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 | in this area's annals During the second year of the pre-publication efforts, germinated in February of 1988 with the formation of the[...]ulminate with publication of this 700-page volume in late 1990. Staff members involved with this book are to be[...]enerated a deluge of data; family histories, Many of those workers devoted thousands of hours-as we[...]own pockets-to provide the photographs-were soon in various stages of processing. quality[...]nly when absolutely To all who aided in this venture, we offer our deep and necessary.''[...]enhanced through this the courage and the stamina in face of sometimes publication a[...]Proofreaders would often find themselves engulfed in laughter, followed by lump-in-the- It was, in every respect, a labor of love. throat emotions. The photos, too, were precious in their graphic manner of depicting those people an[...]Editor through the 1920s, we were forced in many instances to make judgmental decisions. Certain[...]-1920 period, were withheld and ~ill be published in Volume II of Beaverhead 's history; other contrib[...]er challenged editors, who reluctantly laid aside many excellent feature stories simply because of space[...]rded or trimmed to minimal space. Understandably, there are omissions; contributors failed to meet deadlines[...]sions, however, can be remedied through inclusion in the second volume of this series. |
| [...]and, except for brief absences, has resided in this city for 85 years. Following graduation from[...]his area's rich history. Those efforts culminated in 1950 with the building of our presen[...]eaverhead memorabilia. In 1953, the resolute matron surmounted financial an[...]sparked campaigns which resulted in Bannack being designated a national landmark and[...]park. Her primary role |
| [...]All locations are approximate. I[...]Locations of places in close[...] |
| [...]buried her. Years later a woman's body was found in a Beaverhead County Place[...]n was moved a mile north where it (INTRODUCTION:) Many of the early day residents of was k[...]ion and post office. Post Beaverhead County lived in places unfamiliar to the con- office 1881[...]e settle- 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 take[...]ijah or Azel) into consideration that Montana has many duplicate place Ames and located on Horse[...]7, northwest of Helena). The creeks and mountains are worse. with Nancy Burnett as first postmas[...]et into an argument as to where Sage, fire in 1897, and mail was routed to nearby Alice until G[...]ying map opened two years later. shows many of the towns and stage stations. Resources used APEX-Located at the divide between the Beaverhead in this compilation:[...]originally called Montana. Chartered in 1865 at the mouth of Dillon Tribune, 1898 Holi[...]station map and description. the claims are being worked. Post office opened in 1871 with Lutz, Dennis J.: "Montana Post Offic[...]d people, and on-site on and Gilmore, Idaho. In the planning stage from 1902, the trips were utilized by the author. Many of the locations have 99.9 mile long line finally began operation in 1910 only to differing stories depending on whose[...]is meet with financial failure and closure in 1941 (some say taken. (If you know of places that are not listed, contact the 1939). The railroad was[...]as the "Get out and author so we can include them in an update in volume two.) Push" line. ALAMO- Located between Jackson and Fox in the big AURORA-Located in the southern portion of the Big Hole Basin. Post[...]Bannock and Lemhi Passes, about tablished in 1863, was spelled Bannock, after the Bannock a qu[...]ation, saloon and post office, which op- nack in 1898. It was discontinued in 1938. The original road erated from 1895-1899. T[...]Medicine Lodge Pass to Bannack. Two cemeteries are locat- months and when someone inquired ab[...] |
| The town was the first capital of Montana Territory in 1864 rial counties created on Feburary 2, 1[...]d county seat until 1882 when Dillon took it away in a close Clark as a landmark for her Shosho[...]change to the county's boundary occurred in 1911 when the[...]ison County and a few minor adjustments were made in[...]tle took place at its northwest end in August 1877 when[...]BLAINE-Geographically, Blaine is in Madison County[...]but it was located at the county line and many of its resi- dents were involved in Beaverhead County activities be-[...]White's Bar, where gold was discovered in 1862 near Ban-[...]nack, it had a post office for several months in 1899 with[...]t Line be- County Courthouse at Bannock (built in 1875) tween Dillon and Apex.[...]called Sturgis, the name was road in the Big Hole Basin, it had a post office from 189[...]nd Ryan Finan McDonald came to this area in 1822 and lost several took his cousin, Michael Henneberry, as a partner. In March men in a battle with the Piegan Indians. It was a stage 1870 Henneberry bought out Ryan. In July 1875, Thomas M. station and later a[...]he route going to Bannack until the railroad came in Fife in charge. 1880 when Tom moved to Dillon.[...]as part of the stage BROWNE'S BRIDGE-Built in 1867 by General Joe A. station, later considered[...]t of Rock Station for details. This is the place many historians authorizing him to build and operat[...]ole River. He operated 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 preserve its name F[...]ith the all too common and non-pay bridge. In 1914, the present bridge was built to nea[...] |
| discovered in the spring of 1871 by George Pettingill, Ben Peab[...]edeau, and Phil and Jerry Grotevent were included in the company. This was the beginning of Trapper Ci[...]d into the largest silver and lead producing area in southern Montana and flourished from 187 4-1896.[...]e present Pete Rebish ranch CENTENNIAL VALLEY-In Beaverhead County when was still standin~ in recent years. someone refers to the "Valley," chances are they mean the BURNT PINE-Located between Hecla and Glendale, it Centennial. It was named in 1876 in honor of the nation's had a post office from 1874[...]before it became a where the "Undesirables" lived in the early decades, bound- semi-popular locale for homesteading in the 1890s and at the ed loosely from Butte to Fra[...]Gar- traveled by train to hunt the water fowl in the area. In the dens are described under that heading. Near the corner of[...]adies of ill-repute of- trumpeter swans nest. There are still several large ranches fered their services[...]ying gentlemen. Across and private residences in the Valley. Originally in Madison the street was the "The Green Tin Can" fo[...]county seat of Virginia City in the winter. They began peti- Running along Ida[...]North was the tioning the state government in the 1890s to make them part core of Cabbage Patch[...]Beaverhead County. This request became a reality in 1911. the down and out population of Dillon, usua[...]y on the Washington Street side were more cabins, in slightly better condition, available for rent. Se[...]the original Cabbage Patch. The cabins were razed in the 1970s and were replaced by Beaverhead Villa A[...]ostmaster. CENTENNIAL (town)-A small community in the Cen- tennial Valley near what is now the 7-L,[...]CHINA GARDENS-An area on the north edge of Dillon in it never existed and only shows on one map[...] |
| [...]standing vegetable gardens. One opened in 1890 with Elizabeth Dowling as postmaster. named[...]her who is credited with building the chop houses in Dillon. The Chinese were ill treated by many first cabin in the area, the original townsite was south of the Dillon residents in the early years and were referred to as Bi[...]tingill, Jerry Grotevent and Jack Rafter bragging in the display advertisements of the newspaper discovered rich prospects in Portshill District in 1869/70. that they neither hired Celestials nor d[...]its name to Dewey, the post office reopened in 1890 and ran worked the claims of Jeff Davis Gulch in Horse Prairie in until 1913. Now Dewey has a row of mail[...]c- Vipond Park mining areas. ticed by many of the wealthy leaders of the county.[...]Union Pacific Railroad, it was officially created in March way and Lemhi Pass.[...]ents wanted the town to be called Washington City in of Elkhorn Mines lived. Now a ghost town, it had[...]became the county seat of Beaverhead County in 1882 when CRABTREE-A stage station run by "Pink" Crabtree many of the same men who purchased the land from Deacon until he sold it to Abe Rife in 187 4. Abe Rife ran it until the pledged their[...]ilroad stop. Later the the new courthouse, In its first few years of existence, stray name was[...]ength of Main (Montana) applied for a post office in 1898 with Matilda Brown in Street in 1883. The city was incorporated in March, 1885. charge, but it never opened. The exa[...]DOGTOWN-A mining community near Bannack. A used in Daly's Anaconda smelter. Many of the ranchers and woman who lived there gave the town its name because of homesteaders in the area knew Daly personally because he[...]oral governor (JEFF) DAVIS GULCH-A placer camp in 1864 near the Sidney Edgerton, it was established in 1878 and located on Donovan ranch in upper Horse Prairie. Some researchers[...]e end of Edgerton. ings. From 300-400 people were in the camp at one time FARLIN- Nort[...]were the last white men to work this ore in 1875-76. The first smelter in Glendale was supplied by area. Brenner's dredge boat was used in the 1890s. Farlin with iron ore[...]rthern terminus two or three years. In 1904-07, Max Hiberline, William Al- settled there in 1880. See Red Rock for details. When the[...] |
| by the miners was available in the town. Several hundred Prairie Creek. The post office opened in 1899 with Joseph people lived there at one time. One story goes that for sever- Ne[...]ill stands behind the drawer of a sewing machine in a woman's home. An official Stocker house[...]as and Pittsburg. Postal service ceased in 1967. Some say the postmaster.[...]- 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 p[...]SHOPPER CREEK-On July 28, 1862, John FISHTRAP-In north end of Big Hole Basin, it had a[...]e north of Wisdom. A post office was established in 1891 with Grant family for fattening worn o[...]Walter Fox as postmaster. The post office closed in 1918 and traded from the travelers along the[...]. trails in the early 1850s. Captain Richard Grant, who for-[...]and established his home ranch near Deer Lodge. In 1868 he saloon. Gallagher bought it in 1875-76. It was a well-paying sold his ranch[...]confused red flag. with Gibbonsville in Idaho.) H[...]Hecla Mining Company. The name was changed in the early Willis Station, the name was shortened[...]1880s from Lion City. A post office opened in 1881 with changed to Reichle, then Glen. Some di[...]to James Parfet as postmaster, closed in 1882, then reopened whether these three places w[...]and receded until GLENDALE-Post office opened in 1876 with Louis finally closing in 1914. Schmalhausen as postmaster, but the Bryant[...]per Creek, it lon that became so slippery in a rain or snow storm that served as the smelter[...]they were strong dents, much larger than Dillon. In June, 1882, residents in enough to push the vehicle up the hill. The[...]uency felt they had HORSE PRAIRIE-Located in the Jeff Davis Gulch area lost their representat[...]get the county seat moved organized here in 1863 by 11 men with the first settlers being fro[...]loped plans to have the territorial lished in 1869 with Joseph Yearian as postmaster. Closed in capital moved from Helena to Glendale. The national silver 1871, it reopened in 187 5 and closed again in 1888 when the crash brought the town to a halt a[...]JACKSON-One of three communities still active in the ous for the coke kilns that still stand, it[...]hoe and 45 by automobile." Its post office opened in 1896 and Brussels carpeting. The mansion burned[...]and a ranch- hot springs for several days in 1805. ing area where the Gosman school was once[...]p on Grasshop- school was consolidated with Lima in the 1960s. per Creek, it was lo[...]was established by Thomas Holmes, probably in the early[...] |
| [...]tober 15, 1863, lem he bragged that "The streets are paved with gold." Ore with Wilson Wadams as[...]ng a full half pitch. Some think much of the gold in the of two stage and freighting lines which serv[...]1873 with Lode" is still hiding somewhere in the mountains above ... George Pfifer as postmas[...]d Red Rock on the Union Pacific line, was renamed in between Dell and Kidd. honor of a passe[...]a gets its name from Monida and boarded the train in an attempt to escape. Medicine Peak wh[...]d Bannock Indians LAKEVIEW-Near Red Rock Lakes in Centennial Val- had medicine lodges[...]unting Several large stock ranches operate in the area. The road lodges, and other businesses f[...]pass and connects up with Idaho's Medicine Lodge in 1897 with George Sham bow as postmaster. It closed in Creek. This was the original road from Co[...]le to get mounts for their trip Wellborn lives there now. to the Columbia River. This road was an earl[...]ock Pass at Butte. The post office opened in June 1881 with Charles the upper end of Horse Pra[...]he midway stop between Salmon, post office opened in 1889 with William Bernstein as post- Idaho,[...]f Gottlieb Schooners home- roundhouse for decades in Lima and the town was a bustling stead, it[...]come stop after the arduous trip over Lemhi Pass. Many old buildings still stand along the railroad trac[...]ll Point when Sturgis operat- now most businesses are located near Interstate 15. ed a saw[...]ing nearby. Lion City's name was changed to Hecla in provide lodging for the freighting wagons[...]from the mid 1880s. Lion Mountain was the site of many mining Bannack and Virgina City toward th[...]rs that hauled ore from Polaris mines to the view in the Centennial Valley, this community operated a Gilmore and Pittsburg rail head near Grant in the teens. post office from 1892-97 with p[...] |
| first station in Montana Territory on the Utah and North- was built there, its design copying that of the pinnacles. It ern[...]l" Culver as postmaster. The sheep sheds are standing just south of the main ranch build- office reopened again in 1896 and continued to operate until ings on Blacktail Creek, it was used in the early 1860s as a 1964 when it became an indep[...]rs to visit this reference is still used by many local residents when Yellowstone National Park fr[...]alking about the stage station and hotel operated there. was built from Idaho Falls directly to West Yell[...]Located on the promontory that puts a bend in the Beaver- MONTANA-Located at the mouth of Ra[...]later Dillon for H. D. Weed. The name was changed in 1871 to Argenta. stage coaches, fr[...], a store, and a post office stage. Started in the early 1860s, it continued to operate from 190[...]e one time the town had a physician and a school. Many of the Martin, then Sim Estes, and later[...]dge trail to reach this remote mining com- munity in the 1880s, but it didn't have a Post office until[...]he road crossed Birch Creek. A post office opened in 1872 and continued until 1874 when it was discont[...]e Stage on Rattlesnake Creek, coming from Bannack in the 1860-70s. PAIMENT or PAYMENT-Stage station[...]f Bannack on Grasshopper River by Lewis and Clark in 1805. Creek, th[...]ter the Silver Fissure Min- er by Lewis and Clark in 1805. ing Co[...]gon Short Line. The smelter was destroyed by fire in was the last in Montana. Often the stages laid over here 1922. The post office opened in 1898 with Mary Pierson in because of the snow. Willows were used for marke[...]dge" QUARTZ HILL-An old mining camp in the Vipond[...] |
| [...], Horse Prairie, Trail Creek and the Lemhi Agency in dred stamp mill.[...]il- RATTLESNAKE CLIFF-The original name, given in more and Pittsburg Railroad made[...]gal descrip- railroad stop for the ranchers in the· area. tion of the boundaries between Madiso[...]ock to Madi- Margareta Reichle, it opened in 1913 when Willis became son County, so if those in favor of the rock south of Dillon Reichle. Its name was later changed to Glen. In 1878 the being declared the "real and true rock,"[...]Wagon road, which shortened by many miles the road from[...]Barrett's Station. A Ryan post office was opened in[...]1869 with James M. Ryan as postmaster. It closed in 1870[...]north of Spring Hill/Lima. An old cellar is still there. This was a dinner station where one of the biggest hold-ups ever staged in the county was pulled off. RED ROCK (Second)-L[...]eat Beaverhead Road. It became the first terminus in Montana for the Utah and Northern Railroad Company line. The railroad was brought to this point early in the spring of 1880. It was given the nickname of[...]f the railroad terminuses. The post office opened in[...]79 with John Shineberger as postmaster and closed in 1923[...]ead. The Shoshoni and Ban- nock Indians who lived in the area gave the river and the SHAMBOW-Located at the Shambow ranch in the valley the name of Red Rock because of the "g[...]of the of the biggest hold-ups ever staged in the county took place businesses that operated there in later years continued to here. use the term "Red Butte" in their names. S[...] |
| [...]he name given by Utah and Northern there in April 1868. A post office was established in 1878 with Railroad to their station stop next to[...]the William Spurr as postmaster. It closed in 1888. At one time a name was changed to Lima. well-equipped mill was in operation, but when the price of STONE'S PRECI[...]silver plummeted, it closed down in 1895, along with many ranch, where Stone Creek empties into the Beaverhead Riv- other silver mining districts in Beaverhead County. er northeast of Dillon. It was[...]used to WATSON-Founded by Simeon Estes in 1870 as a stage winter stage company lifestock. A post office was opened in station, this was on a branch line of the G[...]ffice were located at the same to Bannack in 1863 with Captain James L. Fisk's second place. This was how many communities began. expediti[...]partner James Ryan were granted a mith in Bannack who was well liked by everyone. The first[...]through Beaverhead Canyon. Their venture resulted in the station closed in 1881, when passenger service on the railroad cons[...]aver- replaced the stage coach business in the valley. Across from head Wagon Road," which opened for business in 1866. The Watson was the Ryan toll gate.[...]rett's and post office's name was changed to Ryan in 1869 as was the Watson were all near the[...]ginal name for present steads were in the area. A few of the outbuildings at Watson day Dillon. The town was first established in early 1880 still exist, but the area is[...]KEY SPRINGS-Located on the upper Blacktail lished in March 1880. When Richard Deacon, a rancher who[...]ed infamous bootlegging whiskey operations in the county dec- to sell a right-of-way to the Uta[...]ition. Near the Keith Andersen ranch. businessmen in the area went together and formed a land[...]to Bon Accord and Bannack (via Road Clark in 1805 to the creek that flows through Bannack. Lat[...]or two. Some Lima, where.the stage lines in the 1860s divided, one going to local historians[...]where the stages changed from wheels to sleighs in winter. in 1881.[...]rthern TRAPPER CITY-Located near Trapper Creek in the Railroad in 1880. mountains west of Melrose, this community b[...]was changed to Reichle. worked the lush mountains in search of furs. Its population WI[...] |
| [...]etween Lima Valley and The southernmost county in Montana, Beaverhead Horse Prairie B[...]ange rises between the Sweetwater oldest counties in the state, having been created February 2, Basi[...]separates the Beaverhead River, originates in the extreme southeast the county from Deer Lodge,[...]Headwaters of the Big Hole River are near the western The interior landscape of Bea[...]accurately as a collection of The river flows in a semicircular path, first northward then short m[...]eparated by linear valleys and eastward in a narrow canyon through the Pioneer Moun- broad b[...]tains, then southward to Melrose and Reichle. There it ley-basin floors to 11,000 feet or more at Mt. Tweedy in the again changes course, flowing eastward to Twin Bridges (in central Pioneer Mountains.[...]in the bottom lands to subhumid in mountainous regions.[...]and operated from Early winter snow·, in general, remains on the ground 1878-79. The name was changed to Willis in 1880, then until melting in May or early June of the following year. Reichle[...]and With the major portion of its land in range &.nd forest, hardtack to the travelers whil[...]ry with approximately 260 farms WISDOM-Located in the upper middle of the Big Hole and ra[...]yes, but Wisdom won out. A post office was opened in 1884 at the William Geery ranch four It[...]Canyon to the National Park. A and Mrs. Noyes was in charge. It moved to the Ballard ranch subscri[...]ly, and a sum deemed sufficient to put the road in excellent at present day Wisdom.[...], and the work of repairing has already and Clark in 1805 to the Big Hole River. commenced. The party will corduroy the swampy places in WISE RIVER-Located in the extreme northern part of the Black[...]Big Hole Basin, the town's post office was opened in 1913 in Centennial Valley and repair the road thoroughly[...]ig Hole River. the National Park, for in addition to its being the shortest, it W[...] |
| [...]The afterglow Lingering in memories Flows by the cinder[...] |
| [...]t election as much historical color. The site of many "firsts" in Mon- sheriff on April 1, 1863. Simultaneou[...]first quartz lode discovery- long as he was in office. Most of the crimes were committed Bannac[...]Vigilantes, other arrests and executions followed in rapid member of the expedition. On July 7, 1806,[...]and two of his deputies were hanged in Bannack from the The area was the scene of many contacts between "Moun- gallows which Plumm[...]of a tain Men" and missionaries with the Indians in the years horse thief. Within a few weeks[...]til During the peak of road agent activity in March of 1863, almost 55 years after Lewis and C[...]proved their point. A _crowd of miners assembled in a Ban- the Creek's previous name, they christened it "Grasshopper nack saloon in 1863 and drew up a petition to Congress Creek" because of the dense 'hopper population in the area. requesting that a new territory be cut from Idaho. Signa- Like many "original" gold strike discoverers, White did not tures from the gold camps were obtained and $2,000 in gold benefit from his find and was killed by road[...]named for the Bannock Indians, affiliated In spite of the intrusion of Civil War politics (one[...]take an oath to support the government), many important nock is a Scotch word and means a cake[...]ved its change pede of miners to Virginia City in 1865. in spelling when the Post Office was established November In the middle 1860's, the easily-gained placer gold[...]nt, and the first lode to be worked consis- As in the case of most early gold strike communities, t[...]pulace were honest, hard working citizens; ed in November of 1862. To serve this gold bearing quar[...]Allen and Arnold constructed the first stamp mill in do-wells. Early authors state that it was probable that there what was to be Montana Territory. The m[...] |
| [...]In 1895, mining technology once again spurred activity in[...]dredge, operated successfully in Grasshopper Creek. All in[...]as in July 1918, prohibition and declining population[...]"King alcohol, after a reign of 55 years in Bannack, has[...]nack is dry six months in advance of the time fixed by law[...]There by a little digging, we could get a pile of gold.[...]Surveyors now are at their work, alayin' off the towns, Five dit[...]ow degree and some of high renown. mainly for use in hydraulic mining-one from as far away as They don't care a jot nor tittle of who they are that buys 30 miles on Coyote Creek. These ditches[...]ot, hog or die. hydraulic mining renewed interest in placer mining and enabled much of the abandoned ground to be worked. The doctors are among us, you can find them where you will. Bannack had a major Indian scare in August 1877, when They say their trade it i[...]lch, while the women and children were gath- ered in the Courthouse. Although the Indians killed four[...]w is all we want to make us all do good, settlers in the Horse Prairies, they quickly bypassed the But at the present there's no lack of spiritual food. town. The bodies of[...]Root, hog or die. the unusual large number of men in town to build the still existent Bannack Church.[...]After the railroad reached what was to be Dillon in 1881, and after the expected county seat fight-wi[...]of an old friend. "How did ole Bill die?" asked the first. By 1891 th[...]e houses were occupied and that was he doin' up there?" "GETTIN' HUNG!"[...] |
| [...]ing constantly more difficult. Lewis and Clark in Beaver-[...]tinuously in the water, pushing and pulling the boats. The[...]the river almost impassable with his men in water three- nia. He was the author of 13 publica[...]cNeal's Creek (now Blacktail Deer first published in 1913 in the Dillon Examiner, was Creek which flows through Dillon)." Clark then climbed "a updated in 1964 by noted historians and WMC Pro-[...]Tash and Davi- The first white men to set foot in what would become son, there are "few places along the entire Lewis and Clark Beav[...]ers stood." who at that stage of the journey were in advance of the main On the 14th, they cam[...]on, passing the This locality was a major site in the greatest exploration mouth of Grasshopper[...]hat the ascent of the and Clark Expedition. In the morning, the two leaders met divide was begun[...]ross the divide. "Rattlesnake Cliffs," due to the many reptiles seen there. Lewis, who had celebrated his 3[...] |
| [...]tsop" before starting their return trip on tion in Beaverhead County. In summary, Lewis crossed the March 23, 1806. They e[...]Pass, returning to Pass and camped for four days in what is now the southern Armstead and back[...]ark with 20 men On the 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 camp. On his return from the coast in 1806, Clark On July 6, Clark reentered Beaverhead County via Gib- and his party crossed the county in six days (July 6-11). Of bons Pass on the north f[...]rough what is now Jackson) and continued Many of the present names derived from that expedition[...]s, Shoshone Cove, Clark's Canyon, Trail recovered in excellent condition.[...] |
| [...]Dates of Organization (still operating in 1989)[...]dale - The Poindexter School was organized in 1867 and operat- 1896 6. Dewey Flat - 1896 7. Gra[...]s building was replaced by a frame building which in Creek) - 1897 12. Lima - 1896 13. Briston - 1896[...]tead unknown. Miss Anna Coffin was hired in 1878 at a salary of (Grayling) - 1897 20. Medicin[...]ek) - 1897 22. Dell - 1897-1963 school was in 1895 and District 3 was divided in 1897. The 23. Upper Polaris -1897 24. Jackson -18[...]) - 1903 (1901) 28. East Fox - 1904 29. school in Dillon. Among the early teachers in the Riverside Drummy - 1904 30. Brenner (Bloody D[...]Edgerton, was the first teacher. School was held in the Ed- boundaries remained the same from the[...]pils were enrolled. The second term of school was in a new building on the bank of Grasshopper Creek.[...]t Territorial Legislature. District 1 was divided in 1891 The Glendale School operated from 1896[...]2, 1951, by a vote attended the Millpoint School in 1947-48. The two districts of the people. Onc[...]Millpoint and Bannack Schools were both operating in $90 a month. The Glendale School was d[...]the effect that an election for trustees was held in Bishop School District was the second district organized 1890. The district was divided in 1896 to form a new district, in Beaverhead County. The actual date is not available but Wise River District 11. In the Teacher Register the first was probably in the late 1860s. Two more sections of land t[...]ployed for four months were added to the district in 1891 from District 10 through in 1897 at $65 a month. The district was decl[...] |
| [...]t 6. Grant, to name a few. District 7 was divided in 1904 to form Although the schools were only[...]ned for its first term, April 19, 1897 to to 1962 there were two schools operating in the district, September 3, 1897. The firs[...]the Elkhorn District, all of the was discontinued in 1962 and combined with Lower Grant. Dew[...]is still operating. months, taught by Ada Madden in 1897, salary $50 a month. Grant School is still o[...]beginning September 14, 1896. The records that are available indicate Hecla was an oper- Two tea[...]alary $60 a month. Lima District was divided in 1906 to form Nicholia School School was discontinued. From 1915 to 1932 the Hecla Dis- District 33. In 1969 the Nicholia District was declared trict bec[...]d to Lima. During the ensuing years tion was held in 1932 to dissolve the joint district and Hecla[...]cels of land were also added to the Lima District in Birch Creek District 9[...]lin. On·e record indicates school was being held in 1891. The first teacher listed in the Teacher's Briston School[...]Birch Creek School was declared abandoned In 1961 it was declared abandoned and annexed to the[...]Red Rock School District 14 In 1880-81, the Dillon Townsite Company not only don[...]September 1897 to May 1898. 24-Beaverhead History |
| [...]st term of school was for a period of four months in planned and encompassed a good part of the Big Ho[...]by Lillian Bradeen. Her salary included $25 sin. In 1892 the district was divided and District 18 was[...]school was used as a organized as West Fox. Again in 1896 another division was private school f[...]doned and annexed to Armstead District 35, formed in 1911. The first term of school listed District in 1947. in the Teacher's Register was for three months in 1897, taught by Augusta F. Johnson, salary $35 a[...]iston, Bowen and Gibbons were an- nexed to Wisdom in later years. The Wisdom School is still T[...]named Upper Wise River District 23. In 1965 this portion Bowen School Di[...]has been in continuous operation since 1892. There are no Many of the districts, especially in the Big Hole Basin, old records existing in the office of the County Superinten- must have be[...]dent. Mrs. Laura Judge taught several years in the Polaris as early as 1891 and 1892. The Bowen[...]and later served as school clerk until her death many in 1905 to create Gibbons School District 32. Later[...]Dell School District 22 school in Bowen was from April to September, 1897. Mar- gue[...]he Gosman School closed and all of ed with Wisdom in 1961. th[...]strict 18 School was started in November 1912 for five months, sala-[...]h. The Dell District size was increased consid- In 1893 District 18 was divided to form District 24. In erably when the Red Rock District was annexed to it in 1898, A. J. Noyes petitioned for his property to be added to 1947. An election was held in 1963 to consolidate with Lima Briston District 13[...]March 20, 1963. changing the boundary lines again in 1903, the Fox School District was created. The Te[...]3 Dotia Martin was employed for a four-month term in 1897, salary $50 a month. The school operated unt[...]A school was held for a four-month term in 1897. Craig district was declared abandoned and a[...]t teacher, salary $50 a month. It was District 24 in 1961. abandoned in 1911. The school reopened in 1918 after the[...]abandoned in 1928 and the district consolidated with Wise The first term of school in the Teacher's Register was for River District 11 on July 1, 1930. three months in 1897. Miss Hood was employed as the first teacher, with a salary of $50 a month. In 1947 a portion of Jackson Sc[...]The district was filed and approved in 1893. The new district Medicine Lodge School was reopened in 1953 as part of the became Jackson School[...]being elected County Superin- son District in 1948. In 1961 West Fox School District 18 tendent of Schoo[...]The first teacher listed Lodge, ceased operating in 1963 and were declared aban- in the Teacher's Register was Emily Martin, e[...] |
| [...]Drummy District were returned to Drummy in 1932. The A petition was submitted and approved in 1898 to divide Drummy School was operated[...]he first term of school was three months in 1905 was taught by Elizabeth Drummy, held for abo[...]ctive 1915-16. From 1899 to 1924 the schools were in session only during summer months. From[...]granted December 15, 1904, to divide District 24 in 1948.[...]Wright taught the first term of school in 1905 and was paid[...]of the Birch Creek School District 9 was granted in 1901. District until 1947. The new distri[...]Barretts Station School District 31 months in 1902, salary of $45 a month. A school was estab-[...]ary 22, 1906, to taught the first four-month term in 1915. The Rock Creek divide the Riversid[...]stu- Barretts Station School District 31. In 1909-10 the school dents in the district attended the Reichle School. The[...]en though the Barretts School opened again in 1911 and continued operat- building was destroyed by fire in 1988. A new building on ing until March 1[...]rside District on April 4, 1919. The first school in a classroom at WMC while the new buildings take[...]rt of District 10 and all divide District 17 in order to create the Gibbons (North of District 3[...]ortion of the Red Rock District was listed in the Teacher's Register as the first teacher in 1906 annexed to the Blacktail District February 2[...]at $50 a month. taught a term of four months in 1907, salary $50 a month. The Blacktail School op[...]hen declared abandoned and annexed to District 10 in 1958. combined with the Wisdom District. In 1916 the Gibbons[...]granted, March 1, 1906, for Lima School beginning in 1904, taught by Lizzie Kelly, salary $60 a[...]til 1949. For three years the annexed to West Fox in 1953. schoo[...]Harkness children were enrolled in a correspondence Drummy School Dis[...]Whitworth School opened in 1914 and continued until 1949. A petition was[...]ol District 33 was declared abandoned and annexed in trict 2 and District 9 to create the Drumm[...] |
| [...]Lakeview Distri(!t. The Board of Trustees in the two dis-[...]- Monida School District was organized in 1910. Miss Eliz- point School District 1, Septe[...]The Upper Lakeview District was created in 1911. Miss trict 5 according to the records, Oc[...]Eva Williams taught the first term of six months in 1911, term was taught by Ruth R. Cernaghan for[...]salary $60 a month. School was held varying in length from salary $90 a month. The school was[...]ool The Lakeview School District was created in 1911 when , Centennial Valley was being settled b[...]k. Upper Lakeview was at- tached to District 36 in 1937 and the Doyle District con- solidated in 1965. The Lakeview School opened in 1911 with Miss Mary Richfield teaching the firs[...]Ranch from 1933-37. The Red Rock School opened in 1955 and operated off and on until 1968. The fi[...]doned and attached to Lima School Dis- trict 12 in its entirety on July 1, 1971.[...]strict 37 Fifteen sections of land, situated in the middle of tht |
| [...]word game called "Hang Man." In the winter, we played Fox and Geese in the snow. 26)[...]Teachers who experienced teaching in this rural school[...]garde Larson Zeman are sill living. Teachers' salaries varied The Rock Creek School was located in Beaverhead Coun- from $90 to $115 per[...]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[...]g high school. The county superintendent gave the in the northeast corner. There was a large clock and framed tests. She a[...]n the wall. A teacher's from grade school in six years. All pupils that graduated desk was in front of the rows of desks for the pupils.[...]m the creek. We great attraction. The many flower designs and green lawns washed our hands in a basin of cold water. One or two pupils w[...]We always had a Christmas program in which every pupil gave the Pledge of Allegiance.[...]l grades from one through eight. She was lucky if there were no pupils in one or two grades. The teacher had to build the f[...]the blackboard on Friday. The older boys brought in the wood and coal from the coal shed. All pupi[...]home for lunch, but most of us brought our lunch in a five-pound lard bucket or a fancy-plug tobac- c[...]eek, Drop the Handkerchief, London Bridge, Farmer in the Dell, Anty High Over, Jump Rope[...] |
| [...]Luella May Sprinkle was born January 14, 1890, in a log cabin on the site of the present cook house[...]farm about three miles south of Dillon. This was in the imnmediate area of the first settlement in Beaverhead County. That settle- ment consisted of[...](Known as the 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.[...]prinkle, Teacher Extraordinare ... Normal School. In 1912, while living with an aunt in Spo- kane, May attended tent meetings held by the[...]illon, from Hamil- teaching, May began her career in 1912 at the Ewing school ton to Darby, from Bannack to Mill Point, and many others. (near Barretts), where she served three t[...]d to Willow View School, a little log house built in early ing with nature which she loved. 1916 to accomodate children in District 3 who had to ride or The school a[...]lso taught at lower Rattlesnake Creek. She taught many other small Bannack, Grant and Nichol[...]The years she didn't teach in public schools she tutored One school contained three teenage boys whose sole aim children in their homes or in her own home. Many of these in attending school was to make life miserable for teachers. children were in need of special attention. Many of them One morning as May was riding to school the boys jumped were able to succeed in their lives because of the wonderful, out of the[...]equent smaller er. ones such as dead cats in her desk, a wired gate which had to During her career she treasured all her young and older be undone in freezing weather and general misbehaviou- friends. Her teaching in the Big Hole country was one of the brought thin[...]t caused May to lose her temper for the only time in her kle was a wonderful person. She stayed wi[...]e was really "blew her stack" denounced the boys in no uncertain teased a lot, but she always to[...]this was true as many friends found their way to her door." ROCK CREEK[...]She lived in the old family home on South Washington songs. Al[...]Street. She was known as the "Candy Lady", as many small was the big event at the end of school, wit[...]or nine known most of their parents and many of their grandpar- years and then closed in 1925. The building was purchased ents. The[...]nt 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 wealth of treasured memo- much pain witho[...]Hospital April 30, 1974. Burial was in the Mountain View[...] |
| [...]The first school in the community now known as Glen was Were Just[...]ng under a The first class at Kidd School was in 1914 and was held in great cottonwood tree. The school soon filled w[...]use) on girls from the surrounding ranches. Many came for miles on the Arthur Butts ranch. The se[...]ohnson; others were Eve- to the community, and there the Reichle School was built in lyn Cochran and Vange (Van) Louther, who later m[...]trees lined the fence and irrigation ditch in front of the sie Hungate.[...]chool. Now if you think dipping girls' braids in ink wells was During the years many teachers came and went. Kather- bad, read on, an[...]long, chew on pieces of grain, and then spit In the late 1920s the Rock Creek school district con[...]n undermined community get-togethers, locked them in the schoolhouse overnight. The next morn- the Reichle School was the center of many happy gatherings ing-oh! what a mess! But the jok[...]ett Peterson would spearhead the jokes. there. Many, many times he would bring a hook baited with cheese[...]d long string and lower the hook down a knot-hole in the floor school room, and the Reichle School[...]latest in teaching and pupil aids. For a time the school wa[...]the shell up with black powder and put the shell in the school students themselves. stove. When[...]he pow- Then one horribly windy night in November 1988, a fire der blew the stove lid off; it hit the ceiling and came down started in the original Reichle School room. Within a short with an awful crash, scaring the entire school. There was time after its discovery, nearly all the community turned screaming galore, and mess galore. There was soot on every- out to help the Melrose a[...]their treasured school. But to no avail! In a short time the learning was dismissed for the d[...]ids and teacher dear old building that had so many happy children enter its all day to clean up the[...]t must have taken At present the students are taken by bus to use vacant a lot of perseverance to be a teacher in that school! rooms at Western M[...] |
| [...]THE FIRST GRADUATING CLASS DILLON IN 1888[...]IlEA.YERIIEAn CO. HIGH SCHOOL, lished at Dillon in 1888 but students were scarce and the[...]Cornell, both of whom would occupy eminent roles in the growth of this area Beaverhead County High School had its beginning in ELIZA "M. SRL WA Y 19[...]·ison. · ed to the original building in 1916. Those structures contin- Piano- "La Graci[...]Rev. A. B. Martin The first death in Bannack was that of W.H. Bell on November 12, 1862. First victim of road agents was George Edwards in January of 1863.[...] |
| [...]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;[...]was revised to State Normal College in 1903, Western Mon- tana College of Education in 1949, Western Montana Col- lege in 1965, and to its present Western Montana College[...]soula unit in 1988.[...]with bachelor of science degrees in Elementary and Secon-[...]dary Education. Also available are associate of science de- grees (2-year) in Business, Information Processing, Human[...]associate of arts with an emphasis in Advertising Design. Photo by Fred[...]stone was placed on April 7, 1895, and the in 1988 with a count of 1,097. building was completed in 1896 at a total cost of $50,000, INCLUDING[...] |
| Early-Day Business and Professional People in Lima There were several bus"inessmen and well-known ranch- e[...]recognized since they have no rela- tives living in the area at this time. Fred Walcott was Lima'a[...]had been a railroader but lost a part of his leg in an accident and the railroad helped with his dent[...]esley, Marvis and Elroy. They moved to Troy, Mt., in 1922. The Grant family had the Opera House Caf[...]Brainard moved and William H. Boule. there and put in a movie theater. Lawrence had been a town ·[...]group of actors in Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky and was a The Pea[...]e bought by Charles Truax and his daughter Grace. There was a and repaired numerous dwelling[...]operated the Lima Garage. Leo and first in town. Because not all houses had running water, his wife Laura were familiar figures in local and statewide trees and lawns were no[...]The first brick schoolhouse was built in 1898 with brick John Peat, Jr., and his wife J[...]tant com- replaced the wooden structure in 1902. The brick section of modity for the steam e[...]town. When the LDS Church was struck by lightning in well as patent medicines and a supply of[...]brick schoolhouse. Her job required keeping fires in the Sherman Vance and his wife, from Melrose,[...]s, May sisted of Clarence, Verena and Marvin, who are all buried in McGown and Estelle Smith, during these years[...]- the saloons and opened a new drug store in the Peat Build- rell in 1914 and moved to Dillon where he went into a sim[...]married J. Clarence Wall. All are buried in Dillon. The town has had several consta[...] |
