, and the high Glendale altitude was[...]hard on her. The baby Anna contracted pneumonia and -NICK MILLER and JUANITA MILLER died[...] |
| the little mother and her health continued to deteriorate. As their ranch was cleared of willows and became a truly Stephen Kambich was determined[...]k. One August Sunday ate location for his family, and when news came of land in 1923, after a h[...]to homesteaders in the Ronan area, near and swim. Young Joe at 13 years old loved swimming and Flathead Lake, he put a pack on his back, hiked a[...]to join him. He was mountains to Wisdom, Montana, and from there hitch- caught in a whirlpo[...]his heart- men thought the boys were playing, and ignored Joe's strug- ache, after all this arduous[...]could not get Joe to shore. Both boys went under and down After returning to Glendale, he persuaded[...]ying a ranch in the Glen valley. This fooling, and tried to help them. Carl was pulled unconscious w[...]untain country to raise his family. find Joe - and then too late. So Steve continued along - really[...]by Anna. After a severe illness of pneumonia and his spirit was broken. He lived and few more years after and the birth of two sons, she, too, died. Her heart-broken Joe's drowning and then suffered a stroke. His devoted fam- husband[...]ow he struggled to raise them alone. same, and passed away early in 1935. But Fate intervened! A[...]ich's former neighbor from Austria, Mary Mihelich and her family are buried in the Dillon cemetery. The baby Anna brothers were in Idaho and invited him to visit them. He was moved from the Glendale cemetery. and the boys did.[...]ly purchased ranch in 1886. become Stephen's wife and a new mother to his two little It was a sm[...]oys. Mary worked very hard to be a good helpmate, and she tree. In 1912, he donated one acre of his ranch to what was the mother of Carl, Mamie, Frank and Joe Kambich. became the Reichle School.[...]edy struck Stephen. At age 10, his beautiful and served for years in that capacity. His years at Glen truly little daughter Mamie, his beloved partner and little cow- helped the community and all who lived there. girl, died of rheumatic feve[...]Frank and Tom Kambich, Carolee Kambich Fifield, and They became the benefactor of all families in[...]nald Kambich, all of Glen. Margaret Clinchand ans and all travelers in the area (the road from Butte to Tom and Frank Kambich are the children of Frank and Dillon passed their ranch) . Many a newcomer to Montana Amelia Buyan Kambich. Carl Donald Kambich and Carolee from Austria stayed with Steve and Mary while getting used Fifield are the children of Carl and Frances Moran Kam- to America and the English language. They were most gen- bich. Steve and Louis Kambich never married. Steve died in erous in lending money, giving food, shelter and milk cows 1951, Frank in 1948, Louis in 1963 and Carl in 1965. as their own finances increased. Wh[...]-Frances Moran Kambich church was built, Steve and Mary donated the bell in the tower that can be he[...]Jacob and Johanna[...]Jacob and Johanna Kambrick were- married in Butte at[...]Rogan born Dec. 20, 1903; and John Kambrick born Nov. 17,[...]The family moved to Dillon in 1914 and bought a ranch[...]Beach, Calif.; Mary died June 13, 1986; and John died in ~ 1954. Stephen and Mary Kambich[...] |
| [...]He was raised in a railroad family, and his three half broth- ers and brother all became railroad men. His father, John[...]a. He became an expert steam locomotive mechanic, and M-a tthew and Minnie Kau[...]tive Works. He traveled the country and eventually became Matthew W. Kau was born in 1[...]Wis., a master mechanic for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. and came to Montana around the age of 13. He settled first He designed and supervised the building of the large D&RG near Gold Creek and Drummond, Mont., doing timber and RR shops in Pueblo, Colorado. ranch wor[...]mining camp, to Mel- He served his time here and became an expert steam loco- rose where he met hi[...]d of all the places Les was a native of Glendale, and who was working as a waitress worked as a you[...]In 1902 they were married in Butte Angeles and worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. and had two daughters. Agnes was born in 1903 in Rochester While in Los Angeles, Les met and married a young wom- and Gladys was born in 1906 at Glendale.[...]from Ontario, Canada, Myrtle Flora Generaux. Les and He continued at this job for several years bef[...]gon, pulled by six horses, delivering Oregon: and Yvonne Evelyn, born November 13, 1913, now meat t[...]rnia. Their third child Winston mately four years and then went to the Vineyard Ranch at Lester,[...]Les worked in Los Vegas for a short In 1912 he and his family moved to Horse Prairie, settling time, and about 1913 he became round house foreman for on the W. M. Montgomery Ranch and later becoming part- ner with Montgomery. The ran[...]for years during which time W~ M. Montgomery died and left the place to his son, Ewing Montgomery, a re[...]sold this ranch to John Peterson of Horse Prairie and Matt moved to a ranch at Armstead which belonged[...]r, Agnes Pierce. He lived there for several years and then moved to Dillon retir- ing due to poor healt[...]on in July, 1949, leaving his wife, two daughters and numerous grandchildren, nieces and neph- ews. During his lifetime he was a member of[...]a member of the Catholic Church. She died in 1970 and was buried in the The Union Pacifi[...] |
| [...]a, Mont., as round house foreman. The round house and turn table were vital for traffic over the mountains. In those days, two steam locomotives, and on occasion, three, were re- quired to pull the heavy trains over the mountains to and from Pocatello, Idaho. During the first World War it was critical to keep this traffic of troop and freight trains moving, and Les and his crew managed very well. No train was delayed[...]heir efforts they were presented an American flag and commended. Les enjoyed life in Lima. He was an avid fisherman and bird hunter and the country around Lima was a fisherman's paradise. He also enjoyed fishing trips to Yellowstone, and grouse hunting in the ranch coun- try. In abou[...]erintendent became available in Portland, Oregon, and as much as he regretted leaving Lima, it was a move he could not let pass. Les moved his family to Portland and went to work for the Union Pacific Railroad. He r[...]he Union Pacific through the initial diesel phase and retired from the rail- road after 36 years of ser[...]ar II, he worked as shop superintendent for Poole and McGonigle, a ship repair firm. After the war, Les retired and lived com- fortably in Portland. He passed away M[...]) originally emigrated from Swit- zerland in 1743 and settled in Lebanon County, Pennsylva- ma.[...]ly Leslie and Merle Kellner with son Edwin (1917) Leslie B. Kellner and a friend, both from Ft. Worth, Tex- as, and both students at Texas Christian University in Ft. end of Sheep Creek Basin and erected a one room log cabin. Worth, rode freight[...]at the little town of Dell, Mont., on a and Rolla Henderson, who had come with horse and buggy Sunday afternoon while a baseball game was[...]m their homestead a f ~w miles away to play cards and The young men were invited to participate and impressed spend the night, were on hand[...]offered jobs in the hay only complication was, and is, an obviously "home made" fields if they would stay and play for the local team. They belly button.[...]nd She died of pneumonia in December, 1917, and an account of the haying season.[...]ntana Magazine". he returned the following summer and, as it turned out, The combined homesteads and some deeded acreage spent most of his remaining l[...]of Again he played baseball for the Dell team and worked in sheep, a few head of cattle and saddle and work horses the hay fields, and that winter he and Ernest Farrand through the long winters. As a consequence, springs and trapped on Big Sheep Creek. He became friends with Edgar summers were spent on the ranch and the livestock was Kenison and through him met a Kenison daughter, Merle. taken to lower valleys in the late fall, fed there, and then They were married December 18, 1913. Merle h[...]e ranch income, Les at one with her parents Edgar and Belle Kenison. The Kenisons time worke[...]ranchers. He served also as station agent Les and Merle took up adjoining homesteads in the north in Gilmore and Leadore, Idaho, for the Gilmore and Pitts- 322-Beaverhead History |
| [...]d to wait until nental Divide to Leadore, Gilmore and Salmon, Idaho, with a Circuit Judge came to[...]d in Armstead, boasted, always wore a tall hat and carried a cane. He didn't need the "My railroad i[...]I could time. get 25 cents a pound for the wool and five cents a pound for Mary, his wife, suffered a stroke and spent the last 20 the lambs, we could make it". T[...]of her life in a wheelchair. She was able to cook and do rent price of wool at over $2.00 a pound and $.85 or so a some housekeeping tasks in spi[...]he pound for lambs. In any event, he did't get it and so didn't passed away in 1917 and Judge Kenison died in 1919. Both make it and lost the ranch in 1931 during the depression.[...]in the family plot in Mountain View Cemetery. Les and Merle were divorced, then remarried and divorced[...]LEE HANSEN again. Merle later married Harry Smith and later Ivan Cummings. She owned and operated a beauty shop in Dillon for many years.[...]Floyd Andrew Kenison 1971. Les never remarried and worked on ranches in the Floyd Keniso[...]moved with his parents, William Edgar and Mary Belle -EDWIN[...]to Big Sheep Creek basin where his dad and mother filed on[...]sized boy but had to do the work of a from Kansas and Missouri to Dillon about the turn of the m[...]of sagebrush from the land. They had wife Minnie and three children were the first to arrive in a[...]ed man, who was also a neighbor, drove one Alonzo and Mary Justus Kenison had five children, all of team and Floyd the other. He was small and toward the end whom were grown by the time they c[...]xtra leather fastened to the line toward the sas, and Eva Daisy (1879) who married William H. Wilson in[...]. and when Floyd would drop behind he would "pick him up" Alonzo and Mary settled on a dry farm southeast of Dillon on[...]He served as Justice of the Peace for many years and was known to all as "Judge" Kenison. In those ear[...](Standing, from left) Grant, Ida J\,lay, William, and Eva Daisy; (seated) Alonzo ("Judge''), Mary, and John.[...] |
| with a snap of the line on his legs and buttocks. Floyd Floyd grew rapidly and while at this school was very ac- carried lifelon[...]tive in sports, especially basketball, football and boxing. He The neighbors on the only other ranch in these early days became proficient in surveying and surveyed the ground for were a band of horse thieves. All of them, except the two a city park and race track. men who owned the ranch, either died[...]He spent four years at the College of Montana and then were killed resisting arrest. In those days, however, they went to Los Angeles, Calif. to an automotive school. This were operating freely, stealing hors[...]o. They was in the early days of automobiles and the course was had a lookout station on the side of a mountain down in the called Automotive Engineering, but in reality it was an ex- canyon[...]nted men " sanctuary for their his father and other ranchers breaking horses and herding work in stealing horses.[...]October, 1917, he married Mabelle Sanders of Rex- and were kind to Floyd. They taught him to ride and to rope. burg, Idaho. They had a small cattle ranch in connection He and his sister Merle were good friends with two daugh[...]orts was laid out down Sheep Creek Canyon to Dell and enterprise, extracting oil from oil shale[...]. Floyd went to work there but the enterprise was and some of those fords continued to be used during t[...]ed this garage and had an auto livery, serving the areas Young Floyd and Merle were taught at home by their around Armstead and over in to the Gilmore, Leadore, and mother for the first few years. When a school was[...]ementary school require- He sold out and moved with his wife and son, Floyd S. ments in three and one half years at about the usual age. His ("[...]this until he sold out and retired in 1950. At this time, he and his wife, Mabelle, moved to Arizona where he live[...]He was survived by his wife and son, Floyd Sanders Keni-[...]son; three grandsons, Floyd Richard, Robert John and Wil- liam Bruce Kenison, and one granddaughter, Pamela Jolene[...]illiam Kenison, his wife Minnie Ellerman Kenison, and[...]nickname "Doc," age 8; Eva Cornelia, almost four, and Anna, age two and one-half. Bill had heard of the gold[...]strikes at Bannack and Virginia City and hoped that all of it[...]tunities for an ambitious and hard-working young man.[...]learner and a bumper crop of alfalfa at the end of the sum-[...]mer attested to his ability. Floyd and Mabelle Kenison ( 1950)[...] |
| [...]wasn't as great as they remembered, and the first year was[...]farm and moved back to Montana.[...]family, Edward Frank in 1906 and Mary Mollie in 1909.[...]Bill stocked with horses and cattle. The family lived there[...]Bridges Road. That home was theirs for many years and[...]became a favorite gathering place for family and friends, all of whom enjoyed the love and hospitality of these fine peo-[...]LEE HANSEN William Kenison, Eva, Jo Anna, Minnie and "Doc" (standing).[...]Edgar Kenison Family homes, one in Dillon and one on the ranch about three miles William Edgar Kenison and Belle Stark Kenison came to north of Dillon. The[...]Dillon in 1899 with children Floyd (age nine) and Merle ranch house where they lived until Bill wa[...]cessitated their move up Carter money and few belongings except for a chest of drawers Cre[...]. Thorpe had a new had preceded them and put them up until Edgar got a job three room hou[...]em. putting up hay for the Poindexter and Orr ranch on Black- · In 1903 Bill started working for Jones and Davidson tail Creek south of Dillon.[...]tion. cabin with a sod roof. Minnie bought yards and yards of Edgar and Belle took up adjoining homesteads in Sheep ~alico fabric and lined the walls and ceilings to keep out dirt Creek Basin where the[...]elihood, they were good neighbors al- ~upboards, and a big black wood-burning kitchen stove. She[...]prison in Deer Lodge. On .vas an excellent cook and housekeeper, and cooked for all one occasion the horse thie[...]herd. He picked six fillies which Each fall and spring they went to Dillon with a big wagon b[...]ing for ernment for cavalry mounts prior to and during World War ;he family and for the herders who worked with the sheep.[...]ry Rash, freighted in by four-horse teams and wagons once a year, 3ert Collins, and Ace Kenison organized a six-month sum- us[...]a second iquidistant from the various ranches, and hired a teacher trip, on the same day, to[...]at for the year ahead. >0ught a home in Dillon, and invested in what he thought In addition to the horse herd, sheep and cattle were added vas a rich gold mine in Oregon. Each April the family moved and the ranch prospered. The family moved from a log cabin here to work the mine and returned to Dillon about into a two-[...]school. water from a well under the basement and with electric Hter three or four years he becam[...]at area. The ranch was sold in 1920 for $100,000, and lecided to go back to Missouri and buy a farm. Missouri the family mo[...] |
| [...]had a daughter, Kennette, who married B.J. Smith and they shale in the Blacktail area south of Dillon,[...]ried Mildred Erickson after be an unsound venture and the endeavor failed. At about his first w[...]aughter, Edythe, married Ray Osburn the livestock and equipment, failed to make payments on who died in 1987. Edythe resides in Salem, Ore. Ray and the balance due and declared bankruptcy. Edgar was forced Edyth[...]owever, he no longer had any interest in ranching and the mal and teaching in Montana secondary schools. oldest son[...]R Montana, Floyd married Mabelle Sanders in 1917, and there was one son, Floyd Jr., who presently resid[...]ebster Kenison was born in Cedar County, in 1913, and there were two children, Edwin who presently Missouri, June 28, 1890, to William and Minnie Kenison. lives in Helena, Montana and Mary Louise who died in They moved to Beaverhead County in 1898. infancy in 1917. Merle owned and operated a beauty shop in As a young man g[...]ail area, "Doc," Dillon for many years. After she and Leslie were divorced, spen~ every spare minute learning about nature. "He was they remarried and again divorced and she later married Harry Smith and then Ivan Cummings. She died in Renton, Wash., in[...]ren were born in Montana: Car- rie, twins Mildred and Willard, Marian, Kenneth and Edythe. Carrie married Val Jacobs and they had a daughter, Mildred, now deceased. Carrie later married Willis Martin- ell and they had a daughter, Afton. Carrie died in Tacoma, Wash., in 1978. Mildred married Walter Lyons, and after his death, married Guy Gray and later married Joe Pace. She had no children and died in 1980. Willard never married and died in 1933 never having recovered fully from a fall with a horse. Marion married Merritt Barnes and they had a daughter, Dawn, who resides in Coeur d[...]in about 1930. Kenneth married Crystal Wentworth and they[...]This interest in trapping and prospecting earned Doc a[...]on everyone's ranch and they readily put him up. "A very[...]likeable man and as fine a trapper that ever lived," Russell[...]and trapped during the winters. His trade marks were[...]wheel buggy and horse, and the constant adornment of[...]Doc died September 13, 1926, at the age of 36, and with him his secret for coyote trapping and reportedly a mineral[...]John and Rosella Kent[...]Montana, to Augustus C. and Louisa C. Brotherton Kent.[...]He was the second of six children and the oldest son. When Edgar and Belle Kenison 16 years ol[...]le from Texas to with children Floyd and Merle Montana. Later[...] |
| [...]ington Kent from Kentucky and Marie Louise Ferguson. George W. Kent and his wife Marie migrated to Illinois and[...]migrating west and so is the case with the Kent family.[...]Julian migrated to Iowa and here he met and married Jen-[...]Jennie Nye was the daughter John and Rosella Kent of Enoch Randolph Nye (1863-1907) and Diademia Lucinda a butcher shop until after he wa[...]chland, Rosella Wyscaver was of German descent and her family N.Y., migrated to Illinois and was a veteran of the Civil War, from Des Moines,[...]they came to Dillon. To this union six N.Y., and her family migrated to Illinois where she and children were born, four boys and two girls. The last little Enoch R. Nye met and married in 1855. The Nye family girl was stillbor[...]Many of the jobs he did still stand in both and in Iowa is where the two families met. Beaverhead and Madison counties. In Madison County, he Julian F. Kent and his wife Jennie R. Nye Kent lived for a built the[...]upied by the Benny Reynolds while in Iowa and then migrated to Nebraska. After a while family.[...]eaverhead in Nebraska they moved to Montana and took up a home- River at the Point of Rocks, used[...]) first water line from the storage tank to town, and the was three years old and Montana J. Kent (1891-1963) was schoolhouse at De[...]Julian F. Kent worked for the Oregon al ranches, and buildings on several other ranches: the Tash Short Line Railroad for a few years out of Lima and in 1894 Ranch at Polaris; the Morris Ranch; the P & 0 buildings; the twins Eva and Leva were born in Lima. They were the the Sanders and LaDue (Diamond O -Walker)Ranch; and first twins born in Lima and were heralded in with the help many others. He al[...]up on their homestead in the Centennial, John and Rose bought the Tromely place and sawmill in the family continued living e[...]where Jennie ran a fairly successful grocery and supply there in the 1930s, then ran cattle when h[...]ceived most of their education in Lima and stayed on in the Their second son, George, was[...]e bullet severed the artery in his leg Lima. and he bled to death. Homer, the oldest son, grew up[...]of the Julian Kent family are as follows: Dillon and became a cabinet maker before moving to Ana-[...]Ann graduated from Spiegel (1892-1978) and from this marriage are the follow- BCHS, and on January 28, 1923, married E.B. Harkness of[...]Kent Pratt (1915-1983), Francis Kent (2-19-25) and Ronald Howard John married Mary Adele Dubie and lived on the Kent (1922). Eugene died in Michigan and all his surviving home place. Edison married Juanita Armor and moved to live in Michigan. Philipsbur[...], 1947. Rosella had a stroke on February 18, 1947 and VanAntwerp (1888-1955) and from this marriage are the passed away on Februar[...]ary Jane Hart, Kenneth VanAntwerp (1913- diabetes and passed away on August 21, 1947 at the rest 1944) who died in WWII, and Hope VanAntwerp (1912-[...] |
| [...]Kent (1891-1963) who married Mary Jenkins (1900) and from this marriage are the following: Allene Kent (1920) who married Sam C. Knighton (1917), and Daniel J. Kent (1923) who married Charlene Lenler[...]894-1977) who married Frank Marquette (1884-1964) and from this marriage was Francis Lolita Mar- quette[...]. Eva Kent (1894-D) who married Connie Watters and from this marriage is Denise Blanchard who lives[...](Many of these people were married more than once and the ones indicated are those whom the children were by and of whom we have some information.)[...]up to their wagon. He His parents were Survantes and Hannah Kerr. The family said his Dad, Ch[...]out of the well, which was 90- of Scotch, Irish, and English descent. feet deep and dug on a small knoll. When Fred arrived, he Around 1901, Fred Kerr and two boyhood friends, Al was asked to go down in the well and put a line around Gruwell and Charles Burden, came to Montana. Butte was[...]harles had hit his head on the horse team skinner and was hired to drive a team an ap- side of[...]t Rochester through Mel- Almira was ailing and eventually had to have an operation rose to the s[...]o hauled from the Canyon back to Dillon, and the family returned to reside in Dillon. Creek co[...]ty All the Kerr children learned to cook and help keep the men were hired for that purpose. Af[...]led to the Glendale smelter. The Hughes and his wife Dorothy Couch Hughes took the chil- Roch[...]ghes Horse Prairie Ranch District. Both Rochester and Glendale are now deserted. during vacations and holidays. Fred was foreman for the Gilbert Ranch in the Ruby In 1927, Survantes, Floy, and Marie finished high school. Valley, and he also worked for the Hamilton Ranch on They all enrolled at Montana State Normal College and Horse Prairie which is now known as the Donovan R[...]nty years, Fred was in charge of the farm machin- and Al Gruwell) and became prominent and successful ery department of the Olms[...]1946 to 1954 he was employed at the Gamble Store. and Almira were ·married December 25, 1905, in Butte, and Fred drove a 6-up horse team and wagon in the races that Fred settled down to ranc[...]friend ride with him to hold him around the waist and lard, and Frederick Vern Kerr.[...]t so he could drive as his hands were full Fred and his family ranched on the West Bench. This was[...]ee in each hand. a dry land farm-very little rain and no water. Water had to Fred Kerr passed aw[...]March 25, 1956; he was 78. Services were held at and only one year did it rain enough for a crop. In 1[...]on a Sunday morning as Fred graveside. and his family were hauling water, Gordon Cong[...] |
| James and Alma Frying[...]the Bonniview Reservoir Co. and was responsible for build- Kirkpatri[...]ing storage dams at Boatman Lake, Minneopa Lake and[...]ttler in Beaverhead water from Harris Lake and Rim Reservoir. Water from County, was born March[...]ut causing a great amount of Fifeshire, Scotland, and came to New England when he was water to come down the creek. Mud, silt and sand from this seventeen years of age. He was a mechanical engineer and wash-out made what is called the Sandbar, above Kelly traveled extensively with his work. He died in Cuba where Dam. Kelly Dam did not wash out but a great amount of he was working in 1853, leaving a wife and four small chil- water came over it and washed out a lot of bridges in the dren. His moth[...]nsin in 1857 with her children Robert, and was the daughter of Edwin and Mary Polson Coffin, James, Cordelia Ann and Clarinda. A son Jacob died as a both nati[...]e small child. In Wisconsin, Mrs. Kirkpatrick met and mar- family moved to Minnesota and she was in that territory ried James Monroe Mann.[...]college at Mankato for two years, taught school, and Institute at Point Bluff, Wisconsin, and was fifteen years of later was a student in Nor[...]-father, moth- ston, Ill., for two years. She and her two sisters came to er and family. They left on April 3, 1863 and arrived in Beaverhead County in 1878, maki[...]tana up the Missouri River as far as Fort Benton and then wagon and ox team and the train they were in narrowly overlan[...]tricks were married more than fifty years Bannack and he also spent time at Last Chance Gulch in[...]Mr. Kirkpatrick died November 18, 1935. They were and in 1868 he and his brother Robert both took up home- surv[...]ttlesnake Creek. James also did some freight- ing and then purchased six horses and two wagons and went -HELE[...], Utah, for supplies, brought them back by wagon, and sold them in the valleys of Robert and Katherine Beaverhead and Ruby. Kirkpatrick He and his brother formed a business partnership in which Robert operated both ranches and James managed Robert Kirkpatrick wa[...]ber 1822 in Buck Haven, Fifeshire, Scotland and Mary Abi- from flour to threshing machines. In th[...]working on a sugar plan- at the corner of Helena and Washington Streets. tation in Cuba and died on October 2, 1853. The Kirkpatrick Brothers store prospered and in 1883 Robert was eleven years old wh[...]costing $6,000, at the in 1857 with his mother and the rest of his family. There his corner of Montana and Helena Streets. The Kirkpatricks mother met and married James Monroe Mann and the fam- extended a good deal of credit to their customers and began ily worked their farm until 1863 when t[...]raveling the Or- they had dropped low on the list and James eventually left egon Trail. They took[...]lowed the Oregon Trail to Fort Hall in Idaho and then north Dillon and served from April 3, 1883 to February 6, 1885.[...]anch on Rattlesnake Creek where his brother and sisters and his step-father and mother, he produced some of the finest horses in the area. In 1903 he when he was seventeen years old. and Robert sold their ranches to the Rattlesnake Ranc[...]mily. In 1905 James moved to the Helena and cut timbers for miners.[...] |
| In 1868 Robert and his brother James took up home- steads on Rattles[...]ght miles from pre- sent-day Dillon. Later Robert and James formed a business partnership in which Robert operated both ranches and James managed a merchandise store, first at Edgerton and then at Dillon. The store prospered at first and was success- ful, but by the latter part of 1883, they had fallen on hard times and lost their business. In 1879 Robert returned to the East and married Kather- ine Dodge May, a cousin of Louisa May Alcott, on May 12, 1879 in Lynn, Massachusetts. Robert and his wife returned to the ranch and in the 1880s they were joined by Mrs. Kirkpatrick's mother-in-law, Caroline M. May and Mrs. May's sister, Lydia C. Dodge. Mrs. May proved up a home- stead September 9, 1887 and Lydia Dodge was a school- teacher in Beaverhead C[...]children. Roger Brown was born February 16, 1881 and drowned in Rattles- nake Creek on July 9, 1883; Violet Louisa was born Decem- ber 18, 1882; and James Douglas was born May 25, 1884. Because o[...]Carl Innes. Arthur Klessig and friends The family lived in Massachusetts, wher[...]he south side. About 1923 or 1924, with a foundry and a hardware concern. He retired to a Art[...]as caretaker on the Canfield place for small farm and later he and his wife moved to New Haven, 10 years. Con[...]ember 15, 1932. She had divorced Winkler and was living with her brothers[...]she developed high blood pressure and had terrible nose b- Arthur Klessig[...]stroke and died within a few hours. She is buried in the A[...]In 1946 Art sold out to Ole Heggelund and moved to came to Montana to marry Christian Wilke[...]some 13 months after she married visit his father and family in Minnesota in 1915. He found Art and is buried in Butte. out he had a half-brother and a sister. His brother George, Art sold his Wisdom home to his nephew, John Wilke and who was much older than Arthur, came to live with Art lived in Wisdom with his nephew and his wife for a short about 1940. He had arthritis, and in October, 1944, he con- time before moving to Stevensville, Montana, in 1969. tracted pneumonia and died October 31, 1944. He is buried He l[...]lke, In 1907 Art left the ranch on Steel Creek and worked for after Frank's wife died in 1974. M[...]Arthur Klessig died September 26, 1977, and is buried in had land on Doolittle Creek. Zorn owned a sawmill and after the Wisdom Cemetery. three years he sold the mill to Art and Harry Rutledge for[...]the sawmill was sold, Art went back to the ranch and drove cattle to Butte and George and Rebecca Knapp Anaconda. Later he worked for Bill[...]o the Army. Knapp and Sarah Ayers Knapp in Watertown, New York. In 19[...]killed in the Civil War, Fork. He had a few cows and some horses. Most everyone and Sidney who came west with George in a covered wagon. was raising fox, so Art got some and raised them for about 10 Sidney settled[...] |
| [...]Henry Knippenberg was born December 27, 1843, in and he could not take care of the children. She was l[...]e by her bonding parents The Knippenberg and Kappes families were very promi- when she became ill with a fever. George found her and with nent and active in the German student rebellion of 1849. t[...]d her back to health. The uprising was lost, and the two families fled to America After her recovery, she and George were married in 1874, that year. They came on a sailing ship and were 52 days on making their home in Jewell Count[...]the ocean. In 1854 the parents died and left Henry an 11- They had four children: Addi[...]ng or money. He took a Knapp Shafer, James Knapp, and Bertha Knapp Shafer, place in a small grocery at $40 a year and board. He received before deciding to move west. They joined a wagon train in $50 and board the second year. At the end of two years he[...]ey had saved $50, which he paid to the Bryan and Stratton arrived in Argenta, Montana Territory, i[...]ad. Sarah Knapp Ledebur, Sidney Knapp, John Knapp and In 1860 he accepted a position a[...]eorge worked as a miner, stage driver, freighter, and one year he was appointed Superintendent, t[...]eek. He died July 15, 1931 at his home in Argenta and is per month. His ambition and hard work broke him down in buried in the Argenta Cemetery. Rebecca ran a boarding house, was a midwife, and was noted for her log cabin quilts. She died January 31, 1934 and is buried in the Argenta Cemetery beside her husb[...]1865 and he had to resign. His doctor urged him to make a[...]He passed through Indianapolis in 1865 and stopped over a few days to visit Professor and Mrs. J. H. Kappes. He met E. C. Atkins and, in a few months, formed a partnership[...]nized. It bought the smelter at Glendale and made a com-[...]In January, 1881, W. H. Morrison, John Thomas and W.[...]$12,000 a year and all expenses. He sold his one-third inter-[...]est in the saw business and, in April, 1881, took his family to[...]was heavily in debt; the sheriff was on George and Rebecca Knapp (child not identified) the grounds; and the stockholders declined to advance any[...] |
| [...]ge were: Fannie L. (Mrs. defeat. He paid the debt and paid the stockholders cash Otto Pahnish[...]A.M. Likes), Freida E. (Mrs. Earl Tash), and Esther M. new buildings, smelter and concentrator, etc. Knippenberg (Mrs. Norman R. Nelson). divided the business into three departments and appointed Lena Knoll passed away in 1938 and Carl Knoll passed a superintendent for each. Geor[...]d Hecla was built on a bench land one mile beyond and Emma Beal Shaw and above Lion City, at the base of the mountain.[...]ma Beal Shaw was born in Tennessee on January 11, and Hecla on a hillside at a place which he named Gre[...]cted a with her parents, the H.E. Shaws, and with her brother, boarding house, four dwellings, an office, stable, and blacks- Dolan. mith shop. A telephone line con[...]ne of the Poindexter Glendale, seven miles below, and with Hecla, four miles and Orr Ranches, called the Jake Place where her pare[...]n- School 3. Her classmates were Lavina and Viola Sweet; stitution. The territory became a state November 9, 1889, Lucille, Anna and Noma Cozad; and Norman and Lester being the 41st state. In 1895, he was elec[...]ree McKin- a cowboy rode past the school and stopped to tell of the good ley Electors, a tough[...]to-one state. Not- news. The pupils stood up and recited The Pledge of Alle- withstanding he was a[...]e was built. Mr. Cozad had fices, giving his time and strength to his business and his cut the logs and helped Mr. Thomas Sweet put up the build- home. But silver declined and, by 1900, reached the low ing. Mrs. Nyh[...]a from 1881 to 1914. He had two children, William and Mary, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Knippenberg's arrival at[...]y. -PAUL T. and VERLA BOETTICHER Carl G. and Lena Knoll 332-Beaverhead History |
| [...]William and Ethel Knox Mrs. Luther Smith. The County Superin[...]Henry Newton Knox The neighbors there were few and far between. Arthur and Mary Camilla Davis Knox. When he was seven years and Lillian Helvie and their two small boys lived close to the old, his father was killed and Mary moved the family by Cozad family. Both fami[...], Missouri, on December 22, on Sage Creek, and as a ditch rider he found the site which 1894. His parents were Henry Newton and Mary Davis he homesteaded in 1910.[...]w H. Wilson when Ed was a small child. He grew up and was educated there. He came to Lima in 1910, and worked for Henry Fitter and on the Roe Ranches before joining the cowboys at[...]orld War I flu epidemic, he delivered medi- cines and mail to people living in the isolated Centennial[...]helped move the cattle into the Centennial Valley and lived at the Staudaher Place. The cattle were tra[...]then had no fences. Ed was an accomplished cowboy and rode at rodeos until 1919. William and Ethel Knox Ed and Emma moved to Dillon after the birth of their[...]ce. Ed worked for the Beaverhead Lumber and working for his neighbors. Few families remain in[...]"Grandpap" by every- daughter of Elmer and Addie Martinell, prominent Dell one. Ed was a mem[...]area ranchers. With her dowry of a milk cow and a kitchen 1917 to his death. stove, they moved by team and wagon to a one-room log Emma was active in Neighbors of Woodcraft and in the cabin on the upper end of Long C[...](Brown), and Anna Jean (Moss, Meyer), the youngest born Thr[...]tember 7, 1923; Jessie Velma - September 25, 1927 and Closest neighbors on the Sage Cree[...]ark, Loon Ed passed away on November 21, 1981, and Emma, on Price, Al and Ruth Price, Sam Parker, Finn Harrison, Jay[...] |
| [...]on Howells, Frank Burrells, Earl Wheat, Ben Holt, and the Yost family. At the lower end of Sage Cree[...]Andrew Smelky, Chris Anderson, McMillian, Clayton and Roy Swaggety's parents, Lon Gregg, Steve Cook, Jo[...]gar, Dave McKnight. -CARL and SHIRLEY KNOX Ray and Olive Koontz 334[...] |
| [...]and Julia Kramer Helming head by a beam he was puttin[...]d." son and also bought land from a Peterson. They sold out i[...]-DOLORES HUSTED 1924 and moved to Anaconda. They purchased a ranch sev-[...]en miles south of Deer Lodge and operated it until Joe Joe and Ellen Kramer[...]Joe and Ellen had four children: Julia, born in 1901; Nel[...], Denmark, on May 4, 1873, 1903; Oline, 1905; and Emil in 1907. Nels was injured in a and came to the United States when he was 19 years old. He skating accident when he was six years old and was para- got off the train at Racetrack (near De[...]in Ben Goldie lived. He settled first near Dillon and got sick with pneumonia about three weeks later and also worked for Jorgen Jorgenson his first year i[...]e Helming on November 14, Jorgenson was a teacher and taught Joe to speak English. 1923, and lived in Wisdom. Oline married Jake Barnosky of She did a good job as Joe could get up and talk on anything Twin Bridges on September 29, 1922. and used good grammar. Joe's older brother, Max, came[...]-ARLENE BARNOSKY this country first and with another brother, Peter, drove stagecoach ove[...]ter, Hannah Hendrickson, also lived in the valley and he had another Adolf and Margaret Kruljac sister in Denmark.[...]mer was born July 14, 1879, in Kenyon, 1890, and came to Dillon in 1909. His parents were Bartle M[...]she received her education. Her father was a and Mary Rebish Kruljac, who had opened the first saloon Lutheran minister and the family settled near Broken Bow, in Butte under a tent in 1881. Bartle and Mary were married Neb. She came to Montana and Elkhorn Hot Springs in in Yugoslavia and had five children. 1899 to be with her sister, Ma[...]rgaret Severinski was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, and son Irman was born. Engelsjerds owned and operated Elk- came to Dillon in 1909, where she and Adolf were married in horn Hot Springs at that time. She worked at Anton Jack- 1910. Margaret and Adolf had 10 children. Of these, two son's (the o[...]table. Joe Kramer was Joe Kramer and "Prince" Adolf and Margaret Kruljac[...] |
| [...]l south of Dillon, where the children were raised and sent to Blacktail School. Margaret died at the[...]1; Bert, born in 1918, died in California in 1978 and buried in Dillon; Frank born in 1920, lived in th[...]Valejo, CA; Lillian, born in 1914; Jeffrey 1928, and Bernice 1928. When Adolf sold his farm on the Bla[...]nt years. He passed away in 1977 at the age of 87 and both he and Margaret are buried in Dillon.[...]Oliver and Bertha Kurtz[...]a sawmill in the canyon and was often snowed in for days at[...]moved to the east bench it between the years 1921 and 1941, the name "Sir Oliver" became nece[...]But he was provided by the college in Dillon and all eight grades were more than that, as he was liked and respected by the stu- represented. Three of the Kurtz boys attended while they dents, teachers, and parents. He was an advisor, substitute lived on the homestead. father, practical joker, and friend of everybody. Oliver persuaded his mother and some of his sisters to His life before the hig[...]stone Park. They arrived in August 1913 and the party of 16 March 26, 1877. His father was a[...]arriages, eight saddle considerable horse trading and training. Oliver learned how horses and a heavy wagon to carry tents, bedding and food to handle horses at an early age. This skill[...]e trip was completed in jobs throughout the West, and eventually brought him to 30 days despit[...]s. Two of the couples who work for the Poindextor and Orr livestock company. were on the[...]rly life in Pennsylvania married Mabel Phillips and his sister Della married John that brought Oliver[...]Crop failures continued due to short rainfall and the fam- home when he was about 16 years old. He[...]where Oliver worked for jobs in the mid-, south-, and far-western parts of the coun- Rhodes Livesto[...]ethods of travel from one place to cattle and Hampshire rams for show and sale. The family another-freight trains, bicycles, wagons, and his own feet. moved back to the homestead in 1921 and Oliver secured a He arrived in Dillon in 1897, and worked on various job at the Beaverhead[...]met janitor work, took care of the grounds and fired the furnace. and married Bertha Fjelsted on April 30, 1902. She wa[...]ring the time they were in high Blackfoot, Idaho, and was also working at the Metlen. school. The Orr brothers from the Poindextor and Orr livestock He continued in the high[...]isited the hotel. They offered Oliver a job at and he retired in 1941 and died at his home December 24, their ranch, with l[...]s served in the armed forces- became the foreman, and Mrs. Kurtz became the cook for Lester was in Europe, James and Frank were in the Navy the hired hands. He spent[...]time breaking horses, serving in the Pacific and George was flight engineer serving as a great num[...]in the Far East. The two older boys, Oliver, Jr., and Nor- The ranch also sold horses, and those with the square and man, were in work essential to the war effort and were compass brand were prized animals.[...]progress. Oliver filed on a homestead in 1910 and moved to the East At the foot of Oliver's[...]1877-1944 ed, installed culverts and graveled much of the road into the By his friends, the alumni and faculty Centennial Valley. One of his olde[...] |
| [...]at 249 Railroad Avenue, enjoying her many friends and church activities. John and Kate Laknar She passed away December 17, 1946, and was carried to her John Laknar, born De[...]mines. He purchased land in Minnesota, Patrick and Agnes Laden[...]and, on Octo- scam. Later he came to Butte, and worked in the mines, ber 1, 1872. A sister, B. Fl[...]ving to save enough money to send for his family, and wrote a letter stating that neither his birth cer[...], his wife Kate, born April 16, 1869, been a fire and many records were destroyed. His father was their 14 year old daughter, Mary, born April 24, 1892, and John Laden and his mother was Marg Flynn.[...]years. Pat's tion because food wasn't available and there was very little brother John passed away a[...]Front , from left; Joe, John Jr., Agnes and Kate 1943. Pat died on February 10, 1947, having[...]Mary and Frank. Pat came from Ireland in 1890, arrived in New York and went directly to Montana where he worked with his[...]his own ranch five miles south of Dillon on and John Jr. were born. April 6, 1900, from the estat[...]nce the spelling on the tombstone in Moun- and John was anxious to get out of them before he dev[...]of the farm of"BM". This is the property where he and Agnes lived and land in the Beaverhead valley was taken, either by home- raised three sons: John W., Francis P., and Charles M. John steading or other means, he bought 120 acres of undeve- was born on November 11, 1911, and lived on this same loped land, four m[...]erty. They presently being operated by John's son and Pat's grandson, lived in a board shack unt[...]y arrived or Francis was born on May 13, 1915, and Charles on Decem- if John built it. ber 23[...]Dillon in 1936 to the A well was dug and the land cleared of sagebrush. A walk- Keenan place where Charles and Francis' wife Elsie still ing plow drawn[...]for planting of wheat, oats, some potatoes, and alfalfa. A[...]_arden furnished much of the food for the family, and they[...] |
| [...]and buggy, or wagon if they had much to haul, and stay[...]elements to survive and kept her family together on the[...]Kate, Mary, and Frank all passed away in Dillon; Kate on[...]December 26, 1946, Mary on March 18, 197 4, and Frank on[...]he United States of America dozen. Extra potatoes and vegetables were sold to stores in in the 1850[...]illon, as was surplus butter. They had a few cows and Fur Company. He and his companions trapped fur in the horses, and a small sorrel pony on which the childr·e n all[...]ouble walled sheds, constructed of poles, boards, and trap fur for one year. At the end of that t[...]with straw. Chickens boat that hauled him and his partners up into Canada. This loved to hide t[...]was supposed to return in one year with supplies and built in the same manner until a permanent structure could pay. be constructed. A granary and machine sheds were built of But when the first year was up and the trappers took their boards. Tall poles were cut and hauled by team and wagon furs to the designated place on the[...]or did it show up. They One day in 1910 Norman and Herb Gilbert, riding horse- waited there fo[...]ng Selway pasture, spotted smoke that area and when the water on the river and lakes began to coming from the windows of the boa[...]found Mike, a baby, tied in a chair in the furs and pulled out. This happened three years in a row. s[...]uld come in the fall to the cache, from the house and put out the fire. they would find their furs gone and a year's supply of pow- John and his son Frank hauled logs for a new house from der, lead and other supplies would be left in their place. the Birch Creek and Willow Creek areas. The logs were Each time they realized the boat had come and gone and so hauled by team and wagon, hewn by hand, and put up they would have to return and trap for another year. The during the winter of 1[...]y they would catch the boat, get their pay and get out. They 8, 1915.[...]he boat had already bench. A log cabin was built, and he and his son Frank dug a well there, by hand, that was[...]ell. The children attended school, going by horse and buggy or cart. For the family, holidays were the highlights oflife on the ranch, and John's niece, Katie Sager, would come by train fr[...]- lon on the Twin Bridges road. When traveling to and from Jim LaMarche and Dog Team in Big Hole Battle- Dillon, she and her husband Steve would stop by with horse[...] |
| ~ome and gone once again. Realizing they might not be able[...]p to survive yet another year, they walked south and reached Stock Association for many years. He[...]working life on horseback and rode until he was 85. He died In North Dakota, Andrew LaMarche met and married his at age 95. wife. They went to Colorado and settled in Cherry Creek, Hazel and Margarite were known for their writing ability.[...]Margarite wrote numerous articles for magazines and news- followed the mining camps, killing wild game and fishing, papers. She won several awards. He[...]-JAMES EIGHORN French Town, Dewey, Glendale, and Hecla. There is a led- ger book where Noah Armst[...]nk Landon was born in the providence of Ontario, and fished for a living. Olezem married Stella Cole i[...]er he worked as a teamster hauling ore from Hecla and opportunities in the West, he made his wa[...]he late 1870s. He first worked for the Poindexter and Orr Marche, was born in Glendale, October 26, 188[...]year later he "squatted" on a ranch several Hazel and Margarite, were born later. None of the children miles above the P. & 0. and was one of the first ranchmen -in married.[...]the county They lived on Rock Creek at that time and on their way with good buildings, equipment, and a well-managed oper- home they walked through a b[...]out 6,000 acres of patented land Indian jumped up and grabbed Jim's grandfather, Andrew. and 12,000 acres of leased land, enclosed by 54 miles of wire He began swinging Grandfather LaMarche around and ki- fencing. He also had over 7,000 he[...]ts being Indian finally settled down. This Indian and Grandfather that his wool clip and lambs were always in demand. LaMarche had wintere[...]ars before. Grandfather LaMarche told Jim and one whose word could be depended on and whose care- that he and his trapping companions would have starved to[...]r Bettie N. Wood, was born in with the old Indian and stayed and talked long after dark. Kentucky on January[...]girlhood days were Jim's grandmother got worried and came looking for them spent in Kentucky and Missouri. She attended Woodland on foot with a la[...]it angry when she College in Independence, MO, and graduated from that found them with the old India[...]ilroad which Jim worked for the Forest Service and was a ranger at the was then near Dell, and on to Dillon by stage. She made her Big Hole Batt[...]as honorably discharged May 22, Blacktail and engaged in the sheep business. A daughter 1919.[...]Zetta was born July 21, 1882, and was educated in Dillon. At He came back to Montana and drove a lot of steers out of this time the L[...]ous people including Hanson Packing lived and Zetta attended school. Co. of Butte. He worked fo[...]had accumulated a large fortune. He was also men, and Watchmen, the bearer, James LaMarche, is a[...]ence was often solicited in matters of the county and pany, and you are requested to pass him on all company state. He was primarily a ranchman and concerned with the property, giving him wh[...] |
| [...]he Orr Brothers. He retired in the spring of 1926 and on August 19, 1927, he passed away. Survivors inc[...]-HELEN BROWN Simon A. and Regina M. |
| [...]and John bought a small farm near Stevensville, Monta[...](Bun) and two daughters Elveretta (Sis) and Joan (Pud). Jean and John are both dead as is one daughter, Elveretta.[...]Howard Rundle and finally settled in Sparks, Nevada. They[...]had no children and both are dead.[...]and spent their lives in mining communities in Idaho and[...]1930, Fred was bitten by a tick and died of Rocky Mountain[...]Spotted Fever on June 14, 1930. Fred and Lucille had two sons Jack and Dan. When their father died, Jack was eight[...]years old and Dan was six.[...]one daughter, Kay. Lucille, Ray and Kay are all dead now. Le~ to right: George, John,[...]child. He was born and Samuel Langdorf September 26, 1903. He never married and spent his life in 3. ranch cook in the Big Hole and took her girls Frances and Dillon. He worked at various jobs over the yea[...]rf children came to Dillon, May Lang- he made and built his own crystal radio set. He made and :lorf born May 23, 1881, married John DeLong and spent flew remote controlled miniature airplanes and built equip- ·he rest of her life in Butte. They had twelve or thirteen ment for testing radio and television sets. ~hildren.[...]children died in 1986. Butte. He married Lucille and worked in the mines except[...]Navy during World War I. They 1ad two girls, Rosy and Naomi. George Langdorf, born February 21, 1888, worked for the Hiram and Anna Lapham ;elephone company in Dillon. He married Ethel and eventu- Hiram Lapham (born in 1851) and Anna Lapham (born in tlly settled in Helena, Mont[...]'s daughter, Carrie from a previous mar- md Pete, and they adopted two girls Jean and Dorothy. He riage, left Kansas in 1878. Th[...]Idaho. There, Hiram taught school and their first child Peter Langdorf, born Septem[...]any in Missoula, Montana. He served in the and Mrs. Nelson P. Lapham and his two brothers came west \rmy during World War I. He married Maybelle; they had to visit, and liked it well enough to stay. In 1882 their second 10 children. Both are deceased and buried in Missoula. son Harry was born.[...]he went to work for the Union Pacific Lakes and built a cabin on Odell Creek, where they stayed[...]named Frank, was born md they had two boys, Bill and Donald, and two girls, Jean there. md Shirley. He died w[...]born July 3, 1893, she mar- pass to Bannack, and on into the Big Hole Valley. ied John Wenger fr[...]Dillon They traveled through the Valley, and settled on the Bris- nd managed the old[...] |
| [...]ary 12, 1919. Later that year Harry and Claud bought the That fall there was a fire that[...]rent residence of Max The winter was extra hard, and they lost all but 16 of their and Debbie Lapham just north of Jackson. George Webbe[...]ors place to Harry. The old Paris home- Claud and Harry went to school in the log school house at[...]by Dan Tovey, Jacks~m. Daddy Stevens, and Hiram Lapham in 1890. The third son Harry and Rose Lapham lived on their ranch until 1949 Frank died on February 5, 1890 and was buried near their when they moved to[...]estead, near what is now called Claud and Myrtle Lapham lived on the Webber place and Lapham Hill.[...]was a school built about half way between and Myrtle's death in 1958. their homestead and the homestead of Antone and Herman Jackson (on what is now the Hairpin Ranch). A few years -MAX AND DEBBIE LAPHAM later, the school was moved to a sc[...]lf mile south of the town of Soren and Serine Larsen Jackson. It then became a six mile[...]en was born June 16, 1869, in Hverring, for Claud and Harry, so they built a cabin in the willows on[...]daughter was him. It took ten years and three children to convince her born Ida Ethel (Mr[...]. March 23, 1913. Babe married Roy Ford a trapper and min- After a long arduous trip across the Atlantic Ocean and er. During their life in the Big Hole Valley they raised cattle the United States, Soren, 42, and his wife Serine, now 40, on their place on Bloody[...]ackson) until they sold the ranch to Noel Jackson and ters, five-year-old Anne Marie and two-year-old Elny Jo- moved to Jackson. They owne[...]Temporarily they were "farmed out" with friends and with Dillon.[...]In 1904 Hiram traded the homestead for a hotel and livery houses, surviving chicken pox, measles, pneumonia, and ty- barn in Jackson. A dance hall was built the f[...]e Jasper Nelson, they moved to a 140-acre brother and family. Shortly after his return to Jackson, the[...]r to Serine that there was no phone, no the time, and lost all their possessions. running water, and no indoor toilet. Most importantly, they Hiram Lapham died in 1937 and Anna Lapham died in had electricity[...]a place to be proud of. In 1906, Charles Berry and Harry Lapham started build- Money was scarce but food and friends were plentiful. ing a new hotel where the[...]d burned. It was They sold butter, eggs, and chickens for working cash. Their finished in 1907[...]field crops were soy beans, potatoes, grain, and hay. Their had 14 bedrooms upstairs and four downstairs. The build- livestock consisted of a few hogs and seven milk cows. Yet, ing still stands near the B[...]n Jackson. within a few years, Soren and Serine knew that, because of In 1909 Claud and Harry took the stage contract to carry the critical economic situation in the late teens and early mail and freight from Jackson to Bannack, by way of the[...]ntil the child Hiram Clay "Bud" was born in 1914, and now operates children were grown and educated. the family ranch near Jackson. Their th[...]nnie" was born in 1930. She had a heart condition and ing hand in time of need. The Jens Bays[...]Rose Ibey on Febru- ~nd Jack Selways and the Will Deputys were a few of their[...] |
| [...]e was a good Samaritan to all; she fed the hoboes and the gypsies so prevalent in the depression years.[...]y gatherings at home-a wedding, birthday parties, and dancing to Soren's accordion. Anne Marie and Elny completed the two-year Normal College teacher-training curriculum, taught country school, and later earned four-year degrees from Western Montana College at Dillon and the University of Minnesota. Hans stayed on the f[...]helper. Finally, in 1935, with the girls gone and Serine and Soren now in their sixties, they departed. So aft[...]e in a severe fall 1934 snowstorm, Soren, Serine, and Hans moved to Dillon with $1,100 cash. This was s[...]George and Katherine Lasich mented by a monthly Beaverhead C[...]came to see her and told her that he would purchase the[...]mortgage, for her to stay on the ranch and pay what she George Lasich and Katherina Lasic were both born in could, when she could, and not worry about it. The family Suhor, Austria; he on July 7, 1860, and she on July 20, 1871. stayed; the mortgage was finally paid and the ranch was He immigrated to the USA in 1884, a[...]bout 80 years. tana. George was first a shoemaker and later operated a The first couple of[...]difficult. George, the oldest son at 16, came and went, trying After living in Butte a few years[...]ere garden produce, a little little or no English and she came across part of Europe and wheat, milk, and a few cattle. He had a good wheat crop the the At[...]be ground into flour. He left shortly after York and came to Butte alone. She and George Lasich were midnight in order to[...]th horses, of course. He traded some of the Butte and four children were born there: George, Jr., No-[...]n. It was a long day, but there October 17, 1894, and John W., July 31, 1896. was a[...]the ranch in a cabin for some of the near Dillon, and when a ranch adjoining his became avail-[...]ighbor children. Dillon on the Twin Bridges road, and here they began a Weather permittin[...]she put rocks, 1901; Matt B., November 15, 1903, and Peter W., June 16, which had been heatin[...]keep their feet warm. also bought some milk cows and they raised grain and a They got their first car in 1917-[...]ch had saved enough money to pay off the mortgage and When a very bad freeze came in October, all the family start a house. During 1921 and 1922 the "boys" built a fine, worked late to get the potatoes and vegetables in to prevent 2-story, 5-bedroom[...]There was usually a potluck dinner with that time and there were no antibiotics. He passed away on fried chicken and lots of good food. Always during the October 24,[...]as holidays "Grandma" Lasich had a family gather- and one still unborn. ing and those gatherings were fun. There was a lot of remi- Produce was very cheap and there was not much of it to niscing, like the time they shot matches and set the bunk- s~ll. Money was very scarce. When t[...]ouse on fire. Mrs. Lasich's faith, love, honesty, and kind-[...] |
| [...]January 20, 1947, Matt bought the ranch, where he and Jessie lived until their retirement in 1971. T[...]ptember, 1926; they ranched south of Twin Bridges and had two children, Marion Ann and George. Kathryn mar- ried Earl Ogilvie in Novembe[...]in January, 1931. Rudy homesteaded on Stone Creek and summered cattle for 65 years. He and Faye had no children. Jack married Ida Wiant in June, 1921; they had two children, Marjean and Jack, Jr. Jack also ranched south of Twin Bridges[...]rrison in June, 1926. They had no children. Frank and Verl operated the Busy Bee Market on Reeder[...]had one daughter, Geraldine. Matt mar- House and the Williams Boarding ·House. (About[...]had one both pasttimes with his father and uncle, Max Lauterbach, daughter, Jn K.[...]Adolph and his friends on fishing outings of a week or more. Steve and Margaret Lasich[...]ding and food and any other equipment necessary for a Steve Lasic[...]ping trip. In 1883 he became an American citizen, and he came to On December 30, 1919, Adol[...]nch where he lived until sen, daughter of Jens and Anna Petersen. They were mar- his death January 2[...]ovember 25, sen, sister of the bride, and Michael Lauterbach, father of 1855. Her father was a wealthy hardware and import store the groom, witnessed t~e cerem[...]Adolph was employed by the Pacific Fruit relented and came to visit Margaret with his other daughter.[...]ision. They had no After two weeks, he became ill and died. He was buried in children. They return[...]. their deaths, Mildred in May, 1967, and Adolph, July, 1967. The Lasich family owned 397[...]NCYANN JARDINE Dillon on the road to Twin Bridges and other land in the Poindexter addition. Steve's niece Ann and nephews Pete and Matt were neighbors. They and boys from the Twin Blackwell and Nettie Bridges Children's Home used to help with[...]The Lasiches had three sons: Steve, Jr., Mike, and John; field, Carlton County, Canada on March 16, 1862. They and three daughters: Kathryn, Mary Dooding, and Agnes were married September 25, 1882, a[...]Brunswick, and two years later came by train to Montana.[...]They ended their journey at Dewey, Montana, and settled[...]ere for several years during which Adolph and Mildred their[...]97 in decided Nettie would move onto it and spend the summers Dillon. He was the only child o[...]she set up housekeeping bach, a German immigrant, and Marie Nelson Lauterbach, in a little one-[...]over's Leap. As a young Neighbors were helpful and kept a close watch when she was boy Adolph was an avid fisherman and hunter and enjoyed alone. 344-Beaverhead History |
| [...]on Bart (1925) Mr. and Mrs B. B. Lawrence Quite often, Indians rode in to visit and ask for food. by Bart, Nina and Jennie. Once, finding her alone, they asked where her husband was. Eva became a teacher and taught for several years. Edith Seeing one of her[...]horseback, she grew up to be a famous lawyer and Irma studied to be a said, "Why, here he comes no[...]utte. May was a talented artist, with many flower and By 1888, the whole family was living on the claim and animal paintings to her credit. All the g[...]king place. With the help of neighbors, ried and raised families of their own and several acquired "B.B.," as he was called, built[...]bout a their mother's talents at needlework and quilting. mile from their home. A special building was erected right at Bart married Lucy Else and they had two daughters, Bil- the ranch and became known as the Bowen Post Office. lie and Barbara. He continued to run the ranch after Black- "B.B." served as postmaster for 30 years and also held the well's death there on Februar[...]rs later, June 22, 1939. After Bart's di- weather and reporting it. vorce, he married Kitty Rankin, and they lived on the ranch After seven daughters,[...]il his death on December 17, 1966. He, his mother and August 19, 1900. By that time, a big two-story ho[...]irst little cabin. This big log home still stands and is in good condition. The Lawrences named their ranch "Mountain View Ranch" for Frank and Rose Lawyer its beautiful setting in the North Bi[...]daughter of Miranda and Dave Woodside of Melrose. Rose Nettie Lawrence[...]h 29, 1883. especially clever with a crochet hook and knitting needles. While still a small child, he and his family went to Kansas Many a pair of mittens she made, along with knitted caps, and later to Nebraska, where he was orphaned at the age of sweaters and socks. Yards of lovely crochet work was sewn[...]er stitches. After living with one relative and another, he and his "B.B." was an avid horseman and raised work horses for brother Edward deci[...]spending some time over the breaking of both work and saddle horses. working at a livery[...]arrived money saved they bought a hay baler and went into business and they named her Nina. She was not to be their last[...]ever. Ten years later, the older girls were grown and the Rose Ellen Woodside was born at Lima, November 21, big house was quiet with only Bart and Nina left at home. So 1889. From Lima her parents moved to a farm west of Mel- "B.B." and Nettie adopted a little girl and called her Jennie rose where she lived until s[...]rank Lawyer moved his family to Madi~on County on and one son.[...]orn April 10, 1885. Ma- on Kentucky Avenue, and also his hay baling business. His bel was next, b[...]when he was 10, 1889. Edith was born May 2, 1891 and Georgie came two offered the opportunity t[...]born Point of Rocks he took it. June 20, 1895, and then Irma on August 12, 1896, followed[...] |
| they had three children: Thomas Francis, Tillie Mae, and Clara Mabel. The family, after three years on the Maurer Ranch (now the Frances Rebish and Sons Ranch), bought a farm nearer Twin Bridges. I[...]ead River, on the north by the Jack Lasich place, and the A.R. Smith Ranch on the south. Times were[...]hard to get. We could only secure very dark flour and it tasted funny. The sugar looked like rock salt and had to be dissolved to be used. Some jelly, if on[...]we all. We were lucky enough to have our own meat and vegetables. One year we were hailed out; another the grasshoppers came and ruined us. Things really looked great in the sp[...]then, got around quickly. Everyone planted acres and acres of pota- toes. That fall the bottom fell out! Dad built another root cellar, put a fence around it, and turned the pigs in. In 1918, on October 15, ano[...]r boy to help on the farm, but that she would do. And she did![...]ter for us. We were ard A., and Maude Leake milking lots of cows and selling cream. Mom raised chickens lived on one of the Wm. Gleed ranches south of Lima, where and turkeys so we had eggs and fowl to market. Also, Dad the boys rode horseback to attend school in Lima. had a start in sheep, and by 1943, he felt he and Mom had In 1928, Andrew and the two boys moved back to Perry, worked too long and too hard. So they sold the place and Mo., which was after he and Maude had separated. Leonard retired in Dillon wh[...]yed until they left us for had pneumonia and was seriously ill. He spent two months always. Dad died July 31, 1960,'and Mom on November 15, in the hospital.[...]they moved back to Montana in 1929 and went to work for[...]Leonard and Bernard both graduated from Lima High Andrew and Maude Leake[...]ude married James McBride in Idaho Falls in 1929. and moved to Montana in 1907. He started working in Cen- They worked for Wm. Gleed and lived at a place which was tennial Valley for Jim Doyle. Mrs. Doyle and Andrew were known as the "cow camp". T[...]Lima. Henrietta Maude Bean who was the daughter and one of Maude passed away August[...]rson. Jim McBride preceded her in death. Andrew and Maude were married May 14, 1912. From[...]in Utah for 47 years, with Leon- ruary 17, 1913, and Stephen Bernard on November 1, 1914. a[...]n later moved 1975. They have a son, Fred, and a daughter, Kay. Fred and to Monida where Andrew drove mail stage from ther[...]government at Hill Air Force Base. Kay and her family live He also worked for the Oregon Sho[...]ny. was a talented musician. She played the piano and along Bernard retired from the Uni[...]the family wars, World War II, Korean, and Vietnam. He was living at 346-Beaverh[...] |
| [...]He was married but the Flathead Reservation and Ralph was one of the lucky had no family.[...]Custo- was serious, he better come to Andover and meet the family dian of the County Yard in Dillon[...]person- or cut out. Ralph went to Andover and received a semi- able man and a familiar figure in Dillon. He loved and formal welcome. He was a wild woolly w[...], Ralph probably would not have passed muster. He and Archie Brothers of Dillon were enroute to visit the Ralph came back and started to work up the land he had Craters of the[...]house and sheds, he wrote Minnie to come west and get -LEONARD LEAKE married as per agreement. Minnie and her father left An-[...]dover, stopping at Silver Lake for a rest and visit. They Minnie and Ralph Liggett came west to Missoula, Montana, where Ralph and Minnie Minnie Rebecca Howell was born May 24,[...]older. She completed a finishing school for and carrying the mail to various small communities on[...]on her as they came visiting day or night. aunts and uncles, and of course, plenty of cousins in and They did not comprehend rapping on closed doors. around Silver Lake, Kan., and Butte, Mont. Then on Ju[...]nderstorm, She planned to visit her Uncle Burt and his family in I, Philip Andrew Liggett a[...]travel by rail, Mother packed me up and went back to An- Howell, born October 24, 1864, in Brockeville, Canada. He dover via Silver Lake and Washington, D.C. Mother said was known as S.B., or Burt, and was a woodworker for she was very willing to come back if Dad would leave the railroads and mines. He also worked for a streetcar company reservation and settle elsewhere. She was determined I in Butte b[...]r wishes. Somehow he Lake, she received word Burt and his family had moved turned in the 30[...]h area only four miles they needed her assistance and if she would help, they from the Burt[...]veyed Minnie cleared this with home (Andover), and returned the section of ground in early 1917. to Monument where she remained with Burt and Eva for As soon as that was completed, Mother and I came west to several years. While there, she me[...]until we could move into the house. Sidney, Iowa, and died in 1948. He was at times a farmer, T[...]the barn, chick- teamster, rancher, mail carrier and a vagabond, going where en house, a corral, then other outbuildings and clearing the there was work. He completed local s[...]starting out with a saddle, bedroll, light wagon, and a On January 20, 1920, Mary was born in Mr[...]xpectant Mothers at South Atlantic When Minnie and Ralph met, he was a teamster and mail Street, Dillon, Montana. carrier as[...]. LIGGETT Lodge, Grant, Monument, Hughes Cow Camp and to the Dark Horse Mine. He covered a five-day tri[...]freight wagons hauling mining equipment, supplies and Charles and Estella Lloyd mail received for delivery along th[...]they were able to go out on their own. Charles and the In the winter when the road was closed to[...]youngest brother, Ed, decided to go to Bannack and see critical items would go by sled or, if necess[...]e to Bannack was in need of a meat market and had one in Andover, Mass., they kept in to[...] |
| [...]radiator top and while a show piece, it was too small for two[...]adults and six children. The next car, a four-cylinder Stude[...]baker and a six-passenger, was still too small.[...]between the front and rear seats.[...]and his family had moved from Bannack to Dillon, so h[...]w doctor had located in Wisdom prior to this time and[...]answered the call. His name was Doctor Bolton and Bolton Charles snd Estella Lloyd M[...]- Custom Butchering." Bannack had grown by leaps and bounds with the miners' families and the men needed to operate the gold dredges. Lloyd[...]rents across the Plains coursed through her veins and, with the blessings of five brothers and what funds they could provide, she was soon on he[...]inted Chief of Police of Dillon a few years later and served as Chief for many years. Estella Hill a[...]les Ernest, was born October 27, 1901. Dr. Ryburn and family lived in Bannack and he delivered both children. In 1902, Charles and Ed dissolved their partnership. Ed had acquired ranching interests and wanted to devote full- time as a rancher. Charles moved his family to Jackson and bought a part- nership with Frank Dunbar in a sal[...]mber 11, 1903, Dell A. was born October 25, 1905, and Howard T. was born November 11, 1907-all delivere[...]e said. Charles Charles, Howard and Phyllis bought Frank's share and became sole owner of the Lloyd Lloyd became his namesake. and Dunbar Saloon in the fall of 1910.[...]year it the Volstead Act would pass Congress and become Federal was enlarged with addition of five[...]It was necessary to move the family to Dillon and enter In 1912, Charles bought a Baldwin Piano[...]school. However, it was late in gift for Phyllis and also to grace the parlor of the newly October before housing was found and the move completed. finished home. Phyllis became an accomplished pianist and The boys missed the first semester of school and were not several years later played with a popula[...]amed after her mother's classes, typing and business arithmetic. 348-Beaverhead History |
| [...]-DELL A. LLOYD Ed and Elizabeth Lloyd |
| [...]il- James Samuel Freeman, Sr., sold his team and went to dren during the school year. As the Lloyd ranch grew, Eliza- Montana, and got work with his sister Martha Ann. My beth was needed to cook for Ed, the three children, and five mother, my sister Cora, and myself came to Montana in hired cowboys. She also[...]d peacefully in her sleep on December 27, tana, and engaged in stock raising. The children of James 1[...]he was 85 years old. Samuel Freeman and Rebecca Harriet Denman who[...]Roe Sam), Jessie Rebecca Freeman and Lilly May Freeman. Loughridge[...]without the story of Sam Freeman and his sister, Cora Free- Martha Ann Freeman was[...], Cora leading the Labor Day Parade in Dillon man and Lydia Baughman Freeman. Martha Ann spent her[...]in the company of her grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins who lived on farms nearby. In 1863, Ma[...]Andrew and Ida Mae Iowa.[...]Lounsbury Sioux River, where they owned a lumber and grist mill. At the last minute, she decided to remain behind and marry Andrew Johnson Lounsbury was bo[...]r to her cousin, she states she has found her man and Ida Mae Kenison Lounsbury was born May 24, 1874 in was going to marry him and go to Montana for life. They Linn County[...]ril 16, 1864, in Grinnell, Iowa. On May 4, and Mary Justus Kenison ·moved to Dillon from Presco[...]1898. They came by train. Alonzo served as Judge and Jus- the road across the plains. Theirs was a long, trying and tice of the Peace at the County Court Hous[...]their destination, Mr. Roe went ahead to arrange and select Ida Mae had three brothers, William, Grant and John, a final camp. Martha drove the oxen the final 20 miles of the and one sister, Eva Daisy Wilson, who operated a boarding journey and entered Bannack, Montana, at 5 p.m. on Sep- house in Dillon for college students and was affectionately tember 8, 1864.[...]nown as Ma Wilson. They found a suitable cabin and Martha's life became Andrew J. Lounsbury and Ida Mae Kenison were married merged with the life and history of the far, Great West. Mr. near Pres[...], a rancher who came to Montana in 1865. Mar- tha and her husband engaged mfarming and stock raising in the Beaverhead Valley. Martha[...]0. In 1879, the Freeman family of James Samuel and Rebec- ca were stranded in Texas. James was the b[...]a, where our Aunt Martha Ann Freeman Roe lived (3 and a half miles Lon and Dan Lounsbury at corrals on Meadow Creek,[...] |
| [...]open flour sacks and tore things up, but they gave them gifts and some money and the Indians left.[...]nack and Virginia City. Citizens were having to organize[...]groups and helped with them. He was personally acquainted[...]with George Ives and Henry Plummer, the sheriff turned[...]road agent, and others that were eventually executed.[...]Mr. Lovell had many exciting experiences and narrow Andrew, Dan, and Andrew J. Lounsburg with fur es[...]eeting where it was decided to hang Henry Plummer and Prescott. They moved to Dillon in 1907. They came[...]ook up a homestead on the Beaverhead born, Andrew and Howard. Howard died twelve days after Ri[...]on a grassy knoll near Meadow Creek cattle and hay. This ranch comprised about 3,0Q0 acres of on[...]t of the Beaver- Alonzo William, Dan, Ruth, Mary, and Hope. Mary is the head County Pioneer So[...]for only one still living. She is Mrs. Jolly Addy and lives in Beaverhead County to the World's Fa[...]er for Beaverhead County. Mr. Lounsbury trapped and worked on neighboring On July 19,[...]Alonzo A. Kenison, his wife, Mary Justus Kenison and Phillip Lovell was one of the prominent men of Beaver- their family as well as Andrew J. and Ida Mae Kenison head County in the early days and should be ranked, among Lounsbury and their son, Dan, are buried in Mountain View others, who lived and worked to make Beaverhead County Cemetery in Dillon. and Montana what they are today. Andrew J. Lounsbur[...]Luebben Family Phillip and Ellen Lovell Two natives from the midwest came to Montana and met Phillip Lovell was a native of Yorkshire,[...]12, 1840, the oldest of five children of Jonathan and and Illinois was Thomas Luebben and Elizabeth Hinshaw. Anna Lovell. His father was a[...]When Phillip was nine years old his father died and the Toledo, Ohio, the second son of Gerhardt[...]le. native of Germany, and Mary Spilker Luebben, a native of In 1860 he c[...]up in then to Wisconsin where he worked on a farm and also as a a strict, German-influenced Luthe[...]schools in Toledo, and Tri-State College. Ill health influ- In 1861 he got the spirit of adventure and decided to go enced his trek west, first to Colorado and later to Montana. West. Phillip joined a company[...]This train of settlers was made up of bull teams and Mr. Winds, near Colorado Springs. Lovell had[...]Tehuantepec, Yucatan, and was one of the first two white As the t[...] |
| lived several years in Mexico, and installed the first central O.E.S., and culminated her many years of service by being he[...]sumed leadership in Daughters of the Nile, tana, and was involved with a hunting and fishing resort for Tirzah Temple, in Butte, and was on the State Board of the several years that[...]irls, among numerous other respon- to Great Falls and operated one of the first advertising si[...]One of her special interests was genealogy, and she pur- The next move was to Butte in 1906,[...]active sued this energetically for he;rself and others. This interest as President of the Federated Labor Council and Secretary- led to membership and leadership in the Daughters of the Treasurer of t[...]n. American Revolution, and other organizations requiring In 1912, he cam[...]Re- department of the Olmstead-Stevenson Company, and in gent of the Beaverhead Chapter and State Regent of the 1917 he bought this department, and went into business for Montana Chapter. Ot[...]were the Women Descendants of the Ancient and Honor- pany. His brother, Ernest Luebben, joined[...]he Dillon Panhellenic Club, Plumbers Association, and was its President and later Sec- Dillon branch of the American A[...]ecognized with a Women, Chapter AD P.E.O., and the Huguenot Society of watch for his long-time s[...]y in Yondota Lodge No. 572, A. Both Tom and Elizabeth were avid supporters of the com- F. & A. M., in 1905 in Toledo, and later transferred to Dillon munity of Dillon, and the state of Montana, throughout Lodge No. 16, A.[...]of Dillon Elizabeth on November 15, 1953, and she had nearly Chapter No. 8, Royal Arch Masons,[...]ary 6, 1976. They left a special and continuing legacy of member of Bagdad Shrine, Butte, and a 32nd Degree, Scot- affection and respect for this community to their Luebben tish Rite Mason, and a Past Worthy Patron of Mizpah desc[...]of Friends) par- ents, Dougan Clark Hinshaw, M.D. and Effie Roy Dicken[...]ia, Blaz was born December 31, 1882. He families, and both had Revolutionary ancestors. Elizabeth married Agnes Culig there in 1902, and the couple came to attended local schools before[...]hio, where he was employed Women, Glendale, Ohio, and graduated from the University as a fireman on steamships and also worked in the steel of Illinois with a Bache[...]nomics at the Montana State short time and then homesteading on Fish Creek in the Normal Col[...]Thomas E. Luebben, Jr., born September 20, 1917, and Dougan Clark Hinshaw Luebben, born July 24, 1922.[...]Quaker Meeting House in Dillon at that time, Tom and Elizabeth decided to join St. James Episcopal Chu[...]t. James in many capacities, including vestryman, and guild president, and remained active communicants throughout their liv[...]roups based on Masonic affiliation, as her father and husband were both Masons. Soon after her m[...] |
| [...]lon on July 22, gratitude for healing wounds and restoring health. "More 1967, after a lengthy ill[...]egor Lynn and I will regret not having had children?" Kather[...]er services to the United States Army Nurse Corps and served in Frank Madden[...]assaying at the Polaris King George V of England and filed her petition. On Janu- Mine and working as a delivery boy in Butte during the time ary 26, 1920, she recited the oath of allegiance and became a of horses and cobblestone streets. During this time he also cit[...]hat capacity for the Montana State Normal College and the Various baseball teams in Beaverhead[...]photography, fishing and good horses. He was involved in With a soft, soothing voice and an air of efficiency and various stages of mining, a key interest, fo[...]ssion, she endeared herself to all the community, and his life. to the girls at the college dormitory where she roomed and Frank returned to Connecticut in 1916 fo[...]and then returned "home" to Montana permanently. Two[...]to the grade school where, sisters, Mayme and Lula, and a brother, Joe, followed him to after 9 o'clock s[...]ountain, a containing papers, a fever thermometer and first aid items, popular gathering spot for[...]any businessmen child; to the far ends of Thomsen and Kentucky Avenues; to and ranchers. After 1933, when liquor became legal fo[...]Andrus Fountain also sold alcholic encouragement, and advice with all family health problems. dri[...]hout the help of encourage patrons to sit and drink too much. The Fountain Miss MacGregor."[...]was in this mothers' directives: "Wash your neck and ears.", "Scrub atmosphere that Frank est[...]your teeth.", would cheerfully tournament and smorgasbord as a means of thanking his comply " .[...]llowing World War I, Katherine Mac- year and is still carried on in his name. Gregor was the o[...]a true philanthropist. Much of his generosity was and marched with the Legionaires in the Armistice Day[...]l quality woolen fabrics. Her attire included hat and gloves, at that time, in the Andrus Fountain[...]told of the many proposals his real nieces and nephew to the Fountain for ice cream of marriage she and other army nurses received from[...] |