| [...]lt a small store to accommadate the people living in the Monida at turn of century - Centennial Valley. In 1889 the railroad came through. buil[...]called Spring Hill, and purchased half interest in the Burn- ida became the railroad terminus f[...]ne Stage Lines, which took visitors to the sights in Yel- Mr. Paul doubled the stock in the store; he bought out Mr. lowstone Park and also to Henry's Lake. The last remaining Burnsides in 1890.[...]house was administered by Mrs. Fi- stands in Monida and is owned by William Miller. field. The[...]The brick store building was built in 1911 by B. H. Paul, coming through the area. In the meantime, Mr. Paul built a and one hotel building was built in 1912 by J. J. Smith. W. hotel to aid in housing the good-sized number of people M. Miller built the first garage in 1913. Mr. Deering eventu- traveling through. Pine[...]equired. The store and various Virginia City came there to pick up supplies brought in on buildings in town were eventually sold to 0. J. and Ossie E. t[...]Ogden, Smith, who relinquished ownership in the 1930s to the Paul Utah. Mr. Hutinski, Mrs. Hu[...]later sold the buildings to Mrs. W. M. (Ma- agent in Monida when the narrow gauge was built. Mrs.[...]Monida was the railhead for most of the livestock in the Livestock Corporation.[...]ding area. Until the initi- All the buildings in Monida, or spring Hill, were made of ations[...]vans, Monida did a land logs and consequently as in many older log towns, the town office business in shipping of livestock. According to old was destroyed by fire in 1905. After the fire, Mr. Paul used records[...]first school was a log cabin which had 10 pupils in · trees on the main street. After the Pine Butte[...]house that had as many as 25 students. Mrs. M. B. Beards-[...]ley was the first teacher. In 1916 Mrs. Paul organized a[...]Sunday School and held the sessions in her home.[...]vans, so the town of Monida went downhill. In later years the land-owners in the Centennial Valley recognized the[...]some families using what facilities are left for weekend re-[...]ritten from exerts from Florence Miller's history in[...]land in the area.[...] |
| [...]River. The first settler of the area was recorded in 1864. This was a man named[...]y employed from 35 to 40 people, hauling 3,000 In 1866 M. B. Henneberry and his cousin James B. Rya[...]re to build a toll road nually. The warehouse in Red Rock had the largest accom- fromwhat is now k[...]Rock to Salmon was Rivers. The road was completed in a short time and was $8 for a one-day t[...]d 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 strings of wagons Around th[...]ated by J. W. and Laura T. Scott. There were a number of Joseph Shineberger was the fi[...]ation and called it Red Rock. Other businesses in Red Rock at the time (taken from R. L. Polk house[...]r, saloon; Harry Shineberger was the first to die there. William H. Crooker, Agent,[...]manager, Red Rock & Salmon River Stage; Red Rock in 1880. A few years later the Red Rock and[...]n Co. and Gunsmithing Shop for many years/ Buildings still standing are the old Shineberger home built in 1912, the Renfro home built in 1894, an old barn that housed horses[...]and a saloon are still visible. Red Rock's decline staF-ted-in[...] |
| [...]ing game in this vicinity during the closed season, in the[...]lver, newspaper corre- the owners are away and burn fencing, etc. spondent from Centenn[...]with a charming bride. Our bachelors are slowly but surely Excerpts from Centennial[...]It looks like some of the women in this valley will soon be[...]or scold her, The stage robbers in the Park have been arrested and put and if she disagreed with his remarks, she would in custody. put her feelings in writing in a later edition. The Wm. Fitch and wife both filed on desert land on Cedar excerpts are as they 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 Creek is so hemmed in by locators until her death in 1936. Remarks in() are given for on all sides that they felt[...]to the contemporary reader.) are not much better on Cedar Creek, as four settlers[...]filed on as many sides of their land, even locating a half-mile Di[...]ch's land. It is wicked the way the young swan are being caught at This looks as though there might be a little spite work the Red Rock lakes.[...]ehwere, but maybe it was only an accident. and we are told by good authority he got from 25 to 30 young[...]rds on our lakes. wolves in the upper canyon, headed this way. There are Dillon Tribune - May 1, 1896:[...]Why is it that that man in Helena wants to reduce the Dillon Tribune - May 2[...]to $5? Why Messrs. Leeds and Stacy of Bozeman are looking up a could it not be raised on w[...]club. He as it is. We have no grey wolves in this section of Montana, thinks it will be at the head of upper Red Rock lake. but the coyotes are running in bands of from 15 to 25. Wm. Reed of lower Cent[...]correspondent is glad that the efforts made while in cluded he could not do the horse justice so he tu[...]verhead County have been fruitful and we are now residents Mrs. Sherwood returned home yeste[...]Mark's of Beaverhead. 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 t[...]e interest they have and let the women step in. taken in the matter, and while we regret to say good-bye t[...]ne - January 9, 1900: the "mother county," we are glad to be in closer touch with The dreaded disease, s[...]Miss Farley of Marysville, Montana, will teach in district ple's interests, hence our Centennia[...](Note: the area was annexed to Beaverhead County in Madisonian - July 19, 1900: I 1911.)[...]has been rusticating in the valley for 10 days past and We hear it rumored that a saloon will be started in the seemed to enjoy the exercises on the Fourth. valley .in the spring, but we hope this is not true, and in The sad intelligence comes to us that J.[...]were Courtney have been sentenced to five years in Cheyenne not for whisky and the evils caused by it, there would not be prison for killing game inside the National park limits, or to half the misery there is in the world. pay $1,000[...]M. Grimes, a cattle man from Portland, Oregon, is in tion. the valley and bought the beef s[...]again 37 to 26. A dance was well attended in the evening. $45; cows $35.[...]tes fish day and preached an excellent sermon in the evening to a hatchery to put into th[...]A 16-room hotel is going up in Alaska (Basin). Dillon Tribune - July 1, 1899[...]A big band of Indians are camped above J. Blair's. They Sam Burnside[...]Madame Rumor has been very busy the past month in The Thanksgiving dance at Ed Stal[...]ful supper provided by Mrs. W. Smith. them up in great shape. Any one who would pay any atten- tion to gossip in this valley would be lacking in good sense or School marm Miss Maude Roberson,[...]e at Bailey's new store was a grand success. There was about 50 of the valley present. The music was[...]. Dillon Tribune - November 2, 1899: There was 17 of our citizens that did not think[...] |
| [...]0 passengers to the National Park this season and are people declared they were not tired out. The mus[...]big timber reserve, extending from Madison basin in speaking two pieces he had learned at home and b[...]just who declared she was going to get a boy if there was any set aside by the government, is c[...]and comment. Will it benefit the people in general who live Dillon Tribune - January 31, 19[...]e question. A young lady who has been teaching in the district near Indians are camped on West Fork and have quite a large Monida was suddenly dismissed and another put in her band of ponies with them. place. We expect teachers to set a good example if anyone in Dillon Tribune - December 7, 1913: the world[...]We wonder why those buying hay are not willing to pay a Dillon Tribune - February 14[...]dollar more on a ton now that cattle are high and those There is or has been a wild cat in the timber on the hill at selling get almost do[...]as the place is covered with ago. Wages are also high and lots of the hired help is incom- tr[...]Culver to put into her fish pond about a year 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 Tribune - February 23, 1914[...]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 5[...]w weigh three and day. The young folks in the lower school district have a fine[...]bank of Upper Red Rock lake. A beautiful place in summer.[...]he teacher who taught above the lakes last summer in Miller.[...]No place like Montana for school teachers who are tired of house at the Narrows for H. Wetmore, where the latter teaching the many and prefer the one scholar. Another Cen- gentlema[...]ibune - January 30, 1915: Marble readily assisted in removing the obstruction to the The suffragettes of Centennial valley have turned out in flow of water which he had placed in the ditch. full force here. The[...]Summit hotel at Monida each meeting, and are now planning-and can even tell you for B. H. Paul[...]ine has carried over School has closed in district No. 40, above the lakes. The[...] |
| last month was so stormy there was not a very good atten- dance. Miss Wall, the[...]Murder at Battle Mountain in hopes to be able to visit the fair for a few days[...]f this particular section of the world were There are different stories about Battle Mountain in the alarmed to a great degree, last Tuesday, when[...]t earthquake shocks were recorded, which resulted in name. Some say it was because of a big ra[...]neighbors went to each of this area was in those days called "open range." The big other's h[...]range was between sheepmen; the one who together in order to quiet extreme fear.[...]ken possession of their beau- was fought, as many of the sheepmen involved were Danish tiful valley. Everything was white and there was six inches immigrants. My uncle Albert A[...]the Taylor Grazing fixed the wild fruit that was in blossom and some of the Act." gardens wer[...]30: men operating in this area during this period. In 1914 his Mrs. Agnes L. Buck, census enumerator[...]r the murdered sheepherder, since he teach school in school district No. 40. There are seven pupils was called Cayusey because that is what he called a coyote. in school and more to go when roads get passable.[...]between sheep and cattlemen. In this instance it was not Mrs. Culver and son,[...]is doing a good business. A grocery store is run in I can remember when there were nine bands of sheep connection.[...]ears, the valley would experience a area. There were those who seemed to enjoy trying to outdo major change in the residents' life style. The federal govern-[...]ys of the open tence. Larger ranches would buy up many remaining home- range. steads. The cabin[...]e valley is still unpaved, although Not many people could afford the luxury of a summer there was a drive on to get it paved decades ago. The Cen- vacation in the late 1880's - but W.A. Clark Jr. was a[...] |
| Josephene Stamm (in sunbonnet) holding baby, Wal- Albert[...]south of Dillon. Lovell had been a butcher in the early days would meet his guests with a surre[...]ite - a summer house and pond surrounded by time. There were individual cabins, connected by cat-walks[...]tside dining areas. of horses for a round trip in one day. Cabins were built to water's edge. Flat[...]ts departed from Brown's Station. Flagging in 1970. down the train became known as "whistle stop." Many ranchers who lived close to tracks would "whistle[...]pro- The initial discovery of silver was made in 1872 by Wil- specting in Madison County, and at once sent them over. liam[...]trapping expedition at the head of Trapper Creek. In the in camp. summer of 73, James Bryant, Spurr's partner, organized a Discovery of new claims came in fast order. Moffet and party to relocate the claim. While in the basin they came Maynard located the Minni[...]by the to Jerry Grotevant, one of the party, who in searching for Trapper Company, but they[...] |
| [...]rough and tortuous wagon Atlantis (later changed in spelling to the Atlantus by a trails down[...]Reportedly more than 100 typographical error made in one of the early U.S.G.S. publi- horses were used daily in shifts for frequent and strenuous cations). Mulli[...]miles down the valley, by Dahler and Armstrong in 1875, baker who sold them to Messrs. Taylor and P[...]directly back of the old Trapper assisted in the integration of southwestern Montana as a town[...]nto its thence by rail to San Francisco, and from there by water to smelter came the ores of the sur[...]was commercially feasible. That the ore was high in grade is evident from the records of some of the[...]apper lode showing silver contents aver- In 1877 the original company was organized in Indianapo- aging well over 100 ounces per ton wit[...]until it controlled most of the better properties in the dis- ity was intense enough to suit the early prospectors. With trict. In 1881 the Hecla Company made an entire change in time, the flamboyant character of the community life be- its management and acquired the smelter in Glendale. The came more regulated with the introd[...]re built new manager sold out his interests in the manufacturing in single rows on both sides of Trapper Creek just b[...]The creek itself was bridged to dale, arriving there in April 1881. form the main street of the town. The old timers remaining In the Territory the entire business was reorganized, plac- in the district have either completely forgotten that such a ing the large enterprise in three departments and appoint- city existed or are vague as to its location or character. Old ing[...]intendents: Mining department, mining forms found in an abandoned cabin in Hecla, howev- James Perfet, with headquarters in Hecla; reduction de- er, show printed headings in[...]er City, Montana." A perusal of the claim records in partment, John M. Parfet, Norwood (Soap Gul[...]ivery stable, butcher shop, and cabins. Therefore in ier. all probability the community at its pea[...]the existence of this forgotten village is found in rotten[...]le Smelter rough-hewn timbers spanning the creek, in a few stone foundations, and in one picturesque cabin which bears epic[...]n. The discovery of ore bodies of greater size in Lion Moun- tain caused a gradual shift in the locale of activity. Miners moved from Trapper City to settle in the broad valley-head drained by Spring Creek. The Trapper mine was shut down and in the summer of 1878 the last citizen, Mose[...] |
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| [...]oarding house was built high on the In 1912 the ore shoots known as the Atlantus and Tru[...]trict and set up in Lion City, where it still stands today, In 1882, to handle the increasing output of ore and[...]of 100 tons per day was built about three in the attempt to make relatively low-grade ores pay[...]fall of 200 feet. Near the concentrator was In 1920, the owners of the mining claims (Knippenber[...]eneral mine superintendent. owned the Oneida mine in the center of the Lion Mountain As a r[...]- mine workings, the options were extended in order that tant mines of the district.[...]work might be done. By From its reorganization in 1881 to the year 1901, the 1923 all the[...]ion of the forced to refinance the enterprise in 1923 by issuing new yar 1898. The dividends paid out amount in aggregate to stock under the guise of a[...]uthorized capitalization of 1,000,000 were driven in Lion Mountain alone. Table 1gives the pro-[...]0,000 par value of certificates duction of metals in the district from the year 1773 to 1912. of in[...]stically de- debts, was liquidated. clined. In 1904, after three years of extended exploration in The change in the legal structure of the enterprise, how- the basin, the Hecla Consolidated Company went o[...]and litiga- work was dispensed cautiously and in the attempt to make tion. The withdrawal of the c[...]trict. Certain district as an important producer. In 1906 the Hecla Con- areas considered to sh[...]quate to more or less continuous, has been small. In a very real sense, support even moderate development work which in 1924 the production of the last 40 or so years has been achieved was done by ten company miners in the Mountain Sheep, by lessees who have been successful in reworking old com- South Fissure, Ramshorn, Bluebird, New Atlantus, and pany dumps and tailings, and in th~ mining of small ore Cleopatra properties. After numerous failures in the search[...] |
| [...]s; one the home of Charley Arrigoni who had mined in into a leasers' camp under the supervision and c[...]its only permanent resident and first citizen. In Hecla re- There have been other attempts since 1926 to revive the[...]of the company cabins chosen as living district. In 1927 the United States Smelting, Refining, and[...]xploration Company did extensive development work in ter of the old district, is now a typica[...]activity. appears that the withdrawal was caused in great part by a[...]IGHORN disagreement with Conway over the option. In 1928, Con- way obtained major control of the dis[...]Glendale group. In 1929 the properties were sold on option to the[...]iles west of Melrose. The first smelter was built in 1875 by Lion Mountrain workings by driving a lowe[...]rles L. Dahler and Noah Armstrong. It burned down in the Canyon Creek side, apparently in the hope of tapping 1879 and a new one wa[...]mpany en- The Hecla Consolidated took over in 1877 with Atkins as gaged a consulting geologist who spent a reported $80,000 in general manager, G. G. Earl as superintendent[...]feet of drifts and crosscuts off the old cla. In 1881, Henry Knippenberg was general manager, G. workings. In 1930 the properties were again returned to[...]be done. population was over 1,000 in the town itself and within the From 1930 to the time of his death in 1945, options for surrounding area the popu[...]boasted the largest skating rink in the northwest. The production of the district since 1912 has been small The post office opened in 1875 with Louis Schmalhausen but continuous. The bulk of production is made up of old as postmaster. There were Masonic and IOOF Lodges. In mine tailings and slag from Glendale as detailed in the fol- ·addition, the Glendale brewery at o[...]profitable to ship the remainder of the slag dump in and some solid brass. It was set on a hill overlooking the Glendale as well as concentrator tailings in Hecla. In 1941, smelter and town. The smelter shut down in 1900 as the ore 5,963 tons of slag shipped contai[...]nd 7.8 % supply from Hecla dwindled. zinc. In 1942, 11,382 tons shipped contained 2.5 % lead an[...]which had once been in the race for capitalship of the state The pres[...]e district is that of a grand old of Montana, are the smokestack, the office, and the school- mansi[...]along the Continental Divide in Southwestern Montana,[...]was named Centennial Valley in 1876 by Mrs. William (Ra-[...]cattle here in that Centennial Year.[...] |
| snow and a cattleman's anxiety in all directions. An area in the upper end of the Valley is called Alaska Basi[...]y Mr. S.B. Burnside, for its excessive snow depth in the winter and, at the time, some of Burn- sides' relatives were living in Alaska. The Valley however, is the very definitio[...]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 its un- yielding nat[...]ttlers were the Levi Shambow family. They arrived in 1888; it was an open win- ter and they thought they were in Paradise. The next win- ter, ~owever was more typ[...]the durability of conditions which would drive so many settlers away. The number of people residing in the Centennial before 1888 is larger ranchers in the business of expansion. Numerous not known, bu[...]ter the provings but a few stayed on and put that there were at least some temporary inhabitants in the down roots that were deep enough to las[...]Y AND EX- summer months in various schools and homes. Teachers, for PLORER,"[...]ladies having just received their 1840' on a rock in Hell Roaring Canyon, while trying for a cer[...]The quotation refers to the birthplace of the There were no church buildings in the Valley but services headwaters of the mighty Missouri and Columbia Rivers. were held in various homes. Each of thes·e tributaries in Hell Roaring Canyon ultimately With settle[...]flows to a different ocean, yet their beginnings are only four records tell of settlers collecting m[...]art. in 1907 and 1908. The phone line ran up the Blacktail, A geological study was made of the area in 1872, but an turning east up the north side[...]y to headwaters, was completed by Jacob V. Brower in 1897. Monida. ·The phone office at th[...]nry Hackett, and Hinckley as operator. How long this was in operation is not Mrs. Lillian Culver and Mrs. Mar[...]an integral part of the Centennial Valley ground in the late 1800s. Believing the high altitude would[...]ostmaster the place was not fit for man nor beast in the winter, Daly 10 miles east of Monida in 1892. When discontinued from built horse barns in the Valley, some still in use today. He this location, service was transferred to Shambow (now La- rarely purchased ground in his own name, preferring to keview) with George Shambow as postmaster. In 1891 Wil- purchase under a company name such as L[...]re were a hardy breed and closely knit, will- in Lakeview. ing to support each other through good[...]ial Valley was originally part of Madison arrived in the 1890s. Gold's lure beckoned many adventur- County. All legal transactions had to be done in Virginia ers to Montana and a number of Valley citizens had migrat- City, many inconvenient miles away, especially in winter. In ed from the diggings at Silver Star and Virginia[...]homesteads hop- cattle and sheep summered in the Centennial, with Beaver- ing to tame the land. Many settlers were to prove up on land head County[...]d of three years, be sold to ambitious fund. In 1911 a bill was passed transferring the Ce[...] |
| [...]nes and Sally Dingley.) lion dollars-quite a sum in those days. The Centennial waters have always been ideal locations for ALLEN, Bobby ..... 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 places over the years, but in 1930s he was family had the earliest lodge for all sportsmen on the Lower living in Alaska Basin on the north side. He was murdered[...]E. A ..... Had the first general mercantile store in This fertile and picturesque valley has been h[...]toric BEST, Billy ..... A bachelor who lived in the "swamp" man and Indians. Then came fur trappe[...]sheepmen and rustlers, moonshiners and revenuers. There the thing to do as far as the community[...]es Billy Best and Mother Worst." Billy only lived in the and places like the Corduron at Shitepoke, Wa[...]e south side of the Valley. Louis, Monroe, Stills are now remembered by only a few. The mail order[...]e. Louis shot his brother Monroe. It is nicknames are now fading memories of days gone by.[...]ted til the wee hours bought the Cowboy Bar in West Yellowstone and operated with locals providi[...]. away from brother Louie. Henry's Lake to Monida in bullboats made of frozen ox CALNON, Bill ..... Homesteaded in the Alaska Basin. He hides and pulled like tobogg[...]nes Hanson, later or mail being hauled by dogsled are scenes belonging to a belonging to Burt Ed[...]uld start to events played their own unique roles in the historical set- sing German songs from h[...]of again. See Bobby Allen brief for details. "There were giants in the earth in those days: and also CAMPBELL, Joseph Adam[...]Julia lives in Twin Bridges, Montana, and supplied this[...]CHANTRY family ..... Lived in Monida. He was a barber in the pool hall during World War One. He was also a[...]was very musical and they played for dances in Monida in[...]ng building next to the hotel. Mr. Chantry could (Many of the following names were remembered by[...]l COLE, Harvey ..... Took up land in Alaska Basin. There is Willoughby, Mamie Nye Case, Alta Hanson and[...]r a living. He worked for Mrs. run a summer ranch in the Centennial and a home[...] |
| [...]Monida and also had a ranch in the upper end of the Valley.[...]was shot at the bar in Armstead. FRUIN, Jesse ..... A homesteader in the upper end of the[...]killed by a fellow that worked for him. There is still a creek[...]from the DuBois area of Idaho. There were three brothers,[...]and had a son Clark Gauchay, who lives in southern Califor- Louis Bucy, Centennial V[...]BLE, Ora ..... Had a place on the north side. For many called Cole Creek.[...]a Yellowstone Stage Line. bachelor while he lived in the Valley, he later moved to GRAHAM, Vern ..... He was the depot agent in Monida Butte and married.[...]ers. As far as anyone knows, he never married. In later years, DAVIS, Tom and Clara ..... Worked fo[...]daughter Eva, who mar- lived with Wetmores in Monida and tended bar. Willard ried Tom Benson. He homesteaded in Alaska Basin. They was full of yarns th[...]LER, Will L ..... Drove stage for Shambows, lived in either way. He was always going to raise s[...]ta, Alice and Ruth. He and Bill on it and in just a few days he pulled that cancer out by the[...]y. He mar- DUFF, Bob ..... His first wife drowned in the Red Rock ried Hope Van Anthwerp and[...]e. Bob was M-Y driver die. They 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 Mis[...]..... She was one of the Valley mid- store in Lakeview. He worked for Blakes and some think he[...]membered as having a terrible temper and if Smith in Monida and they had a son, Farmer.[...]s bread recipe and then added a Tom Creek. He was there several years, then leased it to little gi[...]especially around 1902 and went back to his home in Maine. Henry nice to children. At one t[...]UNHAM, Charlie ...... Bought the Bradley property in HERRICKS, (unknown) ..... One of the first settlers in[...] |
| [...]PARKS, Leva ..... Was a postmaster in Monida for quite a HUMPHREY, George ..... Probab[...]brother was used to go into caves to kill bears. In 1894, he was missing Monte Kent who lived on t[...]nd never found. His gun, a 32-40 rifle, was found in a tree, place. Their father was Gene Kent who came to the Valley in loaded and ready to shoot. His brand was on the h[...]or brief. for Smiths at the store in Monida. Both died during the 1918 KINGSBERRY, Chr[...]flu epidemic within a few hours of each other and are buried Bill Hollingsworth place, later known as the Bucy place. He in the Centennial. They had a small son, Ellis. Lew[...]. He was a carpenter tine Forsythe. 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[...]ers ..... Lived up a canyon from the present were in the Valley often during the summers to help vario[...]ly came to the Billy was crippled either in his legs or hip. A sidekick of Valley in the 1920s. They lived in a cabin up Jones Creek Arkansas Slim, he w[...]USIE and MATTIE ..... Two Indian women who stayed in where Carrie ran the hotel and Bert worked as a mechanic. a log cabin for many years at Grandpa Franklin Jones' ranch Everyone s[...]ello, Idaho, where he TWITCHELL, Eli .... .In the 1900 census it lists just him was a mechanic[...]ngle man who worked for Brays drowned 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. Edwar[...]or 25 cents. He home- worked for Roselle's in Monida. Twitchell's homestead was steaded on nort[...]n on ground that is now under the Lima Dam. There used to Long Creek. He died in the late 1930s. be a br[...]lf-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 ti[...]Tuck Jones and Will Dingler with team and wagon in According to Rom's brother, who still lives in Arkansas, the Centennial Valley, ear[...]er them for making moonshine. Slim had a cabin in Lakeview at one time. He made his living during Prohibition making moonshine. Someone once saw him in West Yellowstone packing pint bottles of booze in a basket. He got on the train and probably sold h[...]the law officers along the way. He paid them off in moon- shine. Rom finally had to do some ti[...] |
| [...]Long after peace and quiet were established in the mining[...]manding to be fed in a forceful manner which often terror-[...]Half in jest, townspeople posted public notices reading:[...]quested. (Signed) X 37 lyweds, July 1913 in Dillon. X 3, Secretary[...]as later transferred to Joe Buck. prisoners are Lloyd Horner, charged with murdering Sam[...]charged with horse stealing. The manner in which they ef- events slightly differently than h[...]were being fed at the table in the kitchen of the jail, Sheriff[...]inside." flap or wagon box, customarily penned in charcoal. On some They stayed round until[...]utlaw who bye by giving him several kicks in the ribs while he was lying arrived at his[...] |
| [...]med Shambow for its original settlers who arrived in not j · the eight e on il 1888, then Magdalen, it finally became Lakeview in prob- bucked off1 D . g all ni h[...]ll pped off a Fifty to sixty people lived in the town proper and nearl Allof thi par fth le that many or more in a two or three mile radius. There were who helped e Ii h and demands and pursuit of others to be engaged in businesse which look o the expan e o[...]deserves great credi for he promptne di pla ed in pr - there were two stores. Bert Marcott was an extremely go[...]was promptly removed to the pe thou e as oon as There was a Miller and Pike and later a Miller and Gayl[...]lon Tribune, who were freighters. They had stores in Lakeview and sold 12/s /1881 merchandise they freighted from either their warehouse in Monida or from Humphrey, Idaho, over the top into[...]Early-Day Lakeview There was a hotel which provided lodging for pas[...] |
| [...]lengthy description he entered in his journal in 1806. Oth- (From the "Great Falls Tribune")[...]cks" is the Big Hole Valley. Valley in 1824, only 18 years after the Lewis and Clark party The long valley just east of the Continental Divide in had been there. southwestern Montana lies northwest of Dillon and south- The Big Hole River, whose headwaters are formed in the west of Butte. It is famed for its grass, hay[...]small western resort town in the valley retains the name The name of the Bi[...]given it which the river lost. early in the 1800s by some French-Canadian trapper, to[...]Fox tracks follow a fence on the Tom Clemow ranch in the Big Hole Valley, framed by the Bitterr[...] |
| [...]neered the Mullan Road, went through the Big Hole in December, 1853. • In the spring of 1863, eleven men including A. Graham, Joe Ketchen was the first to cut hay in the Big Hole. Jack John Murray and Henry Thomp[...]icks was the first to set up homemaking, arriving in 1881. Colorado Gulch. The main creek was nam[...]stern tributary of the stream was Fisk Expedition in 1866. The first white woman to settle in called Colorado Creek. George and Jacob Year[...]e were mining Colorado Gulch with hydraulics in August book, "The Story of Ajax-Life in the Big Hole Basin." 1867. The Yearian[...]mined until 1872 when they leased part lame oxen in Fort Hall in 1860 and drove them through the of the gro[...]Hole Valleys to Deer Lodge for fatten- men in placer mining. The mines became known as the ing, then drove them back again in 1861 to Fort Hall to sell "China Diggings" an[...]ig Hole Valley grasses, other men began There were two companies of them, one headed by Boise moving in stock. Today, the valley is known throughout the[...]ts cattle command took out almost $36,000 in six weeks. They washed the grav- top prices in the stockyards of the West and Midwest.[...]lley has witnessed raw drama. The Battle In 1877, when Chief Joseph's tribe wandered through of the Big Hole was fought here in the year 1877, when forces Horse Prairie, they[...]camp of and burned some of their homes as many of their guns were Chief Joseph, Too-hul-hul-sote[...]nce of their claims until 1895 battle engagements in Idaho. when t[...]re the Brenner dredge boat until they surrendered in the Bear Paw Mountains, near was constr[...]Tecumseh Sherman of Civil War fame, who many a day as it had a mile-long basin to work and claims was in charge of Indian campaigns in the West, came to the extended from summit to summit. The dredge was steam- Big Hole Valley in 1884 to inspect the monument erected at ope[...]ter fortunes. Wilderness was also named. Al Noyes in his book recalls the Clark arrived at Jef[...]h, to the new "diggins"'. day's hunt. Clothed all in rags, minus pants, Roosevelt was Clark mined with Selby in 1863 in the dry Jeff Davis standing before the fire when[...]amed Jeff Davis) so westerners present to see him in such comical evening attire. they could wash out the gold. No serious stock war ever raged in the Big Hole Valley. Clark returned in the spring of 1864, having bought out There was no rustling, no grass pirating, no haranguing[...]they sold out and realized $7,500. harmony exists there to this day.[...] |
| [...]bought by the Briggs families, and sold in 1979 to John Approximately seven miles up the[...]was Al Morrison, followed by Dad Sommers. There was also range of mountains on the west side is t[...]s next to the Sommers' rugged magnificent ridges. There is feed in abundance for place. Charlie Law and Joe[...]stagecoaches and freight Ericson Creek. There is also a Sweeney mine that is on the wagons used[...]connects and into South Medicine Lodge, (which is in Idaho), and with these places, now bel[...]tle and sheep ranches, home- Barrett place, where there once was a pile of ox shoes, al- steaders,[...]t feed the main Medicine The trail was started in 1862 and was used until the late Lodge Cree[...]ed eighties when the railroad came into existence in this part of them. the country. The first lum[...]mmeted way down. ly mined at one time or another. There are beds of oil shale The people on Medicine[...]family having its own mail box. So, even the mail in this there was first, the Henry Guyaz family. They had the p[...]e Mr. and Mrs. Duke Davis. Be- ing on how big the load was. Every day at noon the horses hi[...]tz, Jim Alway, and Bill Climer. All In the early days on the Lodge there were mountain the names above starting with the G[...]Hansen Livestock Co. Leonard sold to his there were no elk, or antelope, and very few deer or mo[...]en, who runs the ranch at this time, still In fact, when Bob killed his first deer in 1909 he made under the name of Hansen Livestock Co. headlines in the town paper. The government planted elk on[...]chool section behind the Hansen the Lodge in the Thirties, and antelope started to migrate pla[...]er up the creek were Fred Schuler, Isaac there in the Forties. Deer became very plentiful af[...] |
| [...]Streets is the largest of stone dwellings in Dillon. Built for chance to survive. Wolves were[...]s massive and of excellent proportions. and could in one bite break the hamstring on a cow's hind[...]an killing a horse a night for about three weeks in a row before arch headed by a keystone. Well[...]tly have been worth front entry was done in recent years using the same building about $60.[...]l House A charming little building in the middle of the zero block Gulch. Because of th[...]was built for Dr. Bond's medical office. Dr. dren in the family kitchen. Later they built a room on to[...]time, people who had commod- influenza in 1918. ities like milk, butter, cream, chickens, o[...]The Title Building facing north on Bannack Street in the them to the stores in Bannack, Armstead, or Dillon. They firs[...]tems. Smith, a community leader who was in the abstract and title Today Medicine Lodge is much the same as it was in the business. This building has an open-[...]keystone arches. The lintels on the front are supported by service and, of course, the road is in better shape. It is a two columns with Greek capitals of the Ionic Order. beautiful area in which to backpack, fish, hunt, or just enjoy[...]leading to the basement. in Beaverhead The original high school building utilized the- stone in the[...]sonry is the City scene of much volcanic activity in milleniums past. A deep Library at the co[...]m lends itself well to saw or chisel, being light in weight and of all angles. a spongy texture.[...]ther with a partner, John Cusick, opened a quarry there west of Dillon on the old Dillon-Argenta[...]rthward to the Frying some of the stone buildings in Dillon. Pan quarry.[...]rs were built of whatever material was available. In dent in the Birch Creek-Willow Creek area. After eons of[...]d to be of a quality suitable for building stone. There may frame houses. Wood was the way to go - faster, lighter, be grave markers in Mountain View Cemetery made from cheaper.[...]he Butte Tombstone Company The stone buildings in Dillon are remarkable for their used it for that purpose in early years. distinctive styling and the l[...] |
| [...]o proved up on a 640 Allen Duke Davis was born in Lewis County, Ken., in acre homestead. In 1917, he bought his first car, a Model T 1878. He came to theBeaverhead in 1896, lured here by Ford. After 11 yea[...]rs. Dave (Venora Bridwell) got together in Tacoma, Wash., and were married on Christ- Metlen[...]son mas Eve, 1919. who lived on a ranch in the Grasshopper Valley. After a year They[...]raising cattle, sheep, chickens, and pigs. Be- In 1905, he yielded to family pressures and went to[...]orial de- Pentecostal Union of New Jersey in 1911. His writings were partment, where he did ty[...]aralleled biblical teachings. After three years in the Pentecostal print shop, he was In the early twenties, Duke and Cora, together with[...]in the dell" may yet be bounding from peak to peak a[...]Horse Prairie Creek, the kids went swimming in one of the many familiar swimming holes. These youngsters had all[...]remarked, "They knew how to swim when they were born." saturated with the[...]A romance was budding for Duke, as he found favor in one touched. Miss Cora J. Massengale, but it did not blossom, due to "the In 1941, Cora suffered a frightening experience when[...]ures. Cora was alone, as Duke After three years in Denver, he was transferred to the was out with his sheep. In due course, they rebuilt, this time National Headquarters of the Pentecostal Union in New a smaller log house, and again est[...]ed by the intensity Tragedy 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 a[...]ship down the coast to their death, age 96, in 1974. missionary quarters in Jacksonville, Fla. He was to return to[...] |
| Blair Recalls Early Days in the creek. T[...]rses until we had to (This letter was written in 1940 to Babe Buck by Jim turn our hor[...]Mountain. There was lots offeed on the mountain but their I[...]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 Elk Lake so they all made their headquarters in our cabin. It a few _cow outfits in the Valley, P and O on Clover Creek, was 14 feet by 14 feet inside, sometimes 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[...]50 yards from the creek. One day during a and there was a cow outfit camped at the spring on the old[...]z- Blake Ranch. I think his name was Stodier. There were a zard got so bad that I did not dare leave the open creek to try few settlers in the upper end of the Valley. Freeman Marble[...]O'dell on O'dell Creek, - finally someone in the cabin put wood into the stove and Maddox[...]lived. The winter of 1890-91 set in pretty tough in December. I cannot remember the amount[...]e lower Madison lost walked back to the camp. In a few days there came a very between two and three hundred[...]tried to get them to Elk Lake on the crust in March. He only other. It would snow for three[...]Derme, Ben Hart, If 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[...]and stormy here all this brought their stock in to winter, none of them had time to month. Today it is spitting snow. Some places in Ohio they build shelter for their stock. Their stock was thin. are having high water. Marcella went from the hospita[...]proved. I am feeling fine. son and I wintered in his cabin. We had a few head of horses I had a letter from the Forsythes in Los Angeles. Al said and some hay put up to w[...]s to get back miles away but after winter set in it was impossible to haul to the Valley. He s[...]usually lasted three clipping I enclosed in Thelma's letter about the Platina Fox days and one did not dare go out in them on account of skin that sold for $[...]e off the stack they would have to dig a hole in the snow to tails were very small and very[...]k Creek kept open all winter while. and there was lots of moss in it. We watered our horses at the With[...] |
| [...]d Ollie gained experience cooking on a wood stove in the[...]by the time she was in her teens, she was skilled enough to[...]of 40. At the time Burl came to get his sister In any discussion of Big Hole history, especially the peri- to cook for the Hairpin, she was second cook in the Northern od of transition from horse-drawn modes of transportation Pacific Hospital in Missoula. By flagging down the passen- and manual[...]certain indulgences enjoyed by young girls in the twenties, ranching operations. It is largely[...]Burl had to convince Ollie of and storage of hay in the Big Hole country. Because John the u[...]on was over that year, John Krause came to settle there by a series of events that so often play a prop[...]nd they were married on November 14, pivotal role in local history. 1924 in Anaconda. They moved into a small log cabin in John Krause was born January 6, 1902, to Samue[...]things was always the second oldest of nine sons. In 1914, the family relocated in demand by the ranchers, so in 1927, the same year their from the farming commun[...]born, the first Krause Montana, where Sam worked in the •zinc refinery at the Garage opened in a livery stable owned by John Pendergast Anaconda[...]his on the south end of Jackson. There was a dance hall on the brother, Emil, in working on the Great Northern railroad, second floor, and one evening in 1931 the stove used to heat but soon found workin[...]re, with spending the winter running a trap line. In the early spring, some later modifications, i[...]cause of the sun's brilliant reflection ers. In those days, coyote pelts brought $15 to $20 each[...]in and foot could be nearly impossible in deep snow, John began to travel to Dillon where he stayed in a room at the Metlen think of ways to bu[...]riginal Soon John had a job on the Cross Ranch in the Horse with John Krause. As early a[...]terson transferred John to the Hairpin time in the early 1920's, the Bombardier Co. manufactured Ranch in the Big Hole. There, John met Burl Flansburg, a propeller driven machines. In the Centennial Valley there young man from Clinton, Montana, who continually[...]sister's cooking. As fate would on a sled in 1926. John's first experiment in 1932 was to have it, the cook at the Hairpin walk[...]raft to ice-slickened roads, so John re- 3, 1898, in Red Rock, Okla., to Olin and Alice Flansburg.[...]of the Milltown, Montana, and finally to Clinton in 1916, where 1940s and 1950s were[...] |