| [...]Through the years Hans worked on ranches and farms[...]and cooked and baked for the threshing crew.[...]moved to Dillon and took the train to Chicago where Hans[...]worked a few months and then to Denmark by ship. The two[...]daughter of Fred and Pearl Bourassa. She was born in Wy-[...]to look over the country with Will by many groups and organizations, as well as individuals Petersen. He returned to Michigan and with his wife Pearl, affected by his generosity.[...]rs was raising quarter (born about 1913), and son David (born about 1915), re- horses. He took[...]Vera was eight years old at that south of Dillon and in his horses' lineage. time. They traveled by train to Dillon and homesteaded 600 Frank died in 1965 at the age[...]tain View Cemetery in Dillon next to his brother and two They lived there until about 1925 when[...]Helen, born in 1918; Richard, 1921; and Robert, 1932. -MARY[...]emembers living in a tent that first year of 1916 and[...]he snow off the tent. Although primitive, Hans C. and Mena Madsen they still had beds, a table, chairs, and wood stove. Fred Family[...]rooms, a bedroom and a front room. Later he added a kitch- Hans C. Madsen, son of Hans R. and Anna Marie Hansen en. The log cabin was[...]ated to the United States about 1904. He and doors. It was heated with a wood stove as there were lots came west and settled in Dillon, Montana. The next year[...]e by hand Miss Mena Rasmussen, daughter of Rasmus and Anna on a washboard with water hea[...]hrine Nelsen Rasmussen, came to the United States and their own lye soap. Coal oil lamps provide[...]r attendants were Jasper potatoes, lettuce, and other vegetables. They also had a cow, and Margaret Nelson. chickens, and pigs. Many winter mornings they'd find bear The[...]On August 13, 1906, a a team named Charlie and Ole. baby girl was born. Birth records say her na[...]tson Madsen died Novem- worked on ranches and the coal yard in Dillon. Vera remem- ber 7, 1908,[...]eighbors. Her father had made a delight of mother and father, twins were born November 12, swing, a teeter totter, and merry go round for the children, 1909 in Dillon, Aksel Rasmussen and Ruth Kathrine (May) so all the neighbors[...]l at Dillon. She married John Hill in 1930 and they had two Armstead. Tom Pierce employed Hans C[...]ing in Ramsay, and Harold (born in 1932), deceased. They In early[...]r, Nelsine, came to visit. In were divorced and John Hill died in 1963. Vera remarried in October[...]tina Rasmussen died 1947 to Marius Madsen and they had two children, Albert November 1, 1908, s[...]ents were Madsen (born in 1948) of Dillon, and Linda Madsen Reichle Rasmus Rasmussen and Anna Kathrine Nelsen Rasmussen.[...] |
| [...]tember 29, 1883, to John T. Miller and Agnes T. Petritz Miller. John T. Miller and his two brothers, Frank and Best remembered as "Tia" by his ten grandchild[...]the late 1880s. He spent some time in Pennsyl- and her three sisters, Rose, Frances and Mary, came to vania before coming to Butte, Mt.,w[...]ters, Agnes and Olga, were born to John and Agnes Miller George was naturalized a U. S. ci[...]hn also worked in the smelter in John and Agnes Miller were storekeepers in Butte. They But[...]hop. It was located at 1800 South Montana Street, and Dillon in 1903. George moved there with his son and daugh- their home was located at 1804 South[...]h work. John Malesich and Angela T. Miller were married May George was a big raw-boned man about 6'3" tall, lean, and 19, 1900, in Butte by Priest Joseph J. Komorovsky. John strong, but kind and gentle. His grandchildren followed him was 2[...]aising the big marriage were George C. Miller and Mary T. Miller, Ange- family. He let them ride on[...]in the fields, stopping only at lunch John and Angela lived in Butte until March 18, 1903, at and to feed and water the horses. It took six horses to pull a two-bottom plow, and the work went very slowly. All of the haying equi[...]ed the cattle. In some manner he lost his balance and slipped, falling eight feet to the frozen ground,[...]eldest granddaughter, Francis, was not far away, and she heard him fall. Francis was said to be his favorite, and was deeply affected by his sudden death. Georg[...]the time of his death, at age 67, always working and very much enjoyed the Austrian parties held at th[...]for this story was given me by Joseph Male- sich and Mary Malesich Rebich, George's grandchildren. -BETTE MEINE HULL John and Angela Malesich |
| which time they moved to Beaverhead County and pur- chased the Pearl Spring Ranch from George S[...]Ben and Millie Mallon with Angela's parents as co-signer[...]Bradford, Illinois to Estella (McClaughlin) and John J. 30, 1882, by Henry R. Johnson. The origi[...]. There were three other children born to Estella and sold to George Staudahar February 10, 1883. Along with the John. They were Maude, Addye and Tom. purchase of the Staudahar Ranch came a Negr[...]do. While living there John went out one day and was never Beaverhead County at the time.[...]l owned by George Staudahar's Estella and her children moved to the town of Elk Horn, brother William, was purchased by John and Angela. This Montana when Ben was about[...]t 13 ground came to be known as the Hanson Field and now the he went to work driving a delive[...]and went to business school. For a short time he work[...]long with other livestock. the mines in Butte and also hauled mining equipment from One inventory[...]er to owned a blacksmith shop there. Estella and Bill had three Sam and Rudy Broksle). The Broksles lived east of the children, Bill, Jim and Stella. While living in Wisdom, Ben Beaverhead Ri[...]of Rocks. The old barn hauled freight and sometimes hauled gold out of Gibbons- and farmhouse were built in 1883 or 1884 out of hand-[...]Millicent Isabelle also built a garage, bunkhouse and added on a kitchen and a Dodgson of Wise River. Millie, as she was[...]ted a pass-through buffet between family and friends, was born March 11, 1888 in the frontier kitchen and dining room.[...]ents were Big Hole While living in Butte, John and Angela had their first two Basin pioneers Olive Lee (McClain) and George Edward daughters, Frances Angela, born March 19, 1901, and Mary Dodgson. Millie's grandmother, Marg[...], Margaret May, born November County. Their names and birth dates are: Ann Theresa, 20, 188[...]ary 23, 1906; George born May 20, 1893, and Frank Edward, born October 20, Andrew, August 14,[...]e George Dodgson family lived in Dewey for a time and Rudolph Albert (Scotty), April 26, 1916; and Philip James, also on different ranches in[...]n attended the attended school in Dewey and the Meadow Creek school at Drummy School just sou[...]orking wom- an. She always rose early (5:00 a.m.) and worked until late at night. Besides raising a large family, she also raised a huge vegetable garden and sold a lot of her vegetables to the Bond Grocery[...]e", which is an obsolete term for kidney disease, and "Disseminated Sclerosis of Cord" or Multiple Scle[...]urchased a home in Dillon at 467 Thom- sen Avenue and lived there until she entered the Eventide Rest H[...]clerosis. -JULIE MALESICH, BETTE MEINE HULL, JOHN and ANN MALESICH, PHILIP MALESICH, and MARY ANN MALESICH PADDOCK Ben and Millie Mallon 356-Beaverhead History |
| [...]mily lived on the ranch now the Mallon Ranch. She and May helped their mother cook for the stoppers who came by and . stayed overnight at the ranch. When Ben and Millie married they first lived in Divide and worked at the grocery store. A daughter, Vera Ire[...]nown as the Glaus place from Charles Ralston, Sr. and also bought the store at Divide. Ben ran the store at Divide while Millie and Vera stayed on the ranch and ran it with the help of a hired hand. After a while they sold the store to Charlie Miller, and in 1920 they sold the ranch to Babe Dodgson, a cousin of Mil- lie's. Ben, Millie and Vera went to California and bought some property where they stayed for almost a year. They subsequently sold that property and moved back to Wise River to buy the Ferguson Ranch. On July 13, 1922 a son, Lowell Lee, was born to Ben and Millie, and on April 28, 1924 they had a daughter Maysel Marie. After a few years they sold the Ferguson Ranch and bought the place that is the present Mallon Ranch. Ben and Millie lived there the rest of their lives. Lowel[...]nger able to do so. Ben Henry and Orlena Mallory passed away at Wise River on July 14, 1955, and Millie died everything will be all right bef[...]r talk to any. I sent him that letter. He is well and[...]worry all the time. Just have a good time and the summer Henry G. Mallory[...]Henry Mallory, born in Henry County, Ind. to J.B. and cold. We have had awful bad spring, snowin and blowing a Mary Holden Mallory, came to the upper Big Hole Basin as good deal. I have set two hens and will set another this a young man in his early tw[...]en't made any garden yet- the garden is still ers and trappers to have a 400-acre timber claim. A contem- under snow. porary with Ben Hamby and Clark Smith, who often assist- Smith's[...]or he dress for my birthday. Mattie is well and happy and has two often ate in the Hamby home. He helped wi[...]I could come home with after Ben's untimely death and when the last son was born Henry and see you all, wouldn't we have a good old time? se[...]go to church then, wouldnt we? How is your father and Henry married Ben's widow on July 1,1893, in Di[...]yes, Lena, I am quilting. I have two Henry was 28 and Orlena was 31 and their address was to quilt for Ella, and one is about done. I sewed up nearly Alamo. On Ju[...]na, I wish I could talk to you awhile. Henry said and his six step children back to see the parents she[...]re again so we his parents home in Carroll, Mont. and on occasion he would could go to see each other. Charley is taking a little ride, Joe write and send money but he never returned to his wife and has been having a bad cold all winter. He i[...]Henry's mother wrote this letter to too. Him and Henry has a great time, they think so much of Orl[...]one another. "Dear Daughter and children, I will answer your letter I[...] |
| [...]tedious seven- you can. Tell me how everything is and how and what you month trek across the plains and over the mountains. After have planted and how the wheat is this spring. Tell Freddy I[...]Creek and located his home there. James Mann remained Fr[...]ew to be a fine tall young man, fought James and Mary's home is still in service to this day. James in WWI at Argonne Forest and was wounded in the battle at Mann died August 20, 1901 and was buried in the Poin- Mont. St. Pere, France. H[...]de Mary who preceded him in death daughter of Tom and Emma McCallister, in 1916. Three on[...]y Laverne tain View Cemetery in Dillon. and Freddy Wayne. Virginia married Jesse Spencer and Many descendants of this early Be[...]bute to its development. Most were Dwight, Thomas and one infant, Rodger.She died in Sep- bu[...]-VERN W. POMEROY and had four children: Linda, Jerry, Sharon and Diana Mal- lory. Laverne died in January of 1970[...]James and Anna Mansfield Frederic John Mallory died in Ayug[...]on April 18, 1844, son of Michael and Mary (Morrissey)[...]the Potato Famine of the 1840s and at the age of three James and Mary Mann James and his sister were sent to relatives in Wellsville,[...]on left with a family in New Orleans and James continued on to Mann, and mother Sarah (Ingram) Mann, who was born in[...]he first settler in the family had departed and her whereabouts were never the town, and brought all his worldly effects on horseback[...]wn. through the forests. James was a farmer's boy and after James' early education was received in Wellsville and coming to Illinois, worked on his father's land. Later he Eolia, Mo., and he traveled back to New Orleans at least attended Oberlin College for two years and Rush Medical once to try to find his si[...]eing slaves sold College of Chicago for two years and studied two years with on the block in the[...]In 1861 at the age of 17 he and two older men named In an early day Mr. Mann went to California walking the Patrick White and Daniel Flood left Wellsville for St. Jo- entire distance and pushing a single-wheel cart that hauled seph, Mo., where they obtained ox teams and wagons and his meager outfit. He worked the mines at Diamond[...]train headed for California. They moved Springs, and later spent the winter of 1850-51 at Mormon southwest into New Mexico, stayed briefly and then drove Ravine, Coloma, Greenwood Valley, and Georgetown. He north to Pike's Peak,[...]ad only seven In about 1856 he went to Wisconsin, and there made the houses when they passed[...]gold strike in Bannack, Montana, changed course and ar- patrick and had four children: Robert, James, Cordelia, and rived there November 1, 1862. He traded two yoke of oxen Clarinda. James and Mary Mann had one son, Monroe, born and a freight wagon for Claim No. 32 on Stapleton Bar[...]ered. country they were recruited to join Bozeman and Jacobs for In 1863 gold was discovered[...]nations were not agreeable to this plan, so it and he gave it to Ed Gallagher who later did take out[...]l near Laramie, at the expense of many more miles and He returned to Banna~k early in 1864 and was present at weeks on their gruelling journey w[...]rived the hanging of Henry Plummer, Ned Ray and Buck Stinson 358-Beaverhead History |
| [...]Ike and Jesse Marble[...]Marble was born June 4, 1854, in Effingham, Ill., and[...]e to Montana in 1867, locating first near Bozeman and[...]The story of Jesse and Ike's romance is rather interesting:[...]He did't talk plain and used pretty strong language. He[...]said, "Oh, Deesus Triste, tell her anything" and that opened on January 10, 1864, and also witnessed the firing of a can- the door t[...]ave her a good non into the cabin of Joe Pizantha and his subsequent cre- sales pitch on Ike, as their heart and hand love affair, bol- mation on January 11, 1864[...]hat lasted to the end of their lives. than mining and took three teams and wagons to Fort Ben- I was in their home often as a child and as I remember ton, Montana, where flour was selli[...]selling for in Bannack. He made tobacco and spit in the fire but somehow kept it going. She several trips to Fort Benton, then changed course and gave the orders and did the outside work. She milked her freighted from Corinne and Salt Lake to Bannack for a cows after d[...]ows would let that ugly woman in there if bedroll and buried near the trail. His name was unknown.[...]nued freighting for about five years. Jesse and Ike were married on Feb. 11, 1897. Jesse was a He[...]ld coin. Brigham then took him to the cellar and cousin to Mamie Buck, Judd Tibbles, and Maude Clay- of the freight house and handed him a glass of whiskey ton. tappe[...]l. After Jesse and Ike left the Centennial Valley they went In 18[...]claim near the head of to Idaho for a time and then moved to Dillon in the 30s. Ike Shenon Creek[...]here he stacked a died in 1939 at age 85 and Jesse died in 1950. Both are small amount of hay.[...]miles Freeman Marble west of Grant and later enlarged his holdings through home- Freeman was Ike Marble's brother and spent much of his stead purchases and land trades with the Burnett, Ames, life working and living with or near him. Freeman owned a Silvey and Nelson families. His first water right was dated[...]had a sod roof and dirt floor, but his housekeeping was very In 1[...]acceptable, dishes always washed, bed made, and floor Blacktail ranch home of Miss Flynn's sister[...]was a crack shot. Red Rock River ran through 1888 and Columba Sarsfield in 1890. In later years James his place and his place had quite a bit of boggy, wet swampy managed the family ranch and Columba entered the legal ground. Certai[...]St. Louis, Mo. and sometimes the innocent ones would slip past his N[...]while on a Hunting signs. One did just that and Freeman sent a bullet trip to California in 1916 and is buried in Mountain View right along the hunter's side, he stopped and Freeman went Cemetery in Dillon. His wife Anna li[...]over with him. The hunter said, "Mr. Marble, 1950 and upon her death in 1957 was also buried in Dillon.[...]Freeman was a long tall fellow and always wore a red[...] |
| [...]their second child, William, was born and another on the[...]way was she ready to embrace this strange and wild land. With courage and zeal, Elizabeth attacked the crude log Edmond and Elizabeth[...]August 10, 1887. In the spring of 1883, Edmond and Elizabeth Legge In order to satisfy[...], made a decision which begging for "bread and cake," Elizabeth kept up a frenzy of changed thei[...]for health baking. Soon she overcame her fears and engaged Mary, in reasons, would join three brothers and brother-in-law Indian woman, to help her with the children and do the Thomas Pierce in the West, the great land of opportunity laundry. and adventure. Thomas, already established as a miner and Although Ed's interest was horse trading and freighting, rancher in Horse Prairie with vast herds and acreages, se- he and his brother-in-law, Francis Sarault, decided it w[...], born July 5, 1881, their first with fences and corrals. Francis and Adele had two sons, child, they awaited the return of husband and father which Clarence and Maxie. Francis died at age 31 of pneumonia on was[...]n children a year apart, Maxie on May 25, 1888, and Clarence Spring Mountain, Idaho (now Idaho Falls)[...]at, tery. their father having been an owner and breeder of race Elizabeth's role of nurse for the sick and dying of two horses.[...]to Montana without delay. Ed epilepsy and died of i~fluenza in the 1917 epidemic. After pur[...]onships with the Indians Adele lost husband and children, her brother Ed and family and others, at one time purchasing 100 head of Spanis[...]mestead further strain army horses for $5.00 each and doubling the money in up the Grasshopper Vall[...]only personal possessions - cattle, horses and the F.S.[...]Elizabeth and children returned to New York while the[...]home was being built, and she was soon back at her old job in[...]mics, however, and in the spring of 1892 all four children[...]were stricken with pneumonia or diphtheria and scarlet[...]Perry, at the age of five and one-half years.[...]Anna with relatives to continue her schooling and taking Eddie and Josie with her. Taking up life again with her[...]Marchesseau (with ing. His fine teams and wagons were well equipped to haul hat), Josephine[...]acher at Po- all kinds of merchandise and supplies for long trips, a virtu- laris School), Marjorie and Ruth Marchesseau; Far al lifeline to many businesses in Bannack, Dillon and sur- right: George Harrison and Helen Judge; Rear lefi: rounding are[...]ck needed little herding as the grass Laura Judge and Maria Harrison; Center: Jim was lush, and antelope in large herds ate and bedded down Purdy, former pro baseball pitcher; D[...]oon, however, the valley would be settled. Cattle and postmistress at Polaris[...] |
| and water rights would be needed, better hay to be cu[...]Grasshopper Valley, exchanged midwifery stacked and fed out in winter. Stock would be confined to[...]ch birth in their large families. smaller areas, and grazing would be controlled.[...]the arrival of Rose Olive on September 30, 1894, and Bessie in 1896, a large house was needed. A site[...]Frank E. and Matilda where the children would attend school.[...]in Bannack. He was the seventh child of Edmond and Eliza- sing, to laugh in, to love and enjoy." The five youngest were beth Marchesseau[...]Frank spent his childhood on the family ranch and at- Dewey, Ruth Eleanor and Marjorie Estelle, the last three tended sc[...]pitcher. He weekly column for the Dillon Tribune and promoting good continued to play baseball[...]Matilda was the youngest child of William and Jane Per- youngest sister.[...]the century, land was rapidly taken up tana, and attended school in Anaconda and Missoula. in the Grasshopper Valley. Some newcome[...]ly ranch. In 1922 they gained employment with Mr. and stole water for their parched lands. Convicts wer[...]esseau's herd of fine draft horses was driven off and Springs. never recovered. The young thief w[...]k took employment with Judson Best in dian border and sentenced to 10 years in prison. This inci-[...]ches up the Valley, the Jack Williams, Bob Kuney, and give birth to Jane Elizabeth. While still living in Dillon and Nagle places and later holdings at the mouth of Polaris now working for Western Wholesale their youngest, and Canyon for his son Edward, dashing the latter's h[...]cud- had flown the nest to higher education, jobs and marriages. der Creek. Frank at that time also worked with his brother The three sons married and remained in the Valley as Dewey on th[...]demic had taken the lives of two, Jose- Frank and Dewey purchased the ranch and formed a part- phine and Bessie, the latter leaving three children for her[...]early 1940s, the partnership was dissolved mother and married sisters to raise. and Frank and Matilda purchased what was then known as Ed ha[...]er with a great love of the Williams Ranch and the Cooney Ranch. his horses and animals. He lived out his days on the FS[...]as lovingly known, worked side by side with Ranch and died in 1934 at the age of 80. Elizabeth died in[...]for her love of the outdoors, her family and mankind. Few storms of 62 years. Elizabeth was 17[...]Daly people she had worked for as a teenager. and Marjorie Finch. Frank and Tilly continued ranching until their retire- The doctor's book replaced the doctor, and Elizabeth ment. They moved to Dillon and remained there until their nurtured the family through epidemics and -illnesses. Nei- deaths. Frank passed away on September 9, 1962 and Tilly ther Ed nor Elizabeth had resorted to a hos[...]r children reside in Dillon. lifetimes. Elizabeth and Maria Harrison, as the _closest[...] |
| [...]sseault Fero and Sara Marchesseau Robert R. Marchesseault was bo[...]ive of Canada, being born at Mountain View, Wyo., and spent his childhood in Alberta, Montreal o[...]ho was also a brother-in-law. He served as cowboy and ment to Dillon in late 1960.[...]thing was accorded special tribute as a gentleman and patriot who free, no fences and no nesters cluttered up the scenery and reflected the spirit of Boys State, which he served as a flag friends and neighbors like J.C. Brenner, Jim Mansfield, Pat b[...]was awarded life membership in American and all the others ran their herds from Red Rock to t[...]. 20 at which time then Post Idaho line and lived in close harmony. Commander Dean Brown decl[...]Sara had two children by a former marriage, Hugh and Will. No children were born to Fero and Sara.[...]They left the Pierce ranch in the early 1930s and relocat-[...]"Skinny" became ill and died in Dillon in December,[...]Reverend Father Timothy Clifford officiating and inter-[...]R. Gordon, F. G. Cashmore and Alvin Roberts. Besides his widow Sara and two stepsons, he was survived[...]by nephews Ed, Dewey, Frank and Bob Marchesseau of Polaris and nieces Ann Marchesseau, Mrs. Jack Brown and[...]gales, Arizona, Mrs. Marian Frink of Plains and Mrs. Flor-[...]She was a member of St. Rose Altar Society and St. Rose[...]years and received her 35-year pin.[...]as also a 57-year member of the Dillon Elks Lodge and a life member of Veterans of World War I. He wa[...]LES STAUFFER Fero "Skinny" and Sara Marchesseau 362-Beaverhead History |
| end Timothy Clifford officiating and buried beside her hus- band Fero. Pallbearers wer[...]Roy Stocker, Parke Scott, Hube Flynn, Dale Metlen and Dellar Gordon. Surviving relatives included sons and daughter-in-law Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lavery of Casper, Wyoming, and Hugh N. Lavery of Redding, California; brothers-in-law and sis- ters Mr. and Mrs. D. F. McCarthy of Butte, Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Malloy and Mrs. J. Long, all of San Francisco; brothers and sisters-in-law Mr. and Mrs. B. J. McMenomey of Malta and Mr. and Mrs. Martin McMenomy of Monrovia, Califor- nia; a granddaughter in Billings and nephews and nieces in California and Oregon. -ADELE ROUSE and LORRAYNE REBICH "Death From A Kick" |
| [...]All of their children helped with the ranch work and the He married Arline Dolan and worked in Washington, D.C. ranch expanded. The three sons, Ray, Paul and Lee, stayed for the government. They then moved to El Paso and he was on the ranch for the rest of their[...]supervisory program coordinator in Mission Plans and Op- trell) and Ethel (Knox) married and stayed in the area. erations at the White Sands Missile Range. Donald and his Elmer died December 19, 1934 in Di[...]ring the war. Ralph served in the Military Police and with Patton as a combat engineer. He and his wife Marjory lived in Tooele, Utah, where he was a cement Carl and Emma Mast mason for the government. He died in 19[...]one of the seven buildings on the Mast and Mary Elizabeth Tritt Mast. He was born just 10 Ma[...]old Anderson Ranch just north of Dillon on Elmer and Addie Martinell[...]children and the first to be born in Montana. Elmer Marion[...]h Creek, 16 miles north of Dillon. Here he tinell and Annie Hall of Canada. They were of French Cana-[...]very good at mathematics and could walk around a haystack On November 8, 18[...]r took up homesteads. She was of English ancestry and her the birth of this son, Carl T. had[...]cendant of Lord Baltimore, the Colonial and getting his foot caught during a rain storm while[...]eels, crushing his right arm just above the elbow and expanded the home ranch by buying others. They re- and tearing his left ear until it was hanging by the skin. His sided there and had eight children. They were : May Viola,[...]l 25, doctor took it out in the back yard and buried it. However, 1897; Ray Dell, born July 7,[...]when the pain didn't let up, the arm was dug up and the and Lee Stanley, born April 14, 1908. The five surviv[...]ll 'in use today on the Martinell ranch. Elmer and Addie got started in the cattle business in 1895 when they leased 10 head of milk cows and range stock from Arlia A. Froman for five years.[...]crop. It was baled, loaded on the train at Dell, and shipped to the mines in Butte. They would also wi[...]for people. Elmer was a bit of a trader - buying and selling livestock as he saw fit.[...] |
| hand straightened and relief came to him almost immedi- ately. A daughter, Mary Isabella, was born on April 15, 1914, and on July 8, 1917, another baby girl, Vera Arcelia,[...]The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and was secretary of the Relief Society Organization for a number of years. Emma loved to travel and took several trips to Salt Lake City, Utah, South- ern Utah, also to California and in later years to Virginia for visits with her daughter Vera and husband Fred. She was a talented musician, played the guitar and sang. She passed away June 21, 1961, and was buried in Mt. View Cemetery at Dillon. Carl was a contractor by trade. He had a number of teams and wagons and it was quite a sight to see him driving an eight[...]dug basements, poured Rufe and Montana Mathews cement foundations, laid sidewalks, and moved anything in Hazel married Roy Ja[...]as very good Jaggers had two children, Jeff and Hope. The Jaggers died at this and many houses that he moved didn't even have a in the flu epidemic-Roy on November 29, 1916, and Hazel crack in the plaster. He was also talented in music and loved on December 6, 1916. After their deaths the Mathews took to play the harmonica and call for square-dances. the two c[...]72 on August 21, 1953, in by Berry. Dillon and was buried in Mt. View Cemetery. Georgia Mathews left Bannack and enrolled in Beaver-[...]head High School where she graduated and worked for an[...]became county treasurer and served two terms. Georgia Rufe and Montana[...]Montana College) as business manager and later Dean of Mathews Women, till she became ill and retired. Georgia belonged to Rufe Mathews was born the son of Rufus and Mary Eliza- the Episcopal Church, P.E.O., Eastern Star and various beth (Berry) Mathews at Palmyra, Missouri[...]rganizations. 1851. He attended high school there and college in Shelby Bertie Mathews also g[...]School, and worked in the courthouse following Georgia's A[...]d for Mockel Hardware for a period of for Montana and arrived in Bannack in 1864. On August 8,[...]hey years. Later she sold the Book Store and was employed at made their home in Bannack for some time and later home- the Normal College where she[...]member of the Episcopal Church, Eastern Star and P.E.O. with 160 acres. In later years they return[...]. His Mr. Mathews was affiliated with the Free and Accepted parents were John and Sophia Simpers Mauldin, natives of Masons and served as secretary of Bannack Lodge for many Maryland. His father was engaged in agriculture and in the years. The Mathews family were active memb[...]Mauldin attended school in the winter and helped on the Mrs. Mathews also came from an e[...]went to neer family being the daughter of Andrew and Helen Nay. Baltimore and served a three-year apprenticeship at har- She was the second white girl born in Bannack and one of ness making. He then went to Virg[...]more where he was in the tobacco business and in the dry rived in Bannack in 1864 after crossin[...]until 1864. He came to Montana in 1865 and brought a stock and Bertie.[...]te River. Berry worked in the mines at Bannack and Butte and He was accompanied by his brot[...] |
| [...]where he stayed for four years. In 1865 he and his brother On starting for the east in the f[...]andise, which they build a boat sixteen feet long and eighteen inches deep. He sold at a good pr[...]then paid a man $25 to put the boat on his wagon and fields of the Salmon River country and spent two years transport it to the Yellowstone River. He launched the boat prospecting and mining. He then began trading cattle, and with seven others started on a trip down the Yellow- bringing them up from Utah and selling them in the Beaver- stone and Missouri Rivers to Sioux City, Iowa. Because of head. In 1870 he returned to the east and went into business the Indians, they would travel[...]time he soon returned to the Beaverhead and ranched with his when they would land and crawl into the brush to sleep. brother until 1876. He then went to Kansas and farmed for The party finally reached Sioux City and Mr. Mauldin three years but returned to Montana in 1879 and estab- took the stage to Boone Station, Iowa, and then traveled the lished a successful retai[...]sts In 1886 he came to Beaverhead County and purchased a and purchased another stock of general merchandise, w[...]use on December 17, 1889. In 1892 his stock there and stored the remainder until the following he associated with Simon Hausworth and built the Colum- spring when he took it to the mi[...]er, Idaho. He returned to Virginia City that fall and Mr. Mauldin took an active part in local affairs and was secured more goods which he had shipped by bo[...]Roley, a The next spring he went to California and purchased 500 prominent railroad and canal contractor. She married her head of horses[...]hio, in Beaverhead. There he began raising cattle and horses and 1854 and lived in Wisconsin, where her husband died. After[...]8, 1921. She had two sons, He raised these horses and had an excellent market for them James and G. R. Featherly. in Butte. Mr. Mauldin contribute[...]of Mr. Mauldin died August 21, 1907 and both of them are the ranching industry and was closely identified withit until buried a[...]ranch property. His ranch was the Diamond O Ranch and was located near the Point of[...]his ranch, he continued with his other interests and owned valuable property in Butte, Helena, Joseph and Annie Mautz and Dillon, where he made his home.[...]lon known as Mauldin working in the mines and smelter. addition. James Mauldin deeded property for the Presbyte- Relatives and friends in Butte persuaded him to move to rian Ch[...]was a farmer at heart, so he left the mines and moved to the Mr. Mauldin was a bachelor.[...]Apex area, working for various ranchers and farmers. -HE[...]section crew, post office and grocery store. About a dozen[...]Butte he met Annie Plute, an on September 3, 1843 and was the son of John and Sophia attractive young woman who also[...]or They were married in January of 1911 and made their home many years a prosperous merchant[...]urchased the Mast ranch located along of Maryland and at Tuscarora Academy in Pennsylvania.[...]After he finished school he went to Indianapolis and took a Joseph, Jr. was born there.[...] |
| [...]and his mother, Mrs. Carins. Jack was a small man and had a strange custom of wearing heavy socks and boots even in[...]was gone they would stop by his cabin and move something.[...]hey would hear how upset he was when he came home and[...]arrived in Dillon on May 9, 1910, with my mother and[...]shop in Dillon on the NW corner of Helena and Idaho[...]rents to join him in busi- Joseph and Annie Mautz ness. My father was to work in woodwork, repairing wagons, and served several years on the school board which wa[...]built the building on the SE corner of Helena and Washing- In 1917, he crushed his leg in a hay-b[...]had a carriage necessitated his selling the farm and moving to Dillon for works in the front and my uncle Harmon had horse shoeing hospital care.[...]ts area from Robert Quick. They built a new house and My sister Bernice and I started at Bagley school in the fall the couple[...]eph served on the Rattlesnake school ics and it was easy to learn to read. Penmanship was taug[...]s. those days and we did full pages of exercises over and over to In 1937, Joseph and Annie moved to Dillon and their son practice writing. Printing is the method all my grandchil- Joseph, Jr. and his wife, the former Agnes Stefonic, took[...]-ANNE WILLIAMS front and a single seat in the middle back of the front sea[...]We kids were all given rides and it was a thrill. Jack Maybee My parents, John Brooks and Mabel Mayfield, took up a Jack and his brother Billy Maybee were early-day settlers[...]years. |
| [...]e war effort. "Rais- ing victory gardens, produce and preserve all food stuff, make bandages etc. Patri[...]All eligible senior boys enlisted in the service and we girls wrote to them. Living on a ranch (hom[...]her was lambing up Badger pass. My sister Bernice and I drove our horse hitched to a spring wagon and went up to the camp. The camp tender would give u[...]ad become was killed, leaving a widow and a two-year-old son, Hugh. pets, each having a per[...]Hugh's mother earned a living as a teacher and raised her Bernice graduated from high school in 1918 and I in 1919. son to adulthood. Hugh came to Dillon and, with partner She married Richmond Hobson June 30[...]in the block between Ban- Beth, who died in 1927 and a son, Jay, born in California. nack and Center Streets. They sold musical instruments, Jay and his wife, Jackie, have three children, all in Califor- luggage, leather goods, and a variety of quality household nia.[...]merchandise. Harry Graves and Elmo Winn were clerks. While we lived on the h[...]hn Blake Ethel Bond was born to Mary and Dr. Harry A. Bond, Mayfield was born March 4, 191[...]orth of the Andrus Hotel. Their where he attended and graduated from high school. He mar- home[...]venue. Ethel, an only daughter, ried Verla Keller and they had three children, John, Jerry, grew up enjoying all the advantages and material things and Marcia.[...]in the Murray hospital in Butte in 1927. and her best chum, Zeta Landon, an only daughter of F[...]Dillon's social life that raised eyebrows and was the envy of home in Dillon until his death in 1947. My mother later the more modest and restricted young ladies in the convivial lived in[...]I was married to Loran D. Spencer, son of Vern and Nettie Hugh McCaleb. They were married in D[...]moon included a trip to Salmon by stagecoach and a journey Dillon. Loran's family ranched in the B[...]led down in deaths, Vern in 1962 at the age of 91 and Nettie died in 1971 the big two-story house[...]y hobbies, Ethel's favorite was shopping Loran and I left for California the day we were married second-hand stores, auctions, and hunting trash dumps. and lived there until 1981 when we returned to Dillon[...]47 years. We discarded items to restore and put back to use. One of the raised two children, Sharon Graham of Dillon, and Danny treasures she restored was a squ[...]ery pick-up load of trash to the city dump Hugh and Ethel McCaleb and salvaged Jessie Barrett's throw-aways. She couldn[...]her life she could have everything she came west and joined a wagon train enroute from Salt Lake wanted, yet she was frugal with her household accounts and City t o Salmon, Idaho. He was driving a wagon lo[...]ians. Jesse She did her own cooking and housekeeping, unlike other 368-Beaver[...] |
| [...]employed uniformed Ethel entertained them and they enjoyed visiting about old maids. She was impervious to criticism and gossip, and times in the desert. After their depart[...]"They came up here to see if I was dead, and, if not, why In their mid years, Ethel and Mac bought land on Birch not." Creek and Ethel decorated the cabin in her own inimitable She lived to be 93, still doing her own housework and style. It was while they were living at the Birch Creek cabin cooking, and enjoying her unique lifestyle. that Ethel lost an[...]-EDITH PALMER one eye and threatened to spread to the other. Her doctor tho[...]a germ spread by gophers, there Jay V. and Marguerite being many in this area. Ethel was fit[...]McCarthy an impairment as she continued to read and do craftwork for the rest of her days.[...]to Elmo Colo. At the age of two years, he and his mother. Iola Mc- Winn, who moved the business[...]Carthy moved to Montana in search of better times and a the corner of Bannack and Idaho Streets. The McCalebs new life among family and relatives in the cityof Butte. I;fil)ved to the b[...]g the city at will, many rooms with Oriental rugs and fine furniture, including spending time with various relatives, and traveling the ornately carved teakwood chairs pur[...]o's Chinatown. The yard was equipped with pergola and Coroner at that time. His mother was e[...]While living at the Murray place, she took in and cared for worked at the Hennessey Department St[...]to her sick In 1910, Jay, his mother and step father, Charles Black, and penniless. Ethel also provided a home for Mrs. Jake traveled to Dillon via team and wagon with an over night Mittelmier, who with her[...]e. Mrs. Mittelmier raised goats for a milk supply and of bed bugs. The balance of the night was[...]cleaning jobs in town their wagon. in stores and banks.[...]day Ron Benson dry farm. Logs were ob- handy man and chauffeur. He drove their pink Cadillac[...]ry gulch north of Art Christensen's ranch (Pinky) and took them on trips to the Southwest and Mexi- co. Mac passed away in 1954. Barney stayed[...]nd with a stucco house near St. George, Utah. She and Barney continued with their hobbies. He had lapidary equipment and polished gem stone which they found in the desert[...]fine jewelry, diamond rings, bracelets, necklaces and pins lay in a safety deposit box in a Dillon bank[...]wore ersatz. Barney's health was deteriorating and he was feeble for about a year before his death i[...]in 1958. Mrs. McCaleb, being in advanced years and having lost her playmate, returned to Dillon and bought a home on Schuler Lane built by Myrtle and Chester Hale, who had raised foxes on this acreag[...]cases of books, her favorite pieces of furniture and Chinese rugs. The sale of her -property[...] |
| for the construction of a four room log house and a barn. Water was carried from the neighboring ra[...]the death of Mr. Black, the farm was leased. Jay and his mother moved to Dillon where Jay became emplo[...]sales firm. In 1917, Jay joined the U.S. Marines and was assigned to the four funnel, coal fired Cruis[...]he traveled to Vladivostok, Russia, Japan, China, and the Philippine Islands. March of 1920, discharg[...]d the Oregon Shortline F~eight Company, unloading and shipping rail freight from Dillon while making lo[...]eye of a beautiful young girl, Marguerite Sharp, and they were married August 4, 1923. Jay worked fo[...]Alice and Mamie McCune, daughters of Michael At the time of this printing, Jay, 91 years of age, and his McCune and Lilly Maybelle Dingley bride of 66 years, Marguer[...]mie was 16 ½ years old, Michael and Mamie were married -MYRNA AND JACK CHAMPINE at Mamie's pare[...]presided at the ceremony. Michael and Mamie Michael's[...]years earlier. He was between 20 and 25 years older than[...]me in Michael J. McCune, also known as William and "Mike", honor of the newlyweds. came from[...]ic family on the Kansas/Missouri Michael and Mamie had three children: Alice May, born border.[...]a May 11, 1890; Lily, born December 6, 1892; and son Joseph, nun, he was disowned by his parents and moved west. He born circa 1898. While re[...]eral months in 1860, then Beaverhead Livery and did contracting in the area. In 1900, came to Bea[...]g profession. the winter cold in December and January. Lilly Maybelle Dingley, also known as[...]ir return from Hawaii, the family moved to belle, and in adulthood as Mamie, was born January 11,[...]th her parents, John He built the Broadway and Palace theatres, the Clark block, Tabor Dingley and Mary Ann Estes, to Maine and came to the Pennsylvania block, and the large warehouse for the Butte City, Montana T[...]f his death. For One day in Butte, Mike McCune and a friend drove by the years, the stack from[...]s the tallest building in Dingley yard in a buggy and Michael saw 10-year-old Ma- Butte. mie playing with her sister and their pet lamb in the front In 1902, he became ill and suffered from debilitating yard. He told his frie[...]sing his mind. He pretty girl. His friend laughed and said never, that she was may have suffered fro[...]nstruction of this last project, he began to have and well known in the Butte City and Anaconda areas of labor troubles and this greatly preyed upon his mind be- Montana for his construction and design skills. cause he saw no so[...]to Dillon in the coming years spondency grew and on December 14, 1905, he took his own and courted Mamie. When not courting the love[...] |
| [...]ved at Can- got just about everything." His widow and children moved tigny May 31, 1918,and Silver Star during theMarne offen- to Mt. Ellis Academy between Bozeman and Livingston. sive. She met Thomas Couch and they married and moved to Lee was discharged at F[...]o Portland, Ore. 1919. She died around 1950 and is buried in Portland. He returned to Monida and traded the acreage on Corral Daughter Alice Ma[...]up on because of his service John Oscar Tretsven, and moved to Bozeman. She founded time, for[...]ida is still in the Girl Scout program in Bozeman and worked with that the McDowell estate and is one of the few original home- organization for years as well as the Red Cross and the steads still held by family in the V[...]eturned Daughter Lily married Victor Armstrong and became a and shot the bear. He was so proud of his accomplishm[...]Mamie was raised a Baptist, married a Catholic, and in He started dating Roberta Bean and they eloped to be later life became an active Sev[...]0, 1921 in Idaho Falls, ID. The reason they wrote and published many hymns including titles such as[...]erroot River," "A Dream," "All Praise to Christ," and marry a "tin horn gambler". Milt sent Sunny[...]and Mac became good friends. Walter Lee and Roberta[...]and Henrietta Bean. She was born in Sugar City, Utah[...]last two children in order to to Samuel McDowell and Ella Mary "Mame" McDowell, was born February 19, 1888 in Craig, Nebraska. His broth- ers and sisters were: Lottie, born Dec. 23, 1878, Arthur[...]middle name Lee but was known as "Mac" to friends and family. Mac was considered a dude in this little western town, as he wore suits, ties and city-slicker shoes (oxfords) to work. He soon gai[...]enlisted July 12, 1917 at Fort Wm. Harrison, Mt. and was assigned to Co. G 16th Infantry First Divisio[...]ntitled to wear the Victory Medal, Battle Clasps, and four Bronze Stars for active ser- vice between April 6, 1917 and November 11, 1918 for the Battles, Montdid[...] |
| [...]and managed the Grand Hotel, ran the restaurant at th[...]tal and cared for her grandchildren. She was a member of[...]the American Legion Auxiliary and the Rebecca Lodge. She[...]died of cancer June 8, 1979. Both she and Mac are buried in[...]Frank Craig and Nellie[...]high buggy and a horse. Jumping up and down from the[...]buggy caused him to injure his foot, and as a result was[...]the dray business and opened the Dillon Bakery and Con-[...]onary Store in 1909. Homemade ice cream, candies, and[...]made this a popular spot for Mac and Roberta McDowell almost tw[...]lived on the Clover Creek gave up the business and was elected public administrator Ranch, attended the Saunders School and graduated from and treasurer of the City of Dillon, positions he hel[...]th November 5, 1948. berta was an excellent rider and enjoyed the wide open Frank McFadden[...]ire Department, representing them at State Mac and Roberta lived at Monida on the homestead and Conventions, member of Odd Fellows, Moder[...]April 3, 1923 in Idaho Beaverhead County, and a life-long member of the Presby- Falls. After De[...]Dillon's most respected citi- worked for Safeway and sold Fuller Brushes. Loretta Eu- zens. ni[...]for the railroad. Safeway store in Pueblo, Colo. and from there the family Nellie graduated[...]in Su- teaching rural schools in Beaverhead and Madison Counties perior, Nebr.[...]1903. After they When the depression hit, Mac and Roberta loaded their opened the Dillon Bakery and Confectionary Store in 1909, 1928 Ford, bought a trailer and moved their belongings, she was active in the business and as a result was well known three children and a rat terrier dog named Tiny, back to the throughout the County and very much liked. At the time of Cabin at Monida.[...]8 at the age of 70, of a massive heart istrator and treasurer, holding these positions until her atta[...]death on June 13, 1955. Wars, American Legion and the Presbyterian Church. Nellie McFadden possessed an exceptionally keen and 372-Beaverhead History |
| [...]near his brother and wife. Soon he had work with the Or-[...]Jeremiah and Sarah McGahan. They rested four days and[...]At the young age of 50, Charles G. became ill and died[...]Dillon and located on the west side of the railroad tracks.[...]Sons, Harry and Jerry, completed grade eight and then took[...]Scotch brogue all her years. She was a Frank and Nellie McFadden ... on Wedding Day,[...]seated: Harry, Charles George and Agnes |
| Two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren live in Montana; others[...]ials used in my account of Charles George McGahan and Agnes Nancy McCorry are from the Dillon Tribune, July 6, 1923, and from their family.) Sarah Ann Hudson Randall[...], 1845, in Warren |
| Horace, Pauline, and Andrew. In the teen years the family lived in a[...]ss Ranch) at the intersection of the Templin Lane and the old Horse Prairie road. The three children at[...]r- ents' ·home as a young man. He worked in Iowa and then Cheyenne, Wyoming. From there he went to Col[...]ining company, providing the meat by hunting deer and elk. Then he and -a partner bought a string of pack burros and went prospecting. They eventually came into Beave[...]rain, William moved to the Argenta area to placer and quartz mine. His wife-to-be, Josephine Burnham[...]other died when she was less than three years old and her mater- nal grandmother, Margaret McGowan Bess[...]aret Bes- sette brought her daughters Mary, Delia and Georgia, and Argenta May 16, 1896. They moved to Banna[...]y train to Corinne, Utah, as William Henry and Thomas Clement had purchased the and north by oxen-drawn wagons to Bannack, to join her BankExchange Saloon in Bannack from Courtney and Sny- husband, Olivier "Levi" Bessette, and their sons George and der Lenkerdorfer. young Levi who were already in Montana. Margaret Bes- Their third child and only girl, Winifred Margaret "Win- sette's first[...]n in Bannack April 3, 1898. Josie's beloved floor and muslin hung as room partitions. Levi Bessette[...]e month on hauled freight from Bannack to Leadore and other Idaho April 23, 1898. towns. On such a trip, Levi sickened and died in Lemhi Robert Walter joined the family March 22, 1900 and County in the early 1880s. Margaret stayed on in[...]1903. Robbie was to die running a boarding house and, with the help of her brother- of scarlet fe[...]raised her family there. Billy and Thomas Clement called their business "The C & Josie's childhood was not easy. She and the other children M Saloon." They ran it for[...]r when Grasshopper an excellent hunter and fisherman. All his sons and his Creek was frozen, they skated to school. But[...]ranch near Grant in the William Henry McMannis and Josephine Burnham were Horse Prairie.[...]n sold it to Billy. The site lies at the Josie and Billy's first child, Henry Simeon, was born De- juncture of Bachelor Road and Mansfield Lane. The house cember 29, 1892 at Arge[...]was a person cleared the land of sagebrush and raised oats, barley, wheat with a hearty laugh and mischievous nature. and hay. Josie raised chickens and turkeys and learned to be Their second child, Willi[...] |
| [...]and died September 8, 1925 in Lima, Montana.[...]he went to Gainesville, Texas, where he and Clay Patterson[...]took them four months and 11 days to make the trip. They[...]fought Indians, a hard winter, and drought before they fi-[...]Dell, Montana. Then he went back to Texas and married[...]Montana and lived on their homestead where they had six[...]Bert McNinch was the oldest and lived all his life around The McMannis Family (Ba[...]Dell and Lima. He ran the Dell Garage for many years and S., William G., and Verne P.; (seated) William H. and[...]for a number of years. He married and had two children, The two oldest boys, Harry and Will, finished the eighth Wilson and Helen. Both are deceased. grade at Argenta and went to work in the mines and some- Leslie was their second child. When he was just a few times on ranches. Winnie and Verne finished school at months old and Bert not quite two years old, Cecil and Grant.[...]went to the In May 1917, William George (Will) and a friend, Frank garden. They heard Bert crying and knew something was Bezeke, went to Alaska to work[...]Indians in there. A squaw was holding Leslie, and it took his job and returned to the States to enlist.[...]in France with the 20th Engineers from Janu- and not the baby. Leslie married Annie C. Peterson in[...], 1920. To this union two boys were born, Richard and Harry married Regina Best, December 1, 1917, i[...]Henry Fitter died, Oscar Gravely bought his 1918 and served at Fort Lewis, Washington, and Fort Leav- place and Leslie and Annie leased the Fitter place for many enworth, Kansas, with the 216 Field Signal B N, as a COA years and there raised their family. mechanic. He was discharged March 1, ~919. Harry and Richard married Bonnie Harkness and they incorporated Regina's daughter, Evelyn Laver[...]with the Harkness' (now the YA Bar Livestock Co.) and live 1920 in Dillon. Back at the Horse Prairie ra[...]and pole plant and a logging operation. He is now retired During the war years, with both Harry and Will in the and lives in Stevensville, Montana. service, Josie, along with Winnie and Verne, worked in the fields, helping to harvest t[...]er, Verne was an accomplished fisher- man, hunter and trapper. In March of 1920, Winnie went to work fo[...]lephone Company in Dillon. Will was mining, Billy and Harry were on the ranch, and Josie was mothering her granddaughter, Evelyn, ev[...]-WINNIBELLE HILDRETH Cecil and Nettie McNinch 376-Beaverhead History |
| Leslie died in January, 1970, and his wife Annie is still living in Lima, Montana, at the age of 85. Nellie married Roy McNinch (a cousin) and ranched be- tween Lima and Dell. To this union five children were born. One boy, Cecil (deceased), and four girls. The fourth daugh- ter, Betty Tyler, l[...]The third daughter, Bessie Tyler, lives in Lima, and the first daughter, Mary Rolles, lives in Butte,[...]hildren were also born to the union between Cecil and Nettie, one boy and two girls. The boy, Emory, is deceased. One girl, Zola, lives in Spokane, Washington; and the other girl, Bessie, lives in Coos Bay, Oregon[...]officers. While the object of the Judge Christian and Anna "fi[...]a in villain who lighted the match." 1814 and lived in Kingston, Green Lake County, Wisc.,[...]sphere in which Judge Christian Mead where he met and married Anna Cornell in the early 1850s. conducted that fall's district court and grand jury business. They had two daughters: Kath[...]ard many of the famous who remained in Wisconsin, and Elizabeth "Libbie" born murder trials[...]ck. He held nack in early 1864, at the age of 50, and practiced law. He many mining claims in the Bannack and Argenta areas and became one of the pioneer lawmakers in Montana Te[...]d to enjoy that endeavor as much as stock raising and representing Beaverhead County in the legislature[...]itorial equiv- He was a Mason for 50 years and was the first Master alent of district judge afte[...]moved from Bannack to Dillon at Bannack, and was also the first Master Mason of the in 1881, he was probate judge for the district and moved to Dillon Lodge. His Masonic gold-han[...]ourt heard cases only twice a year, in the spring and as Prater, of Mt. Vernon, Wash., in 1985 along[...]fall. On August 26, 1881, between the hours of 10 and 11 at hat he had worn. night the new courth[...]uck with ill health eyed citizens shouted "Fire!" and within a few minutes, 40 and became rather feeble. While supervising work on h[...]farm in early June, 1890, he fell to the ground and was into the blazing building and the fire, which in a few more carried to hi[...]by his family and friends. At that time and for the next few years, Dillon had no A[...]e Joe organized fire department, no hose brigade, and no fire- Shine berger and Emerson Hill of Red Rock, Martin Barrett fighting equipment even as minor as hoses and buckets to and Dave Metlen of Horse Prairie, A. F. Graeter of Ba[...]Dillon Lodge No. 30, A. F. & A. M. on a cold wood and canvas businesses and residences prompted the and rainy day, with many members of the Society of Mon- men to act quickly. After the fire was doused and the de- tana Pioneers in attendance who e[...]Judge Mead was "a most estimable citizen, a just and doubt the work of an incendiary. One of the offic[...]his daughter, Feelings were still running high and bitter about the shift Katie Paul, in Wisconsi[...]stayed at the building the remainder of the night and it was the road leading from Red Rock to Horse Prairie, and his[...] |
| house and lots in Dillon were willed to his other daughter,[...]killed by a cave-in at the Eugenia mine and is buried in the The courthouse in Bannack wa[...]County, October 25, 1894. In 1898 the Meades and their C. N. Burrows offered $1,200 and M. M. Freed bid $1,250. remaining family[...]s Angeles The courthouse was sold to M. M. Freed and the deed ex- where Mrs. Meade died in 1913 and Dr. Meade passed away ecuted and delivered immediately. In honor of the memory[...]h on October 12, 1897, at hotel bearing his name and operated for several decades, Dillon. She[...]Sylvester Patric Meade Dr. John S. and Louisa[...]ing his mother with the three boys and a girl. During the John Singleton Meade, born[...]1859 to join an children alone, his brothers and sister nicknamed him ox train party bound for t[...]oughout the rest of his life. in the Union Army and, having graduated from a medical To help his mother, he found work as a chore boy and college in Canada, was assigned to service as a[...]after a year he was brought to Beaverhead County and surgeon. He fought in the battle of Apache Cany[...]help her support the rest of his Doctor Meade and Louisa P. Bonham, a nurse with the fami[...]er Big Hole. When he came back he filed a home- and Etta Adelia) were born. In 1888 they migrated to[...]ranch. After we were mar- nack where they owned and operated the Meade Hotel for ried we bui[...]in . 10 years. Dr. Meade also practiced medicine and was in- 1925 we adopted a 17 day old boy[...]Sliver, but Beaute and I always called him Son.[...]After a time on Horse Prairie, we sold the ranch and[...]in grocery stores and doing some traveling with clothing to[...]divided between caring for my family and caring for our[...]a broken hip. Beaute left Dillon for Seattle and found work in the shipyards. Son and I followed when school broke for[...]and Son finished his schooling while working at Boein[...]to Helena. Son and I followed him when school was out in[...]e up for the next term as County Perry, Henry B., and West; front: Etta, Dr. & Mrs. Assessor, Beaute ran on the Republican ticket, won, and Meade, and Jack; in foreground: Albertie. (Bannack,[...] |
| Rhea Howell Meade and son Sylvester Pauline and Charles Meine Beaute died April 30, 1958, two w[...]I was born November 14, 1896, I am in good health and Pauline died on March 10, 1904. The obitu[...]beloved by all who knew her; she was a kind and loving wife and fond mother." Charles F. and Pauline Charlie's sister Dora and husband, John Banks, took the Meine[...]infant son, Paul, to live with them for a time, and Carl, then almost 7, and Henry, almost 4, remained with their father. C[...]22, 1906, Charlie married Emily Koba Conrad Meine and Wilhelmina Fricke, Charlie's full given at[...]er, 1914 to 1916. daughter of Wilhelm Mueller and Pauline Hauff. Pauline About 1910 Cha[...]of Section 16, T6S, R8W, from the State Bank and Trust Lena, came to the U.S. when she was 16 year[...]ter married Carl Knoll. Charlie and his nephew, John Albers, once traveled to Charlie and Pauline lived in the homestead buildings Columbus, Nebraska, and assembled two carloads of regis- Thomas Mulany ha[...]re their first tered polled shorthorn cattle and a registered Percheron child, a son named Carl Co[...]the Mulany build- Meine was an avid horseman and always owned many fine ings in 1900. Here[...] |
| [...]Meine, was born at Richlingen, Germany. Conrad and Wil- ture for the cattle, and the work horses were taken there in helmina's f[...]Conradine Leopoldina Meine, the fall after haying and turned loose for the winter. was born Jan[...]Richlingen, Germany. Chil- Charlie was manager and supervisor of the Beaverhead dren born in[...]that sponsors. Charlie Meine's sound judgment and progressive methods On July 30, 1881,[...]e he completed stat- December 6, 1927, Charlie and Emily were divorced. He ed he was leaving G[...]isted on the married Luella Lane on June 3, 1928, and was divorced from certificate were Conrad and Wilhelmina and their four mi- her December 3, 1937.[...]ldren in their father's care. In 1930, Charlie and his son Henry built a nice log house Conrad and his family came to the U.S. when he was 36 just w[...]ught his turned the ranch over to his sons, Henry and Carl. family to Dillon on the Utah &[...]iend. seems Friedrich was sure his brother and family would be Charles Friedrich Meine died w[...]old, killed by the Indians in the wild west and he would never see on February 11, 1949, at Glasgow, Montana, where he and them again. Mary had lived for six years.[...]hey built a very citizen of the Dillon community, and word of his death was nice set of buildings f[...]many friends." barn, corrals and other outbuildings. One of Charlie's grandsons[...]ee miles from their ranch home. -BETTE MEINE HULL and ROBERT and DORO- Conrad applied f[...]Citizenship is dated September 29, 1888. Conrad and Wilhelmina Conrad and Wilhelmina's oldest daughter, Christine,[...]n Beaverhead County was Con- of five. Conrad and Wilhelmina's son Friedrich always went rad Meine,[...]parents were Jo- D_orothea Amelia (Dora), and was married to John Banks hann Friedrich Conrad Meine, cottager, and his wife, Hanna Ahrens. Conrad's father died at a[...]ine years old. Conrad had at least three brothers and three sisters, possibly more. In Germany Conrad w[...]g, Germany, to Ernst Ludewig Fricke, car- penter, and his wife, Marie Margaretha Magdalena Kalles. Wilhelmina was often referred to as Minnie. Conrad and Wilhelmina had five children, two boys and three girls, First born were twins, Heinrich Friedrich Con- rad, who was born May 6, 1867, and Christine Louise, born May 7, 1867, at Sch[...] |
| [...]as I know, only six boys and one girl lived to adulthood. His[...]mother died when she and her family were very yol:J.ng, so Daddy and others left home to seek their livelihood when[...]around Deadwood, S.D., and then to Beaverhead County[...]penter father and on ranches.[...]family, Benjamin and Angeline Taylor. They homesteaded[...]Dillon, and then to the Ben Taylor Place south of Dillon.[...]Lillie and Robert Melton of the property. Ben and Angeline Taylor families settled in the Bannack[...]1911, Conrad Meine took his own life with and Grasshopper areas, Taylor Creek being named for B[...]er as some na Given of Silver Star; and one son, Robert Taylor Melton people did with lon[...]e was 67 years of age when grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Both parents are he died. Listed as surviving are his wife, a son Charles and of English ancestry. two daughters. The funeral was held at the ranch, and burial They celebrated their 45th anniv[...]belonged to The Meine homestead was passed down and remained in the Dillon Elks Lodge and was a devout Catholic. Mother the Meine family fo[...]mestead was active in Home Demonstration and a member of the buildings were moved to Charlie M[...]er their family was raised they retired to Dillon and -BETTE MEINE HULL and ROBERT and DORO-[...]Creek and Blacktail Creek. Robert E. and Lillie Melton[...]icularly Butte hospital following surgery and Mother died in the interested in my parents early[...]e (where she spent several months) 10 information and interesting facts would always be availabl[...] |
| [...]tion owned by Schen~ The Merrells have been in and out of Beaverhead County del, A. A. Waldorf, and A. L. Stone of Dillon. Frank Merrell since 1862.[...]sons, Marion, Max, He was an itinerant blacksmith and mine worker. Original- and Winston. Max and Marion operated the business until ly, he came to[...]1976. They sold the buildings to Dave Hadaway and Carl specting and left Bannack for Virginia City. There he took[...]Idaho down the Columbia River to Astoria, Oregon, and then to Falls to manage the Blind Bull Co[...]ack to Utah after having been was in Wyoming and coal yards in Idaho Falls. Due to ill gone three[...]health, he sold his mine interest to Burt Ruud and retired in Utah to the Montana mines. They made t[...]ma Riekki in 1929. Francis Merrell I worked in and around the mines in They had one son, Francis Marion (Frank) Merrell III. Carson City, Nevada, and in Piochs and Panaca, Nevada. Max Merrell married B[...]n children: Dee, Don, Carol, Edith, Anita, Joyce, and settlers. After leaving southern Utah, the Merrells lived in Lila Kay. Brigham City and Corinne, Utah, and Blackfoot, Idaho. Winston Merrell married Helen in 1940 and lived in Ida- They finally settled in Soda Spring[...]alls. He died in 1986. daughter in Glen, Montana, and a son in Lima, Montana,[...]David Evans Metlen Frank worked in several stores and was half owner in a store David Evans Metle[...]the building of the State Capitol, and his portrait was hung Frank Merrell came to Mo[...]ed sheep for the fourth child of Robert and Elizabeth Custer Metlen. Mr. Bond, north of Dillo[...]The family moved to Decatur, Ill., in 1840, and after his The store in Henry, Idaho, burned in[...]died, he lived with his older brother, Alexander and the partnership was terminated. After examining sever- Thompson Metlen, clearing land, farming, and doing rough al stores in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada, Frank purchased the carpentry. Lima Mercantile Co. from Fred Waldorf and A. L. Stone. He In 1863 he joined a wago[...]h, he heard of the gold This was a good choice and the business prospered. He strike at Bannack and decided to go there. He tried placer handled everything except fresh meat and liquor. Flour, mining, but sold his claim and bought cattle at Deer Lodge barbed wire, and groceries were shipped in by the carload. and opened a butcher shop in Bannack to sell meat to[...]ut. Much of this prosperity Prairie Creek, and located there on what became known as was due to[...]the CL Ranch. He had a set of freight wagons and teams and road workers and farmers prosperous. made many trips to Omaha, Neb., and St. Joseph, Mo. The Merrell's property in Lima[...]ns Metlen married Eliza Kennison, born about Peat and patented July 12, 1889. This was about the time[...]me to Montana. The store (called Dade), and George Robert. Dade was killed by a property was[...]ttle for later sold to Walter Starr, M. M. Faces, and Emil Timer. branding. Eliza Metlen died December 18, 1884, at the age Starr and his wife mortgaged it to Albert D. Young. Faces[...]ree years later on February 10, 1887, David Evans and Timer gave quit claims to Walter Starr in 1892. S[...]Verona Ella Bridwell, school teacher at the Horse and his wife, Belle, deeded it to Young in 1894.[...]seph, Genevieve, Dale E. was deeded to 0. K. Paul and Bert Paul. Bert Paul owned and a son that lived only eight months. property in and around Monida. 0. K. Paul operated the Gertrude went to school in Denver and New Jersey, where store in Lima. G. T. Paul had a store in Dillon. The Paul she married a minister, and never did return to live in Mon- Brothers were me[...]ol 0. K. Paul was killed in a hunting accident and his widow until her death in 1936 in a[...] |
| [...]went to Illinois to visit relatives and met Mae Williamson,[...]at the CL Ranch. He peeked through the window, and when[...]husband, and meant her no harm.[...]George Robert was appointed State Engineer and the[...]two years the family returned to Dillon and he opened his[...]George Robert and Mae Williamson had five children. A[...]in World War I and married Emily Buckner from Mississip-[...]den and they had three children, Robert William, Catherin[...]Janice, and Barbara Jean. After their divorce the children[...]Company and was married to Alice Morrison. Ru. o[...]aching kindergarten in California. She was Joseph and Dale operated the CL Ranch after David Evans married to Ike Rife in January, 1929, and they lived on the Metlen died on August 13, 1919, and was buried in Moun- Rife Ranch on Medicin[...]House of 18, 1941, to George P. Palmer and lived in Butte until her Representatives from 192[...], in Rochester, Minnesota. Dale sold the CL Ranch and March 5, 1911. She taught school and married George Mar- ran a small herd of thoroughb[...]em Life Insurance, ran a grocery store in Dillon, and found- Seattle and at Santa Maria, Calif., where George was em- ed t[...]lane Company at Vandenburg Air service to doctors and to analyze milk and water. Force Base with the missile[...]d gone to California from Illinois, but came to and five children. Montana, ranched on Lower Medicine Lodge, and assisted -GEORGIA MAE M[...]ed in hotels, having had hotels in Corrine, Utah, and Glen- dale, Mont., before building the brick hotel building in Dil- Alexander and Etta Metzel lon which is still known as The Metle[...]born in 1835 in York, Penn. He February 11, 1898, and Joseph Custer Metlen operated the first ca[...]ar as Denver George Robert Metlen, son of Eliza and David Evans and Anna stayed there while Alexander went on to Mon-[...]irie on tana. In 1865 he brought his wife and infant son, Frank to December 17, 1871. At the ag[...]t the CL Ranch to Montana. They had five sons and one daughter who died attend Montana Collegiate Institute at Deer Lodge and re- when she was about 12 years old. Other sons were Charles ceived training as a civil and mining engineer. In 1893 he M., Albert, William and Tom.[...] |
| [...]Charlie went to Butte and worked as a blacksmith for the mines. He and a partner owned the Butte Carriage Works.[...]with other men, and take bets on the fights. Fighting was a[...]including his wife and brothers, to get the land. After work- Front row,[...]Creek to work on the ranch and be back in Butte to go to holding Elwyn Metzel; m[...]lie sold his interest in the Butte Carriage Works and Bert Paul, R. T. Boatman, Will Metzel; back row:[...]n 1904. He started the Big Hole Com- Frank Metzel and Bert Paul. (Taken on hotel porch in[...]mercial, a general store in Wisdom and Divide. He started a Monida[...]stage and freight line from Wisdom to Butte with horses and William Oliver Metzel was born 1869 on the Metz[...]ntil 1900 when they was born June 29, 1905, and Anna Lois Miller on December went to live on the[...]y. 8, 1907. She stayed with relatives before and after the chil- They sold the ranch in the Centen[...]dren were born in St. James Hospital. Will and Etta had two sons, Alexander II and Elwyn. There was another child, Edwa[...]eck of Virginia City, MT. Pomeroy, Ohio, and was raised by Mary Miller until he was They had a son and a daughter. Alexander moved to Califor- five[...]Charles brothers nia where the family still lives and he died there. Elwyn brought him west. Ed and Margaret didn't always see eye to never married and after his mother died in 1976 he sold the eye[...]rest of the Metzels are buried except Will Metzel and his Ed was probably the most like his father[...]e Dillon Cemetery. acteristics. Charlie and Ed had their differences of opinion Will sold t[...]h alike. Ed married Gladys Zorn brother Frank. He and his brother-in-law Ruby Boatman and they had two children, Ted and Shirley. Gladys died were on their way to Canada to look at a ranch when they after having Shirley and Ted and Shirley spent their early had a car accident which killed Will before they were even childhood and summers in the Big Hole with Charlie. out of Mont[...]uble stalls to tie in 59 horses, a stud box stall and is buried in the Nevada City Cemetery. and seven stanchions for milk cows. This barn still s[...]At one time Charlie owned 600 brood mares and 17 stallions -HARRIET BOATMAN WATKINS and jacks. He sold the United States Government a tra[...]were sent to the Belgian Army during Charles and Margaret W[...]was president and C.E. Miller was vice-president. Other· Charles[...]directors were Jacob Miller, Charles W. Francis and Wil- Pomeroy, Ohio. Both of his parents were born[...]was the oldest of 12 children born to John Miller and Jacob Miller, 0. W. McConnell, J. Henry Lo[...]s. He worked for a cattleman named Helena, and J. L. Hurzeler, Charles E. Miller, Charles W. Doggett in the Helena valley and worked for a sheepman Francis, C.[...] |
| [...]lston, Wesley J. Miller, Fred Walchly, Don Albee, and Robert Jones. This bank burned and was never rebuilt. Charles bought or traded ma[...]0. This was where he ran his shorthorn cattle. He and his family lived in Wisdom until after Margaret died in 1924. His cattle carried the 7-E brand and later the U-U. Charles was described as being 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighing 240 pounds as a young man. He was called[...]n 1907 while Charles Russell would sit at a table and draw pictures on the linen napkins. C. E. had an[...]the Shrine in Butte, the Masonic Lodge in Wisdom and the Order of Jesters in Butte. -SUE SPARROW SMITH Dana and Georgia Miller Dana and Georgia Miller |
| [...]eath, Georgia sold the hotel. She worked for Bill and Grace Ferguson at the County farm as a cook near[...]our children, Billie Roberta, Dana F., Wayne Dee, and Sandra L. Edith married Alvin E. Thorson. They had two sons, A. Robert and Donald P. Floyd married Dorothy Gerry. They had three children, Flossie, Gerry A. and Albert C. Floyd died June 16, 1954. Alvin died[...]steamboat and from there overland by stagecoach to Deer[...]ge the year before. He established a harness shop and saddlery business and a home. Hart Palmer Miller was one of the nine[...]o Mrs. Miller, two children, her father, and a brother came William and Cornelia Hart Miller in Deer Lodge, Montana. by train to Corine, Utah, and by stagecoach from there to He came to the Centen[...]s a young man with his Deer Lodge. mother and younger brothers and sisters. They lived on the William recei[...]ock Lake. He left home at the age of 16, and fared for himself working The father had become an alcoholic and was in an Old as a carpenter's assistant and later in a plumbing shop. He Soldier's Home. and his brother, Britt, built a comfortable cabin and lived Hart was a good cattle man and was the foreman for a there until they sold their holdings in Deer Lodge and came large cattle company of Dillon. It was the "P and O"- to Centennial Valley in 1893. They took up homesteads on Poindexter and Orr. Their summer quarters were in Lake-[...]d Rock River. They view, but they also put up hay and fed cattle in Centennial. built cabins, fenced, ditched and built other sheds. They Hart married a peppy l[...]o- Edith Williams whose family ran a truck garden and raised ing. chickens and sold eggs to the miners at Virginia City when it Later they moved their mother, brothers and sisters to was a thriving mining town.[...]their two younger brothers to Hart adored Edith and loved to tease her and play jokes Butte Business College. on her. They had two girls to put in school and so moved to William and Matilda Jones were married January 10, Idaho Fall[...], in Madison County by Justice of the Snake River and started a small gravel pit. He helped build[...]River. For several when they sold the ranch and stock and bought a home and years he hauled gravel with teams and wagons for many of some land from Bert Pa[...]of the largest industries in town, Monroe Gravel and Concrete. The farm had proved to be a very rich sand and gravel deposit. After both daughters were through college, Hart and Edith moved to Roseburg, Oregon to be closer to t[...]arted a place there to raise all kinds of berries and fruits and many kinds of nuts. Hart and Edith both lived to within a few months of being[...]William M. Miller, second child of William B. and Corne- lia Hart Miller, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, October 12, 1870. When eight months old, he and his older sister were brought by their mot[...] |
| [...]their own. They lived awhile in Pueblo, Colorado, and then the valley, a 1909 Rambler, which he used to[...]ad that was more to Butte to try the mines and after one shift decided that passable than the on[...]one he was not for him. surveyed, graded and knocked the rough spots off of is used He w[...]Jimmy Dodd and from him learned that a man was needed The Mil[...]Staudaher Ranch in the Centennial. He got off the and Lincoln. Florence and Ted were born on the ranch, the train in Monida and went to work. other three in Monida. He sent for my mother and brother Doyle in the fall of Monida had three businesses. Bert Paul owned and oper- 1912. My mother told of arriving in M[...]early hours of the morning. It was snowing and dark. She needles to mowing machines. Joe Smith owned the Summit went to the Summit Hotel and stayed in a cabin at the back Hotel and Saloon. William Miller owned the garage and of the hotel. automobile repair shop. I[...]e blacksmith shop. He bought gasoline from Dillon and had a hand pump to fill cars. As business picked up he installed an underground tank and bought gas by train tank. William operated his bu[...]receded in death by his wife Matilda in May 1949, and son Ted in November, 1948. William had four sisters and four brothers. All were resi- dents of the Centen[...]anch on O'Dell Creek, while Britt had a homestead and later the Idle Wild Hunting Lodge. Flora Montana married Sam Clark and lived in the valley and later in Idaho Falls. Richie was killed in an exp[...]Lodge. Mayme Fisher Holt lived on a valley ranch and later in Alaska Basin. Hart lived there and also in Idaho Falls and Roseburg, Oregon. Cornelia married George Boatman and lived there a while. Ben Miller worked for Bert P[...]C. Montgomery Family Charles Montgomery and Jane McBride were married in Norton, Kansas, in 1910. Charles was raised on a farm in Kansas and Jane in Joliet, Illinois, and they had lived in Kansas a short time. After gett[...]Bobie, Helen and Margaret Montgomery[...]Margaret was born in 1914, in December, and I remember[...]Bobie was born in Dillon and I was born in Joliet, Illinois, in[...]1920. My mother went home to visit her mother and I[...]Creek and cut the logs and built the house, barn and chicken[...]house was being built. We had a Jane and Charles Montgomery cellar and well. For many years my mother would not e[...] |
| [...]he never wanted another. · and once they ran away with him on a high wagon. They[...]ead, my father rent- came between the ice house and cookhouse and it was pretty ed the Price Place and the Ritchie Place and later the Bucy scarywith those big horses ou[...]ely he Place on the river. He ran his own cattle and also summered was not hurt. cattle for othe[...]er our laps to keep warm: Corral Creek was frozen and stopping at our place on the last leg of the cattle drive to gorged over, the horses were slipping and Dad whipped Monida for shipping to market. After[...]to load by 8 a.m. in Monida. coln and Ted had the classy cars and dated the pretty girls. Indians from Fort Hall[...]hey also played in a band along with George North and to sell handmade gloves. Some people said they w[...]all got was Woodtick, the father of Jeff and Charlie. Petrified out of bed and sat in the car in our nightclothes. Jones and his wife, Lena, were the parents of Kate, Matilda[...]Monida Mercantile. My dad took a Mattie and Mrs. Neighbor. Catgrin Jones was another. wagon into town and loaded groceries for haying season or C[...]e given a bag Johnson, Guy Nix, Homer Cutler, and Johnny Hudson. of candy. If we found a gallon jug[...]int whiskey bottle we could take it to the saloon and get a quarter for the -HELEN MONTGOMERY ZACH jug, a dime for the quart and a nickel for the pint. We didn't find many but th[...]y George Rice, Charlie Montgomery, Al Forsythe and John Bray were all charter members of the Virgini[...]History My father died September 27, 1930. He and my sister, Among the early settlers[...]ting on the river. My father acci- William and James Montgomery. William Montgomery·was dently[...]help. Her horse tripped children of George and Margaret (Gibson) Montgomery. in a badger hole and she was thrown. Someone driving down They[...]Cavan County, Ireland, in the Price Lane saw her and helped her to the house. My dad 1880 and worked for a time in New York and Chicago before died almost instantly from the gun[...]anch to sell off had large ranch holdings there and pastured his cattle in Big the livestock and equipment as my mother did not plan to H[...]sed Margaret went to Dillon to attend high school and Bobie about that time so William and James each took up home- and I attended the Jones School. We rode our horses,[...]ut the middle of the valley. They hired men to my and Big Enough, to the school which was just west of the help with ranch work and had the hired men take up home- Jeff Jones Ranch. Mayme French was our teacher and the steads adjacent to theirs and when their homesteads were students were Helen, Ethel and Buddy Kennedy, Eleanor "proved up," William and James bought the homesteads, Rodman (her father w[...]& 0 at the time) adding these to theirs, and in this way increasing the size of .1nd Bobie and I.[...]the Kennedys In the early 1880s, Mr. and Mrs. James Lenox and family moved to the Price Place and lived in half of the house and moved from St. Joseph, Mo., to Dillon where[...]His oldest The next winter we left the Valley and went to Portland daughter, Cecilia, finished school and went to Big Hole to where my mother's brother liv[...]teach in the Briston School District near William and James we came back to the Price Place for the sum[...]. She taught 32 children in eight grades mother's and father's homestead is still in the family and in a one-room log cabin schoolhouse[...] |
| [...]as the Dudley Ranch daughter of Mathew and Anne Williams Morris. Lucy's fa- (owned by Dick[...]killed in a run-away team accident. She William and Cecilia Montgomery. They were (in order of had five sisters, Fanny, Mary, Rose, Florence and Bessie age) Bill, Margaret, Helen, Frances, Jim, Anna and George. Morris, one half-sister, Pearl McKee, and two half-brothers, All were born at Dillon except George who was born at the Bill and Albert McKee. home on the "Town Ranch." Transportation to and from Lucy worked at the Twin Bridge[...]t Dan. William was a most successful rancher and stockman, Dan became Sheriff in 1920[...]cluded the Turner ranch, Ajax ranch, Dudley, Home and shot Sheriff Wyman, Yeik fled to Monida and was hiding Town ranches. They maintained a larg[...]eriff Dan Mooney called for a posse, selected a and always bought several hundred head of feeder steers crew and swore them in as deputies. He then commandeered[...]house ready for market by late winter or spring and were trailed in Dillon, and with one coach loaded with men, headed for out[...]ke about five days to reach the railroad at and returned to Dillon. A gallows was built in the Co[...]ing point to the midwest or west House yard and Yeik was hanged there. Thereafter Dan was coast[...]e midwestern markets. The Montgomery brands, LO and ML Cotmty Court House and the family lived there during were recorded in[...]he family re- · freight accident between Jackson and Wisdom in 1908. turned to Ryan's Canyon where they operated a sheep There were good times and bad but the period from 1917 ranch. They r[...]The winter of 1917-1918 was a bad one for snow and cold weather and we all had influenza except for mother. She took care of us all and it was a long winter. William had been out buying steers to feed during the winter and on one of these trips caught cold that turned int[...]ar. He died October 23, 1919. It was a very sad and difficult time for Cecilia but with the help of Bill, Jack Phillips, and other trusted hired men, she was able to carry o[...]the years following William's death. Daniel and Lucy Mooney |
| [...]that time the ranching operation Chief of Police and held that position until 1954. After his was t[...]ng. Catherine lost her eyesight when frying bacon and Lucy resided at their home on Dakota Street unt[...]7. He had extensive real estate holdings in Dan and Lucy had four children. Three sons, Francis D.,[...]head County. born in 1918, Earl J., born in 1925, and Daniel L., born in Catherine Mooney died in 1930 and Edward died in 1935. 1929, and one daughter, Katherine E., born in 1920. The Two of their children, Mary Elizabeth and Daniel F. (Dan) children all remained in Dillon. Daniel died in 1972 and Earl settled in Beaverhead County. died in 1981. Francis and Katherine still reside in Dillon. Mary Eli[...]-ESTHER MOONEY brose, Victer Lee, and Daniel. She resided in Dillon until her[...]Nellie moved to California where she spent Edward and Catherine her adult life and died there.[...]Charles and Reta Claire Edward Mooney was born August 17,[...]a, Nebraska, In 1883 Edward, his bride Catherine, and his brother Daniel August 26, 1892. His mothe[...]Canada. They stayed in Canada only a short and his father remarried. Not getting along with his[...]mother, he went to live with his grandmother and go to ward became a miner. Edward and Catherine had five chil- school. At age 14 he left Nebraska and headed west, riding in dren: Mary Elizabeth, born[...]ada in rodeos, helping with cattle drives and doing whatever he 1883; Edward, who died as an in[...]ndering blood in his veins hear- died in infancy; and Nellie. The family came to Beaverhead rived[...]where Edward worked as section foreman and O' breaking horses, helping with cattle drives and work- for the Oregon Shortline Railroad. ing as a camp cook on the trail. The P and O drove their Upon leaving the railroad in 1902, Edward and Catherine livestock to the Centennial Valley for summer range and it[...]parents were homesteaders in the Centennial and her moth-[...]daughter of John Holiday and Laura Isabelle Boatman[...]grandparents were George Thomas and Harriet Johnson Boatman and her paternal grandparents were Hiram and[...]tana Territory in 1863 and the Boatmans in 1864. Reta[...]attended schools in the Centennial and Dillon, including the[...]Frank and Reta were married in Dillon, Sept. 1, 1915 and[...]him back a year and started the second son Jim a year early,[...]Frank and Reta, hoping to make a better living and be Catherine Mooney and son Daniel closer to school, packed up their belongings and with eight 390-Beaverhead History |
| [...]t of the place. They had approximately 600 a team and wagon. They arrived in October of 1927.[...]ne time, which meant long trailings into Frank and Reta had twelve children: Franklin Charles the Big Hole, or the Centennial, to summer pastures and (Frank); Jim Brundage; Lamar; Laura Isabelle; Geo[...]the pen, which were let out to glean the grain and pea fields Holliday; Etta Louise; Reta Claire and Paul Hubert. Betty in the fall. and Bob and Everett and Etta were twins. They ha[...]trucks on the place always raised a large garden and had a large strawberry until Elwood bough[...]n the early 1930s. patch. She sold the vegetables and berries and did lots of All the farm work was done with horses until that time and canning at home. She continued this until the chi[...]able to secure an International tractor all grown and she moved to Sheridan to make her home in[...]November 29, 1960. Frank and Addie raised a lot of turkeys each year and of[...]se it was the hard duty of Addie to care for them and -Taken from the Madison County Books[...]then to clean and prepare them for the holiday tables when[...]l came. She also grew a garden, which was gleaned and all Frank T. and Addie May that was left had to be canned and preserved for the coming[...]Addie May Goff was born in El Dorado, Kansas, and at Frank Terril Morrison was remembered as a h[...]traveled by covered wagon with her ing farmer. He and his wife Addie were considered pioneers fami[...]on County, She was a very good mother and a very hard worker. She Iowa, on May 9, 1872. Add[...]avia, Iowa, on January 30, 1894. summer months and harvest time there were many more for Frank's fat[...]1887. Izac spent time in Beaverhead County before and until her death and she always entertained once a year faith- worked[...]is stay there. He spent several years in ranching and other pursuits and then returned to Iowa. After marrying Addie Ma[...]avia where three of their children, Elwood, Bert, and Verl were born. During that time he still carried[...], they returned again to Batavia, Iowa about 1906 and were living there when a fourth child, James, was born. They returned to the Dillon area and their fifth child, Rob- ert Allen, was born in th[...]ans riding past her house. Sometimes they stopped and she would give them meat or other foods they had on hand. Frank and Addie rented some land and later bought the Gilbert place. The hard winter of 1918 showed much loss of stock and personal illnesses and Frank ended up in the Butte Murray Hospital for three months with appendicitis and complications. The couple then lost their place.[...]from left: Addie Morrison (holding Zelma Nelson, and they ran the lower part of the farm by the James), Verl-Alleta, and Frank Morrison; back row: highway. Frank, Bert, Jim, and Bob worked and managed Charles and Kenneth Morrison[...] |
| TV and radio, people spent some time getting together, and Frank, who was always a pleasant, outgoing person[...]s sold or fed out, neighbors came from all around and brought their children. There were piles of sacke[...]ren got tired they could lay upon the grain sacks and sleep while the parents "cut a rug." Frank Ter[...]nuary 28, 1931. He was a patient for several days and an operation was performed the evening before in[...]- -GLENNA and INEZ MORRISON grain piled ar[...]ll of the ranches on Birch Creek with in 1880. He and nine others purchased and platted the town the water rights of Birch Creek. There were five large reser- of Dillon in 1880 and sold lots at auction. He founded the voirs located at the head of Birch Creek and he had dams Dillon Implement Company and became one of the leading built to store water during winter months and used the Montana ranchers with large land holding[...]needed in the summer. He was a staunch Republican and served as Republican county planted hay and grain on the best of his property, while chairman[...]of the Montana State running cattle and sheep in the Sweetwater Creek area east Board of[...]his holdings into the sociation, Mayor of Dillon, and played an important role in Beaverhead Ranch Company and sold the corporation to establishing the Montana[...]Illinois, the sixth child of Elijah Russel Morse and He was a partner of Al Noyes in the Ajax Ranch[...]he Ames Sheep known as J.E., attended high school and business college, Company and became sole owner of the Ajax Ranch about taught school and entered the fire insurance business in 1[...]in the implement business. Creek near Dell and built a large sheep ranching operation, When the Utah and Northern narrow gauge railroad was incorporated it and named it the Cook Sheep Company. He constructed f[...]ge A. Lowe Company, a State of Montana, and had U.S. Forest permits, so that by farm implemen[...]Thorpe in 1886. She was the on railroad flat cars and transported to the railheads as the daughter of pioneer ranchers Phillip and Sarah Selway railroad construction pushed northwa[...]ings were moved Morse, married Hazel Maurer and lived in Dillon, joining to Dillon, his first nig[...]or use of radiologist Dr. Hollis E. Potter and resided in Chicago, and this shack to roll out his bed and sleep on the ground. Dur- Alma Morse married Attorney Thomas E. Gilbert and lived ing the night it started snowing. Snow came[...]ln 1916, J.E. Morse's first wife Florence died and J.E. head to protect his face from the blowing sn[...]Dillon ber 15, 1928, J.E. Morse became ill and died suddenly in Implement Company, located on Ma[...]andchildren Howard M. Morse,·san railroad tracks and north of the Union Pacific Depot. At Rafael, California, and Miriam Morse Ausmus, Dillon. first J.E. ha[...] |
| [...]Tullia lived in Dewey, and after the war lived at Quartz Oscar E. Morse[...]ield, Vermont. Hill in the summer and Butte in the winter with her unmar- His parents were Elijah Russel Morse and Almira Melinda ried son Wesle[...]to Davis Junction, Ill., in 1853. and is buried in the Melrose Cemetery alongside her h[...]garet Fyle of Rockford, band and three of her sons. Ill.[...]Dillon, shortly prior to 1900 and died when he was two years old; Mary born after its founding in 1880. He was a wholesale and retail in 1901; Maynard born in 1905; Agnes born April 27, 1906; dealer in furniture and groceries. O.E. Morse was a brother William Raymond born in 1914; and Wesley born in 1917. of Dillon founder Justin E.[...]ns of O.E. Morse are Morse Waldorf, born in 1905, and Lansing Waldorf, born Fred and Bill Munckton 1908. Fred and Bill Munckton were brothers and early-day -AUTHOR[...]two of nine children born to William Fielding A. and Tullia Bell and Sara Munckton. All of the boys came to America bu[...]sisters and parents stayed in England. Jennings Moseley[...]a Athens, Illinois. Mr. Moseley engaged in mining and young woman and living in Minnesota before coming to freighting o[...]ousemaid for the Knippen- She and her husband Fred worked their homestead for berg[...]ears. Mary's daughter, Della (Girlie) by a former and lived in Glendale.[...]aded near Grant. They had a son named Bill. 1896, and is buried on the hill near where the Knippenberg Fred and Mary disposed of their interests on Horse Prai- M[...]d to the Ajax rie in 1945 and moved to California where Fred later died. Mine w[...]Mary died in California in July 1949 and her body was Melrose and he hauled ore from Rochester to Melrose. In[...]burial. 1908 he leased land from a Mr. Churchill and the family Bill, Sr., as w[...]neighboring ranches on Horse Prairie and as a ranch fore- and freighted for George Lossl on the route from Divi[...]also worked in the Butte mines. Bill and Girlie divorced and In 1914 he quit freighting and bought ranchland near she moved to Butte, entering nurse's training and later re- Wise River from Fred James. This land i[...]Young Bill attended schools in Dillon and Butte, then breeder, trainer and freighter, but lost everything he had in moved to Los Angeles and lived there from 1940 to 1943. His[...]moved to California and lived with young Bill for a time.[...]Bill, Jr. married and he and his wife and children now[...]-ADELE ROUSE and LORRAYNE REBICH[...]Hon. James P. and M. Adell[...]Legislature, and one in whom the best interests of the state[...]and its people safely reposed. He was one of the leading Fielding and Tullia Moseley (Glendale, early 1900s) farmers and stockgrowers of Beaverhead County, having[...] |
| extensive and valuable ranch property located five miles[...]et to represent Beaverhead Coun- north of Dillon, and was closely identified with the affairs of ty i[...]e. He was Chairman of the Committee the territory and state until his death. His life and accom- on Agriculture and Manufacturing, and was a member of plishments and his standing as a prominent and influential four other committees. In poli[...]ed from his allegiance to the Democratic Party and was an men of Montana. active worker in the cause and a prominent factor in the Mr. Murray was a nat[...]bru- He was the youngest of five children of Hugh and Elizabeth ary 16, 1919, at the age of 70 y[...]ty, Ohio. Patrick Murray was born nia, and one sister, Mrs. Balkley, who was living in Nevada. and reared in Ireland and emigrated to this country in 1808, The funer[...]r, a native of Penn- -AGNES MUGAAS and DOROTHY MEINE sylvania and descendant of German ancestry, in Ohio about the[...]essive Men of the State of Mon- leaving his widow and five children, at which time James tana," "Illustrated History of Montana, Miller," and Murray, the youngest, was only nine months old. M[...]mily together on the home farm through hard times and lived to be 71 years of age. She died in June of[...]mes P. Murray began early to aid in the farm work and (From the Big Hole Basin News, February 20[...]is work. After leaving school, at brief time, and few knew of his illness. He himself did not the a[...]realize the fact, for he would not stay in bed and only after a becoming a skillful workman, and continued in this trade good-natured qua[...]he died he In 1875, Mr. Murray came to Montana and settled at walked around the yard,unc[...]s old on the first Tuesday of this month, when he and blacksmithing for four years. In 1879, he was ele[...]ge in Wisdom, taking Sheriff of Beaverhead County and served two years, during the cold that ni[...]t Bannack. He came to Montana in 1871 and met Christian Wilke, His term of office was durin[...]ome two years earlier. From that date the two men and he was reputed as being absolutely fearless in ha[...]to be hung, Mr. Wilke's family as his own and this affection was recipro- but secured a new trial and got a life term, Mr. Murray thus cated.[...]The two prospected in Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, and in him. James Murray was always considered to hav[...]ad. luck in this vicinity and owned an interest in the Marten During his ten[...], which would be a wealth-producer ed in ranching and, in 1881, took up residence on a ranch he to[...]rs died, four miles southeast of town, successful and amassed a fortune. He built a fine residence and built a splendid home, accumulating a small fortune and farm buildings, and all improvements were modern. while s[...]ranch was devoted to the production of oats, hay and Although a German by birth, Fred Meyers was true to his high-grade sheep, besides cattle and horses. On December adopted country and had he been of soldierly age would 20, 1891, he m[...]in the recent trouble with a gun on his shoulder- and Martha (Burt) Bond of Dillon. Their home was a ce[...]nd, leading his men to victory. Quiet of gracious and refined hospitality and was a favorite ren- and unassuming, yet firm and steadfast, never shirking a dezvous for th[...] |
| [...]ary 6, honored member, conducted funeral services and the re- 1940, John passed away suddenly in[...]75. He was buried in the Dillon Cemetery, and Mary stayed Masonic ritual being observed.[...]She was a person who liked to knit, read, and belonged to[...]rs of her life, she lived on her daughter John W. and Mary Nattrass and son-in-law's ranch, in a cabin built just for her[...]ive up to then. manville, Ontario, Canada to John and Hannah Peet Nat- Her daughter Miriam pas[...]consisted of: Martin VanBuren Nay, John, Mary, and their girls came west around 1910, and Margaret Young Nay, and their two sons, Milton Jackson he was employed by the Hennessy Company in Butte as an and Martin Byron. accountant, before coming to Dillon[...]re in 1835. Mar- lon community for several years, and operated a ranch on garet "Maggie" Young was[...]ft New Hampshire, accompanied by Martin's brother and Their daughter Margaret passed away May 16, 1916, at wife, Andrew Jackson and Helen Gleason Nay, and brother the age of 18, and was buried in the Dillon Cemetery. Mir- Willia[...]Great Lakes to Wisconsin where they tana College, and became a teacher. She taught several dif- remai[...]Milton Jackson, was born November 11, 1858 1928, and moving to Brandon, where she also taught school.[...]lifornia, sometime in 1861 or 1862. Jo, Caroline, and Walter William. They[...]ngs, Nebraska, in the late In about 1934, John and Mary left Dillon to make their summer of 1862[...]family, Milton and Byron, gravitated to cattle ranching[...]rather than mining and were employed by many of the[...]and to John Peterson. They acquired the ranch at Mill[...]ton in 1936. Byron and son Frank operated this ranch until[...]Another son of Martin V. and Maggie Nay, Ross, was born[...]in Bannack in November 1879 and ranched for a time with John and Mary Nattrass the[...] |
| [...]-JANE JOHNSON well as trunks and baggage from the railroad depot to[...]. Delivering trunks for students (girls in George and Mary Laknar[...]tana College) at the beginning and end of each school term Naysich[...]. It had four sleeping rooms on the second floor, and Rebich on a farm northeast of Dillon for a time and then two small apartments and a bathroom on the first floor. moved to Butte, where he was employed in the mines. George and Mary lived in one of the apartments and rented George received his naturalization papers December 12, the other one to Mr. and Mrs. Edwards of North Carolina. 1912. He married[...]t was Robert Quick, a bach- Church in July, 1914, and moved to Dillon that August. elor. In Octob[...]se at 306 N. Wash- The newlyweds worked for Mr. and Mrs. James Murray ington Street from Sara[...]and lived there until leaving town.[...]George Naysich passed away October 31, 1957, and Mary[...]John and Myrtle Neal[...]was born Jan. 13, 1841, and died April 19, 1875.[...]John had a brother, William, and sister, Lacie, and sever-[...]John and a cousin, Bob Bidstrip, ran a laundry in Mis- George and Mary Naysich soula for a time. John came to Dillon in 1909 and went to[...]for the ·pioneer firm of Eliel Bros. Mercantile and[...]of Center and Montana Streets on down to where Laknar[...]othing, shoes of all kinds, household furnishings and gro-[...]John made custom window shades for businesses and homes and laid linoleum and carpet for the store. His mode[...]of travel was by bicycle and he always wore a clip on his leg[...]furnace for Eliel's and the Post Office which was located[...]were named and now is called Lewis and Clark Caverns.[...]John Neal homesteaded on the East Bench and owned[...]1919 the drought hit. This caused John to ponder and lived on Thomsen Avenue while George worked at th[...]tion. Wedum Lumber Yard. He acquired a dray wagon and a After seven years of drough[...] |
| [...]Emma and John Neighbor heard about John Neal's ideas sought him out and .asked fifth child of John Allen and Delila Jones. She moved to the · him to do a stu[...]Issac Hanson. To this along with the two banks and 74 dryland farmers. George union four ch[...]October 18, 1919; Zella May on May 15, 1904; and Delila drought conditions and the dryland farmers went broke and Agnes on January 31, 1907. moved on to o[...]the Beaverhead John was a native of France and was born November 24, Canyon to supply irrigati[...]e 1875. He came to Canada as a young man and then to the mapped this project from 1920 to 19[...]eclamation Bureau construction plans John and Emma were married on April 24, 1920, they which were later used. Some engineers and people predicted bought the Beaty place and raised sheep, running two or it would only amou[...]nch In 1944 they sold the ranch to Bill and Eileen Jones and Unit was begun in the fall with many of the ori[...]n ceremony, John had the pleasure orchard and operated a lake resort for several years. Emma and satisfaction of detonating the first blast for th[...]t They had two sons, William born Oct. 5, 1920, and Edward My folks were Jacob Martin Neidt and Rosa Edith Shaw. born July 1924 and died 1955. Dad[...], Iowa, to John John served as city alderman and was an elder in the Jacob Neidt and Susanna Catherine Wetzel. Mother was Methodist[...]own also. He lived to be 95 years old, Shaw and Eliza Cook. died in 1965, and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery. His[...]her's twin wife Myrtle lived to be 94 years old and died in 1985 and is brother, Joe E. Shaw. He and Joe worked at Great Falls and also buried in Mountain View Cemetery.[...]where he and Mother were married on February 22, 1892, at[...]Sunny Slope) and never went back to Iowa. Lou Emma Jones Hanson Mother and Dad had six children. Pearl, the oldest, was[...]was born March 23, 1896, at Alamosa, Colorado, and died of Emma was born January 28, 1880[...] |
| was born July 23, 1905, and died in February 1981. I was that Dad bo[...]cember 14, so he hired Clarence Helming and we all went to the fair in 1912, and our youngest sister, Ruby Grace, on September 3,[...]ed school, was orga- Mother died May 31, 1942, and Dad on December 17, nized at a meeti[...]890. John D. Fox 1960. They are buried with Jake and "Little Joe" in the was elected chairman[...]on of the school was set on Bob Hanby's Mother and Dad came to Big Hole from Alamosa, Colo.,[...]ar this meeting were B.F. Hanby, John Wenger and James D. Wisdom then, in 1902, bought a place fro[...]Fox. E. J. Fox was appointed school clerk and Miss Minnie on Swamp Creek northwest of Jackson.[...]cabin on Little through the valley in the spring and often set up camp Lake Creek where the[...]John Anderson. Fred Nelson graduated the quickly and everybody seemed to have specific roles. The[...]. They moved the school adults set up the teepees and took care of the horses while from this location to a mile north of the Hirschy Ranch and I the children went along the creek gathering dry[...]ndians always seemed to have some horses to trade and Dad, who was a trader by nature, usually had some[...]Martin and Emilie N eimeier I was close to the last gunfi[...]st pop- The logs for the house were cut and brought down by ping going on and men came flying out the doors. George Martin N eimeier and some of his good neighbors. Roberts grabbed me under the arm and ran me down to the 'Grandma' Neimeie[...]the back door. what she had, fishing and hunting for a little variety in their Nobody got[...]fruit from the mail order catalogs once a year and these were through the valley every spring bringi[...]a surrey with a nice team of cots, raisins and prunes. horses and sold for Eliel Brothers in Dillon. She told of going to get the mail in 1917 and seeing on the When I was about nine years old[...]elegram wagon with canvas stretched over the bows and held at from home with the sad news.[...]home early in the Children Olga, Joe and Arthur went to school in the Cen- morning and got to the foot of the hill at noon. Two men tennial. Herman and Henry were born later, after they had were having[...]used to tell me that Art had a diffi- jug so they and Dad shared a few pulls on it and we went on. We got to Mill Point in the evening, took care of the horses and were greasing the wagon when a man named Pat Flynn rode in. I think he said he was riding for Metlens. He and Dad went into the bar to have a drink and I went up to the roadhouse where Mrs. Grey gave m[...]ss there were about twenty men working with picks and shovels clearing rocks out of the way to make the[...]ly in the morning, went on into Dillon, loaded up and were back as far as the Ten Mile that evening. Th[...]st car was a Maxwell Emilie, Martin and Olga Niemeier (Crisp) 398-Beaverhead History |
| [...]n remembered his stage-driving days by was there, and in the summer they would be closed in the[...]Much of the time Martin of the automobile and when the stagecoach stopped, Skinny Neimeier was back in Idaho trying to make a living and run joined the Dillon law. He became Chief of Police in 1917 and the 60 acres they had purchased in 1910. As did a[...]tennial, they milked cows, separated tion and 6'4" frame, he was a well-respected lawman known cream, and sold it in Lakeview. This could not have been[...]ghness. One demonstration of easy for a young boy and his mother who also had two other this was h[...]o threatening to jump. Skinny grabbed the man and brought needed to haul their water from a spring[...]family and grandchildren until his death. He died at Dillon Charles Edgar "Skinny" Nelson, stagecoach driver and in 1948 following a heart attack. His wif[...]John and Marie Nelson of Dillon in 1879. His mother, Betty[...]mmigrated to Ellis Island, U.S.A., leaving Skinny and his sister with their father who then from[...]Dillon's livery he, along with Charley Olsen and Sam Peterson, formed a stable. After several year[...]e, feeding them the intersection of East Glendale and Nelson Streets. They through the winter and selling them in the spring. The Big had four children, Richard J., Ernest C., Dora E., and Don- Hole hay is still known as the best feed[...]Marie and John Nelson[...] |
| [...]frozen over; the cattle stampeded into the water and all drowned. The lake is known as Cowbone Lake to[...]the age of 21, coming to Dillon, Medicine Lodge, and Horse Prairie areas where friends lived. She alwa[...]was comparable to running cattle through a chute, and the language which she couldn't understand was li[...]ted to take the next boat back to Denmark. John and Marie were married October, 1912, in Dillon and came to the Big Hole to the home called the Middl[...]10 after an operation for stomach ulcers. He old, and Bob.[...]These men were successful businessmen and civic mind- Briston area, where the children attended West Fox and ed, holding offices in the community. Nephi and Parley Briston schools. Two sons, Bob and Ejnar still live on the brought the first r[...]in the Lima of men who started the Black and White Show, patterned Catholic Church.[...]after the European Parrish Shows. Marie and John were life long members of the Eastern Nephi told his children about tubs of trout and grayling Star and Masonic Lodges of Wisdom.[...]ous cooks of going into the Pacific Ocean and the other into the Atlantic the valley. Her rye bread and light white are still spoken of Ocean. with mo[...]she worked upon Roaring Canyon, we stop and look and try to imagine what arriving from Denmark. Her jo[...]n passed away in October, 1935, at the age of 57, and Marie in July, 1966, at age 76. Son Harold expire[...]Niels P. and Ida Nelson -MAE JACK[...]s from Ringkobing, Denmark. He Nephi, Parley and Sam secured[...]and rattlesnakes. To avoid the snakes he learned to ride one In 1919, Nephi and Parley Nelson, brothers from Rich- of his team horses to and from the wild hay fields. Later he mond, Utah, and Sam Nelson, a cousin from Woodscross, learned a little "cowboying" with Mr. Maiden's cattle and Utah, formed the Nelson Livestock Company. They,[...]ntennial Valley. They bought cattle in the spring and citizenship papers and introduced him to the judge as Nels sold them in[...]presumed the spelling to be the translation ranch and had a hired man.[...]a Centennial rancher, between the Butte and Twin Bridges roads. There he met a with th[...] |
| [...]the windmill to house a gasoline pump engine and a ma- Her name was Ida May Pearce, born Febru[...]shed. near Biblegrove, Scotland County, to James and Emily In 1910, he moved our house east and south to the lane, Caldwell Pearce, who had ten children. Her oldest brother, adding a parlor and two porches. The same year he bought Benjamin, ha[...]or Mother, he pur- handsome, blue-eyed young Dane and refused to return chased a three-p[...]Soren and Lena Nelson Their house still stands on So. Idaho[...]Soren Peter Nelson was born to Nels and Alice Nelson in On March 15, 1899, I was born[...]young couple, who were then Nels, and two younger sisters. Nels came to the U.S. in 188[...]wn squared log house on the George R. and homesteaded in the Big Hole about 17 miles south[...], Oa- stagecoach from Butte to Wisdom and the next morning kel, was a penmanship error not[...]uickly Soren worked for his brother and also started working on replied, "Why, you gave i[...]Mother was upset. She searched her old letters and found was 21 he was waiting at the court[...]d known that he wasn't old enough. above the line and became "k" making the word "Oakle."[...]," to After Soren fenced his homestead and built his cabin, he which Grandma replied, "No, Idie, let's leave it as it is." I started raising hay and bought a few steers to fatten and have been glad for that because when I see that n[...]." rie and bought a ranch there. In the early teens, anot[...]e initial to keep the mail Hirschy and on November 28, 1900 a son Fred was born. straigh[...]906 when Soren sold Bond. His two brothers, Cliff and Carl, farmed the upper it to Henry Ols[...]d was acquired in 1881 by Benjamin ranch and into a new home they had built. On June 13, 1911[...]help of a doctor, just a midwife. Creek watershed and obtained it, putting a dam across the As the years went by, Fred and Estella went to school at outlet of the lake to s[...]from the ranch. They also went known as Bond Lake and the ditch, Bond Ditch. Another to s[...]om below Birch Creek years in Jackson and then moved to Missoula so Estella canyon to the t[...]hs, then had to residence, several head of horses and cattle and some ma- go home to work on the ranch s[...]y well. chinery. Father added a log chicken house and one around In 1918 Soren bou[...] |
| Kramer. The post-World War I depression hit and things Theodor Nelson passed away Febru[...]e could make a go of it. He had lots of hard work and very little money, but by 1920 things got a little better, and after batching for a couple years he got tired of[...]Charles and Martha cooking and started looking for a wife. Eventually a young sc[...]ame was Margaret Woolaghan. They Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Niblack came to Dillon in 1910 ma[...]the youn- butchered a beef for meat for the ranch and had it hanging gest member of Joseph Carrol[...]nine Indians traveling through the valley stopped and asked if children. they could camp there f[...]About dark Soren The Niblacks owned and operated a clothing store cater- suggested they b[...]in rather than leave it hang ing to ladies' and me~'s wear and family needs. The store out all night. The next morning the head, hide, entrails and was first located on South Idaho Street where[...]later expanded and moved to the J.C. Penney Store build- The Indi[...]mer each year ing at the corner of Montana and Glendale Streets. He ran a hunting on the west side of the valley and traded the ranch- ers gloves and moccasins for food such as bread, milk and sugar. Theodor Nelson 402-Beaverhead History |
| [...]tucky on August 15, 1865, the son of W.W. Norris and Mar- The Niblacks continued to operate the Gol[...]es Billings. After the sale, the Niblacks retired and moved to of his family had supported the cau[...]elled, enter- the Revolutionary War. tained and were instrumental in forming the Montana Club[...]taught school for two years and then, while teaching, he read -DICK and MARCIA MCCRACKEN law during his leisure time and in the evenings.[...]l studies under the direction of former Nis and Laura Nissen[...]tal on the small tana in October, 1889 and opened a law office in Dillon. He island of Aero,[...]f the bar in Beaver- he came to the United States and went to Iowa where sever- head County. al o[...]rs as city attorney of Dillon, was a ing on farms and finally in 1916 moved to Beaverhead Coun- member of the Beaverhead County High School board and ty, Montana. He worked on farms in the Dillon and Lima in September, 1900 he was appointed as a member of the areas and in 1918 enlisted in the United States Army. Natu-[...]nate in 1896, representing Europe, the war ended, and he was discharged. He returned Beaverhead[...]e last two years of his term to Beaverhead County and engaged in ranching for himself. in the Senate as President pro tern and was acting governor On May 10, 1920 he married[...]for her brother Chris both the governor and lieutenant governor were absent from Hansen and found out that they had been born and had the State. grown up only a few mi[...]Democratic ticket with Governor J. K. Toole and was elect- Aero is only 15 miles long and 7 ½ miles wide. In 1923 the ed by a good m[...]h three the term, Governor Toole resigned and Lt. Governor Norris miles north of Dillon where t[...]him. That fall Norris was elected Governor of the and ranching. They had three children, all girls: Evelyn State and served for a full term, until 1913.[...]Falls where (Mrs. Fielding H.) Graves of Dillon; and Mildred Laura he formed a law partnersh[...]n Elks Lodge 1554, the Lutheran Church of Dillon, and with Judge Joseph C. Smith and later with John Collins. was one of the earliest[...]State and enjoyed the confidence and respect of all who On March 3, 1956 about 9 a.[...]an orator. Logic, sequence, force, a good voice, and pleas- The team was spooked by a snow squall whic[...]blic speakers of his time. ditch throwing off Nis and the hay rack. When Nis did not At his d[...]was a man of the bor George McDonald who checked and found Nis, badly highest character. T[...]n. The Dillon ambu- life. Of his nation and state, he was a patriotic citizen, al- lance was called and he was taken to the Barrett Hospital ways ready and willing to do his full duty. In every public wher[...]ar fidelity to the public Nis was widely known and respected in the Dillon area interest and withal he was fair to political friend and foe and was known for his stories and gentle ways. alike. As governor[...]state. Constructive policies which he initiated and put into[...]effect, while governor, have proved, and will continue to[...]to the people of the state. His fellow Edwin L. and Betty Norris[...] |
| [...]cky for burial, but was later dirt floor and roof, and started life together at Wisdom in brought back t[...]etty Wilkins, who was born in Bowl- ranch and began the business of raising stock. They had ing[...]e is buried in Great on August 1, 1886, and Pauline Edith, born in Dillon on Falls.[...]ER Assessor of Beaverhead County and assumed office January[...]he spent time developing the ranch he Alva J. and Hattie Noyes[...]x" mine December 2, 1855. His ancestors, Nicholas and Reverend at the upper end of Swamp Creek and above the lake then James Noyes, sailed from England and landed with the called Lake Lena. Th[...]itude of nearly 10,000 Noyes branch of the family and his father was George R., feet and the rugged terrain from the mine to Divide, where born in Machias, Maine in 1830. George and his wife, Amy the ore was shipped, it pr[...]at the mine did not prove profitable and in the end cost the In 1861, George traveled w[...]Noyes almost all of their property. In 1903, Al and friend blacksmith and miner. He came to Montana in 1864 and went east as far as Boston to try to[...]mine. settled in Bannack. In 1866 Al, his mother and younger They tried for more than a yea[...]o sister Maud, came by wagon train-pulled by oxen and return home without success. Al tri[...]in Bannack until 1868 make the mine pay and in May 1907, he sold the rest of their when they[...]rs in the Big Hole. The during the winter of 1866 and as she needed help, she sent family moved to Dillon. for her mother, Mary A. Stanchfield. Mary and her son, In 1909, Al worked for the[...]died. She was buried in Silver homesteading and settled north of Harlem, Mt. near the Star. Shortly, Grandmother Stanchfield took Al and sister Canadian line. In early 1910, he hired a team of horses and Maud back to Minnesota where they went to school.[...]ooked over this area. The Great Northern Railroad and 1874, Al stopped his schooling at the University[...]were interesting people of the Middle Eastern ta and took the train to Corinne, Utah where he joined h[...]region. Later that year, Al, Hattie, uncles Will and Charles Stanchfield. They were hauling their son Raymond and daughter Edith, together with their supplies to Montana. The three, each driving a team with wife and husband, homesteaded near Turner, Mt. They wagon[...]had rain worked improving their homesteads and planting crops and and snow almost every day of the 40 days of their trip. there followed some good years and bad dry years. When When Al was in Minnesota,[...]married. The 1918 arrived, son Raymond and family were the only ones of woman, Mrs. George Hubbard,had a daughter Jennie and the group still trying to be success[...]es was killed by a pet bull. Following his death, and Ernest.[...]ooks of Montana history; in the vicinity of Butte and Silver Star. He prospected, The Story of[...]ard, made soda pop, lished in the state, and In the Land of Chinook, or The Story milked cows, taught school, and helped start a Sunday of Blaine Count[...]-CARL NOYES In 1878, C. M. Buck, contractor and builder, moved his family from Iowa to Butte. The[...]Rosa Belle Bean was born May 24, 1890, to Milton and parents. The next spring her father talked of mov[...]as called, was born in Livingston instead of soon and with a Justice of Peace and a few friends to wit- the Valley be[...] |
| did her sisters, Maude and Grace. She also worked as a during the[...]ers in the Centennial Valley. housekeeper for Dr. and Mrs. Best in Dillon. Rosie met James M. Nye's sister, Jennie Rosalie Nye Kent, and her Raymond Noyes, son of Ajax Noyes, while he wa[...]she was a graduate of Oneonta, New York Rosie and Raymond were married July 15, 1909, and lived State Normal School and obtained a Teacher's Certificate for a while in D[...]as of Turner, MT. During this time two sons, Carl and Burnell, a very talented woman in the arts and very instrumental in were born in Harlem, while Roy and Burnell were born on helping her own and other children learn their 3 R's. She the Big Flat. They farmed until the dryland farming and was noted for her paintings and poetry as well as many crop failures forced them[...]styles of fancywork in the line of crocheting and needlew.9rk. they moved to Chinook where Raymond[...]d their holdings in the Lakeview area in Surveyor and held this job for thirty years. Rosie lived in the 1917 and ventured into Canada where they continued in the[...]mily. During these 64 years, she raised four sons and returned to the Centennial Valley and leased the Richie then reared four of her grandchildren: Judy and Gary place for a year and then bought the Will Shambow ranch Noyes, C.R. (Chuck) and Alva Ray Noyes. on Corr[...]1 miles south of Chinook. A plaque honor- and Sons. They then retired to Dillon, then Twin Bfld[...]effort is established there. In the early and eventually Portland, Oregon. James M. Nye died in 1930s, Rosie had survivors of Chief Joseph and his war Portland in 1948 and is buried in Dillon. Katherine sold Chiefs in her[...]their place in Portland after Mr. Nye's demise and returned She was a member of the Order of the[...]is buried in Dillon. entertaining, playing bridge and caring for her family. The following are the children of James M. Nye and their Raymond passed away in 1965, son Ronald[...]nts. Lynn Milton Nye (1898-1978)_who nell in 1983 and Roy in 1987. Rosa Belle died September 14, married Minnie Bentley (1903-1988) and from this mar- 1986 at the age of 96. She was the fourth and the last living riage are the following child[...]died in a brush and forest fire near Dell, Montana; Leland The James[...]T. Nye (1931) married Rose Perusich (1933); and Ronald E. James M. Nye (1866-1948) was the thir[...]Georgia Davison (1942). Randolph Nye (1834-1907) and Diademia Lucinda Davison James Wat[...]R. Nye was born in New York State (1907) and their children are as follows: Donald C. Nye and migrated to Illinois and was a Civil War veteran having (1928) who m[...]Civil War, the Enoch R. Nye family moved to Iowa and later to Montana where they were freighters, ranchers and telegraph operators. James M. Nye came to Monta[...]Ada Katherine Comfort from the Twin Bridges area and they took up a homestead in the Centennial Valley in 1896 and ventured into a ranching style of life. Their hom[...]m- bers, especially for help during haying season and company James Nye and Katherine Nye[...] |
| [...]at is now Highway 91. James T. Barnes (1902-1982) and had no children; Phillip Earl Nye (Short) was born there March 27, 1916. He raised grain and (1906-1975) who married Amanda Hayden (1909) and they hay, a few cattle, and horses to farm with, but his main had one child,[...]g hogs. They had a garden, chick- Helen Hotchkiss and they had one child, Robert Phillip Nye ens, milk, and butter to supplement the family food. (1943). Phillip then married Isabella R. Rodger (1916) and On September 19, 1917, Mary E. gave birt[...]Maurice Jr. and Francis P. The 26 year old mothe~ died the[...]same day, leaving the twin boys, a three-year-old and two- year-old boys and a heart-broken husband. She was the Maurice and Mary daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Rogan of Dubuque, Iowa.[...]Mrs. O'Brien was a true wife, a loving mother, and dearly Elizabeth O'Brien loved by friends and neighbors. Grandma Rogan and her family came from Iowa to help Maurice J. O'[...]head County from Dubuque, Iowa, in 1902 with Will and years old, at which time Maggie and Tim Coohey took them Hattie Drummy. He worked for the Drummys on their home to Iowa and raised them. ranch north of Dillon, located on the Anderson Lane near Maurice kept Clarence and James with him. He contin- the Beaverhead River,[...]for his sister Mary Elizabeth, to come from Iowa and Even though times were difficult in Bea[...]for them. Mary E. was born May 25, 1891. Mary E. and Maurice owned a chestnut bay horse named S[...]t the St. Rose he raced at the County Fair and at rodeo time. This horse Catholic Church. Life w[...]a favorite during the early 1920s. lease ran out and was not renewed.[...]make ranching work on the Maurice then lived on and operated a part of the P&O Jack Keenan[...]Morrison until he retired and moved to Dillon to live, con-[...]-JAMES T. (SHORT) O'BRIEN AND CLARENCE[...]family, wife Maud, Steve & William - twins, and Frank, to[...]working on various ranches and also operated a sawmill.[...]county road department and various ranches with Maud[...]being cook for the crews. Mary Elizabeth and Maurice O'Brien Th[...] |
| liam and Maud operated the Peat Hotel in Lima for a short[...]was time. They moved to Dillon. In 1949, William and Maud grown. Fences were built and the barn remodeled for dairy moved to Pocatello,[...]s. Frank passed away in 1980. and later went in the sheep business. Leslie and Gwyneth Steve graduated from Bozeman College and also went to went to the Meadow Creek Sc[...]high school in for Wes tern Electric. He married and had a son and daugh- Wisdom, the second year in a military school in Mexico, ter. He lost his first wife and married again and now lives in Missouri. Then both Leslie and Gwyneth went to Butte Indianapolis, Indiana and is retired from Western Electric. High.[...]Paul Zink, carrying mail from Monida to Lakeview and Henry's Lake. He drove a truck for Roselle Co. fo[...]July 10, 1870, the fourth child of Jens and Christina Olsen. Henry 1966. He retired from Garr[...]1, was a brick mason by trade in Denmark, and the only one of 1968.[...]te to America. He came to the Big Hole William and wife Mary, still live in Pocatello, Idaho, after[...]daughter of Frederick and Cecilia Hirschy. Their first three[...]children, Bessie, Eleanora and Emily were born there. Agnes McKittrick marrie[...]Somewhat later, Henry purchased more land and a larger ter was born to this union, Eva Belle, in Helena, in 1880. Her shingled house. Helen and Alma were born there. mother, Agnes, died when Ev[...]ing this time, Henry built a barn, farm buildings and Agnes' sister, Lizzie Armstrong, whose husband Jo[...]an" in Missoula, the feed them all winter and fatten them up for sale in the "Bitterroot Bugle" in Grantsdale, and then moved to Gib- spring. In summer the[...]he moved to the Big Hole coun- years. try and published the "Big Hole Breezes." When Eva fin-[...]Gibbonsville, her uncle taught her ica, Ida and he made plans to take their four children and to type for him.[...], Robert Jones of Iowa married Miriam Crawford and six 1910, sailed on the steamship the "[...]ldren were born to them. Walter C. was the oldest and at sank this ship in 1915) and arrived in Denmark on October 17 he left the farm[...]sco, but he didn't like it there; it was too cold and family. damp after living in hot, dry Iowa.[...]to the store for some nia, he enrolled in college and earned a teaching certificate. He decided teachin[...]to Salt Lake City where he met his brother, Joe, and they came to Mis- soula, Montana. Still selling viewers around the country and traveling on bicycles, they made it to the Big Ho[...]teaded but Joe went back to Iowa. Walter Jones and Eva Odenwald were married December 19, 1901, in B[...]d on the homestead until 1909, when they sold out and went to Iowa. Eva didn't like it there, so they returned to Montana and settled in Wise River in 1910. Three children were born: Robert Leslie (1903-1966), Letha Marie (1904-1905), and Gwyneth (1906). Much work had to be done to make a paying ranch. Sage- brush had to be grubbed off and rocks picked. An irrigation ditch was built from[...]River to get water Ida Fanny and Henry Olsen[...] |
| [...]y were unable to keep up their payments, laughed and laughed. She was supposed to buy just a chunk they sold the ranch at a great loss and moved back to Dillon. of 2 pounds! Every morning[...]cially many kinds World War I was soon declared and they experienced food of fresh fish.[...]shortages, crop failures and finally had to give up this place The children rapidly picked up the Danish language. It and move back to Dillon. After a few years they moved[...]baptized in the St. Paul were in school there and the teachers boarded with the Lutheran Church in[...]teacher was Margaret Willigan who later parents and each received a silver dinner fork as a momento.[...]me for them to the youngest daughter of Henry and Ida Olsen, by leave for home. After many good-byes and lots of gift ex- Ida Olsen upon her 90th[...]8, changes, they boarded ship to sail to England and then on to 1975. At this date, May 1988, Ida[...]de the United States. Their ship was the Coronia and carried a in Vancouver, Washington with her daughter and large passenger list. They enjoyed the delicious food and the son-in-law, Hester and Clarence Crane. Ida is now varied entertainment.[...]John Turney Orr railroads to Butte, Montana, and from there by stage to "Be it remembered that Poindexter and Orr of Beaver- home in the Big Hole Basin.[...]head Co. Montana Territory, have adopted and claimed the They had no trouble keeping their family together and exclusive rights to the following stock brands: safe as each child had her place and responsibilities. Henry For cattle-Square and compass on right hip. carried two suitcases. Eleanor carried a small bag and hung For horses and mules:-Same on left shoulder. onto her Dad's pock[...]lden, Clerk of Supreme Court." Ida carried Helen, and Emily walked beside her hanging It wa[...]873. That onto Ida's pocket. The trip from Dillon and back again for simple entry was the first[...]William Orr Sr. died -in 1901 and his wife Rachel Orr died In Denmark, the humid[...]six Matt, Earnest, Charles, Will Jr., Bert and John. All of them of them clean.[...]same year Dillon was incorporated. back in school and a new baby expected. On September 21,[...]rn. rying and was instrumental in the Orr gift of land on which In 1912, Henry sold the ranch and bought a new house in was built the Monta[...]Butte, John attended local schools and was really not ranch Montana. Henry found a ranch[...]remained in Dillon- until their sixth twice and with his sly humor said "I walked back both daugh[...]ines in Butte for a short soon moved to the ranch and were very happy there. The time, then[...]edge first few years they had fine crops of wheat and oats. To this necessary to build fine electric and water systems on the date, this is still known as[...]med Tommy. became plentiful. He made and used one of the first radios They don't remember[...]n the region. my Olsen. He was a good cook, clean and neat. Every after- In 1918, John marri[...]Benedick, a Dillon college noon he would dress up and put on a clean silk shirt. He was student f[...]s, fond of the children, helped take care of them and each time Matt (1924-1973) and Jack born in 1921,and a daughter he went to town he would bring back cartons of candy and Frances, born in 1930 who died in her first year. John and gum for them.[...]grain promising a Dillon from his brothers and lived there many years. bountiful harvest. Henry[...]John was active in Masonic, Eastern Star, and Rainbow vested, but the contractor did not[...] |
| [...]s on this secluded historic home until her health and age needed special atten- Coyote Creek ranch that he sharpened his skills and interest tion from a nursing facility. She died i[...]Failing health forced his retirement and he lived briefly[...]from Denmark, passed through Ellis Island in 1912 and came to Armstead where he G. Quitman and Ida Belle had a sister and brother-in-law, Kristi and Carl Hansen, Owen with whom he stayed and worked on their Horse Prairie ranch.[...]In 1894, Mr. Owen returned to Clinton and married his[...]They returned to the Big Hole Basin and lived there until[...]three years. In 1911 they moved to Dillon and bought the[...]ceived basic training at For.t Lewis, Washington, and was sent with the 3rd Division to France. He took[...]ry, America'sfoitial success against the Germans, and the Argonne Forest, the scene of the decisive Fra[...]one operator. He returned to Beaverhead County and was naturalized in 1920. Homesteading seemed to b[...]the northwest corner of the county between Coyote and Painter Creeks. After proving-up, he leased the h[...]Quit, Ida and "Lady"[...]ualist who enjoyed life in the open spaces and received[...]Mr. and Mrs. Owen had two sons, Paul (now 94) ofLloyd-[...]vergaard minster, Alberta, Canada, and Clifford Quitman of Dillon[...]Mrs. Versie Clark of Milwaukie, Ore., who is 92, and[...]had six grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren, and 11 great-[...] |
| [...]s knew each other when living in LaPorte. John and Mary Paddock John was employed herding and shearing sheep and Mary[...]and Ann Francis on August 29, 1856. After Austin, John and Mary moved to Tongue River, Utah, and then to Butte in[...]were born. They were Lucetta, June 29, 1878, and James[...]ald, Alice Emily, and Ninetta Abigail. While in Butte, John[...]worked for Steath hauling stulls and timber for the mines. John and Mary arrived in the Big Hole Basin on May 17,[...]arted out raising In 1884 John Charles Paddock and wife Mary Francis 18 or 20 milk cows. J[...]le Basin. Originally from La- · his butter and after two years, changed his route to Dillon. Porte, Indiana, they had moved to Nevada and then to Butte, Montana, in 1882. Two years later they moved to the Big Hole and settled south of Wisdom on what was then the Wraton Place. They had two children, Lucetta (Lucy), and James (Jim). Later there were three more sons: John (Jack), Paul and Harvey; and two daughters, Alice and Nettie. The ranch was 600 acres. John ran some cattle and horses, including 18-20 milk cows. One of the mai[...]e was the sale of butter. This was made, packaged and put down into brine until enough for a load was r[...]the initials J.P. on it. Mary's brothers, Fred and Charles, father and step-moth- er, and nephew Fred Holman also settled in the Big Hole. Mary died in October, 1909, and John in July, 1916. John Charles Paddock, son of Robert and Mary Paddock Jim and Madge Paddock of Dillon, is their great-great grandson. John and Mary eventually sold this original acreage to Lucy married Moses Jardine and ranched near Jackson. George Woodworth and bought the Wraton place of 600 The four brothers[...]nued ranching here until Mary (Mame) as did Alice and her husband, James O'Connell. Nettie Ab[...]d on October 18, 1909 in La- moved to Los Angeles and later to Toledo, Ohio. Porte, Ind[...]lice Paddock O'Connell was the last of her family and underwent surgery. John then sold his ranch and retired to died in September, 1987, at age 92.[...]James Francis Paddock, the second child of John and[...]arted working for wages when he was 11 James and Charlotte years old for Fred Myers and Chris Wilke doing odd jobs.[...]pril 18, 1806, in Onodaga chase some horses and cattle. County, New York, to James and Ann McClaughay Pad- In the fall of 1906, James and Hank Simmons bought the dock. James Paddock, Jr.,[...]ton (12 miles from Wisdom) of 800 or May 14, 1829 and together they moved to LaPorte County, 90[...]1907. Margery Jardine was born to James and Susannah To this union 12 children were born and John Charles Dudley Jardine on April 7, 1884. James Jardine, Jr., and Paddock was the 12th and last child born to this large family Susannah Dudley Jardine had seven children and three of in LaPorte. After moving to Austin, Neva[...]ncis on September 15, 1877, James and Margery went to live at their new place as[...] |
| [...]tate. In 1868, he established a bakery in Bannack and and the partnership was dissolved in October of 1907 and in 1870 he engaged in general merchandising[...]k brother, William Riley, came out later and the general store decided to take this time and stay with her family in Cherry was then known a[...]Mary Margaret Bessette was the daughter of Olivia and for Beaverhead County hauling freight out of Wisd[...]lie Francis about 1 ½ miles from about 1876 and drove freight wagons between somewhere in Wisdom[...]g of 1908. After two years on this place, Idaho and Bannack. She came to Montana in 1878 with her the depression came and he lost everything. The place was mother and four brothers and sisters. sold to Clarence Strowbridge in 1910. James and Margery Henry Paddock and Mary Bessette married on May 1, then went to work[...]in Bannack. They went to Seattle for about a year and In the fall of 1911, they came to Fishtrap and bought 160 then returned to Bannack where thei[...]ear Argenta, where In the summer of 1917, James and his brother Jack Henry worked in the m[...]. Their third maternal uncle, Fred Francis. James and Margery then daughter, Elsie, was also[...]nt to live on the Paddock Ranch up "on the bench" and 1891. She passed away on August 3, 1895 and is buried in the contracted for 2,180 head of she[...]of Twin Bridges. Early in March of 1920, James and Margery Paddock went back to Fishtrap and started in where they had left off in 1917. It took them 26 years to get out of debt. James and Margery retired from ranching life and moved to Dillon where James Francis Paddock died on February 26, 1959. Margery sold their home in Dillon and moved to Anaconda to be near relatives and lived out her life there until her death on Febru[...]ed by the late Ninetta Rebecca Paddock Rad- ford, and Mary Paddock Berthold and Florence Su- sannah Paddock Ritschel, both of Ana[...]-MARY ANN MALESICH PADDOCK Henry Randall and Mary Mary Paddock and Children |
| the Grasshopper Valley and after several years, purchased the Robert N. Gray ranch, located about one mile from Bannack. One son and two daughters, Randall Brownie, Muriel Alice and Nora Dell, were born in Bannack on March 27, 1902, April 24, 1904 and July 5, 1906. The Paddock children all grew up on the Gray ranch. They attended school in Bannack and walked from the ranch to school except for the winter months when the creek was frozen over and they then would ice skate. Haying was a busy t[...]ally lasted about a month. During this time, Mary and the girls were busy in the kitchen. Each morning the hay crew was served break- fast first and the family would follow. Then preparation began for the next meal. Henry and Mary came to Dillon by horse and wagon twice[...]inal Pahnish Ranch near Bannack a year, in spring and fall, to purchase supplies to last for six months[...]lived in various parts stayed in Dillon overnight and returned home the next day. of the United States and followed various occupations, Henry bought 1,000[...]ed the Union Army in which he rose to the rank of and many other staples while Mary shopped for yard go[...]After the war, he moved west. About 1870 he came and other sewing supplies. The girls always made thei[...]Ranch. bought other clothing items such as coats and shoes from In time he came to own 7,700 acres, and ran hundreds of Martin Innes, who came to the ran[...]lp of an uncle, Anton Dillon would be much easier and faster. He brought three of Pahnish. He in[...]k Pahnish his children to live in Dillon. Georgia and Vorhees enrolled then assumed the responsibilities of managing the ranch. in high school and Gladys, who had come to Dillon earlier She died in 1924, but the ranch remained in the family until and attended Montana State Normal College for one yea[...]ear the site they a few years after Henry's death and then moved to Dillon. found an elk's hor[...]reby She purchased a cabin at Elkhorn Hot Springs and enjoyed many summers there. Several of her grandc[...]-GEORGIA DEPUTY Fredrick and Pauline |
| [...]ond son, was born in Salt Children of Fredrick and Pauline Pahnish were William, Lake City, Utah in 1916 and grew up in the Centennial who was born June 5, 18[...]ilies, such as the Flints, the Hansens, the Hunts and eventu- October 29, 1883, was married on April 20[...]d B. Pyle. They had two girls. Emma died in 1962, and Andy high school. He returned to the Cen[...]he died in 1960. Adolph was born December 1, 1884 and died in worked on various ranches, including the Bray Place and 1950. Ida M. was born March 26, 1886 and died 1969. Otto E. also the Bird Refuge, where he was the first patrolman on was born July 20, 1887 and on June 10, 1919, he married the Upper Red Rock Lake. In 1940 he met and married Fannie L. Knoll. They became the parents of four children, Phoebe Thompson. He and his wife later left the valley and one boy and three girls. Fannie died in 1940 and Otto died in went to the Big Hole after some stints in the Centennial and 1970. Carl A. was born February 24, 1889 and died in 1959. the Modoc for Henry Fitter. He and his wife now reside in Clara was born August 18, 1890. On October 19, 1914, she Deer Lodge, Montana and have two grown children, Edna married Ronald Krue[...]arriage she left the Marie Parish Hauer and Carl Hiram Parish. ranch and lived around the Los Angeles area. She died in[...]ish was born in 1918 in Salt Lake City, Utah 1973 and Ronald died in 1975. Of these seven children, only and from our last information, he lives in Richmond,[...]City, Indiana. They all Lake City, Utah and eventually married a person by the attended school in Bannack in a frame schoolhouse and name of Hablit. She died in 1941. traveled to and fro in horse and buggy. They all made their The senior Mrs. Parish went to California and remarried. homes in Dillon after the ranch was so[...]Timothy and Jane Carl Hiram Parish was born in Illinois in 1879 and was Parkinson married to Kare[...]the youngest son of Timothy Richmond, California and was 93 at the time of this writing. Parkinson, Sr., and Ann Fielding. His family joined the Mr. Parish di[...]Mormon Church in England and later immigrated to Amer- Mr. Parish was an early mail driver in Idaho and made the ica, settling in Wellsville Cache,[...]ho in 1914 with father, his brother-in-law, and his son were in a partnership a dog team. At that[...]Timothy would leave Cache Valley with wagon and team Flats where he again hauled mail with dog te[...]to then Pooles Island (Menan), Idaho and then on to Bannack, Greely, Colorado for a short time where his step-father op- Dillon, and Whitehall. At Whitehall he would reload the erate[...]yard. wagon and head back to Utah. He recorded in his ledger that They then moved to the Centennial Valley in 1918 and he made his first trip to Bannack in 18[...]924 Mr. Parish passed away at the hotel in Monida and was buried in Salt Lake City, Utah. After Mr. Parish's demise, Mrs. Parish sold the ranch to Babe Buck and left the valley. The children of this family f[...]k Parish was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1914 and when his mother sold the place in the Centennial[...]Jane and Timothy Parkinson[...] |
| [...]e saloon he liked to patronize in Dillon. goat and locked it in his corral, where it remained overni[...]before escaping the next morning. with beer and whiskey destined for the Idaho and Utah[...]he first Pattersons came from Edinburgh, Scotland and known to all as "the good ole boys." Tim's brothe[...]ttled around Syracuse, New York in the year 1632. and Bishop W. H. Maughan were among the group. Tim's[...]William Patterson fathered nine children. Mary and wife, not wanting to be confronted with his drunk[...]r locked, walked John, Elizabeth, William C. and James were born to his to the side of the house, sat down in a sleigh and passed out. second wife. He was found the next[...]Ohio. Later he struck out on his own and traveled extensive- Jane Greer Parkinson, an early midwife in Bannack, was ly. He married and spent about ten years in Missouri where born Apri[...]McKenny, Texas. children born to John Black Greer and Ann McGregor Charles remembered pic[...]arriving In 1865 Jane's family left Salt Lake and moved to Wells- early in 1887. They settled[...]uld spend most of they raised their children and lived for the rest of their lives. her life. Jane's maternal grandmother, Jane Allen Leish- Mr. and Mrs. William Patterson are buried in the Lima man[...]in America, Most of the children married and settled in the Dell and so she obtained a midwife's certificate. She taug[...]Basin where dents were her daughter Ann L. Greer and her granddaugh- he lived for about 19 yea[...]was an accomplished mid- he had married and had two children, a daughter, Ena Har- wife, and she traveled all over Utah, Idaho, and Montana riet, and a son, Steely. delivering babies.[...]loyd in Bannack. Jane traveled to Bannack in 1899 and fell In 1935, Charlie and Steely moved to the lower Big Hole in love with the people and the big sky beauty of Montana. Basin where[...]Anaconda. Charles died in 1951. three children and also another daughter's (Edith P. Blair) His daughter married and lives in Sacramento, Califor- four children.[...]ccompanied Dr. Ry- burn of Bannack on house calls and assisted him in deliver- James and Maggie ing babies. Jane was well known around Bannack to both adults and children, and was fondly referred to as "Aunt[...]Patterson and Sarah Long Patterson, one sister and four -LOWELL J. PARKI[...]the family four months and 11 days to reach Montana with a George Parson[...]covered wagon, a team of horses and a herd of longhorn Mr. and Mrs. George Parsons ranched in the North Fork cattle. James often told of the many experiences and hard- area, settling possibly as early as 1915. G[...]they encountered on the trail such as burning cow and she was a tiny woman of probably no more than 90 chips for a fire and a shoot out with Indians when they pounds. They h[...]reached Big Sheep Creek. His mother was not well and since forks of the road and was quite a landmark. She took pride he was[...]than the others. They arrived September curtains, and other furnishings.[...]l- Besides ranching, Parsons did carpenter work and was liam Griggs, who was married[...] |
| [...]Samuel and Nellie[...]Scot-Irish ancestry and grew to be a teenager in a Pennsyl-[...]young and shortly after his mother died he left for the Wes[...]partners and traveled to Dillon in a two-wheeled buckboard[...]which carried their possessions. One rode and drove while[...]- left after they sold the horse and wagon and settled all gie and Fred debts. T[...]were frozen. construction work in Dillon and did plaster work. His last In 1888, James's mother passed away and in 1897 his job plastering was on the[...]lly owned for school house that is still standing and has been converted over 40 years. (Upon hi[...]o displayed at the cafe. For many years, he owned and managed a store and hotel at Dell. James met Maggie Loughridge in[...]n. Her father's name was John Poultney Loughridge and her mother's name was Mary Ellen Roe Loughridge.[...]moved from the Dillon area to Lima in 1894. James and Maggie were engaged in 1900. Maggie's family move[...]Sam and Nellie Patterson Butte, Montana, by the Rev. J.W.[...]with Milwau- Lima. Here they ranched for 35 years and their family was kee Beer under his name of S.S. Patterson. born and raised. Fred Poultney was born October 14, 1904.[...]rganized the Mary Ellen was born August 12, 1907, and Margaret was bottling works in 1884.[...]d Sam if he wanted to buy the business. He Jim and Maggie moved to Wise River, Montana, in 1937,[...]se of his business life, Sam harvested ice on his and organizations such as the Knights of Pythias and Pyth- 200 acre ranch, one mile west of Dil[...]naturally. Although the larger cakes ter Margaret and her husband Leonard Leake reside at had to be stored and dug out of the ice-house as needed, Bountiful, Ut[...]ons had they lasted on the delivery wagons and trucks a longer time. five grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.[...] |
| [...]ration was too uneconomical with too small a cake and was abandoned the next year since a cold winter p[...]died years later. Sam's two sisters, Katherine and Anna, were sent for when Sam could afford the cost. Kate married Ben Steven- son and Anna lived with them. Samuel S. Patterson was s[...]Paul Store in Monida and Earl Lewis Wheat after their father George W. Whe[...]esponding to his invitation to attend ous, honest and compassionate man." His charities were the ball and meet Mrs. Paul. The Williams orchestra of numerou[...]one year after Lima furnished the music and Leo Truax of Lima acted as Nellie's death. Both a[...]pletely thatched with evergreens and Chinese lanterns by[...]re suspended from the evergreen roof about Thomas and Lois Patterson[...]ecember 30, 1853 in Ohio. Lois Ada Riggs and a decidedly enjoyable time was had by Mr. Paul's[...]s highly pleased with the event after wishing Mr. and in October, 1877. In 1887, with a family of three children, Mrs. Paul many long and happy years of wedded bliss. they left Texas for Montana, by wagon train and also driv- Mr. Paul was a brother to G.[...]ghorn cattle. They first settled at dealer, and nephew to Frank Paul. Dell on what is known as th[...]ano acquired land in Big Sheep Canyon out of Dell and went lessons to the young people in Mon[...]da. City until 1934 when she returned to the Lima and Dillon Bert Paul had a big warehouse w[...]r 30, 1939. Both are buried in the from nuts and bolts to clothes, ladies hats and you could Lima Cemetery.[...]ETHEL MILLER BRAY Bert and Mary Paul Goodwin and Mary Paul |
| [...]olly Ricks Miller "The people, wagons, horses and mules participating in the Montana Centennial |
| [...]om Dillon Tribune) and flowers from which imported chandeliers hang. I[...]century ago fly wings. The roof and balcony trim is beautifully executed aren't reall[...]ruby glass. So the Orr mansion, started in 1882 and completed in Behind the mansi[...]he P & 0 Com- her personal horses and carriage. Another feature of the pany (Poindexter and Orr). The firm was organized in Cali-[...]ack in 1862, they irrigate the gardens and fountains that originally were a decided to head[...]ught in the vicious winter of 1863-64 with cattle and no The P & 0 Company also raised[...]sold to the Canadian Mounted Police and to fire depart- Ranch in the Dillon area.[...]gnation as bricks were made in kilns near Augusta and the sandstone a "landmark o[...] |
| [...]Their reputation for fine stock soon grew and, with the William C. and Rachel Orr[...]nd. largest structure in Beaverhead County and was familiar to When William was about six years[...]tockbuyers from throughout the world. to America and settled in Birmingham, Ohio. At age 16 he[...]. where the first log cabin was built, and also a fort for the From there he moved to Vicks[...]to work in a protection of the women and children. The Orrs puchased wagon and blacksmith shop. After two years employment he[...]completed in early 1885. chased a herd of cattle and horses, and joined a wagon train It is reported that[...]is destination 1880s for plans for his home and that of his partner. Regret- in October.[...]- Mr. Orr purchased a ranch for his livestock and also en- stroyed by fire, but we do have t[...]P. & 0. Cattle Company was engaged in butchering and town of Dillon grew up around the m[...]supplying meat to the miners on the Humbug Riv~r and the large horse barn stood behind the h[...]great losses. In the fall of 1863, Orr drove and a smaller carriage barn was located to the southw[...]Poindexter Between the large horse barn and the house there was a remained on the ranch. Orr[...]use. William's wife, Rachel, dearly loved flowers and drive he was caught in a terrible storm but was able to get was responsible for the lavish gardens and greens on the his cattle through. The conditions[...]- the hill into the Beaverhead Valley where feed and water panse of lawn that makes the buil[...]cattle drifted some 15 to 20 miles stories and basically rectangular in plan, approximately 38'[...]undation is over two feet thick. that Poindexter and Orr decided to settle on Blacktail Deer The buff-colored bricks employed also were made in the Creek and became Montana ranchers. They homesteaded[...]me say they were manufactured in kilns in Dillon and later secured large quantities of choice land in[...]Argenta, a small mining ley southeast of Dillon and begain raising livestock on the town west[...]the lofty chimneys married in Birmingham, Ohio, and he brought his bride, a and it had to be removed for safety reasons. former[...]wed by his wife Six sons were born to William and Rachel: Matthew born Rachel in 1903. in[...]-JOHN DeHAAS, JR. (1875), Bert (1878), and John (1881). With six sons, Orr built an empire of cattle, sheep, and horses, which all carried the famous P. & 0. brand known as the square and compass, Montana Territory's first recorded brand. In 1870, Poindexter and Orr returned to California. This time they drove some 2,700 head of sheep and 375 horses to Dillon and then entered into the sheep and horse business. Not only did Poindexter and Orr furnish fresh meat to the hungry miners in t[...]some of them being Percheron, Clydesdale, Norman, and French Coach horses. They also supplied horses to the U. S. Cavalry and the Canadian Mounted Police as well as to the stagecoach and fire stations in the region. William C. Orr and Rachel C. Orr[...] |
| [...]auffer ''Once a popular stage stop between Dillon and the early 1960's with an inexpensive came[...]ley, Millpoint occupies a prominent 3) and, after 30-plus years of amateur photograph[...] |
| [...]"green turtly wafers," "gelee a l'orange" and "surprise bas- On December 13, 1916, Jesse M.[...]as Butte architect, announced completion of plans and the served for $2.50 per plate. signing[...]etc., in the The new building of pressed brick and cement was fire- sample rooms. They made side trips to Lima, the Big Hole proof and modern in every way including an automatic elec- and other ranching areas during the day, returning to[...]an office, a barber shop, bar, cafe, dining room, and there and many hours were spent playing cards. Drinking kit[...]r of Much of the business done in Beaverhead and Madison Glendale and Idaho Streets. In the 1880s Dillon residents Counties was transacted there. Buyers and sellers met in the came there to fill their buckets from the city water pump. A bar and, instead of going to the bank or a lawyer's offic[...]body in this house tonight to be glad he is here and to enjoy a year after the hotel was built and remained there for the to the fullest both now and in memory, his part in helping to next 30 year[...]he United States. He was a Great Dane named china and silver service, all sparkling from the lig[...] |
| [...]The march was led by Mrs. J.C. Metlen and Gov. Smith, followed by Mrs. John Howard and Chief Justice Pember- (From Dillon Tribune -[...]ton and Miss Carrie Metlen and J.C. Metlen. Dancing was Amidst pomp and ceremony, the newly-completed Met- then commenced and continued until the early hours of the len Hotel[...]ay. The occasion morning. was a memorable one and is the beginning of a new epoch in Over two hundred guests were present and the lovely the history of Dillon.[...]g supper was served. Brass Band was in attendance and opened the ceremonies Among the promine[...]of Helena, H. J. Wilson of The reception rooms and parlors were artistically deco- Butte. rated with American Beauty roses, carnations and similax The Metlen is a fine large thr[...]iving by her daughter, Mrs. John Howard of Butte, and and tonsorial parlors. On the first floor is the office, bar Mesdames Hodgens and Fyhrie, Misses Long and Poin- room, public parlor, private[...]ifice was thronged with dining room, kitchen and sample room. On the second floor guests. The rece[...]tifully furnished hotel is beautifully furnished, and this fact escaped the throughout and possesses all the modern conveniences, notice of[...]such as steam heat, hot and cold water and electric lights. At 9 o'clock in the evening, T[...]mith, who paid high tribute to the city of Dillon and the experienced hotel man, and understands the wants of the enterprising gentlem[...]stice Pem- the need of a first-class hotel, and should now do their part berton next addressed th[...]two local writers, "Golden Fleece" by Hughie Call and "Power of the Dog" by Tom Savage. The hotel re[...]accidental death of Fern Andrus Schuyler in 1951 and the death of Margaret in 1954, Harry J. Andrus bought out the shares of Wilma Andrus Hyssop and became sole owner. Farnum Schuyler managed the ho[...]Doug Harvey, was remodeled into a furniture store and rechristened the Andrus Plaza. Quoting from Donna Andrus Jones, "I am proud of my heritage and so pleased the building will continue as the Andr[...]a is owned by the Dil- mart, a longtime furniture and appliance business in Dillon.[...] |
| MEADE HOTEL AND ''These buildings harbor some of t[...]LOON of this area's history: miners and desperados, businessmen and >,[...]politicians, ranchers and teachers. From that violent beginning ...,0en[...]a ::a community, and a state for their children-and all children to "C[...] |
| [...]ears of driving to Birch Creek for my attention and I stopped to capture it. Because of Western Monta[...]was in::;tantaneous. This small watercolor and ink around Torrey Mountain. A particular s[...] |
| [...]was competent and adaptable, learned to spin her own wool The Varied People Made and was an avid knitter. Life[...]team to the East Bench with Frederic and Georgiana.[...]ould for see the drought, cut worms, or grasshop- and dances. Neighbors cooperated to help each other w[...]roducing 55 bushels to the acre, a thresh- ering, and building. After the school closed, a bus was run[...]o eight men bought a steam en- Dillon a few years and neighbors worked to clear the road in gine thresher. Jay McCarthy and Clarence Langdorf con- bad storms.[...]flux of people from the fertile horse team and had to shovel the grain from the granary Gallatin[...]ch as the land was producing into the wagons and shovel it out again when arriving in record crops and was cheaper than in the Gallatin. Accord- D[...]through from Sweetwater Road families onthe East and Stone Creek Benches. and go north to the Featherly Ranch, later Sonny Pad-[...]e East Bench from Butte with his dock's, and back south to Dillon. stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Black, in March, 1910.[...]CROUSE ANDERSEN They moved with a two-horse team and wagon. The first day they reached Melrose, on the second day, Dillon, and arrived on the East Bench to homestead 320 acres[...]Wind Blew and Tumble Stanley Sisterson was one of the bachel[...]ere was moisture, but in the Harry Bostwick place and put in 50 acres of wheat with a 1919 the drought began. three-horse team and a walking plow. El[...]late October. She World War. He loved fine horses and when he returned, worked at Miss Baldwin's Millinery Shop and says it was paid $425 for an outstanding team. Th[...]lew the tumble brought a love of mules, he farmed and teamed with them. weeds, the best crop on[...]e mules that the Al across the fields and lodged them on the barbed wire fences. Davis fami[...]depended for water for their home use, gardens, and live- the Bench. Mr. Brown asked Mr. Niblack, who[...]r a " store lady". He gave her a job after school and Saturdays how much a horse or cow can drink when he or she sees one for $5 a month. She later owned and operated Hazel's Style pumping it by hand.[...]hat there The Nattrasses came from Minneapolis and shared their was not one crop in the enti[...]andsize cracks in the river bed at Dell. He owned and shared a fine telescope. Mrs. Nattrass was the[...]the fields with her husband. She Marines and went to work for Fred Woodside, husband of[...] |
| [...]teams and Frederic hauled with a four-horse team. They A[...]days. The Dust Bowl was known more in the Midwest and Wyo- Fred Crouse and his sons and Clyde Brown had a project ming. Even in eastern[...]o lessen the disasters. They summer- horses and sleighs or wagons as the weather dictated. They fallowed the fields to kill weeds and conserve moisture in were hauled and mounted on the lamp posts for ten cents the event[...]big operation without much Fred Crouse and several others became involved in road mechanization. The bait was a mixture of bran and strych- building. First it was county road[...]o attract the hoppers with horse-drawn slips and Mormon scrapers and graded (although there was probably no need for[...]re voracious eaters). They attacked the sagebrush and came evident and a viable public works objective, they greasewood as well as the grain and grass. The poison was worked on the marvel[...]ired or made a rudimentary spreader horse and manpower, to badly needed cash. which performed s[...]ated with eggs, cream, pigs, steers, turkeys, and chickens. One of the hopeful notes of the earl[...]few that team that appeared one spring, measuring and placing were necessities. Flour was c[...]. plans to divert water from the Beaverhead River and send it After taking a wagon load of wheat in, the customer went over the dry hills and swales, which would then grow grain back about a week later to take back sacks of wheat and the crops and alfalfa, just like in the valley. It was a beautiful wheat components-bran, middlings, and screenings-that dream, but some 30-35 years ahead[...]s There were four banks in Dillon at that time and two went and shortly before Thanksgiving, when they were out in the broke during the Dust Bowl era. There was no money and all fields early in the morning eating gras[...]owl to start. feed due to the crop loss, ranchers and farmers had to sell They were fed pounds of[...]for cotton- family took care of the turkeys and fed all the cottage cheese seed cake for feed.[...]fore he was convinced As the drought continued and the cut worm and the grass- that it was for anything but turk[...]eft the Bench. The exo- was only for calves and pigs. dus from the farms was almost as complete a[...]ough life on the East Bench was full of hardships and ment. Most simply ran out of money and were unable to disappointments in those drought-stricken years, many of adapt and continue. The banks took over the farms. Gradu- the neighbors cared about each other and life-long friend- ally fences fell, buildings lost their doors and windows and ships were established and treasured. became empty shells, reminders of dinn[...]e is now at the top of Cornell's Hill where David and The original description of Beaverhead[...]commencing at a point where the 112th meridian of and love of farming goes for naught, if climate, adve[...]he Big Hole River, thence south along conditions, and old Mother Nature combine to thwart one's[...]la County; hang on to their land, pay their loans and support their thence to the southern boun[...]maining farmers had the place of beginning; and the county seat of said Beaver- was horsepower. O[...]s changes, the First National Warehouse in Dillon and hauling salt back to most important of which[...]the general government to the new Fred Crouse and Bill Davis hauled wool with six-horse territory and detached from Dakota.[...] |
| [...]official photographer at the Dillon Jaycee Rodeo and 23 in a similar post 00 Photo by Fred Bridensti[...](located between Elkhorn and Wise River) was recorded in the mid-60s. Little remains today as years and vandals exact their tolls. |
| [...]spring. It grows on rocky, barren scent and delicate beauty are cheerful and uplifting[...] |