| [...]ng the wooden propellers. The snow- fishing. In his younger years he liked to compete in rodeos plane bodies were made of fiberglass airpl[...]trapshoots. He was well known for his generosity in stretched over a framework of welded steel tubing[...]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.[...]. The Krause Garage could turn out a snowplane in as little Ollie Krause was a cook for a peri[...]was a charter member of the original for ranchers in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Ja[...]argest snowplane built used a 220 also active in the Royal Neighbors of America. Ollie was HP engi[...]p to 10 guests of the Diamond Bar well-known in the community for her seemingly endless Inn to an[...]ht an armload of ers from all over the northwest. There was a Big Hole Snow- white fabric to be made into a wedding gown. Ollie, in the plane Association, which entertained members[...]down the ladder and completing the dress in time to finish prevented a fire from spreading to[...]ng structure and blowing the ness to share her many talents." flames away from the adjoining cabins w[...]s also well-known for her ability to prepare a In addition to the snowplanes, John experimented wit[...]bled her to stretch whatever little food ranching in the Big Hole. John improved upon the bull she had on hand into a gourmet meal. Guests, no matter how rakes (buckrakes), hay hoists, and created a fork-like appa- many or what hour they arrived, were always welcome. J[...]0th wedding anniversary on No- 800 head of cattle in just a few hours, where previously it vember 1[...]John never considered retirement and they lived in their Within a few years his devices were bein[...]976. used by Montana, Wyoming and Idaho ranchers. In July Ollie passed away in the Dillon nursing home on January 2, and August[...]n), the Krause rake is as much a 1981. Both are buried in Mountain View Cemetery. part of the Big Hole land[...]-KURT KRAUSE publication in several national magazines and newspapers[...] |
| The Holy Rollers Kept Fires Burning in Dillon By EDI[...]thodist church-the final separation brought about in 1901, largely through the aggressiveness of Alma[...]ing served as a Methodist missionary for 18 years in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and the Pacific northwes[...]nced the church, proclaiming that "the Methodists are a fallen people." In her opinion, the "powers of evil" had was recla[...]rs. Venora Bridwell Metlen, was so over- holiness in any of the old line denominations."[...]r the breakaway, she induced her brother in the movement that she transferred the deed to the Met- Charles, a Methodist preacher in the Denver area, to go with len Block on Idah[...]County record of Deeds.) There was much ado in the Metlen Alma was no stranger to Beaverhead[...]first family, as well as the community, and in time, with the help come to Bannack as a teacher in 1882, drawn to the area by of certain city[...]o restore the an uncle J.C. Harrison, who ranched in the Grasshopper deed to the family. There may have been some legal hanky- Valley. She taught but one term in Bannack and was re- panky, as it was not generally known how this was accom- leased because of her persistence in giving too much time to plished. Bible reading and prayers in the school. She also taught one Alma White alleged that ... at Dillon there was no term in Lima, a summer term at Red Rock, one term at a justice to be had in the courts. Mob violence hindered the school thre[...]of Dillon, its rightful owner as it was in the da of the Inquisition. where she boarded at the John Bishop ranch home. The records in the county seat of Beaverhead County will It was in Bannack that she first met Kent White, a mis-[...]was ever con- sionary. They spoke briefly one day in a doorway, and it was ceived in the minds of so-called civilized men to defeat at[...]e record will some day be judged Five years later in 1887, she married Kent White in Denver, and the guilty will quake under the[...]niversity and God's wrath ........ " lessons in elocution at the Tabor Grand Opera House.[...]growing number of con- Alma left two children in the care of her husband and her verts "kept t[...]hen she and her treatment. Alma wrote in one of her books, ' We notice that brother, the Reverend Mr. Bridwell, arrived in Dillon, they people who have good religious[...]She also day. was rejected by the Baptists. In fact, she "found all church The nickname, "Holy Rollers," was applied to sectarians doors in the city closed against us."[...]red around the pulpit, which they had used before in Colorado when no building knelt on knees[...]Halleluia," and other emotional "We put it up in the center of town," she related. "The expr[...]tracted a great deal of attention. Attendance in a cacophony that was frightening to the uninitiat[...]for other evangelical pursuits. Charles stayed on in Dillon, 60-Beaverhead History |
| conducting nightly services in his home. deal with their[...]Sources: "Looking Back from Beulah," Alma White; in the saloon section, broke into a Union meeting, s[...]CREEK crowd grew. Teen-age boys, caught up in the excitement joined the mob. Jay Tallent Sr., a[...]s covered with roofing tar and then he was rolled in the leaves on the The recent death of Mrs.[...]memory happenings of the era in which she was born. She The Rocky Mountain New[...]f the work donated for a community cemetery. there. He was accompanied by his wife and family, and so There were three very friendly and congenial families o[...]s that the work moved along Birch Creek in the 1880s-Ozias and Edna Willis, Fred and flouris[...]cheer- suit the Dillonites. The former persisted in holding its meet- 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 opposition[...]o this world. At any rate, Fred Wilson was a baby in night while services were in progress and very effectually 1891 when his[...]ofing paint." cannot forget. Alma White was in Los Angeles at the time and read the I recall that the first wedding gift my wife received in story in an area newspaper. In one of her later books, she March, 1891, wa[...]Mrs. Wilson's flock. My wife people were engaged in their services at the home of Rev. thought[...]t one chick, so from word they proceeded to smash in the windows and break then on it was a[...]g the which would be the chaperone. people in every direction knocking down an old lady 67[...]Lota and Fred. Fred was a attempted to check them in their violence. Later, they se- musician an[...]m nearly a mile out of town, happy family if there ever was one. We used to exchange gave him a coat[...]the out-of-town ans of the Civil War and many times I heard it being fought evangelists should[...]followers. Alma wrote, "With difficulty they in Butte. . , . succeeded in removing the mixture fearing that the closing I saw an account in the Dillon Exami:ne:r recmtiy about up of the por[...]business with her in our day when she hauled rock from the The ten[...].s quarried the old Baptist Church and used only in mild weather, was and used to build[...] |
| Bootlegging in the[...]ed poles tied with rawhide, which the coyotes ate in the winter, like he was looking for unwanted co[...]ctor a spring fencing job again. The older was there. This guy was a character in his own right. generation believed in making do, which made the profes- Other[...]through a baby diaper. She later moved to common in early days, the communication network would[...]ntleman from prewarn the residents of an intruder in the Valley well Henry's Lake was a suppli[...]mployed Bill Miller to repair his still which was in bad trail head to the valley even before prohibit[...]had tana was still wet' and Idaho dry' the hotel in Monida would another problem with a bear which[...]before breakfast, or three car- before he laid in wait to shoot the bear, which had became loads a week. Quite a sum in the early days. an alcoholic.[...]It appears that about every person had a hand in the still which overheated and blew him a[...]ks for clothing needs. The sacks were used en, in that horses would become trapped there in the winter for underclothes, especially the flour[...]on them. However, the sugar sacks were plain and in much more demand. Over the Monida Hill at Corr[...]first enter- prising moonshiners. They made moon in a cabin in the east fork, where the cabin remains. This was[...]eemed to have his job. One sold moon to the hotel in Monida and later to their bar in West Yellowstone.[...]ster of the family was an interesting charac- ter in her own right. She would fit herself with a body[...]ceful way todo business. The family had locations in the Bean Creek area, where a stillwould also be set up. There were several others in this area; however, not as much is known ab'out t[...]uring. Movhng up the south side of the Valley, in the Price Creek area t here was a Dutchman, but l[...]ife team who could make so:rp.e of the' best beer in the Valley that they marketed to the s:heepherders in the area, with a small floor show, wh".ch[...] |
| [...]nal use, which one could say he sold the train in sight and generally costing the owner a set of ti[...]lles also used horses to pull a car over the pass in deep Wolverines, probably as an associate of Ora[...]g or two of bootleg. Most of the early saloons in Monida at one time or an- A local barber[...]uld turn rifle bullets period the bottle was kept in a trap cellar, just outside of the ... for prob[...]the jar. One fellow tells of attending a dance in Humphrey to jail, Ora had made bail, so he caught[...]of a little laxative put the guy the law happened in Idaho Falls. The Roselle operation had out of commission for the night and also helped in the prof- just finished bottling a keg of whiskey when the law moved its. in on a neighbor's tip. The police officers recovere[...]en the train left for Monida, but they would hide in the waiting officer, it seems the good ole boys w[...]al car and hang on for the trip ing the evidence. There was no evidence on arrest. back t[...]f moon. Clay Roselle had a still on the island in Upper Red Rock The downfall of Clay Roselle came in Idaho Falls with Lake, near Goose Lake, where the[...]Two 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 was on the island in the middle of the Snake River. hauled the still o[...]d been on his way to Monida best, if not the best in the Valley. All materials were trans- but whe[...]the forfeited it and Clay got a term in the federal pen. One of the Roselle's moon classe[...]en it was blended others went to the pen in Arkansas for either this case or one and bottled,[...]e came from the Butte Bottling Works There are more stories and people in the moonshine and and a IO-gallon charred oak bar[...]Lake City wholesaler. Idaho Wholesale are now forgotten. The makers of the stills were notable would supply sugar, yeast and molasses to the stores in people-the local garage owner or one f[...]Cane sugar, rather than beet sugar, was the best in was a master mechanic-all trying to make a[...]st, 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 busin[...]ue. A local garage owner would distill help in the understanding of the resourcefulness of our f[...]s bears. told that my father Ora made gin in the bathtub in their Many thanks to all of the people who have told me of the apartment of the old dance hall in Monida. past, which is no[...]ect. moon was transported over the state line and in many forms. Several that I have heard tell of are the use of a tire, with whiskey placed whe[...] |
| [...]In the early Twenties, a group of ranchers and sport[...]organized to sponsor a bounty program in the county. Ten[...]receive the mag- built in 1898. pie eggs, count t[...]a Thomas "Tom'! Hamilton established the ranch in the money-making enterprise and kept[...]the horses all broke to work. That lake is still in use. The bird itself is a beauty with a flashy, irridescent green- In 1898, under Mrs. Mary Jane Hamilton's guidance, a[...]having a tail longer than its body. cost $10,000 in a time when most houses cost between $1,000[...]ched eggs before and $3,000. Considered a mansion in its time, it included a setting. The kids[...]Some of the more enterprising youngsters in the Beaver- rides from their isolated ranch to Di[...]us- Hamilton had a horse drinking fountain built in Dillon in ing nest eggs in the hen house, a common practice with farm 1907, in memory of her husband who had died in 1905, and flocks. established a $2,500[...], 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 by visitors hatch a[...]d every day, but it kept the hens laying. located in front of the Beaverhead County Museum on[...]nt worked satisfactorily for the kids specialists in Butte, in 1905 for a weekend retreat from the near Di[...]t to town frequently, but it was stress of living in Butte. They employed Marcus Rand as di[...]ugh Bates, who had to count them, and to manager. In 1916, his wife Cora Rand began to operate a[...]get to town often. A bucket full sub-post office in the brick house. In later years, she was a of dead baby birds can get pretty ripe after a few hot sum- postmistress in Armstead. Later, Dr. Donovan was bought[...]ble levels. referred to as "The Donovan Ranch" on many maps. In defense of this controversial bird, and recognizi[...]pose, he is the most valuable scavenger in the mountain The Magpie Bounty[...] |
| [...]m, 1885 tried twice in the new school, but didn't work out, so fam-[...]the valley to send their chil- School started in the Big Hole Valley in the spring of 1884 dren to high school. Students also board with relatives or in a schoolhouse built about one and a half miles no[...]og cabin with a window at been running. In January 1989 over 40 students and three either side, and the door facing east. There were two rows of teachers moved into a new sch[...]Jackson, 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 that the stage at the Community that in 1892, the Jackson School District reached from 10 Building in Wisdom was the original schoolhouse until 1914,[...]built on a mountain- all double with two students in each seat. Rock and brick for side south of th[...]Jackson on what is now part the new school, built in 1914, came from Steel Creek and the of[...] |
| teacher, Edith O'Brien, who also taught in the Fox District. Jorgensen[...]ckson on the road to It is not known how long a summer school was held in the Wisdom. A few years later, the schoolhouse wa[...]families that had children from Indiana. There were no bridges anywhere and the chil- going to s[...]er on two logs without any railing. She was built in Jackson in the present school yard. Emily Mar- said there was one log across the big slough which did have[...]erm. Holding school for a nine month term started in their feet wet! 1907. About 1912 additional[...]first Bowen School was a fine log building, built in[...]southeast of the Lawrence Ranch buildings, which are now Faded into the past are the East Fox and West Fox owned by E[...]her could be built, school was held at Lawrence's in the sitting in the John Anderson meadow (now Benny John-[...]frame building painted white on the same spot in 1913. called "The Skunk School" by the students)[...]ils first attending the old log Bowen Fox School. In 1906 a new white frame building built on[...]- every day from the Bender place! Later in the 1900s this son Lane became the new West Fox s[...]usual three or six. After the district was closed in the 1950s, the East Fox schoolhouse was moved dow[...]t Fox schoolhouse and moved it to the In 1905 the Gibbons School District was formed and l[...]was abandoned and annexed to West Fox District 18 in 1953. West Fox was closed and annexed to Jackson District 24 in 1961. Briston, 1890 The remains of the first school in the Briston District still |
| [...]Katherine - a testimony to a time when many families lived in that Knutson was one of the first teachers. The d[...]cally as school- closed for a while, and reopened in the spring of 1915 age chilren were there. It was eventually abandoned and through the effo[...]oming a sum- annexed to Jackson District 24 in 1948. mer school. In the summer of 1918 a new schoolhouse was built at[...]r-horse reportedly held for a short period in 1890s up on the hill in teams with sleighs. It still stands in the yard of the Lester Lapham's field for the c[...]Country schools played an important role in the history of[...]was held from 1884 for a from the way of life in the Big Hole, but the colorful history few years.[...]nd Antone Jackson of these districts lives in the hearts and memories of many. families, Callens, McVeys, Wratons and Paddocks[...]lector can remember its demise. Children are now driven long distances into the two towns,[...]d for three month summer terms, (Information in these histories was found in county starting in June 1899, with Josephine Holt as teacher.[...] |
| [...]Vigilantes and his presence was known in Virginia City on Marked Early-Day Bank-[...]to Bannack in 1862 and began and operated a store there Dillon had three banks in all from the period 1880-1920. until 1864. Rowe later became a brother-in-law to Joseph The first of these, The First Natio[...]rger, originally from Philadelphia, was organized in 1884 by the trio of Sebree, Ferris, and came to Bannack in 1862 after hooking up with Martin White who had formerly conducted a profitable mercantile Barrett in St.Louis. Barrett and Shineberger formed the business in the Valley before the coming of the railroad. On Cross Ranch in Horse Prairie and remained partners until January[...]y, Eddy F. they dissolved their partnership in 1871.Shineberger then Ferris of Bozeman, Benjamin[...]the association was $50,000 and the area in 1862 and remained on the Cross supplying the min-[...]iness March 1, 1884. Sebree, Ferris, ers in Bannack with butter and other dairy products. Whi[...]ere: Sebree, President; Burfiend, of the group. In 1899 A. L. Stone was only 36 while most of Vice P[...]m, assistant cash- his fellow founders were in their 60's. Stone came to Butte in ier. 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 Im[...]til the State to hold that office until his death in 1920. It was said of Bank was organized in 1899. The original founders were also White that[...]their party loyalty, all being ardent Democrats. In ods, White loaned money on character of which he[...]to borrow money for oper- rial Governor in 1889. The State Bank owned the main floor ations[...]The 1.O.O.F. lodge owned the second floor to come in and sign a note for the amount drawn. No other[...]880-1920 was the last to witness the old bank- In January of 1910 Howard Sebree disposed of his int[...]ods 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 own[...]the ades forever altered banking practices in the Beaverhead, bank grow from its modest beginni[...]rgest livestock Montana, and the nation. bank in southwest Montana, with a footing of over $4 mil-[...]' ' PROSPECTORS' A second bank existed in Dillon, calling itself the Dillon National Bank.[...]and closed its doors that same year. In the pioneer era, expressive words were chosen to[...]n the plains; the gambler "corrals" miners' nized in 1899 by A. L. Stone, F. L. Graves, William Roe, J[...]used it to start heralded by the Dillon Examiner in 1899: "The Examiner their teams; "You g[...]pe a revolver. tial citizens of Beaverhead County are establishing a bank "You bet" was a most positive affirmation. Everything ... whose names are a guarantee that the new institution was[...], a will take rank as one of the most solid banks in Montana." horse, a dog or a cat. These m[...]ress to bumming a drink-has first electric dredge in Montana was named. Augustus been "pro[...]anned out" while "he didn't get a Graeter arrived in Bannack in 1862 and, after placer mining color" express[...]ant to divide stole·n boat. Graeter also ranched in Horse Prairie, southeast of gold.[...] |
| [...]ber 7, 1866, at Green- bush, Ill., came to Dillon in 1900 and resided here until his death in 1935. Mr. Adams was associated with James Leach in a barber shop on North Montana Street for 22 years until ill health forced his retirement. He was active in fraternal affairs, ranking as one of the oldest m[...]er 27, 1918, the first victim of the flu epidemic in Dillon. Both Mr. and Mrs. Adams are buried in Mountain View Cemetery.[...]ile they Louis K. Adams was born Dec. 1, 1866, in Richland Center, lived in the Orr Mansion and had gone to Birch Creek for a[...]hen they returned that evening, almost Union Army in the Civil War) and Emilia Van Alstine Adams. everything in the house had been taken. Jewelry, bedding, and L[...]all of whom had to work as soon as Street. Many things were taken including his coin collection h[...]saved all his life. Some of the things were found in Butte in a grade school through high school, in a Catholic school taught by second-hand stor[...]h meal Mrs. Adams died January 14, 1925, in Dillon. Mr. Adams before they could eat. The Colo[...]Neb., and was apprenticed on the ple in 1937. He was the first Montana Shriner to contrib[...]h N. D. and S. D. and Minneapo- patient there many years later. lis/St. Paul, Minn. He married Ruby[...]He retired from the Union Electric Co. in 1935. He sold his 1887, in Mitchell, S. D. Ruby Dew Knox was born in Diamond interest, as did the other sto[...]the Montana 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 10, 1943. name[...]traveled across the Family still living are granddaughter Leone Cashmore country. A daughter,[...]ne, grandson Alden Cashmore, great-granddaughters in Mitchell, Dec. 26, 1890. The family later moved b[...]ch time away from his family, so Louis found work in a Adrian Tayne. lumber company and a[...]-LEONE CASHMORE TAYNE in a correspondence school connected with the Univ. of Wiscon- sin; he recieved his degree in Electrical Engineering and was also qualified as[...]Donnell Thomas Albee was born in Unionville, Mo., October The Adams family moved to Big Timber, Mont., in 1901 30, 1879, to Frank H. and Mary[...]y for three years. and came to Montana in a covered wagon in 1882, riding most of They moved to Rexburg, Ida., in 1904 where he again was the way in the feed box, with his parents, an older brother, manager of the power company. They moved in 1905 to Dillon. Charles Herbert; a sist[...]r 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[...]is now. Don Albee was not interested in school but was a worker. In Part of the plant building still stands on the Barnes' property. 1897 he found work in the Big Hole and was so taken with the The[...] |
| ranching there. His father, Frank H. Albee purchased the initial[...]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[...]tanding today. She taught school at the Born in Oldenberg, Germany, January 8, 1844, Gerhard's Bowen School, later teaching in the Butte Schools. father was A. M. Albers and his mother was Angle Hendrick. In During the next few years several acquisitions[...]e to the U. S. with his parents and lived at West in 1910 he purchased the Dries Ranch which was the l[...]held it for 30 days and sold it at a good profit. In 1917 the Big attracted west by the stories of[...]country held. Gerhard crossed the plains in a prairie schooner not the hardy type to make Big Hole cattlemen and in 1932 Don drawn by two yoke of oxen, via th[...]housewarming 419 guests Upon arriving in this valley, Mr. Albers secured the job of signed the guest book on a wet rainy night in September and stock tender for the Wells[...]doned in favor of the First National Bank, in which Mr. Albers danced until 4:00 a.m., many sleeping in barns, buildings and became a large stockholder. cars, rather than struggle home on the poor roads in 1934. On February 7, 1884., Gerhard[...]ne Louisa After the sale of the Big Hole ranch in 191 7, Don purchased Meine. Born May 7, 1867[...]rs. Don ran the P.N. until with her parents in 1882 when she was 15 years old. She was he traded it to Carstern Packing Co. in 1931 just prior to moving about 23 years young[...](Babe) have something to go to market when prices are high", and Albers was born November 1,[...]married but did enjoy a good social life. He had many friends among the business families of Butte, spend- ing many nights in the city enjoying the good 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.[...] |
| [...]ers acquired other ranches on the Rattlesnake and in the Big Hole William Richard Allen was born July 25, 1871, in a one-room Basin. With these holdings, totaling a[...]tockmen of the Beaverhead, running schools in Deer Lodge County, graduated from the Helena 9,00[...]t-graduate course at Har- operations were reached in 1887, and the year of greatest profit vard Un[...]Gerhard's daughter Dora. She says they In 1893 he married Eliza Berkin and they had three c[...]Esther, Mildred and Ruth. After Eliza passed away in 1917, he extent, although their brand, the Open A[...]t Allen was employed by Marcus Daly in his Electric Light $65,474.[...]Street Railway and Water Works department, and in 1898 he Mr. Albers was a tall, well conditione[...]ype. Of unquestioned integrity, he never indulged in Gulch. He acquired more mining property there and formed the the popular sport of "long looping[...]d June 20, 1909, at the Murray Hospital In 1900, he installed one of the first large dredges to be used in Butte, Montana. He was sick only a few days and death came in Montana, and at the same time entered the timber[...]timber for charcoal at his smelter and for stulls in the Butte of the fingers of his left hand. Not t[...]became poisoned from sheep dip. Inflammation set in, Beginning in 1904, he served three terms in the Montana and within a few days, Mr. Albers be[...]gislature as a Republican from Deer Lodge County. In son John take him to his home 12 miles north of[...]vernor rapidly worse and was brought to bis home in Dillon Sunday and (1909-11 ). Dr. Bond summ[...]g outside capital to Montana. He helped hospital in Butte for treatment, which was done. However, it[...]ried at Moun- While hunting with friends in the Elkhorn Mining District, tain View Cemetery.[...]Allen became interested in the area's silver mining potential. Christine[...]ranch until about 1932, when she moved to a house in town at 115 South Pacific. September 27, 1937, sh[...]end. Christine died January 18, 1939, at her home in Dillon. Christine's obitu- ary told she had a hos[...]t the time of her death. After Gerhard's death in 1909, his son John lived at the home ranch on the Beaverhead. He married Carlillis Selway Chap- man in 1929. Dora married Franklin P. Bell April 21, 191[...]ath, lived with her mother at the ranch and later in town. She married John Gloss Septem- ber 12, 1921[...]28, 1940, and from the obituary of Gerhard Albers in the Dillon Tribune, Friday, June 25, 1909.[...] |
| With the price of silver rising, he began buying claims in 1911, On October 6, ,J895, Smith M. Ames was born. Richard, and in 1913, formed the Bostom Montana Mining Company. S[...]ka, to attend business school; later to work in Salmon, Idaho, mended expansion. Allen constructe[...]ablished a settlement, called Allen- ested in ranching, sought other endeavors. He operated a s[...]w town and to haul ore to the railhead at Divide. In Ames Sr., passed on before Smith's 17 birt[...]completion of the G & P $1,500,000, was completed in November 1919. It had three Railroad in 1910. The passengers and freight from Salmon, Bal[...]he town of Armstead, a booming town with be built in the United States. In 1940, the last rails of the cabaret, bars and a hotel, which was moved in from Red Rock. Montana Southern Railway were remo[...]Smith and his mother built a home for her in Armstead. A telephone line was built to Allentown, which was renamed In 1917, Smith met a cute red-headed school teacher[...]ican National Convention St. Rose's Church in Dillon by Father Clifford. They lived on that nom[...]e party's candidate. Coolidge was the ranch in Red Rock, where in 1919, Rozella Marie would be a thriving town with[...]year later (1921), Rozella Mapes Smith died at 86 in Red Rock. concentrating the ore. The mill covered[...]Armstead, where Smith built a house was completed in 1922 at a cost of $900,000. It was operated by[...]uced by 52 electric Roy came Margaret Anne in 1923, Dorothy Mae in 1926, and motors. Edwin (Ted) Patrick in 1935. The financial depression in 1920-21 and decline of metal On July[...]rices forced the mining company into receivership in 1923. W. The family has no knowledge of the[...]mother's funeral. ious interludes until his death in October 1953.[...]great curiosity Albert C. Anderson was born in Denmark on August 11, of the unknown stirred Edwi[...]leveland, Ohio, and investigate tom butcher. There were eight sons and two daughters in the the unknown. Edwin M. Ames, Sr., born Novembe[...]them to Rawlins, Wyoming, where Edwin In 1896 Albert came to his uncle's farm in Elkhorn, Iowa, found work on the stage line from[...]e he worked off his passage to the United States. In 1900 he daughter, Angie Florence Ames, was born w[...]lon where he was employed as cattle foreman by J. there, on January 7, 1882.[...]pleted to Dillon by 1880. operations. Still in quest of adventure and a more secure life, they h[...]to be free for the taking to the first one there. the Ames Stage Station. This station included meals for weary In 1910 Albert sold his sheep and returned to Denmar[...]dwin M. Jr., May 19, 1883, the overbur- In the spring of 1911 Albert, Sine, and a num[...] |
| [...]So. Idaho) Albert and Pedersine were married in Dillon's St. James My father, Alvan[...]al Church on April 16, 1911, riding to the church in a were born in southwest Ohio during the Civil War, as was |
| [...]dersen the ranch. They had two sons, Leland born in 1910, and |
| [...]cquire the money for the ship's passage he worked in a manager of the ranch where they ran 10,000[...]he was well equipped. school in Bannack, through severe snow storms and freezing He was 18 when he arrived in Dillon in the fall of 1893. weather. This was one o[...]ousin, was employed at the Fred Rife place in 1918 to his brother Matt and brother-in-law Berg Dairy and through his recommendation Han[...]shopper place to his brother ment for the winter. In the spring he went to work on the John John Anderson. The family took up residence in Dillon to attend Gilbert farm. That fall Chester[...]Hans bought the Hurley Leach place on Blacktail in 1918 to stayed on the place three years, then bou[...]shopper 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[...]nk, the mining town After becoming established in business Hans felt the need for of Bon Accord.[...]e farm where it was used to build lamb- and while there married his childhood sweetheart, Kristine Ras-[...]storage, garages, and a chicken house. He musen, in June of 1902. They returned to Dillon. There was not purchased the Leadore Silver Mine in Idaho for $30,000 from a suitable home on the ranch property so they lived in rented Charles Lloyd. houses until their ho[...]on the corner of Wash- He was fortunate in achieving every one of his goals, blessed ington[...]lent health. He passed away after a short illness in the To this union were born: John, April 2, 19[...]fortune in food, clothing, or money. His word was his bond. In the fall of 1911 Kristine, with her children, wen[...]ced his signature it was his trust and confidence in mark to visit her parents. While there she died two hours after business and mankind[...]Thomas, and Uncle Claus. Hans went to Denmark in 1914 and brought all of the chil-[...]at year Hans married Anna Marie of Areo in Denmark. His father was a custom butcher with a E[...]sons and two daughters. When John was 16 he 1915. In 1919, Anna Marie's sister Margaret brought Kristi[...]to the United States, arriving at Elk Horn, Iowa, in the from Denmark when she came to visit her siste[...]and also received his citizenship papers. In 1907 Hans expanded his property by forming the Ames In the early spring of 1892, he arrived in Dillon and went to Sheep Company, situated six mi[...]north side in the area where the Lions Den is now. He later The[...]Creek, and sold milk and butter in Bannack. After selling the[...]In 1898 John went to work for J.E. Morse, a rancher[...]John, in partnership with his brother Peter H. Anderson,[...]bought their first two bands of sheep in 1905. John homesteaded on Carter Creek in Beaverhead County, seven miles east of[...]Upper Ruby in Madison County. Pete managed their sheep[...] |
| Mr. Morse sold the operation of which John was in charge to the migrated to Denver, Colo., where he became a foreman in Beaverhead Ranch Co. After 1908, the Anderson brothers in- the Argo Smelter. He met and married I[...]His brother-in-law, John S. Johnson who had been in the In 1915, John married Egidia Jepsen in Dillon. They had one Big Hole for years, was instrumental in getting John N. and son, John, Jr., and three dau[...]p, 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 Johnson. This partn[...]turn to Sweden, proximately 28,000 head of sheep. In 1925, John and Pete dis- selling their sha[...]continued to manage the ranches until he sold out in the sheep business for himself. 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 1949 fall of 1920, he moved 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.,[...]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 his father. He remained there until his death in 1931. son-in-law and daughter, Karl L. and Edna Sauerbier. John H. Edwin S., born in 1899, graduated from Stanford University Anderson[...]ry 6, 1950, at the age of 76. His wife, in 1927, Phi Beta Kappa, later became a C.P .A. in Califor- Egidia, passed away in October of 1954. nia, and practiced there until his retirement in 1962. He now resides in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego.[...]-JOHN ANDERSON, JR. Ebba A., born in 1905, attended what is now Western[...]Montana College. She married Ralph W. Huntley in 1926, John and Ida Anderson[...]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. They had three children at the time: Arthur Ethel M., born in 1908, attended the University of Mon- born in 1897, Edwin born in 1899, and Ebba born in 1905. tana and graduated from the University of Idaho in 1930. Two children were born in the Big Hole Basin, Ethel in 1908 She taught Home Economics at Beaverhead County High and Helen in 1919. School and later taught in the Adult Education system for John N. Anderson was born in Sweden on August 17, the City of[...]hen he was 17. He Helen G., born in 1919, graduated from Montana State went to work in the steel mills in Bethlehem, PA., for $2.00 a University in 1941. She moved to San Francisco where she[...] |
| [...]cry. Harry consoled her and urged her on married in Dillon December 31, 1914. Both were immigrants until she reached the final box. There was the most beautiful from Denmark and both came[...]ose the ring at Stamm's Jewelry Store. Mads, born in 1885, emigrated around the turn of the cen-[...]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 World War I was declared, sailing In 1915 the Andrus family sold out their ranching in[...]he Following relatives to Montana, they engaged in ranching Andrus Hotel, said to be one of the four leading hotels in Mon- during the following years. Mads died in 1963 and Marie in tana. When the hotel was completed in 1918, the investment 1978. The couple had two dau[...]be the manager of this fine hotel until his death in Major James B. Hawkins of Ft. Benning, Georgia; J[...]f Dillon; family until it was sold in 1969. In 1979 it was sold again and and Russell Jones of B[...]KINS Harry E. Andrus was born in Lafayette, Ind., in 1862, one of[...]Margaret Rosenbaum Andrus was born in Diamond City, Mon- Harry E. Andrus Family tana, in 1866, one of nine children. Her father Antone Ros[...]the miners and business buildings for the arrived in Beaverhead County in 1897. Tragedy had struck in town. their Valmont, Colo., home. Fire[...]Harry Andrus and Margaret Rosenbaum were married in spread to the buildings, destroying all of the horses in the barn. Boulder, Colo., in 1887. To this union were born Albie and The dipht[...]arry J. their only choice was to make a new start in a new place. 1900. One grandson, Harry Colfer, born to Wilma in 1918, They lived with the Frank Andrus family in Medicine Lodge grew up in Dillon with his grandparents and attended Dillon until they were able to locate homestead land inin 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 creek made the trip rough The stock market crash in 1929 ended this career. He returned and hazardous. In one instance, they were returning home with to Dillon where he took an active part in managing the hotel a piano in the wagon and a pig in a crate. Margaret, concerned until he bec[...], Harry, be careful Harry E. Andrus died in 1941. Margaret died in 1954. with my piano!" He replied, "The hell with[...]d at the Andrus home and, as each found a husband in the community, another came to take her place. In the course of a few years the Andrus' had acquire[...]and had one of the best herds of Hereford cattle in the country. He also raised a number of high-grad[...]or his jokes and great humor, he wrapped the gift in a large box. As Margaret un- wrapped one b[...] |
| [...]Don Anson never used profane language in his early years, having been raised in a religious family. He was well known in Donald Ellsworth Anson was born in Van Wert, OH., in the Big Hole Basin for his three favo[...]his hardly the language of that region in the early 1920's. Grandfather Clinton's Civil War hero, the famous Colonel Ells- Don died in 1971 at the age of 83 years, followed by wife wor[...]Grace, who died in 1981 at the age of 92 years. Don was reared in Norwood, Ill., (suburb of Chicago) and[...]SON went to Hamilton, Montana, at 20 years of age in 1908 to work outdoors for his health as a surveyo[...]Frederick J. and Ida A. Arbour (Chicago suburb) in May, 1910. Both were 22 years old and he Frederick Arbour was born February 12, 1863, in either Can- took her as a bride to live in Hamilton. Seven years later they ada, or Chic[...]after his father, Joseph Arbour, moved to Wisdom in the Big Hole Basin to live permanently.[...]to the United States. He married Ida A. Terry In 1910 Don was employed by the Valley Mercantile Co. in on May 12, 1887, in Melrose, Montana. Ida was born Novem- Hamilton to work in their Farm Implement Department. In ber 22, 1869, in Cottonwood, Utah, to David Terry and Eliza- 1915 he began soliciting business for the Valley Mercantile in beth Miller. The Terrys moved to Montana in the 1870s. the Big Hole Basin, to supply Big Hole[...]They stayed in Glendale for 10 years or so, then moved to[...]Rochester, Montana, near Twin Bridges, and in 1900 he opened[...]died December 8, 1902. Joseph had property in Argenta. Fred[...]1934, as Ida Seymer, wife of George Seymer, in Butte, Mon-[...]Grace and Don Anson ment. In 1917 Don and two Valley Mere employees (Ross McKo[...]on and Grace Anson then moved to Wisdom and lived in a log house directly across the street from the[...]ic School. A daughter, Helen Elizabeth, was born in May, 1917, and son, Robert Ellsworth, was born in March, 1919. The Basin Mercantile Co. was reo[...]d the Basin Mercantile Co. until he semi-retired in 1960 when his son-in-law Leonard Smith and daughter Helen Smith took[...]ire wiped out the Basin Mere store and warehouses in Wisdom. Don was active during his early years in Big Hole Basin community affairs (Masonic Lodge - Presbyterian Church). In later years he was active in Lions Club International and served a num[...] |
| [...]hens on December 31, 1912. Vivian Grace in the grocery, hardware, and blacksmith businesses[...]CHERYL SMITH Will held various jobs in the Butte-Helena area, one of which[...]was driving the first two-decker milk wagon in Helena for The Armitage Family[...]Stanchfield. As a young newspaper man in Butte, Will met[...]Jane Noyes, who was voted the most beautiful girl in William Albert Armitage, the oldest of six son[...]A. J . Noyes (Ajax) who wrote daughter, was born in Galena, Ill., September 4, 1859, to Joshua the first autobiography published in Montana. Maud was born (Jesse) and Martha Armitage. In 1863 Joshua moved the fam- in St. Anthony, Minn., September 5, 1860. Her family[...]story goes that on their arrival they Bannack in 1866. Two years later they moved to Silver Star.[...]buried in Silver Star. Nirie year old Maud was sent to an aunt in[...]where Will worked in a jewelry store. In 1886 he moved the family to the Big Hole. Amy Nen[...]itself as it washed out in a little over a year.[...]ily lived there until moving to the Sunny Slope in 1898. There[...]The result was one of the most productive ranches in the[...]In 1901 Amy married Dade Stephens and moved to her n[...]in Washington where they remained until their deaths[...]for time out to take a draftsman course.in Minneapolis, a short course in Logan, Utah, and contract some road construction[...]including Taylor Creek Hill. In 1909 he met Agnes Williams, a[...] |
| [...]use, the Armitages again switched from horses. In 1909 Dade Stephens conceived the idea for a more[...]w blueprints which were sent to the patent office in Washington, D.C. A patent was granted to Dade and[...]e Josephine Seybold and husband James Thomas Arp, in back stop and still later side wings.[...], a member of the Library Association, and active in other commu- natural children, but adopted two girls in Georgia. After the nity affairs. 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 1[...]1965, at the age of 96 years and is buried in Georgia. In 1945 Herb sold the ranch to his nephew, Argyl Ste[...]igoni deaths. Herb died March 20, 1967, and Agnes in 1976. J . T. (John Thomas) Armitage was born in Helena April 6, Joseph Arrigoni was born in Italy on January 25, 1880. He 1871. At an early[...]g for A. J. Noyes. He married Ivy work in the Bute mines with a cousin John Arrigoni. Later[...]tephens prop- they left Butte to work in the mines at Hecla, Montana, in erty. After a few years, they sold to Dade, moved[...]kids Joe Arrigoni worked nine years in America, then went thought the greatest part of t[...]ll. Pesenti, who was born in Italy on November 8, 1885. Joseph Ivy died in 1919 and J. T. married Annie Elwood. They[...]a and Joe went to mining again. By this time they in Butte. J. T. died there February 8, 1954. Annie lived for had two boys and one girl. The youngest son, Tileo, died in several more years. Both are buried in the Briston cemetery. Hecla at the ag[...]After a few years there and some very hard times, Mr. Little is known[...]is family to Dillon where he bought a he was born in 1869 in Tennessee and came to Montana Terri-[...]the Evergreen Farm lots, in 1918. That was the same year Annie Josephine S[...]and Margaret Elizabeth Huff, born July 29, 1869, in lon and worked there until his retirement. McDonough County, Illinois. She lived in Nodaway County, Also added wer[...]uralization coming to Glendale, Montana Territory in the mid 1870s. Her papers from the B[...]1922. Tom and Annie were married in Beaverhead County in 1899 Their sons were all in the United States service. Raymond and lived in Lima until they moved to Georgia. They had[...] |