| [...]ted a light case of the swept the country in 1889 and 1890. The second, the Spanish pox, which resulted in immunity. Flu, in 1918 and 1919, is still in the memory of our older[...]f a dime was crosshatched with highly infectious, and accompanied by extremely high body a needle[...]k was put in the middle,covered by sterile gauze, and tions were fatal within a few days.[...]eet could not keep up swelling, itching, and sore arm muscles. After the "take", a with the ca[...]hasty burial was recommend- evening gowns and bathing suits. It would be prudent to ed.[...]Sleeveless evening gowns were coming into vogue and the the face to cover the nose and mouth. The elusive flu bugs legs of swim sui[...]t to the population were smallpox, scarlet fever, and diphtheria. find a place on a woman's body whe[...]disease, often involving several different TINE' and the name of the disease, and could be read from microbes, it initially a[...]ngulation or heart failure. Diphtheria in infants and with this blatant sign advertising their adversit[...]urse, (about three weeks, In the teen years and into the Twenties there was a "ton- four weeks fo[...]which, when burned, pro- moval of tonsils and adenoids was the panacea for all dis- duced sulph[...]riginating in the throat: whooping cough, quinsy, and doors and windows were sealed with rags or other stuffing t[...]er fumigation was complete, every Thursday and, with Dr. Stephan as assistant, spent many days of open doors.and windows were necessary to rid the day removing tonsils and adenoids. This went on for a house of this suffoc[...]e- was the old Dart home at the corner of Pacific and Center rious malady was frightening, and victims were avoided. In Streets, kitty-corner fr[...]nsmission of the disease. It later became loners, and patients who did not otherwise have someone to known as Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and the cause was care for them.[...]ly a few boils, particularly numerous on the face and arms, swelling cases annually, and with treatment and vaccine, only a few in the throat and ears, fever and other physical discomforts. days in bed are req[...]low-death disease, initially affecting the lungs, and even- 430-Beaverhead History |
| [...]ed, and Chinese miners came to clean up what little gold[...]settlers and driving off their cattle. Following one of these[...]who had been killed by cred. Indians, and had no knowledge of his parents. He grew up[...]people of the white race, who were his employers and ranch house and given a home and a name. "Tommy Haw" business associates, had no[...]way of pronouncing "Tommy Orr." He was of pleas- and did not speak a word of the Chinese language. Due to his ing disposition and readily adapted himself to the ways of ability to earn and save, and to the generosity of his employ- the white peop[...]a fortune. He was buried by his white boy, and in the sixties, when Poindexter and Orr drove their friends, and in his will left everything he possessed to a[...]illness. tally the coming of Poindexter and Orr to Montana was the In the early days, when migration was ever westward, and real beginning of the livestock industry in[...]Tommy Haw continued in the employ of Poindexter and there came to Yereka, California, two young men, Phillip H. Orr for many years. He was taught to read and write by Mrs. Poindexter of Virginia and William C. Orr of Ohio. They Orr, and was given an opportunity to make a start in the _formed a partnership which lasted all their lives and left it~ cattle business for himself through th[...]erger for $9,000. His tually invading body organs and the digestive system, re- brand was known to every stockman in that section of the sulting in pallor and the gradual wasting away of the body. county. It was "O.C." and stood for Orr's Chinaman. The disease, also known[...]ictims. Recovery, if attainable, required months, and even and leased a ranch. He continued in this business for several years. Tuberculosis infected cattle, as well, and the only safe years and, when he disposed of his sheep, had accumulated a course was to destroy and bury the diseased animals. fortune. Typhoid fever affected the intestinal tract and was ac- Then he went into mining. He op[...]being Queen Mine, in association with Harry and T.E. Poin- the source of the infection. dexter, and the Boston and Montana in association with Childhood nuisance diseases included pink eye, measles, Dan Grant and Ed Ripley. He was not as successful in min- mumps, and chicken pox. Isolation was recommended. It ing as he was in the cattle and sheep business, and at the was usually preferred that these infection[...]r Queen lenge to provide food, clothing, shelter, and fuel for warmth. Mine was then under bond for $37,000, and the will stipulat- Men, women and children alike worked from dawn to dark[...]was to pay $5,000 to provide essentials. Overwork and resultant accidents and $6,000, respectively, to two other white women wh[...]of his former em- hardship, overexertion, stress, and apprehension over the ployers, who sons b[...]e people of tion required by law in public places and food outlets, more Dillon and Beaverhead County, and when he passed away it attention to personal hygiene, and medical discoveries have was written that t[...]have occasion to remember his benefactions and revere his[...] |
| [...]d branch, snowflake stitching, fish in the water, and night sky are Weber, © 1989 All rights re[...] |
| [...]ter years he was assisted by his son Frank. He and his brother Erwin also raised cattle in the Cente[...]of 1917. He was active in the Democratic Party and in 1891 was elected City Treasurer of Dillon, ser[...]s elected as representative for Beaverhead County and served in the Montana State Legis- lature. Mr.[...]n September 8, 1870, the daughter of Joseph James and Selma and Hans Pedersen Mathilde Giroux Bourret, French-Can[...]heir former home in Mon- sponsored by John and Tilda Peterson of Grant. treal, Canada. Her ancestors held an early colonial land Hans and Selma were married on June 12, 1913, in Dillon. g[...]lley. founded in 1880. Her father, a saddle maker and leather The family of Hans and Selma included four children: carver, operated a harness shop and her mother was a milli- George was born in Ju[...]Ralph in July, 1917, and finally a girl, Betty, was born in The Pauls h[...], In 1920 the house burned to the ground and most of the 1896, married Franklin J. Bradley; and Frank, born Novem- household goods were los[...]r. Paul took an active part in the Masonic bodies and stead close by. was a member of Dillon Lodg[...]covered that Bet- 8 R.A.M., St. Elmo Commandery and Bagdad Shrine. Mrs. ty had been injured and was losing her speech. There was no Paul was a me[...]cure for that type of brain damage in those days and she her father was one of the founders. became an invalid and died at age 39. Goodwin T. Paul died December 21, 1934 and Mary B. Hans and Selma moved to a ranch near Dillon in 1937 and Paul died March 17, 1947. They are buried in Moun[...]-HELEN SHAFFNER Hans and Selma Pedersen |
| Selma died in 1975 at age 90 and Hans died in 1976 at age ings. William L., b[...]n the Hamilton Cemetery beside Betty 1914 and Howard, born November 18, 1915, were the result and 2 infant grandsons. Second son William died of ca[...]ge. William Sr. married Laura Ames Novem- in 1975 and is buried in Oklahoma.[...]he was a licensed the north side of Horse Prairie and the electric dredge at engineer at the Mont[...]plant died in November of 1944 in Seattle and was buried in for the electric dredge in Bannack.[...]er right was transferred to irrigation projects and was buried there. William Jr. and his wife, Hazel, live in on the north side of Hor[...]Pinehurst, Idaho. problems arose among the users, and as a result the irriga- Tom and Dan married the Jackson sisters of a pioneer Big[...]amily since 1884. Tom married Ida April 11, 1908, and supply sufficient water for his farm.[...]of Quebec and Ida December 14, 1885, in Wisdom. Tom The Pen[...]Big Hole Basin in 1904 and bought the John Tessier Ranch. 1 The coming of the Pendergast family to Montana began Tom and Ida had one son, Daniel, born December 1, 1910. In with the marriage of John Pendergast and Roseann Iby in 1919, they bought the Ge[...]born May 2, 1852 in Ireland, the place of and Melrose, where he lived with son Dan and family after his birth is uncertain. John always[...]1948. He was a 45-year member of the County Cork and came to America on the "BuggyBoo" Masonic Lodge at Wisdom. He died in 1962. Both he and when he was 20 years old. He died in Jackson, Mon[...]buried in Dillon. Dan retired to Dillon in 1977. and was buried in Dillon. Roseann Iby was born in Roc[...]ew York, burn, in the Province of Quebec, in 1857 and died in Bal- and Minnie, September 22, 1890, in Jackson. He came t[...]Swamp Creek. He worked in the mines in Butte and later on len, Marguerite, Jean and Walter. different[...]Son John was born in Eureka, Nev., March 21, 1882;and Woodward Ranch on Swamp Creek and ranched there until[...]1 attended school in Bannack. He and his brother saw the his retirement to Dillon in 1945. He and Minnie were very first gold dredge (the F.L. Graves) launched, hauled wood to active in the Odd Fellows and Rebecca Lodge of Jackson. the Graeter steam dredge and whittled shavings off the He was a prominent sportsman and served many years as a stumps Henry Plummer was h[...]ty sheriff in Jackson. He died in Dillon in 1957, and engineer and a miner. He owned a mining claim on the[...]d in 1965. Both are buried there. Bonacord ground and down the creek from Spring Gulch. I[...]in Andersen Sr. He was an accomplished violinist and was in 1911, Jean in 1914 and Marguerite in 1916. demand to play at dances. Joh[...]at Argenta. She was born in Bannack June and lived in the Grasshopper Valley when her parents set- 28, 1890. They lived in Jackson, Wisdom and Butte. John tled there. She taught at Ea[...]in the Big Hole, died January 31, 1957, in Butte and Coral died September 7, riding to school by[...], where both are buried. Forrest, their son, and Long Beach, Calif. She married Wilhelm ("Bill") R[...]15, 1920, in Santa Ana. Butte September 23, 1968, and is buried in Dillon. Bill was born in Wayne, Neb., May 13, 1884, and died in When William was born September 1884,[...]assed away October 10, 1982, in Tucson, Ariz. She and Bill Montana with his parents in 1890 and they settled in the are buried in Tempe.[...]28, 1894, in the Grasshop- terrible flu epidemic, and was buried in Jackson. Bill had a per Valley and taught at Fox and Grant, Mont. and in Cali- homestead at Bowen in the Big Hole and other ranch hold- fornia. She never married. Jean died in 1924, and is buried 434-Beaverhead History |
| [...]She taught at Hardin, Mont., then at Miami, Ariz. and later at Lynwood, Calif. She married James Chipma[...]Marguerite died in the summer of 1980, in Tucson and Jim November 24, 1985, in Fort Worth, Texas. They[...]e spent four years in the Navy during World War I and later worked as an electrician in California. He and Ruth Jacob- son were married May 10, 1929, in Wil[...]ark, Calif. in 1934. Ruth is now Mrs. Ruth Sorver and lives in West Covina, Calif. From her second marr[...]After a couple of years, Frank, Tom Low, Lew Beal and fourth-generation and four fifth-generation young men and Jim Montgomery each took up 160 acres of la[...]They milked 35 head of cows and made butter which they -ALBERTA SHEPHER[...]They fenced their land and put up hay. THE PENDLETON[...]as he was getting married. He got his 160 acres and built a[...]married Mary Ann "Go West, Young Man, Go West" and that is what Frank Dudley, a school teac[...]anuary 23, 1857 in ple of years, then sold and bought Mary Ann's brother's Little Grant, Wisconsin to Bethsheba and William Pendle- ranch. This later became k[...]le to nine children to be cared for by the father and relatives. He feed and sell. He kept doing this until he had accumulated[...]Frank left home to seek his own fortune. Frank and Mary Ann had four children; Frank Jr., Elenor, On[...]he worked at many jobs including Bethsheba, and Rula. four years in Iowa corn country, farming, d[...]in Hamilton for supplies, Frank became interested and carpentry work. Frank and a friend moved on to work at in a race horse[...]wledgeable building the railroads at North Platte and then on to Rock about horses and bought and sold them for many years. He Springs, Wyoming and coal mining. A mine accident, with had gr[...]hills for Frank met Joe Shaw in Hamilton and Joe offered to help three months while his back mended. He lay on buffalo with the horses and take them to races for him. The horses robes and his friends tended to him. raced in Boise, Salt Lake, and Butte. Frank also built a race After his back recovery, Frank and his friend started track on his ranch and had races there. It is said that the westward aga[...]ntually, Frank sold the horses. around a few days and left for Oregon. They made some One[...]or a couple of years. Frank bought 50 head of and trailed to the ranch. This was quite a trail driv[...]hey were shipped part of the way in freight cars. and his partner herded the horses toward Rock Springs[...]were advised they couldn't make it because and gone to Salt Lake. They divorced. Mary Ann kept the of snow and that it would be better to go over the mountains girls and Frank took Frank Jr. He gave his wife 700 acres of to the Lemhi Indian Reservation and then trail them to land, three miles sou[...]hem to Red Rock Station. Lane. Lew Beal and Frank stayed in Horse Prairie for three or four[...]e on Briston years. They worked on ranches haying and tending the Lane. The remains of the b[...]im Montgomery as a partner. This ranch was and his wife, Jenny, are reported to have taug[...] |
| Frank Sr. sold everything and moved to Logan, Utah when Mary Ann married Joe Sh[...]1911. He returned to the Big Hole during summers and worked for the Montgomery Bros. and his mother. About 1913, Frank Jr. bought a 1,000 acres of land from Joe Shaw and his mother on Briston Lane. In early 1914, Frank[...]ee children were born to this couple-Vince, Myla, and June. Frank Jr. put up hay and would buy feeder steers, fatten them during the w[...]led to a rail head at either Children of Jens and Anna Petersen (from le~): Ella Divide, Armstead, or Mill Creek and taken to Seattle. Here, Marie, Peter Christian, and Mildred (about 1904) thay were loaded on boats. T[...]all ily changed the spelling to Petersen. He and his brother space on the boats. Therefore, they s[...]to 1,500 pounds. 1890s and eventually settled in the Beaverhead Valley. H[...], November transportation, feeding cattle, haying and a myriad of other 15, 1869. She was the daughter of Peter and Mettemaria chores. The Pendleton ranch had 40 to[...]can be assumed she It was difficult to get around and feed cattle with very deep came to Dillon because of the large number of Danish immi- snow and the very cold temperatures. The horses pulled[...]It is not known where Jens and Anna met, but they both Twice a year, Frank ma[...]o Dillon to get supplies had dairy backgrounds and found work in Dillon at the Rife for the ranch. His transportation was horses and wagon. The Dairy which was located west of th[...]ovember 16, 1885. Witnesses to the cere- Ten mile and Jackson. mony were Jens Christensen and Hans Pedersen. Pastor A cemetery was established on Briston Lane and is still Walter Hays of the Presbyterian Chu[...]ncluding members of the Pendleton family. and that was where their two daughters were born: Ell[...]Marie on October 16, 1896 and Mildred on December 19, Frank Pendleton was a Mason and a Shriner and a master 1897. Because their home was almos[...]ians frequently came by. The squaws organizations and a member for over fifty years. would knock at the doors and windows and ask "Candy for Clara, Frank's wife, came to the ranch as a city girl and baby." Upon receiving some sweets, they immedi[...]- admirably, taking care of the children, pumping and carry- ably wouldn't get any. In 1898 the family returned to Den- ing water in for all household and personal use. Cooking and mark for several years. While there a son, Peter Christian, sewing and all other chores done by Clara kept her busy. She[...]y returned to Montana helped with the post office and was very busy during haying in June 1901 on t[...]lass on the Frank's sisters, Elenor, Bethsheba and Rula lived with steamship S.S. Cymric to New York and then Third Class their mother and step-father, Joe Shaw. They eventually railroad from New York by way of Chicago back to Mon- married and moved away.[...]-VINCE PENDLETON Jens and Anna owned and operated several farms just[...]They raised oats, wheat, potatoes, alfalfa and always had a Jens and Anna Petersen few dairy cows. Anna raised chickens and ducks and sold Jens Ditlev Petersen was born in the town of Stokke by on these with fresh eggs and butter to customers in town, one of the island of[...]lar IXL Restaurant. In 1904 Jens sent an Pedersen and Ellen M. Simpson Pedersen. Most of the fam- exhibit of alfalfa to the St. Louis Universal Exposition and 436-Beaverhead History |
| [...]August 17, 1902, and Annie's certificate of title, October,[...]The sons and daughters of this family married and lived in Dell and Lima for many years.[...]owned and operated the Dell Mercantile and also the Dell[...]Creek, John and Mary Elisa Thompson. James Percy and Irene built their home just up the creek[...]Creek. received a silver medal and certificate for the best display of All of t[...]Jens never learned to drive, but Percy and Irene engaged in farming, sheep raising__and bought a 1924 Dodge touring car. With their son P[...]mining. His early mining dates as shown on deeds and re- driver and daughter and son-in-law, Mildred and Adolph cords are dated 1908. Some of t[...], Florida, to investigate the wonderful and Charles Seybold. opportunities that awaited the a[...]lace for them, they returned to Mon- survive and live in Washington, Oregon, and California. tana. In the early 1930s they and their son Pete started the Charles Flynn married Pearl Hungate and made their Petersen Dairy on Thomsen Avenue. The[...]several years. After the death oihis sold in 1942 and they retired except for the summer when wife and three children, he moved to Idaho and remarried. Jens, an expert irrigator, worked for[...], most of them now deceased. Cottom, Luther Smith and Albert Mikkelsen until his death Annie[...]1900. They lived their entire life around Lima and in the Big in 1957 while visiting her daughter El[...]Peterson McNinch, Peter D. (Bus) and Earl R. (Mike). All[...]of these children married and have children in the area, James P. and Annie Flynn[...]n 1928. His one son lives in James Percy Flynn and Annie Murphy Conner were mar- Oregon.[...]-BONNIE MERRILL and both had young children. Annie had a boy William, who was about two years of age and Percy had a daughter, Sadie, the same age. There[...]eld, Connecticut for a while. Mary John and Thilda Peterson owned what was first recog- Elizabeth and James Percy Jr., were born there in 1873 and nized in the early 1900s as one of the "be[...]he family traveled west to Nebraska,where Charles and tana"). The headlines reporting his murde[...]ntana Standard, Oct. 7, 1939). What hap- red hair and tried to scalp him. Percy did have a scar across pened between his birth on September 8, 1873, and his his forehead.[...]y Lima) in the ern Americana. early 1880's and homesteaded at the mouth of Big Sheep Mr. Peterson was born to Peter and Anna Peterson in Creek, where Percy died in 1889.[...]dated Smoland, Sweden. They were farmers and sent John[...] |
| [...]o the payer. The Horse Prairie, Grasshopper, and Big Hole prop- Big Hole Basin where through hard work and thrift he pur- erties approached 85,000 ac[...]ded with the remainder in leases, forest permits, and 8,000 acres. This property would become the Spoka[...]is within the Beaverhead Partner- bygget, Sweden, and a childhood sweetheart whose parents, ship ranch. Sven and Bengta, were in the lumber business. On August 8, Though John was an astute and firm businessman, he was 1909, they bore a son He[...]ble (donating land for the Grant school district) and After selling their property in 1910 for $100,[...]anches with spent some months in Nooksack, Wash., and visited their much needed feed during th[...]hay crop with its premier water rights. ing and maintaining good ditches, jackleg fences, and ranch On July 12, 1916, a daughter, Alice Jean[...]imate tonnage/number of stacks, known as "bents", and Cross Ranch after its principal brand-the Cross.[...]nting them by "Johnny Pete" was ever expanding and experimenting in "fives", while shipping[...]he reportedly won a $100 bill in a Wisdom bar for and once owned a place there. He was involved with th[...]er, Sam, who also married a native tween Armstead and Grant. This operation had over 7,000 Swede, Tilda Nelson, and settled in the Big Hole as a ranch- sheep and would become the Ras Hansen place. His pur-[...]son was a large Ralph, Mildred, Oran Kenneth, and Verne Robert. His sis- addition to his holdings.[...]), Anette (Jen- The Cross, Lazy Five, Hairpin, and Bar L Lazy S were sen), and Christinna in Sweden. Thilda had three sisters- brands used on Peterson stock. The Cross and Hairpin Hanna, Annette, and Nellie. Her two brothers were Olaf and brands grace the fireplace chimney alorig with th[...]Museum in Dillon. The Both John and Thilda were prominent in Masonic organi- fireplac[...]er of Wisdom Lodge No. 61, A.F. & Herman Peterson and Alice (Peterson) Cragholm. The Pe- A.M.[...]also in the museum. Council No. 2, Royal and Select Masters, of Butte; St. Elmo By the late[...], according to E. A. Phillips of Scottish Rite, and Bagdad Temple of the Shrine. He was a[...]and Tirzah Temple No. 3, Daughters of the Nile at But[...]Mr. and Mrs. Peterson were members of the Lutheran[...]Church in Dillon. John was a Democrat and Thilda was a[...]Mountain View Cemetery. Thilda, John, Herman and Alice Peterson[...] |
| [...]to join two older brothers, Jens Ditlev Petersen and Peter J. Petersen in or near Dillon. The correct[...]Lutheran Church in Rise (pronounced Reesa), Aero, and was performed by Provst Tholle. Provst is equal to dean and is a rank higher than pastor in Denmark.[...]grandfather Jens Kristensen with Jenny and Ellen. rented land for farming north of Dillon wh[...]to Dillon. If memory serves, it ber 3, 1929 and returned to America with her husband Feb- was mov[...]more trips to America to visit his children erts and fourth grade Miss Van De Walker. Ellen remem- and once more visited Dillon along with the Jensen fa[...]ng 1949. His final trip was to visit Ellen and Thomas Jensen in picked up by the Billy Kents, who lived farther down the Pennsylvania and Carl in California in the summer of 1961. road. Sometimes she walked home from school and was Ellen visited her childhood h[...]removed, but the lane of cottonwood trees and the old barn . On February 26, 1911, another so[...]ur beautiful horses were killed by Peter J. and Margrethe Pe- lightning during a heavy storm in A[...]ary 23, 1869, at Stokeby, ica on business in 1917 and 1920 but his permanent resi- Denmark, and Anna Margrethe Therkelsen was born Janu-[...]lon, and with his wife Margrethe and small daughter Elna,[...]After six months in Denmark, it seemed too small, and[...]rop of oats (1908) Shaffner's Ranch, and they then moved north of Dillon, on[...] |
| [...]Sometime in the Twenties, Dad and Mother decided to[...]get rid of the little lean-to kitchen and build a new modern[...]with a new kitchen, bathroom, pantry, sunparlor and an-[...]during the depression with the help of Dad and the rest of[...]We all married and had families. Chris (Christian) mar-[...]They had a daughter Anna Ruth (Sue) and a son Robert[...]name was Sally Joan and she was four years old when Val[...]Moses Smyth and son to Carolyn Etta. A son Matthew[...]Elmer married May Selway, a neighbor girl and daughter of Bert and Ada Selway. They have two sons, William Bert Margrethe Petersen, daughter Elna Dorthea and Pe- 440-Beave[...] |
| [...]ing. It has been told that the Indians came and lived off[...]Christmas and Sam wanted to be home for Christmas Eve,[...]they could and then Sam walked home down Swamp Creek[...]Sam Peterson sold the Home Place to Swan Johnson and[...]of 1908, Sam, Tilda, and their children Alfred, Elvera, El-[...]vin, Melvin and Pete made a visit to Sweden; Alfred and[...]bought the Home Place back and later bought the Middle[...]er, Cecile, being called Tilda and Sam Peterson |
| [...]four brothers: John Nelson, Joel San- mold and threw it away. burg, August Sanburg and Andrew John Nelson. One w[...]she reached high school. She then went to Dillon and worked for her board and room for those four James and Laura Phillips years, coming home and helping with the work in the sum- Jame[...]head County and a grand old man, was born in Princeton, On gra[...]n Butte North Carolina, September 14, 1850 and in 1942 died in and got her R.N. degree. She came back and delivered her Beaverhead County. Several of his brothers came west at youngest brother, Donald, and went to work for Dr. Stanch- about the sam[...]Phillips, settled in Dillon and became a successful cement She and her brother, Wesley, were bosom chums, working[...]s handiwork in most of the together, milking cows and all the rest of ranch life from the older additions of Dillon. time they were six years old. One day she and Wes were James E. came west at the early age of 14 when he and his hauling wood. Well, at this inopportune time, a woodchuck buddy, Ledbetter, worked and played their way west. In came along and being kids, they chased it under the wood Wyoming James joined Crook's army and had many adven- pile. Wes got a piece of wire, made a hook on the end of it tures and met some of the nation's most infamous charac- and was trying to hook the woodchuck to drag him out.[...]reached back into the woodpile try- Bill and Wild Bill Hickock. James was with Crook on the ing to catch and drag it out on her side. Just about the time[...]s a loser, with Fannie being the worst. Fannie and Gleen, her husband, ran a restaurant in Ari- zona[...]She then spent about 25 years working as a nurse and administrator at various places on the Navajo Ind[...]cters. He came to the valley around 1915, when he and his first wife got a divorce and they put all of their kids in the Orphans Home in[...]Ford. He would drive up to a gate, holler "whoa" and then drive right on through. He found out putting it in reverse would stop the car. One day he and John O'Connor were coming down a pretty steep hil[...]how you how to stop this thing." He put it in low and jerked his foot off. The car jumped in the air, ran off through the trees, threw him out and cut off one of his ears. He took out a lot[...] |
| coming west and north in an effort to help Custer, but his Thomas Pierce and two brothers, John and Richard, im- army did not get there in time (than[...]n for a He came to Montana in the early 1860s, and devoted his while and their first son, Ervin, was born there. When they attention to prospecting and mining for some time. In 1866 arrived in Beaverhe[...]ently added James bought the white clapboard home and ranch on the until the area of his ra[...]coach stop. John A. remembers an ness and was successful in his efforts, being known as one of old goose who challenged the horses and stage whenever he the representative men[...]an opportunity. Another story told was about John and participant in the Nez Perce Indian War, the warriors of Mary, two Indians who always stopped and were fed. They this tribe having passed[...]tics, he was a supporter of the Democratic Party, and his the windown and waited.[...]Church. The white clapboard house caught fire and they lost ev- Around the year 1893, he married Rose Marchesseault, erything except the piano and a rocking chair. They didn't one of eight children born to Frank and Florence Marches- get the piano far enough away f[...]orn at St. Cyprien, the rocker, which is restored and used at the Ken and May Canada. When the family relocated to New York, Rose and Heberling residence and is approximately 100 years old. some of her sisters and brothers continued west to the James E. Phillips and Laura A. Carter had five children- Grasshopper Valley. Ervin, Claude, John A., Grace and Vernie. Ervin married Rose became ill with tuberculosis and her sister, Adele Jesse and moved to California to become a successful build- Marchesseault Sarault, came to the Pierce ranch and cared ing contractor in the Beverly Hills area and raised a family for her until Rose's death on November 7, 1890. of two sons, Donald and Ralph. Ervie built some of the On[...]age to homes for movie stars in the 1920s. Donald and Ralph lived Adele Marchesseault Sarault. Of this marriage one son was in Florida and California respectively. Claude, who passed[...]gone to California for the benefit of his health, and there he Burwell and had three children-Kenneth, Gladys, and Ida. died on March 14, 1899. He died in[...]Ehrick of Argenta in 1911. Angeles, and his remains were brought to Dillon for inter- The[...]re French lin- In 1919, James sold his property and moved to Dillon. He eage, was born in Amph[...]n 1859 to Frank was county coroner for many years and had an employment and Florence Marchesseault, natives of Canada. She wa[...]the one of eight children, three girls and five boys. The family Rattlesnake was sold, his son John moved to Anaconda and relocated to New York where Adele marrie[...]ranch. Ten years later, in Anaconda, they he and Adele turned to agriculture. However, Mr. Sarault[...]wo sons were born to this union. Clarence Sarault and[...]Sarault. These children contracted Scarlet Fever and[...]rly age. Clarence, aged four years, died Thomas and Adele Pierce August 25, 1889, and Maxie, aged sixteen months, died May Thomas Pie[...]me to 25, 1888. Their father, Francis, and the two children are Montana when it was on the v[...]in the Bannack Cemetery. assisted in laying broad and deep the foundation upon Adele was[...]on Horse Prairie. After her was a worthy pioneer and a prominent citizen of Beaver- sister Rose died, Adele stayed on as housekeeper and even- head County at the time of his death.[...]d, his death California on March 14, 1899, and Adele took over running occurring when his[...] |
| [...]had about 2,000 acres in the vicinity of Red Rock and raised cattle upon an extensive scale, usually ru[...]00 head. Excellent crops of hay were also secured and the estate was one of the valuable ones of the county. The TP brand for horses and cattle originated with her husband, Tom Pierce, and is still in[...]tence. Mrs. Pierce showed exceptional business and executive abilities and successfully carried forward the enterprises inau[...]d was the ranch owned by the Nay brothers, Milton and Byron, and Arlie Jacobs. This ranch joined her ranch and was a valuable addition. The ranch had a beautifu[...]se on it which had been built by the Nay brothers and Jacobs. The clay for this house was obtained north of the site and kilned on the site. him to build a special bui[...]iginal Pierce homestead was a two- Tom and his mother Adele ran the Pierce ranch after his story white frame house, which later caught fire and was schooling. He gained a wide reputation[...]le then built a two-story log house, just be- and integrity and made a success of ranching. In 1919 he hind the o[...]e "Butte's" about two miles she became ill and died. His mother Adele passed away soon west of t[...]efore this plan developed, the Nay ranch after and he continued to run the ranch. was purchased and the idea was abandoned.[...]Kau, whose par- Adele was a good looking woman and stood six feet in ents, Matthew and Minnie Kau, wre neighboring ranchers. height. She[...]at faith in the healing waters of Gregson Springs and was tober 21, 1922; Adele, October 24, 1923; L[...]he died in the fall of 1921. Her body was 1925; and Dick, September 5, 1926. brought to Dillon and she was buried in the family plot. The Tom was well liked and had an outgoing, pleasing person- services from t[...]a ther Foley of Dillon, Father Clifford of Lima, and Father Chinese cook who had one wooden leg and who, one morn- McCormick of Butte. Many residents of Horse Prairie and ing, awakened to find that the boss had b[...]He was fond of good cars and owned many, including a Adele left one son, Th[...]-LORRAYNE REBISH Thomas and Agnes Pierce[...], Califor- |
| [...]e included Harry Gilbert, Fred Huber, A. L. Stone and Frank Hazelbaker. He and his family would often come to Dillon for periods of time and stay at the Metlen Hotel where he had a suite of[...]lay many instruments in- cluding the piano, banjo and cornet on which instrument he received lessons fr[...]of fine horses for use in his ranching operations and had many good ones. Around 1923 he was one of[...]ld championship boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons which was held at Shelby, Montana.[...]and Archie Pilon; front row: Alex Pilon, Dora Pilon d[...]See, Albertine Pilon MacKay and Alphonsine Suave became so ill that he and his wife started for the Mayo[...]was In 1873 he returned to Canada and brought his family ruptured and he died the next day, April 12, 1928. His body[...]brought to Dillon to the Brundage Funeral Chapel and on February 6, 1874, and was baptized at the Catholic he was buried on Sat[...]atholic Church with the Rev. F. X. Lechner and another daughter, Dora, in 1878. officiating. Flo[...]uld not be provided for all of them in the church and and Leona married John Tessier in 1885. Both couples[...]the tablished homes in the Twin Bridges area and moved to services could not get inside. The funer[...]ved to Argenta of the longest ever seen in Dillon and hundreds were gath- some years later, as th[...]Alex purchased a lot in Argenta in 1893. He and his wife The active pallbearers were James Man[...]r ran a hotel belonging to George French and they purchased Barrett, Charles Brenner and Marcus Rand, all of Horse it from him in 1901. This structure bears some description, Prairie, and R. M. Barrett and George Main of Dillon. The since it was pr[...]y structure with a balcony overhang- W. Thibadeau and W.W. Hawkins, of Dillon, Pat Desmond i[...]. It had a door into the ladies parlour, of Grant and P. M. Sullivan of Butte.[...]all with bedrooms open- Besides his young wife and four young children, he was ing on either[...]enough to contain a double bed, a commode and a chair and Marchessau of Polaris and Archie Marchessau of Karto, had one wi[...]end of the balcony which led to the backyard and the "nec- and his parents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Kau of Grant, as essary houses."[...]county. the dining area and an outside door to the backyard.[...]the lobby, quite a large room -ADELE ROUSE and LORRAYNE REBICH furnished with a desk, sofa and chairs and card tables. The[...]dining room was directly behind this and each one had Alex Pilon Family[...]n Quebec, Canada, June 4, 1844. He kitchen and the above-ground cellar/pantry. These were on mar[...]born to this union: Olive in 1868, Leona in 1869, and with dirt for insulation. The roof was also[...]rom the present town accommodate thick walls and double doors into the kitchen, of Twin Bridges on[...]re he filed which made a cool room in summer and frost-free storage in on a homestead and built a house. He rode horseback to[...] |
| [...]cream to raise. Pickles were stored in crock jars and vegetables stored in bins of sand. A woodshed and meathouse were tacked on behind the kitchen. This[...]ng as the traffic sustained it. After its closure and when all the children left the nest, Alex and Alphonsine continued to live in their home, which[...]His son Ar- thur, who had married, sired two sons and divorced, lived with his parents, and broke horses for his Dad. The U.S. Army was their steadiest customer and still bought horses for World War I. Anything Art[...]h Idaho Street. In 1920, Alphonsine became ill and was taken to Hamil- ton for medical treatment, wh[...]her death Alex went to live with his son, Homer, and family who were living on what was known as the Innes Ranch, on the lower Rattlesnake. He died in 1922, and was buried alongside his wife in the Darby Cemete[...]Blanche, Orrion and Lillie Pilon (foreground) Homer Pilon was born in 187 4 to Alex and Alphonsine Cemetery. Because of Martha's grief at this loss and her Pilon, on a homestead near Twin Bridges. He s[...]family, they moved to the Big Hole boyhood there and as a young man moved to Argenta with wh[...]e, was born May 11, 1902. worked in various mines and got out timber both for mines Homer did not care for ranch work nor working for rela- and for firewood. He also did freighting in later yea[...]y where he ob- In 1900 he married Martha Rhino and they lived in a tained employment at a[...]On December 17, 1904, their son, Orrion, was born and on first son, Elmer, was still-born and is buried in the Argenta June 19, 1906, a seco[...]the move and they set out with two wagons and teams and a[...]Somewhere in the mountains one horse slipped and it's[...]and Pacific Streets. Homer did draying and secured the[...]moved into Dillon so Blanche could attend Martha and Homer Pilon (top center) with grand high school and Homer went back to work in the mines at[...] |
| Homer became very adept with his left hand and the stub of his right arm. He boasted he could do[...]o sign his name left-handed. He could shovel, saw and chop wood, use a single-jack or pitch hay with th[...]arter saying, "I've raised a family with one hand and you have two, get a job!"[...]Poindexter was born in Danville, Va., about 1831 and died in 1892. He was a partner of William C. Orr on the P & 0 Ranch. Thomas had three daughters and one for 45 years on their P & 0 Ranch. Poindexter[...]'epitome of a southern gentleman' tall, handsome and Margaret (1895-1971) married a man[...]he partnership. were both concert musicians and had one daughter, Lois. Orr, a typical westerner,[...]sons - Mark, Tom and Merrell. He had several nephews who lived in Di[...]-1951), married Margaret Both Jesse and Dorothy were prominent citizens of Har- Conger, w[...]ad two children, Everton lowton, Montana. and Helen. Joseph was the first governor of the Terri[...]P & 0 Ranch is well kept Hawaii. He was a widower and his daughter, Helen, lived up and still standing, a historic landmark. The P & 0 is[...](1934); Christy (1932); where he studied medicine and she studied music. While in and Leslee (1936). Helen Poindexter was married late[...]d the first Caesarean operation to Morgan and they had no children. ever performed. His life wa[...]Mathias and Aggie Polish Eugene Poindexter ("Penny," 1880-1[...]Store. They lived from 1870-1947. Mathias and his wife, Fortunata Ta- had no children. Penny ra[...]February 23, 1870, and became a woodsman by trade in[...]Austria. His mother was a cook at Barteje (saloon and res-[...]20, 1875. Mathias and Aggie first immigrated to South[...]quently, Mathias and Aggie decided to immigrate to the[...]Mathias worked in the mines for a short time, and Aggie[...] |
| [...]20, 1918, Mary married George K. Se- Butte and they in turn had two sons, Richard and Robert. bena, a professional tailor. They had two[...]at the (Bill) who was born on October 29, 1919, and George born on age of 78. May 17, 1921. Mary pr[...]April 14, 1912. Joe became a professional pilot and installed Mathias moved his family to Bannack from Butte and a runway on the ranch. Two weeks after p[...]ond child, John, was plane in Minneapolis he and his sister-in-law, Evelyn Nellie born in Bannack[...]a, Mathias turned to farming first plane crash. and moved to Barrett, Montana, where their third child, Albert Conrad, Mathias and Aggie's ninth child, was born Matthew, was born o[...]wn from a wagon, after his dicitis attack and died of complications at the time of sur- horses were spooked and sustained a head injury which he gery. He w[...]na Normal in Dillon. Evelyn married Robert McCor- and brother Matthew (Matt) at Reichle until 1936. Rud[...]pted daughter named Maureen. Evelyn, who was seph and Alice Arbour. Nellie gave birth to a daughter,[...]Mathias died July 3, 1947, at the age of 77 and his wife On February 23, 1941, Rudy remarried and exchanged Aggie died February 2, 1972, a[...]-MARILYN JO POLISH SCHWAB Mountain area in 1957 and raised cattled until 1964 when health problems fo[...]irement. The family moved to Deer Lodge, where he and his son went into the banking[...]The Joseph William Potts business. They owned and operated the bank in Deer Lodge Fa[...]Joseph William Potts and Maude Elizabeth Staley were Lena, the second daughter of Mathias and Fortunata, was married in 1902 at Butte. Maud[...], on October 4, 1908. Lena died at Elizabeth and Francis Marion Staley, Butler, Mo. Francis the fa[...]4, 1911, Marion Staley was born March 7, 1844, and Mary Elizabeth of valvular heart disease.[...]Hamilton, September 18, 1845. Another son and daughter[...]1870, and came to Wisdom in the late 1900's. Mr. Staley was[...]a Justice of the Peace and Maude opened up a dressmaking and milliner shop in Wisdom. She met Joseph William[...]Potts there and they were married in the old Butte Hotel,[...]for his father. His father and family lived in Boulder, Mon-[...]. Mr. Potts was born in England December 6, 1877, and[...]and three sisters who all grew up there.[...]A daughter was born to Maude and Joseph in their small, Polish Family-From left: M[...]ry 3, 1909. She was Frank), John, Mathias, and Matthew named Rose Ma[...] |
| Potts was Rose and Grandfather Potts was Joseph. They moved to Wisdom soon after and bought the Wisdom Hotel. There on July 8, 1910, a[...]. Potts, being a rancher at heart, sold the hotel and bought the Horace Hand Ranch at Wise River in 191[...]ars he ran one of the stopping places for cowboys and their droves of cattle to stay the night on their way back and forth to market at Butte. · After[...]fine hay, winning a silver medal for timothy hay and a bronze for clover in the Worlds Fair about 1918[...]Mr. Potts was an avid sportsman who loved hunting and fishing. He caught some very large trout in the B[...]the ranch. In 1916 he bought a Buick touring car and retired a monstrosity of a high-wheeled buggy to the wagon shed and sold the faithful old driving mare. His car was a[...]re "giving up." The ranch was 35 miles from Butte and that was a daylong trip over such roads. The mail came and all transportation was by four horses pulling a s[...]Di- vide to Wisdom every day but Sundays. Mary and Ralph rode double on a horse to go to the[...]in time to start the New Year of a summer school, and then regulations forced it into the 1863. He worked the mines and established himself as a regular nine month winte[...]rick, a sister of the Kirkpatrick brothers, James and[...]daughter of Mary Mann and step daughter of James Mann, Henry Pond was bo[...]ake Creek. Cordelia's sister Illinois to Billeous and Melissa Pond, who migrated from Clarinda[...]On April 28, 1862 he bade farewell to Henry and Cordelia had three children, Mary, Marcia and his family and began his journey to the Idaho Mines. Maurice. Mary later married George Vance at Glendale and On April 29, 1862, at St. Louis, Missouri, Henry booked became the parents of Ethel, Roy and Percie. Marcia mar- passage aboard the "Shreveport", owned and captained by ried Nicholas Wombacher. Maurice died very young and is Joseph LaBarge. The "Shreveport: and her companion the buried with his mothe[...]nack "Emilie" also owned by the LaBarge Brothers, and cap- cemetery. Cordelia was stricken w[...]recovering from a bout with scarlet fever and passed away the Mighty Missouri loaded with freight and passengers Sept. 27, 187 5, just 23 yea[...]were about a hundred nack. passengers and 200 tons of freight. After a grueling boat ride[...]events as they worked the mines for a short while and then went to work occurred throughout his[...]e earliest settlers in Montana Terri- for Worden, and his business skills quickly led to a clerk[...] |
| verhead Chapter, and remained an active member through- ery w[...]Courthouse in Bannack. They re- Evans and husband J. W. Evans and children Phyllis and sided in Bannack until 1878 when Henry packed up[...]le in 1903 to farm. They purchased a entire store and moved it to Glendale. Henry and Ethelia ranch several miles north of Robe[...]now Mud Lake. infancy at Glendale in 1878. Ernest and Elmer, the second In 1912 Charlie and Maude moved to Dillon. Maude went set of twins, w[...]infancy, to work for Eliel Bros. in the ladies and notions department, but Elmer survived to become a successful merchant in and Charlie opened a shooting gallery next to the old Post Basin and Melrose. Elmer later served as postmaster at[...]is widow Lillian materi~ize from this venture and in 1914 he went to work for (Maud) continued on a[...]Charlie seemed to fit right in with Fred Woodside and Henry Pond maintained until his death an active interst Roy Murray's operation and the three formed a lifetime in the mercantile bus[...]friendship. Roy Murray left Montana Auto inl919 and Dewey Flats, Butte and other areas. Among his business moved t[...]cupied by Gold Rush Casino). Charlie George Vance and Albert Gunderson. In 1881, Henry was found spare time to pursue his lifelong dream of fishing and appointed postmaster at Melrose, the upstart terminus on hunting. In the 1920s the Montana Fish and Game Agency the railroad, being the second to serve in that capacity fol- was formed and by 1924 were looking for wardens to admin- lowing[...]ister their policies of enforcement, preservation and propa- Henry S. Pond was a revered member of t[...]who knew Henry S. Pond, held him in Fish and Game) friendship with Roy Murray of Butte and great esteem. The funeral for Henry S. Pond was reported to Roy's admiration of Charlie and his outdoor ideals, Charlie be among the largest[...]uried in the fmaily plot at Glendale with Ethelia and come Southwest Montana's first game warden. A[...]ntinue to reside in the state he helped establish and is his there were no elk in the Blacktail section and very few in final resting place.[...]y other areas. With the cooperation of Beaverhead and -VERN POMEROY Madison ranchers and sportsmen, he helped build the elk[...]population to over 1300 head in 1950 and opened this coun-[...]gulated hunting season. He had the same Charles and Maude Price success with antelope and deer throughout the large area. Charles R. Pri[...]planting our high mountain finished local schools and worked in several machine shops lakes and streams with fish and also in introducing more and garages as an apprentice. pheasant and partridges to most areas. He was very knowl- Economic times and his love for the outdoors led him to edgeable and helped manage beaver and muskrat trapping Black Eagle (which is now Roberts, Idaho), in 1905. He was a and relocating them to other non-producing areas. He even good mechanic and found ample work on the heavy machin- helped Shell Sweet start and manage a game farm in Jacob-[...]tion and ability to enforce the regulations by the rules w[...]fairness and no exceptions. His standing and respect were[...]As his duties increased and his management skills pro- duced more and more game populations in this area, sports-[...]t suaded Maude to leave Eliel's in 1935 and run the office in[...]ir home for answering questions, issuing licenses and permits, and managing the day-to-day operations. This left[...]retirement party was instituted by the Fish and Game De-[...]partment with many State dignitaries and sportsmen[...] |
| [...]Jim and Mayme Purdy[...]Oregon Trail in 1867-69. He was born in 1886, and was[...]the Oregon woods and learned to play baseball with the San[...]about 1905, and remained in the Polaris, Montana, area.[...]born in 1886, and was a second generation daughter of Irish[...]Montana "for her health,, and to be with her brother, Frank,[...]e Polaris mine on Billings Creek. Chief Tendoy II and[...]Jim and Mayme married in 1916. Their daughter, Mary Charlie and Maude Price ... in their new l9l6 Chev-[...]Plans to build a home and sawmill on Billings Creek were After his retir[...]reight team runaway caused Jim,s death in hunting and fishing and helping countless children and 1918. Mayme returned to her work as a n[...]. She sportsmen enjoy the fruits of his labor. He and Maude had served Drs. Ryburn and Poindexter, especially during the no children of their own, but managed to find happiness and "flu epidemic.,, Cases ranged from a banker,[...]nurse split firewood and thawed water buckets. Nursing at He also found[...]or a 24 hour day. opened machinery company, start and was part-time me- She also homestead[...]School. She married Bill Carroll in 1926, and moved to the To help out the college with hous[...]Marcellus and Ruth Ann In 1914, Maude,s sister, Ora Evans, was looking for a high school and home away from home for her daughter Phyllis[...]ty, Illinois. 'The oldest son of Octavius and Sephronia being the closest and no suitable housing available, it was (Moore[...]uly decided to send Phyllis to Dillon High School and live with 24, 1864 at Allendale, Missouri. R[...]ber 26, 1840 in Jackson County, Illinois and was a daughter Phyllis graduated from BCHS in 1918 and went to work in of James J. and Nancy (Wheeler) McClure. Marcellus and the Courthouse for George Baker in the Clerk and Record- Ruth Ann were raised around DuQuo[...]e A. Pyle, Willard E. Pyle, both teenagers so Ora and J. W. Evans sold out the Blue Andrew B. Pyle and Honora L. (Carl) Knoll, all of whom Stem Ranch and moved to Dillon in 1919. They bought a[...]ntana; Estella Woods home on North Pacific Street and lived there until Richard lived in Lewistown, Montana; and William S. Pyle in Co- graduated from high school and, shortly after, Phyllis mar- quitlam, Canada. ried T. Lee McCracken in 1921. They sold their home and Ruth Ann McClure,s mother, grandmother and great moved to El Cajon, Calif., where J. W. died[...]re she lived traveled by boat down Lake Erie and then overland. Before until 1959.[...]king it would be necessary to care for her ations and enjoyed her many friends after Charlie,s retire-[...]She lived only a short time after Charlie,s death and tending to all the folks in the long train o[...]n 30 hours after old chief -DICK AND MARCIA MCCRACKEN DuQu[...] |
| Civil War and during the war were many and she exper- until their passing. Mar[...]d land for $1.25 an acre. Few settlers were there and the land was subject to government entry. In 1855, large wagon trains came bringing relatives and friends of the Pyle[...]Children of Marcellus and family. The prairie grass was waist high and the soil a black Ruth Ann Pyle loam that produced great crops. All kinds of fruits and nuts could be and were gathered.[...]June 27, 1865 at Allendale, The Civil War came and Marcellus Pyle served in the Missour[...]born August 3, 1865 at Stockton, England and died Febru- 1861. At the end of six months he was[...]Louis, Missouri. Returning home he sold his place and Missouri and died June 4, 1920, at Polaris, Montana. moved to[...]Arthur J. Pyle was born February 12, 1872, and died burned during the war. Every county seat on[...], at Lamar, That first winter in Lamar, Marcellus and Ruth Ann lived in Missouri. She married W[...]cabin hauling all their supplies from Fort Scott and Green- 20, 1864 and died June 31, 1948. Estella Woods died June field[...]29, 1936, and is buried at Monterey, California. In the Spri[...]le, mill. He got out logs, sawed them into lumber and built the Missouri. She first married Mil[...]as to Carl a store here, the first after the war, and built the first hotel. L. Knoll on September 1,[...]905. George died September 25, 1947 in California and In 1884, Marcellus and their family moved to Livingston, is buried at Dillon, Montana. Aunt Eva was known as a Montana and then to White Sulpher Springs, Montana. For scholar and brought truck loads of books with her to Mon- 13[...]er of 1897, the couple moved to Beaverhead County and their deaths. filed a claim on "dese[...]lia Pahnish on June 20, what was known as the Cox and Pyle place. The Pyle broth- 1916. She w[...]s owned this property in 1924. In 1899, Marcellus and to William Fredrick and Pauline Pahnish. Andy and Emma Ruth Ann moved to the old home place and resided there ranched in Montana and in later years, Andy was a caretak-[...]to Dillon where Andrew died on February 2, 1960, and[...]Cemetery in Dillon. Ruth Pyle and Lucy Emma Pyle were[...]er 22, 1884, the youngest of six children of Hart and[...]Quick. He spent most of his childhood in Missouri and[...]ick was born on August 31, Marcellus and Ruth Ann Pyle 1_910 at Arcadia, Kansas. In 1913, Charlie and his young bride 452-Beaverhead History |
| and son came west. Charlie found employment in Idaho[...]times the Chief would make them cut wood or Falls and Dubois, Idaho and remained there until 1916. help in the h[...]rpin Ranch. Boyd at- to the freight wagon and drove to Dillon for supplies for the tended grade[...]ound trip usually took about five days. homestead and moved to Lewiston, Idaho to take up farm-[...]-JAY and JEAN NELSON ing with Edith's brother, Elmer Hudson. Due to hard win- ters, dry summers and the Great Depression all was lost. The Quick fa[...]William and Frances Charlie entered the mining business at that time and was Ralston shift boss at the E[...]to a homestead in the Big Hole Dillon to Jackson and Wisdom. in 1886[...]time there was no such place as Wise River town and the business in 1935 and resumed his old love of mining. The Post O[...]Hole was next several years he worked on ranches and at several just beginning to have permanent residents and an im- mines. In October, 1946 he married Olive S[...]etirement Charlie still enjoyed mining, carpentry and tana Territory in 1866 from Illinois via Salt[...]son Johnny was born in 1947. Doris died in 1963, and Johnny Morse. They married in 1872 and lived in Pioneer where was killed in a car crash[...]ir two elder sons were born-Charles Samuel ('7 4) and away at the age of 78, in December of 1988.[...]re Mr. Ralston drove stage between Butte, Helena, and -MARTY CYPHER[...]s came to the Big Hole, they spent their Chauncey and Winnie Quinn[...]f eight children. He came to Montana in the 1880s and rode was their only daughter, Alice Hough ('85). Another son, and worked with Charlie Russell on ranches in eastern[...]de the recently constructed road. fine to draw on and offered to give Chauncy several of them, It is[...]ern building with running water and electric lights was In 1899 he married Eliza W[...]Montana to get her away point between Wisdom and Divide, located on the U. P. from a boyfriend that they didn't approve of. Chauncey and Railroad. Passenger stages and freight wagons stopped for Winnie rode sixty miles on horseback to get married and meals and changed teams at Ralston. There were also ac- the[...]ey. 1910 when poor health forced them to sell out and move to California. They had four children: Chancie, Orria, Ruth, and Mae. Around 1900 Chauncey's father, Ralzy came for a short visit and stayed for six years. Ralzy was born in Crawford[...]io, on March 10, 1846. He was a Civil War veteran and served with Co. C, 49th Regt., Ohio Volunteer Inf. On his sojourn to Montana he became a trapper and mountain man. He had a cabin on Miner Creek and built several bear traps of logs to catch the bears alive. He also hunted and trapped many coyotes and wolves. He returned to Ohio and died in 1929. Chauncey told many stories about[...]s in the Big Hole. He said Indians always stopped and begged Ralston[...] |
| The store and saloon were run by Henry Henricks, who h[...]to Mr. Ralston was active in community affairs and served a "whatever" could negotiate the trip[...]was at the intersection of highways 43 and 27 4 became a well well known for her hospitality and her ability to cope with a known landmark in Southwestern Montana. large bustling household. Both Alex and Frances Ralston[...]it is known today) just a mile Henry and Sarah Ann above their home. The oldest son, Charl[...]Warren ed from Medico Chi College in Philadelphia and was living Co., Kentucky, to Hardin (Harry) and Urshula Wright in Utah. Their daughter, Alice, gr[...]he served four years overseas during World War I, and caves, Mr. Hudson didn't feel it was s[...]h her He worked in Butte for the Anaconda Company and in sister Molly Powers and family as part of a famous covered northern Calif[...]Charles married Mildren Brown, a horse and sustained a broken hip on this journey. This whos[...]ughout her life. En route parents, Thomas Murdock and Louisiana Cleveland Lewis, to Montana[...]1890. troop of soldiers rescued them and escorted the wagon train In 1892, two other Lewis daughters, Kate Richmond and to Virginia City. Sarah was 18 years old[...]saw him abandon his studies for the wild lessons, and Kate played the organ at the movie theatre west. Besides being a prospector, he was a blacksmith and a where they sold homemade candies. Granddaughter Mil- machinist. dred and the eldest Lewis daughter, Alice Minor Drake, Sarah Ann Hudson and Henry Randall were married 22 came by train to Mo[...]ng, Madison County, Montana. The school in Dillon and taught at the Mc Vay School during the youn[...]. ·children, Lillie and twins Alice and Albert were born. At this Charles and Mildred lived for a time at home on the ranch time Cable, located near Deer Lodge, was believed to be and in Gibbonsville when he drove freight teams betwe[...]field, but the supply of gold did not last there and Divide carrying passengers and supplies into the very long. area and the gold out. Her mother ran a boarding house By 1870 the family moved back to Virginia City and then there at the time. In the late 90's, they pu[...]r Lillie married Amos Story on December 15, 1899, and a daughter, Florence Alice ("Sis") in 1901. 1882 and they spent their lives on a ranch in the Gallatin[...]few years. They had three children, Osborne and Oscar until his retirement in 1947. (twins) and a daughter Lottie. The couple then moved to Both Mr. and Mrs. Ralston were an asset to the communi- Bannack. Here Sarah taught her children and several neigh- ty, taking an active part in school affairs as trustees and bor's children school in a log cabin using[...]Mildred was a piano accompanist for the fiddlers and blackboard and charcoal for chalk. She lived next door to Charli[...]as a fiddler at the neighbor- Mrs. Plummer, and said she was a very nice lady to have for hood da[...]dall was married to Samuel, Jr. in December 1916, and William Alan in June Samuel Leslie Bel[...]ter Mr. McIntosh was interested in mining and worked with 454-Beaverhead History |
| [...]there for two years, he met and married Petrina Marie Pe-[...]the Big Hole. Chris and Mary sailed immediately for their[...]round Divide was something she would never forget and[...]work and not much success at building a reservoir, Chris[...]gave up the homestead and sold it to Hans Jorgensen for[...]Clemow ranch where they spent three and one-half years.[...]ere the oldest children enrolled in school. Chris and Sarah and Henry Randall Mary se[...]roperty now his partners, Messers Perkins, Hammer and Firey in the owned by Pete and Bessie Rasmussen. Chris went to work Dillon Mine at Old Baldy Mt. He sold the mine and left for for Beaverhead County as a maint[...]s located where Terry's IGA is now. Both the barn and hotel burned to the ground. On July 15, 1902,[...]Mary and Chris Rasmussen with children (from lefi): Dillon. Sarah boarded the men who built the college and she William, Pete, Hans, · Ellen and Edith also boarded the first 16 girls attending N[...]o saw their homeland again. came to Dillon and was the first college matron.[...]he first Sarah liked to do all kinds of sewing and was always busy born, died shortly after bi[...]rch 30, fast worker. She had a nice singing voice and played the 1913, Ellen (Stephens) January 15, 1915; Hans, July 7, 1916; piano and gave piano lessons. She gave all her children and John, Oct. 26, 1918. William died May 13, 1972, E[...]mber of the Methodist died May 29, 1943, and John died in 1918. Church in Dillon. Chris and Mary celebrated their 50th wedding anniversa-[...]Chris died the following May just short of in-law and daughter Chris and Lottie Hansen. Sarah passed 92 years of[...]89th away January 4, 1925, at her home in Dillon, and is buried in birthday by two weeks. the Mt.[...]George and Catherine Chris and Mary Rasmussen[...]in Langeland, All of the Rebiches and Rebishes in the Beaverhead Val- Denmark. He came[...]le. (IN AUSTRIA worked his way across the country and settled in the Big THE NAME REBI[...] |
| [...]Rebich, and then for his son, Joseph Rebich.[...]and Catherine Stephanatz Rebich, there were three dau[...]ing Adolph, Bartol, Antone, Emil and a daughter who died[...]had one son Joe and a daughter Mary. Margaret and Joe had Wedding of Matt Rebich & Johanna Borich i[...]a ranch on the east end of Kentucky Avenue and also a Back row, second from right: Joseph Rebish[...]Joe Butala Valley in California and did very well. Margaret was later Front row: Geor[...]ch, married to Frank Vidovich and Leo Brondel. Margaret died bride: Johanna Borich[...]lena, Calif. to right: Joseph Rebich, Lucy Rebich and Katie Re- As it was the custom[...]dren after their parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, it[...]elps those interested in knowing more about chael and Margaret, all of whom were born in Austria. Of this first generation and their descendants. these eight children, all but[...]-BETTE MEINE HULL, MARTIN MARKOVICH, States and lived in the Beaverhead Valley for some time. AND AGNES REBISH HELLE Catherine married a Swedish in Austria and some of thier childern came to Beaverhead County.[...]George and Mary Rebich arrived about 1884 and later settled here on what came to be George[...]e. A complete story of George Rebic and Catherine Stephanatz Rebic. George George and his wife, Mary Butala Rebich, is contained in[...]e came to the U.S. He had three brothers Joseph and Michael also came to Dillon when they were and five sisters. about 19 years old. The complete histories of Joseph and his George came to this country when he was 18 years old, via wife, Katie Mehalich Rebich, and Michael and his wife, Ellis Island in New York and then by train to Montana. He Mary Stefanie Rebich[...]here he met his bride-to-be, Mary Butala, who was and Catherine. He came to the Beaverhead for a time but also working for the Staudahars, her aunt and uncle. later settled on a dry farm in the Great F[...]1860 to Joseph married to Margaret Muffich. Matt and Margaret had five Butala and Caterine Staidohar Butala at Allemachi, Aus- chil[...]married in Dillon to Johanna Borich in 1903. Matt and Johanna had one daughter, Ann, born in August of[...]Johanna's death, Matt married Kate Kavran. Matt and Kate had seven children, six boys and one girl. Their names and birth dates are: Matt born Oct. 12, 1908;[...]born April 16, 1916; Martin born April 12, 1917; and Steve born September 16,[...] |
| tria. As far as anyone knows she had two brothers and one 17, T8S, R9W. The 1912-13 Dillon City[...]valued at $12,585. plex 30 miles north of Dillon, and 17 miles west of Melrose at George and Mary also had a house in Dillon at 120 South a pl[...]on April 24, the time, they lived at the ranch and the children attended 1889.[...]District No. 27, about three miles from George and Mary made their home in Hecla, where Mary the ranch. ran a boarding house and George worked in the mines. Their Frank[...]George and Mary helped each of their children get a start For about two years George and Mary lived in Butte. on their own place[...]f Dillon from to California. Heinrich and Meta Schlottman. It was the NE¼ of Section On December 27, 1920, George and Mary purchased a 30- 9, T8S, R9W, located on the[...]elena, California, in River. This is where George and Mary's next three children the Napa Valley.[...]her's death when he was about liam, May 24, 1895; and Frank Paul, June 23, 1897. two years old. George and Mary loved children, and they On January 27, 1899, George and Mary bought a ranch were kind and generous to all the children and grandchil- consisting of 320 acres from Harlan J. and Mabel W. dren. Thompson, the S½ of[...]apes. So they raised prunes, pears, peaches River and was the start of what came to be known as the and cherries, which were their cash crops. At differe[...]d ran through the times, grandchildren and other family members from Mon- ranch buildings, s[...]a familiar tana traveled to California and lived with them and helped landmark. In April of 1899, they sold their first place to in the vineyard and to care for the large home, complete Matt Kajin.[...]with wine cellar. Each year George and Mary would ship a On May 6, 1899, George and Mary's youngest child, Jo- train carload[...]the famous "Rebich wine". Surplus grapes was born and later took over the ranch from his father.[...]- 16, T8S, R9W, comprising 160 acres, from Simeon and Har- tion), George could sell his grapes to wineries and also began riet Estes. On July 7, 1908, they boug[...]50 acres of m~mufacturing his own wine, brandy and schnapps. land from S. Frederick Schular, being the SE¼ of Section George and Mary lived together in St. Helena until[...]vineyard to Frank and Mary Hinch. He moved back to Dillon and made his home with his youngest son, Joe, on the[...]1939. He was buried beside his wife and son, Frank, at[...]AND ELSIE REBICH NELSON, WITH HELP[...]George and Verona Rebich[...]George William, the son of Mary Butala Rebich and Mary and George Rebich G[...] |
| a mining town. His father was engaged in mining and his new home. Three children were born at[...]chased where George's mother was the midwife and delivered the a ranch, south of Dillon.[...]born George had four brothers, John, Mike, Joe and Frank, in their new home. and one sister, Lucy. Frank died at the age of 15. Th[...]rge managed the ranch for his dad for a few years and ers and sister all attended Blacktail School No. 27 on Carri- then took possession and operated the ranch until his death, gan Lane.[...]rs when he leased the place to his sons George and his brothers and sister all worked for their and son-in-law. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and trapping. father who had extensive land holdings. When George had In 1921-1922 George and his son Frank spent a year in his 21st birthday h[...]perated from sur- John Stefonic, who was a friend and neighbor, said she had gery and tuberculosis. He leased the ranch to John Swetish two nieces in Yugoslavia who would make good wives and during that time. That year was the only time he lived out of homemakers. They got busy and started a correspondence Beaverhead County. with the young couples and exchanged pictures. The young Although he retired in 1945 and bought a home at 530 ladies liked the idea of coming to America and to their Thomsen Avenue, he spent most of[...]the ranch future husbands. Arrangements were made and the sisters, helping his children. George died January 15, 1948. He was Mary and Verona (Veronica) arrived in Dillon, Montana, in survived by his wife, Verona, and children: Frank Rebich, July, 1912. Three days af[...]for the two couples. Mary married Scharff, and Anna Kielhamer. George was buried with his Joe Butala and Verona married George.[...]Mountain View Cemetery at Dillon, After George and Verona married, they moved to the Monta[...]born April 24, 1893, in ed near Barretts Station and at the time of the purchase, Brod Morvace, Yugoslavia, to Nicola Delac (DeLodge) and was an abandoned stage coach town named Sawyer. T[...]ta Stauduhar. Her _dad was the village blacksmith and lived in the abandoned hotel until their home was[...]office stood. survived, Verona, Mary, Katerine and Anna. Her mother The house was built in 1915 and the family moved into their died at the very young age of 33. Her father remarried and three more children were born: Joe, and two daughters, Drugaca and Barbara. At the age of 10 she completed the[...]5th grade and then went to work as a companion and ser-[...]The sisters, Verona and Mary, were anxious to come to[...]America to a new and better life, but soon found that it was[...]not an easy life and they had many hardships to endure.[...]York, and then by train to Dillon. They could not speak any[...]English and had name tags to get to their destination.[...]Verona learned to speak English and read when her chil-[...]dren were in school. Verona and George had seven children:[...]and Phillip, born 1929. Phillip later died at the age[...]She is buried with her husband, George, and infant son,[...]children. His parents were Mary Butala and George William[...]Barretts. George and Veronica Rebich From an early age, John had a fascination and desire to be 458-Beaverhead History |
| [...]when he bought property in Sections 2, 10, and 11, T10S;R9W from Daniel F. and Lucy Mooney. John bought[...]additional land, with a cow camp, from Leo L. and Helen Talent in Sections 22, 27 and 34, T9S;9W on March 11, 1944. John and his brother Joe used this as summer grazing land[...]py time for John and his family, and they always culminated[...]Melton located in Sections 6 and 7, T8S;R9W, and Sections 1, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 15, T8S;R10W. This provided more spring and summer grazing land. His land holdings eventu- a "good cowboy". The Flynn brothers, Pat and Hube, were ally consisted of about 4,300 acres of fee land and about two of his best teachers. They lived on one of the neighbor- 7,000 acres leased land. ing ranches and taught John how to ride and handle a horse On March 27, 1946, John bought a home in Dillon from and cattle. They gave him his first spurs, the much valued Lambert and Eirene Eliel, located at 135 West Orr Street. "la[...]erson who.greatly influenced his He, his wife and two youngest daughters moved into this early trai[...]d to make daily trips was called, greatly admired and respected. to his ranch, south of Dillon, to work and supervise the At the age of 20, on May 3, 1914, John married Sophia running of the ranch. Lorentz and they lived on the Rebich's home ranch. On John was well liked and respected. His abilities were well February 22, 1915, John and Sophia had their first child, known and many sought his advice and help. He was an John George Rebich. A girl, Ann M[...]onth later, on June 14, 1917, Sophia efforts and events. John was a gentlement and had an easy died from complications of child birt[...]little going way. He had an infectious chuckle and and attentive Ann Mary, lived only a few months.[...]him as, "Leader of the Local Austrian Colony". and died on March 6, 1921. Raymond Stephen was born[...]er 10, but he was an outstanding cattleman and horseman, taking 1924, and Daniel Edward was born May 5, 1926. pride in having top quality cattle and horses. John H. Re- On March 17, 1928, John's[...]nch bich had become a successful businessman and one of Bea- was realized. With the help of his pa[...]y's most prominent ranchers. ranch from Edward C. and Rosa Smith, about seven miles[...]IE ANN REBICH NELSON south of Dillon in Section 4 and 5, T8S;R9W. Death beset John again when his wi[...]married for a third time in Butte, On Michael and Mary Francis October 1, 1933 to Mary Evelyn Stefo[...]two daughters, Bernadine Mary born April 2, 1934, and Elsie[...]John's ranch became a very lavia, to George and Katie Rebich. He was the eighth of nine successful and thriving operation. Although his ranch was children. His brothers and sisters were Matt Rebich and nearly self-sustaining, John always looked for a[...]ilich of Great Falls, Kate Rebich Spear to expand and improve it. He was one of the few who had a and Ann Rebich Swetish of Yugoslavia, Mary Rebich Krul- threshing machine in Beaverhead County, and after doing jak and Margaret Rebich Butula of St. Helena, California,[...]ing, he would do contract threshing for other and George Rebich and Joe Rebich of Dillon. farmers. He did the same with cutting and baling hay which Mike came to the United States around 1890, and lived was mostly shipped by railroad to the dairy[...]me time. He also had a sawmill on Hamilton, and in the smelter and mines in Glendale and his ranch, for which he cut timber to make his ow[...]avia. She was one of four children: John, Joseph, and Kath-[...] |
| [...]The boys slept out in the bunkhouse. Mike and Mary re-[...]four rooms from the Christensen Ranch, and added it to the[...]Mike and Mary were conservative people, as most were in[...]size that she and the children would work. Mike made a[...]had his daughters and Mary order all the hames, buckles, and hardware from the Sears catalog. All the parts wo[...]Mike and Mary bought their first Buick Touring Car in[...]1919. Mike, Jr. and Olga did most of the driving. Mike, Sr.[...]as early as June 15th due to the number of Hren, and Margaret Elizabeth Rebich Aspesi. Mid-[...]ow he was the first to start haying. Mike Rebich, and Mike Rebich, Jr. Bottom row:[...]Perusich, William Elmer Rebich, and valley to make their wine. and Edward Rudolph Rebich.[...]n remember most about their eryn (Kuretich). Mary and Mike were married February 7, father is that every time they would go to a dance or out on 1900, and moved to Dillon in 1901. They purchased a ranch[...]th Hoover Develop- half of the Bill Rebich place) and in 1919 the Ewing Ranch ment Company which read as follows: OIL and GAS (Ed Rebich place).[...]nuary 16, 1918. Consideration - $1.00. Michael and Mary had thirteen children: Mary Lucy Re-[...]11, 1940 in an have free gas for 5 stoves and 30 inside lights in one frame automobile accident[...]ell if one is 12, 1903, died August 3, 1988; John and Peter Rebich brought in by drillers.[...]onchitis; Anna -TOM and SHARON GRAHAM Angeline Rebich Gregorich born May[...]Joseph and Katie Rebish Aspesi born April 14, 1909, presentl[...]Joseph Rebish was born in 1869 to George Rebic and Francis Emma Rebich Perusich born April 27, 1910,[...]born May 22, brothers: Matt, George, and Michael, and five sisters: Cath- 1912, died June 9, 1978; Rose[...]Metully born erine, Mary, Lucy, Ann, and Margaret. April 27, 1914, presently living in Twin Bridges; Edward Joseph left Austria and came to the United States when Rudolph Rebich bor[...]d. He worked for his cousins in the vine- Dillon; and James Jacob Rebich born July 2, 1917, presently yards in California and then on a ranch in Miles City before living in Di[...]died shortly after birth. The month, room and board. other eleven children were raised on the R[...]e youngest, went on to finish $45 saved up and needed some clothes. On route to Alder he high school and college. met a man who was walking and asked him if he wanted a The original Rebich h[...]ide to Alder the man told Joe that if he upstairs and two down. It had a lean-to kitchen on one[...] |
| they were going up a hill,- Joe slapped the horses and run over his leg. His leg was broken and there was serious dumped the man face down in the[...]er on his ranch, north of Dillon. He left and then by Selkirk. While managing the Lovell Ranch[...]work- time. The ranch ran many horses, cattle, and put up a lot of ing in Butte he met Katie Mehalic[...]ber 29, 1914. Allenmark, Austria, to Joe Mehalich and Mary (Yuklich) After leaving the Lovell place, Joseph and Katie moved, Mehalich.[...]ch later owned by George McDonald Joseph Rebish and Katie Mehalich were married Novem- on wh[...]August 9, 1921, at Because they still had family and land in Austria, they did a the age of 52. Kati[...]pitched in and helped. All eight of Joseph and Katie's children were married and[...]berg became a state in the German Empire and, with special[...]officer of princes or nobles Joseph and Katherine Rebish[...]ses, etc. He also served as lot of traveling back and forth to Europe. Mary, their third coachman to[...]child was born in Austria, April 18, 1901. Joseph and Katie Adolph's wife was Theresia V. Hartig[...]Throne. 17, 1904; John was born December 4, 1905; and George was When war was declared between Prussia and France in born August 14, 1907. Again they travel[...]through the French lines to the German lines and eventual- The Rebish children attended the Blackt[...]of their name vice of the King of Wurttenberg and resided at the Palace in was changed from Rebich[...]for servants. It was during this time of Joseph and Katie ranched in the Beaverhead Valley for[...]k, he re- ich place, seven miles south of Dillon, and then later on a ceived a Bronze Medal for ser[...]reek area where the logs were hauled Adolph and Theresia were married in the Royal Chapel of out with a team of horses and wagon. On one of the trips Alte Schloss, the church of the King and his retainers. down with a full load of logs, the logs broke loose and a log In 1883 the family was persuaded by former friends and struck one of the horses causing him to spook. Jo[...]a new life in Montana. They thrown from the wagon and under it, causing the wheel to sail[...] |
| [...]States about 1870 north from Salt Lake by wagon, and settled in the area and worked his way _as a young blacksmith to the mine[...]the silver mining camps of eastern Nevada and western vided them with many frightening experien[...]House," the site of ick on January 23, 1884 and William Henry on July 2, 1886. the German-America[...]moved to the booming copper camps of Butte and Anaconda Plagued by ill health in 1900, Adolph[...]re Charles oper- but on February 23, 1903 he died and was buried in St. ated a blacksmith sho[...]eaded land on Taylor Creek (Section 25, T7S;R12W) and -W. OGLE purchased a saloon and drug store. In later years he was[...]Bray Retallack was born June 1, 1856 near Matthew and Herman Reis[...]She was the oldest of four children by Matthew and Herman Reis were brought from Great William Bray and Mary Ann Multon. She died October 6, Falls and placed in the Twin Bridges Orphans Home after 1938 in Dillon and is ·buried beside Charles in Dillon's the break-[...]View Cemetery. with Mrs. Lillian (Granny) Culver and Herman with Fred -ERNEST E. NELSON and Emma Hanson. Herman was born Feb. 25, 1886. He served in World War I with Co. E 58th Infantry and was killed in battle July 18, 1918.[...]ille, N.Y., they 1911; Raymond on April 13, 1916; and Lucille on Dec. 17, could not write or speak English, and the American authori- 1925.[...]sounded to them. Some members of Gladys married and lived in Beaverhead County and Ray- the family therefore have the name spelled Rhino and oth- mond and Lucille also married and spent their lives in ers Reno. Butte.[...]The men, both father and son, moved into Michigan fol- Matt and Addie lived in the Centennial Valley until 1930 lowing the opening of mines and smelters. Except for birth when they moved to Dillon. They lived and worked at the and marriage certificates, it is not known when John[...]n. After ranching for a number of years, they and had an uncle, John Howard, who lived in Cherry Creek, sold their place and retired to Dillon and spent their re- Nevada. John and Annie's first child, Martha, was born July mainin[...]Mountain, Idaho, where several roads met Charles and Elizabeth Ann going both east and west and north and south. Their second[...]ana in Otis, who lives in Great Falls and Elmer, who lives in He- 1892. By trade he was a b[...]In Bannack he was first lena. Both worked for and retired from Mountain Bell Tele- a blacksmith, then saloon and drug store owner, as well as phone Company. part-time rancher and miner. By 1920 he owned a consider- John[...]tember of 1885, and they lived there until 1890. Since John Charles[...]operation had was the oldest of William Retallack and Mary Pierce's four closed in Bannack and he moved his family to Hecla to 462-B[...] |
| [...]1895 and moved his family into it that fall. His oldest[...]ng in Dillon at the Metlen Bert Cozad (Albert E.) and they had one son, Hubert, born Hotel in the laundry. The dining room used real linens in 1904 and died in 1926. His mother died when Hubert was[...]n a chute to the basement where the two years old and is buried in the Jackson Cemetery. He was girl[...]hem dry. The irons were raised by his Aunt Martha and her husband, Homer Pilon. heated on a rack[...]s had to Howard Rhino was born in Bannack in 1887 and he died in wear paper cuffs about their wr[...]ch adja- with an old prospector. The horse reared and fell over back- cent to the Dishnos. (The Frenc[...]ra, was born on stomach causing internal bleeding and he died before a this ranch. John's wife,[...]ns following a miscarriage. John's failing health and the Anne Rhino was born in Bannack in 1889. Sh[...]o move in with the Dishno family ried Bert Kerlee and lived all of her adult life at Darby, where h[...]ter the huge avalanche, farmed out to friends and relatives. Martha had been mar- which buried some people and destroyed several homes, the ried in 1900 to[...]le. Maitland was born there in 1895. in 1901, and Alice to Bert Cozad in 1903. Annie lived with[...]Hole where his aunts, Melinda (Mrs. Silas Dishno) and liam Mackay family until her marriage in 1909. George was Celina (Mrs. Dolphus Paris) and their husbands lived on taken by the Carney Barnes' and was like a son to them as ranches between Jackson and Wisdom. long as they lived, first on the Big Hole ranch and later after John built a log house in Jackson about 25 feet square in they retired and lived in the old Rife house on Rife Street in[...]including the Pinkerton and Morse Ranches. Maitland[...]lived with the Dishnos and was a student at West Fox[...]School. He served in World War I and later moved to Co-[...]ary 17, 1897, to Riley and Catherine Cody Rice. George and two of his brothers moved to Ennis, Montana,[...]1919 and bought a cattle ranch at Apex, Montana.[...]In 1924, George, his wife Henrietta, and daughter Kath- ryn, left the ranch in Apex and moved to Monida, Montana.[...]know most of the people of Monida and the Valley.[...]George developed pneumonia in April, 1930, and passed Back row, from le~: Anna, Grace and Martha Rhino: away June 6, 1930, at[...]buried in Dillon. Howard and Annie Rhino Henrietta and daughter Kathryn left Monida July, 1930,[...] |
| and moved to Portland, Oregon. Henrietta married Robe[...]n's place on Rock Creek for five E. Hilts in 1933 and moved to Seattle, Washington. Henriet- years. They built a log house and barn and moved into the ta worked for the Olympic Hotel in[...]they broke the sod, Henrietta is now 85, retired and living in a retirement home picked rocks and planted crops. When Teddy Mauz burned in Bellevue[...]home, but it was Kathryn Rice Brenner is now 68 and lives in Bellevue, finally controlled. Was[...]up Rock Creek. The family now included two girls and one[...]in Thaddaus (Teddy) Mauz donated the land and the parents Burladingen, Germany, to Sebastian Rieber and Elizabeth built a one-room log schoolhouse[...]a school Hauser. He first came to America in 1907 and spent some trustee for many years. The Roc[...]e time in Washington, D.C. Later he came to Butte and community for nine years. All the pupi[...]r taking noted people, finished high school and several graduated from college. such as Marcus Daly, William Clark and other vacationers, While living on the homestead, Christ Rieber and Tony to Brown's Lake.[...]namo that Christ Rieber returned to Burladingen and married Regi- produced electricity. Riebers'[...]ver the kerosene lamps Burladingen to Johann Mauz and Regina Klaiber on May and gas lanterns. They also were the first to put up[...]ca. The Statue of use in the summer. Liberty and the Niagara Falls were thrilling and never to be Christ Rieber raised cattle and hay for sale. Hay was forgotten sights for them. The Riebers came to Butte and he stacked by a two pole derrick, then by a on[...]he following spring, he with a swinging arm, and later by a beaver slide. Horses were worked for Joe Brown and they lived at Brown's Lake. In used on the mower and rake. The hay was shocked by hand.[...]cut, dried and shocked, it was pitched on a hay rack which[...]net up on the stack, where it was tripped, and the hay was[...]a hay knife. The horse and buggy were used for traveling.[...]and tractors replaced the horses. A tractor pulled th[...]and the slide delivery rake. The baler picked up and pressed[...]ranches, the Gransberry and the Teddy Mauz places. Then[...]system for electricity and had the first modern house in the[...]area with electric lights, a bathroom and a telephone.[...]times, disasters and the Depression by various ways of mak-[...]raised and the next spring brought the unheard of price of[...]six dollars for 100 pounds. Eggs and turkeys were sold for[...]extra cash. Sheep were raised and the lambs and wool were[...]on the alfalfa. It was a sad sight. One time hail and[...]hand, the milk separated, and the cream shipped by train to[...]the creamery. Regina and Christian Rieber Mrs. Rieber died in 1950 and Christ Rieber in 1956. Their 464-Beav[...] |
| [...]heir daughter Elizabeth Burk, following year and located on a ranch at Redrock, MT., then still li[...]a mining camp. The other daughter, Regina Cullen, and her husband, Joe, He ranched until the[...]an. gin Montana territory and, seeing the possibilities of a pros- I ·have[...]number of years and built one of the most handsome resi- Isaac and Catherine Rife[...]County, Pennsylvania posed of his property and a few years later became associat- in 1751. The U[...]ng business west of Rife. His son Sam (1788-1856) and his wife with their small town. family lived[...]fice the Dillon Waterworks was built. with horses and Conestoga wagon over the Pennsylvania He was a lifelong Democrat and a member of Bagdad Tem- ridges and entering at Niagara. Their quest was cheap fer- ple of the Shrine and the Presbyterian Church. tile land. After several years in Waterton County they final- Mary and Abe's children were: Isabella born 1872, mar- ly[...]rr in 1902, died 1918; Maidie born 1876, mar- Sam and at maturity married and raised a family of seven. ried Lee Van Etta[...]ne born Isaac was born the fourth son of David and Mary Rife on 1879, married Albertus Williams[...]nty, he found work in the George W. Dart Hardware and Abram S. Rife died June 22, 1928. His w[...]Esther and Frank Ritschel 1862, and at the age of six went with her parents to Kansas[...]e had immigrated a few years before at age 17. He and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Barrett, prominent Horse mar[...]the Walla Walla, Washington, from England, and then moved train coming to Dillon.[...]alla Walla in 1874. Dillon was then a year old and the railroad had just been When in her late teens, she met Frank and they were mar- completed to this point. She met a gallant young cowboy ried and lived in Dewey where Frank worked in a store. Isaac Rife, who became her future husband. Isaac and Cath- Later they moved to Gibbonsville and worked in a store erine (later known as Connie) w[...]nch about 30 miles away in a ground. Frank and Esther moved from Idaho where they buckboard.[...]mixed farming for awhile but eventually man, and then later to the Ritschel Ranch where they lived his ranch was fenced and he went into sheep raising. Their many years[...]r they built a nice They had four daughters and three sons. William (Bill), two-story stone house on a little hill. Catherine and Isaac's the oldest son, was known in the Wisdom[...]ives on a ranch in the Katherine Caldwell in 1920 and died in 1949; Mary Helen Augusta area, the only one still in Montana. Frances and Joe born 1889, married Edward Duff in 1916 and died in 1950; live in Washington, near Yakima, while Mildred and Anna- Edgar Barrett born July 25, 1893, married Leah O'Brien in bel live in California. 1917 and died March 10, 1963; Isaac Thomas born Dec. 5,[...]E RITSCHEL PADDOCK 1896, married Elizabeth Metlen and died Oct. 1, 1976. Isaac passed away May 16, 1939, and Catherine on May 8, 1954.[...]orge Roberts Abram was the second son of David and Mary Rife, born George Roberts came to[...]ther, who taught school at Glendale (now Melrose) and he went overland in the early 1860's to Californi[...]remained until 1871. He returned to his old home and mar- Nov. 17, 1882. Her father built[...] |
| Darby held its first meeting. George and Cora were married in Anaconda in 1898. They moved to Jackson where he homesteaded and was in the cattle business for several years. He also drove six- and eight-horse teams, hauling freight from Dillon t[...]heir children (Charley, Earl, John, Gladys, Myrl, and Hazel) attended school in Jackson and Dillon. Charley moved to Ten Mile, Ore., where[...]Roberts Realty at Victor, Mont., for many years and is retired there. His wife Alice passed away a f[...]tired in Dec. of 1965 as assistant postmaster. He and his wife Bess live in Missoula. Gladys, born at Jackson, now lives in Seattle, Wn. Myrl and Hazel have both passed away. Mother Cora had m[...]cousin, Sant Shepard, who had the grocery store and was ·postmaster in Jackson for several years.[...]-JOHN ROBERTS Henry G. and Tiny Rodgers |
| [...]ranch. In the child she saw these trees cut down and pulled down the spring he worked on ranches and in the fall he. built the Mississippi by steamboats. When she was six years old she house and buildings on Otilly Hallas' homestead. His broth-[...]d that was taken up by her parents in er and mother stayed and lived there. The next year Irwin Minnesota. They[...]e first year. The also took up a homestead and made the Hallas Ranch. He next summer they built a house. Mother lived there and lived there about 30 years and then sold the ranch to Max went to school until s[...]ye before moving to California. He died at age 63 and is Wisconsin. Next she went to school at a colleg[...]her went with his mother until he got older and worked for ranches to the fair and saw a drawing she had made in her art class[...]working in Belgrade and enlisted in the army. While sta- About 1895, s[...]she came to Butte, Montana. In him over and found Karl had tuberculosis. He died three the sp[...]DY PASSMORE school in the lower end of the Valley and lived at the Sham- bow Ranch. Sunny Bean was one[...]up to a summer school at Edward B.; and Effie Roe Lakeview. The ranchers made Lakeview a[...]children around Lake- 10, 1881, to William and Margaret (Shineberger) Roe. His view come to school in the cold and deep snow of winter. father was a member[...]e United States away at 68. Dora was born in 1906 and Gustav was born in in 1858 and moved from Grinnell, Iowa, to the West follow- 19[...]ing news of gold discoveries. He met and married Margaret Otilly Hallas was the divorced mother of John, Irwin and Shineberger, a sister of Joseph Shineberger,[...]County pioneer and prominent rancher at Redrock. She was In the s[...]house. Her two father was a merchant and banker. He attended schools in youngest children[...]a son, Karl Hallas, 12, Bannack, Dillon, and Salt Lake City, studying some busi- and a daughter, Rena Hallas. From Belgrade, Karl and his ness training in the latter city. Som[...]up a homestead moved to Dillon in 1899 and his father became an incorpora- where the Hallas place was, later the Mayberry place. tor and an officer in the State Bank of Dillon, young Roe The first summer they built a house, barn and corrals. tested the banking profession only to decide that he pre- Mrs. Hallas and Karl stayed there. She died in 1929 in[...]. He had lived in Minnesota with a horse and buggy courtship for two years until the young his[...]uary 9, 1904. They spent their hon- railroad car) and packed the boxes and furniture in one end eymoon on a train trip to Indiana and on to Niagara Falls. of the car while the family and dog stayed in the other end of Thereafter they[...]arried life on the Shine berger the car. John fed and watered the cow as the box car trav- ranch[...]at was to grow to out of Monida. He built a house and barn and fenced the five children over a span of[...]ho production. In that year Edward Roe and his son-in-law, died two years later when the bab[...]to He worked at Kellogg, Idaho, for some years and married engage in the sheep business. In 19[...]John died at the age of 82 Smith's interest and he and his son, Joe W. Roe, carried on and is buried in Lima.[...]to Montana the summer of 1904 from ties and livestock were incorporated into a family-[...] |
| [...]stern Star, a member of the Daughters of the Nile and a[...]was in frail health for a number of years and died in Seattle[...]ed a son and daughter-in-law, Joe W. and Margaret (Doyle)[...]Roe of Armstead; sons-in-law and daughters, Andy and June (Roe) Forsythe of Monida; Moore and Muriel (Roe) McKinley, Leslie and Betty (Roe) Wilkins, and Margaret[...](Roe) Moore, all of Seattle; nine grandchildren and eight[...]George and Annie[...]was employed by the Utah and Northern Railroad Com- Edward and Effie Roe, with daughter Muriel[...]s purchased by Edward Roe. Used as a summer range and as Spring Hill, and took up ranching. The Hammonds were wild-hay prod[...]livestock his ranch years old at this time and could remember the Indians and could carry. This Centennial property became know[...]abundance of buffalo. Beaverhead County was wild and "7L Ranch", named for the Roe brand, until its sale in 1965 untamed, and she could trace the ever-increasing progress to t[...]Andy Forsythe, from 1926 their families and established ranches, churches, schools, until its sale. and founded local government. Effie (Tong) Roe was[...]ctober Annie's family traded meat, butter and home-baked 30, 1884, to George and Julia (Lawrence) Tong. Her parents bread to the Indians for deer-skin leggings, coats and gloves. came from the Midwest. Tong was engaged i[...]e was a rarity. mining operations in both Montana and Idaho. Together Mrs. Roe attended schools in Lima and Ogden, Utah. She with her two sisters and her brother, the Tong children married Ge[...]where their 1910. George left home at age 13 and made it on his own as a father had purchased a ra[...]horses in children were educated in Butte schools and the three girls western South Dakota and eastern Montana, a territory at attended a girls'[...]ry's of the Wasatch, in Salt that time. He met and became friends with Charles Russell, Lake City. G[...]Railroad Ranch, until 1944 when they sold out and retired Effie Roe's sisters, Gladys Gilster and Georgie Tong, and in Dillon. George, however, went to work at[...]ter years the Roes spent their winters in Arizona and The Roes only surviving family are a granddau[...]e year in Seattle where three of Gleed Nelson, and great-grandchildren, Bill and Shane their children resided and where they owned a home . . Pierce and Kelle Nelson. Edward Roe was a member of Bagdad Temple of the Shrine, the Royal Order of Jesters and the B.P.O.E. Effie[...] |
| [...]a banking business to buy gold. William and Margaret Roe[...]ws England, one of eight children born to Abraham and Mary and road agents. As a vigilante, he helped capture th[...]history of Montana his father until 1858 when he and his older brother Isaac Territory. Account[...]outbreak of gold excitement, they started for and the third member of the notorious trio, Ned Ray. These Pike's Peak, Colo., with one yoke of oxen and three yoke of men were said to have killed at least 110 individuals and cows pulling their prairie schooner. Their report[...]ber more. They were executed in by way of Laramie and the Platte River told of plentiful 1864.[...]year was For a short time between 1864 and 1865, Bannack was the 1860.[...]ons. The rivers were high house still stands and is a part of the historical restoration and the travelers were forced to caulk their wagons and project. ferry them across the water. Th[...]Phila- wagons. Roe's duty was to sit on the stern and club the cattle delphia to vist her brother Jos[...]e some of the pioneers aban- union: Arthur and Edith, who died in infancy, and Edward doned their wagons and packed through the mountains, B. Roe,[...]1881. William Roe organized a train of 15 wagons and oxen to William Roe became one of th[...]od mining prospects at Bannack. Thus in 1862, Roe and Directors at the time of Mr. Roe's death[...]Mr. Roe, we have suf- were immediately staked out and in the first day's oper- fered the loss o[...]was one of the incorporators of our bank and its vice-presi- gold. Most of his minings, however, were prior to the rich dent and acting head since we began business 14 years ago.[...]in business has given us an oppor- merchandising and banking. tunity to know him as others could not and we have learned In the winter of 1863 Roe was one of 13 volunteers to to admire and love him for his sterling qualities and kind journey to Salt Lake by wagon and oxen for supplies. Upon heart. By his dece[...]his brother Isaac, opened a prudent manager, and a good man ... " general store and meat market and soon thereafter licensed He was a Democrat and a member of the Pioneer Society[...]the Eastern Star and a member of the Episcopal Church.[...]William Roe and daughter-in-law, Edward B. and Effie Roe of Redrock and five grandchildren: Muriel, Margaret, June, Josep[...]and Betty Roe.[...]Earl and Ora Rogers[...] |
| [...]Michigan by the illness of his father and was gone several months. Steeley and Ena Patterson stayed with Ora and the[...]in 1929. She attended Normal College and graduated in[...]also taught at Jackson and the Bob Hildreth children of[...]__,,, changed her vocation and entered the L.D.S. Business Col-[...]duation, she worked in the business office of Ora and Earl Rogers with William and Lillian[...]While cooking at a lumber camp in Arkansas he met and attended the Normal College for a while, bu[...]ds with Bill Sweeney. They decided to poor and she returned to the ranch. Neither Earl nor Ora join Bill's brother Pat, in Montana, and arrived in Lima by were well and they appreciated the help. walking over the mount[...]elen married Charles Godfrey on January 18, 1936, and June, 1898. Both took up homesteads along Nicholi[...]d to Pocatello, Idaho, to care for Charles' half- and formed the "Sweeney and Rogers Company" and be- brothers and sisters who had recently lost their mother. On came sheep and cattle ranchers. May 22, 1936, a son was born and named Harold William. Ora Elma Henderson was b[...]ng of 1908, she decid- January 1, 1937. Helen and Harold moved back to the ranch ed to visit her brothers, Rollo and Delver Henderson, in Big and Helen again taught at Nicholia School. Sheep Cree[...]arl Rogers In June of 1938, the Sweeney and Rogers families cele- and never returned to Iowa. They married November 24, brated the 40 years Earl and Bill had been in Big Sheep 1909, at the Harry Andrus ranch and lived on Earl's ranch. Creek as ranching part[...]in Spotted 29, 1912; Doris June on June 28, 1915; and Wilimena Elma, Fever. "Billie" on May 16, 1917. Ora, Helan and Harold spend a portion of the summer of On Jul[...]11 days in a coma he gradually regained con- and purposes ended the history of the Rogers family i[...]n Rochester, Minnesota, but nothing could be done and he Helen married Myron Pulliam on August[...]Myrna, Diane, Sandra, Linda, and Kathleen. All are or have been married and there are 17 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Helen and Myron have lived the last 31 years[...]Doris moved from Salt Lake City to San Francisco and[...]s family: Ora nia, Florida, Hawaii, Guam, and Virginia. When Henry re- and Earl (back row), tired from the navy th[...]1962. She left and Doris (front) her husband and three teenage sons. The boys have all married and given their father seven grandchildren.[...]Joe Ritschel on December 27, 1940, and went to Washington[...]married. Their daughter Esther and her husband live in[...] |
| [...]Ora and to them was born a daughter, Jewell. Nellie Romai[...]Place. Ed and Nellie divorced; he sold his place, and moved[...]Patterson and Wengers and Jewell lived there with him.[...]with the John Orrs and worked for her board and room. Ed The Romain Family, consisting of Ed, George, John died at the age of 66 and is buried in Dillon. Jewell married (Jack) and two sisters Cordelya and Jennie, came to Ban- Ross Nay, a rancher, and is now married to a retired rancher nack from Illinois. After a time there, they moved to the and they live in St. George, Utah. Jackson area of th[...]of Jack Romain ran the Hot Springs Saloon and the story the valley.[...]George Romain homesteaded just east of Jackson and the the devastating flu epidemic of the 19[...]take care of the local was the first postmistress and she later married George. people stricken[...]located where Tom came Cordelya Ellis and Jennie Atkison. and Darlene Furnandiz now live. George and his family moved to Dillon where he took up a[...]-ANN HIRSCHY carpenter's trade and his place became known as the Patter- son Place.[...]Clay and Ora Roselle Edward Albert Romain homesteaded i[...]Clay and Ora with a close friend Jim Johnson came to hunt[...]ears with hounds. Clay worked for Woods Livestock and[...]took to trapping and breaking horses in the Centennial Val-[...]ley area for people like Jimmy Dodd and the Doyles. His[...]donkeys and feeding them pancakes so they would be at[...]- Jack Romain Creek and getting in the hole in the rocks to keep him and[...](The old cabin with Luanna's name and date is standing to[...]In 1918, the Roselles were reunited and moved to the[...] |
| [...]stead area called the Roselle cabins and later the Buffalo. In[...]also killed at the same time and is buried in the Roselle plot[...]the same day. Luanna and her daughter Iola ran the cabins and took care of Clay's business interests until 1945[...]Tom and Catherine Ross[...]west to be his bride. Catherine Duncan and Tom Ross raised Summit Bar and Barbershop at Monida, Pat Brown,[...]r I era, before he returned stopped. They married and moved around the southwest to Beaverhe[...]Mayme became a states. Bob worked as a ranch hand and Luanna developed bookkeeper and the wife of a rancher in Idaho and J. T. was her cooking abilities by cooking for th[...]the elk in Jackson Hole. She cooked for the crew and, as her later life will attest, she became one good cook. Clay married Florance Miller of Monida and lived in the local area for some time. Ora marrie[...]later to Las Vegas to work in the railroad shops and then to Pocatello, Idaho, to run a cafe. One day[...]uce a prod- uct for a Mr. Hagerity, who ran a bar and hotel in Cokeville. They lived on a creek where the resources were readily available and produced the beverage. One day the man they were working for planned to abuse the boys with the law and take the production. Clay and Florance and their son Bud, who was a young baby at the time, took the important equipment and the product and came to Monida. They lived in the old dance hall in adjoining rooms and owned a very good business. Ora and Clay had various busi- ness ideals which led to t[...]es. Ora remained in Monida, employed local people and made money. Some especially noteworthy employees included Pat Brown, teamster, handyman and barber; Bill Rush, handyman .and productionist; Coyote Bill Gray, bartender, handyman and productionist; Dan Cooper, barber; Mark Ca[...] |
| Jessie, died at age four and is buried in the cemetery in Argenta. Tom Ross,[...](Granddaughter,So.Pasadena,CA) Lizetta J. and Julius A. |
| [...]ing L. Graves. They had four chil- dren, Frank G. and Joe both of Dillon, Mrs. Willard (Marga- ret) Nelson of Anaconda, and Mrs. William (Ruth) Berge- son of Helena. In 1901 he joined Bannack Masonic Lodge No. 16 and subsequently served as the Worshipful Master three years, 1903, 1906, and 1910. Dr. Ryburn's health and eysight began failing three of four years prior to his death. His health and eyesight condi- tion worried him greatly. The rem[...]ound that they also fed weary travelers and rented rooms for the night. sounded like a shot a[...]find Sam sold out the freight stop business and they moved to him slumped forward in his chair, h[...]on to run the Jackson Hotel. It was here that Sam and a revolver lying beside him. Others in the building broke is leg and when it didn't heal properly, infection set rushed to the office in response to her cry and Dr. Ryburn in. Sam died from this wound May 9, 1913, and is buried in was at once taken to his home. He was unconscious when the Bannack cemetery. found and remained in that condition until his death. The Sam and Alice were well known musicians. Both sang and bullet had entered the head above the right ear and was played the fiddle, while Alice also[...]August 8th from the Masonic Hall .. Alice and her two boys moved to Leadore, Idaho, where with[...]ing. His remains were laid she bought a home and went to work at the Keating Hotel. to rest in the[...]-F. LEE GRAVES and also did their washing. As soon as she made any m[...]held up and Alice lost all her savings. Undaunted she start-[...]ed saving again. Alice and Albert Randall were born 10th January 1869 at Alice met and married Art Salmon. He and his brother Cable, Mont., to Madison County pioneers, Henry C. and Wes had the first ranch at the head of[...]on the Horse Prairie. Here Alice started a opened and shut four times in its history. The mine was shut[...]hat was maintaining the railroad between Armstead and back to Virginia City where Henry was a prospecto[...]enever they needed her for a few months she mith, and machinist. Henry bought a ranch in the Gallatin would go back on the train and cook. Her family visited the Valley. He died 10th February 1878. work train and her grandchildren would sometimes stay A few y[...]met Samuel Les- hurry back to the ranch and clean and cook and garden. She lie Bell. They were married 18th February 1885 and made seemed to manage everything. their[...]the were born: Frank, Mary Edna, Myrtle (Dolly), and Sam Jr. end of the boardwalk. It was fenced in her yard, where a They moved to Bannack and engaged in mining. Here their small irri[...]twin brother board siding, painted inside and out, and frilly curtains were Albert died, a sad loss for he was a good person and worked at the small window. There was linoleum on the floor and hard to help support his widowed mother and her family. seat. The seat had three holes - small, medium, and large - Next the Bells ran the Mill Point Frei[...]n them. Here, along with taking care of the wagon and animal needs, Art and his team of horses pulled many stranded mo[...] |
| ists out of the ditch, or over the hill, both going and coming into Idaho and Montana. The railroad used to drop the mail of[...]ld's slowest. Wes died in the early 1930s. Art and Alice ran the ranch until 1944, sold out to the Donovan ranch, and moved to Dillon to live in a home on Railroad Avenue. Alice's health Andrew (le~, in hayfield) and Johanna Salomonsen failed her and she was taken to a rest home in Deer Lodge. on their Lima ranch She died December 12, 1948, and was buried in Mountview Hanson, his wif[...]a was born Cemetery. Art made his home with Dolly and Bill Hayes in June 20, 1880, in Aero, De[...]Dillon for several years. He then moved to Salmon and lived 25, 1908, in a church wedding in Dill[...]d for 23 years. A son, Carl Salomon- Andrew and Johanna[...]anna passed away America when he was 16 years old and spent two years in September 13, 1964.[...]preceeded them in death. He drifted west and worked for awhile on the railroad in Wyoming. Finally he arrived in Dillon and worked on -BERTHA M. KENISON AND ranches including the J. E. Morse ranch as a labo[...]CARL SALOMONSEN number of years. He drifted back and forth between Dillon and Idaho.[...]Nick Salvo In 1908 he returned to Denmark and brought Johanna[...]build a new life and future away from the fighting and crime[...]Chicago and followed the railroad West until he came to[...]The railroad was a thriving business and jobs were plenti-[...]rld War I interrupted his railroad career in 1917 and[...]eived an Honorable Discharge onDecember 12, 1918, and returned to Dillon and his former position of railroad fore- (Back row from le~) Phyllis and Carl Salomonsen, man for the Uni[...], that same year, pur- Shirley Salomonsen, Edward and Minnie Kenison chased the family ranch at Apex, Montana, from Frank (Jr.), Bertha and Edward Kenison (Sr.); front: Curtis Mautz. His half brother, Joe Pace, arrived from Sicily and Salomonsen, Johanna and Andrew Salomonsen (on[...] |
| [...]rmy Engineers, World War I Ella and W. D. Sandy on their wedding day (1916) and wi-th favorite team of horses on Apex Ranch[...]working Nick retired from the Railroad in 1929 and continued his cowboy, then as 'cowboss' of a large outfit and later as ranching and business interests of buying and selling prop- ranchman. erty and livestock in Beaverhead County.[...]PHINE DICKEY raw-hide lariat, rifle and scabbard, horse-hair saddle pad--[...]ung man soon after his arrival here Ella and W.D. Sandy from the East around the turn of the century, and later Ella and W.D. Sandy were friends of my parents, and when he became a 'top hand.' second parents to my sisters and me. The dates may not be The man who, as a working cowboy broke and gentled exact but these are my recollections of t[...]ger when he came to Montana from bicycle and rode the long way to the P & 0 to ask for a job. Virginia, and worked as a cowboy for the P & 0 Ranch, later He was hired and there he stayed for many years. becoming cow fore[...]of the early Madison County members of the Dillon and brought the cattle to the Centennial Valley for Vigilante Electric Co-op and served it as a director, as well summer range via the Blacktail. as president and vice-president. In 1916 he married Ella Flynn,[...]y who lived on the bench near Dillon. They and has been a member ever since. He took an active p[...]Centennial several stockmen's organizations and was widely known to Valley near the Staudaher Ran[...]the Centennial for summer grazing, first renting and later buying the Charlie Jones Place. He also use[...]Charles and Minnie homestead for summer pasture. The last yea[...]960) plorers, mountain men, trappers and gold prospectors.[...]ontana's old time cowmen to develop farms and stock ranches which lent stability to lost anothe[...]settlement of Beaverhead County. known Beaverhead and Madison County rancher and one- Jefferson Davis became part of t[...]man at the old P & 0, died in Mesa, Arizona. and his family left Missouri May 10, 1880, with teams and As he prepared to go south this winter he bequeathed a wagons, and arrived at the site of Dillon July 28, 188[...] |
| [...]Before her marriage, Minnie worked as a pastry and des- most of his family he returned to Missouri i[...]Koontz Bakery and Ice Cream Parlor. She became a milli- Nancy Em[...]at the Anna Hart Millinery Shop. who had a ranch and toll gate at present Browne's Bridge Min[...]ole River. Otto W. Boettcher courted Nancy. and Sunday School. The Women's Society of Christian Ser- They married September, 1881, and shortly returned to vices honored her w[...]uri. To the union were born Minnie, Hilda, Ernest and church work after she was 90 years old. Fran[...]tnam County, The Boettchers returned to Dillon and resided on Rife Missouri, and passed away August 12, 1987, at the age of 103 St[...]gain returned to Missouri, except Min- years and six months. nie.[...]she took up working with can- Charles Sassman and Minnie Boettcher married in Dil- vas, making and repairing awnings and tents, etc. She was lon, June 1, 1902, and set up housekeeping on Kentucky known in[...]as an expert seamstress. Avenue, where Oren, Otto and Inez were born. They attend- Oren, born M[...]earned a two-year diploma at ed school in Dillon and finished grade eight at Rock Creek the Montana State Normal College, 1926, and began teach- School near the Sassman ranch.[...]en 18 years old, he migrated to the United States and tried to find work in a Pennsylvania steel mill.[...]s brother Frederick. Charles became a stone mason and found ample work in thriving Dillon. In 1908,[...]lstones the size of walnuts, the Sassmans gave up and moved to Dillon so the children could finish high[...]Charles and Minnie Sassman[...]and the University of Colorado. He also was delegated[...]administrator in 1969. He and his wife, Winifred, reside in[...]sman, Inez Emma Sassman, Henneberry and Homer Faust purchased the paper and Mrs. Charles Sassman, and Oren Sassman; in back- continued p[...]ght his partners' inter- ground: Sarah Davis, Mr. and Mrs. William Spearin est and operated it until he sold the paper to the[...] |
| [...]d by the Dil- bed, he rolled up inblankets and hides wherever night over- lon Tribune which was[...]er. Somehow he took plentiful printing department and eventually retired from the posi- feed for[...]it would have been completely tion. Presently he and his wife, Elsie, reside in Dillon. impossi[...]z, born March 24, 1909, worked at the Golden Rule and Milton Bean, my husband's father came int[...]nghill, in the early winter of 1886 with his wife and March 10, 1929. Rydel Glen (deceased) was born to the five children. They had two horses and a wagon. They had couple. The family moved to Was[...]come from Rosebud, close to Forsythe, Mont. and were Clyde passed away February 21, 1958. Inez is[...]Sawtelle was in town with fish. The Beans met him and he -OREN and OTTO SASSMAN[...]telle gether and ate Christmas dinner in a cold forbidding coun- Gilman Sawtelle was a very quiet and reserved man, al- try about where the Lima[...]eir destination, a trip of three days, sustaining and must have been physically strong and of Sawtelle went on to Henry's Lake. Th[...]beginning of a lasting friendship and Gilman in later years No one knows why Gilman came and settled in Henry would spend a night or two at the Bean ranch visiting and Lake County. It would seem from dealving into his charac- resting himself and his horses on his trips back and forth, ter that he was most adventurous and wished to live in often bringing mail and other needed supplies. isolated country, to do as[...]many men of It was on one of these trips and visits that Gilman had his type and time. The great open country of the west held a spent the night and started on his way home, he had gone a tremendous appeal; land, mountains and streams were short distance from the Bean home when he had to cross a there for any man's need and could be taken at,will. So he creek that wa[...]ing the front runners of the sleigh into his home and raise his family.[...]Gilman forward, out of the sleigh onto the tongue and named for your relative, it has long been an esta[...]ans or outlaws in between the double trees and single tree, and it was broken that vicinity. Henry's Lake was at[...]e a rendez- at the elbow. He left his outfit and walked through the deep vous for outlaws. Its majestic mountains, streams and lakes snow to the Bean house. abound in game, fish and fur-bearing animals. When M[...]r nurse was entirely out of the question. Accord- and blizzards that might last for days.[...]e then, even as now, were a very wide table and sat Gilman on one side of it in a chair, tying fi[...]he winter thru the ice. Markets in Butte, Montana and men on the opposite side who pulled the ar[...]slipped back into place. They then put splints and bandages of these fish. Gilman must have spent long ardous days and on the arm. Gilman drank a cup of hot coffe[...]gh the ice in extremely cold to his sleigh and resumed his journey. There was never any weather, drifting snow and freezing north winds. When the rumor of a[...]Sawtelle had property in Monida, a house and ice house cargo out to the railroad. He used a sleigh and six strong and, according to descriptions given, it is about whe[...]o Monida. Most of SONNY and THELMA BEAN the way there was no road nor was the[...]rancis Schindler was the third child born to days and freeze to death. The snow would be from three to Francis Schindler and Caroline Glotten in Fridentall, Aus- five[...] |
| [...]claim, and winter months working in Butte.[...]stead and completed the terms of the claim. In 1905, he[...]ed to take a trip to Europe to visit his father and mother. He[...]guised himself and made a hasty retreat out of the country. Schindle[...]Coming home he visited a friend in Columbus, Neb. and (1890) was introduced to Emma Benda and her family. Reinhard ried Frank Tomanka and they came to the United States, and Maria Benda left Austria-Hungary and arrived in the settling in Columbus, Neb. They la[...]kla. His younger brother, Francis three boys and two girls, was born May 28, 1870. Joseph and Joseph Schindler, remained in Austria, and during the siege Emma were married January 2, 1902, and returned to Mon- of Czechoslovakia by the Russians, he and his family were tana. Their son, Emil, was born January, 26, 1904, and their placed in a concentration camp and communication was daughter Wilhelmina[...]ollowed the agriculture trade in Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska until he arrived in Omaha, Neb., where h[...]owned by Lewis Schmittroth. In later years, Lewis and his family moved to Dillon and oper- ated a bakery there. The Union Pacific R[...]the railroad to Evanston, Wyo. He continued west and his next employ- ment was in a mine at West Glendale, where he worked until it closed. Then he came to Butte and helped tear out the railroad tracks that ran thro[...]train to Divide, then walked as far as East Fox, and went to work for John Wenger on the Dishno Place[...]Emma Schindler, Mitzi W. and Emil Schindler about Joe. Joe and his team had a run-away, which was a common event in those days. The team ran into a shed Emil and Mitzi's first formal education was obtained in wh[...]cated in the have a funeral," but Joe crawled out and his first concern Kirk field. It consisted o[...]rode horseback to the Jackson school. They mouth and most of the time upside down. It was a trade-[...]rough September, then there was fencing, brushing and "The little fellow that smokes his pipe upside do[...]former feeding 15 colts, 40 to 60 calves, and helping to get a load of caretaker, Ben Hamby. Ben and his family were getting hay. Eight o'cl[...]when a grizzly bear reared up in the Joseph and Emma turned over the operation of the ranch window. Ben took his gun and went in search of the bear and to Emil and Mitzi in 1926. They retired and moved to Dillon never returned. His body was foun[...]iled a claim on the homestead in the Big Hole. He and his wife[...] |
| [...]. /)I.. i;..~ -.:, ., . Frederick and Margaret[...]axony Meininger, Ger- many, on December 16, 1843, and came to America in 1862. The sailing ship upon which she traveled was caught in the "calms" and was on the seas for 77 days. Margaret married Frederick Schuler in 1864 and the couple then moved to Newark, Ohio, where nine[...]argaret Theresa was four when she had diphtheria, and Anna Maria was 10 when she succumbed to scarlet f[...]to right are Clayton Schuler, Edgar Fer- friends and decided the Beaverhead Valley would become[...]home. In April of 1884 he was joined by his wife and Schuler, Clara Schuler, and Emma Schuler. seven children. Having chosen ranch[...]The Schuler children all grew to adulthood and were part of the citizenry of Dillon and Beaverhead Valley. The oldest[...]born to this union: Charles, May and Elmer. After her hus- band's death, Elizabeth and her son Charles lived with the[...]fare in World War I, and later lost his life while on a hunting[...]liam Moody, and lived in Billings. One son, William, sur-[...]ward Cushing. Twin girls Marguerite and Florence, born to[...]e registry. Ed Cushing was a barber, a landowner, and a[...]"Harry". He married Anna Reece in 1910, and lived on the[...]ranch adjoining the Schuler "home ranch". Harry and Anna[...]ere parents of Mildred, Harriet, Harry, Jr., Lee, and John.[...]They were the parents of Edgar F. and Margaret Louise.[...]Clayton Deane and Ruth were children of this marriage.[...]Dillon in very early manhood. Frederick and Margaret Schuler[...] |
| [...]s born in the ranch home. Emma married and married in England and immigrated to the United Robert Bidstrup in 1907.[...]: Marvin, States in 1837. Robert, Margaret and Berniece. J.[...]After the senior Schulers moved to Dillon, Clayt and Ind., for a time, then spent 10 years in agri[...]p family, ran the ranch. Red Oak, Iowa. Edgar and Clara Ferris then made it their home. On March 26, 1879, J. Walter Scott and Laura M. Tolman Mountain View Cemetery is the f[...]iage. Laura M. Tolman Scott was pioneer Schulers, and six of the seven children who arrived born Au[...]1884 are buried there. Most of the father and grandfather. She was of Puritan ancestry on both[...]ranch life of southwest- sides of her family and a direct descendant of a soldier of the ern Monta[...]and they founded the city of Dorchester, Mass.[...]rn August 4, 1887, to Joseph Monida Pass and down into the Red Rock Valley, Alpheus Gledhill and Sarah Jerusha Hudson Scott at Ontario, Ind,[...]received his education in Indiana. In 1916 Alton and this crew. Calwell had a cabin on the river ju[...]ame to Montana to seek Horse Prairie Creek and the Red Rock River came together. their fortune. They first stopped at Red Rock and then to Calwell and Decker became the best of friends. As the rail- Armstead to visit an uncle and aunt, J. Walter and Laura T. road continued down the valley toward Dillon, Calwell and Scott.[...]in the Red Rock Valley working as carpen- Alton and his brother took up homesteads near Dillon.[...]Riddle, who was employed at the C. D. stock and land. They registered the CD brand in August Hote[...]h died shortly after their only child, the mines, and for the Forest Service. Later he moved to[...]telling Scott of the area where he was working and of the on January 8, 1933.[...]enough money to purchase a small pump organ and had Joseph Gledhill and Sarah Jerusha Hudson Scott at Ontar- enoug[...]io, Ind., where he received his education. James and his gun. Both of these items are still in[...]Scott purchased the holdings of Mr. Calwell Rock and then at Armstead to visit an aunt and uncle, Laura and formed the Scott and Decker partnership, consisting of T. and J. Walter, in 1916. ranching and farming. They were the first to raise crops of Shortly, they migrated to Dillon and homesteaded there. wheat, oats and timothy on the Red Rock River. While James later became interested in the poultry business and ranching there, three children were born to J. Walter and moved to Helena where he worked at the State Nursery. He Laura: Faye Tolman, 1884; Fern Tolman, 1885; and Parke married Mabel Morris in 1909 and they had no children. Tolman, 1892. In 1896, Walter and Laura moved their fam- During World War II, wh[...]with Mr. Decker they built the C.D. Hotel and Livery Sta- elevator shaft and passed away a few hours later. ble. At Red Rock, the Red Rock and Salmon River Stage Co.[...]stable, and a drug store. They also each served as postmas- J. Walter and Laura T. Scott[...]ight children of James aged the C.D. Ranch. and Sara (Woodhead) Scott. James and Sarah were born The Gilmore -and Pittsburg Railroad was to join the Or-[...] |
| [...]Parke T. and Mildred L.[...]Parke Scott was the third child of J. Walter and Laura T.[...]Scott and Decker Ranch which is now under water on the[...]high school for one year in Dillon and completed his high[...]Parke went overseas, his parents, J.W. and Laura, feeling[...]e they would never see him J. Walter and Laura T. Scott again, caught the train and, as fast as they could get there, egon Short Li[...]was plotted on a corner of |
| [...]they moved back to Montana and homesteaded on Horse[...]Margaret used her nursing skills to aid friends and neigh- bors and more than one Horse Prairie baby was delivered by[...]Tom was a noted fly fisherman and he caught many trout[...]land. He also had the skill and patience to teach many young[...]In 1941, Tom became sick and they had to move into[...]set of buildings and the capability of raising 80 to 100 tons of Parke and Mildred Scott hay each[...]to Dillon in January, 1942, attending high school and again in Armstead after she and Maggie kept busy babysitting and crocheting. They lived . Parke were married.[...]ng years in their "wee hoose" on Kentucky Parke and Mildred had three children: James Walter, Avenue. Daniel Curnutt, and John Parke (Jack). They lived winters[...]WILLIAM R. TAIT in Armstead in the old Scott and Decker home near the school. In the summer they s[...]much is known about Frank Sears, he made Parke and Mildred were active in community activities,[...]ose who captured the Road Agent lieutenant, Board and the museum Board of Directors. Mildred was Ned Ray, and ended up with his pistol. active in home demonstr[...]Where Sears was born, where he came from, and when he the Armstead Home Demonstration Club, org[...]coming to Bannack in Parke passed away in 1974 and is buried in Mountain 1863." He was a prospector by trade and probably followed View Cemetery. Mildred continue[...]-DANIEL C. SCOTT for justice and goodness for he was one of the original Vigi-[...]Vigilantes and was one of the men who captured Henry Tom and Margaret Scott Plummer's deputy and Road Agent leader on January 10, Thomas Lamb S[...]hanged along with Sheriff Plummer and co-lieutenant Buck Margaret Leighty Scott - Bo[...]rs kept Ned Ray's .44 Army Colt cap'n ball pistol and Tom Scott came to the United States in 1877, w[...]16 joining May ville, Colo., worked in a smelter, and was naturalized in 16, 1874, and serving as Worshipful Master in 1882. He Denver i[...]ed prospected over much of the Bannack and surrounding area Martha Porter who gave birth to their only child, Walter and seemed never to have "struck it rich." He died on[...]rtly after the birth of Walter, 24, 1896, and was buried on May 26 at 2 p.m. in the Bannack Martha died, and Tom and the baby moved to Butte where cemetery[...]Man In 1914, they moved to Hamer, Idaho, and bought a small HE LIVED IN A HOUSE BY THE[...]"st8:fved o_u t" on that place so in 1916 ROAD AND WAS A FRIEND TO MAN. Cleveland A. See-[...] |
| field was fun loving, found fault with no one, and gossiped not. Money and position were unimportant in his "live and Fay and Edna Selby let live" world. Fay and Edna Selby moved their family, sons Oren, The[...]om Minnesota in 1880 to Helena Homer and Harvey, and a daughter Rita into the Centen- where Cleve's father, Theodore, owned and operated a nial Valley in August of 1928. They lived at the old "David" hackney and freight service. Cleve was born in Helena and place until they started a sawmill up Tom Creek and perma- spent the first eight years of his life th[...]Fay and Blaz Lugar later obtained the mail line from T[...]onda driving a hackney In 1933, Fay and Edna got a 99-year lease on the forest at which w[...]ontana Hotel, the Elk Lake narrows and established the Elk and Hidden built by Marcus Daly. He was allowed a dis[...]il 1977 when they moved to Sheridan, MT. Pride and joy twinkled in his eyes when he told of picking[...]-RITA SELBY EGGLESTON depot and sneaking him through the rear entrance of the hot[...]James Selway, Sr, his wife Eliza Mediment and their chil- cheers and fanfare. His heart was light as he relived the[...]n 1847. They settled in Kenosha In 1906, Cleve and his father moved to the Big Hole Val- County, Wis., until the spring ofl863 when James sold the ley and homesteaded a section of land northwest of the farm and returned to England with his daughter, Mary M. Sq[...]lway, to settle an estate. While there James died and is North Fork of the Big Hole River. He raised sheep and buried near his birthplace. Mary re[...]me for the rest of his her father's death and married Tom Porch. They had two active life. He w[...]over on the side; told stories of sons, Henry and Tom Porch, who came to Montana to pushing cattle out of Big Hole, through Divide and over ranch, one just north of Dillon and the other in Madison Beef Trail into Butte.[...]nty. There were nine children born to James, Sr., and There was a brief marriage but no children.[...]Eliza during their marriage. Cleve's friends and neighbors remember him as judge of Ja[...]then of the community. He declared that biscuits and gravy were in company with others, hunted and trapped up and down his favorite fruit. the Beaverhead, Gallatin and Boulder Rivers for a living. In The fishermen from Butte and Anaconda were regular the meantime[...]ed the ensuing fall when his mother, two brothers and As the years rolled by and many old timers came no more, two sisters arrived. After a time brothers Thomas M. and things changed and Cleve was saddened. His lament was[...]James, Jr., stayed with his mother and enlarged the origi- When he no longer could live alone, he went to Dillon and nal homestead, raised many fine horses, went to Oregon and remained in a nursing home there until his passin[...]They had two sons and a daughter.[...]Herbert Bohan was born in 1875 and died during the flu 484-Beaverhead History |
| [...]Blacktail. He married Alice A. Fox and they had six chil-[...]The other children of Thomas and Alice were Mark and[...]Dorothy), and Raymond J. (Jack) (1885-1967) who married[...]Hansene Hansen and had a son Jack. Sarah Selway born[...]Philip Thorpe, Sr. in 1853 and they lived on a ranch four[...]18 years 11 months; and Florence, who married Justin E.[...]Hollis E. Potter; Alma married Thomas E. Gilbert and[...]the upper Blacktail Creek east of Dillon and they had a[...]were Carolyn Carter, who married George Edinger and had way, Hawley J. Selway and Eunice Ann Noble Sel- a son, Wil[...]way. and they had a son Hugh. Fred married Zetta Landon. L[...]in Dillon in 1929. Guy married Dovie G. Grannis, and han and they had a son James Elmer Selway, who was born[...]ry M. Backus. The Backus chil- September 1, 1903, and died December 12, 1980. He married dren were William, who married Elizabeth Salee, and Vir- June Frederick Blair, April 25, 1925, and they had a son ginia, who married Bill Mi[...]ried Walter Brearly. They had two sons, Bill and John, and 1883, died 1946) married a Salmon, Idaho, rancher[...]nown about Nell Selway as she remained in Carlson and Mae. Mae married Lyle Mulky, also a rancher Wisconsin and married a man by the name of Buffin. in Salmon.[...]illon Hawley J. Selway married La Villa Nelson and they had July 31, 1933. He filed on a hom[...]ee children: Berthana, who married Turk Frampton, and from the old Selway homestead, farming and raising horses Frances and Ralph Selway, who both died in California. and cattle. He married Julia J. Black December 25, 1878,and John R. Selway, born in England March 25, 1836[...]hildren; Earl Charles, born August from Wisconsin and located on Blacktail Creek about 30 22,[...]s, married Bill Tash; Mabel married Doc Erwin and had a son born 1858, died in California 1924; Lloyd, born 1860, died in Bob and a daughter Helen; Julia had two boys and a girl; Montana 1920; Robert R., born 1863, died in Sheridan, Warren married Mabel Brock and they had two girls; Anna Wyo. Robert had two daug[...]had no children; Roy R Selway, born in 1886 and died in ber 14, 1870, died in Dillon February 21,[...]; De Los Duncan, born son, Charles, Marvin and Douglas. 1873, died in Dillon September 1935; Bla[...]rried Lewis B. Alger August 23, 1898; had one son and two daughters; Richard Arthur Selway, born May 14, 1877, died Belle Fourche, Robert and Julia Selway South Dakota August, 1939; married J[...]Robert H. Selway was the son of James Sr. and Eliza 1901; had a daughter, Vera Dale Selway, Aug[...]marriage was born Blanche Selway). 1863 and they engaged in mining for a short time in[...] |
| [...]fathers came out to the ranch and told Mrs. Selway that she[...]Robert and Julia had seven children. Earl purchased a[...]ranch of his own and married Lillis Chapman. They had a[...]nia, and went into the construction business. They had a[...]daughter Allison and a son Robert. Maude lived with her mother and never married. Mable married D. V. (Doc) Er-[...]win who was sheriff and stock inspector. They had a daugh- ter Helen and a son Robert. Julia married Edward Corn, of[...]had a daughter Lois and two sons, Robert and Jack. Anna[...]n. Roy married Mary Ries of Robert and Julia Selway Virginia City. They had five sons: Harold, Douglas, Roy Gulch and Bannack. James took up squatter's rights on land Marvin, Charles and R. Emerson. Roy stayed on the ranch that is now just north of Dillon where he built the first log and ran it with the help of his sons for his mother u[...]anied him. While in England, James Sr. became ill and passed away. Mary stayed in Eng- Archie and Iona Seybold land, married and raised a family. James' widow, Eliza, and Archie Seybold w·as the youngest son of H[...]ut in 1864 to settle the land Franklin Seybold and Daisy Drown. He was born February James had for them. Eliza and her daughter were the first 22, 1895, between Dell and Lima. white women in the valley. The first church[...]held He married Iona Adkins March 12, 1916, and they had in the Selway house in 1865. The first f[...]in Septem- Archie Clyde on April 8, 1927, and Theodore Vernon on ber 1846. In 1848, when a chil[...]is parents with their family to the United States and health. settled in Kenosha, Wisc.; at the age of 18 he came west with his mother Eliza and his brothers and sisters. Arriving in Beaverhead valley September 30, 1864, he purchased land adjoining his mother's and his brother James Jr., which is now the north sid[...]d one of the finest homes in the area. It had hot and cold running water. It had a huge tank in the att[...]t was not successful. He turned to raising horses and cattle. Robert sold many of the horses to the U.[...]s killed February 17, 1905 when he, his son Earl, and his hired man Hans Larrsen were returning from a[...]F. Vogler approached the wagons. Robert stood up and called for Mr. Vogler to stop. No attention was p[...]wagon hit a bank of dirt, turning the wagon over and threw Robert to the ground on his head. He died the next day. After Robert was killed, Julia and the children ran the ranch. Chief Tendoy and his braves would come to the ranch and camp in the yard while shopping in Dillon for Arch and Iona Seybold (Lima, about 1916.) 486-[...] |
| [...]tle Sheep creek then- first few years that Archie and Iona lived at the homestead Sanders, Flynns and Thompsons-with the Dowell family from 1916 to 191[...]reek. Store in Lima that ran for a year at a time and was only The summer of 1923 the family[...]o of her The summer of 1919 was a real dry summer and a tough brothers and their families in two Maxwell cars and camped winter followed it. Archie and Iona were on the middle fork out three nights[...]trip, all of it on dirt or of Little Sheep creek and his brother Floyd and Myrtle were gravel roads. In 1931 they made t[...]n for some of the local They had about 60 cows and 200 sheep between them. dances in the e[...]ree of his sons played the Floyd herded the sheep and Archie hauled hay from Lima, violin. Archie and Iona played the violin and piano for some 12 miles, with four horses and a sled all winter. The hay was of the local dances in the 1930s and early 1940s. Clyde and shipped in by railroad from Nebraska. That same w[...]arried to Nellie Belle Seybold, Charles and Clyde played the violin also. lived about 10 miles from Lima on the same creek and Archie and Iona moved to Lima and worked at the Bea- hauled hay all winter the same[...]ed Henderson F. Seybold was staying with Ralph and Belle to ranching again and bought 1043 acres at the mouth of so his place fo[...]ittle Sheep creek in 1940 where they raised sheep and Hoenstein, a neighbor boy who was staying with hi[...]n that win- Charles helped with the ranch and continued to help run ter, went to school in Lima[...]as sold. Iona died in 1979. on a sled that winter and when they would take the school Bertha Leona married William Cutter and moved to Po- kids home at night, they would stay[...]ld's catello, Idaho. She died in 1985. place and keep the horses in the barn, then start from there Archie Clyde is a retired truck driver and lives at West-[...]and is now working as a mechanic at Salmon, Idaho.[...]Lima and lives there. He no longer ranches but plans to ke[...]-Charles Seybold and Sally Garrett Dingley[...]and Luther Seybold[...]comb, Ill., the ninth child of Dotson Seybold and Mary[...]12th and youngest Seybold child was Luther Bush born[...]and grew up on their father's western Illinois farm.[...]brothers John V. and Henderson, and sisters and traveled[...]ending up in Glendale working in the silver mines and[...]and took up land. All except John homesteaded 160 acr[...]near each other between Lima and Dell. They raised cattle Children of Arch and Iona Seybold:(L-R) Leona, and horses. Together. they convinced their aging parents to Clyde and Charles, (Lima, Mt, 1927) return to Montana and live with them.[...] |
| [...]F. "Hans", Charles, Joseph & Luther. Rear Marion and John Vinson, (circa 1880, in Glendale, Mt.[...]e but little is known of his wife. Joseph, Marion and Charles never married. Marion died a few years[...]d by a horse. He died at age 56 on June 21, 1907, and is buried at Lima. Joseph loved to have photographs taken of himself and his brothers and other friends and relatives, both serious and spoofing. He had an affinity for posing as a prize-fighter and he left behind a legacy of tintypes of his image.[...]April 3, 1919, possibly from high blood pressure and its complications, and is buried in Lima Cemetery. John and Margaret Seybold's children: Annie, Bill Homes[...]and Charlie (Glendale, Mt.) acres of land belonging to the heirs of Marion H. Seybold as free and clear as of July 8, 1895, and signed by President Known as "Uncle Charlie" to his many nieces, nephews and Grover Cleveland. Luther's certificate is number 2539, friends, he never married, had no children, and died Sep- dated August 15, 1896 signed by Preside[...]uly 15, 1904 Lima Cenetery near his father and brothers. signed by President T. Roosevelt for an[...]Dotson and Polly Seybold brother, Luther, who continued to l[...]old was born February, 1802 in Washington decades and died March 10, 1937 at age 78. County, Ky., the third of four children born to Jesse and[...]o Macomb, Ill., possibly as -Charles Seybold and Sally Garrett Dingley[...]to Dr. John Hardisty and his wife Elizabeth Hungate. She Charlie" Seybo[...]was born June 6, 1814 in Washington County, Ky., and[...]e first child of John Vinson M. Seybold born. and Margaret Elizabeth Huff.[...], 1831, in McDonough Coun- He lived in Illinois and Missouri before moving with his ty, Ill. Ov[...]27 years, they had 12 children, all born parents and sister and brother to Glendale, Montana Terri- in McDo[...]; William Washington born December 18, 1834; neer and later was superintendent for the Hecla Mining[...]d District. When his family moved to Ryans Canyon and later born February 12, 1839; Rhoda born March 22, 1841; Harri- Lima, he went with them and worked as a laborer. et Em[...] |
| Dotson and Polly Seybold Charles Harrison born May 26, 1851;[...]12, 1854; Marion Hardisty born February 10, 1857; and Luther Bush born October 5, 1859. The destinies of Elizabeth, William and Lucetta are un- known. Nancy Jayne married John G. Woodside and was widowed with three children by the 1860s. Joh[...]Elizabeth Huff. Rhoda married Phillip G. Knowles and moved to the Dalles, Oregon. Harriet Emily married John Wasson and also moved to Oregon. Henderson Franklin marri[...]irth. John, Henderson, Charles, Joseph, Marion and Luther, along with their widowed sister, Nancy, and her children[...]Seated: Thelma Seybold holding twins Lola and Lois. came to Glendale by wagon train on the Old[...]Standing is father Floyd Seybold. 1926. Dotson and Polly soon followed. On the 1880 census, Dotson Creek and another 640 acre homestead where he raised is lis[...]ttle until he died in 1968. quit working at Hecla and moved to Hubbell, Nebr., where Lola died from rheumatic fever. Howard died in a traffic he and Polly stayed for a few years until his sons convinced accident. Lois and Barbara live in Oregon. them to return to Montana[...]t five of their sons had homesteaded between Dell and Lima. -CHARLES SEYBOLD and SALLY GARRETT Dotson died February 15, 1888, i[...]e first of four children born to -CHARLES SEYBOLD and SALLY GARRETT Henderson Franklin Seybold and Daisy Drown. He was DI[...], 1888 on the family homestead between Dell Floyd and Thelma Seybold and Lima. He grew up in the area and homesteaded at the mouth of Floyd Seybold was b[...]married Susan Leola "Ollie" son Franklin Seybold and Daisy Drown, on the family York in 191[...]August 21, 1891 in Willow homestead between Dell and Lima, Montana. Springs; Mo. They had three sons: Grover, Lester and Louis. He married Myrtle Downing and they-lived on the home- They moved to Medi[...]years. He served in He married Thelma Anderson, and they had four chil- World War I in the U. S. Army. dren: twin girls, Lois and Lola, born in 1926; Howard about Grover was born June 5, 1912 near Dell and when Frank 1930; and Barbara. and Ollie divorced, they moved to Grand Junction, Col[...]ember 8, 1971. Lester was born in the Sheep Creek and later 480 acres on Straight Creek. He De[...]s an engineer on the Denver Rio Grande Rail- Lima and bought 80 acres at the mouth of Little Sheep road until he retired several years ago. He and his wife[...] |
| [...]Dell and Lima, next to his brothers' homesteads. He raised[...]cattle and horses.[...]and Elizabeth Thompson. She was Edward Drown's sister[...]Hans and Daisy had four children: Frank C. born April 2,[...]1893; and Archie born February 22, 1895.[...]and got 80 acres at the mouth of Little Sheep Creek and also[...]and saddle, and shipped them back to his place in Missouri[...]Cavalry. Frank and Ollie Seybold with children Grover (upper center) and Lester (foreground), 1916. Louise, who is the Lima mayor, live in Lima and Grand Junction, Colorado. Frank married Annie Sedlemayer in 1923 at Ucon, Idaho and worked for the Union Pacific Railroad taking care of the water tanks and coal chutes. They moved to Dillon when he was tra[...]RR, he retired in 1944. He died in Dillon in 1950 and is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. He was a Catholic. Frank C. and Annie had three children. Marian and her husband, Arnold Munson, live in Dillon. Dorothy and her husband, LaVerne McCord, live in Dillon. The only son, Frank, died in 1981. -CHARLES SEYBOLD and SALLY GARRETT DINGLEY Henderson F. and Daisy Seybold's children. L-R:[...]Floyd, Frank C., Nellie Belle, and Archie. (Weenick "Hans" and Daisy Seybold[...]ybold was born February 15, 1847 Daisy and Hans divorced, and she married Gilbert in McDonough County, Ill., th[...]ied. He continued to raise born to Dotson Seybold and Mary "Polly" Hardisty. horses for[...]lining years, he suffered He married Julia Huff and became a widower when she from Bright'[...]e died in childbirth. He joined his five brothers and sister and horse farm he loved in Missouri, but the change[...]and locale did not help. He died there February 13, 1[...]Henderson F. Seybold played the violin quite well and played for some of the local dances at Dell and Lima in the[...]-CHARLES SEYBOLD and SALLY GARRETT[...]John and Margaret Seybold[...] |
| born to Dotson Seybold and Mary "Polly" Hardisty. He was land. Two mar[...]ough ilies continued on to Oregon. John and his brothers went County, Ill.[...]gave dren in the family of William Hamilton Huff and Sarah Ann birth to their second child, Annie[...]May grew to adulthood and died in 1957.[...]John quit the smelters May 1, 1886 and moved his family[...]e safe. We have about seventy head of cattle .... and forty tons of hay and a few acres of oats and wheat."[...]the Gueysers the first of September and we will all go and we will go by the Camas Country and look at it and then I can[...]ore about it. I quit the smelter the first of May and[...]looking for better land, he and his brothers were drawn to[...]the Camas Valley of eastern Idaho again and again, thinking[...]of 70 in Dillon and is buried in the Lima Cemetery. An[...]epidemic may have hit the Lima area in the fall and winter[...]vember 25, 1909 at the age of 37, and is also buried in the[...]Margaret Seybold remarried. She and her husband Sam- Margaret Huff Seybold holding da[...]ore their move to Glendale, late teens and were neighbors to her youngest sister, Harriet[...]Catherine Huff Dingley. Huff and Seybold ancestors were drawn to western Illinois[...]anuary 18, 1934 in for this reason when Tennessee and Kentucky became Idaho Falls and is buried in the Dubois Cemetery. crowded.[...]-SALLY GARRETT DINGLEY John and Margaret were married on January 1, 1867. He was 28 and she was 20 and neither had been married pre- viously. Their firs[...]n August In the-late 1860s, John Vinson Seybold and his five broth- 18, 1892 on a homestead between Dell and Lima, of Hender- ers traveled by wagon train on the Old Oregon Trail to a new son Franklin Seybold and his wife Daisy Drown.[...] |
| [...]of John Vinson Seybold and Margaret Elizabeth Huff. He[...]some and the family had many photographs taken of him.[...]He worked as a laborer in Lima, never married and had no[...]his father and two brothers.[...]John and Bertha Shafer[...]man, Germany to Shafer and Minnie Munch Shafer. Com- Nellie Belle Seybo[...]h his brothers, John, She grew up on the ranch and enjoyed going to dances in Henry and Carl they joined their sister, Annie Shafer Brant Dell and Lima. She married Louis Anderson on October 14,[...]e Lima area for several years. They were divorced and she ka. John's brothers eventually settled a[...]t John moved westward, arriving in Argenta, Belle and Les tended sheep in the Lima area for several[...]e moving to Mud Lake, Idaho, where he did farming and airplane mechanic work. Belle died June 9, 1961 in Idaho Falls after a lingering illness. Les and Belle were married for 38 years. After living in[...]Bertha and John Shafer 492-Beaverhead History |
| [...]appendicitis. After her death, John left Argenta and went to Wyoming to work for the railroad as a hun[...]ebruary 7, 1897. They moved to Ban- nack, Montana and he ran the first gold dredge in Montana. They moved to Gilmore, Idaho and after a short stay they came back to Argenta, buying a home and settling there. He worked at a number of jobs that included stage driver, freighter, owner of a butcher shop and a miner. He died October 27, 1946 of a stroke and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon, Mo[...]r was born August 2, 1880 to George Madison Knapp and Rebecca McCannon Knapp in Jewell County, Kansas.[...]ta helping her mother with her youn- ger brothers and sisters and the boarding house. On Febru- ary 7, 1897 she married John Herman Shafer and moved to Bannack for a while, then to Gilmore, Idaho and then back to Argenta to raise their family of 12[...]n Shafer, Carl Shafer, Dale Shafer, George Shafer and Frances Shafer Rickey Christensen. Bertha made[...]oaves at a time for her family. She loved flowers and had many growing in her house as well as outside. She grew oleanders and they bloomed beautifully for her.[...]ber 18, Bertha died July 5, 1956 from a stroke and is buried in[...]In 1913, Della Kurtz, her mother and sister planned a trip[...]to Dillon to visit her brother, Oliver Kurtz and to make a[...]Shaffner joined them on this trip and after they returned to SHAFFNER[...]The Shaffners returned to North Dakota and their first John F. Shaffner was born September[...]ovember, 1914. In either late burg, Pennsylvania, and Della Rae Kurtz was born October 1914 or e[...]ounty, with Della Montana, on September 13, 1913, and were the parents of staying there in the summers while improving the land and four sons, George, Walter, Don and Dean. John staying in Cust[...]mily stories is when John drove his was a printer and he learned the printing trade. He also held horse Jerry and a buggy all the way from Custer to the various ot[...]d a position on the Pennsyl- more than trails, and he was anxious to get to his wife and vania Railroad near Muncy, where he met Della Kur[...]estead. He graduated as salutatorian of her class and worked at always made the trip on the train, which went to Butte and Sprouse W aldens in Muncy.[...]ound out later he could have cut off at Whitehall and driv- Oregon Congressman, but he wanted to go wes[...], which would have back to work for the railroad, and the Northern Pacific saved a few days tra[...]ys he wasted on the trail because he did not Paul and the West Coast. They chose Sims, North Dak[...] |
| [...]d in Dillon, planning to work dren, Lorin and Mary Greisinger, came by train from Tole- through[...]brother, John Shaffner. boys were in the service and he needed to be at the ranch. Willard[...]fe's health Willard worked as a painter and decorator in Dillon, com- was not good, their son[...]e war in muting from the homestead by horse and buggy. the South Pacific, and sons Don and Dean were still with the Their children were Lida, born August 27, 1918, and He- troops in the Pacific. .[...]fter moving to Dillon from the homestead, Willard and they lived in a tent. That fall a Mr. Pickeral helped Shaffner Cora opened a paint and wallpaper store, which they oper- get out logs to[...]hey moved to Layton, Utah north of Dillon in 1921 and lived there until about 1932 where Will[...]r- During this time, they acquired some cattle and sheep. saving device and was given a monetary award by the gov- They eventually sold the sheep and in late 1936 bought ernment. some dro[...]bers he Willard was a life member and Patron of Mizpah Chapter and George had to meet the train in Dillon at daylight to O.E.S., Master of Dillon Lodge A.F. and A.M. and High trail the pairs home. The cattle were hungry and thirsty and Priest and life member of Dillon Chapter of Royal Arch had n[...]long time. They trailed the cattle out Masons, and member of the Grand Cross of Colors for his the River Road and had a lot of angry housewives out in work with Rainbow Girls. their robes and slippers trying to chase the cattle out of their Cora was a member of the Methodist Church and of Miz- yards![...]tile and the Florence Hotel. He was Executive Secretary of[...]the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied enjoyed four years together before her sud[...]Cora died in Missoula, February 27, 1968 and Willard on Della was a member of the Riverside[...]b, the January 30, 1973. Pinochle Club and a Home Demonstration Club. John[...]four children, two of whom died shortly after ty and was a leader for five years. He was also a charte[...]. He always voted for a wood, California and lived in California until she died, Jan- Democrat, except once, and he always regrets that vote. uary 18,[...]1987 he celebrated his 100th birthday with family and Lida Shaffner married Morris Homme of O[...]ttending Western Montana College. joys television and current events, his family and his small When Morris graduated, they moved to Alberton and later garden.[...]in Beaver- his retirement in 1974. Lida and Morris have four girls. head County for many years, and he and his wife, the former Helen graduated fr[...]ranch near Dillon. His son, Dean, married and married Morris's brother, Howard Homme. They lived Eloise Anderson and they have a book bindery in Missoula. fo[...]died Septem- soula. They had three girls and one boy. ber 21, 1979, and a son, Walter, a 1st Lt. in the Marines, who was[...]e Peleliu -LIDA AND HELEN HOMME Islands in the South Pacific in October 1944. Shaffner has six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. George and Ellen Shambow DONNEE SHAFFNER STIBAL, Granddau[...]moved and in 1897 he became Postmaster. The name was Willard F. and Cora later chang[...]1908 to 1913. In 1916, Willard and Cora Shaffner and Cora's two chil In the meant[...] |
| [...]school. Later they moved back to the ranch and stayed there until 1927. Alice and Dorothea went to Seattle and were[...]and Monica married Boyd Wilson in San Bernardino, Cal[...]boy, Helen had one girl, and Dorothea had no children.[...]When Levi Shambow died in 1927, George and Ellen went to Florida to be with his mother and administered the es-[...]children and George applied for a divorce. He later remar-[...]ried and died in 1963 in St. Cloud, Florida.[...]The halfway house at the pond is gone and only a plaque[...]THEL BLAKE WILLOUGHBY Alice, Monica, Helen and Dorothea Shambow |
| [...]beautiful spot overlooking Red Rock Lakes and the tower-[...]lived there but game and fish were plentiful and the family lived well. Levi and the boys built a comfortable home, barn, etc. and also made furniture. They all helped to clear the[...]ground of brush and trees. Next spring, while the snow was[...]and moved to a ranch on the Red Rock River, east of M[...]family were married and on their own.[...]ing in Nebraska, Oregon, and Montana, they went by Pull-[...]but Levi drained it and planted orange trees. Soon Levi and Mary became very respected citizens and enjoyed the rest and climate. Levi became President of the Peoples Ban[...]St. Cloud and later was elected Mayor of the city. They lived[...]and lived there many years. John married a lady from[...]they lived there and reared a large family. George stayed in[...]ntil 1927. Mary Jane Vaneta Blake), Mary Shambow, and Mayme Blake (Mayme) married Ed Blake and Lester married a girl from with daughter Ethel Idaho and they had two girls and a boy. Alcon River. Here they lived in a sod house and farmed for -ETHEL BLAKE WILLOUGHBY several years, until the grasshoppers came and laid waste to everything. While in Nebraska, they had three boys, Wil- liam, George and John. There were five families traveling together from Nebras- ka to Oregon by team and wagon, and the Shambow family decided to join them. After many miles fording rivers, sun, wind and dust, they arrived in Oregon near a trading post[...]inter was upon them before they could build rain- and water-proof shelters. In spite of the days of rain and meager food supply, all survived. Spring brought warm weather and busy times building houses and planting gardens. Levi was handy with tools, had much experience with farming, and also organiz- ing the work done. While in Oregon,[...], 1879. Levi heard of the great boom in mining and railroad building in Butte and decided to bring the family to a new territory. A[...]ngton, they arrived in Brown's Gulch July 4, 1881 and got a contract to furnish mining timber and cordwood for the mines. The youngest child, Leste[...]shed in Butte, Levi investigated ranch- George and Mary Jane Shambow observing her 92nd ing in Montana and decided on the Centennial Valley, a[...] |
| [...], Nebraska, on April 3, 1871, on the farm of Levi and Mary Shambow, near Alcon River. When six years ol[...]n the cordwood business with Bill helping to haul and cut the wood. In 1888 the family moved to the Centennial Valley at what is now Lakeview, then Magdalen, and in Madison County. His father, Levi, and mother, Mary, settled on a homestead there.[...]Josie, Billy and Ervin Shambow[...]head County and Dillon where he worked as a ranch hand, Bill helped his father build and get out the logs for the truck driver, and taxi driver. barn on the ranch now owned by Red R[...]He was a skilled "Jack of all Trades" and kept busy here formerly the Shambow Ranch. The barn is still standing as carpenter, plumber, and an expert at all odd jobs. and also the house, where the logs were placed on end[...]id, "I'm feeling fine During his early teens he and his father freighted building and figure on mowing some more lawns." His brief admo[...]Birthday "98" he was still mowing lawns and doing good months, it was a rainy season and most every night they deeds for others.[...]gery on his eye in February of 1970, but he He and his brother ·George carried the mail from Lake-[...]s mind was clear until his passing on February 9, and at time dog sleds during the winter months. They had 1971. His memories led back many years and his exper- some near accidents crossing the divide, taking many a spill iences were many and very interesting to listen to. going through the[...]He was the oldest of a family of six. His wife and two sons backs.[...]stead five miles east He had many friends and enjoyed their visits to his home. of Monida, and on Jan. 9, 1893 married Eva Lou Jones. To He was one who loved to travel and said he never became this union three children were born, Billie, Josephine and tired of riding in a car. Bill lived among[...]y moved to the Blake, Lamb, Kent, Williams and many others in the early Bitterroot Valley and farmed for a few years near Corvallis.[...] |
| [...]Sam Grover in 1944 and moved to Coram, Montana. He and Family[...]he retired and came to Dillon and lived his remaining days. The James Orr Shanho[...]The Shanholtzer children Beatrice, Irma Jane and Max- Missouri October 4, 1884. ine are dead. Elizabeth Young and Sybil Burgon live in Utah In March of 1891, he and his parents, J. A. and Martha and both are widows. Margaret Bush, also a widow, liv[...]hey lived on a wheat farm Houston, Texas, and Tom lives in Lickridge, Iowa. He had a in the Gallatin Valley between Belgrade and Bozeman. In boy and girl and is divorced. Jim had a stroke and is in a 1916, James Orr went back to Missouri to[...]nursing home in Libby, Montana. He is divorced and had no met Mabel McFarland. Mable was born in El Dorado children. Ben and Orlene Hart had been married 52 years. Springs, M[...]aughters. Damie Jo Mitchell lives in Wash- Orr and Mabel were married in December 1908 and ington. Molly Cloninger lives in Wa[...]e wagon for owns the Truck Inn in Dillon and Sarah Kautzman lives in Muskogee wholesale grocers and played baseball on the Lake Elsinore, California. Ben and Orlene and family Muskogee City League. Four children were b[...]Dillon in June of 1944. Ben was born in the Cen- and twin boys. In 1915, they moved back to Montana. Orr tennial and Orlene lived in the Centennial for 28 years. work[...]NE SHANHOLTZER HART came to the Centennial Valley and filed on a dry land home- stead. The family li[...]Oscar and Gertrude Sharp cabin built. In September, another daughter was born, and Oscar and Gertrude Sharp, with their two children, Mar- eve[...]was another daughter until there were gurite and Dorothy, came to Beaverhead County in 1912. nine[...]to try their luck in this land badgers, muskrats and skunks in the winter. In the summers of promise. he built log cabins and fences for other homesteaders. Every They[...]ake place during We always raised a big garden and Mother made nearly haying season) furnis[...]their own, they traveled several days wood stove, and took baths in a Number 3 washtub. We had[...]15x15 feet, a chicken house and a barn. George Hornburger We always had a Christmas tree and made our own trim- drilled a well and after untold number of feet, finally struck mings[...]tin foil. Mother driven to the neighbors and water for household use was would cut out bells and stars of cardboard.We kids wrapped hauled in barrels. them in the tin foil and that was our Christmas tree trim- For fo[...]ings. But, as the years went by things got better and bet- ter. As we kids got older, Dad took hay contract, putting up hay for some of the ranchers. And of course Dad had his own crew. In later years, we milked a lot of cows and sold the cream. The cream was hauled to Lakeview by team and sled in the winter. It went on the stage to Monida and then on the train to some creamery in Idaho. B[...]Gertrude and punch buttons. You did everything by hand and from[...]of nine who saw a doctor until we were grown men and women. Dad and Mother had their own home remedies, such as syrup and ground sage for worm. YUCK! Sassafras tea in the spring of the year to thin your blood and for a chest cold you got greased with turpen- tine and skunk grease and for anything else that you got wrong with[...] |
| lambs and anything that could be turned into cash. They finally leased the place for pasture and eventually sold to Harry E. and Lula Shaw Joe Mautz.[...]was born in Ohio June 2, 1861, the son of Samuel and Hand place. Oscar put up the hay on the acreage and Ger- Elizabeth. He worked with the horses w[...]men. Poindexter and Orr Ranch and helped to excavate for the They returned to Di[...]ir Golden Wedding An- Harry returned east and married Lula M. Beal. She was niversary on Januar[...]1, 1866, in Guernesey County, Ohio, where she ily and friends. spent her youth. Her parents were Bell Orr and George Beal. Gertrude died in 1953 and Oscar in 1955 at the age of 81. Harry and Lula were married August 19, 1886, in Pulaski,[...]d to Beaverhead County in 1917 with his par- ents and sister Emma. He worked at the Poindexter and Orr Ranch for years and also worked for the Forest Service and Roscoe Cornell. He married twice, his first marriage to Violet Rae, and later to Florence Shaw. There were no children.[...]ber 20, 1956, after an illness of several months, and was buried in the Mountain View Cemetery in Dillo[...]RACE K. OSBORN Lula and Harry Shaw[...], August 14, 1898; Ethel Jane, September 1, 1899; and[...]came to Dillon accompanied by the son and daughter, Dolan and Emma. Mr. Shaw was foreman and superintendent of one of the P & 0 ranches, and Mrs. Shaw was the cook. Emma helped her[...]mother and attended Jake Flat, Blacktail School 3.[...]member of the Methodist Church for over 60 years and took[...]on March 3, 1945. Both she and H. E. are buried in Moun-[...]Joseph E. and Mary Ann[...]two half brothers, a team and wagon, a milk cow, and a Charley Dolan Shaw[...] |