| [...]summer school at the State N ormal College in 1923. Vic and November 13, 1942, in World War II. Andrew served with Jewe[...]Ashbaugh ranch which became the Carrigan the Army in Alaska and France. John was a member of the[...]e the granary United States Marine Corps, serving in the South Pacific. and the road, south,[...]ren Glower), Butte; and Ida (Mrs. James many years in nearby country schools. Donahue), Great Falls. There are numerous grandchildren Jewel died in 1976 and Victor in 1980. and great grandchildren.[...]their son, Steven Raymond, will do so after they are gone. -EUNICE ARRIGONI Samuel and Elizabeth Ashbaugh |
| [...]Maude Louisa Retallack was born in Pioche, Nev., on April[...]Bannack for many years. He also ran a stageline between Dillon[...]beth, Maude's mother, ran a boarding house there. Charles and[...]1847, at Rochdale, England, married George Raine in New Street. Diggings, Wis., and died there Oct. 11, 1899; George, born in James Edmund (Ted) Ashworth never moved[...]Salmon, Idaho; Ted was the and passed away there April 27, 1922. third child; Martha Ellen, born M[...]Galena, Ill., Maude Ashworth Gannon died in San Bernardino, Calif., on married Thomas L. Thom[...]ed Maude Louisa Retallack. They lived at the mine in the summertime and moved into Bannack for winter[...]Frank L. Bacon joined in social activites there. Ted at one time was a partner of Frank Lucas Bacon was born on a farm in Racine County, Harvey Jackson on a copper mine on[...]uary 31, 1867, to Lucas and Sarah (Jane) was also in partnership on the "Sunshine Mine" in the Bloody Grimshaw Bacon - the oldest of[...]F. sisters. Jackson. The mine was high in copper with a good showing of At the[...]railroad until he reached Helena in 1890 where he became a Ted and Maude had five children, all born in Bannack. James telegraph operator, then a ba[...]ears. He kept Hamilton, born March 12, 1894, died in a mine cave-in near extensive personal records on how much he paid for many Bannack on March 29, 1935. He married Nina Fessen[...]e could even go out to eat for $.25 a meal. While in married Daisy Hight. Ann Elizabeth, born April 23[...]had one son, who died 18 months later in childbirth. Ralph, Jr. Elsie Margaret was born Feb. 22, 1905, and married In 1897, he began looking for a ranch, making his wa[...]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[...]mother, Elsie Ashworth McMannis, remembers living many places when she was growing up. Her mom cooked for an Indian School in Polson when Elsie was tiny. She lived with her gran- sparents ( the Retallacks) for a few years in Bannack. When she was three years old, a colt ki[...]lways frightened of horses. She started to school in Bannack and remembers her grandma made her two f[...]ater 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[...] |
| [...]orth of Wis- six boys have cattle ranches in the area today. All have been dom, was homest eaded in the fall of the year. hard-w[...]g items for the ranch. The first heifer he bought in tis and in '36 was diagnosed as having arterial sclerosis. D[...]and used a and a-few pigs. Having purchased traps in January for a wheelchair, crutches, a[...]the last time, he was taken to Butte for trouble in his Wisdom once every month and sometimes two, for 10 gal- right leg. While there, he died of pancreatic cancer just three lons of[...]2 or one of flour days before his 87th birthday in 1954. He was buried next to for $1.50. Mable in the Wisdom Cemetery. He began breeding horses[...]le and slowly On Frank's 65th birthday in '32 he wrote, "Looking for- buying some of the sm[...]M. McCaffrey's. She had and we wonder how the time has passed." come from Wisconsin before[...]y had six children and they stayed until she died in 1913. She and her oldest daughter are buried in the Wisdom Cemet ery.[...]Joshua G. Baily Early in the 1900s, Frank had built a modest, three-bed- Joshua G. Baily was born July 22, 1857, in Linn County, room log house which still st ands t[...], side of Sheep Mountain near Lake Hattie in Wyoming. In Bert - 1918, and Joe - 1921. All six were born at[...]to Wyoming and they were married March 10, 1881, in Lara- doctor was called once in March when Eddy was born but mie. In 1882, they sold the ranch. Brother Jason purchase[...]e was very artistic and a another ranch in Centennial Valley, Wyo. loving, kind person. When[...]tile business and Joshua bought a ranch. hand one in no time. She loved gardening, writing and col-[...]he died on November 29, 1933, at age 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 Bacon was a good tr[...]e because his remaining son was picking up family in times of need. He even trapped wolves in the area bad habits from "those terrible[...]eather and with the cowboys. He farmed in Linn County, Iowa, and other chores permitted. St[...]built his retired to Central City, Iowa, in later life. His wife Josie herds up until at one[...]September 23, 1944, at the age of 87. Both are buried at Oak 30 head to use in haying season and for feed wagons. At one Hill Cemetery in Central City, Iowa. time, he had over 100 head of[...]ead of st ock Baily, married brothers in Iowa. Philena married Arby Ray cattle and feeders[...]ing when to sell and January 15, 1887, in Lima and died March 13, 1970, in Linn when to hold. He was very civic-minded, atte[...]ty, Iowa. Arby Fuller was born September 4, 1879, in tions, school board meetings, Stockmen's Association and Linn County, and died there January 15, 1931.Both Arby M_asons. He was a good[...]ther, teaching his and Philena Fuller are buried in Blodgett Cemetery in Cen- 84-Beaverhead History |
| [...]County residents. Jay Baker was elected in 1912, 1914 and[...]1916. Vera Baker was elected in 1918. From then on John[...]in office. At John Baker's death, he was probably th[...]county officer in point of service in the state of Montana.[...]Clair Baker (1881-1906) Born in Echo, Utah, died in Los ~ ~~I:.:. ;J~~ ~· 1-~,.-~.:-[...]Alice May Baker (1883-1974) Born in Montpelier, Idaho, Southeast side of Lima in 1912. Buildings include died in Culver City, Calif., married John Cosgrove Februa[...]right) turntable ic till he retired in 1947); their children were all born in and bandstand.[...]Dillon: Clair Cosgrove, M.D. (1904-1954), died in Los Ange- tral City, Linn County, Iowa. Arby Ray[...]les. Jay Cosgrove, M.D. (1905-1976), died in Los Angeles. Z. Baily were married on December 28, 1904, in Linn Coun- Richard Cosgrove (1907-1962), died in Los Angeles. Roger ty, and had 16 children. We we[...]e time by Phi- Cosgrove (1909-1934), died in Los Angeles. Kenneth Cos- lena, that if Arby hadn[...]her Byron Cosgrove, D.D.S. (1919- ). death in 1970, she had 129 living descendants. Jay Baker (1886-1948), born in Montpelier, Idaho, died in[...]uly 3, 1914. He was Some of the facts contained in this writing came an accountant an[...]told to Susan Lawrence Baily. The in Dillon. Sheldon Baker (1918-1981), born in Dillon, 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- Ralph Baker (1920- ), born in Portland. Frank Baker (1922- bers. ), born in Portland. -RAYL. FULLER, great grandson of Joshua Bai- Anna Baker (1888-1937), born in Montpelier, died in Dil-[...]of Joshua Baily Children all born in Dillon: James Melton, Jr. (1912- ),[...]Idanha Baker (1890-) born in Idaho Falls, married Julius John Baker (b.7/17/[...]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 left his birthplace in born in Minnesota: Thelma Knudson (Hansen) (1918- ), Plattsburg, New York. He became very proficient in the use of the Morse code, and at the age of 14 became a telegrapher for the Union Pacific in Wyoming. He served as agent for the railroad at various sites in Wyoming, Idaho and Mon- tana. He was married in Silver Leaf, Utah on December 5, 1880, to Mary Th[...]2/10/1933, Dillon). John's political career began in Pocatello, Idaho, where he was one of the first commission- ers in the formation of Bannock County in 1893. From there,'he moved to Lima, Montana, in 1896 as Union Pacific agent. In 1900, while still the Union Pacific agent 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 eight years he defeated John West[...] |
| [...]), Jay Knudson (1930- ). Idanha taught school for many years in Blackfoot, Idaho. Vera Baker (1892-1952) born in Pocatello, died in Van- couver, Wash., married Ira Rankin, January 2[...]minister. Children: Frances Ran- kin (1922), born in Ohio; Mary Louise Rankin (Keith) (1926- ) born in Portland. George Baker (1895-1981) born in Pocatello, died in Dil- lon; married Neil Gillis November 13, 1922. George was well known in Dillon having lived there most of his life. He was a writer, editor of the[...]mplished pianist. Helen Baker (1898-1986) born in Lima, died in Dillon; married Roland LaPee July 3, 1923. Roland[...]Andrew Banks ist for the Anaconda Copper Company in Great Falls. Helen ... at their marriage November 29, 1900 was a teacher in Great Falls.[...]sed approximately Geneva Baker (1901-1987) born in Lima, died in Port- 950 acres for a price of $500 per[...]ember 2, 1922. Child: children were born in the house that is still used today by Norma Garla[...]10, 1946. lowed by Raymond, born in November of 1902, and Sarah, Albert Baker (1903-1985) born in Dillon, died in Idaho born July 31, 1903. Falls; married W[...]e - a girl, an accountant. Winnie has two nephews in Dillon who run Marie, born December 7, 19[...]39); June 26, 1906. John Baker (1941- ) born in Dillon; Mary Jane Baker Andy and An[...]happy, busy years together (Fitch) (1947- ) born in Idaho Falls farming an[...]at school when the Andrew Lovell Banks was born in Brooks County, West boys climbed into t[...]ecember 23, 1909, Anna Banks died. She was 39 the many famous railroad company ads about all of the·[...]evastated; it was two days before good, free land in Montana, he came west. The good land Chri[...]r Jim and his wife helped by taking the children. In Andrew had been working in the area for a year or so when no time at all[...]ng on the farm the Spanish American War broke out in the Philippine Is- with him. lands. He and[...]ong normally until August 10, 1920, when enlisted in Company E of the First Regiment of Montana[...]s on May 5, 1898. They had enlisted for a was in the field with a team when lightning struck, kill[...]now the Robert Peterson Coleman, 14, lived in the house. Charles, 19, and Raymond, Ranch[...] |
| [...]Samuel A. Banning was born Christmas Day 1848, in Wheeling. W. Va. He went from there to Ohio with his[...]married Laura Hurst in 1871. Lycurgus R. Banning was born in 1873 in Nebraska City. Two years later a second child was[...]stillborn and Laura died in childbirth. Mr. Banning settled[...]ely the next few years, spending some of the time in California with his brothers. He ended up in Golden, Colo. where he started a career in mining.[...]February 22, 1885, he married Lucy Simmons, born in[...]came to America with her family in 1876, settling in Pennsyl- BANKS CHILDERN: (from left) Charles Henr[...]rah Banning was born in Golden. They moved to Soldier, Idaho[...]The mining bug bit Mr. Banning again in 1889 and he his life in that profession. He married Frances Regina Bar-[...], 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 trip. "In the spring of Frances in 1988. They had spent 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.[...]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[...]where he is buried. Mr. Banning worked in the Hecla mines for a few years. In Sarah Banks fell down a flight of stairs when[...]through part of the settlement, young, resulting in a bad curvature of the spine, causing her sw[...]he moth- they raised their two girls and two boys in Dillon. Norm er and a three-year-old ch[...]ed Leo Messinger. They had five boys In 1895, a young man named Lycurgus R. Banning came[...]vered they were father and son, who had not lived there until Leo died. Marie had already suffered a[...]stroke and, when her husband died, she was placed in a before. They remained close the res[...]rtland, Oregon. In 1896 the family moved to Argenta. In 1899 Samuel Coleman Banks never married. He wo[...]ames nake Creek. He also owned water rights in the Argenta Ranch on the Upper Horse Prairie. Lakes and was instrumental in the building of the Kelly All of Andrew and Anna Banks' children are dead now. Of Reservoir, which took three[...]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 from a family of[...]ll work except the blasting of rock used for fill in know that one of them died very young and that tw[...]so the work ers came to Dillon. John L. Banks was in the M. V.I. Co. E went slow. This[...] |
| [...]s, 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[...]anges that had taken place on the ranch, recalled how she had sold her butter, eggs and fowl to customers in town. She drove a horse and buggy to deliver and[...]chickens while turkeys were always dressed to put in the oven. She smiled when she talked of the boys[...]Banning married Katie May Brown infancy. in 1908. She was the daughter of William Charley Bro[...]a religious woman, read her another early settler in Beaverhead 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[...]ducations. Robert Banning married Hilda Lavine in 1915 and they Early in the 1870s the Barbours moved to Ottawa, Kan., had[...]wo oldest sons, Webster and John, taught epidemic in 1919, so Grandma Banning took the two children[...]nner year for the family. Emma, their 10th Wisc., in 1913. Martha had come to Montana as a teacher.[...]Homer married Nora Morrow in 1879, and they became Vilas Banning married Bessie Lavine in 1917. Bessie was a parents of five children·:[...]Caroline married·Lee Knox in 1880. Their only daughter, Pearl married Frank[...]from their friends in the West, much family deliberation Dueard had not married in 1920 and was still living at ensued and the[...]train as far as Denver, Colo. From there it was an arduous James and Margaret[...]Finally they arrived in Beaverhead County in 1881 and Barbour[...]moved to a homestead on Birch Creek near Willis in 1882. John married Alice Cline in 1882. They became parents 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, Doroth[...]med N. Y., where he married Margaret Emily Sutton in 1850. that John and Webster set up a law practice in Dillon about Margaret Emily Sutton was born in London, Ontario, this time and that Emma attended the local school. Canada, in 1831. Her father Aaron, a Pennsylvanian, served[...]studied with her brothers as mentors. She became in the War of 1812. One of the most severe engagemen[...]this spirited redhead west. Their first home was in Dixon, Ill., where they farmed, riding side-sad[...]hildren, and learned to cope. Nine hangs today in the Beaverhead County Museum in Dillon. children were born there: Webster 1851, John 1852, Homer Caroline died in 1883 and was buried in the Argenta 1856, Lonzo 1857, Walter 1859, Dennis[...]illiam 1864, and Cora 1869. Lonza and Dennis died in Cora married Robert Joy in 1890 and they moved to his 88-Beaverh[...] |
| [...]nd his mother Walter married Sylvia Beaver in 1895 and they were par- emigrated to Canada w[...]of two children, Raymond and Laura. Walter served in tin was the sixth. The family lived on a far[...]obituary, "Early in life he began to display traits which John[...]e a brought him to such a degree of success in later years. He prominent attorney and later[...]lar and an industrious young man. Hence at In 1898 Emma, the youngest member of the family, mar[...]ho. trade of tanner and currier, assisting in the support of his Margaret was their only ch[...]and her younger children, a youth of ambi- In 1901 William married Ollie Malloy and three child[...]rit and determination to make for himself a place in were born to them: Juanita, Writtie, and Arth[...]death he sold During the 1850s he engaged in wagon freighting travel- both homesteads and[...]ng 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 they established a buried in Dixon, Ill. ranch on Horse Prairie. They continued to engage in Margaret Sutton Barbour was a dedicated an[...]ended the sick, and_delivered prospered but in later years the partnership was dissolved one[...]ary account describes the ranch as 1908. Both are buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Dil- "equipped with the best improvements and facilities, in- lon.[...]ing a commodious and attractive residence, modern in The Barbours had the distinction of being pioneers in two its appointments, and shows on every hand t[...]evidences of refinement and culture of those who there They endured many hardships but they were determined to make[...]of literature and fine specimens make a home in the West and by their devotion to principal o[...]de it possible for thousands of followers to walk in oughly appreciate the ideal phases of life, wh[...]dfather having Chester A. Barrett was born in Bannack on February 2, fought in the Revolution, her grandfather in the 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 spirited man. A Democrat, he school in Anaconda. He married Mary Desmond, daughter served in the territorial legislature in 1879. He served on the of Annie Kelley Desmon[...]served 22 years. He was an original stockholder in the State They leased his father's ranch fo[...]moved to the president until his death in 1927. The Barretts' adopted son Desmond ranch in 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Barrett spent their Rob[...]municants of Bank from 1930 until his death in 1960. the Roman Catholic Church. Two sons were born to them: In 1912, the Barretts sold their ranch for the unpre[...]nted sum of $350,000, which Mr. Barrett deposited in Barrett, born April 21, 1925.[...]in unsuccessful dry land farming. They moved to Dill[...]home of Jim and Norma Day. Mrs. Barrett died in 1926 and Martin Barrett was born in County Mayo, Ireland, Febru- Mr. Barrett in 1927. Both were communicant members of[...] |
| [...]ant to Chris. He was a marvelous Barrett hospital in Dillon. The name survives for the newer host[...]of pinochle, rides in his car, and food which he always said[...]e of his means generous- Canada, having been born in the County of Waterloo, on ly to all th[...]tless number of friends were Barrett was educated in the public schools of Canada and legion, regarding sales, business transactions, how he drove, Kansas, his parents having moved to Kansas in 1868. and how he couldn't change a tire, or tell what was wrong In 1874 he came to Montana 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 experience to share about this most unusual[...]of government land, among them for a great many years. located 15 miles west of the village of Red Rock, the nearest His standing in the community where he lived, reared his railroad[...]the day Chris was buried (September commissioner in 1894. During this time the family ran a 17, 1960) all the people in Beaverhead Valley stood in dairy and delivered dairy products to Bannack, about 15 Mountain View Cemetery in a great circle grieving for their miles north of[...]for his visit. Mr. Barrett was twice married. In the spring of 1880 he Petra Jensen and L[...]ve of Kansas. They became their parents in Denmark and traveled together crossing the parent[...], Atlantic and the United States to arrive in Butte, where two and one child who died in infancy. sisters of[...]em. They had a taxi cab take Mrs. Barrett died in 1887 and on February 7, 1888, Mr. them to[...]came for them. This rett was reared and educated in America, having come here was May 1907. wh[...]ing house in Butte. Chris Bay had an appendectomy in a Thomas Barrett died in 1933, and Maria Barrett died in Butte hospital and, after leaving the hos[...]etra. They began Thomas Barrett moved to Dillon 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 their attendants.[...]-EVELYN BARRETT Chris and Petra Bay |
| Before_coming to the United States, Petra had worked in Jens November 14, 1913, in the Grace Methodist parsonage the home of a school teacher. There were six children to care at Dillon. William J[...]imself. He purchased some Petra was a woman of many dimensions--endurance, very fine ground south of Dillon. Many of the same original generosity, patience, forbearance, charity, and sweet witti- buildings are on the site on Carrigan Lane. cism. She was not v[...]board that discontinued renting to college women. There was a great governed the water rights. He was active in organizing the deal of work related to her husban[...]Church and the Danish Brotherhood Lodge. He meat. There was poultry to dress, lard to render, orders to was a respected citizen in the community and greatly en- take, and business[...]ll to close a deal or buy animals from the people in Beaver- liead Valley.[...]-THEO BAY She was an excellent cook and many were the people she invited for meals, and the ho[...]yed the hospitality of others, too, and delighted in every activity and festive invitation received. There were duties to organizations such as Rebecca Lodg[...]d to the happiness of everyone for years. Flowers in the yard and cut flowers indoors were always a real pleasure for her. There were many trips to the hospital during her long life. Always she could say, when asked how she was, "it is not too bad, it will get better."[...]November 14, 1913. In foreground are attendants[...]head lowed his brother Chris to Beaverhead County in the year County, came to Dillon with thei[...]experiences of the boat trip and Jessie May, in 1900. They were also accompanied by Jer- the trai[...]il a person able to to work for his brother-in-law John Lusher, when he estab- speak English rep[...]t him. Chris had arranged der of their lives in Dillon. for big Chris Neilsen to drive Jens by b~[...]mare to was five years old. Anson was reared in Dillon, graduating foal before they reached the farm. from high school in 1912. He attended Montana State Col- The favor[...]getting together to lege for one year and in August of 1914 was married to trade horses to rid[...]ayesl Tonrey. They had one daughter, Billie, born in 1918. them for buggy rides. Elizabeth Hansen, a v[...]ne year, returning to Dillon when his father died in brothers to the United States. Elizabeth w[...] |
| [...]nying picture was taken in the fall of 1920 when he and his[...]and his father, Milton, played for many of the dances. Mil-[...]Burwell on February 22, 1921, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, he[...]ey had as stayed two more years, 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[...]on worked as Annis took up a homestead in Blind Canyon, a side canyon clerk of the court an[...]in Auto for Fred Woodside. Hayesl taught piano to many Dil- lon children for over 30 years. Allie Baxter died in October of 1935 at the age of 80. She had been active in the Presbyterian Church and Eastern Star. Anson[...]22, 1936, at the age of 40. Hayesl made her home in Dillon until her death in 1960. Their daughter Billie graduated 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 granddaught[...]was born February 13, 1900, on the old Bean Ranch in the Centennial Valley. He was the tenth child and[...]of Henrietta Sprague and Milton Henry in Blind Canyon when, on January 29, 1925, their fir[...]He spent his childhood and received his schooling in Helen Grace, was born in Monida. the Centennial Valley. He went to work at[...]g a trap Joe Buck at the upper end of the valley. In 1916 he went to line in the winters, Jack contracted work in the summers. Northern Montana, where his sister R[...]posts and poles, house logs, and contracted hay. in the flax fields. That fall he, with his brothers[...]king for the P & 0 (Poindexter & Orr), In the fall of 1930, they moved to Monida to send Helen to where W.D. Sandy was foreman, in 1917. school. A neice an[...]o stayed with them to attend Too young to serve in World War I, he stayed in the school. On November 2, 1930, their[...]alley and remembered well the U.S. Cavalry coming in to Gale, was born. buy remounts. Several w[...]Elizabeth Russell Bean rode in rodeos whenever the chance offered. The ac[...] |
| [...]attended funeral ever seen in our Valley, not with-[...]have had this season and kept many friends away.[...]friends, both families were pioneers in the Centennial[...]ing. Many letters showing their lease agreements[...]and friendship were found in Emmy's trunk. ter of Milton and Henrietta Bean. She was born in Custer |
| [...]lved with the early labor movement for the unions in the timber industry. He was a member of the Inter[...]d the flu and needed to rest. Ethel snuggled down in the back bedroom and when she awoke she could hea[...]ver the floor, the back doors were open, the fire in the kitchen stove and living room had gone out. I[...]ing that belonged to her. just left Seattle where there had been a problem with the Emma attende[...]ma is buried chickenpox. Ellis had to be isolated in a small cabin down by beside her sister, Russ, in the Jones Cemetery. the river. The doctor, fearin[...]Emmy's trunk didn't go to hell, it ended up in my base- even let him dip his water bucket into t[...]r he went. He was staying with The depression was in full swing and cost for vaccine was $2 mother, Roberta Bean McDowell in Dillon when he died. In per person. This was one time Ellis wasn't a welcome visitor later years mother stored the trunk in our basement. at the Beans' home.[...]on November 11, 1941, at family. Checks written in 1900 to 1943, the oldest check is Aberdeen, Washi[...]a made payable to B.H. Paul, August 7, 1900 in the amount of sawlog rolled on top of him, killin[...]ad of yearlings at to the Valley. Ellis is buried in the Jones Cemetery. $35 per head, amoun[...]ruled paper, signed by Justice of the Peace, Bean in Custer County, Montana on the Rosebud February Hiram R. Marcoss. There were two original handwritten 27, 1884, was Emma[...]to three and one-half the wife. The museum in Forsyth displays a marriage li- feet in height. She was almost two years old when the family cense showing Peter Jackson as the first marriage in Custer moved to the Centennial Valley. All of Emm[...]s County on April 11, 1883. I don't know how fast love flour- spent close to her mother because of her size. She was "Lit- ised in a tent city, but think the Beans could be the sec[...], Lakeview. Brand was first registered to Mosbeck in · The old family trunk 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 purc[...]- shopping, he spent the rest of the day stopping in all the ary 15, 1901. Many of the invoices are written by my father, saloons for the rest of his[...]s bring her expensive gifts when he and news are included. Milt's fishing licenses (first year came to visit. The trunk contained many books, toys, cards they were issued).[...] |
| 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 with you as it shows how they kept from interbreeding their horses; the no[...]k- ifl am not here when you come, burn your horse in the field with the mares and take my horse. I may[...]and put my horse with the mares. I put the collar in the woodbox". /s/ C.A.[...]He married Ethel Marie Blake on October 14, 1926, in use.[...]ranch for a short time and It is amazing, but in Emmy's trunk were letters from then mov[...]l. The next spring Farmer and Ethel lems they had in settling R.0. Bean's estate. R.0. had died moved to Bonanza, Idaho, in the Salmon River country to in 1919, after moving to Riverside, California. He h[...]oves and other property, remarried a wid- there was no gold. They later took a job at the Lost Pa[...]was destroyed. Milt finally went to was born in this remote area on August 21, 1927 - two Califor[...]rmer and Ethel came back to Montana for Christmas in by Milton Bean on November 5, 1928 show equal pay[...]ns at Ziegler Hot Springs. of $3237.25 as payment in full for share of estate, R.0. Bean, Farmer wo[...]rs and brothers of Milts. In 1928 Far~er, Ethel, Vernadine and Farmer's brothe[...]on, Wash., where they bought a house I have given many letters, pictures, documents, from Ethel's sister, Vanita. They lived in Washington for 10 checks, etc. to decendants of t[...]me, I years. Ethel returned to Montana in 1929 and gave birth to might have something for y[...]ible memory of my cousin While in Washington, Farmer worked in the timber in- Muriel Nix and my brother Dean McDowell have pre[...]born April 26, 1905, to Milton and Henrietta Bean in Salt Lake City, Utah, the last of 12 children. Th[...]the same birthdate with only two years difference in age. Farmer attended Saunders School in the Centennial Val- ley and school in Monida. A report card that his son Vernald[...] |
| [...]ir. The horses didn't buck, years and were snowed in both winters. It was during this just crow[...]a flying machine and polo horse races, the best in the world. when a log was pinched 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 this duty. I wa[...]r the goods, wish they would let me keep on there. I'm sending rest of his life.[...]you a big picture taken 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[...]s working for the federal gov- thrown yet. There are eight of us here to ride-Granny, ernment building[...]Lake, Cour d'Alene, Pipe Organ, Whitehall, There hasn't been a Dillon boy throwed yet. Dillon, and[...]Sept. 5-(Ames,Iowa) The people are dead in this town Farmer died on Oct. 5, 1965 at Curlew, Wash., and is but we are bringing some life to them. They can't under- bur[...]rial Cemetery near Anaconda. stand how soldier boys can ride bucking horses. We don't[...]Sept. 14-(Camp Dodge) Our company is in quarantine[...]Col. Wells told Mark next time we Henrietta Bean in the Centennial Valley on the Bean ri[...]Last time they gave us $150 Ranch, the first son in a family of 11 children. He was a to be sp[...]rapper, cowboy, Sept. 15-Sunny and I are on duty at the barn but didn't bronc-buster, and[...]es. have anything to do. There is talk of making Cpls and Sgts Mark and his b[...]height and build, but Mark Sept. 28-We are to move Monday, think with the 19th was always th[...]ome for Christmas. break up the fight, bring them in for supper and send them Oct. 1-We are in quarantine for 72 days, on account of off to the[...]e Spanish Influenza, we were to leave here today. There Mark and Sunny were inducted into the Army July 21, are 2,000 flu cases in camp. 1918. Both reported to Camp Dodge at Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 4-Over 3,000 men in Base hospital, measles, mumps for training. Letters in Emmy's trunk that were written to and flu.[...]got but think I'll be with him the way I letters, in a small bundle, describe the history and times.[...]Aug. 3, 1918-We will move up to the main camp in four has reached Butte. I can't go out even for tobacco, we drill 2 days. 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'm not allowed to go see him. 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[...]-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 Wild West show c[...]WOW. Aug. 19-Sunny, Mark, Riley Buck and myself are in the same squad; we are all about the same height so we stayed together.[...]would transfer us to France. You ought to see us in our soldier clothes, we are some tough looking birds. Aug. 24-We have our clothes, guns, bayonet and pack- outfits. I think we are ready to travel but can't tell. I wish the[...] |
| hospital in a few hours the way I feel. Oct. 10- Sent you telegram about Mark being in the hospital, just heard from him today. So many are sick that the nurses can't 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 lo[...]out four dead ones out from the same ward Mark is in. They are dying like rats-it seems a fright. Am dead on my[...]t but very near. I don't know when I will be down there you can tell about the way I feel by my writing M[...]Sun- and Ellis at Bean gathering in 1931. ny back with Mark's body, and wanted Sunny to have a trip Henrietta was born in Tama County, Iowa, on April 2, home.[...]er parents at the age of Mark 0. Bean is buried in the Jones Cemetery. seven and to the Rosebud in 1881. -LORETTA McDOWELL CASHMORE, Niece-[...]they settled into building homes and ranching. In 1884,[...]r man, he is Rupel Beene and Elizabeth Ann Harper in Gonzales, Texas, a family man and a respec[...]ld them R.O. mutual consent of the family to BEAN in the year 1890, was up in the field. R.O. met them on a bend in the road documented by R.O. Bean Family Bible.[...], said "Good Day, supplies were hauled 250 miles. In the spring of 1876 the Gentlemen" and immed[...]nial Valley. he left Colorado. This was necessary in order to confuse R.O. and Milt continue[...]. in Spokane Falls, Wash., and then headed for Seattle. There In 1891 R.O. got word that the law was after him aga[...]ight and moving freighter. They became involved in helping load the cattle, fast through the Utah an[...]the Rosebud, where R.O. took up squatters rights. In stayed in Alaska for a short time, returned to the Centenni[...]now. They remained in the valley until it was safe to return May 31,[...]tta Sprague were to the Rose bud. married in Forsyth, Montana when the town was only a tent[...]not forget the Centennial Valley so he re- city. There being no church nor minister, they were married turned and took up a homestead. G.H. Scheid owns his in the store by the Justice of Peace. Eleven childre[...]mma Survinia (1884), Elizabeth Bean home in the valley still stand today. Bean Creek and Russ[...]n (1888), Rosa Belle (1890), Hen- Bean Hill are named after the Bean Family. Milt sent for his ri[...]), Milton Henry family and they arrived in December of 1886. Brother (1896), Ellis Jo[...] |
| Milt's. After Jack was born in 1900, Henrietta developed milk leg and was taken[...]sold the homestead, purchased a Mercantile Store in Cottonwood, Utah, and moved the family. They had[...]era - playing poker and drinking booze. One night in a poker game he bet the Mercantile Store and lost[...]came the family-and a mad wife. Milt knew he was in trouble so he stopped drinking and would never al[...]ranch. Henrietta would not allow a deck of cards in her home. This time he homesteaded on Clover Cree[...]hter of J.E. Blake cabins, barn and corrals, back in the cattle and horse busi- and Mary Shambow.[...]r by the same midwife. This couple, then, have In 1912 R.0. bought two orange groves in California. He from the very beginning bee[...]range groves to him. R.0. refused and Milt stayed in the socializing, Sunny took Thelma by the[...]The three R's were hard to come by in those days, but In 1933 the Beans celebrated their Golden Wedding An[...]r Creek Ranch. Open house was held grade in the Valley, later attending Butte Business College all day, followed by a dance in the evening. where she was a[...]ld horses, along side her Henrietta spent winters in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho and father, at[...]to the drawing room and knit- Ziegler Hot springs in Dillon. Henrietta died at the ranch of ting lessons. She was a Centennial Belle in the tradition of a heart attack at the age of 72,[...]5. the old cattle country, dressed in her red velvet ridi-ng habit, Milt stayed on t[...]untry. Milt typical frontier boy, barefoot, in faded overalls, with the resided with his daughter, Roberta, in her home at Dillon rivers, and lake, and[...]rned 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 contemporar- tery in Centennial Valley.[...]ughter, and James Blake Bean, son there was always one of his broncs that seemed to need[...]Wedding Anni- riding, particularly in the direction of the Blake Ranch versary in 1968.)[...]n Milton Henry Bean, with his fiance in the saddle to demonstrate how gentle the January 5, 1896, the seventh child, second son in a family of horse had become. But the local r[...]11 children, to Milton Bean and Henrietta Sprauge in a sod- the bit of merchandising, it still took a top hand to follow roofed ranch house in the Centennial Valley, still known as Thelm[...], on the Blake Courtship was strenuous in those days. One Fourth of Ranch, my grandmother,[...]ly found Sunny working on Clover Creek and Thelma in 98-Beaverhead History |
| [...]to Lakeview for the Independence Day celebration there, won the foot race, the bucking horse contest, an[...]Creek. For those of you wo haven't made the trip in a surry or on horseback lately, it was approximat[...]to end. Sunny Bean and Thelma Blake were married in Butte, Montana, June 18, 1918. Probably because o[...]es criti- sized their quick decision and wondered how long it would last. After a brief honeymoon in Idaho Falls, the couple returned to the Centennia[...], Uncle Sam needed bronc riders for the War in 1919, when Charles was a small infant. Arby died in Bond rodeos. Pvt. Sunny Bean found 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. leavi[...]iser Bill to a Rose and husband lived in Harlowton, Mont., while Elda standstill at the National Stock Show in DesMoines, Iowa, and family resided in different places in the state. Charles his name took its place along[...]moved to Washington State, where he was killed in a mining and Granny Grochet. When armistice was s[...]13, 1905. Corps where he received formal training in animal husband- During the 1920s they lease[...]gh- and moved to Shelby where they invested in oil wells. In the bors. It was truly a merry Christmas for Thel[...]nch, and Arby sold his share of ny was discharged in time to be home for the holidays. the place to Carl on March 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[...]ne; they even tried a stint of wheat gaged in the real estate business. They had one son, Arby farming in northern Montana. But just a job was not LeRoy, who resides in Arizona. Another son died at birth. enough. After their son Blake was born in Butte March 4, Arby Sr. was killed in a car accident in Arizona in 1952. His 1920, they packed up and moved back to[...]ated, and his ashes were scattered on his Valley. There they settled on a 640 acre homestead up Clo-[...]raised four-room log cabin, the three Beans lived in a tent. Sunny died June 16, 1974, at Dillon.[...]1982 just two days before she would have been 83. How sad, that both Sunny and Thelma, spent their last years of life hobbled in town. All three are buried in Mountain View Cemetery at Dillon.[...]Ralph A. Beardslee was born November 13, 1874, in Ham- ilton Van Buren, Mich., to Dolly (Ames) and[...]Arby, Charles, Rose and Elda, who were also born in Mich. All of them came to Montana after the turn[...]ily (1923), from le~: Elfreda, Ralph ber 26, 1908 in Red Lodge. They had five children: Helen,[...]is Howard, Elfreda, Arby and Charles. Bessie died in Billings youngest child Charles.[...] |
| [...]t of Ralph and Bessie Beardslee after Bessie died in 1919. Carl sold the ranch to[...]ll the Gleed brothers on May 27, 1941. Maude died in 1941 Frank Uber Bell was born April 11, 1886, in Red Rock, and her husband, Carl, died in 1945. Mont., to Samue[...]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 Ralph worked on ranches in the area. Their original family home moved to Red[...]later the family moved to Ban- Howard passed away in Anaconda in 1977. nack where Alice's[...]am Ralph had 12 grandsons, 3 granddaughters and many could get work with the mines. Frank[...]e 7th grade and liked to reminisce about his life in[...]remember there wasn't even a place to pitch a tent. There were gun fights in the streets as well as shooting, drinking[...]rles Bell and Martha Erica Danielson were married in[...], fixed Butte on October 9, 1909. Martha was born in Folinge, Swe-[...]gave service to the traffic going and coming den, in 1878 and came to Butte at age 18 with Amanda[...]Frank turned their thorougbred stud in with his mare, have originated the custom of payi[...]throughout Montana, winning many races. He loved that Charlie Bell was born in Ishpeming, Mich., and came to[...]was a compul- Butte from Hancock, Mich., to work in the mines. He had[...]sive gambler and lost Walker in a card game. He never got learned harness-making[...]osing that horse. him to start a harness business in Wisdom. He built a fine[...]zell in Logan, Utah, January 20, 1893. Her home was across first sidewalk in Wisdom.[...]the street from Mr. Linkindoffer, who was engaged in min- He built a home for his family, next to t[...]ing, ranching and banking in the Beaverhead Valley. Mrs. Church, and it was kn[...]ed Ella to help with the children and house- fire in the 1960s. A daughter, Catherine Susan, was born[...]ere that Frank met Ella. Although she prematurely in 1910 and died two months later. Sons Car-[...]was pursued by many beaus, she fell in love with the gam- los, born in 1913, and Frederick in 1917, completed the[...]g man. The couple were married February 22, 1913, in family.[...]en the United States entered World War I, someone in[...]The couple moved frequently. First they worked in mines in Germany, his shop was looted and, upon his return, he was forced to start all over again. In the fall of 1922, he moved his family to Gibbonsville, Idaho, built a home there and continued to work in the Big Hole area, going from ranch to ranch, doi[...]d repairing. He also worked throughout the county in Dillon, Horse Prairie, Dell, Grasshopper Valley, and Divide. A year prior to his retirement to his home in Gibbonsville, he had a shop in Salmon, Idaho. Charlie received fatal injuries in 1943 when he fell from a pickup truck. Martha lived on in the family home at Gib- bonsville, raising a wond[...]d a yard replete 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 California after the war.[...] |
| [...]was born. The couple then moved to Butte to work in the mines; here Floyd, their last child, was born. The couple then moved to Sheridan, where they went in business with Frank's sister, Dolly, and her husb[...]sold out and moved to Deer Lodge to ranch. It was there that Ella became sick and died unexpectedly. Fran[...]hildren went necessary to put the children in a Catholic convent, where to school in Dillon and at other times in Butte, often staying she grew up and went to sc[...]on and John Bell were married and made their home in , In the early 1930s Frank and Floyd took out a homest[...]Springs. The last ranch on Horse before. In 1872 John and Sarah and six children joined the Prairie in Montana belonged to his mother and stepfather,[...]Alice Salmon. Here he tried starting a new life. In Three more children were born to this union. In 1882 they 1939 Frank was getting out logs for his[...]is ranch, he never did The family settled in what is known as Bell's Canyon near regain his st[...]. Their 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[...]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 children were raised[...]lived with his daughter and son-in-law Ephriam and Carrie John and Sarah Bell[...]pioneer life. 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 served on a jury in Rachel Swingle Bell, the 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 wagon. The wrong. Though he was somewhat stubborn, he was good, trip was slow and many stops were made along the way. kind, a[...]work John Townsend and raised a family in Colorado; Samuel, building a house. John's school was a log cabin in Sangamon who married Alice Randall and ran t[...]a strict Presbyterian. His father and worked in Anaconda; Alice married Snyder Hammond and grandf[...]uild the church and organized the died in Dillon in 1911; Rachel married Charles McIntosh "Middletown[...]" John worked on the and made their home in Grants Pass, Ore.; Emma married family farm, helped his father build wagons, worked in a Duncan Waddams-she died at Dell. Carrie[...]Ephriam Peterson and they made their home in Dell, where Sarah Elizabeth Gatton was born April 25, 1837, in son Dan still lives. Ella May Bell died in Bannack at age 18 Springfield, Ill., to Jo[...] |
| 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, sing[...]journeys and his wife Sarah with her two journeys are truly represen- tative of American Pioneers.[...]l was born March 27, 1876, at Oakdale, Mo., ninth in a family of 11 children. At 21 years of age, he[...]o James A. Patrick on got off the train at Dillon in February, 1898. He sold his Christmas Eve, 1921. 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. Indians were on[...]turned to Montana to graduate from high school in 1927. cleaning up and sweeping out the place. Next morning, un- Lillian married Harry Banks in January, 1927. Margaret able to open the door, he[...]illian was employed A dead man with a bullet hole in his head was sitting against by Eliel's and the[...]In 1930 I went back to California to stay with Dad,[...]left Montana in 1926. He worked for the Pacific Telephone[...]ne for Standard Pacific Gas Company for 20 years. In 1931 he married Eva Struggles, who died in 1945. He died in 1956 at age 80 and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery beside[...]James David Berry was born in 1870 on the farm of his[...]even at an early age dreamed of going there.[...]owboy. Being to enlist. His father had served in Co. 3 of the 7th Cavalry, a tenderfoot on the job, there were snipe hunts and such to C.S.A. from 1861[...]nd Dillon they got a job on the Graves Dredge in Bannack. Louis were married in January, 1900, and leased a ranch When th[...]e worked for a while for Al De Witt near Armstead In a year he had a band of sheep and lived on the Ho[...]lesnake with option to buy. After getting settled in, he re- Ranch, 5 miles from Dillon, and Ethel Helen was born there turned to Missouri to marry his sweetheart S[...]He homesteaded some land on which he built in 1901. a log house. Lillian Lambert was born April 4, 1907, and a Cora was born in 1903, Gordon in 1906, Ruth in 1909, year later he bought the Thorpe Ranch. In 1916 he built a Donald in 1911 and Laurence in 1917. house across the road from the Thorpe Ranch. My mother They moved to Dillon in 1909 because Sadie wanted the died September 4, 1[...]children to be educated in a town school. 102-Beaverhead History |
| Jim worked for Bill Deputy in the meat market in the hadn't got there yet we'd walk out in the street where cars or winter and was water com[...]ring the wagons had made a track. That was in 1920. summer, a job he held until his death in 1951. Sadie died in 1924, Jim never remarried. He said the East Be[...]horse, with wild flowers all around, and a spring in every little draw. Then the homesteaders arrived,[...]ay and then went back out. He had a tent to sleep in, for he had to start firing up the engine at 4 a.[...]old. 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 night train, leaving homes full of[...]o. Dillon was once the largest shipper of wool in the state, Amede and Alzire Bessette with[...]Amede Bessette They sheared in June, and Gordon would get a wool tying B[...]spend the summer haying at the Sam Peterson place in the cois and Elizabeth Bessette. Big Hole[...]Educated in Quebec, he studied for the priesthood but[...]midwestern states. Newspaper accounts place him in the[...]arrived in Virginia City on July 8, 1864, and soon after wen[...]permanently. He acquired many good-paying mining prop- erties in the Bannack area. He later owned mines in the Blue[...]e worked at the wool house running sheep in the 1870s. In 1878 he owned what is now till haying time. Burl[...]ht and I don't the George Shaffner Ranch. In 1893 he owned a ranch near recall the others, but[...]Rock Stage Station, later owned by Adele haying. In the horse days it was a long summer's job, and Pierce, wife of Tom Pierce, Sr. kids knew how to work. In those days they were willing to He owned a fine herd of horses and in 1882 registered a make some money. Gordon told me[...]y run- on the left shoulder. He had range in the upper Grasshopper ning a trapline before and[...]and Horse Prairie Valleys. In 1900 he sold his entire band of Of course threshing continued down in the valley where horses to Thomas Clement[...]hen. Active in many things, he was an acquaintance of Gover- When they ran short of room in the Bagley school, the nor Edgerton, and[...]l at the Normal rounded up the Plummer Gang in 1865. Amede had posses- College. The Bagley had a[...]We walked to school and walked home for lunch. If there barreled muzzle loader used by Henry Plummer in all his was a heavy snow we'd carry a lunch with us. And there escapades, saloon brawls and holdups wa[...]snow plow for the sidewalks, or if it miners in the camp, as there were few shotguns in the Terri-[...] |
| [...]el man, for dreds were killed, including many children, Herbert Floyd debts that Plummer owed h[...]w sill of the theatre. The eight time but sold it in 1869 to Amede Bessette for the same po[...]ted dentist now known general- Historical Society many years later. ly by his second given name, 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, Adolph. Alzire was a fine musi- Butte. cian, taught piano and was active in a variety of musical Dr. Best was a dedicated bachelor until Margaret Pearson performances in Bannack and Dillon. They were divorced[...]a few years later she was teaching school in Iron Mountain, Mich., when she to live in California. It is thought that Adolph did not liv[...]r young. ming to fill in as a teacher in an obscure place called Dillon, Amede wrote many articles for the papers on the mining Mo[...]for a year and then was caught up by the industry in Bannack and the neighboring districts. He al-[...]Best, born November 3, important mining districts in the state. Among other things 1914. She ea[...]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 ca[...]th. ranches in Madison County. Known to suffer from rheumatism in his later years, She later studied[...]de was often taken to Elkhorn Hot Springs to soak in University of Chicago, and Northwester[...]graduated in 1938 with a degree in education. Amede's brother Olivier died early in the 1880s and left a While studying at No[...]continued that post for two years. This she did in order to generosity. When his niece Georgia Besse[...]n" of horses been born to the Dr. Bests in Dillon on October 6, 1916. and an Astrakhan cloak[...]to Phi Beta Kappa Amede owned the Meade Hotel in Bannack where he died and graduated ma[...]lot with the "old camp" for all time and he died in the ulation studies at the University of C[...]buried beside his old-time friends and in the housing field. Then he was appointed executive secre- comrades, so he was laid to rest in the old Bannack Ceme- tary of Planned Parenthood in New York City, where he tery.[...]ject. He and his wife, Lois, live in Chapel Hill, N. C.[...]r. and Mrs. 0. M. Best was Herbert san, in 1940. The wedding was in Moose, Wyo., in the Jack- Floyd Best, born February 21, 1883. He[...]e. She had met Mr. Poor at Northwestern Universi- in the first Best home at the corner of West Morse a[...]pter pa- Railroad Avenue. He attended high school in Dillon, knew a pers. He is now a retired[...]It was decided that the boy should be indulged in his her name to Jane. One possible rea[...]and he enrolled at Northwestern to spell in the press, on theatre programs and on posters. University in Evanston, Ill., where he earned his pre-dental[...]entered the Northwestern University Dental School in riage. Chicago. The Poors live~ first in Aurora, Ill., and then for seven During[...] |
| Oswego and Yorkville. In 1950, they moved to Clarendon Railroad[...]or still resides. Idaho. So he and 'Ida moved there shortly. But when Ida They had two daughters, Jan[...]augh- should go back to the centennial farm in Michigan to have ters); and Nancy Winfield Poor,[...]did, for she knew the medical practice ry, living in a country home near Lemont, Ill., (one daugh- there, and stayed for two years to bring up her little[...]es. he made a complete recovery. But while he was there, the Before long, Oly was transferred[...]nd named Mike Mansfield, ness was to be in an obscure town across the mountains who heard ab[...]h being of help. Before long, he was instrumental in having her ap- adventurist nature and there was a significant increase in pointed director of the CCC camps for the entire[...]So the young couple with their little boy arrived in the Democ~at. She and young Winfield moved to Helena, where Beaverhead in 1885. They were thrilled with everything- for sev[...]nake and Bannack. Over the ensuing years, in the growing to set up his dental office 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[...]od sense at age two to move back to the community there for upwards of 25 years, until his death Mont[...]In 1887, Oly resigned from the railroad to take charge of While in Ennis, he teamed up in a way with the two the office of L. C. Fyhrie Company, predecessor ofBurfiend medical doctors in town: Dr. Clancy (long gone) and Dr. Bro[...]e Montana Mercantile Company, Ronald Losee (still in practice), the latter assisted by his which h[...]g gone, but sale Grocery Company, housed in a brick building on Mon- whose accomplished widow, Tana, still lives there). tana Street, still standing. Almost everyone in the valley used these stalwarts for Along the way, he also was a partner in the nearby New health care and commiseration-loca[...]and Tana reputedly made the best ice cream sodas in Tom Call, who worked the place for years,[...]r of western sto- Margaret Best died at age 96 in LGrange Park, Ill. ries and books, inc[...]ilt a suitable mansion Oly Menzo Best was born in Vicksburg, Mich., in 1857. He (to go with the moniker) at the cor[...]ing graduated from and Railroad Avenue in Dillon. At his wife's insistence, he high school[...]rapher The residence still stands, lived in by the Leonard Walde- for the Chicago & Grand Tru[...]roads for 12 years. In 1932, 0. M. Best was elected assessor of Beaverhe[...]y young lady named Ida County and was reelected in 1934, 1936 and 1938. He also Elizabeth Pierce, an[...]s. He was on both the high school and public fell in love and were married on February 17, 1881. The school boards. When the high school was built in 1904, he wedding was the biggest social event of[...]committee. For 20 years, he upwards of 200 guests in the mansion and connected sta- wa[...] |
| His second son, Judson Pierce Best, was born in 1891. 0. M. Best died in Dillon in 1938. His widow died in Dillon in 1941. -DONALD R.[...]Bimrose Frank Herbert Bimrose was born in Lancashire, England, April 30, 1874. His parents[...]ern University, Evanston, Ill., and was graduated in the class of 1898 with the degree of Doctor of De[...]ton and Martha Dr. Bimrose died at age 93 in Bozeman; his wife preceded (Whittlesey) Duffield, natives of Connecticut. The Whittle- him in death. seys were an old colonial family, several[...]-GEORGIANA ANDERSEN which were soldiers in the Revolution.[...]Henry M. Birrer was born June 10, 1890, in Riverside,[...]on October 5, 1910. She was born in Iowa to Catherine[...]bold, who applied for water rights in 1887, and settled there In 1635 when Mrs. Bimrose's ancestors arrived from Eng- in 1899. Luther Seybold, a relative, acquired the place, sell- land, they were in the first ferry to cross the Connecticut ing to Ernest Geary in 1906. Andrew Birrer bought this River. Mrs. Bimro[...]r. The Bimroses had two daughters, Frances born in 1889 and Beatrice in 1901. After graduating from dental school, Dr. Bimrose taught for two years and practiced in Kalamazoo, Mich., and Butte before locating in Dillon. He opened a practice in the Tele- phone Building where he remained until[...]ipment to Monida, Wisdom, Jackson and other spots in the county and did the necessary dental work for patients in these outlying areas. Mrs. Bimrose was active in the Daughters of the Ameri- Margaret and H[...]nging wedding can Revolution and both were active in the Presbyterian vows[...] |
| homestead in 1914 from Ernest Geary and Charles Calvert.[...]fore moving into a larger cabin, the family lived in a the ranch. ' one-room cabin with a[...]Charles Robert Blake, M. D. dying in 1919. Henry and Andrew dissolved the partnership[...]Charles Robert Blake, a native of Iowa, graduated in in May, 1918 when Henry became sole owner. He took his medicine in the east and served one year as intern in the family back to Iowa in 1919 where Clifford was born; then Murray Hospital at Butte. He came to Dillon in 1914 and returned to Dell in the winter of 1920-21. Charles Seybold established his medical office in the stone building on South took them in his sleigh to the homestead. As it was very cold,[...]ake endeared himself to the community with his Many hardships were endured. Water was pumped by[...]devotion to caring for the hand; laundry was done in wooden tubs using home-made sick. B[...]tanding medical career. he was cut down stove. As there was no electricity, kerosene lamps and lan-[...]e a vic- ming the wicks and shining the chimneys. There was a wall tim. Being in a weakened condition from overwork and lack telep[...]never restored of sleep, pneumonia set in and he died in a week's time, after vandals destroyed the lines.[...]ll. Horse and buggy was man was described in an editorial tribute which appeared in the only means of transportation. A favorite team of horses, The Dillon Tribune and reads in part: "Seldom is an entire Dix and Ditto, was kil[...]munity so profoundly shocked, seldom the sense of in- ily, the family was at K.P. Picnic at the ranger[...]Big dividual personal loss so keenly felt as in the death of Dr. Sheep Creek. There were many crop failures in dry years Charles Robert Blake. He wa[...]... His death is an irreparable loss." structures in the valley. He cut ice on the river, storing it f[...]Blake In March 1937 the family moved to the Bitterroot Val[...]ward Blake and Mary Jane (Mayme) Shambow settling in Hamilton. That fall Henry sold his livestock and[...]Ranch in Lakeview. Ed Blake's mother and sister were there from Butte. Next day there was a blizzard so bad that some[...]Mayme was born in Oregon (August 1879) and had come[...]to Lakeview with the Shambow family in 1888. Ed Blake was born in Virginia City in 1867 to Michael and Catherine[...]In the "Story of the Ajax" by Al Noyes, the widow Bl[...]families whose children went to school in Pipe Stone. Al Theodore, Clarus, Rita, Adelaide a[...]and executive, Roderick Legget, in 1891 at Butte. Herschel. 1930 family photo. Ed Blake was in the cattle business most of his life. He[...] |
| [...]nished food, tents and bedding. There would be extra saddle[...]In 1915, after low cattle prices and hard winters, i[...]went to work for the M. Y. Co. in West Yellowstone, driving[...]In the fall of 1916, the family moved to Butte, due[...]Alaska Street. Many young men came to Butte to work in[...]nes from Centennial Valley, as well as othe areas in Mon-[...]After the war Mayme became a midwife in Butte and Ed worked in the Copper Tanks in Meaderville. In 1920 Mayme Vaneta and Ethel Blake with Pelott[...]raveling and selling a health traveled and worked in most of the Montana territory be- produc[...]24. They operated the fore he settled down. Once, in 1892, on a trip through Cen- tennial Valley he stopped at a spring to rest and water his horses. There he met a man who had taken up a homestead on this[...]Blake and Mayme SHambow were married, they lived there and raised a family. Five children were born to them: Earl in 1895, Thelma Catherine 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 summer of 1910 after attending 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[...]eam and Monida Hotel for a year and then in 1925 they operated the buggy when she went visiting neighbors or on shopping trips Grand Hotel in Idaho Falls. to Monida. She needed no help to har[...]of a heart attack and is them when she came home. There was great sadness losing buried in Idaho Falls. the two boys, but it was a busy life. Thanksgiving and In 1943 Mayme married James Palmer of Salmon, Idaho,[...]ved a busy life until Jim could drive a team home in the middle of the night. Rodeos died in 197 4. Mayme died at the age of 98 and is buried in were held on Sundays at some of the ranches, most[...]a pretty young girl lived. July 4th was a big day in Lakeview -ETHEL BLAKE WILL[...]ne Firster. Yellowstone Park. Besides the family, there were other peo- In 1917 he moved to Dillon and was one of the[...] |
| [...]Blair and Centennial Valley friend He was engaged in business here for 20 years, then ranched on Horse[...]years. A lifelong bachelor, he died in the late 40s at the home of He died January 20[...]his niece, Mrs. J. Dove, in Carmel, Calif. Edith Parkinson Blair was born[...]ane Leishman Greer. She came to Beaverhead county in 1901 and had since resided in William Greenburg Blair this area. In 1903 she was married to James F. Blair in Dillon. The[...]o 1917 at which William G. Blair was born in Albany, Kentucky, Novem- time they sold the ranch[...]roke out but the Red Star Garage with his brother-in-law, W.E. Lloyd. gave his age as 18 and en[...]to Kentucky and two years later, in the spring of 1867, he[...]rain bound for Montana. Upon arriving at Red Rock in James W. Blair, Sportsman[...]k later that year when he con- age 19 and resided in Madison and Beaverhead Counties tracted[...]s Ranch near from 1886 until moving to California in 1916. the mouth of Beaverhead C[...]rgenta and Bannack. He combined stock ranching in the Centennial Valley Then, seeking his fortune in gold, he found work in the with operation of a fish hatchery and was bel[...]. Blair married Emma Jane Ferster, June 17, 1873, in ducts were sent to China. He also planted fish in Madison Bannack. Mrs. Blair was born May 3, 1858, in Battle Creek, County's Hidden Lake which would la[...]nservationist who loved the outdoors, living in Bannack three children were born to them - Nellie Jim guided many visitors on pack horse trips and big game M[...]line between Bannack and sented them to a library in Welleston, Ohio. Virginia City, in addition to freighting from Pleasant Valley Be[...]oints. He filed squatter's rights on the bar ter" in Centennial Valley, setting up a dugout on Tepee[...]or However, he was with his wife and children in Bannack at stocking Blair Lake and Lake Lillian.[...]Following sale of his ranch to Mamie and Joe Buck in and his Nez Perce Indians, in retreat following the Battle of 1916, Jim[...] |
| [...]Nellie Montana Blair was born September 12, 1907, in[...]National Bank and the Hartwig Theatre in Dillon for a[...]came some time prior to the death of Mrs. Sillers in July of 1983. Both are buried in San Diego,Calif.[...]years in the Blacktail area before moving to Twin Falls,[...]them. She died September 1, 1973, and is buried in Moun-[...]Timothy William Blair was born January 23, 1911, in After the founding of Dillon in 1880, Mr. Blair operated a Boise, Idaho. He ma[...]stage line between Dillon and Virginia City, but in 1884 he 18, 1941, in Seattle, Wash. They had no children. He died turn[...]g 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. Blair died August 27, 1933, Mrs. Blair[...]George Thomas Boatman are buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Dillon.[...]at Nellie May Blair was born August 12, 1874, in Bannack. Paris, Kentucky. He died March 26,[...]ser October 6, 1891, at Amesville, epidemic in Dillon, Montana. His mother, Frances Cocrell, Mon[...]et Lenhart Johnson, born near Zanes- they retired in 1925. No children were born to them during ville, Ohio, September 30, 1835. She died June 21, 1920, in their marriage. Mr. Sheser died January 25, 1951[...]y 17, 1859, at Sheser died December 2, 1952. Both are buried in Mountain Pleasant Green, Missouri. View Cem[...]ved from Frank P. Blair was born July 24, 1876, in Bannack. He Frankfort, Kentucky to Pleasa[...]was raised by an older sister 1899. They settled in Grant where Mr. Blair had just com- because[...]orn a daughter, Frances W., on 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 s[...]s conscripted into the Confederate Army of saloon in Grant until they retired and moved to California.[...]a mill to make flour for the soldiers. 1962. Both are buried in Inglewood, Calif. In 1865, at about the close of the war, he and his w[...]ames Frederick Blair was born September 12, 1878, in three small children (Mary, Sarah and Will) left Missouri in Bannack. He married Edith Greer Parkinson of Well[...]; and a son Timothy William, 1911. Mr. Blair died in January 1953 and Mrs. Blair died October 3, 1967; both are buried in Mountain View Cemetery. June Frederick Blair wa[...]l Creek that he had purchased from John H. Sheser in 1924. To them was born a son James Herbert on January 16, 1927. They 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 buried in Mountain View Ce- metery ,Dillon.[...] |
| [...]named for the shape of the roof with the chimney in the very[...]center and he spent his reclining years there. He was a[...]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[...]B eaverhead, at the Court Ro:mi qf saj!!,_yonrt, in the Cozirt H onse in Dillon, in said in the Ruby Valley and in Dillon were Rev. Hugh Duncan,[...]Boatman's brother-in-law, Henry Johnson, retired from D a t e[...]where he lived with the Boatmans. He was born in Ohio in 1837 and died in 1922 at Dillon where he is buried in the a covered wagon drawn by an ox team and cross[...]-HARRIET BOATMAN WATKINS City in August of 1865, Montana had become a territory. Harriet Boatman's brother, Henry Johnson, met them in (Referen[...]and Trials" of Virginia City as he had come west in 1864. There being no Madison County and from "Autobiography of Mary place available in Virginia City, they went up Granite Creek[...]ith dirt and built a lean-to and spent the winter there. A son Robert was born there. Boatman and Johnson worked that winter making[...]Boatman spilings and mine timbers for mining gold in Alder Gulch.[...]21, 1866 near Virginia Soon afterwards he settled in the Ruby Valley, homestead- City, Montana. He spent his early boyhood in the Montana ing 160 acres six miles southwest of[...]he ran away from home seeking son had homesteaded in Beaverhead County in 1864 up new adventure and experiences. That was in 1881. He hired Stone Creek.[...]Boatman built a two room cabin with fireplaces in each Calgary, Canada. He remained in Canada seven years. He room. Two years later he b[...]freighting concern. While in Canada, Robert had his nearest Boatman chiuldren were born there (Laura Isabelle, George approximation to military service. At McLeod in 1885, in Jr., Harriet Lenhart and Ruby Minton).[...]were commandeered Boatman and Johnson invested in a small herd of dairy[...]tribes in western Canada. Boatman drove a team from In 1870 Mr. Boatman opened up what was known as Mill[...]ders to stay with their artillery no mater years. In tyhe ensuing years he farmed and also raised a[...]rnish dered how the teams would act under fire. The men and the V[...]firm during the battles. Boatman was released In 1880, while enroute to Virginia City with a load[...]xes, picks, shovels and knives. It was a Tong War in progress. They could see the long haired "queues" flying in the wind. After observing this terrrifying sight, they turned around and went back home. In 1887 Mr. Boatman settled on an 1810 acre ranch fi[...]gation and made it one of the most valuable farms in that section. He built the lake known as Boatman[...]ion 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 other houses adjoining. The "Ink Wel[...] |
| [...]uth end would take down their receivers to listen in on[...]In 1906 Robert T. Boatman married Elizabeth Jane Pe-[...]boys born 1914. His wife born 1876 died in 1914. In 1916 R.T. married Martha Minter. In 1917 he sold his ranch to[...]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 Centennial time he leased the Ed Blake Ranch in the Centennail. R. T. Valley.[...]unch Republican, a member of the Masonic 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 ranched there 30 years. He died in Spencer, Idaho in 1956 the largest individual shippers of horses out of Montana. and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. Martha In 1898 he settled on the Home Park Ranch in the Upper Boatman died in 1966 and she is also buried there. Ruby Valley. Here he bred horses and mules and r[...]years under McKinley; was J us- tice of the Peace in the Centennial Valley in 1894-95. In (References were from the Stout Montana His[...]tman, the youngest of the George T. Boatman ranch in the Valley. The winters proved to harsh and the family was born in the Ruby Valley, October 26, 1881. cattle didn't[...]a crew of over 25 men that He homesteaded in the Centennial Valley and worked on he experience[...]ranches for his brother, Robert and his brother-in-law, Will came home from twon one day and found a[...]housekeeper at the time. He looked out of place in his bor- the money they had coming. The men wanted to know how rowed suit when they got married. they[...]o get to town as they didn't have any In 1919 Ruby disposed of his valuable land holdings[...]iles as none of the ranchers would much land in the area. give them a ride. There was a 14 year old boy in the group Ruby and Pearl lived in Dillon for a short time, finally who had come up from Idaho looking for work. He told a locating in Clinton, Montana where they had a nice farm. Boat[...]e 26 years later "I was a fool They lived there until his death on May 29, 1961. and listened to[...]children of their own but adopted little old town in my life as when I saw Monida from the hill and[...]May 30, 1969. Both are buried in a Missoula Cemetery. About 1908 R.T. Boatman a[...]Otto Boetticher was born February 6, 1872, in Indianapo- were in a three-room cabin on the Boatman Ranch. Mrs.[...]company was made up of dale, Montana, in 1888 with his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth people who b[...]this Boetticher, and worked for his uncle in the banking and 112-Beaverhead History |
| [...]lla Bateman, daughter of Henry Bateman, In 1894 she married Carl Bond, founder of the Bond G[...]dale and worked for the Hecla cery Company in Dillon and the brother of Dr. Harry Bond, Consoli[...]and smelter closed down. The Bateman fam- in 1921. ily then moved to Alberta, Canada, where th[...]son, Eugene W. Bond, born at Bond's Station in 1895. He The Otto Boetticher family moved to Melrose, where they was educated in the Dillon schools and received a degree in reared 10 children and operated a grocery store.[...]father died. In 1945 he sold this business and, with his son[...]lroad agent. Company. Gene passed away suddenly in 1975. Phillip was Keith C Boetticher, Dill[...]y his grandmother and attended Dillon schools. He in Jackson, Montana, where his son Jim and family now died suddenly in 1982. reside.[...]enjamin Bond was the first of the Bonds to reside in the phens Greenhouse in Dillon. Beaverhead Valley. He was born in Indiana in 1837. When William D. Boetticher, Rockvill[...]er lawyer for the National Labor Relations many of the campaigns. After peace was declared, he to[...]llege. up civil engineering and in 1881 he brought his family to Paul G. Boet[...]Montana, settling at Dillon. His first venture in the Beaver- in Dillon, where they are active in community and church head Valley was ranch[...]dren. Three of his children lived their lives out in Dillon and -VERLA BOETTICHER in turn had families of their own, also living their lives in the Beaverhead Valley. Benjamin Bond died in 1922.[...]Bond family to reside in the Beaverhead Valley and he Anna was the fourth of five children in the family of Mr. practiced medicine for 31 years here. During his many years and Mrs. Peter Wilson, Bannack pioneers who[...]more than 1,000 babies into the famed mining camp in 1863. world in the Dillon area. He had four children and they al[...]ith at Bannack before lived their lives in Dillon. Mrs. Ethel Bond McCaleb was the taking up[...]last of his family to live here and she died in 1974. Dr. Bond east of Dillon. Anna Wilson was born there March 29, 1873. died in 1921. This was seven years prior to the foundin[...]Carl Bond, a son of Benjamin Bond, lived his life in Dil- the young girl began her education at the Po[...](Gene) Bond. Carl Bond had a grocery store in Dillon for a With the founding of this city in 1880, she attended the number of years and was active in civic affairs. His wife[...]who arrived at Bannack in 1883. Mrs. Bond lived to be 90[...]and at the time of her death in 1964 was Beaverhead Coun-[...]Gene Bond was also active in civic affairs in Dillon. He[...]Doctor of Dentistry Degree. He practiced in Dillon for three[...]Bond years but when his father died in 1921 he took over manage-[...]ment of the Bond Grocery. In 1945 he sold the grocery[...]the Dillon Implement Co. In 1974 the business was sold and he passed on in 1975.[...]The last child of Benjamin Bond to live in Dillon was Adell. She married James Murray in 1891 and by that mar-[...] |
| [...]d four miles north of Dillon. quently resided in Dillon: Douglas Walter (2/27 /00 - Their home was[...]the Beaverhead Valley. Red Bluff, Montana, in 1924, carpentered in Missoula, Mr. Murray was active in politics and was elected to the Montana, in 1924; Anna Mazie (9/22/01 - 1/14/85) who mar- Montana Senate in 1900. ri[...]fare of the 1, 1922, and was a homemaker in Salmon, Idaho and Dillon; Beaverhead Valley for o[...]ho was the 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 Geor[...]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[...]ward Horace (6/20/16 - 8/13/67) After settling in Dillon, Mr. Bott worked as a miner at who married Norma Dawn Janes (7 /21/14 - 10/27/86) in Hecla Mines. After he stopped mining, he became the first 1936 and later carpentered in the Missoula and Arlee Mon- caretaker of Mountain[...]e ave- tana, areas. nue of evergreens and many other other trees throughout Charlie[...]five years under Fire Chief O.T. side Apartments are now located. The house was a long, Vand[...]kstove and a tired near Twin Bridges and in Dillon where he died Janu- small heating stove. B[...]liked a little warm beer now While farming in the Waterloo area the Bourquins kept and then, as they had enjoyed in England. livestock and rai[...]tains and sing just to hear the echo. He sang for many years with the Episcopal Choir. One Sunday, carri[...]all his property to Miss Long and Mrs. Blackburn in exchange for care for his wife during the rest of[...]Washington St., which became the first rest home in Dillon. Very few people knew Annie very well a[...]D.Brandenburg Charles Horace Bourquin was born in North Branch, Jay D. Brandenburg wa[...]27, 1862, on a farm Minn., on March 7, 1872, 11th in a family of 12 born to John near Mexico, Mo.[...]but during his teens developed a tuber- pentered in North Branch until 1916 when he and his wife[...]a home- amination and treatment. The doctors there told him he stead north of Dillon. Six chi[...] |
| [...]the White Cafe, spent many hours hunting ducks and deer[...]In 1950, Jay took over the Standard Station just nor[...]Whenever he was asked how he came to go back to work at[...]had misjudged how long he was going to live.[...]Since he had been active in the community, he was well[...]Jay passed away July 26, 1963, and is buried in the Lima Jay ... pumpin' away with friend Louie Anderson Cemetery. in 1879, accompanied by his youngest and oldest sist[...]by train to Lima (known then as Springhill). From there they took a stage to Virginia City, Livingston, a[...]brother The family moved to Centennial Valley in the early 1890s. came to Montana later. They took up homesteads in the upper end of the valley, . Jay worked brief[...]Lakeview on July 28, for a time with pack trains in the western part of Montana. 1904. When he gave up this venture, he went back to ranches in the central and eastern part of the state, workin[...]well known Hatchet Outfit. He met Margaret Mumey in Billings and they were married in 1889. Jay went to work for the Northern Pacif[...]cided he would go to Arizona. While stopping over in Lima, he was approached by the superintendent of[...]decided to go to work for that railroad stationed in Lima. He was a conduc- tor on both passenger aftd[...]. , , J;, In 1914, Jay and his brother-in-law~ Charles Van Housen, purchased a ranch on the[...]Charles Van Housen died John was working in Lima, tending bar, when their first in 1919 and the drought of that year made the winter[...]r 15, 1906. They 1919-20 a very difficult period. There was little hay for the moved back to the Valle[...]stayed for several years. They wintered cattle in Sheridan, most of his cattle into Idaho to save t[...]did quite recover from the setback of that in the Centennial. Their daughter, Carrie Arlene, wa[...]r his wife died, he decided to move back to in Sheridan on February 7, 1916. town. In 1917 they left the ranch and went into partnershi[...]It was used for a winter feed ranch. The Lakeview in the station for many years until at age 79 Jay decided to R[...] |
| [...]The Brenners came to Montana in 1883. According to[...]overnight stay in Helena, John C. was engaged in conversa-[...]tional Bank in Dillon. Mr. White talked John C. into coming[...]n to Dillon to look at property that was for sale in the school in Lakeview. Horse Prairie area. John rented the Jones Fields in Alaska Basin for a sum- The ranch, which[...]y Allen was chief cook. The to the miners in Butte, had been put together by Montaque Bird Refuge bought what was the Nye Place in 1936. It and Winters. In 1878, after the Battle of the Big Hole, Chief bor[...], 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. ensued. Tw[...]-ETHEL MILLER BRAY and one in the hayfield (other men on the haycrew escaped,[...]one by hiding in a beaver dam). Mr. Montaque was one of Willia[...]the men killed. Mr. Winters decided that ranching in Mon-[...]bought Their first son, William Robert, was born there on February the ranch from Phil Shenon in 1883. Shenon's son, also 17, 1873.[...]red wagon to John C. Brenner was born in Philadelphia on March 23, Silver Star, Montana. They settled in the Silver Star vicini- 1845, the fifth of nine children. His father was a prominent ty where there other three sons were born: Albert Earnest,[...]ocrat. The family came to the Centennial Valley in 1894, and In 1874 John C. married Miss Isabel White, also of a promi- took up homesteads in the upper end of the valley, east of nent Pe[...]Albert played (Hal), William, and Charlie. In 1885, John C. moved his for dances.[...]family to Horse Prairie. Albert died in the Centennial in 1901 and his father in The property continued to be operated as a dairy farm in 1904. They are buried in the Lima Cemetery. the late 1[...]. It who was working for her brother Lars Larson, in Lakeview. was not until 1906 that the first beef cattle were brought They were married in Lakeview on July 28, 1904. They had onto t[...]ame to the Valley to teach school. Helen was born in Wal- Shortly after the family moved to Ho[...], Curtis, Kenneth and Jack. kicked him in the head. John C. sent three men on his William Bray was married in Sheridan to Martha Nelson. fastest horses[...]rses died running). The doctor arrived, and dairy in Sheridan. The mother, Eliza, made her home with[...]lie survived. For the son William until her death in 1935. She is buried in Lima. rest of his life, Charlie had a dent in his forehead where the[...] |
| In 1910, Henry (Hal) Brenner married Mary Skoning. Mary's father was a dairy farmer in Elgin, Ill., and a Danish emigrant. Mary, after s[...]ary 2, 1911, John (Jack) Skoning Brenner was born in Elgin, Ill. In 1913, while Jack was staying with his grandparent[...]orary" log house was They moved to Dillon in 1908 and two years later to a built (Mrs. Brenner kept adding rooms, in case Cousin - - homestead on the Beaverhead[...]324 on Horse Prairie. bors. In 1919, Charlie Brenner married Beth Yearian Savage, In the spring of 1920, Frank and Anna sold their home- who had been raised in Lemhi, Idaho. Her mother, Emma stead an[...]year. Their next move was to Glen, then in 1924 to Twin father, Tom, raised cattle. Tom Year[...]airie, made their 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[...]r Beth and Charlie were married, passed away in May of 1963. Isabel was born in 1921. T[...]Mary, William, John, George, Carl (who St. Paul's in Concord, N.H., and college at Stanford Univer- drowned in an irrigation ditch on the homestead), Anna, sity in California, 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[...]-RUDOLPH BROKSLE AND MARY BROKSLE RE- In 1926, John C. Brenner retired and moved to an apart- GAN ment in the Finlen Hotel in Butte. He died in 1927. His widow lived in Butte and at the ranch until her death in 1938. John C.'s sons ran the ranch, although Hal[...]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 raised by[...]days of her older Beth and Charles Brenner. Thus, in the 1930's, the Brenner sister Maud of scarlet fever or diphtheria in March, 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[...]len Olson in May, 1926. Helen worked in the Lima Post Frank and Anna Broksle Born in Yugoslavia in 1874, Frank Broksle immigrated to the United States in the late 1890s. He worked briefly in the steel mills at Pittsburg, Pa., before coming to Anaconda to work in the smelter. Following his Anaconda residence,[...]Al Brothers Frank moved to Butte and was employed in the mines. Anna Fortune came to Butte in 1902 from Yugoslavia where she was born in 1883. Here she joined her father, Matthew Fortune[...]o her arrival. She and Frank met and were married in Butte's Sacred Heart Church in 1903.[...] |
| Office for years. They had a son, Robert Delno; who lives in Great Falls. After a divorce, he married Mary Burt Paul of Lima, who now lives in Townsend. Alvin Brothers died in 1971 in Townsend. -SALLY GARRETT DI[...]a good venture so on June 8, 1914. They lived in Big Sheep Creek for a few they moved back to the[...], and were later divorced. She will be remembered in When I was old enough to start to school, I wen[...]s a kind and helping person, and for Lower School in the Basin, better known as Bull Cave. After he[...]too bad for my brother Hy to drive us to In 1953 in failing health she moved to Bozeman, Mon- school in the buggy, I finished the first grade at the Uppe[...]her daughter Alta. On August 27, 1955 she School in the Basin, while living with the Rosenbaums. passed away and is buried in Bozeman. My parents separated about this time,[...]ol. I later married Clyde R. Whiteman, who died in 1970. We[...]two children, Vernon L. and Naomi Jean. I retired in Arch L. Brothers was the 10th child of Sa[...]and Ada Belle Huff, bo~n August 4, 1894, in Lima, Montana. -ALTA BROTHERS 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 active in the Dillon VFW organization for years.[...]most of her life in the Lima and Dillon areas.[...]Arch and Villa were married November 22, 1922, in Lima.[...]years, then returned to Lima. They moved in 1947 to Dillon, Alta Brothers with fath[...]many years.[...]December 29, 1923 in Dillon, and lives with her husband Annie Elizabeth Patterson Brothers was born July 28, 1878, in Texas to Thomas Benton Patterson and Lois Ada Rig[...]0, she moved with her parents to Montana, walking many a mile, driving a herd of Texas Longhorns, and settling in the Dell area in 1887. On March 24, 1896, she was married to M. J. Mitchell Martinell. They had five children, all known in Beaverhead County: Willis, Florence, Lowell, Clar[...]known as Hy. On April 26, 1913, she was married in Dillon to Charles Brothers. They had one daughter, Alta May, born in Dillon Arch Brothers H[...] |
| Leonard Johnson in Pocatello, Idaho; Willis Arch (Bill) was 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 March 1, 1934, in Lima, Idaho Falls in 1948 where they remained. He died in Idaho is retired in California; Dora Francis Crest, their youngest Falls in May 1955. Irene remarried three years later to T. J. child, was also born in Lima and now lives in Bozeman. May. Mr. May died in 1968. Irene died at the age of 91 in They were married for 38 years until 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. Arch Brothers lived most of his life in Beaver- -SALLY GARRETT[...]l going to stay with his daughter, Helen Johnson, in Pocatello. He died at St. Anthony Community Hospital in Pocatel-[...]o, on September 29, 1976. Arch and Villa Brothers are both buried at the Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon.[...]shortly after birth. He was born April 19, 1886, in Charles Brothers[...]ldren born to He got his early education in Lima and worked as a labor- Samuel Brothers and A[...]Union Pacific Railroad. Later he worked for 1881, in Blandinsville, McDonough County, Ill., and moved[...]t the Lima Cemetery. He got his early education in Lima and worked as a labor- After a divorce,[...]at Monida to the entrance of Yellowstone In his later years, Ernest moved to South Gate, Cali[...]Memorial Park in South Gate. He married Annie McNinch and they h[...]ETT DINGLEY Alta. Alta Lemon and her husband live in Bozeman. After Charles and Annie were divorced,[...]a daughter, Effie Dell. Effie and Don Forbes live in Othello, Washington. Charles Brothers married Irene Oliver Kelsch on January 30, 1932 in Rigby, Idaho. Irene May Oliver was born August[...]er of J. F. and Martha Finley Oliver. She grew up in Ennis and went to school there. She married Charles William Kelsch on September 12, 1900, at Joliet, Mont. They lived in Lewistown and Butte, and in 1906 homesteaded at Mud Lake, Idaho.Charles Kelsch died in[...]and Ada Belle Huff, born May 23, 1892 in Springhill (now[...]Lima), Montana. He went to school at Lima. While in Lima,[...]Idaho Falls in 1910, then to Rigby where he worked for a[...] |