| [...]nned marriage for Mary Ann. Both Joe and Mary Ann Shaw were active in Big Hole They filed on homesteads but must have known hard social and civic affairs. Joe served as a Beaverhead County[...]e of Montana's early "Liberated in valley affairs and mother to two pioneer Big Hole ranch- Women,"[...]s a prominent leader in the construction of Moses and Helenor Stephens Thomas Dudley. It is thought Big Hole roads, the securing of a site, chutes and a grand- that Moses Dudley had four wives.[...]stand for the Big Hole Harvest Day Festival and construc- On her 19th birthday Mary Ann marrie[...]They began a ranching Masons, the Shrine and Order of Eastern Star. operation in the Briston a[...]wn for their horses, the Shaws won often at fairs and riage produced four children: Frank Jr., Nellie, Beth, and rodeos. It was said many of his fine animals[...]killed" horse Frank Jr. married Clara Jacobsen and later assumed op- trading. eration of the f[...]ecame particularly identified with her long years and purebred Hereford cattle. Beth married Don Franci[...]mily, highly regarded as a of Mary Ann, and other ranch wives such as Flora Hirschy woodsman, hunter, and marksman. Nellie married Ullman and Lucy Hughes, are largely responsible for the first Big Stewart and lived in California. Rula married Carvell[...]able of supporting year round automobile Campbell and operated a general store in Nelscott, Ore. She[...]ing child of Three sons were born to Joe and Mary Ann Shaw: Warren Mary Ann Pendleton Shaw.[...]born in 1907, Obed born in 1909, and Ivan born in 1912. All Having been divorced fr[...]1872, married Esther Christensen of Dillon and joined the family and probably arrived in the Big Hole in 1897. An excellent ranching operation. Warren and "Chris" Shaw had two chil- cowboy and horseman, he worked on several Big Hole dren, Joseph Warren, Jr., born in 1928 and now living in ranches, often riding with his cousin, "Will" Jardine, who California, and Joanne Corning, born in 1931, now living in becam[...]I van married Kathryn Finnerty of Deer Lodge and they The marriage of Mary Ann and Joe Shaw brought togeth- had two children, Kenneth who lives in Billings and Carolyn er in a single operation the properties o[...]illed by an automobile in Portland at age 4. Obed and other Briston holdings which formed the foundatio[...]ks later at his ranch, age 62, in 1934. His death and the[...]remained interested and active in valley affairs until her[...]and overlooking the valley where she labored so long and which gave and took so much.[...]J.E. Shaw liam, 1865; Ralph Edward and Chris, 1867; Samuel B. 1871; 500-Beav[...] |
| [...]rom Red Rock to Salmon City stopped for the night and $2.25 was demanded from each for two meals and a bed.[...]coming of wire fences and railroads. Those five pilgrims[...]were to long remember that supper and the kindly welcome of Aunt Nellie and Uncle John Sheser. They retired from[...]ranching in 1925 and lived in Dillon until he died January[...]25, 1951, and she December 2, 1952. Both are buried in[...]rie (1883) Joseph, 1875; Frank, 1877; Emma, 1880; and Carrie, 1888, All lived in the east except William, Ralph Edward and Samuel B. Sheser. At the age of 18, Jno came w[...]ine railroad. He later moved to Beaverhead County and home- steaded on Trail Creek. During the years 1888 till 1891 he rode for John C. Brenner and T. H. Hamilton ranches on Horse Prairie. On Octob[...]d Nellie May Blair at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. William G. Blair of Horse Prairie. Rev. Craw[...]nown as the Plain View Station where the Red Rock and Salmon River stage stopped over- night after they changed time and required two days to make the trip from Red Rock[...]press being sent to ranchers in the area by stage and let it be known via the newspaper that all fees m[...]t the time the express was picked up, signed Snow and Sheser the proprietors. In December, 1892, jus[...]hauling iron pipe for the Lemhi Placer com- pany and supplies to the merchants in Idaho passed by on t[...]t Lemhi Pass, they found the road blocked by snow and had to be cleared by shovel to the springs below, later known as Horseshoe Bend, John and Nellie May Sheser on their wedding day- on the Id[...], 1891 when the snow on the mountain side cracked and rushed Brother William was born Feb[...]e was an down upon them taking two men, the wagon and horses with old time miner and prospector in Beaverhead County before it into th[...]is brother Ed re- completely filling up the gulch and the road below the turned from the war[...], spring. Rescue efforts were started immediately and men November 22, 1923. were dispatched to the nearest ranch on the Idaho side and Brother Ralph Edward born in Reynolds, I[...]to the Sheser ranch on the Montana side for food and assis- known as Ed to his many admiring friends in Dillon and tance. The wagon, two men and two horses were lost in the Beaverhead County. He worked in and around Argenta in terrible accident.[...]engers served his country bravely there and then returned to Bea-[...] |
| verhead County. Soon after his return he and his brother in New Mexico and back to Denver where he arrived nearly William lo[...]death November 18, 1909. and wearing rawhide moccasins. The trip back was made on Brother Samuel B. was born in Iowa, May 3, 1871, and foot and without money. came to Beaverhead County in 1890.[...]riggs, Shine- mining for several years at Argenta and later at Butte but berger worked at several diggings at Golden, Gold Dirt and then turned his attention to ranching, locating o[...]iladelphia to visit his family. to a wagon bolted and he received a fractured skull. Death In[...]. Little is known about the remaining brothers and sister as they lived in the east and only visited John and Nellie when they were still living on the ranch[...]th of a family of eight children born to Nicholas and Mariane (McCullish) Shineberger. Nicho- las Shine[...]from Germany to the United States as a young man and made his living as a manufactur- er of soap and candles in Philadelphia. Young Joseph Shineber[...]Shine- berger west. Leaving from Alton, Ill., he and his brother-in- law Leonard Briggs traveled with[...]o., in July. There they sold their stock of goods and wagons. Briggs went on to Denver while Shineberge[...]er, as well as working as a blacksmith, carpenter and barkeeper. He moved from one mining site to anoth[...]terest while Shineberger mined and freighted between var-[...]Alder Gulch, Bannack and Salt Lake City. He took cows[...]from the ranch to Deer Lodge and operated a dairy business[...]solved by mutual consent and Shineberger moved on. He[...]ced together parcels of land acquired by purchase and Shineberger Ranch at Redrock homesteading along the Redrock River and near the future 502-Beaverhead History |
| [...]a shipping point between Salt Lake City, Bannack and Salmon City. Shineberger would successfully devote the remainder of his life to farming and stock raising on an extensive scale until his dea[...]ne more of its operations, that of the production and marketing of baled hay sought by horse- breeders[...]tinued even after his nephew, Edward Roe, married and brought his bride, Effie[...]Stanley and Sally Sisterson (Tong) Roe, to make their home at[...]But he didn't feel well, had frequent nose bleeds and was of patented ground and had many thousands of acres of losing[...]head of sheep, a hell out of here." So he and his partner, Walter Hovis from large number of horses and 1,183 head of cattle." Pennsylvania, moved north some 200 miles and up several Joseph Shineberger died at Redrock[...]lon, a nephew, Edward B. Roe of Hole Basin and headed for it in 1912. The second day he was Redrock, and a few relatives in the east. He was a lifelong[...]for a manager for his dry land farm on the County and a charter member of the Bannack Lodge of Free[...]r road. This land is still owned by the Bimrose's and Accepted Masons. His donation of $25,000 to the B[...]Stanley ran the Bimrose place for three years and had an that facility in Dillon. Upon his death, o[...]land, fencing and working it. The first year he walked be-[...]hind a three-horse plow to break 50 acres and plant and Stanley and Sally Dickson[...]born January 30, 1889, in Fleet, the war and Stanley sold his livestock and equipment and Hampshire, England, the youngest in a family of 1[...]ansion named Landsdown 91st Division and shipped to Fort Lewis for training. The Villa on[...]Division shipped to Europe in July, 1918, and the 364th local elementary schools and Queens College, Oxford, Eng- participated in the Meuse-Argonne and Flanders offen- land.[...]e of Stanley's older brothers emigrated to Canada and Armistice Day found Stanley in a hospit[...]d his education, he joined him. On the cold and fatigue and possibly French rations (which the plains of Albe[...]soldiers supplemented with locally grown turnips and pota- For $5 per month he did jobs like walking b[...]toes). After four months in hospitals in Belgium and France, horse team and rake.[...]er two years, he decided to see the United States and a hospital train which landed at Dov[...] |
| [...]Stanley died on June 15, 1975, in Dillon. Both he and[...]ck) Skender came to the Unites for Lancaster Gate and his stretcher was laid on the freezing States[...]. as a maid for a doctor, his wife and three children in Austria- He returned to Dill[...]accompany them to Amer- crop, so he went to Dell and worked for wages for Tom ica. Olmstea[...]or hunting, but rifles were still scarce. He and started its journey to America. Five days out to[...]ice, a 25-20 from Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in 2 ½ hours, with a loss Sam Arndts Store.[...]of 1200 lives. Mary and some 713 survivors were rescued at Stanley loved good horses and needed some to start farm- sea and docked in New York City aboard the ship Carpa- in[...]the big team of geldings. To supplement and leg. The rest of her life she walked with a distinct limp. farm income and the team, Stanley worked on construction Mary recovered and went to work in northern New York of the Ruby Dam[...]ved in of San Francisco in Dillon. Sally was born and raised in the Dillon, named Isadore Thomas.[...]attended Montana Normal College in 1907 and found work in 1913 as a cook at the Dillon Normal and again in 1916-18, receiving her teaching degree.[...]George Dickson, arrived in Bannack in June, 1865, and her mother, Emma Street, came to Gallatin City in the same year. Sally taught in rural schools in Gallatin and Meagher Counties as well as the Bozeman city scho[...]chool Board. In 1927, they left the East Bench and moved to the Man- tle Ranch near Glen where they managed that and other Beaverhead Ranch properties for 14 years for the Union Bank and Trust Company of Helena. In 1941, they moved to a[...]ctricity on December 22, 1947. It Jacob and Mary Skender with unidentified young- uar[...] |
| [...]stern Montana College. and bear. Bearskins were worth $20 but were also needed as In 1915 Jacob (Jack) Skender and Mary A. Lawrence were robes and covers for the bitter cold winters in the valley. A married. Mr. and Mrs. Skender moved to a small farm north favorite delicacy was a fat juicy beaver tail, baked and of Dillon, known as the Fox Farm. stuffed. The Skenders worked the farm and Jacob worked season- Building a bear tr[...]orth of Dillon in 1919. The Skenders Clark and Henry would eat at the Hamby home and Grand- and their six children moved to Butte in 1929. Jacob[...]Butte. Jacob (Jack) that it was because he and Mallory had put those horse shoe Skender died in[...], age 12. Frank, the eldest son passed had and the body was so badly mangled that they used what[...]know tonia (Toni) Moore of Vancouver, Washington, and Cather- how badly mutilated the body was and as she took to the ine Lewis of Salt Lake City, U[...]the house and barn under three tall pine trees. They made a[...]cross and put it over the grave. Since Hamby had only a[...]rowed a wagon to haul the coffin. Albert Smith and his wife came to the Big Hole from Grandfather died at the ripe old age of 107 and he loved to Missouri in the early 1900s. They had[...]talk about the days in the Big Hole Valley and told them Fork and built their home not far from the river. The big log over and over again to the family. house looked as though[...]in the Big Hole up toward Twim Bridges in nursing and ushered many babies into the world for the·[...]e Weldon Else children, grandson; he and his wife had lO children including a George, was[...]og house on June 4, 1909. set of triplets and a set of twins. Aner his wife died he They eventually moved away and lived in Wisdom where decided to leave his home in Grangeville, Idaho, and they ran a rooming house for many years. They hir[...]me of these cabins are still in use today. and Selway mountains for five weeks, covering 500 Whi[...]fter Mrs. Smith passed away, old grizzly and her cub in the Selway mountains. His Albert retur[...]rom flies, fishermen used it to build camp fires, and as related by Sgt. Major Clyde Smith, USM[...]re they lived as "Smith Gulch". Clyde and Madge Smith[...]d to build a Union Pa- came alone as a prospector and trapper staking his claim cific rail line from Omaha westward in 1862. Also in 1862, and building a cabin up on Rock Creek. Later he broug[...], steads of farmland merely by occupying and cultivating the north and west of the present town of Jackson. land for five years and paying a registration fee of ten dol- There wer[...]omain: Ben could take up 320 acres and by relinquishment, another 80 Hamby, Henry Mallory, Clark Smith and another whose acres. They cou[...] |
| [...]He longed to go back home to visit his family and hoped to marry Madge Ray and bring her back to be his helpmate.[...]20 gold piece as a wedding Clyde and Madge Smith gift - a[...]dd they were raised but they adjusted and both grew to love it. near Lima where he helped build a stone house and fed Madge planted vegetable and flower seeds and the grass- sheep and cattle for about a year. Then he lived with his hoppers, rabbits and gophers thought the little plants were brother, H[...]to enjoy! their boundary line for a time. Hubert and his sister Lelia By 1917, Clyde's brother-in-law had built two rooms of a and her husband, Ray Weikel, were already "proving up[...]ater Clyde chose a spot with a beautiful view far and four large rooms, two big hall closets and two large porches. wide and moved the cabin there. Hubert took a bride and Dennis was born in 1919. By this ti[...]e away for them. In a draw tinuing drought and Clyde was having to work part of each several rod[...]th sweet soft water. He had a windmill, a cistern and pay off loans and keep the family fed and clothed. watering tank. With help fr9m relatives and neighbors he Times were tough but Clyde and Madge continued on as built a barn and granary and other log buildings, helping they were d[...]er all, without Clyde having to work pole corrals and gates. He brought poles, logs and posts from away from the homestead he loved.[...]machinery: a plow, a disc, a Edward Cosby and Emma harrow, a grain drill, a header and header boxes. He bought horses, a few cattle, hogs and chickens as he found the need. Rosa Sm[...]He was born the third of six children of William and meant get imperative things done fast and take no chances. Hannah Jane Rourk Smith[...]r in Cali- into impenetrable drifts across fences and blocking gates fornia for six years before deciding to come to Montana. and doorways. Temperatures would get to 40 degrees below Edward's family joined the Poindexter and Orr herd of cat- zero for ten or more days. Often afterwards there would be tle in 1866 and after a difficult three-month journey arrived chinook winds melting snow and making raging torrents of in the Argent[...]come, or it might lay in icy drifts that a ing and dairy business until 1879 when he purchased 160 m[...]a. He con- Clyde planted winter wheat each fall and spring wheat in tinued ranching and raising cattle adding to his holdings the spring,[...]st ranches in the area. He broke horses, fed hogs and put in 16 or more hours a day Edward had five siblings. Mary Elizabeth and Delena year after year.[...]Ann were older while John B., William Elza, and Emma Finally, he received his patent fro[...] |
| merstown, Ohio, and they returned to his property, about[...].C., they seven miles southwest of Dillon. Edward and Rosa had four called him) went to what th[...], Harry Cosby Smith, Elizabeth the winter and worked on the farm with the slaves in the Mae Smith (Leimert) and Emery Keller Smith. Edward summer[...]and near surrounding towns, doing odd jobs and studying on his own Alder for his livestock, main[...]illon Lodge No. 16 A. F. & there, he met and married Eliza B. Hughes on September 8, A. M., th[...]the early days, settled in Nelson County, and later moved to Shrine and the Dillon Grace Methodist Church. Rosa, Ed-[...]r or two of his life but lived to be 77 D.C. and Eliza lived at Milburn until 1883 when they years[...]a lawyer and practiced law in Kentucky and Missouri before migrating west and joined a law firm in Dillon in 1881. In[...]tana. He moved to Helena and in 1896 was elected Governor[...]of Montana. While in office his health failed and, after his[...]school three years, and then began reading law in a lawyer's[...]office, and passed his bar exam at age 23. He also came West[...]and settled in Malad City, Idaho. He was very success[...]his law practice, and in 1893 he was appointed by President Edward[...]District Judge for the Utah Territory. ried twice and had three children, Earl, Emma, and Her- Number three was Arthur Morris[...]learning; he preferred building things. He was a and mines. He died on March 10, 1973 at the age of 76.Eliza- carpenter who built a great many houses and business beth Mae married William Leimart and their children are buildings in Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. In 1887 William E., Mary Helen (Wetsel), Elizabeth Mae (Pember- and 1888 he joined his brother Eli Smith in Dillon in the ton), and J oAnn (Baer). The youngest of their children, Em[...]e- children are Emery C. E. Smith of Twin Bridges and Donald time between 1933 and 1941. N. Smith of Dillon. Emery Keller Smith died[...]was a splendid carpenter and mechanic, and also migrated -EM[...]Butte, and spent a couple of years in the contracting busi-[...]ness in Dillon. He was big, strong, and athletic, and was an Eli Smith Family[...]serious in those days than it is now. 1825, and was in the contracting and building business there The fifth child was the first daughter of D.C. and Eliza, for a number of years. He married Nancy Wa[...]ed Emma Ann (1865-19??). She married George 1828, and to this union seven children were born. My grand-[...]was a blacksmith and had his own shop in Dillon for many In 1841 Eli and his family moved to that part of the state y[...]o South Bend, Wash. known as "Jackson's Purchase" and settled on a farm in She died sometime between 1930 and 1941. Graves County. He had slaves and raised tobacco quite ex- Albert Lewins[...]d the west, but returned home after a year or two and[...] |
| [...]to Nancy Cole Smith (1871-?) married William Roswell and Montana. It was then he discovered the men[...]Smith (1876-1970) who lived in Lowes all her life and mar- ed they would pool what money they had and one of them ried J. A. Aton.[...]l he in the Big Hole feeding cattle. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Pinkerton finished "common school". But[...]freight wagon for their winter brothers, Robert and Harvey, financed him through four supplies and told him he could ride back and stay with them years of education at Transylvani[...]ating with honors in June, while in Dillon and as the ride to the Big Hole was extremely 1894. He then spent a couple of years on the farm, and then cold, she made Hubert put on the coat to[...]tate Prison in ranchers including Jules Wenger and Tom Pinkerton. Deer Lodge followed by a job as a security officer and coun- When spring came and he left the Big Hole, he still had all selor at t[...]ht wagon until Bill Tash came by in a light buggy and a preparing for the Montana State Bar examinations. After slick team and said, "Kid, how would you like to get to passing these and getting his license, he opened a law office Dil[...]about getting his checks of a building downtown, and the window looked out on the cashed as he[...]ank to make sure he got his checks cashed. street and said to himself, "That's the girl I'm going to[...]shed what he set out to do, as Jake Canyon and Irishmans Hole with Minor Holden and and Clara Rawson became Clara Smith.[...]stead Mother was teaching school in Miles City and living with next to Millard Holeman. He and a partner leased some her sister Jessie, who was married to the President of a bank land from Gene Bond and planted it in flax which did very there, Charles W. Butler. Mother had an identical twin sis- well. He and Millard Holeman leased 80 acres from Norman ter,[...]o was teaching there. Holden and raised the first dry land potatoes in this area. It In 1906 Dad moved to Dillon and joined the law firm of was a bumper crop but when they got them harvested, the Norris, Hurd, and Smith. They had their offices in a gray pot[...]t one-half trading potatoes for flour, sugar and other staples including block from the courthouse[...]stablished firm clothes. when he joined it, and the business prospered. After a year In th[...]Williams came from or so he was able to buy a lot and have a house built. In the Texas to visit her Aunt, Mrs. Millard Holeman. She and meantime, mother remained in Miles City until the end of Hubert met and courted and that fall Hubert followed her the school term of[...]rned to her parents in Lisbon, N.D. Dad followed, and they were Dillon and lived on the homestead. Their oldest child, Mar-[...]Times were hard, fighting drought in summer and endur- Pacific Street in Dillon. It was there I w[...]ranchers and in 1920 Hubert and Granny Grachet took sev- Joseph C. Smith died[...]in Dillon. Clara eral boxcar loads of horses and mules to Clarendon, Texas. R. Smith passed away N[...]liked the northern horses and mules. When they would see[...]gather up their horses and come to trade. It was on this trip Hu[...]e, W. was born in Amarillo, Texas. Hubert and Charley Garland Va., one of seven children and three half-brothers and sis- took another train load of horses and mules to Texas in ters.[...]At a young age he went to work in a paper mill and later In 1927, Blacktail 2 schoolhouse reo[...]Virginia, children attending: Marjorie Lee and H.L. "Tex" Smith, heading west. He stopped at Dubois, Idaho, to visit boyhood Wyman Owensby, Betty Davis and Clyde Smith's four chil- friends (Bill Miller, Roy Lemons, and Homer Lemons) and dren: Louise, Gilmer, Dennis and Stanley. 508-Beaverhead History |
| [...]se-drawn road equipment. In the winter he trapped and sold the fur. Start- ing with one milk cow and several bum lambs, eventually he got into the sheep business. As the years passed and the neighboring homesteads went broke and left and the home- steads came up for sale by the loan companies, banks and insurance companies, Hubert bought those homstead[...]Brown, Hamburg, Perry, Gallager, Fisher, Holeman, and Browning. Including the additional homestead he r[...]By the end of World War II he had sold the sheep and gone into cattle ranching. Margaret Lee (Maggie[...]he age of 93. Pearl and Nora Smith[...]I. Smith town and a mining camp. In 1905, she returned to her Kan- On February 5, 1871, a third son was born to Irvin and sas City home for the birth of her first c[...]he bravely stayed in Dillon for the Kansas. Irvin and Celinda were descendants of English im- bi[...]lph Irvin. They lived in migrants. They had hoped and planned for a daughter when rented houses until Pearl I. was able to buy a house and a the third child arrived, and had chosen a name, Pearl. To vacant lot on[...]an office in Dillon where he compiled "Pearl I.", and had to tolerate many quips about his phys- a set of abstract books. He traced land titles and was elected ical oddity-a "pearl eye." He became[...]averhead County Surveyor. He handled land filings and letters addressed to "Dear Madam."[...]hild" when two sisters were camp at his mine and hired a supervisor and miners to open born. Following the last birth, Celinda died. In a short time, tunnels and stopes as they followed ore veins. The ore was Ir[...]. brought to Dillon by horse-drawn wagons and shipped by scarcely remembered his parents. Teach[...]ar materials. Foreign sources became im- credible and unknown reason, she left the school, took over[...]I. built a second, more accessible the Smith farm and the care of the five Smith children. The camp and hired miners to work around the clock. younger gi[...]s available from Mrs. Johnson managed the farm and reared the four chil- foreign sources at lo[...]tion dren. She was a remarkable woman, courageous and suc- could not compete. Mining activity ceased. (During World cessful. Pearl I. and his siblings were devoted to "Mother" War II, graphite was mined and milled briefly by young Johnson, helped her and cared for her throughout her life. engineer[...]the "Title Building," expanded his abstract and land busi- They were self taught through wide reading and experience. ness, and rented part of the building to an insurance agenc[...]ceiving training in mining engineering, surveying and land County High School, and Western Montana College, then description. No rec[...]s. Some- Dillon Normal College. He was a Mason and a member of where, somehow, he became deeply inte[...]the short-lived Wranglers' Club. He created and awarded al, graphite. How this interest developed[...]mentary schools. in 1900 he travelled to Colorado and Montana. In Dillon he In the 1920's, Pea[...]ecided to settle in Montana. Session in 1925, and one term in the Senate, during its 21st After acquiring the mineral property, developing the mine and 22nd Sessions in 1929 and 1931. became the ambition and interest of his life.[...] |
| [...]937. His son, Payne Morris Sparrow. driving, and his wife, also in the car, survived. Nora Smith[...]as about 14 he became the man of the died in 1949 and Ralph in 1982. Pearl I. is survived only by family, as his father and older brother Charles had gone off his daughter and his son's four children. to Colorado to mine. Frank and his brother Winnie went to Pearl I. Smith was[...]to help out his mother, who was a who read widely and acquired knowledge and skills when he teacher but had three boys and a two-year-old daughter to needed them. He was a quiet, studious, honest and loyal take care of. citizen who always did his best for his town, his county and In 1884, Eliza died when Frank was 17. He and Winnie his beloved State-Montana.[...]SMITH 1886. Charlie, now a painter and paper hanger in Anaconda,[...]took his younger brothers and sister Mary back to Montana[...]with him. William and Hannah Smith In 1887 Frank and Charlie went to the Centennial Valley William[...]ernsey County, Ohio, on to ranch. Jeff and Cal Levengood had also gone to the Cen- June 24, 1832. His parents were John Smith and Mary Ed- tennial to ranch and they would become Charlie's brothers- wards. He[...]bought a small bunch of cattle. He moved Cora and the baby and started westward for the goldfields of California with and were all set. However, the second winter was more typi- his wife and two small daughters, Mary Elizabeth and De- cal and the snow got so deep one of the cattle wandered over lena Ann. They traveled mostly by pack mules and arrived the top of a snow drift and fell through the roof of the barn. at Yreka, Cali[...]ing. During whichever it was, all winter and then butchered it in the their residence in California, two more children were born, spring. Edward C. and John B. At the end of the six years he[...]ontana. In the company of Mssrs. for and I guess Cal, Jeff (Levengood) and Charlie did too, Poindexter and Orr, he started overland to Montana, driv- because they all moved back to Warm Springs. Charlie and ing a herd of cattle. They were three months enro[...]Mickey, Elma, Cora, many experiences with Indians and untold hardships on the Aletha, Orville, Grace and Beth. way. The party arrived at Argenta in 1866, where they en- Frank stayed in the Centennial and remained single until gaged in freighting and dairying until 1879, when he traded he was[...]mith Currier, born May 31, 1872. She was divorced and the Rattlesnake Creek below Argenta. He engaged in ranch- had two daughters, Blanche and Dorothy. ing and cattle raising adding to his holdings until he owned In August of 1901 they had a son, Wayne Frank, and in one of the largest and best ranches in this section of the June o[...]r state. There were two more children born to Mr. and Mrs. both of them. Three weeks after Maybelle was born, May Smith, William Elza and Emma. died, July 18, 1903. Mr. Smith retired and moved to Dillon where he built a It was impossible for Frank to run a ranch and look after a fine home for his family, residing t[...]his death on tiny baby, a two year old baby and May's two girls, so October 7, 1908. He was a member and trustee for the Grace Frank's brother Winnie and wife took Wayne, and his sister Methodist Church and the Masonic Order. A stained glass May and husband took Maybelle. Blanche was adopted by win[...]ch in mem- other people. ory of William and Hannah Smith. When the old church was[...]rshy meadows the ground church. However, the name and a large section of the origi- would rise up[...]streams had quicksand and more than once his horse saved[...]he blinding blizzards that came in Charles, Frank and James th[...]time when the snow was up to the roof and they were isolat- Sparrow[...]California, Mo., the second son of James Sparrow and Eliza even changed your clothes in[...] |
| [...]y put on their long handled under- infants, and three sons, John, Charles and Pete have all wear, they never took it off until[...]the first passed away. Three daughters, Mary and Anne in Washing- bath, all the old dead skin came off at once, like a snake's. ton and Agnes in California are still living. Also surviving Frank got skin cancer from the merciless weather and are eight grandchildren, fourteen great-grandchildren and although it was removed, he died at age 66 on De[...]Centennial at the same time as his brother Frank and was married to a lady by the name[...]Joseph and Lucy Spehar of Lucy. They had a daughter, Mollie. George and Mary Butala Rebich worked at the Lion[...]Mountain mining complex 30 miles north of Dillon and 17 -CASEY S[...]cla. Beaverhead County court records indi- John and Anna Spehar, Sr.[...]f birth City on August 7, 1887, George and Mary had their first unknown but approx. 1875). In the late 1800s, he and his child, George William, on June 15,[...]l mines. eventually moved south of Dillon and ranched there until When the father decided to r[...]of wine. per mines. John met Anna Sweet in Butte and they were Lucy Mary Rebich, born[...]the second child of George and Mary Rebich and their only[...]ry, Michael William, Frank Paul, and Joseph.[...]schools and also learned to play the piano as a young girl.[...]rried Joseph Spehar, a native of Austria, in 1909 and[...]May 1, 1914; Mary Elizabeth on November 18, 1916; and[...]brothers, Nicholas and John, and joined their father in[...]ther returned to Austria (Yugoslavia), the Anna, and Agnes; back row: Charles, John, Jr., and three brothers moved to Butte, Montana, and worked in the Anne.[...]copper mines. Joseph, Nicholas, and John all eventually married in 1902. After livi[...]a busy homemaker, raised a large truck garden · and was an avid flower gardener. She had regular cust[...]tarted doing cement work, pour- ing foundations and sidewalks. He did a great deal of work at the college and the retaining wall around the grounds is still[...]finished. John passed away in September of 1942 and Anna in July of 1962. There were eight child[...]he couple, two died as Joseph and Lucy Spehar[...] |
| came to marry and live in Beaverhead County. Joseph, his brother John, and his father-in-law George Rebich built numerous buildings on the ranch and also enlarged the house for Joseph and Lucy's growing family. Joseph died March 30, 1930, and Lucy on January 17, 1951. -JOHN A. KRISHA Le Vern and Nettie Spencer |
| I came back to Dillon and married Stella Mayfield on December 31, 1921, and we departed for California that day. We came back[...]ur daughter, Sharon, married Otha Graham in 1947, and they and their children were a big drawing card for us to return, after I retired. Since we have our son, Danny, and his offspring in California, we divided our vacat[...]we moved back to Dillon to spend our retirement, and are very happy here. -LORAN D. SPENCER Jessie Ann Jones and LeRoy Sperry[...]ter died October 13, 1962, and Ruth Sperry Wilson died[...]Henry and Mary Ann[...]son of Jonathan Sprague and Mary Jane Ferguson Miles.[...]He was the sixth of 10 children and grew to manhood in[...]and Mary Ann Walters were married, April 16, 1848, at[...]David, Andrew Jackson Sprague, and one child died when[...]time Henry's feet were frozen. He con- Jessie Ann and LeRoy Sperry ... at their wedding[...]structed a log cabin and returned home for provisions. On[...]the return trip, he was caught in a blizzard and his mocca- My mother was born July 4, 1886, and my father was born sins became wet. His fee[...]ul freight from Monida to man over six feet and, because of the extensive use of his Henry's Lake[...]e Red Rock River, arms, had wide shoulders and massive muscles. His feet near Long Creek, from a relative of Martha Jones and start- were amputated when he was 25 years ol[...]ated the feet, they didn't make a clean operation and he adjoining on the west of the river place.[...]t grandmother Late that winter he and Mary Ann set out for Homestead Sperry spent many[...]own the frozen Iowa River. Along the very refined and dignified lady. Her maiden name was way Mary Ann gave birth to Rebecca. Henry, his father, and McRoe and she would sing Scottish and Irish songs to us - a brother delivered the b[...]home. LeRoy and Jessie Sperry had three children: Ruby, Ruth The family lived in Homestead until the 1870's, then and Walter. LeRoy passed away August 19, 1937, and Jessie moved to Jewell County, Kansas. Henry and Mary Ann[...] |
| moved to Montana in 1881 and staked a Squatter's claim at the mouth of Cherry[...]ebud. He made his living trading with the Indians and freighting from Forsyth to Lame Deer. Henry came to the Centennial and stayed with his daugh- ter Henrietta (dates unknown) for quite awhile. During this time he sold butter and eggs to the store in Lima. He re- turned to the Rosebud, but he and Mary Ann often revisited the valley. When Henry left, Milt took the eggs and butter to Lima to sell. The owner, not knowing it[...]chandise he had been buying, opened the crock lid and smelled the butter. This made Milt mad, he said "[...]the merchandise to the store. That ended the egg and butter[...], at the age of 70, near drawing pictures and gave one to Bud, who cherished the Armells, 17 miles from Forsyth. A sheepherder saw them picture and Charlie's friendship. carry his body in his own wagon and team; it appeared that By 1885 Bud had worked up to foreman of the P & 0 and his head was bouncing and his neck was on the endgate of his name i[...]e herder found tracks leading William C. Orr and Philip H. Poindexter in the Montana off in the river, and his wolfhound had returned home. Stock[...]Henry. They found Hen- cattle of his own and was the owner of the IXL cattle brand, ry's body in the river with his team and wagon in a large recorded October 13, 1884[...]. Dr. Wilson said there was no water in the lungs and felt with the P & 0 herds in Blacktail and Centennial Valley. he had been killed and run into the river. Henry was an In 1889 he married Syrena Marion Grate in Dillon. To interpreter and old friend of the Indians. The Chiefs pun-[...]Martha in 1891, Laura in 1894, son Blair in 1902, and Joe in · buried in an unmarked grave in the ol[...]nn Sprague died August 28, 1898, at the age of 68 and is buried at the mouth of Cherry Creek on the Ros[...]oward the creek buttom up on a knoll. Pictures and early dates are taken from "They Came and Stayed" - Rosebud County History and other facts related to me by Aunt Belle Sprague J[...]t Granddaughter) E.B. "Bud" and Syrena |
| [...]were badly bowed, but whether the problem and started the Stahl Dairy. Louis was also in the re[...]ed breaks or merely "warping" business and at one time owned most of the land east of about[...]ode horseback but did In 1921 Louis Stahl and Louis Schmittroth bought the teamstering about th[...]s from the City Bakery from Frank McFadden and Nicholas Schmit- mountains in winter, wool in the spring, hay in the summer, troth and operated it until 1927 when the partnership was and, in the fall when threshing was underway, he had[...]ved. Louis Stahl then became Justice of the Peace and that gave him the most pride - that of running th[...]actor the legal profession for his fairness and the judicial manner filled.[...]ud retired to his Dillon home where he of humor and never forgot the struggles of his early life even[...]ntributing pioneer lady. She was a much-respected and admired member of the Baptist Chruch, a wonderful neighbor, and a fine mother and grandmother. Syrena died at the Washington Street[...]ap- book of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life. Mr. and Mrs. Sprinkle were very patriotic, even though th[...]ays in agreement. Montana was their beloved home, and the United States, the greatest country. -MARGARET FERRIS PYEATT Louis and Julia Stahl Louis Stahl was born in Hohn Oello[...]4. At this time there was great unrest in Germany and all young men were forced to serve in the army. Louis, Julia, her mother Kather- ine Klukner, and their young son Paul left Germany and came to the United States. They traveled in steerage coming over. They arrived in New York and from there went to Iron Mountain, Michigan, were[...]ad settled. While in Michigan Julia became ill and was told by a doctor that she had only six months to live and should go to a drier climate. They came to Beaverhead County in 1888 and settled four miles above Argenta in a mining camp[...]Julia, Frank, father Louis. Front row: Louis and Es- arrived two months earlier and built a log cabin 14 x 16 feet[...]tahl, whom doctors said wouldn't live six months, and size. It had only one window 6x8 inches. Later, t[...]e name of the baby that died; Bill; Frank; Louis; and woman, Mrs. Tessier. She spoke no German or English and Esther. Sometimes, in German families, i[...]e the name of the child that cate with each other and became life-long friends. died. Infants Carl, Lillian, and Julia and the grandmother When the mines above Argenta p[...]kner are buried in Argenta. his family to Bannack and also moved their cabin. They[...] |
| [...]They had four children, two sons, Paul Jr. and Judson: 1978. and two daughters, Ernestine and Fern. Carl Stahl, the second Carl in the famil[...]ildren. Carl attended school at Ann Arbor, Mich., and became a civil engineer working as city engineer[...]Francis and Mary Staley Frank Stahl married Alice Anderson and lived in Idaho The Staley family arrived in Wisdom around 1900 from Falls, Idaho, and later in Salmon, Idaho, where he owned St. Joseph, Mo., and included Francis Marian Staley, hi~ and operated a garage. They had three children. wife Mary, a son Francis and two daughters, Maud and Bill Stahl married Lynn Murry. They had no chi[...]e of peace in Wisdom. worked in a bakery in Butte and when he retired he moved My mother ran a hat and dress shop in Wisdom. My to Sun City, Ariz., wher[...]-ESTHER MOONEY Hole and later bought the Wisdom Hotel. He married Maud[...]was born in Wisdom at the Hotel in 1910. Paul and Mida Stahl, Sr. Soon after, my Dad sold the Hotel and bought a ranch at Paul Stahl, Sr., oldest son of Louis and Julia Stahl, was Wise River. born in Germany in[...]the time to become an obnox- 1887 with his family and lived for a short time in Michigan. ious teenag[...]in the gold mines. In 1892, they moved to Bannack and Paul started school. The old building that was th[...]Stamm Family a ranch on Rattlesnake Creek and he attended the Rattles- Albert Stamm, watchmaker, just 21 and nicknamed nake school, now owned by Bud and Afton Marchesseau. "Dutch," arrived fro[...]888. Afte1 In 1904, the family moved to Dillon and Paul, his father, working for Huber Brothers Jewelers he opened his owr and brothers operated the Stahl Dairy. They lived on[...]892, as Albert Stamm Jeweler, located at th6 Flat and the old family home is now owned by Otha Gra- corner of Montana and Bannack Streets, later the site oj ham.[...]Skeets Cafe. At that time and for many years to come Paul attended Beaverhead County schools and graduated Albert was official watch inspect[...]state championship in 1906. The team mem- and Son, after which it was known as Stamm Jewelers w[...]as a partner with Walter Stamm unti Gilbert Sr., and Bill Drummy. In 1911, he coached the Oct[...]Willey, Roy Stewart, Finley Watson, George Gosman and Albert Stamm married Josephine Dahmen[...]June 15, 1895. From this marriage there baseball and bowling.[...]n. Baby, a son, died at birth; Walter Al- Paul and Mida Mitchell were married in the Methodist[...]lon in 1911. Mida Mitchell was born in Kansas and Anita May Stamm, born June 10, 1900, died Novembe[...]rt's life was almost unbearable. He Paul owned and operated the Montana Meat Market for lost[...]heir third child. Rose several years. In 1912, he and Fred Woodside were partners Stamm of Milwauke[...]aise his young family. Anita Stamm, twent)'. Fred and started the Cash Dairy which he operated from[...]a Foods. When he retired He was a story-teller and had a fine bass voice. For man~ he spent his spar[...]oirs of the St. Jame Paul died August 10, 1978, and Mida died in 1981. Episcopal Church, and the St. Rose Catholic Church, sine 51[...] |
| [...]Marines and served in Cuba during World War I. He later[...]Minnesota. While there he married Ruth Davidson and they had two boys, Robert F. and Sherman A. They moved[...]His son, Robert, is a doctor in Shelby and has four chil- dren and five grandchildren. The other boy, Sherman, lives[...]in Minneapolis and is in the advertising business. He has[...]Evelyn MacKenzie and they had three children-Sharon, Dean and Frank. The ranch where they have lived for 55[...]years was homesteaded by Evelyn's grandfather and his Josephine and Albert Stamm brother.[...]different hours. He was a member of dentist, and they reside in Florence. She teaches special[...]in Dillon. He played the education in Missoula and is the mother of three girls. flute in the Di[...]Dupuis of Melrose Elks Lodge at Virginia City and became a 50-year member. in 1960. Their fam[...]s a graduate of the University of Wis- thew and Mikal. The boys work on the ranch while Mikal is[...]He mar- Frank married Edith Rieber in 1969 and they are parents ried Frances Hiscock from Ek[...]ey of a son, Lance. Frank operates a fishing and guiding busi- had three daughters: Patricia Stamm (later Mrs. Chester ness in the summers and works on the ranch during the Lathrop), Jean Stamm (Mrs. Raymond Feldt), and S~lly remaining months. Stamm (Mrs. James Orr); five grandchildren, Greg and Su- san Lathrop, Walter and Michael Feldt, and Steven Orr. The Clayton Stanfield Walter Stamm's interest in Montana history and espe- cially that of Beaverhead County, led h[...]hours in the Montana Room at the college. He read and Clayton R. Stanfield was born in Fairmont, Ind., on Nov. studied Lewis and Clark Journals from beginning to end. He 27, 1849, and later moved to Buffalo, Kans. Emma Fleming had a decided opinion about Beaverhead Rock and gained was born in Illinois, and, when she was 10 years old, her some recognit[...]family moved to Buffalo, Kans., where she met and married projects was tracing old trails in Be[...]in Kansas: Louisa born Nov. 18, 1874, and Addison Blan-[...]ily Clayton and Emma left for Montana in a covered wagon[...]was so impressed with the country that in 1886 he and his Altha May (Dot) was born on April 3[...]16 Dot married Thomas Tritt in 1899. Dot and Thomas had later known as Fox.[...]two children: Clayton Thomas born June 23, 1902, and Wil- A few years after, Emily Martin journeye[...]) born Aug. 5, 1905. to visit her cousins, Fred and Charlie Francis. She stayed to Francis Merio[...]1885. Frank 1 teach school in Jackson for a year and then married Will A. married Vernie Phillips[...]rgenta. They Stanchfield. Two boys, Harve Avery and Verne Martin, had two children born i[...]26, 1912, and Loren Jess born Sept. 2, 1918. When Verne wa[...]m Indiana to help her Harriot Adeline (Addy) and Lillian (Lilly) born March 9, , run the ra[...] |
| [...]Sky Cinema and surrounding business are now.[...]George and Catherine[...]George Staudahar (1835-1916) and Catherine Staudahar[...]Mae, Agnes, Annie, and Francis.[...]Brundage Funeral Home. Agnes also remained here and married Will Deputy, a local butcher and farmer.[...]and acquired quite extensive real estate holdings.[...]their horses, shooting guns, and wild crowds! This was quite Ray and Roy, Francis Merion (Frank), and Emma[...]in. Stanfield; Front Row: Harriot Adeline (Addy), and[...]wton intending to visit some friends who lived up and lived in Missoula; they later divorced. Lilly had[...]y the name of Enders. They wicker suitcase and gun, off the hills came some cowboys on lived in[...]sn't On Nov. 15, 1891, Emma had twin boys, Ray and Roy. the place for him. He got back on the train and came to Ray married Cora Thelma Hails. Roy worked on some of the Butte and on to Dillon. ranches in the Big Hole. He drove s[...]at the Diamond O Ranch for several months Divide and Wisdom. In the winter it was a horse drawn[...]ied Joseph Bechtold; they had two children, Leona and Joseph Stanley. Blanch married Alice Elizabeth Short and lived in Farlin. In 1911 Alice bought the limesto[...]ild, his father, Clayton, worked at the lime kiln and in mines sur- rounding this area. In 1890 Clayton[...]ily, Emma ran a boarding house in Farlin. In 1895 and 1898 Emma bought land on the north side of Dillon from the Dillon Implement Co. and Peter Tibdeau. This land was called the "winter farm" by Roy Ruby and Less Staudenmeyer 518-Beaverhead History |
| here when Les first came to Dillon and he had the flu. Being sick in the bunkhouse at th[...]n, Mrs. Sapp, nursed many during the flu epidemic and came with whatever medicine she had-Les said they[...]even if it had been strychnine! Her remedy worked and Les says he owes his life to the nursing of Mrs.[...]ey were married in Rio on July 17, 1922. When Les and Ruby first came to the Ranch, they had cattle and later sheep. They trailed them to the Centennial[...]Joseph and Mary Stefanie done in the Centennial at the Schulz and Morrison Ranch. The sheep were pastured on the East Bench in the fall and moved to a farm on the Beaverhead River a[...]th of Dillon. They raised vegetables, grain, hay, and Cattle were trailed up Blacktail to the Centen[...]ren were born to them: Chester, who moved to pany and later purchased by the Staudenmeyers and is still Hawaii after service in the Army during World War II and owned and operated by them.[...]ived all School where they were loaded on boxcars and shipped by his life on the family farm;[...]listed in the train to Monida. They were unloaded and trailed to the Navy in the early months of World War II and who was Centennial ranch some 30 miles. The cost[...]killed in a car/train accident in 1952; and Elvira Berg (Lyle) $32 then.[...]summer pastures in Joseph died in 1947 and Mary in 1985. Both are buried in the Centennial V[...].Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon, as are Chester and Wil- Speaking of winter in Beaverhead County,[...]eriod. The Beaverhead River froze solid overnight and was crystal[...]Brod Mar- Ice used to by cut during the winter and packed in saw- avice, Austria, now part o[...]of homemade ice cream were Austria, and there they had two baby girls who lived only a ma[...]· short time. Les and Ruby had four children: Alice, born in 1924;[...]United States in 1900 Marjorie, 1926; Jean, 1932; and Bill, 1935. and settled in Dillon, where he lived in a log house[...]ke Rebich was his brother-in-law. John re- Les and June Forsythe were married in April 1976 and ceived a letter from his wife, who had[...]-ALICE DUFFNER Joseph and Mary Stefanie |
| [...]ril 24, 1901. A year later, in 1902, John's wife and daughter came from Austria to Dillon to be with[...]9 West, South of Dillon, from Jens T. Christensen and his wife, Hanna T. Christensen. They raised cattl[...]ns, ducks, geese, potatoes, hay, grain, wild hay, and had a large garden. This was where seven of their[...]ry Novem- ber 30, 1908, Mike, September 12, 1910, and died at age two, Joseph, April 2, 1913, Agnes, November 19, 1915, and Annie was born June 3, 1918, and drowned at age two on Septem- ber 19, 1920. On March 12,' 1920, John and his brother, Joseph Ste- fonic, bought a ranch located in Section 9 and Section 4,[...]s the river from in Wales at age three and his last at the age of 82 in the Big John's first ranch, from Paul Schultz and Katie Schultz, his Hole. Grandpa lived on his ranch until 1913 at which time wife. John and his family then worked both ranches. John he leased it and moved in with Dade and Amy. He continued and Margareta had their last child, Rosie, on May 13, 1920, to raise his vegetable and flower gardens and helped with at the newly acquired ranch.[...]ores. Mrs. Margareta Stefonic was a seamstress and made most In 1919 he sold his ranch, but[...]ng, back. However, he continued living with us and leased his took care of the chickens and the garden, and also helped in ranch. In 1932 he sold the ranch to Dade and they were both the field. Margareta died on June[...]arted in 1889. was only two years old at the time and John needed help in Grandpa died on the r[...]uties. His daughter, Mary, decided to quit school and take her mother's place. John continued to wor[...]ten or twelve more weeks by river boat, railroad, and ox team to Salt Lake City. Grandpa held a variety of jobs in Utah and Idaho, finally buying his own place in Malad, Ida[...]wit~ his wife, son David (better known as Dade), and daughters Eliza, Maggie, and Charlotte. By 1895 three more baby girls had join[...]th 13-year-old Dade's help, a log house was built and they cared for the dairy cows and chickens. However, there was not time to fence th[...]unable to buy any. Undaunted, he bought a scythe and cut enough grass from the top of the beaver dams[...]h work, Grandpa always had a big vegetable garden and many flowers. He had his first garden Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Stephens 520-Beaverhead History |
| Big Hole and often said it was the "Garden of Eden." and worked on the railroad in Idaho, and finally in Red Among the early-day teachers we[...]Montana, in 1891 which brought him to Dillon in and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Stevenson. Mr. Stevenson, a brilliant,[...]Patterson. After his marriage he teaching Physics and Trigonometry to Dad's class and Latin worked as County Treasurer. My moth[...]r being told that during tax time when they both and music, music, music.[...]worked late at night I was wrapped in a fur coat and slept on Skiing was a favorite sport of the bo[...]crude homemade skis with only a leather toe strap and their cery and Hardware Store, the Dillon Implement, the utility[...]came skillful cross country Graeter-Waldorf and the Graeter Grocery. He sold insur- and downhill skiers, even building jumps for exciteme[...]latter years of his life. Dade worked at home and also for various neighbors. At Both m[...]. lived right next door. My father and I sang in the choir-I On September 15, 1901, Dade married Amy Armitage and sang tenor with him. I taught Sunday School, and my moth- they moved into a house a quarter of a m[...]born to this union, but a baby we were in and out of the "Manse" regularly. boy died at three m[...]son, came to live with five children - four girls and one boy. us. They were[...]e added to his holdings buying the J. T. Armitage and cheting. My aunt did pictures in needlepoint and my moth- Newt Gossett properties. During this tim[...]er was a great bird watcher. There was a feeder and bird ton postmaster.[...]it for greater efficiency. road" watching birds and especially blue herons. Her bird In 1909 he conce[...]ne law Herb Armitage. They made a few refinements and Herb day and she made this note, "I cant take Phil with me, he[...]1, 1910, the patent was granted to D. J. Stephens and H. S. Armitage. Dad sold his cattle and bought sheep - an excellent invest- ment until 19[...]crash of 1929 to the financiers. Times were tough and there was the added burden of sending three girls[...]) to high school in Dillon. Mom moved out with us and helped by having boarders, making our clothes, sometimes sewing for others, and working out- side the home. In 1926 Dad decided to give up the ranch and worked for J.E. Morse as foreman of the Ajax Ranc[...]hens ranch from Grandpa. Dad died in 1952. Mom and Amy continued to run the business until moving to[...]69 to be with Hal- lie. Mom died February 3, 1973 and was buried in Briston.[...]there. She met my father, Benjamin N. Stevenson, and stayed! They were married in Salt Lake City, Utah[...]is grandfather. He learned telegraphy Mr. and Mrs. Ben Stevenson and daughter Marjorie[...] |
| [...]had Ernest Golay), born December 15, 1918 and George M., gotten her. They were Harts Mountain Rollers and both the born September 16, 1920. They ranched in the Big Hole male and the female sang. I went home from teaching one[...]hen they moved to Hamilton, where they re- spring and was told I had to sleep on the front room couch. sided until Walter passed away on March 14, 1965, and Peggie and Teddie had babies in my room in the big cage[...]n December 8, 1970. Both were buried in Hamilton. and could not be disturbed![...]ar Wis- My mother died Jan. 12, 1924. My father and my aunt dom, January 14, 1896. He atte[...]father spent two through the eighth grade and later attended Utah State years in Billings with[...]tained a home for My father died on May 20, 1939, and my aunt died on May the purpose of educa[...]He served in the U. S. Army during World War I and[...]harter member of the Ted Harper Post 90, George and Mae Stewart American Legion, in Wisdom and a member of the Wisdom George Henry Stewart wa[...]Masonic Lodge. He worked on the family ranch and for dam, N.Y., on April 6, 1862. He worked in a g[...]er ranchers in the area, was a telephone lineman, and a young man but tired of that and, upon reading about operated a wood-hauling business. fortunes being made in and around Butte, came to Montana He marri[...]is. Arriving in Butte, he surveyed the born and reared in Silver Star, on June 10, 1926. They had situation and soon took employment in Deer Lodge as a[...]after spilling a tray of January 18, 1930 and Duncan, born December 4, 1931. dishes. Following[...]While there he heard about the Big Hole Basin, and de-[...]ek out greater opportunities. William M. and Sarah E. (Price) Stewart came to Beaver- While in Wisdom, he built one of the first log cabins, and head County from Pickens County, S. C., in[...]Ranch) on Medicine Lodge. ed a cabin on this land and apparently put up some hay as After leav[...]remains of both an old-time, house-drawn area and worked for E. F. "Digger" Price until 1929 when mowing machine and a hay rake. However, following a the[...]by a bear, he decided to move closer to owned and operated a ranch north of Dell known as the town and homesteaded on a ranch a mile west of Wisdom.[...]e Peat Ranch until their deaths In 1893 he met and married Marion (Mae) Jardine (born - William in 1945, and Sarah in 1942. in Malad, Idaho, Aug. 11, 1872). She had been living with Two daughters, Catherine and Edna, were born to the her sister, Alice Turner,[...]died in infancy. Edna G. Stew- cabin on the ranch and later built the ranch house, which is art married Pascal J. Bimat in 1929. They owned and oper- still lived in. All of the materials were hauled in from Salm- ated the Dell Mercantile and the ranch known as the Bert on, Idaho, by team and wagon. At one time the post office Scott Place north of Dell. In 1946 they sold the store and was also located at the ranch.[...]south of Lima, which was Edna's par- To George and Marion were born five children: Walter D., e[...], 1896; Thelma (Mrs. Roy the "home place" and resided there until their deaths - E. Murray), Ja[...]essie ( Mrs. H. R. Capehart), Edna in 1982 and Pascal in 1987. June 21, 1889; and Alice (Mrs. E. L. Haggarty), Aug. 26, W[...](1878- 1901. About 1927 he retired from ranching and they moved 1927), Leverett "Loon" Price ([...]ntil his death. (1870-1944), and Henson "Al" Price (1876-1938), brothers Walter[...]me to Beaverhead County He was educated in Wisdom and Malad and later attended in the early 1900s. All[...]Crayton Price homesteaded extensive cattle and sheep the ranch near Wisdom and married Pearl Neidt (born Oc- ranches in the Lima-Dell and Sage Creek areas. tober 6, 1894, daughter of Jake and Rosa Neidt, in Peru, Iowa), on February 24, 1916.[...]y had three children: Bessie (Mrs. Walter and Mabel Stinson Peter Rasmussen), born Novem[...] |
| [...]and shipped them on ahead.[...]had three small daughters: Inez, Gladys, and Doris. All were bundled into the car and a weeklong journey was made,[...]ing overnight at Miles City, Livingston, Bozeman, and[...]They went to their land near Apex and lived in a tent until[...]Walter could haul materials from Dillon and build a frame house and later outbuildings. They attempted to dig a well,[...]water tank wagon, dug and cemented a cistern in the ground[...]he went frequently to Birchcreek with the horses and tank[...]too scarce to raise crops, and the talk of an irrigation system[...]rm" to finish proving up on the land. Walter and Mabel Stinson on wedding day[...]In 1917, Gladys and Inez were taken to the Apex school by with twin sister Winifred, to Sumner and Harriet Hubbel buggy and team. In winter if the snow was bad, they rode in[...]rm work, while acquiring an eighth grade and adding a set of sled runners. The family also wen[...]rey of the Meth- of horses - especially fast ones and is supposed to have odist Church in Dillon came to conduct services. challenged anybody with a buggy and team to race. He In the summer of 1918, after having left the dry farm and thoroughly enjoyed the sport whether he won or lo[...]hat farm. She was Mabel Logan, daughter of Eugene and Clara time it was possibly a western wit[...]graduating from the local grade Walt and family worked hard on the farm growing and school and business college of Winona. harvesting their crops of hay and grain. With hogs and a About that time, Mr. Logan sold his thriving farm and garden they managed to make a living. The[...]s lucky acquired several sections of prairie land and a couple of big enough to get a ride with a considerate passerby. In the steam engines and equipment which were coming into use at co[...]aughter, Mabel, he took a job operating crank and usually some strong cuss words for good measure o[...]s, leaving a younger brother to aid his - and take the young ones to school. While on this farm[...]d son, Dale, was born on March 7, 1922. Walter and Mabel were married in a small home wedding[...]nd other work. Walter worked for the built a home and farmed there for five years. railroad, caring for the depot lawn and tending the steam After many ups and downs, through drought and being engines, until he bought a small dairy which he and Mabel completely hailed out before harvest, they[...]ge. They had heard of the great state of Montana, and dren. the many acres of land open for[...] |
| [...]born in Port Washington, Ohio, in wheat and supplies with oxen from Athabasca Landing to 1861. He and his wife Caroline came to Montana in 1889, first[...]up there he decided to stay, and got his start homesteading In 1910 they came t[...].S. citizenship in order to ated a store at Grant and had extensive ranch interests on homestead t[...]born in decided to return to the U. S. 1885 and came with her parents to Box Elder. She attended He returned to Montana to the Horse Prairie area and Montana State Normal College at Dillon and the State Uni- decided to homestead there.[...]ary. father in the Stocker General store in Grant and was Post- While he was in France his homes[...]any years. She also operated the family ranch and when he returned home he found someone else there[...]back ... and then we'd of had it.' Charlie took it back again Twins, Roy and Mae, were born in Box Elder in 1897. Roy and proceeded to prove up on it. He and his friend Louie ranched on upper Horse Prairie.[...]Smith, Stienbrecker ran sheep for a while and by 1920 he had found whom he met when she was tea[...]rown, survive. horse and buggy era to the jet age. He could recall when a Mae operated the Grant store and served as postmistress bushel of tomatoes cost $.10, a box of corn $.15, and a pair of when her sister moved to the ranch. She[...]alls were six bits. You could buy a beer for $.10 and have capacity until the Post Office closed in 196[...]ally all you could eat of sausages, potato salad, and gether.[...]t him at this time. Luther Stocker died in 1934 and his wife Caroline in 1939.[...]lm of practi- many but had immigrated to the U.S. and when Charlie was cal business. born they w[...]1860. As that year was one of political excitment and As Charlie grew up his dad would hire him out[...]father, Lewis Anson, named him his other brothers and sisters for $.50 a day. All the money Abraham[...]s of whether they worked for the rail- in 1825 and in 1837 accompanied his parents to a pioneer road[...]ation in Michigan, was a student in an academy at and then on through the Ruby Valley and the Big Hole. He Olivet and received his Master's degree from Oberlin Col- ended up at Darby, Montana in the Bitterroot Valley and lege, Ohio. For 25 years he was engaged in educational work there he worked in the timber and then for the Bitterroot and was a pioneer of Kansas. In 1863, he moved to Whi[...]ple trees. Then his best side County, Ill., and several years later returned to Kansas friend Sam Licks, was killed by a tick, of which there was an and settled on a farm in Leavenworth County, w[...] |
| [...]William Roe, F.L. Stone (center) and Stella Murray (right). Morse and Graves, Martin Barrett and A. L. Stone Stone, with W. M.[...]ners. Gentleman at counter, (left,) was unidenti- and builder. She was well educated and for many years[...]bly a customer assisted her husband in his school and college work. She died in Leavenworth County in 1[...]on February 25, 1919. Her Vice President and W. A. Graeter as cashier. husband, J.M. Gilman, h[...]ame chairman of the Executive Committee of Kansas and served several terms as a member of the Kansas the Montana Bankers Association in 1909 and its Vice State legislature.[...]m in nings Bryan, former presidential candidate and later the Leavenworth County, He never attended p[...]fare-mutton stew. ey at ten running a hay rake and after getting his education, The first 20 ye[...]ank began to break down as well. During interests and came to Montana in 1885. At first, he was a[...]bank books clerk with McMillan & Cluett at Butte and in 1888 moved to as borrowers were unable to[...]funds ment Company, later becoming its secretary and treasurer. to keep the bank in sound condit[...]s for During this period, Louis Stone and E. B. Roe were the Beaverhead County and became a member of the State major stockholders and with the bank failing, Louis's health Board of Ed[...]to cantile Company, the Dillon Dry Goods company and the start over. He died on April 16, 1930 in his house in South Dillon Green House company and president of the Beaver- Pasadena, Califo[...]Unquenchable faith in his county and its future was a democrat in Dillon, serving on the City Council, and was a keynote of A. L. Stone's entire business life. Dillon and the member of the Elks. His family were members o[...]piontments failed to alter his cheery optimism and he re- fornia and Guadalajara, Mexico.[...]Illinois. They -JERRY L. STONE, grandson, and LORI STONE had five children: Irma, born April 18[...]ber 8, 1902; Donald Stuart, born August 22, 1904, and Henry Lee born May 30, 1906. John and Veronica Streb He withdrew from the Dillon Impl[...]ica Gelhaus was born in Mt. Savage, Md., in 1856. and on the first of August established the State Bank of She was one of 13 children born to Benedict and Anna Mary Dillon, serving as ~ts' cashier and manger until Sept. 24, Wintermeier Ge[...] |
| [...]night, Charles Streb, a well known and popular young man[...]at place died in a Butte hospital Monday morning, and[...]th the family moved to Dillon John and Veronica Streb and in 1916 bought a ranch from Veronica's brothers locat- 1851 to Margaret Wombacher and Conrad Streb. He emi- ed about three[...]se in Madison County. grated to the United States and married Veronica Gelhaus Veronica died on August 30, 1922. Her two boys, Ralph and in 1883, in Leadville, Colo.[...]e married The Strebs moved to Glendale in 1884 and started their Gebhard Fassler in 1925. Th[...]NT Albert, was born in 1889 (d. 1977); the fourth and only daughter, Florence, was born in 1893 (d. 1982). In Glendale John and Veronica operated a boarding William Sturgis house and John made bricks for the charcoal kilns and built some of the kilns himself at Canyon Creek i[...]Veroni- boyhood home at Sturgis, Michigan, and struck out on his ca and John Streb planted pine trees along the road in[...]later. vast milling enterprises in Iowa and Minnesota. Moving The Streb family moved to Me[...]om Iowa City to Cedar Falls to St. Paul to Little and boarding house known as the Iowa House. John also Falls and locating finally at Little Elk, Sturgis made and served as a deputy sheriff. On December 7,. 1900,[...]he pioneer in him, Sturgis turned his eyes to the and the horses bolted, running out of control. To save him- far West, and leaving his mill at Little Elk for his wife to se[...]the manage, he acquired an ox team and covered wagon and ground, he broke his leg. He developed grangrene and died joined the caravan of Capt. Robert E[...]er 20th. 1, 1862, and journeyed with it to Fort Benton. In a letter[...]feel as Sturgis left the caravan at Fort Benton and went to the gold ifl had been asleep and just woke up. My troubles have been fields at Bannack. Sturgis was never a prospector and so great that I cannot believe what has been goin[...]ss of my dear husband is a great shock to us all, and I miss developing country. him more every day.[...]in the mining camps. John's accident, suffering, and death. Then she continues: With his saw and some mill irons he secured from the Ra- "I have h[...]ear Ban- any big expense, but got everything nice and neat, a nice nack. Part of his mill machinery was also freighted in from coffin and a nice black shroud, but not so very expensive ..[...]sister, I have one thing that I can be proud of, and that direction on Rattlesnake Creek at a point[...]om is four nice, good little children, good to me and to every- Argenta, another mining town. So g[...]ocated a sured for $2500. I received my insurance and paid off. So the ranch, later owned by[...] |
| Canyon and established a stage station and toll road through the canyon in 1866, making a shorter route between southern Montana and Salt Lake City. In 1867, Mrs. Sturgis sold the mill in Little Elk and with her five children journeyed to Montana by way of steamboat to Fort Benton and teams from there, overland to Argenta. Of the[...]e ten-year-old Katie Sturgis, wrote: "The Gilmore and Salsbury Stage Company equipped Concord coaches from Helena, Deer Lodge, and Virginia City, which met the coach from Salt Lake[...]om Bannack which made trips daily, by which meats and other table supplies were ordered for the eating[...]. Many prominent men enroute ldonia and Elizabeth Sutherland (early 1900s) to Salt Lake south, and Helena and other points north, Ontario, Canada,[...]lace on the Utah, to Spring Hill (now Lima) and Dillon for a few days, road and would say, Wait until we reach Sturgis, there's and on to Butte where he worked with two partners, hauling where we get prime roast beef, and a cup of good coffee.' wood by horse and bobsled to the Bell and Colorado smelt- "The imposing overland Concord[...]require, made an indelible im- spring and summer and then did ranch work for Everett E. pression on my[...]Birch Christian Heade, Lawyer Washburn Stapleton, and W. J. Creek in March, 1890, at Dillo[...]within a few ing the 1880s were closed down and the ore was sent to months these men sold to the[...]Dillon for shipment to smelters in Butte and Anaconda. Mr. polis, for $100,000, and realized $20,000 each from the trans- Sutherland got a contract to haul iron and lead ore from the action, "clear velvet" that! The big old Knippenburg house Florida, Tilden, and Badger mines to Dillon, so the family still stood[...]Suffering ill health in these high altitudes, and desiring to team, and the round trip to Dillon, about 25 miles, took a[...]his return John Sutherland sold his teams and wagons in 1903 and east, Sturgis voiced to his daughter Kate, his di[...], feeling perhaps as Charlie Horse Prairie and Grasshopper Creeks, corralling 560 ani- Russell d[...]ious Morse ranches. During the raising in Kansas, and in real estate business in New Mexi- 1920s he drove a county road grader, pulled by horses, and co. He died at New Smyrna, Florida, at the age of[...]ing soon after the first big gold strike, the and his wife acquired a 640 acre homestead on Sage Cr[...]Idonia Sutherland took to the automotive age, acquiring[...]first a Model T Ford and then a 1930 Plymouth in which she[...]daughter and granddaughter, or to Dell and Lima for sup- John Walter Sutherland cam[...] |
| [...]in 1911. He was employed as a ranch hand and an irrigator[...]Kidd, and at the P. & 0. and Hunseaker Ranches near[...]In 1917, Warren enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to[...]wrapped only in leggings and rags. Warren survived the[...]battles in the Argonne Forest wtih no wounds and no shell[...]to South Carolina to visit his family and renew his friend-[...]) ren returned to Dillon to work and to build a "nest-egg" for preferring to take a ho[...]r everyone On October 13 of that year, Warren and Janie were married. else had gone over to the use[...]train trip back to Dillon took five days. engine, and sometimes had interesting experiences with[...]ontinued to do his ranch work well into lawn and cleaned the sidewalks at the Post Office. In 1960[...]- freda in 1928 (deceased 18 days after birth) and Peggy Lou umn, Memoirs, to the Dillon Examiner, r[...]Peggy, now a retired teacher, is married to dents and experiences of his own and of the people who had Julius H. Kapla, and lives in Denver Colo. been in southwest Montana "[...]long time was keen, he had a good sense of humor, and thoroughly hobby of sewing and operated an alteration shop in Dillon enjoyed rem[...]nearly 30 years. She passed away in July of 1971 and was before his 98th birthday.[...]eastern Ontario in 1860, came to Montana in 1886, and taught at the Birch Creek school in 1887 and 1888. She married Tom Chambers, who came to Virgi[...]Rosamund Helbig Swartz they lived in Silver Star and for many years in Twin Bridges. Swanstrum[...]-DOROTHY DA VIS FIELD nutzer and George Helbig. "Rose" had a sister Margaret and a brother George. Warren ("Slim") and Janie Ro[...]r Easley, S. C., Decem- Charles, "Frank," and the girl was named Frances Char- ber 21, 1[...] |
| born November 4, 1867. In early 1870 Rose and Lewis wood, Cameron County, Penn., to Rodger and Mary Swartz were divorced and he departed from the area. Sep- Sweeney. te[...]Vernon, Westchester County, New York, to Joseph and Stockholm. Carl Swanstrum's date of birth was Sep[...]Pat was engaged in mining in the Hecla and Vipond Park In the Spring of 1871 the three Swartz children and the area in Beaverhead County for several yea[...]er of William Sweeney. At Bill's insis- relatives and friends from the wagon train, also, chose to[...]Creek Basin and became a rancher. He worked alon:e for the Sev[...]hildren born into the family were John, Pat and Eleanor McNamee were married in Dillon on May 26,[...]e died that same day. 1883; Carl, April 24, 1886; and Fredrick October 31, 1890. Pat and Eleanor's home was about three-quarters of a They developed the ranch and raised cattle and horses mile across the field from the Bill Sweeney home. In the and many acres of hay and forage crops. Many winters the summertime t[...]eather was the field to visit their Uncle Pat and Aunt Eleanor. Eleanor less severe. Periodically C[...]always give them a little lunch when they arrived and working at his carpentry trade. Rose cooked, washed, cared insist they lie on the couch and have a rest before they for the family and grew a large garden. The days were long started home again. and arduous with little time for rest or recreation.[...]15, 1933 from sleeping sickness. ranch prospered and by the time the family was grown, the In[...]rea. She came to Sheep strum children had married and established homes of their Creek to live. ow[...]n, Idaho, in Fremont County. They Pat and Eleanor are buried in Mountain View Cemetery rented out the Montana ranch and Carl bought town prop- in Dillon. erty in Ashton and built a nice home. This became their[...]made a trip to California to visit Rose's sister and her husband, Maggie and Fred Hopp. William and Lillie Sweeney After the passing of Carl Swans[...]4, 1867 in Titus- 1923 the oldest daughter, Kate, and her husband, Lewis ville, Penns., to Rodger and Mary Sweeney. Kaiser, came to live with Rose in t[...]ree sons were born to this union, Martin, Patrick and Rose's retirement years were a welcome time of[...]developed remarkable 1879. skill at crocheting and devoted many hours to this activity. Mary Sw[...]She would have been 90 on her next birthday. She and schooling ended with third grade but he was v[...]expert logger and followed the logging industry to the north Patrick and Eleanor in the summer and to the south in the winter.[...]They came by way of side-door Pullman to Dell and walked Patrick M. Sweeney was born March[...] |
| [...]1898, Bill and Earl Rogers were sinking a shaft on a prospect[...]up Medicine Lodge. One day a man came and stayed all[...]night. He told them the United States and Spain were at[...]war. The prospect didn't look too good and the grub was[...]running out so they decided to go outside and join the Army.[...]Bill liked horses. Sweeney and Rogers raised quite a few[...]with horses better than he did with auto- Earl and Bill took up land in Sheep Creek Basin right at mobiles. Bill and Earl purchased a 1917 Franklin. These the turn of the century. This land joined and they were cars were air-cooled so they w[...]business partners for 40 years running both sheep and cat- wouldn't run a lot of the time either.[...]After the purchase, Earl and Bill were in the car in front Bill worked for[...]ree on which was low gear Andrus Hotel in Dillon, and for Ike and Katie Rife on North and which was reverse. Bill was sure he knew so he shifted, Medicine Lodge. There he milked cows and hauled the let out the clutch and backed right up against the door of the cream to[...]hotel breaking off a post and effectively blocking the door- Bill and Earl would supplement their income by working way. in the woods in the Missoula and Seeley Lake country dur- William was a v[...]eligious man. He believed in ing the winter. Bill and Earl lived in a one-room log cabin in helping his neighbors and anyone else who was in need. Sheep Creek Basin. I[...]t cook when she was married, became a was married and moved to his place, Bill built a house of very fine cook and able to cope with the cowboys and all hewn logs, not far from the old cabin. It had[...]ced at mealtime. She was They used to have dances and people would come from the Nicholia[...]s. miles around to dance all night, eat breakfast and start back William passed away June 18, 1943. Lillie passed away home in the morning. They came by team and wagon, sled or September 18, 1956 after a[...]ugust 24, 1883. Her parents were John B. McIntyre and Margaret -MARGARET[...]school teacher. She had two years of high school and one year at a teachers' college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She taught in Iowa for several years and then accepted a teaching position in Goldfield, N[...]ana in 1912. She taught the upper Nicholia School and stayed with the Harry Andrus family. Her students were the Harkness, Kenison, Andrus and Lounsbury children. William Sweeney and Lillie McIntyre were married in Butte on October[...]ember 23, 1955; Peter Sweeney of Salem, Missouri; and Mary Sweeney Ford of Portland, Ore. Things cha[...]kids. William was an Irish Catholic lumberjack and Lillie was a Scotch Presbyterian school teacher.[...]ver known there was Lillie and William Sweeney 530-Beaverhead History |
| Amanda and Michael Swetish Amanda Marof was born[...]changed. As a little girl, Amanda herded sheep and cows on the small farm owned by her parents. Earl[...]from proceeds of the farm, making homemade wines and breads, especially a rolling bread called Povatic[...]of these enterprises the family income was small and only frugality got them through the winters. Because of this and the distances to schools, Aman- da was only affor[...]age of two and a half from what was then known as sun-[...]stroke. A daughter age three and a half drowned in the west[...]not escape this influenza and was incapacitated for months.[...]With unfailing courage and determination, Amanda took Amanda and Michael Swetish[...]reins of a team of Since the village was small and a good distance from horses to plow up the fields, sow the seeds, and perpetuate larger centers of population, medical[...]the farming cycle to meet the mortgage payments and keep the children died from one cause or another. The surviving her young family clothed and fed. four eventually migrated to America. Through sponsoring As time went on, the schooling and church needs of the relatives, the four found the[...]to church Amanda worked in Butte. Through friends and acquaint- or school was three miles b[...]rs Leap, so a solu- ances she met Michael Swetish and got married at St. Pa- tion had to be fo[...]half. Because of the terrain, trees, underbrush, and lavia, was in the grocery business, relatives and the beauty the lack of a right-of-way, a road to accommodate a car or and openness of Beaverhead County lured him into farm[...]was out of the question. A footpath, however, was and ranching. For the first few years of their marria[...]acktail Creek aid of friends, neighbors and older boys of the household, a area. In July, 191[...]solid bar was nailed 1920, they bought additional and adjacent acreage from R. near the top of each pair of posts. Two long lengths of cable W. and Lena B. Boone. Here at last with a place of their[...], own, they were able to raise a variety of crops and cattle. draped over the crossbar, strung ac[...]e. All over the crossbar at that set of posts and again anchored to except two survived to a[...] |
| apart and stretched to equal sag. Boards, spaced a few inch[...]ils. Wire was tied at intervals between the upper and lower cables to help stabilize the bridge. Howeve[...]one side than the other. There were no hand rails and bal- ancing took acrobatic expertise, especially[...]hese two by-ways did provide a shortcut to Dillon and over the years the footprints of the Swetish fami[...]ar waters of the Beaverhead River, some to visit, and others to entertain themselves by jumping on the bridge, causing it to sway way out"of the ordinary and many times causing much needed repairs. As the footsteps dwindled and a more modern mode of transportation became available, the old swinging bridge deteriorated and today most of the structure is gone. Although[...]n destiny, leaving the old folks behind. When age and illness took Michael from the scene, Amanda, Valen and Katherine Tadevich aging by then herself, leased[...]ngarian Empire which after World War I be- family and moved to town. After a few years of leasing, the[...]1901. She met and married Valen the same year. Their chil- Being a friendly, out-going and kind-hearted person, dren were Frank, b[...]; Ann, Amanda was soon surrounded by good friends and neigh- born 4-3-1908 in Butte; Mary,[...]12-18-1917; Katherine, born 8-6-1912 in Glen; and Rose, work, her church, her children and her grandchildren when born 4-27-1914 in[...]Katherine Halvorsen lives in Butte, and Rose Tortorelli On September 26, 197 4, Amanda Swetish died at the age lives in Spokane. of 86 and was laid to rest in Mountain View Cemetery in[...]1946, when they retired and moved to Whitehall.[...]As money was scarce, Chris Reiber and Val purchased[...]ng equipment in partnership. In May, Valen and Katherine[...]They found Frank dead. Katherine and Val grieved for this Valen was born February 14[...]ying day. Austria, He came to the U. S. at age 16 and worked as a The first schoolh[...] |
| [...]uring the Christmas of 1917, we had scarlet fever and lost Cavalry, arriving in Dillon in the early 1870s and ranching Mary the week before. Miss McGrady broug[...]ouse, but left children: them at the door, and grieved with us through the kitchen Thelm[...]born in Missoula on Decem- window. How dedicated and devoted was this wonderful ber 16, 1911, and passed away on February 23, 1947, in lady![...]presently residing in Oregon and Whittier, Calif. At an early The ranchers using[...]Rock Creek date he left Beaverhead County and wasemployed in var- built a dam and reservoir at Rock Creek Lake. It was quite a ious government agencies and private industry before and feat.[...]neers. He spent most military time in Europe and after[...]y L. Tallent was born in Dillon October 16, 1923, and Alexander Dempster Tait-Born: January 4, 1891,[...]tte, Montana, in ways having been a resident and rancher on Sage Creek 1915. He and Gladys Paddock were married April 20, 1918.[...]-JAY P. TALLENT AND ERNEST K. TALLENT 28, 1940, Dillon. William Randa[...]George and Susan Tash When "Scotty" and Gladys were married, he was on leave Geo[...]1863, at from the U.S. Army as he had volunteered and automatical- Thayer, Union County, Iowa. In[...]of his family to move to Montana. Three brothers and two overseas where he served in France and Belgium in the 91st sisters would later join[...]his speech. He Bannack. He later rode shotgun and stage coach driver with appeared in many American Legion sponsored minstrel and his younger brother, Noah Ray Tash. They[...]Theatre at Dillon. tween Bannack, Dillon, and Virginia City. He was engaged Gladys graduated from Bannack grade school and worked in the retail meat business with Charles and Walter Edwin on the Paddock Ranch, situated on Gr[...]d for the telephone company. She also enrolled in and attended Montana State Normal College, although she had never attended high school. She was a good homemaker and excellent cook and was noted for her excellent breads, rolls and pastries. -WILLIAM R. TAIT Na than Jay and Ella M. |
| [...]. George served as a Deputy Sher- (1908) Ruby, and Lowell Homer Tash (1910) at Aftin, Iowa. iff and Deputy U. S. Marshal at Bannack. Three of Homer's brothers and a sister, Cora Jackson, also George later acqu[...]Valley lived in Bannack. Some of the children and grandchildren of and he engaged in the stock business for several year[...]1917, he sold his ranch in the Grasshopper Valley and After about two years Homer and Nora moved to Roches- moved to Dillon. George ope[...]y 4, 1940, in Dillon. gold dredge boats, and after a year or so they moved to Susan Gray Ta[...]eek. Every six weeks there after her parents (Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Gray) arrived in was a long ch[...]kers in 24 hours, there Susan attended schools and grew up in Bannack. Susan would now be thr[...]: Pearl Tash City, the men had to drive to and from work. Much time was born May 23, 1892; Dale Tash, born March 26, 1898; and saved when cars were used instead of horses and buggys. Ruth Tash Noone Peterson, Born March 28,[...]re the dredge boat was completed, sev- Homer and Nora Tash eral young ladies of the town had become wives and after the Homer A. Tash was born June 19, 1873[...]ed, went east with their husbands to son of Lewis and Mary Tash. Lewis' parents came to Iowa liv[...]be finished. He began to look for a ranch to buy and Tash came to Montana in 1896 from his native stat[...]Homer drove a stage his first winter in Montana and later sold and on March 2, 1912, Homer, Nora and their five worked on a gold dredge, the Bonacord,[...]September of 1898, Homer met the train in Dillon and spring wagon for 24 miles and through a very bad blizzard. greeted two passengers, his sister Ora, and Nora Abbott, To make matters worse, the fou[...]ildren had both of Iowa. That evening, Homer Tash and Nora Abbott whooping cough. Needless to s[...]was long but not were married in the Metlen Hotel and set up housekeeping fondly remembered. in B[...]Ruby, granary, machine shed, milk house, and a large house all THE TASH FAMILY: from le#, Nora (holding baby |
| [...]stop Bannack. The comparisons in travel and accommodations (Salisbury) between Salt Lake and Helena for many years. were made by her 55 years later when she and her daughters The front part of the house was bui[...]with traveled by jet to Alaska. Clara Tash Kelly died in W enat- weather boarding. (some years ago[...]in 1981. City purchased the log part of the house and it was rebuilt in In 1908 Mary Weeter Tash[...]serving as a motel. There were many old and moved to Montana to live with her daughter Ora and guns in the house and they are now in the museum at Virgin- famil[...]s. He was active in Cemetery. the Farm Bureau and was a member of the Federal Farm[...]county commissioner of Madi- Noah Raymond and Anna son County. Nora Tash passed away October 2,[...]-LOWELL PARKINSON Ray and Anna had two children, Donald Allen, born July[...]15, 1910 and Evelyn Viola, born November 6, 1916. After Lewis and Mary Elizabeth[...]h fore- There were eight children born to Lewis and Mary Eliza- man and Anna cooked for the family and the ranch hands. beth Weeter Tash, seven of whom[...]Glendale, where they lived in nack in the 1880's and early 1900's the ol[...]d- by William S., Noah Raymond, Homer, Cora, Ora, and ing on the train to be hauled to smelters at East Helena and Clara, the youngest. The only brother who chose n[...]ontana was the eldest, Ira, who was loading and teams of horses. A few years were spent in the born in Clark County, Iowa, February 13, 1862, and settled Glen area on several ranches, incl[...]where he served as a district court judge Don and Evelyn attended the original Reichle School for f[...]grade school, and Don went on to high school at Melrose. Cora E.[...]asant, Iowa, March In the late 1920s and the early 1930s, the family spent a 27, 1866, and married Harvey F. Jackson. They managed[...]o children: Donald T., born in judging and care classes. Ray continued to be well known for Bannack, March 28, 1903, and Dorothy M., born in Twin his skill in handling horses (particularly draft horses), and Bridges, May 27, 1907. Cora Tash Jackson died at Butte in was sought after and employed by Beaverhead County 1957.[...]ra Tash was born March 16, 1879, in Thayer, Iowa, and head County Fair time to judge the horse[...]picture of him without his muleskinner hat, pipe and/or a 1903; George Henery, born December 10, 1904,[...]February 24, 1911; Monica Ora, September 4, 1915; and William Ste-[...]Tash was born October 15, 1884, in Thayer, Iowa, and married Elmer Kelly on February 26, 1905. They stayed on the Tash far[...]Mary, manage it until it was sold in 1908. Clara and Elmer had five children all born in Thayer: Harol[...]September 17, 1909; Dale Elmer, January 23, 1913; and Rex Francis, April 20, 1915. Clara told of her[...]to Dillon was $48. She stayed in the Metlen Hotel and took the stage to Ray Tash w[...] |
| [...]cated in the same area as the current High School and she went on to the Normal College until 1936.[...]1945 at the A O Schulz Ranch in Sheridan where he and Anna had worked for sev- eral years. Anna continu[...]ding the William S. Tash Ranch on the Grasshopper and the Staudenmeyer Ranch on the Beaverhead, north o[...]26, 1957 at the home of her daughter, Evelyn. Ray and Anna are both buried in the family plot at Moun-[...]- l William and Etta Tash William and Etta Tash William Sherman Tash, known to friends and family as Dillon. "Bill" was born March 1[...]Colo., September 4, 1876, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. born to Lewis and Mary Elizabeth Weeter Tash. Mea[...]n Bannack. His schools at Bannack. She met and married William Sherman early career was colorful and adventurous for this was in the "Bill" Tash, Oc[...]had almost recovered when Times were troublesome and as a Deputy Sheriff he had pneumonia set in and she died at the ranch home in Grass- numerous occ[...]she died. As time passed and the mines around Bannack worked Bill later married Emily Taylor. Emily's parents, Mr. and out, Bill turned his attention to the livestock b[...]ilroad the operation of a Butcher shop in Bannack and Dillon, the reached Dillon. Emily died July[...]Committee, and was active in politics and community af- Bill's ranch boasted the reputati[...]idewalk outside to pay final tribute to one nack; and Wilbur Sherman Tash, born May 15, 1909, at[...]Frank and Mina Tate[...]Mina E. Conley was born July 14, 1869. Mina and Frank were married in 1886 and took up a homestead.[...]For years, the family milked cows and sold milk. They[...]would winter on the homestead and spend the summers up W. S. Tash with sons Harry and Earl (Dillon, 1910) Trapper Creek, between the old ore camp and concentrator 536-Beaverhead History |
| [...]Camp Creek and he also mined in Hecla and Bannack. They[...]had three children: Jean, Dorothy and Robert. Robert sur-[...]Frank and Mina's youngest son Ernest married and had a[...]After the deaths of Frank Tate and his oldest son Hilary[...]years of operation, Ernest's health failed and he sold the old on what is known as Tate's Flat. From there, milk was Tate Ranch. hauled lby team and wagon to Hecla, Glendale, Melrose, Joe Langley bought the houses on the Ranoldo and Mat- Rochester Basin and Soap Gulch. tix places and moved them to Melrose where they still Frank and Mina had eight children: Hilary D. born Au-[...]-LAURETTA TATE SMITH and SALLY DING- June 4, 1891; Zenah E. born December[...]April 4, 1904; Ernest L. born September 30, 1906; and another infant born March 21, 1909 who died the n[...]Benjamin B. and Angeline Their son, John F., died at age 11 on Oc[...]e, Australia. He was one of 13 had been bought up and added to the original homestead. children born to John C. Taylor and Helen Libieth (?) The Howard place, the Quillici[...]). He came to America about 1860 with his parents and the Mattix place all under one fence made a good and four brothers when he was six years old and the family spread.[...]illon. He married eled with his father and two older brothers to Bannack Sylvia Smith. They[...]r a few years, returned to Bangor several Maurice and Frank.[...]Lauretta Tate Smith .recalls: "My He and his brothers worked as cowpunchers. For a while, mother and dad moved up to the big house after Grandma[...]he place was a large routed by Indians and returned to Beaverhead County. ranch and took a lot of hired men to work.[...]ohn C., on what became "Mother did the cooking and cleaning. She had from ten Taylor Creek. When his father died, he left Ben and his to twenty people for meals every day. She bak[...]s of bread, pans of biscuits, three or four pies, and a questionable value. cake each day. We made ou.r own butter and butchered and Ben took up land on the Blacktail Creek, sold it and cured our own meat.[...]oved to the Watson Station area, disposed of that and "I can remember my grandpa taking a trainload[...]geline Huff was the 13th child of William H. Huff and to come in for dinner. My brother Frank and I took their Sarah Ann Graham, born Augus[...]od over through the fields on horseback. The meat and Nodaway County, Mo. She came to Montana[...]uck- 1879 with her parents, her brother Cal and her sisters Sivilla et, and another bucket of vegetables. I carried three pies in and Harriet. They settled in Lion City and later moved to my hands. The dishes, silverware, bread and butter were Glendale where her father .w[...]r, moved to the warm "My brother Lilburn (Bud) and I graduated from Beaver- springs waterfall stmth of Barrett's about 1888, and then[...] |
| [...]er 2, 1906, from a ruptured appendix at age seven and is[...]Ben and Angie bought property on North Washington[...]Dillon's best-known pioneers and highly esteemed citizens,[...]g that stern stuff that made the west in general, and[...]Ben once trained a steer to take a saddle and let him ride it.[...]All the old-timers remembered Ben Taylor and his "saddle[...]Moun- Cora Taylor, cousin Nellie Dingley, Lillie and Myrtle tain View Cemetery. Charlie Sparr[...]aken in Dillon 1904. Ohio, and Angie Taylor were married October 6, 1919, in set[...]ley as witness. That mar- Benjamin Bray Taylor and Angeline Huff were married riage was unstable and Charles Sparr left. on Christmas Day, 1895, at the home of Herman Carson and Angie's daughter Berniece recalls, "The[...]. In 1897, Ben purchased the 160 acres post and left. That was the last time anyone ever saw him.[...]all. It the Huff ranch, from his in-laws, William and Sarah Huff, was as if the world just swallow[...]now part of the property owned by much." Don and Helen Shaffner and some of the old buildings still Angie Tayl[...]. Angie died side of Interstate 15 between Dillon and Barrett's and there June 22, 1945, in Roberts, Idaho, and is buried in Mountain they grew prime-quality hay and raised cattle. The house View Cemetery in Dillon next to her first husband, Benja- and some of the outbuildings still stand.[...]anch. Myrtle married George Larson, then Tom Deal and last Joe Bell. She died May 28, 1976, in Hon. John C. and Helen E. Dillon.[...]John C. Taylor was born in Maine in 1830 and Helen[...]known each other as children and possibly grew up in Ban-[...]r. As a young couple, they traveled to the Sidney and[...]to have seven daughters die and be buried there. Their sons[...]were John, Jr., Edward, twins Benjamin Bray and Franklin Raye, and the youngest may have been William H. They[...]City and possibly by Indians, on the trip. They reached[...]others say 1864. John C. became a Angeline and Benjamin B. Taylor, 1895 Vigilante and "performed the duties of that organization[...] |
| with credit to himself and to the organization," wrote the editor of the Dil[...]John C. Taylor had studied law as a young man and within months of his arrival at Bannack was selec[...]last probate judge while still in Idaho Territory and upon the creation of Montana Territory on May 26,[...]take up ranching on Taylor Creek between Bannack and Argenta. He delivered milk to Ban- nack. On th[...]n their own. A few years later, Edward, John Jr., and Ben went to eastern Montana and worked as cow punchers but soon returned to Bannack. From 1877 to about 1885, John C. began buying land and mining claims from Robert T. Wing, William Mansfield, James Mackay, D. B. Mason and others. He and his wife Helen became Spiritualists, and those who knew the Tay- lors said that he allowed[...]ght school for a term in Argenta about 1883- 1884 and his students said they learned more from his talk[...]eir text books. He was considered a well educated and a very kind-hearted man. Occasionally he worked a[...]Myrtle was born on January 2, 1897 to Benjamin and subsided. At the time of hi$.death, April 28, 1885, he owned Angeline Taylor. She led a very colorful and active life. She interests in the Black Hawk No. 2 Lode, the Dingo Lode and worked as an ironer at the Dillon Laundry for[...]Mohawk Lode, all in the Blue Wing Mining District and In addition, she also owned many small cabin[...]Mead, the probate judge at time of John C.'s and single working men. death and a long time friend, oversaw the administration of Myrtle befriended her renters and many others and al- the estate by the widow. Judge Mead was famous for his ways gave generously of her time and money. She had a illegible handwriting and the court records support this in- terrific sense of humor and often recited poetry and sang famous claim to fame. The Taylor sons thought the claims songs using different voices and parts. One of the things were worthless and sold them to their mother for $200. Two Myrtl[...]to Mr. Bessette for $250. John C. dogs, cats, and horses. She had a great knowledge of birds was buried in the Argenta Cemetery. and flowers and she used these as subjects for her drawings Helen E. Taylor, taught first and second grade classes at colored with crayons. t[...]averhead County, Myrtle loved education and joined several correspon- after John's death. On[...]Rebekah Lodge. She was very proud of her family and its John Taylor, Jr. drowned in the Beaverhead River. Ben- pioneer history and took an active part in the Sons and jamin B. died in 1916 and Edward died sometime thereafter. Daughters of[...]obituary. est in the young. She dressed as and acted as Santa for Helen E. Taylor's death date in unknown. If she died in different groups and lodges. Beaverhead County, she was probabl[...] |
| [...]Ivy Lee Davison, daughter of Dr. Asa Lee and Mary Olive The Taylor Family[...]September 19, 1839; d. February East Helena and made their first home in Polson. Their two 16, 19[...]ew Brunswick, Canada. daughters Mary Louise and Mildred Edith were born. In 1863, he headed West[...]ma Canal to San Francisco, the Territory of Idaho and lished his practice in Optometry. He served[...]rmed a partnership in Board of Optometry and held various offices in Montana the promotion of[...]lor played trumpet in the green-suited city band, and Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska. was on local baseball and basketball teams. He was an avid In 1890 Mr. Taylor made a trip through the Flathead sportsman, and an expert rifleman. For many years, he was countr[...]Modern Woodmen of tales of his encounters on this and other journeys. America, and Rotary International. In 1889, he married Mary[...]d. June 15, 1938), daughter of Rev. Michael Gross and tana.After finishing Helena High School, she[...]Montana State Normal College (now Western), and gradu- Bannack where they made their home until 1897, when they ated in 1905. She taught in Red Lodge and East Helena. moved to Dillon.[...]Kappa Zeta Nu They were parents of three boys and one girl: Levant Tate sorority and became a charter member. She often spoke of (b. J[...]ld Bernice Taylor Hautala (b. September 10, 1913) and Wil- Dorm, razed several years ago. liam[...]as never married. Her School superintendent and leader of Epworth League. She twin, Carl Byron (b[...]as active in the Normal College Alumni, the local and state ried Ivy Lee Davison (b. January 25, 1886; d. May 15, 1950) Rebekah Lodge and was a charter member of Chapter AD, on June 25, 1[...]P.E.O. in Dillon. Hilden (b. August 22, 1913) and Mildred Edith Taylor Soll In 1946, she m[...]ife, Mr. Taylor's eyesight failed. It was then he and Mrs. Taylor homesteaded on Crow Creek, near Ronan. They raised chickens and tended their fruit and vegetable David and Elizabeth Terry gardens until his death.[...]David Terry was born to Jacoo E. Terry and Mary Marie On an excursion to Newfoundland, sh[...]children. Vera Schulz tells about Dave Terry and a brother Howe. He told Howe that there was the g[...]s that had migrated down the Ohio River on marry, and asked for an introduction! They were married in[...]be traded off or made into wagons, obtained 1881, and left to make their home in Bannack, Montana,[...]g man, William Tate Taylor, had mining and milk cows and other needed supplies. interests.[...]eth was born Jan. 21, 1846, to Bethuel Francisco, and then to Montana by railroad in stages, as Miller and Amantha Gordon. Dave and Elizabeth were mar- tracks were laid. When Mrs. T[...]year. Mrs. Taylor was a talented needleworker and seamstress. Elizabeth stayed at Corrine,[...]on to Oregon. He then returned to Corrine, ping, and to her former home in Canada.[...]eived his early education in Ban- Elizabeth and belongings and headed north. They stopped nack, where his parent[...]me, moved on to Virginia City then on high school and Montana State Normal School (now West- t[...]Optometry in Chicago. When Hecla and Glendale got going Dave was deputy While he wa[...]e, sheriff of Glendale for a number of years and also worked in 540-Beaverhead History |
| [...]1869, Delpha (Della) born in 1872, and David born in 187 4.[...]man, Aug., 1889, and Carl, Oct., 1891.[...]Ida married Frederick J. Arbour on May 12, 1887, and lived in Glendale and Rochester, Montana. Della married Sam Davis and lived in Missoula. David drowned in the Big[...]Hole River when young. Grace married a Mitchell and[...]and lived in Glendale and Rochester. Raman and Carl never[...]ll son to Argenta, where his Terry and Grace Terry[...]the Hecla Consolidated Mining for the child, and he went to work in the mines. Company.[...]William (Bill) grew up in this area and in Canada where Dave liked and respected the indians he had met in his he[...]many starting school. His father, John, met and married his sec- indian families and tribes in southwestern Montana. Eliza- ond wife. They moved back to Montana and settled in the beth distrusted the indians and didn't understand their Wisdom area where[...]amp at Glendale. children: Aldric, Wilford and Albertine. Later they moved There are two large fir trees there that the Terrys planted. to Dillon and operated a small farm at the north edge of Dave and Elizabeth had seven children. At least three[...]the Big Hole area and later in the Argenta mines, where he met and married his wife of 69 years, Florence Paddock[...]they ran the Meade Hotel and Dining Room for Florence's[...]From lefi: (standing) Blanche Arbour Mahoney and Ida Terry Arbour; (seated) Earl Claridge and Eliza- beth Miller Terry Bill and Florence Tessier[...] |
| [...]bling hall. by Dr. Ryburn: Cary 1910, Victor 1912 and Irene 1913. They These were the days of prohibition and the Overall Gang. moved to Dillon where Dalton wa[...]Life turned the tables on him there and they moved back to Later they moved to the Ham[...]n had been an active member of the Brotherhood of and chauffeur for Marcus Daly's daughters. the Elks in Pocatello, Idaho, and became a chartered mem- In 1920 they were bles[...]In 1922 Florence City. being in poor health and expecting her sixth child went to John died in Dillon March 27, 1925 and is buried at her parents, Mary and Randal Paddock in Bannack, where Mounta[...]ner best tells the kind of man girl Lelah in 1925 and Harley in 1934. he was:[...]nds William also worked for the Forest Service and helped to in Dillon and the surrounding country was an unusual ex- build[...]ill at the Idaho pression of the appreciation and loyalty of those who knew line. At this time he owned a ranch in the Sula area. After he him best and liked him most. He was in a class by himself. ret[...]milton-Florence on February 6, shooter', and held this until his death. He was a most liberal 1978, and William on December 19, 1978. Florence was man and quietly did more friendly and charitable acts than nearly 90 and William was 92. They had 22 grandchildren,[...]was natural for him to be 44 great grandchildren and many great great grandchildren kind, generous and thoughtful of the needs of others."[...]fter John's death Jessie returned to Soda Springs and a -MARGARET FLEC[...]Lima/Dillon area about 1935 and died in a nursing home in John L. and Jessie Thiel[...]born January 22, 1877, in Colorado John and Jessie's son Matthew never married and died in to Matthew (Mathias) and Helena (Rahm) Thiel. Matthew 1933. Jack married Ivy Mary Duck in 1933 and they had five was an immigrant from Alsace Lorrai[...]children: Jack, Robert, Thomas, Betty, and William. Robert and Helena from Switzerland. John was the youngest of[...]seventeen three, having two older sisters, Carrie and Edith. Their children and seven grandchildren. Jack died in Dillon in mothe[...]1956. Warren married Gladys Sommerville in 1950 and they old. Their father -who was an iron moulder and moved to presently reside in Ely, Nevada. Lorraine and John, their wherever the latest mining camp was prospering-sent his son and daughter, each have two children. children to liv[...]of 13, John left home. He lived in Utah, Colorado and finally Idaho where he married Jessie Mobley[...]Mr. and Mrs. Isadore at Soda Springs on December 3, 1902.[...]r, Lau- Thomas ra Belle (West) and stepfather, James P. Smith, were the owners of a[...]ustria. A carpenter While in Soda Springs, Jessie and John had three sons, by trade, Isadore[...]building, a trade he learned in the old country. and Jack Louis born in 1907. William died in infancy.[...]ry Lawrenze while still living in In 1915 John and Jessie, with their two sons, moved to Aust[...]1861 in Austria. Polk directory shows John Thiel and William Christopher Isadore and Mary came to the United States in about as the ow[...]ildren of their own, but were like also a breeder and trainer of horses, both for teams and parents and grandparents to many Dillon residents. They racin[...]y of the Rebich, Malesich, he drove his own buggy and pony. The winter and spring of and Spehar children, as well as many other families a[...]if., enrolling Dillon. They loved children, and were much loved by all the son Jack in a military[...]midwife at the racing circuit. John was a gambler and a chance taker. After birth of many children[...]Mary's niece, Sophia Lawrenze, came to Dillon and November, 1920, another son, Warren Harding, was born. stayed with Isadore and Mary and later married John Re- During the first[...] |
| [...]Mrs. Isadore Thomas, and very few knew her first name. For[...]residence, only the little house he and Mary lived in on Mr. and Mrs. Thomas at Thomsen Avenue home in[...]visiting there as children. Mary and Isadore did a lot of Dillon. Sophia died at a you[...]y after the birth of babysitting for friends, and were always there to help in any her third child,[...]lways considered way they could. Isadore and Mary part of their family. Mary came out to the[...]-BETTE MEINE HULL Rebich ranch and helped put on the big dinners for wedding receptions and other big get-togethers. She was a very hard worker, and always willing to do all she could. But she was[...]ins. Six months later George arrived in Salt Lake and as a pin, but was reluctant to let him so much as[...]an who was very Sara Amelia, John Henry, and James William. Sara, later[...]Mrs. Jasper Burgess, and James survived him, also grand- sons and great grandsons.[...]Thompson traveled to Denver and on to Idaho by oxen[...]the first Presbyterian School in that area and his children[...]After helping build the railroad between Melrose and[...]Deer Lodge and Missoula, up through the Bitterroot and[...]the first water right on Thompson Creek and had a fine[...]and Musicbrod. He also was very busy building fence[...]He moved to Hamilton in 1919 and remained there until[...] |
| [...]George William Thompson was born in Nebraska and after his mother remarried due to the death of hi[...]John and Mary Thompson father, young Thompson suffered the beatings and tribula- John Clark Thompson and Mary Eliza (Sanders) Thomp- tions of an unloving and brutal step-father. Following many son came[...]on him, leaving the step-father in dire straights and not den, Utah, and served in the Utah War. knowing whether his step-[...]Captain of Cavalry in the Utah Militia and served in the work, and any type of employment available at that time.[...]s an Indian inter- He worked around the Big Piney and Jackson Hole area and preter. eventually wandered into the Mont[...]Perry Thompson was born in Anaconda. There he met and married Edna Hybsahman a log cabin at the mouth of Little Sheep Creek Canyon, and they decided on a ranch-type life in the Centenni[...]. It is believed at Valley. With one daughter, he and his wife first settled on that time that the[...]. 1890 John A. West applied for water rights and in 1892 This place is now owned by the Walsh Catt[...]ise). A large part of those 300 son was born here and Mr. Thompson engaged in various worked[...]ine Railroad, a branch of the ranching activities and took on the job of driving the mail on Union Pa[...]with turntable, machine shop, a water tank and a coal chute, and then later for Paul Zink. and the depot. There were switching yards and stock yards. At various times the Thompsons le[...]- Joseph Perry was one of eleven children and if his father tisfactory and to a part of Wyoming or to Couer D'Alene,[...]Jennings Bryan, his father's lifetime champion and presi- dren were born. At one time they settled o[...]ved on into Lakeview where the last son was born, and the luxury of hospitals, anesthesia or doctors. So all were Mr. Thompson worked for the Bird Refuge and Mrs. born at home; a few of the y[...]be a prescription of brown pills for any guitar, and banjo and was always instrumental in providing and all ailments and the admonition to "await develop- music for the d[...]Thompson children attended the Lima Public 1940s and went to the Big Hole Valley. The parents eventu-[...]ilding with a bell tower ally lived in Deer Lodge and it was there that both passed and flag on top. It had four identical rooms, each with two or away, Mr. Thompson in 1966 and Mrs. Thompson in 1980. three iron post[...]of the Thompsons are: and one a gym. It was quite a trial to dodge t[...] |
| a crank, some wire, and insulators. One was installed in the Thompson house and one in Percy Flynn's about a mile away. (Percy wa[...]a great deal of the distance. After a few trials and errors they got it in operation. It was their first tele- phone and at that time it was indeed phenomenal. John Clark[...]horse-powered contraption for sawing winter wood. And remember that first airplane that came to Lima, b[...]e Selway families. He went to the Gallatin Valley and[...]dairying and sheep raising, horses and cattle, purchasing a[...]erritorial Council in May 8, 1829, son of William and Sarah Thorpe who were 1871, representing Gallatin County. born in the same place and died there. In 188[...]age 11 to be an apprentice of Joseph County and settled on a ranch north of Dillon. He married Anderson in Lancanshire and stayed with him until 1849. Sarah Selw[...]ldren: Blanche Bartlet, born January 14, 1859; go and Kenosha, Wisc. There he remained until the spring Alma Rosa born in 1867; Phillip Jr., born 1870, and Florence of 1850 in the grocery and dry goods store of Kelly and Eliza born July 14, 1861, who married[...]at Dillon. Council Bluffs he joined a wagon train and arrived in Sacra- Phillip Thorpe died in[...]eef that died on the yoke, a little cracked wheat and coffee. At Rag Town they procured provisions at exorbitant prices and proceed- ed to Hangtown. Here the wagon train disbanded and Phil- lip Thorpe and a Mr. Greenwood headed toward Sacramen- to. While[...]len so they were compelled to pack their blankets and travel to Sacramento on foot. Upon reaching the c[...]trip. For three years Mr. Thorpe was prospecting and mining. The next 10 years he returned to the grocery and drug business. In 1863 he sold out, traveled to Montana via Salt Lake City and arrived in Bannack on August 1, 1863. Mr Thorpe visited Virginia City and the Gallatin Valley. He returned to Rac[...] |
| [...]d to a farm near Bruning, Thayer Coun- Thomas and Kathlyn Tonrey and their two children, ty, Neb. At the age of 19, Clarence married Alice Williams, a Hayesl and Francis, came toButte from Pennsylvania[...]ked at mining. They lived at a mine near Armstead and county seat. at the Polaris mine, moving[...]y of his mother Anna's rela- Kathlyn, Hayesl, and Francis remained in Dillon. Hayesl tives ha[...]thirty years, so in 1908 he moved his wife Alice and their Billie, who was reared in Dillon, graduatin[...]he first spring he tended head County High School and Wes tern Montana College. sheep in th[...]en worked on the Union Pacific Anson died in 1935 and Hayesl in 1960. Railra[...]ed his attack. In later years he owned a fox farm and a men's store, family to Dillon and built a four-room log house on a street Tonrey's[...]the county as they played dances in all and was being used as an office for a junk yard. The[...]who graduated from Beaverhead County High School and Montana State Uni- versity. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was a fighter pilot in the South Pacific during W[...]-BILLIE BAXTER HELFERT Clarence and Alice |
| the 1920s and 1930s, made heavier by government loans[...]s, while Clarence 18 to visit her brothers, Gus and Charlie Swanson. They had tried to make a living with farming and being a McNess three children: Ruth, Jessie, and Ralph. Ralph was killed in distributor, his wife[...]hter In 1912 they sold the Livery Stable and bought the Chris- Arah has many good memories of[...]rk, where they raised cattle, the girls had grown and left home, Clarence and Alice sheep, and pigs. They butchered meat for the Wisdom Meat mov[...]o Dillon many times to Market, made butter and sold it to stores in Wisdom and to visit friends and relatives, but remained in Missoula the rest Ch[...]War I and delivered them to Kan~as City, Mo. John Tope T[...]versary before sold his interest in the ranch and moved to Utah. Clarence died. Alice Timmons died[...]Their daughter, Arah Roberta, married Tex Bullock and Eastern Star in Wisdom. She was honored a[...]er 50 year membership. They drove the 10 miles to and they live in Mesa, Arizona.[...]end meetings. In the winter they went with a team and[...]he Harvest Day Celebrations -SALLY GARRET DINGLEY and ARAH TIM- during Sep[...]rt Canfield, Frank Ritchel, Weldon Else, Jesse and Hannah Tope and John Wharton. William Jesse Tope, one of 10 ch[...].M. on week ton, Mo., August 23, 1879, to George and Elizabeth Tope. days. On Sunday it was from nine to noon and three to six in George was in the Civil War and fought with the Northern the afternoon. T[...]and Mother was the postmistress. She worked the mail and Jesse arrived in Beaverhead County in 1867. He[...]rs in St. Louis before coming to Montana, and then it moved up to John Wharton's. Finally it wa[...]lower Beaverhead valley. Then he moved to Wisdom and would go to Wisdom to pick it up. It was delivered to us on worked at the Ajax Mine and then at the Mercantile for Tuesday and Fridays. He also had to drive the 10 miles with C[...]as the sheriff in Wisdom for many team and sleigh. years. They had a jail in Wisdom at that time. He and his The first school was near the Covey[...]lf-mile from our place. At one time there buggies and took people to Divide to catch the train. They were 25 pupils and the teachers boarded with our folks. also made tr[...]by the name of "Maytag", the first car in Wisdom, and used that -RUTH GNOSE AND JESS!E POTTS for the taxi service instead of hors[...]who she was in love with, and wished to marry the young[...]Lewis to get into the sleigh occupied by himself and Hannah and Jesse Tope daughter and act as coachman for them in the 16-mile dr[...] |
| [...]over the first line and under the inscription BIRTHS is[...]got Milt's pistol and PERSUADED him to enter her name[...]Bible. Emma is listed as first-born and Mary Ida's name[...]MORE From le~: Curtis, Charley, Belda, Mary Ida, and Ida Tovey Family[...]Dan and George Tovey, Tom Thomas, David E. Stephens |
| and his first wife Lorena had two daughters. A few ye[...]nna Anderson who still lives in Dillon. Thomas and Martha Tritt |
| is dated April 22, 1872, and his citizenship was declared the sale on[...]on the "ditch bank" behind the Lew Graves store and at the Richard's homestead on Horse Prairie as[...]ing was crude, wooden floors were scrubbed white and win- bachelor. He returned to England and married his child- dows were adorned w[...]emaker. She used newspaper, pasted over len Ranch and Joe, Dale, and Genevieve became close the logs and whitewashed, to give the appearance of hard- frie[...]nderwood brood. When Mary Ann to-get and expensivewallpaper. Her innovation served a died,[...]ld winter winds. weeks to twelve years, neighbors and friends rallied round. There was one la[...]cept Mac, at five, was nurtured by the Metlens and grew up sleeping, two bedrooms, a laundry area, and an ice house learning the rudiments of ranch life[...]use was sold in the mid 30s to playing the fiddle and baseball, It was Mac's interest in Chris[...]his intro- made to Grant, Bannack, Polaris and the Big Hole. Mac and duction to Sarah (Sadie) Thompson. He was 24 whil[...]but being the tenth child in a family Lila and Avis. Four were born in the cabin, Bernard was of[...]born in another frame house in Bannack, and Avis was born Sadie's parents, Thomas Lewis Thompson and Martha in Dillon, July 10, 1923. Ma[...]923, of stomach Ellen Ashworth, were born, raised and married in the carcinoma at age 40.[...]Cemetery is the resting place for many of in 1873 and started west by covered wagon in the summer of these families, including Richard and Mary Ann Under- 1880. They were accompanied by th[...]sie Clare, five years old, William Thomas, three, and Ed- Grasshopper Creek. The Ashworths, Edmund and Jessie mund George, one. After their arrival in T[...], 1881. She was named infant son of Sadie and Mac Underwood. Montana (Montie) Violet. In all th[...]John and Josephine Childhood memories shared by our mother about the years of her youth were told to us and each time they were[...]Verbance enjoyed more and more. One of her favorite stories involved[...]was born in Draga, Croatia, Yugoslavia, the fear and awe all Bannackites shared for the Indians.[...]gly fearless, attended the same school and church. On May 10, 1905, the greeted them with broom in hand and dispatched them childhood sweethea[...]Sadie, according to pecking order, was the sitter and in years. Croatia was part of the Austro-H[...]by car- Two more children, a daughter and a son, were born dur- riage and treking about a mile up the road to the Paddock[...]carriage traveled on its own. The butter flew out and baby and carriage rolled over it. Relieved the baby was st[...]etrieved the blob, reshaped it (including gravel) and once home, placed it without fanfare in the family co_oler. When Sadie and Mac met, one of her older sisters, as well as one[...]re already romantically involved with Underwoods, and an additional liaison between the families was fr[...]1, 1912. Within that year, Mac became a father and lost his father. A portion of his share of the estate enabled the couple to John and Josephine Verbance with grandchildren purchase a[...]Tash. The couple closed Betty Jo Poole and Donald Verbance 550-Beaverhead History |
| and sailed to America. He settled in Calumet, Michigan, tucky and died in the spring of 1862 in Illinois. where his sister and her family lived. He worked in the Wilson and Mary Jane had three children born in Ste- copper[...]mber 27, 1941); Richard In May 1913, Josephine and her two small children, Caro- Marlin, born August 4, 1852 (died April 11, 1914); and Lucy lyn and Johnnie, embarked on the liner Franz Joseph, leav[...]orn May 8, 1858 (died June 6, 1937). ing Lukovdol and close relatives behind. They came down[...]to the mine fields of Colorado. They the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas, through the Strait of were there for a time and then left Central City, Colo., on Gibraltar, and across the Atlantic Ocean. They stopped in[...]to go to the Deer Lodge Valley. They Ellis Island and New York City, then boarded a train for[...]move to the copper mines in Price's Canyon and halted at Birch Creek, where they Butte, Montana,[...]shopper Gulch. They forgot family moved to Dillon and began John's dream of working about the Deer Lodge Valley and headed up the Frying Pan with the land.[...]driven by Jim Harby In 1919, John, Josephine, and their three children moved and Smith Ball, went up Spring Gulch to what later became to the Glen and Melrose area. In 1927, he became foreman of[...]tlement of min- leased the JoseQh A. Browne ranch and later purchased it in ers but in a short time tents began to appear in the area and 1940. It was a partnership with John Jr. and Mack and later in the fall, cabins were built.[...]neyard While living in Bannack, Wilson and Mary Jane had two Ranch and Jerked Prairie on the Wise River. They lived on[...]st of their lives, 1866 (died July 12, 1937) and Alice Velnette, born Septem- raising hogs and potatoes first and then hay and cattle. ber 22, 1870 (died September 18, 1944). John Verbance died January 25, 1950, and Josephine died The settlement of Marysvi[...]bered as the woman who, in 1877, rode ber 1, 1937 and lives in Pocatello, Idaho. Carolyn and Mack horseback 50 miles to notify ranchers[...]that Poole were married March 24, 1928, in Dillon and live on the Indians were on the move in the[...]the Browne Ranch. John Jr. died February 15, 1969 and is Big Hole. buried in Dillon.[...]Wilson Wadams died September 5, 1902 and is buried at -CA[...]and is buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Dillon, Mon- Mary Jane and Wilson tana.[...]-HELEN SHAFFNER Wadams Mary Jane and Wilson Wadams were early settlers in[...]zerland, came to Wilson Wadams, son of William and Lucy Roland Wa- Buena Vista (near Fo[...]n New York State on March 29, 1823. His and became a cheesemaker. To him and his wife, Annie, father was German and his mother was English. His father were born Hans, Frederick (Fritz), Barbara and Charles. went to Wadams Grove, Stephenson County,[...]brought his family to the Big Hole, fall of 1832 and built a small "claim house." He moved his[...]migrant car on the railroad, family there in 1834 and they were one of the first families to then by[...]ams Grove in 1843. She was the daughter of George and With the Fred Hirschy family and Gus Wenger, who was Priscilla Williams Baysinger and was born on May 12, 1829 his closest neighbor, they milked cows and he became noted at Brackenridge, Kentucky. Her father was Scotch and he as their cheesemaker. They sold their cheese and butter died in Kentucky when she was small. Her m[...]e nearby towns, hauling it several times a Scotch and half Menominee Indian, who was born in Ken- year by teams and wagons. Although he never quite mas-[...] |
| [...]John and Victoria Waldemar tered the English language, he was successful in busines, and was remembered as a hard worker whose word was as for someone to move his family and household goods from good as his bond.[...]view to Egin Bench, Idaho. He contacted Mr. Hjort and After his wife moved to Dillon, he became a par[...]arbara's 19 year-old daughter of William and Matena Nielsen Hjort. husband, and lived with them until his untimely death at[...]son Cemetery. As a young girl she lived and worked on her father's farm. His sons, Hans and Charles, and daughter Barbara moved She milked about 20 cows, morning and night and also to Salmon, Idaho, and son Fritz remained in the Big Hole worked[...]to Idaho, and were married on December 28th, 1894 in Egin. Th[...]n Walchli's obituary is worth noting John and Victoria stayed in Idaho that summer, working here: "Funeral services were conducted this afternoon and with her parents. He helped build the canals and cleared the body was followed to the silent city[...]John took his bride sorrowing cortege of friends and neighbors who loved the back to Mount Plea[...]-ANN HIRSCHY Idaho and remained there for the next 6 years.[...]e more children were born, Alvor John and Victoria Louis,[...]lived only one week and Ina May, October 17, 1900. Waldema[...]hn made several trips to Montana during this time and John Leonard Waldemar was born April 15, 1864,[...]of 1901, he moved the family to Montana. Waldemar and Eliza Ericksen Waldemar.[...]musician, tried to teach his for winter feed and getting out timber for fences. boys to play the v[...]so the children learn to play the harmonica well and was an excellent singer. were taken to Mount Pl[...]hout his life. family split up and moved the entire family to Egin, Idaho As he g[...]na for the summer. couple of good teams of horses and wagons and became a These trips were all made by wa[...]looking grown enough to have a school district and the family stayed 552-Beaverhead History |
| [...]amily moved around a lot liked the area and soon moved his family there. because of John's work, and the school sort of moved with When Len[...]s boys away to school, John bought a ber 14, 1905 and Elsie Matenia, born March 28, 1907. farm in Egin and the family stayed there in the winter and The first school the Waldemar children attended on went back to Montana in the summer. Len and his brothers Horse Prairie was in a little log cabin. One year, school was and sisters attended school in Egin for several years[...]at, the children As a boy, Len was ambitious and frugal. He earned went to school in Grant and drove back and forth in a one- enough money for a bicycle which he used to get back and horse buggy.[...]ed. He wanted to learn to About this time, John and Victoria bought a farm in Egin, play the violin, so he saved his money and ordered a violin Idaho. The children soon numbered 10 with Eva Eliza being and music lessons from a mail order catalogue. His fa[...]o play that way, but Len Hjort, February 18, 1914 and Ada Elna, October 29, 1918. being a determined and talented young man, proved his John could never get Montana out of his system and father wrong and became an accomplished violinist. Later returned[...]o put up hay, he sent for a saxophone and taught himself to also play it. leaving Victoria and one of the boys to do the farming. Since H[...]st girl, she always accompanied her father to and served in the Medical Corp in France until his ho[...]ay 24, 1919. In 1922, John reJ!ted out the farm and moved his family After the war, Len re[...]el T Ford, worked on the Hughes ranch and took up a 40 acre home- but still used wagons for[...]family moved back to Montana Grant from Jim Blair and lived there a number of years. in 1922. Len taught his brothers, Al, Trevor, John and Later they bought an old store building and remodeled it Ralph to play different instruments and they formed a into a family home.[...], Mill- The musical talent of their Grandfather and Father was point, Jackson and Bannack. passed down to the children. Len was a s[...], 1903 in Thornton, Ida- cian, playing the violin and saxophone. He learned to read ho, first of eight childern of Judson Dickson and Gundel music through a mail order course. He taug[...]Thronton ers to play. They formed their own band and played at many where her parents owned a farm. Stella and her sisters trav- country dances on Horse Prairie and Grasshopper Valley. eled to Montana in[...]ts who John spent the rest of his life in Grant and passed away contracted hay for the Nay Bro[...]Grasshopper Valley, moved to Aberdeen, Washington and lived there for many where Jud was emp[...]28 ers. grandchildren, 57 great grandchildren and five great great The seven Dickson girls loved to dance and it was at a grandchildren.[...]vited her to a dance at Grant and introduced her to his older -FAY WALDEMAR McCRACKEN and IN A WAL-[...]brother Len. It was love at first sight. Len and Stella were DEMAR BRANSON GROVER[...]Canyon, above the Hughes ranch on Leonard and Estella Hor[...]r first child, Betty Joy was born August 25, 1926 and[...]ovember 29, 1928; Estella Fay, born July 19, 1930 and a children born to John Leonard Waldemar and Victoria baby boy who died at birth[...]to Grant. Len made a living for his family father and Uncle Ephriam Davidson started going to Mon-[...]put up hay on Horse Prairie. John barns and hay derricks for local ranches and trapping in the[...] |
| winter. He became an excellent carpenter and never lacked work. He designed and patented the Beaverslide hay der- rick which is still used on many Beaverhead County ranches. Len and the Waldemar Band were still playing for dances. Len and Stella enjoyed dancing together and were especial- ly good at the waltz. In 1935,[...]ears until the ranch corporation broke up. Len and Stella moved back to Horse Prairie where they liv[...]ill shortly after they moved back to the Prairie and Len moved Fred and Alma Waldorf her and the children to Dillon temporarily so she could b[...]old. benefited from her help and good will during both progress After the death of his wife, Len and the children lived and emergencies. with his mother Victoria Waldemar in[...]his family into a small home in Fred and his two sons. Sarah was born in England. Dillon.[...]Some ble for taking care of the house, themselves and their school of those associats were: Billy P[...]home again. Olmsted, Ben Stevenson and Arthur Graeter. Len's health began to fail aft[...]w years, in the Veterans Hospital at Fort tic and musical daughter of Mary Margaret Fyle and Oscar Harrison. He passed away there on January 2[...]a in Mountain View Cemetery at 1905); and Lansing (b. Dillon 1907). Dillon. He was survived by one son and two daughters. In 1909 Fred opened[...]er and son, Morse. Nellie and son, Lansing, remained in -FAY[...]Dillon and later became affiliated with Graeter Grocery Co.[...]Nellie died in 1913 and Fred and sons lived with his mother John H. Waldorf married Sarah Rogers (1846-1943) and on South Washington Street. issues: Alf[...]scopal Vestry, served many times on city council, and Family moved to Hays, Kansas in 1885. Fred left f[...]ance Co. of in 1896, seeking work to bring mother and Harriet west. Helena-later named Wester[...]on board meeting in Helena in 37 years and held the distinction Implement, trading in harnes[...]State Liquor Store when he fell from a chair and died. Mother Waldorf and Harriet came West in late 1890s.[...]Joseph and Beesy Wall State Capitol. In 1911 she married Sen[...]When Joseph Wall was a lad in Pennsylvania and Beesy ley, Meagher-Wheatland Counties. They resid[...]ated with meet in Nevada, marry in Utah and become Montana pio- TwoDot Livestock Co., sold insurances and bought wool. neers? Clarence died in 1918 and Harriet continued all busin- Joseph, third of 10 children of German immigrants, esses and partnership with E.C. Baxter in TwoDot Co., and Gotthardt and Catherine (Heiserer) Wahl, was born No- ranching[...]r several companies. Harriet had no children and his brother George enlisted in the United[...] |
| [...]Wall married Beesy's friend from Elko, too young and Joseph took the name Wagner. He later peti-[...]me Wall out west as the of that year Joe and Beesy homesteaded the Keystone ranch brothers ser[...]near Dell. They raised potatoes, Herford cattle and some Capt. Camillo Carr's Company "I" of the Firs[...]st the Nez Perce sie" Barbara, John Irving and William Penn. John Irving and Bannock Indians. He acted as orderly to General[...]nshot wound when his rifle discharged as McDowell and marched with the troops from San Francisco[...], Nev., to Elko. There he met his fate Joe and Beesy worked hard to fulfill his ambition to be a[...]western rancher. They saw their children grown and settled. Beesy (listed as Elizabeth and Brigetta on their childrens' Clarence went to w[...]15, 1857 near Bally- could go to college and teach. He married Lillian Jacques; mote, County Sligo, Ireland, to Thomas and Aractha (Hea- they had no children. Bessi[...]ly) Brady. She came to New York state as a child and in 1877 president of Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad of Armstead; went to visit he[...]he mail, he brought his heart las Mansfield and Joe Wall baked their wedding cake, as well. After[...]dis- "three tier with hard frosting". Jim and Nevada lived into charged April 1881. Next day, he and Beesy were married in old age; they are sur[...]for the Oregon James Mansfield of Dillon and Miss Margaret "Polly" Eliz- Short Line Railroad.[...]llevue, Wash. the Union Pacific Freight Depot. He and Beesy had three The baby of the famil[...]rning to help Joe work the ranch. Joseph Clarence and Nevada Marie. He m[...]McGwire of Spokane, Washington) and they gave the Walls[...]he and George Wall helped build. Beesy stayed at Dell un[...]members his grandfather's colorful vocabulary and his[...]grandmother making a meal of boiled potatoes and salt. Bill[...]and another in a car accident. Three daughters and a son[...]rvive; the future of the Wall name rests with Joe and[...]patiently on a suitcase marked Butte, Montana, and who[...]up land near Wisdom, and built their home near a little lake. Joseph and Beesy Wall Cloy[...] |
| exist when he arrived. His responsibilities for chores and 'Tis that that's bothered me of late ranch work began early. For his birthday after arriving in And bothered me quite bad the west from Vincennes, In[...]rs went by, Cloyd spent his time wrangling horses and going to school. At 16 he received a scholarship[...]y smart at baking so they say life. He fed cattle and drove stock, and often walked to keep But ain't a bit of use on[...]ged horses every 18 miles. This trail was a And Amy Armitage, she can't cook steep and dangerous one going down the Idaho side. At one[...]ch, she's been back East to school Monicle. Cloyd and Margaret married• June 28, 1905, and And thinks unless a man can read returned to Wisdom. There he kept a store and later invest- 'Thout blundering, he's a fool. ed in a hotel and meat market. He and his wife, Maggie, separated and Cloyd lived the rest of his life alone.[...]Martin's mighty nice He enjoyed an interesting and varied lot of jobs. He was But still she's ki[...]queeze your hand, missioner, ranch foreman, miner and once ran a commissary To wink and call you dear for a sheep company at Dell. In his later years he sported snow-white hair and a long full neatly-trimmed beard, And although I'm very fond of Belle prompting the you[...], gentle man It wouldn't hurt her not a jot and everyone remembers his neat ways, forever picking[...]sdom that he loved to Very nice to look like at and all that, greet tourists and strangers to welcome them to the area, But still they say that providing history and information to all. He enjoyed life as When sh[...]step, straight back, ready wit, love of children and stories of early Montana days So now I've calle[...]dom makes a peep, Cloyd died October 26, 1968, and is buried in the Wisdom and with her talkin' Cemetery.[...]isturb a fellers sleep? -BLANCHE DA VIS AND ANN HIRSCHY[...]of R. T. Boatman and Elizabeth J. Peterson Boatman. My And slick when he is in his teens older brother Thornton was born here in 1907 and died in But when he does become of age[...]ows his beans. ert and Ralph were born.[...]I lived on the Centennial Valley ranch on and off for And one of the many problems,[...]didn't appreciate this. I liked to make mud pies and some- 556-Beaverhead History |
| [...]The Chautauqua came to town and set up tents in the[...]came to town. It was exciting for the townspeople and kids[...]records and everyone who could knitted socks and sweaters[...]In May the college gymnasium class and the local school[...]girls and we would wind the May Pole. It was a very colorfu[...]in the shop thought it was funny and laughed. Ralph didn't[...]-HARRIET BOATMAN WATKINS Robert and Ralph Boatman August and Barbara times would use real eggs and use the shells for decorations. In 1916 my father married again and in 1917 he sold the Wenger ranch and we moved down the road to the Ed Blake ranch[...]ed States in 1871, leaving behind two sons, Jules and I attended the Doyle school not far down the la[...]August was a cheesemaker and became a United States One day my father decide[...]n the Citizen. north side across the river and visit my aunt Laura Brun- He married Bar[...]2, 1883. They dage. The Doyle lane was very muddy and my father had a came to the Big Hole Vall[...]the name of Ida, whom they raised until her hole and the car sank clear up to the running boards. He death, January 3, 1889. walked back to the ranch and got a span of mules to pull us "Grandpa Gu[...]Nelson, whose mother died in childbirth and his father in a When we were living in Dillon w[...]Wenger at times. He was a very big man and owned the New who with his brother John ran a dra[...]ty. barn on his property on the corner. Every now and then his Gus lived at Fox, Montana. The o[...]ilt on horses would get down in the barn at night and would kick the ranch still stands and is now the Jack Hirschy Ranch. around and wake up the neighbors. My mother would get on He also owned a sawmill in Fox and cut timber on Fox Creek the phone and tell him to take care of his horses.[...]snakes. He would pay us kids 5 cents Range and all of the Big Hole Rockies. He was one of the apiece for every gopher we would snare and bring to him to first freighters from[...] |
| [...]and left jaw bone.[...]Returning to the Big Hole, he met and married Jean[...]George Duane, January 16, 1928, deceased in 1929 and[...]ranches including the George Clemow, John Jackson and[...]Moving to Dillon in 1929, John and Jean bought an Inter-[...]national truck to haul odds and ends, wood, and even a few[...]John Wenger August and Barbara Wenger houses for a living. And in 1933 they took over the manage-[...]more years. 558-Beaverhead History |
| [...]r son, Edward, was Putting Marguerite to bed and taking John by the hand, born there in January of 1887 and their daughter, Lydia, Marie went through deep snow and cold to Aunt Cecile was born at Jackson in 1888.[...]r the birth of her baby. On the living conditions and feared the roaming Indians. way hom[...]ing, son August was born January 10, 1899, and later the Silver Bow Packing company and joined W. M. Montgom- birth of Ida fol[...]er 7, 1900. ery in 1906, running a slaughterhouse and buying cattle. He Marie claimed a homestea[...]tired from the cattle business altogether in 1918 and built Jules continued to work on ranches and help his father. the Alpine apartments in Anacond[...]children were bearer at her funeral. Both Edward and Lydia are also born: Jules Ernest Wenge[...]1913 and Dorothy Rose, May 19, 1917.[...]ules was a prominent rancher, raising both cattle and Jules and Marie Wenger sheep. He went around the county every fall and bought Jules Ernest Wenger was born November 1[...]them up on his wild hay, LeLocle, Switzerland. He and Marie Marguerite Meyer, ready to be tr[...]4, 1874, at Cernait, Switzerland were mar- and shipped out by railroad. Every spring, cattle buy[...]John, born Decem- Marie was a great cook and could be a great yodeler, ber 10, 1895, and daughter Marguerite, born December 27, esp[...]them. Later they Jules died March 5, 1944 and Marie on February 18, 1948 moved to the Jim Tisso[...]labor while alone. Grandma Barbara and their foster daughter, Ida, are buried[...]Henry and Carrie Wetmore Henry Wetmore and his wife, Carrie Bosworth Wetmore,[...]ly had constructed a house and other buildings. They had two chilren, Cecil and Goldie. Henry ranched and bought and sold cattle. His place was close to where O'Dell[...]creek. Later on he got into handling duck hunters and catching swans and sending them to different parks.[...]Goldie married Ed Buries and they had one daughter,[...]Carrie. Cecil married Jennie Lerch and they had four r.hil-[...]dren: Henry, Kenneth, Miidred and Marjorie. Mildred died[...]at an early age. Henry married Lavina Skelton and has one stepdaughter, Doris, and one stepson, Morris. Doris is mar-[...]and they have a daughter Barbara, now married to Jim[...]Verbance. Marjorie was married to Judson Best and later to[...]Henry Wetmore Sr. and son, Cecil, ran a lodge for hunting ducks and geese on the Upper Red Rock Lake. After Henry[...]Sr. passed away, Cecil and his two sons ranched until the Jules and Marie Wenger Gov[...] |
| [...]driving team near barn at rear John and Winnie Wharton, Fred and Flora Hirschy of hotel in Monida[...]5 years. During the years Henry Wet- finest and most scientific of ranching and stockgrowing more Sr. ranched along O'Dell, he wa[...]ector for several John was an avid reader and was an expert on Montana and years while living in Monida. His son, Henry, Jr.[...]he was married to Winifred Wil- after Cecil quit and did it for several more years. Henry Jr. liams[...]ked for the Red Rock Refuge for 10 or 12 seasons, and come to Wisdom to visit her sister, Agnes Armitage, and a Kenneth worked on construction. Both are now retired. brother Griff Williams, who owned and operated a newspa-[...]-HENRY WETMORE JR. John and Winnie worked side by side on their North Fork[...]Ranch raising cattle, and for a number of years they also had John and Winifred Wharton sheep that Winnie took pride in caring for. She and John John Calvin Wharton was born November 9, 1[...]put up all the hay with very little help and Winnie always Butte, the third child of Jess R. Wharton and Elizabeth did the stacking. Noyes Wharton[...]ie's manager of the Butte Electric Railway System and Colum- family. In April of 1953, John and Winnie along with Fred bia Gardens, and a close associate of Senator W. A. Clark. and Flora Hirschy sailed to England on the Queen Elizabeth John attended Butte schools and graduated from Butte and attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth as gue[...]igh London. The foursome also toured Europe and visited in school, John enrolled at Montana State[...]Switzerland with relatives of Fred Hirschy. and was among it's earliest agriculture graduates, re[...]following year he went back to the the ranch and taught herself to drive a car, and after a few Big Hole Basin and located on the North Fork where he year[...]-JENNIE ELSE AND VERA RUTLEDGE Charles and Edna Wheat[...]harles Herbert Wheat, the eldest son of George W. and[...] |
| [...]s even if he could drive the team down that steep and treach- erous trail. But Dad knew the team; his Dad had taught him how to drive the horses, and he watched with a young man's keen eye. The boss[...], pick up two or three "winos" to unload the ore, and pay them with the bottle of wine. In 1905 or 1906 father mov~d to Dillon and went to work for his stepfather Samuel S. Patters[...]llon Bottling Works. Dad was a big strong fell ow and became one of those who could stack a case of bourbon and roll a barrel of wine onto the rack with the best[...]Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Wheat[...]During our school years, Helen and I attended Mary In- nes Grade School and Beaverhead County High School.[...]one quarter, and then to Montana State University's School[...]died in 1963 and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery at[...]or a time with the Neilsens in George and Nellie Wheat Idaho falls, Idaho before she and her brother, Willard An- George W. Wheat[...]Store. It was during this period (1865-1938), and they lived near Paigeville, north of Dillon. she met my father and they were married in 1910. Charles Herbert was born in 1884 and Earl Lewis in 1888. I, Herbert Wester Wheat, w[...]tment above the Dillon Bottling Works, now and Nellie took Earl to live in Dillon. George's tomb[...]ts that never will be filled'." Dillon near Deli, and raised cattle and sheep. We spent the In Dillon, Nellie operated a boarding house and met Sam summers on the ranch. When it was time to[...]rea for the winter, we lived in town at 209 and high schools in Dillon. Mary Innes, his first gra[...]summer In 1918, Willard was kicked by a horse and died on the he married fellow gradu[...] |
| [...]were manufactured and sold. In 1933 the Act was repealed.[...]In 1942 Earl was very ill and closed the business leaving the area and franchises open to Reed Featherly of the Bea-[...]was in the army; and Don was in the air corps. In 1945 Harold and Don returned to the Dillon Bottling Works.[...]Earl died July 8, 1943, at Salt Lake City and is buried[...]and stepfather Edwin Johnson at Mountain View Ceme-[...]Banker and Molly Whitbeck Banker and Molly Ellerman Whitbeck came from Mis-[...]stoking coal and water in railroad engines for two years[...]before homesteading 320 acres located two and one-half[...]- Minnie, Kate, Maggie and Anna - were already living there[...]and served in World War I-1914-1918.[...]They raised wheat and had truck gardening, peddling the[...]dren from Missouri and three more were born in Dillon. From lefi: Harold, Earl. Lillian, Eleanor, Don and Elma, Virgil and Margaret were born in Missouri, and Jim, Kenny Lucille and Stella in Dillon. Stella died at age 16 months in[...]here Earl worked as a book- Barrett Hospital and was buried in Mountain View Ceme- keeper for his[...]Elsa Eleanore In 1914 Margaret, Jim and Lucille babysat the three small (1914-); Harold Newton (1917-); and George Donald (1920- Crouse children overnight while Pearl and Fred (their par- ). The family owned a house on t[...]ing Works, but Sam kept track of his ice business and coached Earl in the operation. When Sam died, he[...]e tried operating movie houses in Sheridan, Wyo., and in Salmon, Idaho. He lived briefly (with his fam-[...]n. In 1921 the Hartwig family built a new theatre and Earl bowed out of the movie house business. Sam took Earl back, and he settled into the bottling works business which[...]hibition of ALL alcohol- Elma, mother Molly, and daughter Lucille; children ic beverages). Soft drinks and other non-alcoholic beverages seated, from lefi, Virgil, Margaret and Jim 562-Beaverhead History |
| went with Banker and Molly who played the music at said dance. Frederi[...]Benjamin F. and Elizabeth huge living room heater with coal. At 1[...]olutely red hot all over. He opened all the doors and windows and woke all the children Benjamin F. White was born in 1838 in New Bedford, until it cooled down, and he gave Frederick to understand Mass. He h[...]that stove. The Crouses had an nor of Montana and the first mayor of Dillon. He was one of old and very dependable horse named "Old Racer" on which[...]. all three Crouse children, Frederick, Georgiana and Mr. White came from Pilgrim ances[...]graduating in the A dentist named Dr. Bimrose and a dry goods store owner class of 1856. He became interested in sailing and on his named Robert Morton lived on wheat ranches[...]in the California area for nine Dillon Dry Goods" and was in the block where the Hotel years.[...]c Kennison found a few gold coins at the and was admitted to the bar. He soon became clerk and base of a tree by a stream, and his parents went there and recorder of the U.S. District Court. He lat[...]enture which proved to be a To digress, Banker and Molly made a bare living with profitable[...]Freighting became an important indus- their wheat and vegetables until 1915 and 1916 when it try which he pursued when[...]ined so much their wheat went 50 bushels per acre and became the largest freight company in the west. they felt rich. They bought a Model T Ford and built a White entered the Beaverhead[...]ve Saturday night dances. Paul 1880. He and a group of other resourceful young business Stahl[...]ing people out men organized a townsite company and acquired the ranch to the Whitbeck dances. Banker[...]d Deacon. They laid out their plans, said to have and Molly chorded on the organ-later a piano-and Virgil been platted on a piece of brown[...]In a mat- played drums (self-taught). Our nearest and best neighbors were the Fred Crouses, Harry Brown[...]in 1922, stopping at Orondo, Wash., where Banker and Molly and their three children worked in the apple harvest[...]) married an orchardist named Leonard Zanol there and stayed in Orondo. Eventually Banker, Molly and Jim with his own family left Seattle to establish orchards at Orondo near Margaret and her hus- band, Leonard and their children Elnor and Bill. Virgil also moved to Wenatchee from Missouri where he had married Martha Jenkins, and became a licensed barber. He still lives alone in[...]. Elma died in 1981 at Gold Bar, Wash., where she and her second husband had lived for nearly 20 years. Banker and Molly died in 1956 and 1958 respectively. Jim died in 1973 and Lucille still lives in the outskirts of Los Angel[...]Margaret still lives on the same orchard that she and her husband Leonard purchased in 1925. He died in[...]ed in 1986 after having sold to his daughter Joan and her husband Tom Steichen. So that's the th[...] |
| ter of a few weeks, the lots were sold and the new town Market. They had a wonderful business and sold groceries named Dillon, in honor of the Union Pacific Railroad presi- and hardware. dent, became a reality with Benjamin F. White as it's mayor. Margaret and Walter had a daughter, Lil, who was born In the early winter of 1880 the firm of Sebree, Ferris and April 27, 1918 and a son, Walter George Peter, who was born White fo[...]Lil helped in the grocery store by keeping books and Pete In 1882 White was elected to the Republican ticket as helped with the groceries and helped butcher and cut up representative from Beaverhead County in t[...]rison in 1888. His vigorous campaign Navy and when he returned he did not want the ranch so he[...]the statehood of Montana. His post was eliminated and he membered as a kind and loving father who was liked by returned to bankin[...]everyone both old and young. In 1888 White was elected president of[...]passed away on December 11, 1962. Bank of Dillon, and as head of that institution, probably did more th[...]anding in Rich- Basin was developed from a barren and uninhabited prairie mond, Va. He was a br[...], Arizona, Califor- White had faith in its future and backed that faith with cold nia, Nevada, Utah and finally Montana in either 1882 or cash.[...]ader, Frank's mother, was born July 12, 1858. ure and the cattlemen going broke. The Anaconda Mining[...]years. She Company bought the First National Bank and turned the traveled from Neilsville,[...]the suffering of such a loss. and his wife Anita Richards was born there on March 5[...]ried February 14, 1879, to 1904. Frank and Anita were married in Butte on June 18, Elizabeth Davis, who was born in England in 1857 and died 1931. in 1934. Four children were bo[...]tire life in the Big Hole Valley. He Emrys, Ralph and Greta. Emrys married Nancy Featherly, ranched until he retired and sold his ranch to his oldest son daughter of Geor[...]1964. A house was then built in Wisdom, where he and -HELEN ANDRUS Anita lived. Walter and Margaret White |
| [...]t grandfather clocks, cedar chests, jewelry boxes and covered wagons after he moved to Wisdom. During[...]ed how to make charcoal for use in black-smithing and tool-sharpening. He remem- bered putting up hay a[...]pent many hours looking for rocks, polishing them and making jewelry. Frank, his brother George, and their mother, went to California in December, 192[...]r home the first of April, 1921. In 1922, Frank and his brother George bought a sawmill and a steam engine from Carl Huntly for 10,000 feet o[...]as $27 a thousand. Cattle prices were around nine and 10 cents a pound, live weight. Frank met Anita[...]mber 28, 1930. They were married on June 18, 1931 and went through Yellowstone Park on their honeymoon.[...]to start haying. Three boys were born to Frank and Anita: Frank Arthur in Butte, May 31, 1932; John Fredrick on Steel Creek, March 16, 1937, and Robert Allen, also born on Steel Creek, May 21, 1[...]s Wilke passed away in Butte, September 10, 1973, and is buried in the Wisdom Cemetery. Frank passed away in Dillon, on September 12, 1979, and is buried Elizabeth and Asa Willey in the Wisdom Cemetery.[...]there by himself all winter, caring for the stock and earning his living by splitting and selling fence rails. As a Asa and Elizabeth Willey[...]illey, longtime Big Hole rancher, was born and stayed there for nearly four years. September 11,[...]Sr., came to visit the family were Thomas Willey and Sophia Butterworth Pendleton, in 1898, and encouraged them to come to Big Hole, where both o[...]or the rest of the family. hardware store, farmed and was a cheese maker. Asa re- He arrived[...]ere were no high schools in of overshoes, and had exactly one nickel left over. That was that p[...]e, leaving a family of four sons, Percy, Asa, Roy and Ray, Lossl's mercantile store in Wisdom. When the rest of the and two daughters, Pansy and Ivy. family later[...]he winter of 1894, the eldest brother Percy and obtained a new job at the Ajax Mine, child was on[...]agecoach, using a four-horse team, between Wisdom and tinue it.[...]help his widowed dray line between Divide and Gibbonsville, over the precipi- mother, so at age[...]tock, put it on a tous mountain road. flatboat, and went down the Mississippi River that fall, by[...]ed his mother rear his he managed the trip safely and arrived in Mississippi with younger brothers and sisters, and did not himself marry all of the livestock[...] |
| [...]bbonsville, Idaho, dropped out of school, and for the next seven years, he on Christmas.Day in[...]s were John Leonard helped his mother and the rest of the family operate the and Margaret Quinn, both Irish-Canadians who came fro[...]ranchers in the Big Hole, on Ontario to Michigan, and then west. Her family consisted of a construction job where he drove a dynamite wagon, and two brothers, Hugh and Jay, and four sisters, May, Eliza- for a time he[...]agecoach operating out of Dillon. beth, Catherine and Francis.[...]cided to obtain a better education. At the family and friends, was reared on a ranch near Salmon,[...]gradu- Idaho. Her father drowned when she was 18 and her family ation, he entered the Monta[...]degree in agronomy. He was high school in Salmon and worked until she was married. employe[...]icultural Experiment Station at Ar- Asa Willey and Elizabeth Leonard met in the summer of cher, Wyoming. There, he met and married Annette Mae 1916 and were married February 6, 1917 in Salmon. Their[...]soon after birth, Elaine Elizabeth, Marjory June and brother Ray. While there he found it ne[...]rth of his third son. Also during his stay Asa and his brother Percy ranched in partnership until[...]um prices as the beef raised in the venture and the family moved back to Cheyenne, Wyoming valley was grass fattened and very popular with eastern where he co[...]mily, having managed to send all the school board and helping neighbors as the need arose. se[...]f them had been in He was an avid reader (history and geography his favorite the armed services during World War II and that none of topics), a good dancer, wise cattleman and fine horseman, them had ever disgraced the family. Death claimed this wonderful father and devoted husband. He died in Butte of de[...]rt disease on February 23, 1944 at the age of 63, and was due to gangrene and soon died of a stroke. buried in the Briston ceme[...]t Church. Percy and Lydia Willey Elizabeth was a good neighbor, a[...]ley was born at Little Grant, Wisconsin on stress and homemaker. She was a member of the Catholic November 3, 1878. He was the oldest of five boys and two Church, Homemakers Club and several card clubs. She dis- girls who were born to Thomas Henry and Sophia B. Pend- liked gossip and lived by the Golden Rule. After her hus-[...]rm near Glidden, band's death, she sold the ranch and lived in Missoula for a Iowa. few years. She then owned and operated a women's apparel The fath[...]way in February of shop in Wenatchee, Washington, and later returned to Dil- 1894. He was a cheese maker by trade and having several lon, Montana, where she spent her[...]from cus- away there December 1, 1983, at age 86 and is buried in the tomers, the farm was lost. From there the widow Sophia and Dillon cemetery.[...]sippi in 1894. They operat- -ELAINE SEIDENSTICKER and CHARLES WIL- ed a co[...]tana and the Big Hole in February. Percy then joined him i[...]Montana in late April of 1899. Their mother and other[...]he Briston area. Wisconsin to Thomas Henry Willey and Sophia Butter- Percy and Asa became partners in the ranch. If either of wo[...]r about two years. ily then moved to Mississippi, and after a brief residence While wor[...] |
| [...]which is now owned by him alive. Ralph and Clayton Huntley. She then worked at a hotel that He died at the Carter ranch several days later and is burned down in 1924.[...]ain View Cemetery. His life-long friend, Percy and Lydia were married in Dillon on December 29,[...]"Rosebud" on a mountain stone and planted a sagebrush The Willey brothers added[...]grave stone marker. Henry always said he holdings and continued the partnership until Asa passed[...]ch In December of 1912, Earl was born to Percy and Lydia. Memorial Day. Percy retired to Dill[...]-SALLY GARRETT DINGLEY and Lydia died July 1, 1966 at the age of 88. -EARL and LILLIAN WILLEY Harry and Mary Williams Francis Harry and Mary Williams moved to Dillon in Henry "Rose bud[...]1914 with their sons Edgar and David and daughter Joyce. (from recollections of[...]ngley) Harry was a native of Minnesota and Mary was from Michi-[...]was employed to manage the Farmers Elevator and Flour early 1920s. It was said at one time he had[...]them. company buying grain and managing elevators in Minneso- Henry was breaking some horses for the Flynn Brothers. ta and North Dakota. However, homesteading in Montana Fl[...]e bronc seemed an attractive pursuit, so he and a friend quit their bucked extra hard and he let out a string of foul words at the bronc. M[...]g some saddle horses for my mother Hattie Dingley and her niece, Myrtle Taylor. We were living on my Au[...]y mother. He never noticed the old telephone line and it hooked the top of the surrey. It did considera[...]maged the next day when Mother drove it to Dillon and back. Harry and Mary Williams Years later Henry rode in from the Carter ranch on a lovely saddle horse and stayed with our family for a couple jobs and moved their families to the area which is now par[...]This proved to be a complete washout. Moving bad and my father tried his best to get Henry to stay the[...]The elevator and mill burned in the early 1920s so Harry[...]Williams Feed and Seed Company.[...]into a larger enterprise and included college students, many[...]and many teachers. Harry passed away in 1950 and Mary in 1959. "Rosebud" Williams[...] |
| [...]est daughter, Mrs. Sheldon Davis, was born. Co0ty and one of the community's most prominent stock-[...]illis, Fred Hopp, George Swartz, J. W. Sutherland and He was born on a ranch in the Blacktail distri[...]as There was a school close by as my aunts and mother told founded. He made Beaverhead County hi[...]also served as a meeting He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wilson, Virginia place and entertainment center where dances were occa- City pioneers who came to Montana early in the 1860s and sionally held, the music for the dances wa[...]The Wilson family grew to 10, five more daughters and The younger Wilson became interested in the ca[...]. My mother, next to the ness while still a youth and later engaged in the raising of youngest, was[...]e old family homestead, one as an infant and the other a small child of homestead east of Dillon. He had a friendly and generous about three of four years old. I am sure the loss of the two nature and was admired not only for his successful career as[...]local cemetery, not far from their whose courage and integrity were unquestioned. hom[...]Most of the graves of that era had wooden markers and son of Mountain Home, Idaho and Mrs. Anna Bond of Dil- graves were encir[...]ilson of Dillon; a niece, Mrs. Earl tombstones and some of the graves were encircled by a Coffman of Gardenia, California and a nephew, E. W. Bond wrought iron fence. · of Dillon; Mrs. Fred Chapman of Dillon and Mrs. Bertha At one time it looked as[...]ong illness on October 25, 1933. Funeral down and the tombstones were overturned. However, the serv[...]terment was in Moun- the main fence restored and the tombstones righted by tain View Cemetery in D[...]-ADELE ROUSE and moved to Butte. -[...]--RAY TYVAND Jasper and Virginia Wilson Harry and Mary Winslow, Jasper Wilson, a Civil War veteran, and his wife Virginia (my grandparents) homesteaded o[...]Sr. They started on their venture West by horse and wagon This history of the Winslow fa[...]er James Winslow, father of Harry Winslow, Sr. He and years in Texas before deciding to move. They came[...]. They through Colorado with their two young sons and a daughter first were more or less settled and came to Alder Gulch when who was just a babe in a[...]ry. Another moved near Whitehall where he built and ran a toll bridge daughter was born during the winter and in the spring of the between Waterloo and Whitehall, where the freighters from year they mo[...]t of the Harry Winslow, Sr., grew up there and married Mary site where the frontage road crosses[...]was Winegard. everything from a vegetable garden and chickens to cattle They settled with old Ben Winegard, who had previously and horses. Their neighbors were congenial and helped each come from Switzerland. Mother lived with them and that's other when a need arose by loaning a team[...]omen helped each other stage, farmed and did other work for a number of years in[...] |
| and near Silver Star. A son, Ivan, was born in Pleasa[...]ver Star, on Aug. 29, 1888. Finally, he bought and settled on a ranch in the Centen- nial Valley, on[...]born: May on July 19, 1890, Jim on June 22, 1892, and Mabel on Sept. 22, 1894. During those hard winter[...]to the key hole. My dad was an excellent hunter, and in the late fall the neigh- bors would furnish him with hay and grain for his horses. He would take his 4-horse team and sled and travel up on the Upper Madison, by way of Henry's Lake, and kill elk for the winter's meat supply. He then moved back down to Silver Star territory where he farmed and drove stage for a number of years to make a livel[...]r in fl,y making shop 1898, Erma on July 3, 1900, and Harry Jr. on Nov. 23, 1903. Henry left Butte and moved to Red Rock, Montana, The small Fish Cre[...]illing the water tanks at Red Rock, Glen, Melrose and 1935, his wife, Mary, in 1957, and one son, Jim, in 1970. Divide. When he got[...]flies and went into the gun business. His store was called[...]Fly Company. Daughter Mabel started tying George and Sarah Jane flies at age 13. Gertrude learned the art at age 15 and still Wolfe[...]-GERTRUDE GUSE He and his wife came to Dillon in 1893 and he followed the barbering trade for many years pr[...]was born July 8, 1870, in Wayne Coun- Fred and Elfreda Woodside ty, Iowa. During her 50-year res[...], 1897, on a cattle ranch 10 miles charter member and past noble grand of Hollywood Lodge, from[...]nown as Leadore, 50 miles Neighbors of Woodcraft, and a member of the Rebekah from Salmon, Idaho. Mrs. Katie Dunlap, midwife, helped Order and Grace Methodist Church.[...]0 miles from a doctor. Mrs. Wolfe died in 1950 and is buried beside her husband Her husband had[...]dore and Salmon, Idaho. Henry and Genevieva Wom-[...]far from the Yearian school. My father and mother struck Henry E. Wombacher was born and raised at Glendale, up a courtship and were married May 20, 1896, on the D-C Montana. He[...]ther homesteaded on 160 acres on Eight-mile Butte and worked as a plumber for many years Creek and the newlyweds went there to live and raise cattle. He married Genevieva E. McKay on[...]wanted me to had three children; a son Raymond N. and daughters Mabel have a good education. Dillon was 24 years old at this time A. and Gertrude E. and quite a change for a child coming from a s[...] |