| [...]Minnie, taken 1907 at Cheney Studio in Lima, Mt. Myrtle were married on June 5, 1912, in Rigby. They moved to Pocatello in 1922 and he worked for the 1970, in Fall Brook, Calif. "Min," as she was known to mos[...]ercity bus, and of her relatives, lived in Chula Vista, Calif., until the late worked for th[...]when she became very ill and was moved to Spring- In 1943 he began work for the Pocatello Housing Authority field, Ore. as maintenance foreman. In 1952 he became the managing A spirited lady, in spite of a lifelong problem with asthma director until he retired. He was a strong believer in the and arthritis, as well as having had a h[...]liefs into practice. in 1985 to attent the Dingley-Huff reunion. In 1987, Min They had three daughters. Ethel May 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. She had no children. She died May 1, 1989, in Dillon in Springfield, Ore. and is buried in Lima. · Fred and Myrtle were married for 51 ye[...]63. Myrtle never remarried, but remained involved in her LDS ward activities until her death January 24, 1981. They are buried at the Restlawn Ralph and Lottie Brothers Memorial Gardens in Pocatello, Idaho. Ra[...]third of fourteen children born to Fred's work in the public housing authority in Pocatello is Samuel Brothers and Ada Belle Huff[...]county of his birth can be proud. 8, 1882 in Blandinsville, McDonough County, Illinois, and[...]He got his early education in Lima. As a young man he fell Minnie Brothers in love with Nellie Mooney. When he was just over 21[...]s and Ada Belle Huff. She was born April 1, 1902, in Lima, Montana. She experienced the loss of her ol[...]et fever and diphtheria within days of each other in 1908 and it had a profound effect on her young li[...]a moved back to Lima. Minnie married Ed Bonneru in February 1921 at the age of 19. They were married 10 years and lived in Rigby and Ashton, Idaho. After her divorce, she worked at the Rail- road Cafe in Pocatello for eight 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 several years in Alaska. John died July 10,[...] |
| [...]ried. Upon their return, family pressure resulted in an annulment of the marriage. Nellie went to scho[...]He married Lottie Hutchinson on 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-[...]daughter of Charles craftsman for many years. -SALLY GARRETT DING[...]Belle Brothers Samuel Brothers was born in August of 1852 in Ohio and lived is still occupied. It is no[...]14 Huff and Sarah Ann Graham, born August 7, 1863 in Quin- children. The presence of twins is[...]e reports having 11 between Illinois and Missouri in search of a better life. children and eigh[...]gether as best she could during the hard years in Montana. father gave his written permission. They lived in Illinois for She died on September 5, 1933, at[...]eir first several children were born: buried in the Lima Cemetery. William in September of 1879, Charles on March 8, 1881,[...]and Ralph on October 8, 1882. Twin boys were born in 1884 but died shortly after birth. The family moved to Nebraska, probably in Thayer Walter and Louise Ann County where many of their relatives had settled. A son,[...]Alder- dice (now Lima), Montana. Walter was born in May 1888 at Walter Brothers was the sev[...]s born on May 30, 1888, at the children were born in Lima: Ethel on September 26, 1890; warm springs water fall near Barrett's station. He grew up in Fred on May 23, 1892; Arch on August 4, 1894, Maud L. in the Dillon and Lima areas of Montana and[...]Ann Chambers was born June 29, 1888, at Cherry In 1900, Sam was working as a drayman out of Lima, a[...], and the rest of McKay. the children were in school. Ethel died on January 8, 1891, at 3 mo[...]d Alta died of either scarlet fever or diphtheria in March, 1908, within days of each other. Ethel, Maud and Alta are buried in the Lima Cemetery. Sam and Ada separated. He r[...]Later she returned to Lima where she lived for many years, earning her living by selling milk and eggs and hiring out. Her adult sons helped her. The log cabin in which she Walter Brothe[...] |
| [...]steer fell with him. As it got up, it kicked him in th~ stone Park on horseback. They worked on ranches in the 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 participating in the saddle bronc, bareback riding, They had five[...]cowboy that fall. Maud, was born October 6, 1915, in Marysville, Idaho. She Anna next saw hi[...]arried Lee's brother, Ralph Jones, and also lived in the on the East Bench out of Dillon, and l[...]ents. The following spring Jesse widow, she lives in Dillon. worked up in the Sheep Creek area, and they became very Thei[...]Later she married Mr. John- Anna was born in Caplinger, Mo., on November 17, 1896, son and now lives in Moab, Utah. A fourth child and only and c[...]e (Ellerman) son is George W. Brothers, who lives in Dugway, Utah. Kenison to the Dillon area in the spring of 1898. Here they Their youngest chil[...]on Carter Creek, up the Blacktail on Price Creek, in dridge. They live in Modesto, Calif. the S[...]th of Dillon on a ranch, and Walt Brothers died in 1958 in Dillon and is buried in later in Dillon. For a short time they returned to Missour[...]and a summer or two was spent in Oregon before Anna -SALLY GARRETT DINGLEY married Jesse Brown in the winter of 1915.[...]made out of rough- Jesse Jerome Brown was born in Lathrop, Missouri, on hewn logs, with a[...]orked that summer and put her money into a pretty in- royd) Brown. From there they moved by covered wagon to grain ca[...]said, "imagine the combination" He was working in Pratt, Kan., in the wheat fields when and laughed, but it[...]that year were married December 23, 1915, in Dillon. after the harvest was over, and they sign[...]f 1915.:16 was very cold, and they found railroad in Idaho. Before they reached their destination, themselves hauling water in 250 gallon barrels for home use. however, they ch[...]trapped for However, it would freeze solid in one night, making it neces- furs up on the Warm R[...]cely left when a "Northerner" began to blow. ness in Ashton, Idaho, before riding in the "War Bonnet With only brief intermissions it continued for three days Round-Up" in Idaho Falls, in the summer of 1914. and nights, m[...]he "Dillon Pow-Wow," they came to the stay in Dillon. Boards had been put across one corner of[...]as shelter for the pigs. But when Anna tried pate in it. It was here that Anna Kenison had her first to get in to see if she could find them, the snow was blowi[...]In 1917 their first daughter was born in June, and they[...]the following year. After the first year when there was plen-[...]little higher until in 1922 they deeded the homestead over to[...], 1915 For a year they lived in Lincoln, Neb., where Jesse attend- 12[...] |
| [...]took out about $2,000. In one day, they took out $125.[...]put the dirt in sacks. Placing the sacks on a bull hide, they[...]named the "Bull Hide Express." Many miners adopted this[...]From Bannack, Joe Browne went to Argenta where in[...]1864 he located the first silver claim. He mined there until[...]moved on to Nugget Gulch in the Deer Lodge Valley where[...]He returned to his home in Pennsylvania at this time but[...]soon was on his way back to Montana. In 1870 he purchased[...]ver at what became Anna Kenison Age 15-Growing up in Beaverhead known as Browne's Station. He operated this for many County[...]years. He acquired about 3,000 acres of land in the area of ed Molar Barber College and received[...]dge and successfully raised cattle and horses. In 1925 Anna and the girls came back to Dillon to vi[...]e married and discovered that a barber was needed in a little town in Dubuque, Iowa. Agnes Murray was born in Pittsburgh, south of Dillon called Armstead. Anna talked to Elmer Gor- Pa., 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, Iow[...]nd Agnes Browne's wedding tour was by train chair in exchange for taking care of the pool tables. As s[...]re born four children: Mary Ellen After a year there they purchased a home of their own, Browne[...]e first people to have hot and cold running water in Joseph A. Browne was active politically in the early years Armstead. Two years later everything was paid for and they of Montana government. In 1869 and 1872, he was elected never went into deb[...]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 the Montana Council. there. While serving on this council, he was influential in the pas- They never moved together again. Jess[...]moving the county seat from Bannack to Dil- home in Armstead in 1961. Anna left only when the Govern- lon.[...]ark Canyon Dam over the little town and In 1884, he was elected a member of the Territorial[...]seph and Agnes Browne Joseph A. Browne was born in West Alexander, Virginia, on August 1, 1831. At the age of 18 he entered St. Francis College in Cambria County, Pa., and after leaving college, w[...]nation was Pike's Peak, Colo. His mining ventures there were unsuccessful as was the case in Santa Fe, N. M. In 1862 he came to Montana. When gold was discovered in Bannack, he was among the first to arrive[...] |
| same position. He became known as General Browne. In the early days of the Territory, he was a member of the Vigilante Committee. In later years, Joseph Browne was active in the Beaverhead County Pioneer Association and served as president several terms. In addition to their ranching interests, Joseph and[...]uperin- Brown tendent in charge during the summer months. Butte ari -[...]ardware t re ne to the Bu te Re - tocrats flocked there for summer vacations. The brought taurant[...]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 the lowlands. W. A. Clark from Butte wa a mo[...]Frank, Januar 30, 1900 a 18 years of age. He came in contact with a high voltage wire in the Mountain Con mine in Butte and wa killed in tantl . Agnes M. Browne died June 24 1903, in al Lake it . Joseph A. Browne died in August 1906 in Roche er Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Browne and their son Frank are buried in t. Patrick's Cemetery in Butte as is Mary Ellen Browne Ha- genbarth.[...]Mead named Libbie Da id n he e ecut r of hi will in[...]e er reconciled bu in la er ar the both li ed wi h their Brown[...]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, 1852, in a on Ma 30, 1936. B h are buried a Prie Ri er. Binbrook, England, to Willia[...]Brown. He came to America when young and settled in Kingston, Green Lake County, Wisc. Elizabeth "L[...]Charle Brown on of amuel and Anna Jane 12, 1855, in Kingston. Thomas and Elizabeth were married Carson Brown, wa born Ma 2 1 65 in F . o , Kan. the April 21, 1878, in Princeton. olde[...]he and usan Libbie's father had come to Bannack in 1864 and she Matilda Haptonstall were m[...]ld, Edward E., was born July children, born in Kansas were Flora Pearl' Katie Mae, 27, 1879, in Kingston but soon after his birth the young[...]Montana Territory. Their second child, In 1897, they came West to take up a homestead and Sarah, was born October 4, 1880, in Bannack. Thomas settled in Dillon where Charles found work as a teamster. worked as a tinsmith in Bannack, but when the county seat There was a need for men who could drive freight wagons was moved to Dillon in 1882, the Browns relocated to Dillon a[...] |
| [...]nd his work for the railroad, was stationed in the Lima area for a family made their home near t[...]rs and had enough 30, 1927, he was killed in an accident when a railroad speed- money to get s[...]on what is now Charles' children stayed in the Dillon area. They were known as Axes Canyon R[...]Ethel moved to California. Lee joined the houses in the area were built of logs which they got from army, fought in WWI, and later worked on area ranches. Axes Canyo[...]ng 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 winter o[...]rles' well was about 165 for Ernest Harkness in the Big Sheep area. While there, he feet and is still in use today at the Clay Smith feedlot. met[...]ade their home on the homestead on the Blacktail. In equipment and horses needed to begin farming. He was very 1917, a son Harold was born. Harold died in 1930. In 1920, a fortunate and raised very good grain crop[...]it to be a very wise Al Brubaker was born in Petersburg, Pa., on March 3, investment. The head[...]Davenport, Iowa, for about nine years, working in a flour the grain and only a small amount of the straw off. Then it mill there. In 1859, he crossed the plains by ox team, in elevates the grain up into header boxes and is ha[...]e jigger. He Leavenworth, Kans. Their stay in Denver was short, only would catch the grain in a sack, jig it down until the sack was two week[...]Returning to Iowa, Mr. Brubaker returned to work in the area, and was happy to share her time and many books with flour mill at Davenport, but the mill burned down in 1864. them. She was anxious to help get the school in the area He then became one of a party in which were John Bielen- started. It was known as[...]onal Bank, to make the trip to Virginia City, In 1917, Susan became ill with asthma. The following year Montana. The party encountered many_trials and at times Su[...] |
| was in danger from hostile Indians. They reached Virgini[...]iles 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 section when the law-abiding pio- neers were[...]a fit for honest people. Leaving Virginia City in the fall of 1868, Mr. Brubaker went to Diamond City in Confederate Gulch. He placer mined for a while in Meagher County, later going to Raders- burg, then[...]tner, Isaac Dodgson. They worked at placer mining there for several years and then went to Dewey in Beaver- head County. He made his home at the junc[...]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 knew him. He never married but his great delight was in making pleasure for others, especially the childr[...]ristmas to the little ones unless Al Brubaker was there to act as Santa Claus when the neighborhood gifts were distributed. He was especially well known to many fishermen from Butte who visited the streams in that vicinity, and who never failed to find a welcome at the Brubaker cabin. There was no better Hiram Brun[...]meetings of the Montana Pioneers, ranched in the Centennial Valley. He married Laura Boat- not[...]and Ellis. His son Everett Hiram remained in Dillon and Mr. Brubaker was caught in a storm going to his claim and founded the Bru[...]n, Dorothy and Thomas. Dorothy and Thomas he died in 1916. He is buried in the Dewey cemetery. died very young.[...]Everett managed the funeral home until his death in 1924 and his widow lived in Dillon until her death in 1966. Hiram Hiram and Elizabeth[...]home until 1950 when he Born February 7, 1835, in Ontario, Canada, Hiram Brun- retired and hi[...]86). They had three learned the art of telegraphy in Pennsylvania and that led to children: Lew, Richard and Carol. Walter ran the funeral his interest in publishing the news. The first paper was in home until he sold it in 1978 and retired. Ft. Kearney, Nebr., in 1861. In 1863 he started the Daily[...]ph, which was to become the first paper published in Wyoming. Moving to Virginia City, Mont., in 1869, he pub- lished a telegraph sheet until 1875[...]John H. and Laura Mont., in 1879 and published the Sheridan Messenger. In Brundage 1881 he founded the[...]24, 1865, son of He married Elizabeth Holliday in Pennsylvania in 1850 Hiram Brundage, married Laura Isabell[...]r and they had five children. Following her death in 1872, he 4, 1889. Laura Isabelle was born Aug[...]what is married Mary Jane Temple of Twin Bridges in 1873. They now the Chris Anderson Ranch,[...]e T. Boatman, Montana and John Brundage, remained in Beaverhead County. He pioneers who crossed the plains in a covered 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 o[...] |
| [...]Elizabeth Bryan was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Her fa-[...]r Houston raise her. When Elizabeth Red Rock Lake in the Centennial Valley. (This area was in was one and one-half years old, her mother re[...]losing her. She then thought of her two brothers in standing in the Red Rock area is still referred to as the[...]rt, her grand- a number of horses on their ranch. In the later years they mother died of ship fever[...]d a 15 years of age, she graduated and taught in the flat for teaching certificate from Dillon Nor[...]harles Mr. Smith. Franklin, who was born in Aurora, Nebraska, in 1892, left Three days before they were to[...]m Bryan. He was a native of that cowboy and broke many saddle horses for the ranchers. He community[...]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 Madison County.[...]Arriving in Chicago, they purchased some very elegant[...]ture in such a little cabin. The miners in the camp would From le~, standing: Owen Brundage,[...]come to see their house. They would edge in, admire every- Brundage, Robert Elmore Bru[...] |
| [...]was a wonderful cup of coffee at Corrine. Life in a mining camp was hard for Elizabeth at first bec[...]nized a writing class. Mrs. Bryan had a cousin in Scotland who was her age. When he grew up and hea[...]ame into some money and got as far as Sutton flat in Canada where he contacted the Elders. They per- s[...]dopted home. table and everything they had in the way of furniture. She Elizabeth always wanted[...]to Scotland and look up stored their things in cardboard boxes in lieu of cupboards her folks. She was too busy rea[...]and closets. She had no trouble knowing what was in each mourn much about anything. Mrs. Bryan also lived in Mel- box at a moment's notice and laughingly admitted in later rose where she enjoyed her flower garden.[...]boards and closets. She always maintained, in spite of their[...]their lives. Promise of homestead land in Montana induced Alan and In 1918, Alan's brother Herbert died of the flu and[...]leave Iowa and come west soon after they married in wife Bessie and little daughter, Anna, retur[...]their of Omaha, Nebraska. They rented for many years and final- families were already established in the Upper Red Rock ly purchased the plac[...]rn area of area. Alan's father had purchased land there for Herb. Joe the Red Rock Lakes Migratory Waterfowl Refuge. had homesteaded in the upper north side of the Centennial[...]n built the log house which still stands at the In September 1915, Alan and Jane filed for 320 acres[...]m. He and Jane built the house almost entirely by In later years this land was purchased from Jane by J.H. themselves in the early 1930s. Alan drove horses to Henry's Buc[...]the house from an old dance Their first winter in the Centennial was spent near where hall. The nice matched flooring is still there. Tom Creek emerges from the mountains (east end of the Two children were born while they lived in the Centen- valley's extreme southern edge). Alan[...]l. The first was Charles Alan, who was Postmaster in Hunt who ran a sawmill. Sheridan, Montana, at the time of his death in 1976. Kath- The next summer Alan built their cabin on the north side. leen was born in 1921 at the ranch home with onlyneighbor Jane sai[...]The Bucks had several neighbors in those early days.[...]the folks there.[...]hey wanted to do for the rest of their lives. But in[...]tion. Many of Alan and Jane's neighbors sold out and moved[...]existence. In 1942 they moved to a ranch near Sheridan, Buck Home in Centennial Monta[...] |
| [...]y and said goodbye to their old home. Alan died in October 1954 and Jane lived on in Sheridan for 32 years after his death. She passed away in August 1986. -KATHLEEN[...]Mamie Buck with "Buster" (1918) touched country in Montana and it sounded good. They held an auction and came to Montana in an immigrant car daughter, Annie, was born in 1905. Mamie went back to that contained their hou[...]re than the vitals and a span of mules, born in Iowa. Jack and Jenny. Friends and some relatives[...]ir way out here, too, so they weren't quite alone in neighbors, was one of the Valley midwives. Du[...]gel to the neigh- room log cabin with a sod roof. There were no fences. They bors than to her family[...]d got painfully or the faith that others had in her that enabled her to help so acquainted with deadly larkspur. many people. She carried turpentine, lard and beefstea[...]though we were poorer than "Job's Turkeys," moth- there must have been times when they wondered if maybe[...]r, ride a horse, or they were made of good metal. In all of my life there I never work in the field. She was liked by all and probably even[...]we're staying!" and later returned to ranching in the Sheridan area. Joe they made a go of life in this new world through times that Buck died in 1945 and Mamie Buck died in 1965. Both are were difficult. They stayed on the same ranch that they buried in Dillon. settled in 1900 until they sold to the Government in the 30s. -ANNIE[...]Charles Burden came to Dillon in 1903 and was employed[...]preceded him in death. In later years he was a buyer for Boston wool concer[...]was wideiy known in the county with his_duties of contact-[...]ranch and later was with the late Charles Wilson in a ranch[...]nephew and Mrs. Stella Murray of Dillon a sister-in-law. bles (seated)[...] |
| [...]Rebecca Burfiend, daughter of John Henry and tery in Dillon. Katharine M. (Bergman) Burfiend, was born in Oak Park, -ADELE ROUSE and LORRAYNE REBICH[...]inois, June 10, 1885. Emma died October 18, 1968, in[...]husband in Hillcrest Memorial Park, Grants Pass.[...]She was married November 22, 1911, in Dillon to Henry John Henry Burfiend (Burfeind in German) was a native Hugh Bates, son of Will Park and Sarah Ella (Spencer) of Germany, born in Dollern, March 30, 1833; he died in Bates. He was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, September 11, Dillon on February 2, 1921, and is buried in Mountain View 1881. Cemetery, Dillon.[...]d attended Dillon Public School He was married in 1884 at Dillon to Katharine M. Berg- and was graduated in 1904 from Beaverhead County High man, who was born in Germany on April 9, 1857; she died School; where she was president of the Senior class. In the September 3, 1931, at Dillon.[...]Katharine M. Bergman came to the United States in entered the Latter Day Saint's Busine[...]rg- ness necessitated an abdominal operation in 1905, she with- man, who settled in Oak Park, Illinois. In 1875, Katharine drew from school and return[...]en resulted from 1906 to 1911 she clerked in Eliel's Store in Dillon. the Shultz-Bergman union: George and Soph[...]she accompanied her husband to Par- two who died in infancy. Katherine with her two children[...]remained for six months. Returning came to Dillon in 1883. After her marriage in 1884 to John then to Montana they lived for[...]moved to Columbus, Ohio. They returned to Dillon in Mizpah Chapter, No. 13, Order of Eastern Star and was an 1922. In Dillon she was the first president of the Parent[...]. Teacher's Association in 1925. She also has been president When John Henry Burfiend arrived at military age in of the Dillon Shakespeare Club. She was[...]is 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 Hamburg to moved[...]Their children were William five years he farmed in California but left in 1863 with a Henry, born June 15, 1913, at D[...]born at Dillon, February 11, 1915. become Dillon in 1864 as the sole survivor of the party, the[...]e Bannack-Virginia City Trail for about one year. In 1865 he purchased a sheep Walter 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 busines[...]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 became the Montana Mercantile Co.[...]conducted an auction of town lots which resulted in the was their American Dream. They traveled in a covered wag- original site of Dillon. A bank op[...]hortly on drawn by oxen, a slow trip with many hardships. When thereafter. On January 16, 1884,[...]e make their home on this fertile land. Yes, there had been third oldest banking institution in Montana. French trappers to p[...]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 Mas[...] |
| [...]Rife, of the Homestead Certificates were awarded in 1890 by then Dillon; Joe Shineberger, Tho[...]red the evening meals for stage- members are interred at the Mountain View Cemetery, Dil- coac[...]ntana (Items, photos & information placed in Beaverhead County from Massachussetts. Nancy Burnett was the first postmas- Museum in Dillon by Delbert H. Burnett.) ter from 1884-97. After 1899 the post office was in Grant. -ERIK COOPER The Grant Post Office opened in 1899 (by Joseph N esley and wife, Edith (Burnett) with Joseph Nesley as Postmas- ter; it was discontinued in 1967. Elfreda Woodside, as a[...]am and Anna Burnside small girl, recalls stopping there overnight when her family Sam Burnside was one of the earliest settlers in Centen- made their trips to Red Rock to get supplies for the winter. nial Valley. He was in the fishing business at Henry's Lake The lure for gold prompted Walter to file a quartz lode in 1895. When the fishing was restricted there, he moved his mining claim in 1891, named "Sure Pay Mine" situated on operation to Monida. He had a saloon in Monida and also the west side of Bloody Dick Cree[...]s a Idaho side. He closed the saloon, put in a grocery store, and rancher, stockraiser and dai[...]oulder. The "iron" was given to Del- arrived in Monida. bert byJoseph J. Mansfield. Most of the r[...]hotel at Lakeview and his wi~e ran it for a time. in the summer of 1976. Upon his return in 1977, he found, After a few years he sold t[...]he property record- Paul. He and Annie lived in Monida for a while then moved ed in Horse Prairie. He drove there, turned on Mansfield to Lima where he had[...]TA HANSEN ter S. Burnett. Mansfield got a twinkle in his eyes and said, "I've been waiting for a Burne[...]ad never seen. With Mansfield's di- rections, and in only walking distance, Delbert found the location[...]e remains of the only fence pole drilling machine in early Horse Prairie. Mansfield took Delbert to th[...]e, then went into another building that contained many relics such as oxen shoes, frying pans and[...] |
| [...]Joseph E. Burwell was born on November 14, 1872, in[...]scent, was born December 12, 1872, in Kansas. Joe and Estelle lived in Kansas for several years, during[...]daughter, Pearl E., was born November 5, 1892, in Emmans,[...]Joe and Estelle decided to move west and settled in Laird,[...]westward, they settled in Roberts, Ida., where Mamie L. was[...]for the Woods Livestock. While there, two more children The Burt Family were born, Hugh E., in 1909 on October 16, and the last My grandparen[...]hard and had a large Montana Territory, from Utah in 1883. They had five chil- family. On February 12, 1915, she passed away from pneu- dren, all born in Utah: Caroline, Mary, Kathryn, James and monia and is buried in Dillon. John. The family came to Springhill, late[...]Short Line Railroad. a dray. He continued there for a number of years, even after John Burt homes[...]of Estelle's death. Moving back to Roberts in 1917, he worked Lima. The Lima Cemetery is a port[...]for Charles Harwood on his ranch for two years. In 1919 he and was deeded to the town by him.[...]Valley and took up a homestead. Kathryn, born in 1877, and James, born in 1880, were the He proved up on the homestead[...]ch adulthood. Kathryn married Walter Jones in 1922. He moved back to the Dillon area where he P[...]horses all 1903, at Lima. Gertrude 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[...]a Hart- at the home of his daughter, Muriel, in April, 1944. man, whose husband worked for the ra[...]-ANNIS BEAN were born five children: James Evans in 1904, John Walter in 1905, Earl Darwin in 1907, Mary Luella in 1909, and George Lynn in 1920. Ike Busenbark Lima in those early years boasted six saloons. My father[...]ad a dray business and delivered beer and whiskey in bar- area in the early 1900s. Their place was 320 acres quite[...]den noted for the ex- to Lima where it was stored in an ice house for later use. He ceptional cabbag[...]mals irrigated their garden with water warmed in barrels, which shipped by train. The law required that animals shipped by had sat in the sun. Roy married Bertha Covey and they had ra[...]ildren. For a short while they had a little store in every 100 miles.[...]They Burt homestead on the east side of town for many years and had a girl after they left the Big[...]Flor- until the mid 1920s delivered milk by buggy in summer and ence. After Mr. Busenbark passed away, Mrs. Busenbark by cutter in winter.[...] |
| [...]stopped to see his father and found him slumped in a chair, Bacon. Their buildings have long ago bee[...]ill referred to as "Busenbark Gulch" had been in excellent health, and his death surprised the by[...]ly. No one would know that once a family lived there, milked Margaret Butala lived to be 87, pas[...]3, after an extended illness. dren to school from there. All that remains is the little Their son[...]married. Joe married spring with its cover fallen in. A lonely horseradish plant Katie Bublich of[...]ven that and three daughters. Katie now lives in Twin Falls, Idaho. is gone.[...]sons. Katie is now living in Wallace, Idaho. Sr.[...]-WILLIAM L. BOKA John Butala, Sr., was born in Austria on March 20, 1867. He emigrated to Americ[...]a naturalized citizen on Snake River country in Idaho about 1912. Because so many October 25, 1902, in Dillon. others were moving in, they were forced to go somewhere Margaret Gragich was born in Yugoslavia on June 25, else. They bought 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 togethe[...]rses, they also John and Margaret were married in September, 1893, in had a few sheep. They built a big barn with stalls enough to St. Joseph's Church in Butte. The story goes that they were hold 44[...]where they milked the first couple to be married in the newly built church. up to 12 cows, selling the cream in Butte. The couple farmed south of Dillon for many years. Seven A niece, Clarissa May Culley[...]e working with a haypress on his farm, tion in Wisdom. Everyone said it was Bert who started the[...]ber of years while they were in the North Fork area. The Their marriage became[...]Canfields left the ranch about 1924,stopping in Wisdom as April 19, 1927, John and Margaret were[...]16 years old then, and custo- their belongings in the Armitage garage. That night the dy of her was[...]Years later Joe After the divorce, they lived in separate houses, both on returned and worked at the Don Albee Ranch. Even though Barnett Avenue in Dillon. Their homes were on opposite he[...]Joe was that he had collapsed and died tala lived in his father's house.)[...]James Tally Earl Cantrell was born in Pickens County in On November 2, 1947, a Sunday afternoon[...] |
| [...]and women who attended. his younger years working in the cotton fields on the family Earl was[...]elements and the hardships of ranching in Montana. Earl and Tom settled in southwestern Montana around Earl suf[...]a and Dell area. Earl worked for several ranchers in 24,1948, at Barrett Hospital, Dillon. The ranch was sold in the area and became a partner in the sheep business with a 1949, and May mo[...]f Charlie Henderson. Later Earl death in 1979. bought out Charlie's interest. Charlie then went in partners -VIOLA CANTRELL SWEENEY IVE[...]arlson was born Vilhelm Bernhardt Valdemar active in Eastern Star, as was her father in the Masons. Carlsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 25, 1878, to Julius[...]ed Rock River. Earl and brother, Axel, born in 1881, and three older sisters. Their May had two[...]dren. The three children attended the same school in Dell that their mother girls were adopted and a notice was put up in the local had attended as a child.[...]l. The boys Earl was loyal to his family back in South Carolina and were raised by the Lauri[...]emed to have relatives from Hansen, who many years later would marry Elvera, Valde- Pickens County visiting or working. Many cousins and mar's eldest daughter, here in the U.S. sometimes entire families would come to[...]return to South apparently occurring in immigrations. Making his way west, Carolina and b[...]rcel of land. He went back to he arrived in Dillon in 1899 and found work as a ranchhand South Carolina[...]driven a four-horse team prior woman's place was in the home and that a man's place was to this. in the field. May never strayed too far away from th[...]na Marie Hansen, the eldest of 10 Being raised in the Bible belt of the South, the sound of a children, February 20, 1880, in Shovey, a small town on the good old gospel tune[...]er was the first to come to America and he worked in[...]her. Marie, in turn, worked in Omaha as a housemaid until[...]while working as a ranchhand in the Big Hole. They had to bring him in with a team of horses and he died before he[...]Marie and Walter were married February 29, 1904, in[...]May Cantrell were born there. After a few years, they sold to people by[...] |
| [...]e Wal- parents. The family first settled in Pennsylvania then to ter was going to become a fisherman. While in Denmark, Missouri and Colorado. Michael married Bridget Neenan in many relatives tried to borrow money from Walter, feel[...]el, Bridget and he must be rich since he had been in America. Whether this son Tom came west, driv[...]- of gold seekers. He first stopped at Bannack in 1863 for a ing. A few months later he returned to[...]llon High- built a large stone house which for many years was a land- way. He ranched there until ill health forced him to retire. mark in the Helena Valley. His son, Holger, purchased the[...]r had five children, all born on the ranch lege in Helena and then worked briefly in the Butte Mines. on Webster Lane before their return to Denmark in 1913. He met Emma Mary Hardgrove, whose pa[...]a few years after the Carrs. Emma had auburn died in infancy. Elvera was born April 11, 1906; Mildred,[...]ember 9, 1911. Holger was worked as a model in a department store. She and Frank only 15 months[...]two week crossing to Denmark. were married in the Bozeman Catholic Church, March 20, The trip p[...]go_lden wedding anniversary in Dillon in 1951. In 1939, Marie and her two daughters again returned[...]e was forced to return by a freighter which ran in Helena. They left the Cruse ranch for Chinook whe[...]ranch was until 1942, when she moved into a house in Dillon. The located in the Bearpaw Mountains near Cleveland. He left house was only a block from the high school so her grand- there for Dell where he purchased a ranch in Sheep Creek children ate lunch with her when atte[...]r- of cookies on hand for company. Marie remained there until al thousand head of sheep and was a ver[...]All the children now live in modern cities and recall ex-[...]iences during the years when they were growing up in the[...]ployed when they lived in the Bearpaw mountains. "I was in[...]time. Mother fed them in the kitchen where they would sit[...], just like Abe Lincoln." Michael Carr was born in 1842 in Cavon County, Ireland, The five ch[...] |
| [...]chael, mother Mary, and a brother John settled in Detroit, Mich., in 1855. His father died shortly after their arrival[...]priest agreed that John and Frank should go west in[...]in 1865 for Ohio to join a wagon train west. Arrange[...]were made for John to ride in one of the wagons when he was[...]unable to walk and, in exchange, young Frank would drive[...]since it seemed to result in a complete cure for John, who[...]After a time in Fort Benton, Frank was drawn to south- and they w[...]e snow drifted deep 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 that Frank met Annie Smith who had emi- min[...]Whitford family. Frank and Annie were married in 1885 at Saturday night dance where dancing went on until three in St. Joseph's Church in Butte. the morning after a lunch at midnight. The children, never While in Butte Annie gave birth to two children, Emmet lef[...]a baby sitter, danced too until they couldn't in April of 1886 and Mary in September of 1887. In 1888 stay awake any longer. They were bedded down[...]th two young children they moved to the Grass- In 1918, Mr. Carr decided he had enough of ranch lif[...]he had charge of a branch railroad for two years. In that the other six children were born. Francis was born in 1931, during the worst of the depression, Mr. Carr decided Dillon in March of 1889 and the other five were born in to sell the ranch. At that time he was president of the First Bannack or Dillon, John in May of 1890, Bill in March of National Bank of Lima, Mont. When President Roosevelt 1892, James (Joe) in December of 1893, Margaret in July of declared the bank holiday, the bank closed and never re- 1895, and Charles in August of 1897. opened. Carr bought an interest in the City Fuel Co. at Only heads of fam[...]0 acres of sold to his youngest son, John William in September of land allowed per entry. The average settler believed there 1947. Frank M. Carr died at Dillon on Jan. 19, 1952. His wife, Emma died May 27, 1963. There were five children: the oldest daughter Ann (Carr) Peters, born in Manhattan, Mont., December 25, 1901, died May 4, 1982; the oldest son Frederick James, born in He- lena, Mont., June 22, 1904, now residing in Beaverton, Ore.; Frances M. (Carr) Virts, born in Chinook, Mont., Nov. 15, 1912, now residing in Helena; Gladys M. (Carr) Walker, born in Chinook, April 9, 1914, now resides in Seattle, Wash.; and youngest son, John William Carr, born in Dell, May 12, 1920, now resides in Medford, Ore.[...] |
| [...]1922, following childbirth. Their son Joe was put in after the Spanish-American War no cash bonus was[...]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 1949. duction of barbed wire. It was b[...]t and it became and owned a pool hall in Dillon until his death in 1926. necessary for them to move to an area where[...]er factor which hastened the Car- (BCHS) in 1913 and was a student at Montana Normal roll fam[...]e building of a ten-stamp mill, 11/2 College in Dillon at the time of her sudden death from miles[...]the Polaris Mine which used the meningitis in 1914. cyanide process. Billings Creek was the source of water for Charles graduated from BCHS in 1916, then earned a the Carroll home and their livestock. Even though the mine degree in Civil Engineering. He worked around the Spo- did[...]the kane, Wash., area and was married in 1930. He and his wife Billings Creek water.[...]Florence had three children. Charles died in 1968. These conditions resulted in the fa~ily moving to the Big -ANN MITCHEL[...]d later to the base of Carroll Hill on Bull Creek in 1903. For the first few months they lived in[...]cattle stop. was born in Bannack, Montana on March 28, 1892. The In 1903 Frank and Annie also purchased land in Dillon to family moved from the Grasshoppe[...]nown as Carroll Hill. Bill finished his education in As the children became older, several of them[...]on, graduating from Beaverhead County High School in steaded land. Emmet, John, Mary, and two of Annie[...]with the second home being maintained in Dillon on "Dutch became part of the Carroll Place[...]Flat" during the school year. on Trail Creek in Horse Prairie following World War I.[...]just north of Dillon with his younger 1926. Both are buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Dil- brother Joe. World War I took Bil[...]served in the army. Following the war, Bill homesteaded on[...]continued his ranching ca- Trail Creek in the Horse Prairie area and it was to this reer on[...]s place. He ried Louise (Lula) Madden in 1921. Lula died following continued to maintain a room at the family home on Dutch childbirth in October, 1922, leaving Bill with an infant son, Flat in Dillon until it was sold in 1957. He then retired to his Joe, who was then put in the care of Lula's widowed sister, home at the "B[...]Mayme Purdy and Bill Carroll were married in 1926 at his brothers and sisters could continue t[...]Mary Louise. The family later moved to his death in 1963. the Carroll Ranch in the Big Hole Valley. Bill and Mayme Mary lived at home until the death of her parents in 1926 had a daughter, Ann, in 1930. Although the ranch remained at which time s[...]lat" during the school year. seph until her death in 1967. The[...]t brother Emmett and third eldest brother Service in several states until retiring in the 1940s. He mar- 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 in Pasadena, Calif., in 1973. brothers retained a share for a time. Bill, his wife Mayme, John married in Dillon in 1920 and he and his wife, Prox- and Emmett[...], had three children. They left the Carroll ranch in 1929 Emmett moved to the Rattlesnake Creek a[...]d eldest brother. Francis was a Idaho. John died in 1973. "si[...]running the Bill married Louise (Lula) Madden in 1921, who died in ranch until 1941 when Bill bought[...] |
| [...]there on Christmas Day, 1863.[...]estock Company with his wife 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 Bil[...]r his generosity to ranching properties in the state. He was regarded as one of people who n[...]0-acre ranch. Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Club in Jackson, Mon- On July 4, 1868, Car[...]m. Mayme was known for her gen- was born in Wisconsin in 1847, the youngest of nine children tle caring wa[...]h, she continued to and the only child born in America. The others were born in make her home in Dillon until her death in September, England. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. James Selway, 1960. Bill and Mayme are buried at Mountain View Ceme- prominent early-day settlers of the valley, who, with their tery in Dillon. children, crossed the plains in 1864, arriving in Montana in -ANN MITCHELL and MARY LOUISE KAJIN[...]personality and was held in high regard by all who knew her. William B. and A[...]916, she managed the William B. Carter was born in Geauga County, Ohio, near estate and ranching interests in a most capable way until Cleveland, on April 23,[...]mmunity and was a member natives. The father died in Ohio at 75 years of age and his of Mizpah Ch[...]tern Star. mother died at 87. Carter was schooled in Ohio and worked The couple had four dau[...]Dart, Florence Carter who married Perry out west in 1863.[...]r who married Walter Brearly. Fred They stopped in Salt Lake City and then traveled to Ca[...]ulch, then Virginia City. By the time they landed in the In 1882 Carter moved his family to Dillon so his chi[...]In 1883 the first brick school building was built in Dillon.[...]sor, and was responsible for many of the early-day bridges William B. Car[...] |
| He died Jan. 24, 1916 and was buried in the little ceme- nior Warden for life becau[...]member of the school board, he helped in the planning of -BILL MITCHELL and PERRY[...]net, and a drummer Alfred I. Cashmore was born in Evanston, Wyo., Decem- played weekly at t[...]engagements. four children. Their mother died in 1882 of pneumonia in Alfred Cashmore died December 2, 1950, and is buried in Dillon.[...]ith Dan Adams. For one job, Alf was born in Mitchell, S.D., December 26, 1890. She began and[...]r Grace's father was transferred to Dillon in 1905 as engi- they found they'd painted the wrong[...]fred joined the Militia First Regiment of Montana In- in the college orchestra and gave piano recitals. She took a fantry Company E as a corporal in the band. He was sent to business course at the high school in addition to her music the Philippines in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. and[...]Grace Cashmore (l908) ing salesmanship in 1908, an honor of which he was very proud. He was[...]red was manager until he decided to buy the store in 1938 with his friend, Besty Hirchman. They sold i[...]. It wouldn't fit up the the Montana Food Market, in 1942 and retired. staircase so[...]that performed in a theatre above John Walters' Garage,[...]there until she cleaned them up a few weeks later and[...]to everything else. One house in which they lived had one[...] |
| room after another like a train. Once, as she practiced in the front room, a cake was baking in the coal stove at the back of the house. When the[...]smoke from next door, put out the fire, and went in to tell Grace, who was still playing her piano.[...]atre, located where the Mini Mall is now, playing many years until talking pic- tures came into existenc[...]would settle down in each terminus, and the rail workers[...]SHMORE TAYNE would work from there until the next terminus was set up.[...]All the buildings, including the first hotel in Dillon, the[...]p at the next stop. The railroad started building in 1877 Isaiah A. Cashmore was born April 4, 1849, in Yorkshire, and reached Dillon Oct. 15, 1880.[...]. He also was an accomplished cabi- up and in business. The building of the railroad was a must[...]king, he made all his as the gold mines in Helena, Alder Gulch, and Virginia City furniture[...]d and each piece was wrapped and num- In the spring of 1881 the rails were laid for the tr[...]in were made of English walnut. Two of the pieces are in the into Silver Bow. He then went back to[...]rried and they came to America on their Many times a helper engine had to be used to get up the honeymoon. They settled in Missouri with relatives who Apex Hill.[...]ocatello, Idaho. At this crews had already put in longer and heavier ties on the line time, he chan[...]with packs on their backs from plished in one day without any rail interruption. Before the Evanston to Corrine, Utah, to work in the producing copper rail gauge was changed[...]d to change the size mines. The family joined him in Corrine, and they lived of the cars so they could go on either size rail. They did this there until the Mormon Church borrowed six to ei[...] |
| [...]hway and Benjamin Franklin Cheney, born in Campton, N. H. , in Carrigan Lane. This cemetery was moved by horse and bug- 1857, and his wife Rebecca (Piper), born in 1859, were mar- gy to where it is now at Mt. View. This took several years ried in Van Buren County, Iowa, and lived in Overton, and some of the graves were not recorded so there are some Nebr., for several years. They moved[...]Idaho, where he worked iah's first wife who died in 1882 of pneumonia. for the Utah[...]Isaiah married Ava J. Davis of Lexington, Ken., in 1883. tana, about 1897 when the railroad cr[...]t. 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 Chu[...]assman. She and Isa- sons attended school in Lima, then went on into the work iah had one daughter, Ava A., who died Dec. 13, 1889, two force as many jobs were available on ranches and on the months[...]railroad. Isaiah retired in about 1933 and moved to Lewistown to Frank and his brother Will had been very interested in live with his daughter, Edith, until his death Aug. 31, 1936. photography while in Nebraska, taking pictures, using the He is surviv[...]oward Cashmore again while Will lived in Beaver. Then when Frank and and family, Franklin[...]Lelia when they returned West in 1900. Most of the portrait[...]married Nanci Kidd of Burley, Idaho. There were two chil- William and Anna[...]of Isaiah and Amelia they operated for many years. Royal Cashmore and brother to Alfred, Edi[...]etta, John and his wife had been living in Lima and Pocatello. all born in Evanston, Wyo. William was born Feb. 8, 1873, When his wife died in 1914, the grandparents took over the and arrived at Dillon in Oct. 1880 as the railroad terminus raising o[...]up here for the winter. He finished his schooling in ton where the chidlren attended schools. Dil[...]he was a good mathematician, he became a In 1927, John married Susie Patt Shambow of Dubois.[...]The only child of this marriage, Frankie, 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 Insurance Co. He belonged Both are buried in Portland. to the Masonic Lodge and the Episcopal[...]John's brother Glen was involved in the lumber industry He married 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[...]ney Studs" decided to attend the Normal College in Dillon and came to which were well known in the building industry. Ben was live with the Episcopal minister, Rev. 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 electrocuted in 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.[...] |
| Tacoma. The sports stadium in Tacoma is known as the had milk to s[...]nent in everyone's diet. Frank and Becky retired to Po[...]Will attended the Overton school. On comple- away in 1939, Becky following in 1942. Both are buried in tion of the studies there, Will established his own farm and Portland.[...]Lelia attended the Normal school in Lexington and began Even as late as this artic[...]," and "B. F. Cheney" $7.00 per month in wages. They were married April 11, 1892, 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 bo[...]In 1895, Will decided to try his luck in the West with his W. T. Cheney Family[...]The brothers decided to develop their interest in photog- farm near Bonaparte, Iowa. raphy and took many pictures of the country and the devel- In 1873, B. T. Cheney sold his farm and moved his fa[...]hem their livestock as well as household In 1900, the family, with the addition of a baby gir[...], which made for a slow journey, but upon arrival in Nebraska they were much better prepared to take u[...]others. Lelia Ann Wilcox was born May 9, 1870, in Brighton, N. Y., to Herman George Wilcox and his[...]cCarthy) Wilcox. H. G. Wilcox was a hunting guide in winter and a carpenter and wheelright in summers. His old ledger tells of working on house[...]pples," and a bushel of grain or perhaps 25 cents in cash. The Wilcox family moved to Nebraska by train in 1878. Both families lived in sod houses for several years (my father told me how pretty the dirt roofs were in summer after being planted with portulaca seeds).[...]as soon as they could acquire the time in Lima, Montana. Both Cheney brothers were now lumber. Both Lelia and Will mentioned many times what a working for the railroad a[...]Both Lelia and Will were active in school and church[...]fairs. Will was the Clerk of the school board for many[...]ing Secretary for the Church for many terms and was always involved in the socials and home-talent programs that were[...]They and their son Sylvan were very interested in music and were instrumental in starting the Lima band. When[...]and appeared in Armstead at the D.A.R.'s Sacajawea Cele-[...]bration in 1915.[...]ey worked diligently to establish the high school in Standing (from left): Lelia, Sylvan and Dottie[...]. Cheney holding Bonnie ( 1911) for many years. 142-Beaverhead History |
| [...]19, 1946, and Will on Septem- ber 19, 1949. Both are buried in the Lima Cemetery. Sylvan Cheney married Edith Shumaker in September, 1921. She died in February, 1926. He married Margaret Lawson of Pocatello in January, 1934. There were three children born to this union: Paul of S[...]dian, Idaho. Sylvan died at the Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake City in January, 1969. He and Margaret are buried in Poca- tello. Dottie Cheney married William Cooper in December, 1922. To this union were born Glen C.,[...]hard of Salt Lake City, Utah. William Cooper died in July, 1967, and Dottie in May, 1980. Both are buried in Pocatello, Ida- ho. Bonnie Cheney was married[...]began to learn the language and to make his way in the Max and Bonnie still live in Lima. They celebrated their community. 6[...]ry May 15, 1988. Many from Denmark were settling in the Dillon area. As -BONNIE[...]hood in Dillon of which Berg was a charter member[...]hey were When Berg Christensen came to America in 1906, he left married on April 25, 1909, at the Episcopal Church in Dillon behind a homeland which was among the most[...]all farm to begin a life together. and democratic in Europe. Danish citizens were relatively[...]had it not been delivered a baby girl in 1910 but the child did not survive. for a pernici[...]Two other children soon followed: daughter Alma in 1911 many from all over the continent to seek their fortune else- and a son Ejner in 1913. where. It was the feudal caste system that[...]t o return for a visit. On their and his family. Many young men and women heard stories r[...]s able to buy the Perry Ranch at about oppotunity in the United States and left to see for[...]his expanding family decision to leave his family in Vor k, Jutland, to see if he, too, (another son, Erwin, was born in 1917) to a house on Ken- could do better.[...]sold the place at Red Rock and entered Arrival in the United States as an immigrant from Europe[...]more ambitious venture with Christine's brother, in 1906 was a dreadful experience for many. Ellis Island was Mads Andersen. Together, in 1917, they bought a sheep the first encounter peo[...]ir new country. ranch near Bannack. There they were obliged to suffer indignities few would ever By 1919, with the war over in Europe and prosperity forget. Many were refused entry because of disease or other[...]d faced an un- Ranch south of Dillon. There the family resided until 1942 certain future as f[...]when they moved to South Washington Street in Dillon. It Once admitted, Berg arranged to move to his new home in was at the Cottonwood Ranch that their children grew in Montana. number (a daughter, Betty, was born in 1926) and grew into Upon arrival in Dillon he went to work on a local ranch adulthood. The ranch was the scene of many social affairs that hired some of the newcomers.[...]while Berg and family get-togethers as many of Berg and Christine's was confident enou[...] |
| [...]the United States and arrived in Bisbee, Ariz., where he had[...]an uncle. He spent about three years there before making his way to Montana in 1890. His brother Olef, who was two[...]years younger, joined him. They no doubt worked in the[...]on the Frank Drees place, and they took their pay in[...]first ranch at Fish Trap in Deer Lodge County.[...]Frotscher came to Montana in 1906 and were also ranching in the Big Hole.[...]Elvina Tissot was born November 8, 1882, in Berne, Swit-[...]service in the army. She said that she had been in love with[...]Her parents were not in the least bit pleased about this[...]to Switzerland in 1909, Elvina wa sent with them. Poor Following a second trip to Denmark in 1938 with his fam- Elvina was miserable, as sh[...]vina's brother, James Tis ot, had come to Montana in center of his ranching 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 told by Swiss Taylor Creek which, t[...]chy household from the time they moved to Montana in in Beaverhead County.[...]t Cecile's, where was Berg who participated fully in all of its affairs while he stayed occasionally. Christine was more temperamentally interested in home At the earliest opportunity in 1910, Elvina moved out and family.[...]al 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 mus[...]her a the were ceived a fifty-year membership pin in 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 treasured memento of that trip was a pair of ary life membership in recognition of his service. He was a member of th[...]of the Lutheran Church. Berg died at his home in Dillon on November 29, 1961, at age 74. Christine passed away in January of 1981 at age 91 and their son, Erwin, died in March of 1982. They are in- terred in the family plot at Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. -ALMA CHRISTENSEN WHITEHIL[...]Christiansen Matt Christiansen was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Ger- many, on June 17, 1870. At the age of 17, he ma[...] |
| [...]one small ladies watch for Elvina, with Matt in 1945 the Squaw Creek Ranch was operated by El- th[...]to Wallace and Ann. In 1950 they purchased the ranch to Upon their return to Montana, they settled in to start the south of and adjoining the Go[...]by Matt's sister, Marie Rena, who had immigrated in 1909, moved out, and Olef Frotscher He[...]hes. The Albee was sold prior to Lawrence's death in guages! Their first child, Rita, was born in 1911. They 1986, and the York is still o[...]no doctors were around, Elvina went to her sister-in-law, Marie Frotscher's, for his birth. Wallace wa[...]William Christensen was born in London, England, on Matt was putting together[...]e available. He was irrigating and putting up hay in a while and, when he was 12, they moved to th[...]horses was hereditary, he must have instilled it in all of his Nelson.[...]William married Mary Vezina who was born in Leadore,[...]Helen and Lila, all raised on their ranch in the Big Hole. In[...]celebrated their 60th anniversary in 1976.[...]Mary died on April 15, 1978, and William died in January,[...]na 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 ra[...]youngest of three daughters of Mr. and to school. In the winter of 1920, Rita and Leslie became ill,[...]t Quakers and for years a later. They were buried in Long Beach, and the family never Quaker chur[...]and her father was a "pillar of the church." Now there The Squaw Creek Ranch, as the holdings of Matt[...]nds and Desert Walter was the only son in a family of seven. His 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[...]farm Salefsky sold to Andrew and Helen Davis, who in 1915 sold near Hume, Missouri. Walter was[...]ek Ranch. for lady friends. In 1931, the Christiansens added the adjoining Gorri[...]when Horace Ranch from the heirs of Mary Gorris. In 1940, this ranch was Greely's call of[...] |
| [...]l we moved to Fishtrap and ranching. secured work in a sawmill in Harrison, high on the mountain For a number of years my parents had been in failing ove:r;looking Lake Coeur 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[...]unhappy. She died of a sudden heart attack 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 Beilen[...]ntley. By April of 1903 Joanna rented one room in a two-roomed cabin in Wisdom and settled down to await my arrival. Dr.[...]livered me on May 6, Fred Clark lived in the Centennial Valley at the 7L Ranch 1903. I was[...]hey lived at the 7L at Bitch Tree, Missouri, deep in the Ozarks, in the spring Ranch and had four children: Cl[...]uildings Margie. The family left the Valley in the 1920s. weren't much but my folks "made do" an[...]-MURIEL L. NIX in a crop. Surprisingly that ground produced well-to[...]eam of Hiram Thomas Clark (Tom) was born in Champaign, mules and a walking cultivator, she fought tomato worms, Illinois, in 1849. He was one of seven brothers, four of whom[...]insect that decided to share her were killed in the Civil War. His early life was spent in crop.[...]Later he bought the family home I began school in the two-roomed school nearby. My fa- on C[...], Lizzie Benjamin, all of their lives. were made. There were two teachers instead of one and[...]rocks, ice and snow and had to be wrapped in leather or Two years later back we went to Mis[...]e able to travel. dream home, a nice 40-acre farm in Kansas just across the Tom fell in love at first sight with the beautiful Centen- Ka[...]s where he wanted to settle. The native grass man there for about seven years. I went one year to the West was stirrup high and the many clear, clean streams and the Fox school and sever[...]tted them up with a I had finished high school in Dillon and went to work at team and spring[...]e Basin Mercantile for Don Anson. After two years there I "jumped his claim." He was forced to find[...]the valley to a good spot on what Normal College in Dillon. From there I spent a year at the was later called Tom Creek. He spent a busy fall cutting hay University in Missoula then back to the Basin Mercantile to[...]Tom's cattle business was very successful and in a few 1926. He worked for Carl Huntley and[...] |
| [...]had taken a full train load of them to market in Omaha. One[...]of the farms near Roberts, Idaho, is still in the family. Bert Higgins was a partner there and ran it for several years.[...]the winter. In February he caught pneumonia, probably[...]brought on by the injury, and died there in 1919.[...]Almeda and William The Clark Family (in light coats: Flora and Tom[...]y parents came to the Centennial Valley from Iowa in hard worker and a good manager.[...]Lake. They Flora Montana Miller, who was born in Deer Lodge, Mon- came shortly after my Mom'[...]large ranch just a mile or two northeast of far in the Valley, and as far away as Virginia City. Lak[...]pranks. She was much younger than Tom but he fell in love view, and it was here that my mother s[...]ould shoot a cattail stem My first memories are living in the Alaska Basin, the year from under a blackbird in the lake 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, remember a man on horseback coming in to see how we were Montana, on August 12, 1896.[...]the edge of the lava beds and up to look over many people quickly, and it was in the middle of winter. the Medicine Lodge country[...]eir horses. A Flora had put the cash for the trip in her purse and stashed short time later one came back for help. The other rider's it in a sagebrush the first night out.[...]se had fallen and rolled. The saddle horn got him in the After coming back for the money, they went[...]dad took a team and wagon and brought him ranches in the Birch Creek area and on to see if they might[...]other times. Flora kept their wedding certificate in it. Another was a large volume of "History of the[...]contains hun- dreds of photographs actually taken in Civil War times. He also loved music and owned on[...]re favorites. The very long and severe winters in the Centennial caused Tom and Flora to move to Me[...]inia, was a baby, they decided to make their home in Idaho Falls. They bought a 10-acre place on the corner of Ninth Street and Holmes. Tom in- vested in several farms after selling his beloved ca[...] |
| [...]ancis Clemow. Free public education did not exist in Queen or Buck. All of us in school together had school England at that time but he was issued a grant for his "yells" and in the spring at graduation time we danced[...]George came to the United States in 1895 where he My dad sold our 1918 Model T Ford after buying a new worked in Nebraska for Thomas Mortimer. In 1897 he met 1928 4-door Chevrolet, which was our[...]gh the next years. I removed the engine from this in office half-way between Jackson and Wisdom[...]and shipped it to Anchorage, Alaska. It is still in use. his steers in Omaha, Nebraska, since there were no local Uncle Judd Tibbles was a carpen[...]r sales yards as we know today. The ranchers 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 th[...]he north side of Upper Red Rock old steers in the fall and fed them during the winter to be Lake in the 1920's. marketed in the spring. By the late 1930's, all of the ranches in the Valley were George came to Montana in the spring of 1897 with a train being bought out[...]other of Elizabeth Ann. One of the happy days in the Valley was the annual get- George unloaded the bulls, the first carload sold 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 July. At other times of the year, there were also Grasshopper Valley where Bill Tash[...]ronc riding and calf roping. I ran a trap line in the winter, weekends and after school, and still[...]made our first trip as far as Fairbanks, Alaska, in July 1935. That same month Wiley Post and Will Ro[...]heir plane out from Nome and both were killed. In January 1940 I became a resident of Alaska. My first trips out after World War II to see my mother were in 1945, and then again in 1946, when she passed away. My father passed away in 1944, but because of the War, I could not get to[...]George Montague Clemow, one of the early settlers in the Kramer, Mrs. George Cl[...] |
| [...]They were still there in 1877 when the Nez Perce Indians George worked[...]ated the story of that family, so he went to work in the Butte underground mines episode as she[...]told to run to the George returned to England in 1904 and married Eliza- Meade Hotel for their protection. There was a lot of confu- beth Ann Mortimer on April 12[...]ghter of Richard and Elizabeth Mortimer, was born in She had to cross Grasshopper Creek and w[...]e 9, 1871. 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 in the creek. He arrived in the Big Hole Valley aboard a four-horse wagon.[...]. records at the Museum library in Helena and also from George and Elizabeth beca[...]born at Wisdom, January 12, 1905; listed in the 1880 Census as stock raiser. He was a member[...]"crossed the plains from Illinois and arrived in Virginia City Mary Elizabeth, born at Jackson on July 26, 1909. in 1863." Also that, "he located the first ranch in the area In 1911 they went back to England with the three youn- and conducted the first Public House there until 1868. His gest children for a visit. Betsey, attending school in Penn- hay ranch was on the upper Madison Rive[...]He moved to the Beaverhead area, most likely in the early to and from Dillon when the children we[...]e indicated. His name and would wrap the children in blankets and tie them in sacks brand are listed in reproductions of James Mansfield's tally with hot[...]m warm. book which are shown in the 1963 sourvenir program of the Throughout t[...]of Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers active in county and state organizations promoting the cat- held that year in Dillon. As related in the program, James tle industry.[...]on the Big Hole range George died of pneumonia in Tucson, Ariz., on April 13, for Horse Prairie ranchers." 1933. Elizabeth passed away on June 8, 1955, in Dillon and In a supplement to the Dillon Tribune dated January 1, their daughter Betsey died in 1986 in Dillon. 1892, an article on Di[...]stantial buildings were erected in 1883 besides Mr. Orr's[...]oarding house, at the time the town was organized in 1885. on September 5, 1875. His mother Thaire Col[...]n moved his family to Camas, ning a stage station there at the time. The log structure was Idaho. He died in 1914 and is buried in Dubois, Idaho. still standing when he showed it to us in 1930. My father, William Cols[...]e 1880 U. S. Census lists the James Colson family in Beaverhead when yet a teenager and was on[...]early age as a working cowboy. He was employed in the mid- er District. The family is listed as Jam[...]s Colson as was Co. steers and dry cows in Small Horn Canyon in 1896. His his brother Walter. Very little is know[...]eir cow camp, Grandfather James Colson arrived in Virginia City in remnants of which are still there. 1863. We have no record of the year when he moved to the In 1898 he went back to Idaho and married my mother,[...]hers and sisters were half-sister, Ella, was born there on November 18, 1876. raised, is on the upper Medicine Lodge Creek in Idaho. It[...] |
| [...]g camp at that time. A Chinese laundry and sever- in early days by freighters between Corinne, Utah, a[...]Some of the young men in the vicinity loved to play pranks After the de[...]o. William Colson died May 6, 1936, and is buried in they caught him and cut off his queue. He[...]My mother's school days were spent in Farlin, where the[...]By Janey A. Bryan in Dillon and later worked in the Golden Rule Store. She My grandparents, Wi[...]Matilda Jane was married to Frank Bryan in 1911. My grandmother was McDade Coiner, moved to Montana from a wheat farm in very ill the last few years that she lived in Kansas. She Kansas in 1890. My grandfather was born August 11, 1851,[...]so very weak she found it hard to walk across the in West Virginia; Grandmother was born July 5, 1857, in floor, but after a year in Montana she improved so much she Indiana. They we[...]The Coiner brothers raised horses and worked in the min- garet (Maggie), Chester, Arthur, Otis, a[...]ble. William _H. Coiner Mattie married and stayed in Kansas. was school cl[...]nd was also My mother, Maggie Coiner, was born in Golden City, Mo., water commissioner (or ditch walker) for a number of years. in 1891, just a wide place in the road at that time. My grandparents and my mot[...]train three days and three nights. They arrived in Dillon in the night and took a room at the Metlen Hotel. It[...]. A friend, Theron Morand, met them and took them in a spring wagon to spend the night at his farm home. The next morning they rode in a bobsled drawn by horses to Willow Creek Basin,[...]ars. The Coiner boys had built a one-room cabin in the beauti- ful valley right near Willow Creek wh[...]first settled, but school records show they were in the coun-[...]John Albert Conover I was born around 1856 in Medford, 150-Beaverhead History |
| [...]. His father, William, whose family owned a hotel in Manhatten, N.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[...]n I married Harriet Ellen Mahan who also was born in 1856 at Medford. They immigrated to Yreka, California, living there for awhile. John became acquainted with Mr. Poind[...]ail a large num- ber of horses to the P & 0 Ranch in the 1870s. This was a long, hard trip by horsebac[...]rked for the P & 0. They later was swamp and there was no well or drinking water. They bought some s[...]John II went to California and washed dishes in a cafe and Conover, June 17, 1896; John Albert Co[...]a box factory in Oregon. John I, Harriet, and Ruby returned[...]wood selling to people in Dillon. Ruby married Daniel Cooper in Dillon on August 1, 1918,[...]Washington State. There were no children born to this mar-[...]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,[...]Murlin, passing away in November 1967.[...]by that died soon after birth. in the country. John II also worked for several year[...]ell ranch as foreman. 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 scho[...]ker, were employed by Mr. Cornell. They had moved many times the Montana winters were too cold, and they[...]- didn't make it back to school for several days. Many times cember 31, 1930. they walked the 13 mi[...]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 II acquired[...]rs. After to both lumberyards and this was hauled in a dead axle many years of dedicated sheep ranching oti the Blackta[...]passed away July 18, 1983, in Great Falls, and is buried at When John II and Ruby were in their teens, a sharpshoot- Mountain View. His[...]ding some of their cropland for a beautiful place in Flor- -MURLIN C. CONOVER, GLADYS A. CONOVER, ida. When the family arrived in Florida, they found the land[...] |
| [...]Conger married Mary Percey. They resided in Schoharie Valley, New York, being there at the time of the massacre of[...]was born in Albany County, New York, in 1759 and became[...]seven children and spent their whole lives in the service of[...]When the first call to arms was issued in 1861, Everton Conger enlisted in the Eighth Ohio Infantry as a second[...]fter, Emil Conger was born September 29, 1892, in Dillon to Conger was seriously wounded in a raid. After recovering he James and Elizabeth C[...]l was born April 22, was placed on duty in New York in charge of a force of 1901, at Argenta to James Me[...]led account of the capture of Booth showed school in Dillon after which Emil worked in the local laun- proof of his identity by a heavy gold stick-pin which bore the dry and Mabel went to work in Butte at Gamer's. inscription "To[...]Conger returned to Ohio and Army where he served in the 74th Balloon Company~ He resumed the study of law. He was admitted to practice in survived the awful influenza epidemic and was honorably Illinois in 1869. Mr. Conger came to Montana in 1880 as a discharged May 26, 1919. Upon returning[...]of War Stanton. He was reappointed by Presi- job in the laundry there. dent Grant.[...]Mabel and Emil were married September 18, 1920 in latin and Custer Counties. He served in this capacity for Hardin, Mont. After their marriage they leased a laundry in seven years, then resumed his law practice in Dillon. In 1887 Laurel and all was going well until the bank[...]s were out of business and Emil to statehood in 1889. He was again elected to the office in went to work for the railroad.[...]n Conger married Emma K. Boren of Freemont, 1923, in Laurel. It was a traumatic time as Mabel and Emil Ohio, in 1861. Three boys and one girl were born to this w[...]quarantine. the governor of that state. In 1929 the family moved back to Dillon to help with Judge Conger died in July 1918 in Hawaii while visiting family matters. In addition to Emil's parents and younger his son-in-law, J.B. Poindexter and his granddaughter, He- s[...]nd sisters, Mar- len Poindexter. Margaret died many years ago in Dillon. tha and Vera Melvyn, still lived in Dillon so it was not a[...]father of Dr. Dafoe Everton J. Conger was born in Ohio in 1836. He was a who delivered the D[...] |
| [...]was born in 1903, George in 1904, and Thomas in 1907. The·y have related many experiences t here of wolves chas-[...]They sold the ranch in 1908 and moved to Satsop, Wash.,[...]and Isabel were born there. In 1913 the family moved back[...]there and raised their family until Patrick died in 1935 and Ora in 1948. Four of their children are still living. Margue- rite lives in Belgrade, Mt.; Thomas in Corvallis, Mt.; Frank in Seattle, Wash.; and Bill in Whitehall, Mt.[...]-PAT BEER James followed in the footsteps of his forebears who were |
| [...]George B. Conway and his wife Lilah were married in 1881 in Indiana and came directly to Montana. They lived in Glendale, a small town five miles from Melrose, u[...]heir children - seven girls and a boy - were born there. One daughter, Julia, died at the age of six during a scarlet fever epidemic. In 1900 the family moved to Dillon. George was a min[...]Ruth married Gustav Bohstedt and they have lived in and his brother-in-law, Leo Talent, mined the New Depar- Madison, Wi[...]penter, plumber, and electri- Ruth, who turned 89 in December, is the only Conway still cian.[...]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[...]ools. Thoma now lives with their daughter Barbara in Havre. Their son Waldo lives in Polson. Eunice married Ben Bratcher and they lived in Washing- ton, D.C. Eunice died at the birth of he[...]d by Eunice's niece Josephine Cushing Maxwell. In the 1920's George and Lilah and daughters Ora, Al[...]a son, Jackie Harold, in 1932. Jackie was reared in Dillon, John Harold Coppin was born in Fargo, North Dakota, on graduated from Beaverhead County High School in 1947, October 2, 1890. He came to Dillon, Montana[...]mily lived on a ranch on Ken- 1967. Both are interred at Mountain View Cemetery in Dil- tucky Avenue out near the cemetery.[...]on. Charles Smith was a well-known horse trader in South- -DOROTHY COPPIN western Montana and held many parades and horse sales in Dillon and Butte. As a young man, John worked o[...]f sterling pioneer citizens. He was born in Hebron, Porter ranch work. John also worked on th[...]Smiley on May 14, 1913. John 17, 1792 in Allegheny County, Pa., and was an active partici- and Marie returned to Dillon in 1914 and made Dillon their pant in the War of 1812. His grandfather, Joseph Cornell,[...]iece of land on the hill behind was born in Scotland in 1760 and did yeoman service as a 154-[...] |
| [...]Eliza Keller in Hebron, Indiana, who was born in Ohio, the[...]Craig founded the Pioneer Dairy in 1870 and raised fine[...]Norman horses. He was one of the first to engage in sheep[...]ranching and owned one of the largest flocks in the territory.[...]the government in payment for his services in the War of[...]The large, red brick house south of Cornell Ranch in 1890: Log residence was moved to[...]Dillon was built in 1896. Records of the United States For- build brick residence in its place in 1896. Dairy wag-[...]created in 1891; these forest allotments have remained a soldier in the Continental Service during the Revolutionary[...]. War. Craig's mother, Priscilla Morgan, was born in West Craig and Ann Eliza had four chi[...](1876), Mary Viola (1879), and Myron Craig tling in Wayne County where she married Isaac Cornell in (1885). Myron Craig died in 1893 at seven years of age. 1818. Her family's fo[...]Estella married George Murray in Dillon on August 24, At 25 years of age, Craig[...]ry Viola married Charles A. Rock Island Railroad. There he secured his outfit shipped Burden on Oc[...]26 at the age of 47 years and Estella passed away in 1963. four wagons drawn by teams of four mules ea[...]Cornell was known to most people only as teen men in the party. Upon reaching the Platte River, the[...]ff. They were not molested by Indians and arrived in mining engineer in the southwestern states for several years. Bannac[...]timber Roscoe married Elizabeth Gillaspie in Houston, Texas, on for the mines until 1866 when he took up a ranch in the April 28, 1904. Their only child, Ro[...]ey, a portion of which was later to become in Houston on June 8, 1909. The family then came to[...]d when he died on June 4, 1928. Roscoe was active in[...]zabeth, died at the age of 59 on October 13, 1934 in[...]Montana and received a degree in foreign trade from the[...]University of Washington in Seattle. He returned to the[...]family ranching operation in 1932 which had been incorpo- rated in 1927 as the Craig Cornell Company. He married[...]Elsie Rouse in Dillon on July 11, 1937. Roscoe and Elsie had Fir[...]Roscoe's father, Isaac Roscoe Cornell, died in Barrett Hos- Murray; Second row: Mary Viol[...] |
| [...]was known as the C.P.& Q. Ranch. filed on a claim in the North Fork area, ranching there for Headquarters was the old Selway Ranch ([...]They also had a ranch in Grasshopper Valley on Taylor The Coveys came f[...]e old road above Millpoint. The C.P.& Q. settling in the Big Hole, Al cut cordwood for the A.C.M[...]Needing summer pasture, they took up homesteads in homes, some of which are still standing. It has been said that Small Horn Canyon in 1918. Two more children were born Mrs.Covey was q[...]back door and have a nice mess of fish for dinner in a on June 3, 1919, and on May 13, 1921, anothe[...]The C.P.& Q. partnership was dissolved in 1923. Fred and April 16, 1911, was a special d[...]Coveys when their two oldest girls were married. Many homesteads in Small Horn Canyon. Fred had built a large neighbo[...]one of the group that built the first school- there. house in the North Fork country which became District 32.[...]n 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 field in which the Coveys had a nice garden. Stories were[...]the Bitterroot. They had a nice little place over there with a special apple tree growing " Wolf River" a[...]Crampton came to Montana from Snoho- mish, Wash., in 1914, shortly after their marriage. They[...]Small Horn Canyon Ranch born December 19, 1916. In 1917 the young family moved to Dillon and the Beaver- their last home in Fallon, Nev., to be near their daughter[...]and son-in-law, Doris and Charles Winans. Fred died in Fallon in 1969, and Mae in 1980.[...]Rayleen, still raise cattle in Beaverhead County, and his[...]servationist for the SCS in Philipsburg, Mont., and his[...]Theophilus B. Craver ws born in Gloucester County, Mae and Fred Crampton with chi[...]State of New Jersey, February 9, 1847. In 1852 his family and Glenn moved to Indiana, and in 1855 to Iowa. He fought in the 156-Beaverhead History |
| [...]service at Newtonia, Missouri, in 1864. Henry and Alex-[...]as afraid Cleveland had Mary D. Noble was born in Yankee Settlement, Delaware revealed tha[...]thugs responsible for all the unrest in the area. Another Theophilus B. Craver and Mary D. Noble were united in reason was Crawford was the only man who[...]cided he must get rid of Crawford; was a druggist in Iowa. Eight children were born to this n[...]1888; and Crawford knew of his position in the gang! Thomas Arthur - born April 12, 1897. After many confrontations best told in "The Vigilantes of In 1879 they moved to Montana, locating at Noblesvil[...]e ran a quartz mill during the winter of 1879-80. In a rifle (this verified to me later by both[...]th crack-shots) wounded Plummer by shoot- engaged in lumbering and grocery clerking. In the spring of ing him in the right arm. It would have been easier to kill[...]as not Crawford's intention. He hoped that sheep. In 1886 they purchased the ranch at Medicine Lodge,[...]increased Plummer's ha- He was very successful in his efforts and was known as one tred and he[...]recovered. Now he had a RIGHT to kill Crawford in cold stood high in the esteem of the community and were promi- blood. nent in connection with its finest social life.[...]d by the reader that when these Theophilus died in 1912, Mary in 1926. Both are buried at confrontations between Crawford a[...]side the gang, knew of Mr. Craver is written up in "Progressive Men of Plummer's unl[...]rd In the meantime, Crawford had been receiving mail fr[...]f 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 ancest[...]ohn by this time had had it and decided to enlist in the Union Army, this being the time of the Civil War. He was killed while in the Phebe Jane, George, Frank and H[...] |
| [...]consin after her husband was killed while serving in the Wisconsin Regi- ment. She had accompanied her husband, which was some- what common in those days, nursing him and others and giving him[...]ere printers and Frank was a pioneer newspaperman in Fort Meade, Florida. He has many descendants in the Chicago area. Both sons were highly respected[...]born October 24, 1879, at which served honorably in World War II, also two daughters Springhill.[...]a. ing Dillon, came in 1889 when Anna, daughter Elizabeth, Plummer, a[...]uls of Plummer returned to Dillon, 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 Dill[...]zero. It was a very cold trip home. We drove only in end of time. Rather than allowing simple men who[...]measure of wealth, they stole not only up in the bottom of the covered wagon to keep warm." th[...]o do. had been born and raised in the Gallatin Valley, attended Henry Crawford died in his sleep in the 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[...]George W., left his home in Dover, Mo., in 1864 for the new -HARRY LAUDER CRAWFORD (Grandson) goldfields in Montana Territory. He taught in Salt Lake[...]arl Crouse In 1865 George joined an ox train and arrived in Bannack[...]reighting, and then settled The Crouse history in Beaverhead County began July 6, on a ranch near Central Park. There he and Emma Street, 1864, shortly after Montana g[...]y. the arrival of a wagon train from "the States" in the boom- ing mining camp of Bannack on Grasshopp[...]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 for[...]ity and Fort Benton to the numerous mining camps. In 1869 he found land he wanted to homestead in the Springhill area of Gallatin County, some 14 m[...]new town of Bozeman. Henry returned to Illinois in 1877 and married Anna Mill-[...] |
| Emma was born September 27, 1861, in Ottumwa, Iowa, to Judge Joseph H.D. and Emily St[...]d 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 area for several years, they decid[...]Benson. The Fred Crouse family moved to Dillon in 1914 with a four-horse team and wagon and bought[...]eclined sharply liam Hackett went to fight in the Civil War. The mother had as the wartime dema[...]ot been strong since the birth of her son, Henry, in 1859, thing besides wheat to hold things together. He began a and she died in 1863. The father came home then and took shift in[...]rothers He had done considerable road building in his younger lived. Lillian, her sister, Ma[...]with various relatives. Lillian attended school in Libson to build bridges and construct and maintai[...]to tell people about moving west, etc. horses in building the new highways, such as the first Dil- In 1865, William Hackett married Jeanette Estes. He[...]Davis, another East Bench lian was left in Maine. She needed work so went to a cloth farmer,[...]worked and controlled until she felt like she was in Blacktail to the First National wool warehouse in Dillon. prison. The dust from the cotton fi[...]relatives and finally found work in a shoe factory at Lynn, Another seasonal enter[...]ffixed Hanson, was born October 8, 1874, in Brentwood, N.H., at to each lamp post for ten cents each. Trees were cut in the the home of his grandfather, George Hanso[...]son left Mass. They came west, arriving in Dillon in 1880 on As farming conditions worsened, famili[...]'s first passenger train. Her brother, Henry, was in and the country school closed. In 1918 Fred bought a hard Dillon. Lillian coo[...]s with windowless side curtains first winter in Montana. In the spring she rented a house and hauled the neig[...]ought 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 C[...]They married in 1889, and both took up homesteads where[...] |