| [...]chicken yard. One day I decided to protect myself and car-[...]and killed him. I just let him lay there, never telli[...]win's Milliner Shop. I acquired a liking for hats and at one[...]and the boys enlisted in April which deprived us of J[...]Prom and graduation exercises.[...]1920 and on March 7, 1920, I married a successful business[...]and edited by Sally Garrett Dingley .)[...]Leslie (Ted) and Mae Fred and Elfreda Woodside[...]Ted Woodward was born in 1891 at Divide, Montana, and drawn bread wagon came by, as did the milk wagon[...]ta- to Butte with her mother, two brothers and one sister. bles at your door. In winter, cutter[...]ells ringing in the air, as they Gas Company and she graduated from Butte High School in passed by. Skating parties were held with young and old 1908. She obtained a college degree and taught in country skating to music. schools for three years and then at McKinley School in I entered school th[...]In 1919 they bought a ranch on Doolittle Creek and lived Dillon. Miss Bert Short was my fifth-grade teacher and she there until Ted's death in 1956. Mae moved to Bozeman and taught many years also; sixth grade was Miss Alic[...]ter, reputed to have eyes in the back of her head and she disciplined with a rap on the knuckles with a[...]lived in Dillon the house was poorly constructed and the frost hung on the walls. It was so cold we ha[...]ear we moved to a house on the corner of Atlantic and Morse Streets where my mother had a rooming and boarding house. In those days most everyone had chickens in their back yards to furnish eggs and meat. Outside water pumps had to be wrapped to protect them in the winter and most of the time thawed out by pouring hot water on them. It was my job to gather the eggs and feed the chickens. We Ted and Mae Woodward 570-Beaverhead History |
| Woody Family Judge and Jane Eyre Woody lived in Green Cove, Va., and had eight children: Bob, Jim, Ida, Virginia, Rebecca, Lucy, Fanny and Mary. In 1904, Bob and Jim hitched a ride on freight trains and came to Montana. They made their way to the Big Hole and homesteaded on Warm Springs Creek near Jackson. Bob worked in the Butte mines and sent money to Jim who worked the homestead. The rest of the family arrived in Dillon in 1906. Between then and 1942 Bob and Jim worked the ranch raising cattle and sheep. In 1942 they sold to John Dooling and moved to Billings where they bought several rental homes and retired. They passed away in their late eighties[...]h other. Ida Woody married George N etterfield and they moved to Missouri. They had two children, Frank and Anna Lee. Virginia married Bill Patrick and moved to Canada. They had four children. He was in the Canadian Army and was killed in World War 1. Rebecca never married and moved to Nebraska. Lucy married Roy Spencer and had one child, Allen. Later she married Mert Fullerton and she died in Jackson in 1931. Fanny married Roy Jackson and they lived at the 10-Mile out of Dillon. They had two children Roy and Helen. Mary married Harry Helming in Portland Ore., and they moved to Wisdom. They had one son, Bruce. Jim Woody and his wife, Pauline, had four children: Beryl, Mary, Jim (Junior) and Virginia. Bob Woody was a bache- lor. Bob and Jim were extremely colorful people, and usually Paris and Flora Armstrong with children Ethel and provided the people of Jackson with something to[...]a hard-partying, fight- dent. I saw the truth, and in school one is supposed to be ing, gun-toting,[...]in Jackson, which was the main kind livestock and housekeeping but the folks wanted me close, of en[...]ar with an ax to make it fit business?' Papa and I went to Dillon to see Governor B.F. her.[...]ernor asked, Can One has to wonder at the work and hardships that a you get out in a blizzard and look after your sheep?' I told family in those da[...]They had six children: Ethel 1910, child of T. B. and Mary D. Craver and came to Montana in Mary 1911, Philip 1913, Carl 1914, Ralph 1916, and Alice 1879 with her family. After living at Noblesville and Butte 1917. The Cravers did not approve of Ar[...]tried every tactic in their war with suitors and would-be 1882. With prosperity were good times. F[...]with on the rocks. I tried to be a good wife and tried to make him cousins and other young companions. In 1904 she, sister Eda a happy home and raise a big family. He never seemed and cousin Pearl made a three-month visit to Chicago rela- satisfied and found fault with me at every turn. tives and St Louis' Louisiana Pacific Exposition. "Then came two ·years of drought and two terribly hard Flora was Senior Class President and graduated from winters. When haying time[...]too indepen- but we had to move the stock and buy hay at over $20 per[...] |
| [...]about $135,000. We rounded up my wagon and the buggy with the poultry. Our hens were laying horses and sold them at prices so low it was shattering. and sometimes eggs rolled out on the ground. By the t[...]Silver Star. Boulder. Mr. (Walter Everett) Wright and I were married In 1929 Alice died and later Walter Wright died of cancer in that afternoon. By the time the winters of 1919 and1920 October. Paris Armstrong died of pne[...]iculture. Drought com- did library work, and mended bales and bales of clothing for bined with hard winters and a collapse of prices for agricul- destitute people here and abroad after WWII. She left Sil- tural products,[...]omy into a tailspin. ver Star in the 1950s and lived with various of her children Overextended b[...]ed of stroke in 1958 in Anaconda. inbankruptcies, and 50 percent of Montana farmers were[...]-FLORA CRAVER ARMSTRONG WRIGHT and destined to lose their land.[...]il. Jack (Andrew Jackson Wright) was 10 weeks old and they were bringing action[...]Charley York was born in Golden, Colo., in 1879 and court. I know I must have had friends in secret b[...]s where I had put in so many years of loving toil and planning many pet cats in a big house that was for many years a great and at the things I had done to make them good.[...]922, we pulled away, leaving those bar- lin and never missed a schoolhouse dance where he would ren rooms echoingdismally to our last footfalls, and curtain- play until the wee hours of the morni[...]ike unseeing eyes at a world of despair. tunes, and his best, was the old, ever popular "Red Wing". O[...]ame with- Charley had a brother, George, and two sisters, Bessie out a word from us. Old Buster was sick and had to give it Maybee and Mrs. Claude Schroder. He passed away in 1959 up.[...]gone many miles when a swarm of flying and was missed by all who knew him while he lived in his big ants came by and settled over everything. Soon after that a h[...]ardens Cemetery on the Butte-Anaconda high- load, and a Navajo blanket spread over him. After the storm[...](1894-1980) crossed back and forth over the road making them red hot. Erick Youngquist was born at Fristad, Sweden, and came Thunder roared and the boys had to run barefoot in the rain to[...]on ranches. In 1917 he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served "We got to our destination the next eve[...]eers, a noncombatant stead) where we spent a year and eightmonths. It was owing unit that cut timber for dugouts, trenches, bridges and other to the kindness of Mr. & Mrs. Dixon Brown that we stayed structures. After his discharge, he and an Army buddy, Cecil there. It was windswept and our drinking water was from a Fallon, looked for open land in Oregon and Montana. They ditch. I stuffed andclogged to make[...]Silver Star. In a scene that would presage the and Fallon built their cabins as winter began to clos[...]y were big - The sale of ithelped out many times, and with my mending I weighed almost a ton - and a real bargain at $20 or less. We kept the family[...]bought two tough customers: a mare called Satan and a 572-Beaverhead History |
| [...]and the horses. We cut into a growth of aspen far eno[...]make an opening, and then lined it with brush and[...]other two trees. Then we notched and fitted two logs to join[...]the ends of the long logs, and filled in the inside partway[...]with some loose dirt. Next we cut spruce boughs and placed[...]them on the dirt. We pulled up dry grass and piled it on top,[...]heavy (128 oz.) tarpaulin, and put two heavy quilts and my[...]placed two more heavy quilts and then folded the other half[...]While we were hauling logs and building my cabin, we[...]hay" I carefully arranged small sticks, dry grass and[...]r two cabins. We also bought an inexpensive wagon and log barn. supplies. We loaded the wagon with several bales of hay and It was evening by the time I arrived at the[...]supply of "grub" that putting the horses away and feeding them in the makeshift would have to last[...]ed a laundry stove), some simple cooking utensils and a ished putting the roof on the cabin and was busy closing up washtub for our baths. For bu[...]een the frozen logs in the walls. After sup- axes and a crosscut saw.[...]lon toward our claims, following a an old quilt and empty feed bags. With the strips we placed gravel[...]en miles. Then we followed what I'd some moss and hammered everything between the logs with call a[...]down. came to an abandoned shed. We stopped there and camped We didn't finish the chinking, however, and the next for the night, tying our horses at one e[...]became our regular stopover on our trips to town and back. the frozen logs creak. I opened the doo[...]ims. We stayed overnight turned the door knob and opened the door (for some reason, there.[...]we had it open inward), the door and I were pushed back- The next morning, there we[...]to get the door shut again. The wind blew harder and our provisions and dragging it with our team up to the first harder, and the temperature kept dropping. When daylight buil[...]came and we looked around, we saw a snowdrift extending[...]ur dirt floor. Another needed to build our cabins and anything else we needed. drift extended inside from the door two feet, and snow had First, however, we needed a tempo[...] |
| [...]up the party, and he was delighted. He said that his wife We hear[...]didn't know how cold it was, so we started to cut and haul the logs for Fallon's cabin -(Reprinted from America Fever: A Swede in the and outbuildings. We hauled enough logs to both place[...]on for nonperishable food. After that, I gave Sam and Satan their last meal of oats Editor's[...]e I turned them loose. They kicked up their heels and visit Sweden, where he became engaged to Gu[...]Gustafson. They settled in Dearborn, Michigan, and[...]the Dearborn Police Department in 1924 and retired[...]special to him. In 1971, he and his wife visited Dillon and went out to see his beloved homestead one last[...]ve my claim from time to time to earn spending and emigrated to the United States in 1907 via Ellis[...]mps in the area. One Dillon (J.E. Morse), and R.C. worked for him to pay off this summer I hire[...]lon from Aero, Denmark, hands he behaved in rough and tough, no-nonsense style. where she had[...]us year while had just finished a hard day's ride and were going to sleep cousins Albert and Hans Mikkelsen were already in Dillon, overnight[...]While working as a domestic, Marie met R.C. and they bedroll and went along with us into the old, almost aban-[...]Sidney, was born in August, 1911, at Armstead and several corner furthest from the door, kicked awa[...]e family moved to Vancouver Island, British dung, and announced: "This place is good enough for me."[...]roll. huge trees and clearing land before the advent of power Mr Sel[...]roved a back-breaking task, even for a sturdy can and was always happy to tell me stories about the old[...]d son, Harvey, was born in 1914 at Vancouver down and tell me about his earlier days as a cowhand. I got and two years later the family moved to Alberta, sett[...]. They again moved, this time to Delia, a railway and ranch. She would take people from Dillon out to the ranch farming community and, in 1919, a third son, Arnold, was for picnics al[...]1930 Depression, they purchased a mixed cow dung and put it beside him, then placed his sandwich farm in the Handhills, south of Delia, and it became a high- alongside the "chip." When he decided that most of the ly-successful ranch and grain operation. guests had seen this, he spoke u[...]R.C. died in 1962 at Drumheller, Alberta, and Marie died older I get, the messier I get!" With[...]idney, a retired accountant with Alberta sandwich and placed it right on top of the chip. This broke Power Co., died in May of 1988 and his widow, Ella, resides 574-Beaverhe[...] |
| in Drumheller. Harvey is retired and living in Drumheller while Arnold farms near Stan[...]in favor of relocating the clude 10 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. county courthouse to Dillon. "Citizens and Taxpayers:[...], mileage fees by the thousands of One hundred and twenty pupils attend the Dillon Public dollars, and in supporting a clique of chronic hangers-on, Sch[...]ill open a photograph gallery in the past and a better state of affairs for the future." -Dillo[...]1881 erection on Montana Street, between Glendale and Ban- nack Streets. Horse grub has advanced a l[...]ht in a specimen of The attention of the Mayor and City Council is called to pie plant (rhuba[...]at he had grown on his the condition of sidewalks and street. ranch. The st[...], 18 There are spurious coins-quarters, halves and dollars- inches in length and the leaf measured four feet and three afloat in this burg. Look a little out for[...]g soon, if cattle that include many three and four-year-old steers. The sickness is to be preve[...]er is authority for the state- ment that the Utah and Northern road-bed is to be fenced. It is asserted[...]than to pay for to find out the qualities, and our creditors just take them as the smashing up and derailment of trains and for stock they can get them. But for[...]divide the last two figures of the bill by four, and if one A thirty minute ride up the Beaverhead[...]brings you to will be B; if three, C; and if there should be no remainder the Cascade Sprin[...]down the bluff, falling a divided 49 by 4 and you have one remaining. According to distance of[...]missioners of Beaverhead County would the springs and adjoining grounds, is fitting up a summer[...]commo- the purpose of erecting a court house and jail on it. Both of dation of pleasure seekers or[...]pared to what it will be a couple of years hence, and it would wonders connected with these springs whi[...]good, substantial court house and secure jail of its own-a[...] |
| [...]"Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to dig a well," the Charley Micus has[...]e has be- miner queried. come so generous and charitable that he procures lodging "Do[...]"It's five for every fellow that comes into town and gets too much miles either way!" family[...]when they are in this state to be on the street, and at once lends them a helping hand and gratuitously tenders In the early mini[...]ving alone, married a hand- their dizzy condition and pass off into sweet dreamland some squaw[...]plet- upon a soft, downy pine board for their bed and a joint of ing that ceremony, said: "Here stand a white man and a stove pipe for a pillow.-Dillon Tribune, 3/19/1[...]w/ Married under the white man's law/ Up the hill and[...]vant girls in Southern Montana get $30 per month, and bed and board. The girls are entitled to the use of the[...]y doctor in Beaverhead County responded to parlor and coal oil two evenings in each week, and the lady a call that a woman had fainted on[...]pulse, the doc asked, "Has anyone any whiskey?" A And yet, with all these luxuries and privileges the girls keep bottle was handed to[...]arry.-Dillon Tribune, 5/10/1884 and advised the crowd, "Throw a bucket of water on her and[...]e town is momentarily at the mercy of sheriff and mortician arrived. They found the old gentle- the[...]lied, "I didn't should be attended to immediately and some kind of a fire find it any different[...]ed by a Territory 1864, Montana Territory 1864, and State of Mon- miners court, after the couple had[...]89. places for a miners' meeting to hear evidence and come to a decision. The posted notices read as follows: "Betsy and me has agreed to split blankets and rustle on According to Leeson's History o[...]James Stuart, different trales; she will take one and me tother. A miners accompanied by brother Granville and Rezin Anderson left meeting is hereby called for[...]excursionists. above Nevada, to here our storeys and give us splittin pa- Reaching Malad Creek,[...]Bannack miner looked out of his cabin one morning and 576-Beaverhead History |
| [...]victims all through the night and emit a repugnant odor.[...]and multiply to beat hell! Seasonal work brings la[...]t permit transient workers to diverse backgrounds and colorful coloquialisms. Sitting at bring t[...]s of the dent in which the ranch puppy had barked and nipped at his wood framing, and it was nigh impossible to get rid of them horse's[...]If an infestation occurred, the wooden bed frame and Ike Van Nieuwenhuis, a Dutchman from Pennsylvania, mattress were burned. Iron bed frames and steel cots, the was one of the few transient work[...]a motor car: availability of disinfectants and fumigators, better cleaning a beat-up Overland with no top. He spent every evening equipment, and sanitizing products have pushed the arith- tinker[...]past. da hoot, checked da bedry, cleant da boinz and plucks. Da vills wobbled, da tars were worn, da g[...]The cookhouse is her domain and don't you dare tell her One industrious fellow[...]of study to interpret. He was from exacting, and she will tolerate no interference in her sched- Louisiana and had worked on oil rigs. On one occasion, the[...]50 or 60 rolls? Crust pies, meringue pies, cakes and day, were whooping-it-up around the hay derrick.[...]the stack, was getting irritated with the racket and the rum- mometer or thermostatic control, yet through experience pus. He called down to them in a loud and threatening voice, she had developed the sav[...]ld. He hash-brown potatoes, eggs, hot cakes and coffee. The noon sent one of the kids back to the[...]inner on a ranch, consisted of beef roast or part and a tool. The young one came back bringing the[...]parations, potatoes, vegetable, a side wrong part and forgetting the tool. Lonzo was disgusted. dish of macaroni or rice, bread, pie or pudding, and coffee. "The nex' time ah send a goddam ijit to d[...]uit, usu- One workman came to the kitchen door and asked to ally smothered in whipped c[...]e eating up my woolen underwear in ing and evening. my knapsack." So that was it. He wanted[...]s moth which eat the dinner bell at 12:20, and the supper bell at 6:20 in the woolen fabrics and furs. ev[...]ine marbles containing cam- at five o'clock and had their horses caught and harnessed phor or naphthaline. They are placed wi[...]emale moth from lay- ship with the cook, and perhaps an extra piece of pie or cake. ing eggs.[...]After all, it was he who provided the milk and cream,[...]ens for Sunday dinner, and cranked the ice cream freezer for Yes! Bedbugs do bite and were a scourge in our early Sun[...] |
| [...]Discarded woolen clothing was cut into squares and ture and idiosyncracies, most were efficient, prompt and sewed to make patchwork quilts for the b[...]ason. Arnold Christensen, a year-round ranchhand, and "Eat it up. Wear it out. Make it do, or[...]he stores also whiskey provided he kept it hidden and did not share it with gave many free gifts throughout the year: kitchen and the other hands. Arnold found a perfect place to[...]age, which swatters, towel holders, bottle and can openers, broom hold- also housed the Delco electric plant. He took on the duty of ers, and calendars. No one ever put out cash for such item[...]gift, a two-pound box of chocolates and told to "take this Due to an emergency in the[...]ily. Patrons ordered groceries by telephone. down and finished it off. The order was made up and placed in an ingenious folding · The[...]. After search- SEWED FOLDING BOX-THE FIRST AND ORIGI- ing several of the ranch buildings, she fo[...]T'D JUNE 28, 1898. The hinged bottom folded prone and numb, lying on a bed of potatoes. That afternoon[...]The groceries were placed on the kitchen table and the box During the late spring months, Dillon[...]very. out a representative to visit their patrons and take grocery orders.[...]ng at the corner better ones were made of oak and as meticulously construct- of Montana and Center Streets, was one who visited the ed as a fine piece of furniture, with durable and beautifully ranchers during the month of June; si[...]h supply of groceries. insulated and lined with zinc sheet metal. A pipe extended A[...]pace 1 which was made up at the store and ready to load. which contained a removable metal pan. The pan was emp- 578-Be[...] |
| sarilly be agile and of great strength, as the task was exact- HORSEPOWER AND THE TREADMILL ing and any carelessness could result in a dip in the icy[...]orsepower (or manpower) frozen through the summer and as long as the sawdust re-[...]ood was the main source of fuel for heating homes and out-buildings, and a large supply was needed to stoke five or It[...]six stoves on a ranch. A circular saw with axle and pulle? ties of meat were preserved over a period[...]The treadmill, of a width and length to accommodate two meathouse during the day, and hung out every night to chill[...]horses, had side panels and a pole across the front to tie the in a screened[...]ls was cut. This was done after sundown. The dogs and[...]each end. tongue, heart, liver, and brains. Some butchers salvaged the[...]dmill was set in motion, the horses seemed thymus and pancreas, which, when brought to the table,[...]compelled to continue the action and could keep a steady were called sweetbreads. Brains and sweetbreads, consid-[...]eels, a 30-inch wheel on the SOAP AND CANDLES treadmill and the 6" wheel on the saw assembly, set the saw[...]A by-product of beef was tallow used in candle and soap log which the blade would accommodate.[...]e making. All beef fat was saved, cut into pieces and melted in direction of the saw blade, the belt[...]wo wheels. drained away from the fibrous material and poured into The horses were trained[...]ion took place when these two products were mixed and heated, resulting in a creamy smooth white odor- The butchering and preparation of pork products was an less mixture.[...]autumn activity that involved all the family and ranch- then poured into shallow pans and after setting up, it was hands and lasted several days. It was said that every part[...]that when, in the mid-twenties, RCA Victor and Atwater stirred in an iron cauldron, hanging from[...]Medicine Lodge was the envy of was readied and each person assigned a duty. After 24 hours all t[...]at area. She owned a giant-sized off feed and water, the pig was captured and stretched on an cauldron, which would easily hold five or more gallons of outdoor table and stuck with a thin blade in the jugular vein. mixture, and a four-foot maplewood paddle for stirring. The blood was caught in a pail and carried to the kitchen Lye was inexpensive and purchased in cans labeled POI- stove where[...]d into a large kettle. Blood Sau- SON, with Skull and Crossbones, the symbol for poison. sage was made by stirring and slowly adding cornmeal. As it Chemically, it is s[...]earlier times when mercantile stores were distant and sel- up. When chilled, it was sliced and fried in butter to be used dom visited, housewive[...]to a vat of near- It was also a potent bleach, and used in solution for whit- boiling water to loosen the hairs, lifted back to the table and ening cotton clothing, bed linen, and dish towels. This scraped with special t[...]washing with hot water, the belly was slit and all organs and burning kitchen stove. intestines removed and separated. Organs were put in cold[...] |
| [...]to a running stream, emp- HAY BOATS AND BOOM POLES tied and washed. This required turning them inside out by[...]87 made it apparent that the open- 10 inches long and a half-inch in diameter. Turning 15 feet ran[...]t practical in Montana. of intestines was tedious and repugnant but accepted as a A system of st[...]This meant cutting the hay at its peak of growth and storing salt water and would later be used for stuffing sausage.[...]ients over a period of These casings, transparent and tissue paper thin, are a nu- time. Some kind[...]k of heavy logs, sufficiently strong to shoulders and hindquarters were disjointed, the sides were[...]ow bellies). All were built in different sizes and shapes, and varied accord- these parts were rubbed with a mixture of salt and brown ing to the builder's own desiign. sugar, placed in a container and covered by the same mix- The boom pole[...]mokehouse to be- on top of the framework and, at the base, was chained loose- come ham and bacon. In Beaverhead County the best wood[...]lifting the load to the required height and then swinging The loins were cut into pork cho[...]ver the stack for better placement. The framework and collected, and placed in pans in a warm oven to render, boom were equipped with pulleys and steel cable in a pat- producing lard and cracklings. After rendering was com- ter[...]te, the liquid was strained into stoneware crocks and onto the stack. cooled, producing lard as[...]Hay was cut by horse-drawn mowers and then raked into All remaining meat was collect[...]e would divide the sage. The feet were disjointed and scrubbed, and the outer windrows into bunches. The hay wa[...]ard contrivance called a hay boat. It con- boiled and pickled in a vinegar, salt, sugar, and spice brine. sisted of a floor with a rack of staves about 30 inches high. The head was scrubbed and boiled for hours. The broth Its undercarriage was a single axle and two wheels placed was strained and set aside. All meat was removed and cut slightly forward of center. The wheel[...]o bits, including the jowls, tongue, ears, snout, and the in diameter, usually mowing machine wheel[...]carded farm machinery. As the clumsy salt, pepper and spices. The broth, exceptionally rich in boat, drawn by horses, moved along, it would swivel and gelatine, formed a translucent matrix, and, when chilled, teeter like a duck on rough[...]l. A stationary another across the floor and joined together by light chain or gasoline engine[...]dding salt, cured at the top of the rack fore and aft. In the center of the pepper, sage, and certain other herbs and spices, usually not two-part net was a mechani[...]er, who was bent on keeping his net to open and dump the load after it was lifted over the formul[...]ack, the two ends of the net were pulled together and of casings were pushed onto the tube of the stuff[...]a hook on the end of a cable dangling from a ment and drawn off as the sausage was forced by the auger[...], hooked to a double-tree with coils onto a table and pricked with a needle here and there to the cable attached, were driven forwar[...]he underside of ing took several days to complete and ended with a feeling of the net. When the bundle swung to the desired position accomplishment and pride by all who took part. abo[...]oatman jerked the trip rope, which opened the net and same procedure, but enjoyed the advantage of an a[...]load. The derrick driver unhooked the cable line and equipment scientifically placed for speed and sani- and lowered the net back to the boat. The net was aga[...]continue for 30 or 40 days through July, August, and into brushes.[...] |
| and a policy of taking Sundays off as a day of rest,[...]age ranch, a dozen or more hayhands were required and many horses were needed. Often times 10 or 12 tea[...]written deep in Western hearts-My camp is yours and yours is mine in all cow country parts. Treat wi[...]r sis- ter. Care for neighbors' strays you find, and don't call cowboys Mister. Shut the pasture gates[...]break your word to man nor Burns and Isabelle Perry with children, Harry and[...]es to be a cow- then my sister Lucille, and in two years Irene. boy an' a man[...]Lester), my brother Harold and I played together and had[...]rough, but we liked it and went back for more. The boys[...]ohnson would dare me to do crazy things and I was always game.[...]father, Burns Perry, whom everyone called "Bill" and sled was big and long with room for four or five kids. We my mothe[...]t sold their home in town. With my brother Harold and I the horse with the whip. Down the[...]son), they moved out to the farm. Dad and the horse's feet flew out from under him. I flew[...]d a four-room house. There were no the air and landed pretty hard but wasn't hurt. Although we l[...]ad time for playing, especially Dad dug a well and cemented it from top to bottom. It was in t[...]The major crop on the bench was winter wheat, and ev- was fine as long as we had wind and there were days we had _eryone had large[...]ucket, 'year. That was work. First we weeded and hoed the pota- attached it to a steel cable, and pulled the water up with a toes; then we pi[...]night we were dead tired, team. He dug a cistern and cemented it for a storage place lugging b[...]lots of pigs. Dad thought he would try to house, and pigpen. Dad hired a man to help and they went raise some sugar beets but di[...]d out to be a rainy The first few years Harold and I were too young to help season and the beets did well. They grew to be huge in size-[...]s, which were destroy- more work for Harold and me. We hitched the old horse on a ing a lot of gr[...]each two dozen stone boat, pulled the beets, and hauled them to the hogs. traps and paid us a penny a gopher. We had fun doing it and With a little grain, the hogs really got f[...]In a short time homesteaders came in and the entire coun- epough to drive a team, w[...] |
| [...]ched its peak of power, cruising the by Night and Day oceans of the globe, claiming more and more possessions.[...]By Edith Palmer port for supplies and liberty. During their days ashore, a[...]reception was given for officers of the ship, and was attend- There has been little recognition of the role which shee- ed by Italian royalty and others of the Italian elite. During pherders pla[...]t of the sheep industry in disparagement, and challenged the count to a duel. the west is worth[...]isonous weeds, watching was still available and was brought forth: a set of dueling for predators and many other dangers only sheep know how pistols with silver and ivory inlay lay in a velvet-lined oak to find. Summer storms and winter storms were equally case. Each[...]s weapon, seconds were devastating. Driving rains and high velocity winds can set a chosen, and appropriate commands were recited. Hector's band[...]eculiar mark was the better of two shots fired and the count fell property of wanting to reach earth[...]est route dead in the courtyard. possible and seems to seek out lone, vcertical objects. A[...]e target for Hector's shipmates whisked him out and away, and con- a bolt of lightning. Spring and autumn blizzards cause pile- cealed him aboar[...]they ups. The sheep seem to lose their perception and judgment arranged passage for him on a lin[...]rk as they run blindly, seeking shelter, injuring and smothering City. From there he lost no time in[...]s. His wages averaged $30 a month raising, and so, he became a sheepherder. He herded for Will and he may get two or three weeks vacation a year.[...]ip on the P & 0 Ranch on Blacktail Deer isolation and loneliness, but he is in tune with his natural[...]as his mainstay until Will re- seeking a hideaway and time to mend. He doesn't talk about tired, moved to Dillon, and became sheriff of Beaverhead where he came from, or why he came, and you don't ask. County. (The Code of the[...]irie After a period of healing, he may open up and tell his cattle rancher, was forced to sel[...]fy a loan at story, but only to a trusted friend, and in his own environ- the First National Bank o[...]d. through the depression years by selling hay and pasture and Hector MacDonald, one day, told his story:[...]home, he liked Carl Hansen, and this small band of sheep[...]and practiced all the courtesies he had learned in hi[...]wearing their familiar black habits and were often seen, by[...]would unobtrusively remove his hat and hold it to his breast[...]always walked on the outside and shifted to that position as 582-Beave[...] |
| [...]e need arose. This nicety originated in the horse-and- ness in 1895, remembers these faithful h[...]as Gottlieb Huber, Swiss, was a yodeler and also had yodel- to prevent the lady's skirts bein[...]rop-in company at his camp. He had horses' hooves and carria~e wheels. pets in his herd and called them by name. Amazingly, each As host,[...]lete responsi- lamb recognized his own name and would come to Gotlieb bility for ordering the mea[...]ece of chewing tobacco was the reward for guests, and he alone asked the waiter for additional service. lambs being trained as lead lambs. Gotlieb was frugal and The principle behind this bit of etiquette was th[...]saved his money for winter vacations in Wisconsin and need not deal with waiters.[...]Ray Garland, described as unusually kind and gentle (for Frank Stevenson (P & 0 Blackie) wa[...]was sold to the Maces. He then herded Ruby, and Berg Christensen. for the Cornell ranch until ret[...]ve had been a cook in the Marine Corps. 1910 and made it a lifetime career. He herded for Albert and He often pinch-hit, when needed, as ranch cook on the Matt Andersen and as late as 1943 for Hans C. Andersen. upper ranch[...]ard work he could deliver in a day's Happy Orr and Roscoe Cornell discovered that he had t[...]ership in the Masonic Lodge. Andersen, and John Jackson. They arranged to have him reinstated in the local lodge and John Andersen from Denmark herded for his[...]e rituals of the order. Clarence and Andrew. After retiring from buck herding, he s[...]ad lost a leg in World War I. mertime in Armstead and at Jackson. Joe Ha[...]then for Hans period of time but remained active and in good spirits until C. Andersen at B[...] |
| ameter and seven or eight feet high of carefully placed the early years of his sheep empire, and Paul Stein, an stones. Many other herders built m[...]expert with pack strings. or two feet at the base and three or four feet in height. Packing a[...]ning, built for reasons they never erly placed and balanced, and corrently tied to withstand revealed, nor did the[...]Al Cramer from Illinois herded for Hans Andersen and John F. Bishop and Richard Reynolds trailed 1,500 head brought in to[...]the partnership of Poindexter and Orr were tending a herd Don McLaughlin, also k[...]sheep on Blacktail Deer Creek. Leonard, Cornell, and Hagenbarth. Si[...]e in 1864, this developed a combination of cattle and ranch, Berg Christensen and Jim Harrison. sheep raisi[...]ced by many Henry Dunkin herded for Whitworths and Sonny Peter- stock growers. son; he wa[...]rses. Leonard also remembers Ralph Stoutenberg and George Hansen, who made substantial contributions[...]isten- ready to help. Threshing time came and the neighbors sen, remembers these faithful herde[...]one had Falkner, Walter Hoffman, Milan Crnkovich, and a family their grain in. George Stimps[...]am. and did that work for all of us.[...]e camptender was the life line between the herder and chickens. We always had fried chicken and a big freezer of the world outside. He brought the supplies to the sheep ice cream and Mother's wonderful cake. camp. He carried a pencil and pocket notebook to list the The first few years we drove the horse and buggy to Dillon needs for the next delivery. This[...]to school until the neighbors got together and decided there papers, magazines, medicine, personal needs, dog food, and were enough children to afford a school in[...]He was also responsible to move the sheep wagon and all would be District 2. They apportioned[...]to a new location. The herder district had and we raised the balance to build a school. trailed[...]ing grounds. They gave dances and basket socials to raise money, which Julius Ma[...]hey bought the Landon property. goodies and auctioned off for large sums of money. I remem- W[...]- ber one time Mrs. Jack Deputy, Georgia, and Hazel Wyans, son to Cornells where they both work[...], came to a dance. When their Julius, a caring and compassionate man, was kind to ani- baskets[...]llows determined to get mals, to little children, and to old ladies, also. He was re- their baskets kept bidding and paid an enormous price. sponsible beyond question and prompt about his duties as a By the tim[...]Noah Gees camptender. It is no wonder that Steve and Julius were best moved into our community-Ethel, my first girl friend, and friends for all of their years together on these ranches. After two boys, Harold and Randolph. Oscar Sharps moved on the retirement, t[...]Willis Garland place; Margurite was about Ethel's and my edge of Dillon. age, and Dorothy was a first grader. We used the school[...]laguing his body, took house for Sunday School and also church services. his own life in 1968.[...]Gertrude Halman was our first teacher and we liked her Hans Andersen remembers tw[...] |
| 'Ethel, Margurite, and me to spend weekends with her. We aged di[...]of the work. always had a wonderful time hiking and making candy. As early as 1905 memb[...]imary supervisor at the training school buggies, and went to Axes Canyon for a big celebration. It[...]chool), influenced the program com- was Harold's and my job to prepare a large freezer of ice mittee to recommend the study of Greek drama. cream, and Mom fried chicken. We had all the good food you[...]ed the first year of Miss Lucy H. could think of and always ate twice before going home. They Cars[...]led the Club into the put on races for the kids and gave prizes. We also had study of the techniques of the drama. With Dickinson's fireworks and fire crackers.[...]some time. dry land farming but the drought came and we had several The Club Annual was alwa[...]always considered it an honor to be a Mother and Dad are gone now. All the brothers and sis- guest. In discussing the Annual, Mrs.[...]th the result that the club made by Ethel Hawkins and Betty Henningsen, is excerpt- its first and only issue of stock. The sum realized from the ed[...]building fund left Dillon. Interest lapsed and then the plan Miss Genevieve Albertson, a professor of English at was later given up, and the Club decided to use the money Western Montana[...]In this letter Mrs. Norris' sister said that she and responded to every call for contribution that h[...]as made, possibly by to 30, then to 35, and finally in 1924 to 40 members. Mrs. Norris hersel[...]torium. At this time haps, furnished inspiration, and the outcome was the the Club presente[...]dt, Bertha W. Reininger, Isa- From 1906 (and possibly earlier) until 1949, Shakespeare bellaRi[...]mber of the Federation of Women's Clubs. Schenck, and Anna Carter Yoe.[...]udied literature The Shakespeare Club of Dillon and the Homer Club of but discussed questio[...]e, Prohibi- Butte were organized in the same year and are among the tion, and Civil Service reform. oldest literary societies i[...]Miller Kress Girl Scouts, Orphans' Home and Beaverhead County Muse- said there was comparatively little discussion and during um Association. The Club rai[...] |
| [...]ing in the country should become mem- Harrison, and flowers on Armistice Day and Easter. Shake- bers and once a member, always a member. A quote from sp[...]947, when the Beaverhead County tongues and needles flew, but after refreshments, the hos- Tuberculosis and Health Association was formed.[...], Shakespeare Club flying feet as well, and all had a good time." follows most of the custo[...]On December 14 of that year, Senator and Mrs. J. P. cited above. Its function is totally[...]eir home-a mansion which still , membership of 40 and always has a waiting list. It still meets stands in good repair. Almost 80 members and their families in homes. It still maintains its[...]the Birch Creek campgrounds. nonfiction, drama, and poetry. The[...]he picnic in Sheep Canyon in 1891, summer, and fall and then happily entertained their hus- has not bee[...]along to the meetings, and nimble fingers kept pace with[...]radio or television, and few automobiles, these sociable get-[...]ich has met regularly since its sociability and has also been of service through donations to c[...]homes, they met every three weeks, on Tuesday, and in later years, Barrett Hospital Auxiliary, Boy and Girl Scouts, etc. once a month on the same day.[...]The club has endured many changes and events through The story goes that in Februa[...]y for Mrs. Clifford Bond at her the moon, and the computer age. ranch home (now known as the[...]believe the real reason for the success of this and buggy to enjoy the occasion. At the suggestion of[...]rue spirit of tolerance that has been P. Murray and Mrs. William Herman, the ladies met to[...]religious creed or race, our mem- discuss ways and means of forming a club. Mrs. Theodore[...]Nelson invited the group to her home on March 12 and they mony, performing the many vital acts of charity and kind- outlined organizational plans.[...]r members were enrolled: Mrs. Theo- better and happier place in which to live. dore Nelson, Mr[...]ominent Curtis, Mrs. Baers, Mrs. R. P. Willard, and Mrs. Lovilla Selway. Mrs. Theo Nelson was chose[...]giana Crouse Andersen "Hayseeds" were suggested and were probably considered When Shake[...]children, establishing homes, institutions and bringing cul- Club.[...]. At this time, Mrs. Murray was elected treasurer and ners, women who ran boarding houses and upstairs houses. Mrs. Smith secretary. Four new[...]f lots at the auction for the A constitution and by-laws were adopted. Acticle II de- city. It was the first one sold and the price was $400. It fines the objectives of the club as 1) to be more sociable, and became a jewelry and drug store at 134 North Idaho Street 2)[...] |
| [...]son was an English and Latin professor at the Normal Col-[...]was privileged to have them as leaders for play and book Perkins Hooker[...]College from 1919 through 1946, was born in 1884 and died in 1920. From Bannack he went to[...]ills Jewelry. It is traveled by train and wagon to make her visits to rural exactly like th[...]Dillon Museum that he created. "Matt and Jack of the WX," written by Dillon teachers Th[...]credit for enduring hard- Kathryn Van Noy and Elinor Hedrick, was selected as Book ships of the[...]another woman. As was often for the P and O (Poindexter and Orr), now the Matador said, "Montana was great for men and cows, but hell on Ranch on Blacktail Deer Creek. Matt and Jack were sons of women." John and Iva Orr. John took all of the ranch pictures in t[...]book. Danish ladies who had left their families and homeland and The story of the first watermelon that[...]as married in early April, 1925. They and sugar. Since the boys had to stay home, their mot[...]he boys lambing) where they spent their honeymoon and she cooked couldn't wait to eat it. They took it behind the house and cut for 20 men. I admire the way she learned to r[...]lean a squash, so zine had been left at the ranch and she read one story over they followed the same procedure. When they had all the and over until she understood it. She used the same method seeds and flesh thrown out, they cut the rind in pieces- fo[...]written by an educator Eleanor Traxell, is "Pammy and His ous drives in reverse.[...]understand much book about students and their pets. One of the students was about ranchin[...]of the Dillon Examiner Roy Forrester, Jr. and his St. Bernard dog, Googer. The for many years, was one. One especially cold and stormy school was named for Mary Lyle I[...]how the calving was going. grade teacher and city librarian from 1909 to 1964-55 years. The ra[...]She is among a list of "Early Teachers of 1893" and a brass had to postpone the calving. That was new[...]38, concluding a teaching career of 45 years. She and children were sent to the courthouse in Bannack a[...]inted by Elizabeth her husband, Milton Norris. He and Dan Winters were safe, Lochrie of Butte,[...]est in this area is Hughie Call owners, Montague, and others had been scalped and killed. who lived with her husband and family on a sheep ranch This was the Bob J[...] |
| [...]titious anyway, felt that her life was the ranch and her horses. During a blizzard she became blighted by Dr. Martin's death and reminded them of it violently ill. Friends clear[...]a often. Butte hospital. She had a rare virus and died three days Two ladies who helpe[...]s area later. The story of her love for her pony and her pony for her, through the DAR were Mrs. Laura Tolman Scott of Arm- and "Mountain Lily" (descendant of an Arabian stallion) stead and Miss Jean Bishop. Both ladies had special inter-[...]ew her pony, was pub- ests in the Lewis and Clark expedition of this area and were lished in Reader's Digest. The jealously be[...]by the gate. They had been 15 miles apart and was appreciated for the contributions she made in the when she died and had never met without lashing and biting cultural life of Dillon. She was a close friend of Jeanette and furiously neighing. Now they stood quietly side b[...]about Dillon by another teacher, tana, and the only one who voted against both World Wars I[...]r of Mrs. D. E. Metlen was "Truth Strang- and II. She was a supporter of Womens rights, as was[...]published by a church-owned pub- Bishop, and Jeanette was often a guest in the Bishop home lishing house, "Pillar of Fire." She taught in Bannack and at 413 South Idaho Street. Verla T. Andersen is a grand opened each school day with prayer and scripture reading niece and John Bishop McCollum, D.D.S., is a grand neph- and was advised to discontinue it. She was not employ[...]provided different services were Lima, Red Rock and Nelson, where she boarded with the Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Pegram. Mrs. Curtis established the John Bi[...]he first hospital in Dillon in 1889 on Episcopal and Methodist. She expressed her dislike of Dil-[...]f her brother, tal consisted of his office and two patient rooms. Mrs.Pe- the Rev. C. W. Bridwel[...]at the Hartwig Theatre, the "laying on of hands" and was apparently laying them on presenting[...]places which fired some men silent black and white movies. That organ is now in the to take ac[...]ple were engaged in services at the Bridwell home and One lady chose a beautiful home that[...]t Orrs were on their honeymoon in smashed windows and broke the doors and took Bridwell Florida and saw the governor's mansion, Mrs. Orr said that one mile out of town, divested him of his clothes and gave was the home she wanted. It was cut i[...]otes from the book are, "Butte, veritable and assembled at 521 South Washington, where Mrs. Rog[...]arents' home, known as the Orr Mansion. of morals and respectability . . .. There was a vein of crimi-[...]more than religious clubhouses parents and, along with three brothers and assorted cousins, where people meet to gossip and display their finery ... " trudged behind[...]s a Montana. She married George W. Wheat and their sons, memorial window dedicated to Dr. Pickman, a popular phy- Herb and Earl, were only a few years old when Nellie was s[...]dowed. She moved to Dillon frpm Twin Bridges area and In her book is also an account of the death of[...]n, "who enjoyed good vic- the wedding of Ray Tash and Miss Anna Ellerman on Janu- tuals," met, courted and married Nellie. Sh0 was the grand- ary 9, 1910, i[...]There are nine midwives of which I am aware and I know put his rubbers on and dropped dead. Quoted from the book there[...]garet was an obstetrical is "A messenger was sent and the sad news of their beloved nurse in Sc[...]they left with tears streaming down died and her husband was killed, she came to Butte. He was[...]a foreman on the building of the Titanic and a plank that he and all were dismissed. Church records state that Mrs[...]m to his death on the deck tin remained in Dillon and was an influence in bringing below. Sh[...]Margaret took those children and others to Columbia A daughter, Evelyn T[...] |
| [...]as the beginning of "dog- meet. They were married and she became Mrs. Tom Scott. gie bags". T[...]Beecher Perkins, daughter of Dr. Lyman Beecher and sister Irish lady was washing her diapers in the spring that was the of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. In source of their water. She and Walter, who was 13, marked 1887 she married Rev. Hooker and they moved to Dillon the all the logs and moved them one by one to another spring. n[...]e bet that was a culture shock! came home and couldn't find his home or family, he asked[...]Irish lady where they were. She said, "They moved and was a formative period in the history of D[...]came from a family noted for religious and intellectual ac- Mrs. Scott is credited with d[...]Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain. Mrs. Hooker had Elfreda Woodside t[...]ho came to Dillon with her husband Dillon. and crew of men from Tiperary, Ireland, in 1894. They[...]Church, working especially among the young people and leaving her with three small children. She persua[...]only son was killed at ed by friends of Mr. and Mrs. Hooker in the East. It was age 12 when a tea[...]planned for needy and dependent children to be brought up As a little girl Elfreda watched Mrs. Fitzharris' crew dig and educated under the care of the rector and his wife. with horses and slips the basements of the Telephone Build-[...]n is indebt- ing which is nbw occupied by Penneys and on Idaho Street ed for its public library[...]1888 contributed the nucleus of the present hand and the men respected her. Elfreda said she was good[...]llection. Before the library tax was levied, Mrs. and honest and "she did not swear!"[...]provided means for the turret reading room chute and opened the lever, out came the coal, but she had[...]nders of the Dillon Shake- from her crushed wagon and drove away. speare Club[...]dedication supplied volcanic ash blocks for homes and buildings in of the painting of Mrs. Hoo[...]held on Saturday evening, trance to the cemetery and the storage house out there. May 14, at[...]Perkins Hooker's por- she lived in a sheep wagon and cooked for the crew there. trait to the Ci[...]l experience. ben presented the portrait and asked that it be hung in the Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Ross, Sr., and their family were promi- Library. It was un[...]din- A portrait painter of distinction and a cousin of Mrs. ner-two extra. She set the table with her best linen and Hooker's of Washington, D. C., Miss Ellen[...]nt- china. Mrs. Ross was a bride from Nova Scotia and was ed the portrait. Mayor Roscoe Corn[...]painting for the city. Chief Tendoy's brother and his wife, Mary. After a sumptu- M[...] |
| [...]round 1880. nack tribe and its chiefs", "the Bannack ring", etc. "How Lil[...]ong are you going to live in fear of the tomahawk and opened a millinery shop in Dillon. Zella Hanson L[...]Bannack's backers were no less envenomed and declared Disaster struck Dillon in 1882. It is[...]Smoke poured from the nuity of desperate and ambitious men could invent." millinery store of M[...]er increasing Street. The wind was blowing a gale and the fire was beyond zest until the whole pop[...]wever, contrived an the flames; pumps were manned and bucket lines were issue that attracted serious attention and caused consterna- formed. Women volunteered as fi[...]site. And that was the issue on which the Bannack "braves"[...]spend $25,000 of tax money on a hopeless raising and agriculture were displacing mining as the main[...]apparent ing into a humdrum settlement. The Utah and Northern that something drastic must be done, and at once. Dillon Railroad, entering the county fro[...]ged as the railroad terminus for agricultural and stockraising developments-but those ar- winter and was now a flourishing freighting center with[...]Dillon was principally a freighting center and that when Bannack was visibly perturbed by thi[...]t years, she had reigned as queen of the frontier and with it. as the Montana territorial capital wh[...]peration, a meeting of Dillon citizens was called and were being taken from Grasshopper Creek. Then the[...]had been snatched from her grasp by Virginia City and the annals of Montana's county governments[...]ed of her former submitted to commissioners-and had printed in the Tri- glory was the county seat status and this she guarded jea- bune-their proposal "[...]at Helena-passed an act calling for a spe- and offices for the use of said county, free of expen[...]estling the county seat from its original ually and collectively liable for the performance of the co[...]on desired the county seat for the added prestige and When a legal opinion from the district judge upheld the stability it would afford. Many and bitter were the accusa- validity of the offe[...]ccused the "court- arguments was halted and the Bannack tribe retired for a house clique" at[...]pow-wow. Finally, daubed with fresh war paint and dancing by selfishness, to keep the seat t[...] |
| [...]Ferris, John R. Selway, N. Axe, "Glendale is old and substantial. Its mines will make it T.M.[...]others, C.L. Thomsen, Isaac Van Camp, R.H. Selway and Dillon but its location near the county boundary and in James Selway. rugged hills, posing d[...]2 118 gion and when the vote was cast, that precinct returned a[...]30 ers), who were camped in and near the town, had been Spring Hill[...]665 495 favoring the change and if the returns from this precinct had been thrown[...]seriously. No further complications developed and the Dillon Town Company proceeded to carry out it[...]ced in a frame building at the corner of Glendale and Washington streets, later occupied by the St. James Episcopal Church and Guild Hall. Those arrangements were approved by county commis- sioners and August 26, 1881, was set as date for transfer of[...]4, 1971) fects on Dillon. The town was now stable and important. The dray wagon backed into[...]en freighting business began to wane, agriculture and of the new library. With the back wheel[...]real estate sales alone justifying the ini- and made several successful trips into the building b[...]next trip I got over- ambitious and dropped a couple. That At that time, A.E. Graeter served as probate judge and was the end of the job for me. Mary Innes[...]to stand by to watch. L. Hamilton, Phillip Lovell and David E. Metlen. The li[...] |
| [...]uilding was finished it took some time to catalog and ar- stood a foundation. Nothing further seemed to[...]Baptist minister, had written to Andrew Carnegie and re- We will remember Mary Innes not on[...]rsonal gratification. roof was to add both beauty and serviceability. After the[...]ket of champagne donated by the Hon. F. L. Graves and nack, for it introduced dredging to the state. Be[...]e success of the new hydraulic mining enterprise, and 1904, several dredging operations were carried on along the boat was tied close to the shore and the visitors landed. Grasshopper Creek and at nearby Horse Prairie with most Mr.[...]h was engraved the names of the officers of built and successfully operated. A sixth sucked up the grav[...]J. Reiling of the numeral twelve. Chicago and others organized the Gold Dredging Company[...]inally constructed, the dredge was unsatisfactory and built the first boat. On May 15, 1895 the FIELDING L. and had to be remodeled. Its capacity was increased t[...]ucketlift dredge in yards of gravel per day and its total cost exceeded $35,000; the country was[...]ing at the richest ground, the totals ran $22,000 and boat. When the time arrived, Mrs. H.J. Reiling of[...]000 respectively. The gold dust was run into bars and the wife of the president of the company, broke t[...]e company workmen went on ary bottle of champagne and christened the boat the strike for h[...]e of Bannack's well flumes was blown up and its supports cut. The company, known pioneer merc[...]other laborers. The slid gracefully from its ways and floated on the waters of "F. L. Grav[...] |
| [...]ype placer dredge in the dwindling ore reserves and low price of silver brought on by United States."[...]roduced nearly $20,000,000, principally in silver and lead. hopper. All that is left today is part of its beams and a few Beaverhead County's greatest mining[...]art of mining operations in the Elk- from Bannack and a few larger parts such as some of the[...]r the south of the Pioneer Mountains. The buckets and safe on display in Bannack and at the Museum Boston-Montana Development[...]and building of a 37-mile railroad from the mines to[...]By 1925, about 200 men were employed and underground[...]r, lack of ore resulted in financial difficulties and debts The first mining venture was recorded Jul[...]Mineral resources of Beaverhead County are varied and Lott and 11 companions. Three weeks later, the richer gold[...]d by John tungsten, iron, molybdenum and nickel. White and Williams Eads. By the end of that year, their sit[...]eriod, $13,907,155 Alder Gulch near Virginia City and Bannack miners depart- worth of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc were produced ed for those richer diggings.[...]sidents at Argenta, 80 at Bald Moun- Charles Ream and J.A. Brown. Some of those richest ores tain, 381 Bannack, 144 Beaverhead Valley and 27 in the Big were shipped as far as Swansea, Wal[...]le Valley. because of transportation difficulties and excessive ship- Origins of those pionee[...]attlesnake Creek, near the town of 31, and Illinois 46. Argenta, but one proved a failure and operated but one day. Almost one-third o[...]d's populace at that time Ores from the Argenta and Blue Wing districts and from was foreign born with 64 English, 55 Irish, and 33 Germans outlying districts were successfully p[...]Of the county's total residents, 597 were male and 125 down following repeal of the Sherman Silver P[...]ale, 3,075 female). at finding new pockets of ore and reworking old dumps. Dillon listed[...]Jackson 459, Dell 417, Dewey's Flat 388, and Birch Creek ered-the rich silver-lead ore that cr[...]with 121, followed by Canadians 116, Germans 107, and the start. It reached its peak under management of the Irish 106. England sent 98 while Sweden and Switzerland Hecla Consolidated Mining Comp[...] |
| [...]covered by a shallow sea which rose and receded repeatedly. GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF[...]many of today's mountain ranges. sarily a complex and extensive exercise in visualization in T[...]ents which occurred here are so fantastic, and then the first coniferous trees. Near the end of the explosive, and beguiling as to seemingly defy logic. It is a[...]ents too were moving. Euramerica had moved ranges and tumultuous natural forces. It is also a story con[...]- sisting of varying degrees of evidence, theory, and opinion. ing action moved the other continen[...]e land as it exists today towards Euramerica and a convergence of most all land must be erased fro[...]ent in Beaverhead County verhead County and reveal through the fossil record, devel- are the[...]tal crust. These rocks include shists, granites, and gniessis mammals, flowering plants, birds, and grasses. Another for- that metamorphized here mor[...]d at what is today the Red Rock Valley and surrounding areas. 2.81 billion years.[...]. No plants or animals were yet in County and western North America as well. The movement existence and the atmosphere and climate were most inhos- of the Eurameric[...]ntinental conver- pitable, lacking breathable air and a protecting ozone layer. gence of Pangea was[...]n consists of our Western Continental Divide area and lower or opposition. This all came to an[...]ins. The sudden cessation of its of sands, silts, and muds over a period of 600 million eastward[...]record; small invertebrate sea-dwelling animals, and marine algae. This period also marks the beginnin[...]from a carbonic atmosphere to one including more and more oxy- gen.[...]he land mass that would become the North American and part of the European Continent sat astride the eq[...]~~-~ ~~►-~::~_ :. developed in the basement and .fault rocks were subse- quently filled by magma[...]• fracture developed and actually sheared off a large section[...]left the area we know today as eastern Washington and western Idaho as ,, the western coastli[...]t>, .';._ |
| [...]ra was the gradual opening of the Atlantic Ocean and spread- ing of the sea floor, propelling North A[...]nse volcanic activity commenced from the More and more the land was fractured. Through these Challis volcanoes in Idaho and the Elkhorn/Lowland volca- openings in the crust[...]d fill with magma, California, British Columbia, and Nevada, large masses of stretching the land and in places again extruding granite granite magma rose to the surface creating massive batho- magma and basalts. The volcanoes showered the high liths that rose and spread as they extruded. mountain ranges and deposited small hilly ranges of debris; The I[...]table heights, a large section broke off the top and slid Range and the hills along the Big Hole near Melrose. One of[...]own as Beaverhead Rock) at Bar- past each other, and thrusting faults, fractures along which rett[...]ame a very very dry region, eroding soils rapidly and carry- lith known as the Pioneer block and the Sapphire block, ing heavy sediment loads to fill the valley basins. Besides moved eastward and southward respectively, the leading sediments of sand, gravel, mud, limestone, and coal, were edges bulldozing the earlier deposited[...]ion in their path. The peaks of the East Pioneers and the Cascade Range in Washington. Anaconda[...]period was followed by 10 million years of tropi- and overriding these batholiths. Western Montana's la[...]er climates than those following the volcanic off and moved east. So deep was the magmatic extrusion period. and the consequent split, that the basement rocks pre[...]lting glaciation. Most high mountainous and terrace formation in activity began to raise moun[...]y two or more faults, were re- increasing and decreasing snow and ice accumulations. This sponsible for raising the Beaverhead, Centennial, and much alternately ground away then washed[...]mation onto lower trenches and floodplains. In the case of the Centennial Mo[...]eved Eroding the sedimentary, volcanic, and magmic forma- they rose closer to the Snowcrest/G[...]tion, glaciation nearly completed the mountain and valley As they rose they began moving south openi[...]logical areas of the country. Wind, water, and thermal ero- Fault blocks may also drop a bloc[...]Beaverhead, Blacktail, Centennial, Ruby, and Tendoy river. As the Tendoys rose on the Red Rock fault, the block mountains. And who knows when the next series of larger in the v[...]between Shineberger's (ranch at Red Rock) and Bannack, raised the several thousand feet thick Beaverhead gravels has been suspended, and the route now intervenes between deposited in the immediately preceding period into the Red Dillon and Bannack via Argenta. The change took effec[...] |
| [...]Steele of Helena and Adolph Graeter of Dillon. (The following events[...]Bishop John Bishop mined briefly in Bannack and in the spring McCollum remembers about her grandf[...]f the vigor, the ambition, the adventurous spirit and the "drive" that this man possessed. At the age[...]tives at Kilbourn, Wis., where he bought 40 acres and planted it to grain, only to have grass- hoppers[...]ly disillusioned, he knew this wasn't for him. He and others built a flatboat and went down the Ohio River to the Mississippi, stop[...]ruby. Between 1863 and 1867 he made numerous trips to[...]Salt Lake City, Utah, where he purchased oxen and a stock[...]of general merchandise: mainly flour, sugar, and fresh fruit.[...]the wildlife plentiful, and winters were not too severe. To[...]e himself that his choice of land was correct, he and[...]istricts. John Bishop joined a wagon City and Montana points until 1867 and then began ranch- train in March 1863 and started for East Bannack by way of ing in earnest. the Bridger cut-off and Soda Springs along the Cherokee In 186[...]with passed, where Indians had stolen the horses and riddled the a team of horses and a wagon. By the time they got there the buildings[...]1863. sheep. Mr. Bishop sold his gold dust and took greenbacks in John Bishop remembere[...] |
| [...]in greenbacks for 1100 sheep. Wisconsin and graduated in 1904, majoring in literature, In[...]started back to Montana trailing the history and music. She was received into the National Soci- sheep. Eighty days later, after many trials, tribulations, and ety of Scholarship Phi Beta Kappa her junior y[...]g in the In the spring, the sheep were sheared and the wool sold to home of her parents. Colonel[...]She was a lifelong friend of Jeannette Rankin and worked water hauled the wool to Corinne, Utah, to[...]often went to Washington, D.C. to visit and a few years later from Montana. Mr. Bishop's sheep operations were on an she and Miss Rankin toured South America, where they extensive scale and he prospered. It is unknown how many were entertained at state-level receptions and dinners. men received his encouragement, both advice and financial, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Thompson's daughter, Lenore, regardin[...]me She entered the University of Montana and graduated in in Warsaw, N.Y., enjoying his family and friends. In 1874, he 1924 with a degree in Ma[...]in Darby, married Jennie F. Painter of that city and they traveled Montana, and then taught Math in Beaverhead County west by train, visiting in Chicago, and on to Corinne, Utah. High School until retir[...]d Mr. There Mr. Bishop purchased a team of horses and a one- James A. McCollum and they had two children, Elizabeth seated top buggy. Mrs. Bishop's first night in Montana was and John. at the Shineberger (Roe) Ranch.[...]Thompson attended schools in Twin Bridges Mr. and Mrs. Bishop had three daughters: Mildred Eliza- and graduated from College of Physicians and Surgeons in beth, born in 1876, Mary in 1878, and Jennie (Jean) in 1881. California. He practi[...]ool for many years. He has now retired and lives in Sun City, across the road from their ran[...]ew house at 413 South Idaho Street so Verla and Leslie Allen. the girls could attend school. Mr.[...]ity lot -Jennie and John Bishop in 1884 and with men from the ranch dug the foundation and that year fenced the lot. He had by this time[...]eal estate in Dillon. He invested in several lots and had buildings constructed. Those still bearing his name are the Montana Auto Supply and the U-Save buildings. Several of his residences w[...]e first justice of the peace in Beaverhead County and SHEEPHERDER'S COMMENT served on th[...]e Montana OF CANNED MILK Pioneers and was a member of the local school board. His socia[...]dge Carnation Milk, best in the lan', and the Shrine. He was Commander of Knights Templar Comes to the table in a little red can. and served as trustee for Beaverhead Social Club. Mr.[...]Jes punch a hole in the sonofabitch! Mr. and Mrs. Bishop's daughters, Mildred and Jean, lived in Dillon until their departure for c[...]wo children are Mrs. Lenore T. McCollum of Dillon and Dr. Reynolds B. Thomp- son of Sun City, Calif. In 1924 Leslie Thompson died and his widow returned to the home of her parents in Dillon. There she belonged to the Presbyterian Church and its Womens Society, the D.A.R. and P.E.O. She died at the age of 89. Jean F[...] |
| [...]Lossl built a new frame building and moved into it about Merchant 1898. It burned in 1902 and he rebuilt and was in business[...]wife died when his two daughters were quite tion, and bought the Stage Line Hotel and the old store then young, and in spite of life's many adversities that came his[...]d life, peo- dom was surveyed by Ben R. Stevenson and Mr. Lossl erect- ple and a good joke. In his last years he went to live wi[...]ation. He then purchased lots on Riverside Street and passed away. built the store known as the[...]Lossl was a pioneer storekeeper of the old school and -ANN HIRSCHY and BERTHA FRANCIS, many were the notes he went on to[...]rs until he PROFITABLE PROFESSION and Miller finally consolidated with his stage line t[...]ing gold. The ox was placed in a frame of stocks and the split had groceries, clothing and shoes, the other had hardware of shoe applied by the smith. Going price for that operation all kinds and farm machinery. He also operated a general was six dollars per ox and a good smith could shoe eight oxen store in Jackson managed by his brother George Lossl. He and still have most of the day to himself.[...] |
| [...]fession to provide pleasure for the men, married and single alike, who first settled the county. E[...]-mostly upstairs of course-nearly every other one and sometimes four-hell no, five in the Club Bar block alone-had a whorehouse. And that's only on one street!" Famous ones inlcud[...]ace", "The Oak- land Rooms", "Idaho Apartments", and the "Home Ranch" on the road to the county dump.[...]n North Montana Street behind the Standard Lumber and Coal Company. It was one of th~ most stylish bord[...]trollops buzzed at every op- in town: two stories and a turret tower affectionately termed portunit[...]say "The Island" was a well-known spot the parlor and drinks were served to customers and those out by the current Pfizer plant. Ot[...]Ewing Place." The Oakland Rooms and the Ewing Place B. F. White, of political and banking fame, was once a were both called[...]ial Valley, was once refused a loan from bar and restaurant and upstairs a "Hotel" and bedrooms for the renowned Mr. White. Charlie is s[...]mly re- Anderson had been shot in the gut and through the head plied, "Yes, Charlie, and if I were no smarter than you are, and the room was very much ransacked, the law and investi- I'd still be there playing away!"[...]ice judges provides some were certainly tolerated and sometimes accepted in Dillon's interesting c[...]he city. social circles. They were always present and in the best and For some reason a fine of $25 became standard for the most expensive seats at concerts and community functions. madams who were in vi[...]s were fined $5. These were as- plumes, feathers, and jewelry. Barney Barnett had a livery . sessed[...]girls, called "inmates of a house of ill business and took great delight in driving "The Ladies" to fame" and later "inmates of a house of prostitution" ap- and from these events. Of course, "The Girls" always[...]o the city's coffers. quested the fanciest coach, and Barney obliged with his Interestingly enough, $5 was the same fine assessed for pub- matched team and full-dressed harness rigs polished to a l[...]-known local patron Elliott, Rich, Phillips, and Cushing. Each wrote detailed became news and was magnified as the babble bounded[...] |
| [...]heard the trouble renewed. She started downstairs and From Dillon Tribune-March 17, 1909[...]he floor, Monida that Thomas Metzel, a well known and prominent pillowing the head of her husband in her lap and weeping. stockman of the Centennial valley near L[...]"Tommy," she said, "you drove me to this." shot and killed by his wife. He died almost instantly. The "Yes, I know I did, dear," was his answer, and then he shooting occurred about 2 o'clock Thursda[...]. Metzel for the realize what had happened and apparently he forgave his shooting was that she h[...]in the tragedy. The inquest was held Saturday and the jury brought in a Mrs. Metzel was placed on the stand and, while she was verdict that Mrs. Metzel was menta[...]day which led to the tragedy. shot in the back, and that a .25-36 rifle was the weapon used. She exhibited black and blue spots which showed she had When the fatal sh[...]under a great nervous strain, almost hysterical and always which are said to have prevailed for many[...]ey believes for a minute that outbursts of temper and roughly handled both women. The the shoo[...]on prevails that it · day before the tragedy she and Mr. and Mrs. Metzel had was a case wherein a wo[...]ing trip to one of the lakes south of the ance and turned on her husband in a moment of anger. ranch. A quarrel started for some reason and it continued Mrs. Metzel has not been arrested. It is doubtful if she throughout the evening and again renewed the following will ever be taken into custody, and, if she is, Metzel's broth-[...]previous page) supporters and are helping her bear her grief in every possi-[...]the city councilmen. Though most county and buried in the family cemetery. girls were fined only $5, in 1916 several were fined $6 and one who must have "smarted off' to the judge rece[...]July of 1909 N ot After, Not Before and 20 girls are listed. Troublemakers, male and female alike, were "floated"-that is, given twent[...]le told the out of Dillon, so Dillon got Monida's and Lima's floaters and train Not to go any more, sent its undersirabl[...]ere the train stopped Down the track from versed, and though no records from other towns indicate a[...]h, Hazel, Hortense, dent of the train-And that's how Dillon got its name. Millie et al. Gir[...]spread Soon ranch- Elza, Vera, Lelah, Nell, Ora, and Minnie. But for some ers from all over[...]name was Grace. There Thousands of sheep and cattle Were brought over the was one Cecil. Madam[...]people would prosper But others would $20 in 1903 and $25 in 1920. fail. A drunk could get 10 days in jail with a "floater" and a Storms, drought and coyotes Made things tough, But "good girl" could[...]rough. When asked about the girls of yesterday and those of Now the passenger train[...] |
| [...]son County ty, Mo., on June 14, 1883, son of Fred and Margaret Phiffner Woodside. The mother died April[...]father then sold schools, Parrot, Bone Basin, and Renova as belonging to the ranch and moved to a house on Thomsen Avenue in[...]oint District was declared abandoned February ing and steam engines which enabled him to find employ- 15, 1926, and the property attached to District 14 (Red ment as[...]e operator at Farlin. He later worked Rock) and to District 27 (Blacktail). on the Oregon Short Line Railroad and at the New Depar- ture Mine near Bannack.[...]hool students were taught in the Bagley in Dillon and, one year later, he and his associate Roy Mur- building, where the[...]ead County High School was the garage was rebuilt and Fred bought out Murray's inter- built. La[...]ding a gymnasium est in the firm which held Buick and Cadillac dealerships. was added. The pres[...]rest in the Buick Garage in Butte. In 1924 and the first classes were held in January, 1940. During the he secured the Chevrolet dealership and presented his wife period of construction[...], 1926, when he bought his first plane, a Waco 9, and a month later made a solo flight. He later purchased other planes and in 1928 A Glimpse Into[...]ly. The couple joined the Eastern Star in 1927 and later The very early records of the school districts were appar- served as worthy patron and worthy matron of Mizpah ently lost or destroyed and very little information is avail- Chapter 13, Dillon. Fred was a Shriner and Elfreda was able until about 1890. Pl[...]Elfreda chaired a local group of county and long before Montana became a state. A. L. Stone women who met troop trains passing through Dillon and apparently was the first County Supe[...]al DAR, of which she was a state bering and describing the early school districts. The first[...]schools were organized and held in private homes until a Fred sold his business to Joe White in 1941 and around school house could be built. Many of the students were 1950 the couple, with friends and associates, established the taught by their[...]h helped to salvage remnants ofBannack. and had received an eighth grade or high school education. Fred Woodside died in October of 1955 and was buried in A person was qualified to t[...]the eighth grade, was sixteen years of age, and had passed an Elfreda then became curator of the museum and also oral or written examination. An[...]g traveled extensively, including trips to Alaska and Hawaii. was that given by Ernest Orr and the P & 0 Ranch. Long Following 30 years of vo[...]e there was an established school, Mrs. W. C. Orr and state, she resigned the museum post in 1980.[...]Convalescent Center, was punctuated now and then by a sharp tap of a ruler, to Dillon.[...]get the immediate attention of each and every child." As[...]time went on school districts were organized and education[...] |
| [...]r (standing), Cornelia Hort and Hant Fisher (seated), Max, James and Lynn Nye. |
| [...]JEFFERSO~ Ea st Ga 1 i a t i n[...] |
| [...]S L. COCHRANE, pioneer Grasshopper Valley rancher and discoverer of Polaris Silver Mine; a veter[...] |
| • THOMSEN AND BLIVEN 1880 |
| [...]ger, May Poindexter Cooney, Maidie Rife Van Etten and Anna Wilson Bond[...] |
| [...]Luce, Edith Wright, Aurelia Luce, Madie Van Etten and Don Gregor |
| [...]e, Frank DeFries, George Steltzer, Tom Poindexter and George Boyle; Bottom Row: Pop "'11[...]Nickum, Bill Lane, Dick Sullivan, Isaiah Cashmore and Waldo Jaak |
| HERB SELWAY AND FRIEND, Main Street, Dillon, 1891[...] |
| [...]exter, Rev. S.D. Hooker, Earl Conger, Herb Selway and Dan Adams; sitting are Mr. Cl) Hooker's fath[...]Innes, Ray Conger, Dwight Conger, Charlie Virden and Hawley Selway ~[...] |
| CALEB DAVIS, WALTER SEBREE AND JOSEPH POINDEXTER, Spanish-American soldie[...] |
| MONTANA AND BANNACK STREETS, DILLON (early 1900s)[...] |
| [...]ly, Helen Jones, Elwood Boucher, Hazel Mac Donald and Joseph Carroll; Middle Row: Minnie Brock, CJl[...]and, Laura Guyaz, Clara Reddington, Martha Buhrer and Grace Guidici Temple; Bottom Row: Jennie Green, Hugh Anderson and CJl Frank Lovell |
| [...]erton, Lillian Adams, Clara Adams, Esther Willard and Anna Carter; Front Row: Bertha Burfiend and Vivian Streit 656-Beaverhead History |
| [...]p Row: Walt Featherly, Ben Willard, George Melton and LeRoy Willey; Center: Paul Stahl, Tom Gilbert and Guy Gray; Bottom Row: Joe Allerton, Judson Best and Coach Fish |
| [...]re difficult due to age and deterioration of the pictures. Every effort, howe[...]made to assure accuracy but, in some cases, names and dates were simply unava[...]Williams, John Barrows and Jerry Hawkins. We are[...] |
| [...]e art professor Jim Corr, which through sketches and poetry vividly recapture the early- day a[...] |
| [...]whiskey breaks. A great reprieve from toil and boredom. Timing was the key to life and death. Today, he dies! Tomorrow, he w[...]red brick to be placed. I rose in '76. And I was beautiful! Who would expect to find a[...]? Challenge Hotel Goodrich? This I did, and survived some burning times. Seldom do we se[...]s to the arrows. You see, I was created and existed as a shelter.[...] |
| [...]wn. Upper turns to lower and we lament. No one compre[...]exposed. White ... White and friends passed word. In over through they came and came and came. Hit it, dig[...] |
| [...]The Jail Some say education and progress build our society.[...]hat churches, saloons, courthouses, and jails Are built out of damn fear .[...] |
| [...]You can't live with 'er, and you can't live without 'er." The cause of problems, and the solution . Like an[...]It came from all directions and |
| [...]Q) FRED HANSON AND MOTHER (Lillian Hackett Hanson) in front of Lodging House and Millinery Store, near Corinne Hotel, Dillo[...] |
| [...]te 242 Article titles and subjects • • William Ruben 452[...]• Ted 570 corrections and omissions to Sally Dingley, Woodworth,Carri~[...]71 A full index of all names, subjects and Wormke,Annie 163 place[...] |
| [...]When Chuck Stauffer, retired newspaper editor andand articles, computer printouts, plus dozen~Qf County's c~lorful " ast. C ·- pens, pencils, labels and other items requited to edit the . ta:ugbt us nia[...]av:ew.ork · .,'° puter dis~s were soon filled and sent to the printer for years consider it a pleae[...]ers again, the proof pages of the · articles man and,a·true·g eptle~an. Wepre began to arrive and Chuck called his e<titorial committee . ·r~flect[...]together again for several weeks of page lay-outs and sizin · ·. of photographs. The final assignment was page proofing and preparing 696-Beaverhead History |
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| A history of early families and communities in Beaverhead County, Montana,[...] | |
| Montana Historical Society Library and Archives |
Beaverhead County History Book Association, The History of Beaverhead County, Volume 1 (1990). Montana History Portal, accessed 16/03/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/5611