| [...]base of a mountain there. It is a lovely spot and Lillian[...]sell cattle. He went in partners with Ed Blake, and they[...]ite He started buying and selling cattle and went in partners a few years, but then rumor said[...]gon. 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[...]y and a great help to Lillian. He married in 1916. Arthur A. Curnutt (better known as A.A. Curnutt) Emma Hanson's youngest sister, Addie, later in life. was born in Clinton, November 11, 1878, and came to Dillon[...]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 business in Dillon, which 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 12, 1878 in Clinton, Mo., followed were caught over the years, one said to have weighed 17 lbs. by train in a few months with their family of seven children;[...]e three-day trip. They set up housekeeping in the cabin on the Widow's Pool. "[...]homestead. Mr. Curnutt lived in Dillon and commuted to Lillian wrote the news[...]rote for the "Madison- nakes were plentiful in Frying Pan and the family lived in ian" as early as 1895 and was still sending news[...]to Dillon a year later. They 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 their family was raised. They both passed away in that grandson, James Hanson and wife, lived on the ranch and home. They were married in Clinton, Mo., March 19, 1902. she continued to li[...]Their children were all educated in Dillon schools. Most winters she would stay at[...]the summer of 1935 but on, and continued in the dray business. He delivered the they didn't a[...]Pacific walk very far. She went 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 also delivered groceries for Dillon 13,[...]iness. feed the wild swans. The swans always came there in the He was an ardent worker in the First Baptist Church, also winter beca[...] |
| [...]Church until her health prohibited it. One event in particu-[...]ve milk to his Their family by names are: Maude, born December 31, neighbors and friends far and near, including any needy 1902 in Clinton, Mo., who worked as a bookkeeper in Dillon family in Dillon that he was aware of. Mrs. Curnutt also[...]children. Mildred, born June 8, 1904 in Clinton, Mo., Anyone felt privileged to receive[...]to Parke baked bread, for which she was famous in this area. T. Scott of Armstead. Mildred lives in Dillon. Myrl, born in Arthur Curnutt passed away from a brain tumor in De- Lyons, Colo., July 21, 1906, left[...]knew 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[...]his family of nine children. Amber, born in Clinton, Mo., May 24, 1908, taught school ' His accomplishments are to be commended. until she retired due to ill health in 1962. She married Alfred Mrs. Curnutt, a sch[...]ife, mother and neighbor. Loren, born in Clinton, Mo., June 18, 1910, was a grocery 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 Laura T. Scott of moved[...]automobile collision with a lumber truck in 1982. Louisa, she was asked if there was anything at all that would taste born June 15, 1912 in Clinton, Mo., clerked in Dillon stores good to her. She replied, "Only one thing I can think of, if I then worked in the Beaverhead County Treasurer's Office. could[...]rried Vivian Thomas and had one son. Louisa lives in That request was made known to my mother immedi[...]homemade bread was deliv- Elsie, born in Clinton, Mo., September 29, 1914, worked[...]as a stenographer in Beaverhead Abstract Co., until her[...]marriage dissolved in 1942. She worked and retired from[...]office work in Government Offices. In 1960 she married[...]Louis Dieterle, who died suddenly in 1961. She married Otto Sassman in 1980 and they live in Dillon. John, born December 18, 1919 in Dillon, worked in an automobile fac- tory in California, married Dorris Linke there, and they[...]raised a family of four children. He lives in Everett, Wash.[...]Ethel Jean, born March 8, 1922 in Dillon, worked in the[...]Prelat. They live in Lolo, and have three daughters.[...]Henry Cushing brought his family to Dillon in 1885. He Bennett, Elsie C. Sassman, Ethel Jean C.[...]grown, stayed behind in Utah. Henry owned a shoe shop in[...] |
| [...]u look at the top of the Moose Bar building In December of that year he was admitted to the bar of you will see H. Cushing in the stonework. The Cushings Montana and located in Butte, Mont., until the close of the lived in a yellow brick house on Railroad Avenue, just two[...]e fairgrounds. One daughter married and in Dillon where he practiced his profession for many years. lived next door. She had a daughter who died in her teens. He made a specialty of mining law[...]tensive I believe both Edward and Lorenzo were in the shoe shop mining interests in Beaverhead County. He was active in with their father. Edward and his wife Fredricka[...]Association and he was a veteran of first couple in Dillon to have twins-two little girls, whose World War I. picture can be seen in the museum. Lorenzo and Helen had On Se[...]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, a son Henry in the summer session of Montana State Normal College. Dur- Washington, D.C., and a son Lorenzo in Denver. ing World War I, Mrs. Cu[...]My Grandfather, William J. Cushing, was a lawyer in verhead County Red Cross sewi~g units an[...]ice with John Collins. Will received his training in recognized for her community service. Denve[...]ing to Dillon after graduation, some of his In later years the Cushings lived at 710 S. Washingt[...]tment house. Mrs. Cushing Church Fellowship Hall. There he met Helen Conway, a managed the apartment house after Mr. Cushing's death on new girl in town, who decided that night that she would[...], Jose- daughter, Josephine. Will and Helen lived in a house on phine, who married Nelson Maxw[...]-HELEN SHAFFNER yer and mining man and in 1942 bought what is now known as the Western Apar[...]ily. Will con- The Dansie family history in Beaverhead County began verted the house into apartments and both he and Helen in 1912, when Charles N. Dansie decided that the Dillon lived there until the end of their days.[...]me years of successful sheep Judith Gap to teach. There she met Nelson Maxwell, a ranching in Idaho and Utah. railroad man. They were married and lived in Great Falls Charles began by leasing th[...]er, now Lowell is an extremely talented violinist in Montana, and Mary Jo Hildreth's place. To help get things rolling in Montana, Scott, who resides in Cody, Wyo. Charles[...]ansie, Jr., while the rest of the family remained in Utah.[...]ranch, as well as another ranch at Red Rock in 1913. Robert[...]took over the Clark Canyon ranch in 1913, which then be- William J. Cushing and hi[...]County. Margaret Dansie joined Robert in February of 1912, William J. Cushing was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on bringing the childr[...]rents emigrated to the United States from England in brief stop at Armstead depot, the family was met by some- 1855, arriving in Salt Lake City the same year. The family one[...]rmstead hotel, and a blast of Montana's all lived many years in Utah where Henry Cushing followed the too t[...]e Major was given his first Montana bath in the hotel lobby, family followed the Utah and Northern Railroad north and by the pot-belly stove in a tin tub supplied by Mary Gordon, became residents of Dillon in 1880. the proprietres[...]mple: Mr. Cushing received his early education in the public there was no heat in the 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[...]entered business college and their new home in Armstead. Winters were spent at Arm- graduated in 1895. He then went to Montana State Agricul-[...]l, and sum- tural College at Bozeman where he was in special studies mers were passed at the Cl[...]ng ment of the University of Denver. He graduated in 1898 and several permanent herds. Dur[...] |
| [...]the DeWitt ranch on the east side of the river. In the Bannack area he acquired the Taylor Creek r[...]of a tin can straight, and use it for a brand, in case there was no iron handy. Ranch life was the usual hay[...]Grayling and cutthroat trout were still available in the river, and brook trout were well established in Armstead slough, where Major caught his first f[...]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 late as the David homestead in Centennial Valley 1960s. · for me to ride in. The seats on both were fixed so that when I In 1917, Margaret and Robert built a large Dutch Col[...]d whatever was home at 830 S. Washington Street in Dillon, now sometimes sitting on the flo[...]ane (Peg) Dansie was made me skis. born in 1919. The older children, Ronnie, Allen, Lyston, and I was sent to see how Granny Culver was about every week Major attended school in Dillon, where Major was quarter- or so a[...]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 how Granny was, I opened the one son, Jackson, whil[...]d finally found ter, Suzanne, who still resides in Dillon. her asleep on a top bunk. How long she had been there I -WILLIAM DANSIE and MAJOR DANSIE[...]he started to feel better. The curlers were still in Pete David Family her hair that I'd put there the week before. It was fun to go[...]Ouija board on her table and Pete David, born in Denmark, and Annie Wormke, born always told everyone's fortune. in Iowa, were married January 31, 1889. After farming in George Payne was a bachelor who lived close by in a one Iowa and Nebraska for a time, they came west to Roberts, room cabin. If there was no smoke coming from his chimney, Idaho, with[...]bout him. I found him sick one time and -This was in 1911. They bought a 210 acre farm and started[...]anch they bought was called "Green Meadow Ranch," in the upper end of the Valley. Art's house was acro[...]from where the rest of the family 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[...]ol. I could get all of the little Fairbanks kids in it-about six or eight little kids. In the winter they made me a cutter but it o[...] |
| [...]I took them to the George Paine, born in 1866 in Rhode Island, came to the saloon where I got $.10[...]ilbert Hunt, but did not seem to them. When I was in about the eighth grade, my dad made work[...]when they came in to take land for the Refuge. After about three[...]the altitude. Frank Perkins and his family lived in our house and ran the ranch for another three yea[...]got the farm Benjamin Henry Davis was born in Edina, Mo., Novem- back in Idaho on a bankruptcy deal, thus ending our years in ber 18, 1896, the seventh of nine sons of Hen[...]their homes in Dillon. Vern later settled in Pocatello, Idaho. Davis Ben first moved to Dillon in 1917 and married Anna Mazie Bourquin in 1922. Six children were born of this union: Alice[...]for him 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[...]ew. Mont., in 1979; Jack Benjamin (born 5/18/26) who married[...]Marie Collins (born 10/3/28) of Hamilton, Mont., in lived at Blair's for 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[...]Virginia Irene spring came they moved to a place in Alaska Basin. They Harkens (born 3/29/33) of Butte in 1952 and became an had a lovely cabin at the mout[...]automotive salesman, dealer and entrepreneur in Butte and sunny slopes there for lambing. Margarite loved to ride and Dil[...]Francis Ryan (born 1/11/32) of Dillon in 1951 and became Frank became severely crippled with arthritis as he got an automobile salesman in Dillon until his untimely death older and when the Government bought land for the Refuge, in a one-car accident one mile north of Armstead, Mo[...]HANSON South (born 7/3/36) of Dillon in 1956 and became a math- ematics instructor in the Great Falls (Mont.) Public[...]Schools, retiring there in 1985; and Samuel Eugene (born 1/[...]of Chinook, Mont., in 1955 and became university professor[...]of music in Spokane, Wash., Vancouver, Canada, Dillon,[...]and shop foreman in Dillon at Fred W oodside's Montana[...]n, Idaho, having been employed at the Ford Garage there. He returned to Dillon in 1931 and established the Davis[...]Conoco Service Station and, in 1939, the Davis Motor Com-[...]ment in 1968. Besides selling Conoco and Ford products, h[...]automobiles. Mr. Davis was a tireless worker in support of 164-Beaverhead History |
| [...]m- ise of courteous service. Throughout his years in business one could frequently observe him attendi[...]r the couple was on a train bound for a honeymoon in Missouri. The Davises were longtime supporter[...]king Mazie Davis (9/22/01 - 1/14/85) was born in North the highest grades of the class in the four year course. She Branch, Minn., to Charl[...]received a teaching diploma (home lege in 1911, and a bachelors degree in education from the economics) in 1920 from Western Montana College (then University of Wisconsin in 1916. She taught elementary Montana State Normal[...]llon Grace United ma, and two more years there subsequent to her university Methodist Church, th[...]rower· of beautiful flowers and, along Church in Dillon where he often filled the pulpit during th[...]beth Davis was a Sunday school teacher for many years, and Ben H. Davis was a member of Grace[...]United Presbyterian Women, holding offices in both orga- Masons, the Royal Arch Masons, the Ro[...]of Twelve, the Scottish Rite of interested in growing special varieties of gladioli; many of :?ree Masonry and the Bagdad Temple of the Shrine in the beautiful blooms adorned t he chu[...]produced a twenty-page booklet, "Sketch of Rotary in Dil- Montana State Normal College in September 1919, from lon" in 1955, and was district governor (Montana) during[...]period. lepartment at the State Teachers College in Maryville. Elizabeth Davis was a member of the Dillon Shakespeare rhough born in Zanesville, Ohio, he had lived most of his[...]lenic, Alpha Gamma Delta social sorority, and ife in Kansas and Missouri, exercising the teaching profes- founding member, in January 1931, of the Dillon branch of iion.[...]nization on September :hicago, Leipzig and Berlin in Germany, and at Columbia 10, 1982. Jniversity in New York which granted him a PhD degree in Sheldon Davis was a life member of the Montana Educa- .917. He was married to Mary Ora Coleman in Missouri in tion Association, and a member of the National Education )ecember 1911; she died in 1920. Ethel Jean Davis (Carpen- Associatio[...]Beta Kappa, the na- er) was born of this union. In December 1922, Dr. Davis tional h[...] |
| [...]prognosis was one year to live in a western climate.[...]Carl came to Red Rock, Montana, in 1906. His uncle Alph[...]Decker and J. W. Scott owned a hotel and a ranch in the[...]road every day so there was plenty of work for Carl to do. In 1907 plans were being made to build a railroad fr[...]pouring in, as well as construction people and the usual[...]business which was much in demand. Happy and Dellar Front row, from left - J[...]or the much respected by educators and honored by many state children became evident. Scott and[...]l states adopted "Our Government," be opened in Armstead. An interview with Alph Decker by Davis[...]as a textbook, so that it went resulted in her being hired. There was no contract, the sala- through twenty-five ed[...]and A very good public speaker, Dr. Davis gave many high turned it over to the school clerk, Glenn Decker, who in turn school commencement addresses around the sta[...]n meetings, and contributed pot-bellied stove in the middle of the room, a pile of coal to profess[...]f Dr. Davis' presidency. He took a great interest in the development and landscaping of the campus, seeing to the planting of many trees. Upon retirement from the presidency of[...]te Board of Education, an honor conferred for his many years of distinguished service. Shortly thereafte[...]g for several years. A friend and counselor to many students, Dr. Davis was honored for his impartial and progressive administration. Sheldon Davis died in December 1964, aged 88 years; Eliza- beth Davis died in March 1986, eleven days before her 95th bi[...] |
| [...]and Armstead, as indicated from a post card album in the family's possession. This little Irish school[...]ye! Carl Decker and Nellie Nugent were married in Dillon on July 3, 1911. They dry-farmed near Gran[...]the mines. Born to this couple 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 office. He invested in a herd of milking Shorthorn cattle which were a g[...]odel-T which Carl built himself. We children rode in the truck bed which was great fun as we could see so much. Another child, Ida Blanche, 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 cance[...]d to the disease which brought him out to Montana in 1906. He died January 4, 1932, in Missoula, Mont.[...]lanche and Glenn Decker Nell, a great believer in education, saw that her children with his fut[...]ck to teaching after September 20, 1902, in Appleton, Wisc. On October 7, 1904, being left a[...]a son, Clarence Ashley Decker, was born in Ludington. Montana College by attending summer sc[...]By 1907, Glenn's health began to fail in the cold, damp in many schools in Beaverhead County, Peterson ranch at cl[...]h, dry climate. Fortunately, an where she retired in 1958 after age 70 (because her birthday uncle Alf (Colonel) Decker was already established in Bea- was two days after school started). She died[...]verhead County, ranching with Walter Scott in the Red at the age of 85.[...]ock-Armstead area. Leaving his wife and small son in -HELEN D. ANDR[...]proved. He fell in love with Montana-the fresh, pure air,[...]him great pleasure. Soon Mrs. Decker and son Cla- in a sod house on the prairie, where his father had[...]rence joined, Glenn, and thus began a new life in the devel- steaded. Not long after that, the fami[...]Michigan just for a visit. farming. One crop in five years was hardly a living. G[...]the earliest residents of Glenn, as a young man in Ludington, Mich., sampled Armstead. He was the first agent for the Oregon Short Line, many kinds of employment-telegrapher, farmer, postal[...]mstead worker, jeweler, and accountant. He served in the Army was little more than a railro[...]during the Spanish-American War from 1898 to 1899 in the population being rather unsavory[...]mpany A, 35th Michigan U. S. Volunteers, and kept in contain numerous tales of the period,[...]Prosperity continued for Armstead when, in 1909, con-[...] |
| [...]for Gilmore Pittsburg. A. J. Wedum land in the early 1900s when the government offered that[...]ity to "populate the Arid West." It was a working in Armstead, hiring Glenn to be manager. Blanche man[...]William lived of Indians from the Lemhi summered in the meadow across in Butte where he worked in the mines. Katye, however, was the road from the[...]rm country of Oregon and she longed ters was born there and named Blanche for Mrs. Decker, for[...]"Glen Dennis." Family history repeated itself in 1912 when Glenn and When Katye and Wil[...]-BARRIE SULGROVE SMITH Then, as an accountant in the general offices of the Gil- more Pittsburg Ra[...]he community of Armstead cer- tainly did its part in the war effort. Families, including the John[...]oldiers could have Kathryn Deputy, was born in Dillon on October 5, 1897. the best. Sugar and other foodstuffs were in short supply. When John (better known as Ja[...]y coats for the military, and father died in a tragic accident. He and some friends were knitting needles were in constant use, making warm caps, trailing race horses to Twin Bridges. They were riding in a gloves, and socks. The population was hard hit[...]moved to Dillon. Will Deputy, in the Deputy Brothers Meat Market. When Recalling their 15 years in Armstead, Glenn often ex- Will sold the meat company, Jack went to California and pressed his joy in having come to Beaverhead County, say- liv[...]llon ing that the best that life had to offer was in Southwestern and worked as a butcher at the D[...]were Henry Randall and Mary Margaret Paddock. In 1913[...] |
| School where she took a commercial course. In 1917 Vorhees We arrived in ,Dillon on the evening train from Butte. and two other members of the senior class enlisted in the Father met us at the depot which[...]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 obtained employment at Dillon busi-[...]Meat Company as a bookkeeper. Because of the war, many house where we cut across a large[...]rented. We children were de- nies which were held in the spring of 1917. Georgia was a lighted to find our ponies waiting for us in the pasture lot as graduate of this class.[...]- who was five foot two inches. They were married in Virginia chester who taught the eighth g[...]Where is it now? He looked for it in vain while visiting in -GEORGIA DEPUTY[...]Our father taught classes in education and geology at the[...]wedding and funeral at the Methodist Church in those early Patrick Desmond was born in County Cork, Ireland, days. Marc[...]d who and secured employment on a river steamship in the east. was the inspiration of much of the interest in Beaverhead His rise was rapid and within a few ye[...]principal at Beaverhead County High lumbia River in Oregon. In 1880 he came to Montana and School, was another woman who played a part in the lives of located on a ranch in the Horse Prairie section. more than one generation of young people in Dillon. Inci- He married Annie Kelley in 1885. Mrs. Desmond was dentally, her discipline in the old study hall was legendary. born in County Donegol, Ireland, in 1851, the daughter of Someone must kno[...]known). She came to glass window in the old study hall given by the Sacajawea Beaverhead County in 1883. Club. And the life-sized statue that stood in the southwest Mr. and Mrs. Desmond had one daug[...]corner of the same hall; is she resting in the dump west of February 8, 1887. Mr. Desmond di[...]boys as he drove down Thomsen Avenue in a smart buggy of[...]ent on to manage his grandfather's Civil War farm in Grant and Eleanor Finch[...]Helen Finch Dial and went on to a position in the Department of English in It is difficult to feel one is an oldtimer, bu[...]xeter Academy, New Hampshire. B. F. White sitting in his chair at the First National Bank[...]t 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[...]n F. Bishops, is certainly on Chapel Hill. In the early forties he returned to live in Dillon the verge of that distinction.[...]of Marion, Iowa, accepted a published in New York and also in Great Britain. The plays position at Western Mont[...]were based on his boyhood memories of Montana, in the Normal School, in the summer of 1909. He made the long[...]ed the most-Beaverhead County. trip out to Dillon in a freight train in order to keep our two shetland ponies fed and wat[...]former teacher of violin. She now resides in Helena.) the four of us children who considered t[...]first sight of the mountains after an early life in the prairie coun-[...] |
| [...]was about two hundred miles. This trip was made in early[...]He grew up on the family farm near Rich- In 1922, Jud took a permanent job with the Nay Broth[...]who by this time had purchased extensive holdings in the had nine brothers and sisters by his father's[...]They lived there and raised their family until 1938. Jud (Judso[...]ghters were mar- started working as sheep herders in the Evanston, Wyo. ried and lived nearby[...]parents, the Jens collection. She also made many quilts and had an outstand- Hansens. Gundel spent[...]collection. woman with her maternal grandparents in Thornton. In 1939, the Nay Brothers ranch was split among the[...]farm, three miles north of Dillon. Driggs, Idaho. In those days, many of the sheep herds were His health soon f[...]th of their oldest daughter, Stella, who It was there Gundel met and fell in love with a young died on August 7, 1940.[...]for a couple of years and then on October 6, 1902 in Richville, Utah. Jud's father, Bishop sold it[...]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 bought a farm about two miles[...]ar Dillon. never did build on the land, but lived in a log house in -FAY WALDEMAR McCRACKEN AND Thornto[...]VIOLET DICKSON died at birth, were born there. Children born to the union were: Estella, born[...]912; Violet Patrick Bryan Dillon was born in County Cannach, Ire- Wilhelmina, Feb. 27, 1913; V[...]and Nola Rae, Aug. 23, 1922. old. He worked in the iron mines in Michigan where he met About 1909, Jud started taking his family to Montana in and married Mary-Ann Holland. Patrick came[...]ed hay for Nay Brothers on ysville, Mont., in about 1876 to work at the Drumlummon Horse[...] |
| [...]e coach. For a time, she was the only white woman in 1884; and again from November 26, 1890, to[...]rman of the Board, Sidney Dillon Emmett were born in Marysville. In 1897 the family moved was the first to hol[...]was born at Northhampton, New York, on May 7, In 1917 Holland bought the "Wood's house" at Dewey[...]here Patrick and Mary Ann retired. Holland served in Dillon's first employment was as a "water boy" in the France during World War I and then returned t[...]nd fire- part of the New York Central Lines). In 1840, at the age of wood sales. In 1927 their house was washed away when the[...]Pattengail Creek broke. They then Albany in Massachusetts. From that start he progressed in purchased "the Dodson house" at Dewey. Patrick died in railroad contracting. He built a number of small roads, or 1929; Mary Ann in 1932 and Holland in 1963. branches of main trunk railroads, in the East, the South, Winifred taught at the school in Glendale where she met and in Canada. His ventures were profitable and he gaine[...]was a vice president of ry may be found elsewhere in this book. Elizabeth was born the Central Railroad of New Jersey. in 1890. She attended Butte Central High School and[...]Pacific project was as tana State Normal College in Dillon. She taught at Travis a subscriber f[...]Twin Bridges, Dell, Jack- lier of America, in March, 1865. son, Dewey and Wise River. She married John W. Long in In July, 1865, Dillon was elected a member of the execu- Dillon in 1927. Elizabeth died in 1987. tive committee of t[...]ilier. He first became a John W. Long was born in Hendricks, W.Va., in 1887, son director of the Union Pacific Railroad Company in October, of Charles E. Long and Virginia Teeter L[...]and was elected president of the Credit Mobilier in 12, his family, along with several other families[...]longings, and came West director, or trustee, in the affairs of the trustees, and of the to northe[...]t ranger with the Clear- corporation early in 1890. water Forest in Idaho. He married Hazel Gilmore in 1911, He held his Union Pacific Directo[...]er, transferred to the Beaverhead National Forest in 1918, and 1866, to June, 1892. When Jay Goul[...], Sheridan, and Wisdom. Ha- Union Pacific in 1874, he made Dillon president, a post he zel and[...]emic. Dorothy married cis Adams Jr., whom he, in turn, succeeded on November 26, Mike Gynkiss and they had one daughter. She then married 1890. In early May, 1892, he was elected Chairman of the L[...]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 J[...]ingley After John retired from the Forest Service in 1934, they William Post Dingley was born in 1867 in Mobile, Ala., lived in Dewey where John worked as a truck driver, miner,[...]I, tes, lived after the end of the Civil War in which his father and for the Forest Service at Wise River. He died in 1953. held the position of Colonel. He came to Montana Territory Mary married Daniel L. Hoyrup in Dillon in 1954. Dan is in 1877 with his family. the son of Lucile Langdorf Hoyrup McPherson and Fred They settled in Butte City where the 1880 census shows Hoyrup, bo[...]hough he was only 12 residents. Mary and Dan live in Helena where Dan is retired years old. Perhaps[...]ith Mountain Bell. They have three stature 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, her the Dillon ar[...]worked husband Alan Haviland and son Michael live in Chubbuck. and conditioned the famous race[...]le he Catherine and her husband Mark Simkins live in Helena. was in training. Spokane was owned by Noah Armstrong, Al[...]t Dewey as a vacation home. who made a fortune in the Hecla mines and turned to raising[...]in diameter, equipped with an inside track. S[...] |
| [...]d set a new record for the mile and half distance in 1889. Will married Jean Montrose and they had[...]adult and ranched near Clark's Canyon. He died in Bozeman while transporting a wagon load of grain.[...]INGLEY (b. 1727) were all born in Marshfield. Jacob (b. 1727) was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His mother was Mary D[...]ley and Mary Ann Estes, was born October 29, 1858 in Jacob (b. 1727) took his family and mo[...]Maine, in the late 1700s. His son, William (b. 1747), 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 father William (b. 1831) all lived in Lewiston, Maine. Montana, he joined them in 1879 and lived in Butte City, Fred and his brother Royal[...]his Uncle Sim Estes who had come to Bannack in 1863 and He was admitted to the Montana State Bar in 1881. After his uncle John Tabor Dingley who had arrived in Butte City practicing law in Basin, he became one of Dillon's first and in 1877 and the seeds of-destiny were planted. most[...]ley and brother Charles Franklin Dingley remained in justice of the peace for many years in Beaverhead County. If Maine, but Fred and bro[...]client was found guilty, he would be incarcerated in the Valley and the bustling town of Dillon on the first passenger local jail cell located in the rear of his Uncle Sim's saloon. train that[...]was one of the co-founders of the Baptist Church in the Utah Northern Railroad. Dillon in 1883. He continued to practice law in Beaverhead They stayed with their Uncle[...]t to Alaska. A year later he finding work. In 1900 Fred lived in the Red Rock area and moved to California where h[...]r Graeter, across the Beaverhead River and just In 1891, while in Idaho, he was seriously hurt about the sout[...]a mental mal- next to the ranch sometime in the teens. Water to the places ady labeled "softe[...]d himself committed to the asylum at Warm Springs in 1894. He died on Sunday, April 16, 1899, at the h[...]never married and had no children. He was buried in the McCune family plot at Butte Mt. Moriah Cemete[...]Rachel Eliza Estes. He was born October 16, 1863, in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine. His ancestor, John Dingley, had come to America from England in 1638 and settled in Marshfield, Mass., after The Fred[...] |
| [...]Livestock, he traded his property for an interest in the company. This venture failed and Fred lost ev[...]ed by Ben Slanger and now the Williams family. In his later years, he lived in one of Fred Hanson's cabins in what is now known as Trittsville. When his health[...]y farm where the country club now stands. He died there at age 87 in 1950. He 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[...]ey John Tabor Dingley was born October 2, 1829 in Lewis- ton, Androscoggin County, Maine, the oldes[...]d builder Mary Ann Estes was born May 14, 1837 in Lewiston, the of Dingley Building on Montana Street in 1889. fifth of 10 children born to David Estes an[...]nizational meeting of the First Baptist Church in Dillon. ilies were close friends and neighbors for decades. The meeting was held in their home at the corner of Glen- In 1853, under appointment of President Franklin Pie[...]le " believing it to be John became the Collector in Customs officer at the port of for the promotion of the Redeemer's kingdom in this place," Mobile, Ala. Along with his future brother-in-law Simeon called it "The Regular Baptist Church of Dillon." Their son, Estes, he became inter~sted in cotton brokering. He David A. Dingley, a practicing attorney in Dillon, was one of amassed a fortune of several m[...]id Addison, articles of incorporation filed in 1886. was born October 29, 1858 in Mobile. John and Mary built the Dingley Building in 1889. The At the commencement of the Civil War[...]building still stands on south Montana Street in Dillon and Confederacy would be successful, he lo[...]f the 10th Alabama regiment. He was was in much pain. He returned to Lewiston, Maine, where[...]he died on November 16, 1892. He was buried there. nine of which remained in his body until his death. After J[...]dressmaking After the war, he became an owner in the Mobile and Ohio business and lived with[...]tells of Railroad. William Post (Billy) was born in 1867 and a her tragic death. She had b[...]s born January 11, William, who lived in Clark's Canyon, about 20 miles south 1870, both in Mobile.[...]a but- The Dingleys returned to Massachusetts in 1873 and later ton on for her son and put a pin in her mouth. Soon after- lived in their birth town of Lewiston, Maine. Their younge[...]emove the pin. With child, Alice Rebecca was born in Lewiston on September 3, the first m9uthfu[...]t down. After a restless painful night, Territory in 1877, living in Butte City on South Montana her son calle[...]cember 2. Physicians there were unable to save her and she The John Dingley family relocated to Dillon, probably in died of blood poisoning and peritonitis at t[...]daughter, Mamie McCune, at 516 S. Montana Street in known, and occasionally referred to as a boarding[...]Butte on Friday, December 5, 1902. She was buried in the Mary Ann was the proprietress of a millinery and dressmak- McCune plot in the Butte Mt. Moriah Cemetery. ing establi[...] |
| Roy and Harriet Dingley Royal Simeon Dingley was born in Lewiston, Androscog- gin County, Maine, on Septem[...]Dingley and Rachel Eliza Estes. He came to Dillon in the 1880s on the Utah Northern Railroad with his[...]n immigrant train to Eagle Rock (now Idaho Falls) in September 1879, then rode on a freight wagon to Glendale, Montana Territory, arriving in early October 1879. Her father worked as a labore[...]Roy and Hattie were married on August 22, 1894, in Dil- and h[...]freight to Dubois. born May 18, 1896, John Calvin in December 1897. In Octo- They reached Middle Creek on July[...]ife Alma Nellie Ann was born January 14, 1899, in Dillon. In the May Seybold, who was Hattie's niece; Lo[...]ybold, whose fa- returned to Lewiston. They lived there for several months. ther Henderson· Franklin Seybold lived in Dell, Montana; Roy returned alone in time to be counted on the 1900 cen- and Sa[...]child, Myron Frank, was born September 17, 1900, in Lewis- named Montrose Everett Dingley after[...]Louis Montrose. returned to Beaverhead County in April 1901. Harry had The Dingley family returned to Montana in 1921. Hattie lived with his aunt for two and a ha[...]up from Middle Creek. Roy Roy became embroiled in a legal matter with a local cattle drove a tea[...]rie, later rented Al sets and left a bitter taste in his mouth toward lawyers or DeWitt's house in Armstead, then share-cropped the land bankers. Th[...]heir most im- They were permitted to live in the house but had the use of portant belongings a[...]cat and became ill and the youngest children rode in a horse-drawn buggy. The with blood[...] |
| [...]at the Prophet place. He and his son Montie lived in a tent on land he rented from Jordan Rife. When Montie joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1935, Roy used the money that 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[...]aura, 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 (Idaho) at the time. plowing. Growin[...]m numerous times, never prospered, but persevered in the the time he first heard that the pl[...]r. His son, Edward, (my father) who was 11 sented in volume two.)[...]portunity to earn a good Silas Dishno was born in Essex, 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[...]er 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[...]f 320 acres each. As soon as the boys were old In July 1895 Silas' brother-in-law, George Plum, who had enough they took up their desert rights too. This, along with been working in the Big Hole Basin, told him that B.O.[...]Silas loaded up a four- registered the brand in 1881. horse wagon with enough furniture to get along for a while In 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.[...]in five or six months on the rich Big Hole hay.[...]five-day drive. There are many stories about Silas and his[...]pioneer in this field.[...]dren. Fred worked on the railroad in Missoula, Edward[...] |
| became a logger in Oregon, and Laura was a housewife in Washington. Silas died in 1961 shortly after his 103rd birthday.[...]James M. Dodd, better known as "Jimmy," was born in Red Oak, Iowa, July 24, 1873. He spent most of his youth in Colorado with his parents, two brothers and two s[...]verhead and Silver Bow Counties since 1890. While in Butte he was mar- ried and had two sons, James "B[...]e industry. With this interest he became involved in cattle buying and was probably one of the best in this area. He had[...]connections with practically every livestock man in[...]arried her. They had a daughter Shirley who lives in He- lena and Augusta also lives in Helena now. Jimmy built two houses in Dillon, one on South Washington Street that Les[...]Staudenmeyer lives in now and the one behind it.[...]Jimmy Dodd May 11, 1938 in Dillon at age 65.[...]emigrated to America from England, settling first in Wisconsin. Sometime in the 1860s they journeyed on to the[...]Territory of Montana and settled in the area of the Big Hole Beaverhead County. While[...]s Wise River. They later moved to ranch he bought in the Centennial Valley, now owned by De[...]ite woman to Staudenmeyers. He also owned a house in Lakeview this reside in this part of the Big Hole Valley. side of the Ran[...]aac Dodgson had served a five-year apprenticeship in When buying cattle he kept several herds on th[...]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 contracts, your word was all one needed.[...]ding the first mill at Hecla Mines, which was one Many business transactions were done over the telephone. of the richest silver deposits in Montana. A remanant of his Young boys, along with[...]tricately put together with which went a long way in those days. wooden pegs, no metal nails were used. While on the ranch in the Centennial, Jimmy built one of Issac[...]odgson, was the first jack fences, parts of which are still standing today. an English mathmetician,[...]itten the children's books of "Alice's Adventures in Won- Hansen Packing Company of Butte. Although he[...]ily to have recrea- Issac Dodgson was born in England in 1837, died in 1914, tion. He bought a Pierce Arrow car and a bo[...]Lake and spend a few days fishing at was born in England in 1838 and died in 1914. She is also Hebgen Lake near Yellowstone Park. He also enjoyed hav- buried in the Dewey Cemetery. ing horse races with neighbor[...]y died when the boys were young, so he hired many years. 176-Beaverhead History |
| Tyson lived in Melrose, Montana, where he raised his family of t[...]lliam, and Frank. George Dodgson was preceeded in death by his wife, Ol- ive, on September 9, 1930. George died on May 22, 1939. Both are buried in the cemetery at Dewey. William Francis Dodgson was born in Dewey on May 20, 1893. Mary Aurelia Dean was born in Divide on May 26, 1894. They were married on November 27, 1917 in Gibbons- ville, Idaho. They ranched near Wise Riv[...]Mary and Emmett Douglass There were 10 children in the family and they lived a few miles up Wise Riv[...]his William Dodgson died 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 combining his money with buried in Polson Cemetery.[...]only child and was born on Montana. From there he rode the stage to Wisdom where he February 20, 1919, in Butte. At the present time my wife, met his[...]Woodworth, who owned the C-D Caryl, and I reside in Wise River. Ranch. C[...]foreman in less than two years. Haying time on the C-D was[...]every morning. Breaking in new horses and repairing equip- John Donegan was born in 1870 on the upper Ruby Valley ment after a[...]. and later worked for R. T. Boatman on his ranch in the In the spring of 1915 Emmett and Dresdin Shields pur[...]their own herding until Emmett bought out Dresdin in helped trail the Longhorn cattle which were shipp[...]lley from Monida. from Ohio, were married in Butte. They set up housekeep- John told me in later years that the winters would be so ing on the Shelly ranch. After purchasing another ranch, bad in the valley at times my mother would place a lamp[...]y moved and lived on that ranch until selling out in lantern in the window of the house so they could find their[...]to get my brother Thornton a While in the Big Hole two children were born to Emmett pup[...]nd Emmett, Jr. later the mail carrier put a puppy in the mail box down the From 1920 until 1967[...]running both sheep and cattle. During their years in John had the reputation of being able to catch[...]hall, Emmett served as County Commissioner for 16 there weren't any fish in the stream. years and 1[...]hitehall John worked for several other ranchers in the valley, the Public Schools. Brays and the[...]a few. After retiring from ranching in 1967, they moved to Boze- John lived in Dillon for a time in the 1940s, then moved to man, Montana, to spend[...]sually traveled St. Anthony, Idaho, where he died in 1950. south to Brawly, Calif[...]the livestock, Emmett engaged in commercial feeding in[...]Douglass In the spring of 1975 Emmett passed away at the age[...]30, 1889, to Al and and Mary passed away in 1983 at the age of 91. Bot h are Margaret Douglass at Bryan, Ohio. After completing eight buried in Bozeman, Montana.[...] |
| [...]The parents, John and Sarah Downing, arrived in Lima (then Springhill) in the fall of 1878.[...]with a cattle drive in 1890. Pete married Iva Hungate in[...]1909, died Miles City, December 23, 1974, buried in Dillon;[...]19, 1966, buried in Dillon; Donald Losen, born April 21,[...]1913, at Dell, died April 18, 1983, buried in Grand View, The Douglass' first home on the Shell[...]April 21, 1979, buried in Memorial Cemetery, Anaconda;[...]now living in Missoula. (From Big Hole Basin News, Wisdom, Augu[...]c Rail- One of the best ranch deals ever made in the Big Hole 178-Beaverhead History |
| [...]loyed by the railroad and built the Downing Hotel in Lo-[...]man for about a year, then to Three Forks in 1909. After the[...]finally settling near their children in Washington, where[...]Grant passed away in 1944 at age 77 and Lizzie followed Pete Downing (upper left) him in death at age 80 in 1953.[...]The Doyle Family a six-year-old, recounting in later years to her grandchildren A newspaper[...]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 out to Basin, Mon-[...]oung 4, 1878, with a cattle drive consisting of many families head- lady came from her home in Perry, Missouri, where she was ed for the "gree[...]d a new life. The long born on June 16, 1881. In 1904, she entered a contest selling trek lasted[...]attle and by spring nors, had a ranch. While there she went to Henry's Lake, Lizzie's father had l[...]her a trip to the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904, and a Lizzie's father had tried many careers. First he had stud- future husband, Ja[...]her be an architect near the O'Connor Ranch in upper Centennial. (he is credited with building[...]e times, having Park, Colorado. He was raised there by an uncle after his four sons by the first wife. She died and he gave up archi- parents died in Prince Edward Island, Canada, where Jim tecting[...]Jim and Jo were married at a nuptial mass in Meaderville married Sarah Elizabeth Long, Lizzi[...]to the Blake Ranch (now Huntsman's) for the In Lima, Grant eventually began courting his former[...]r and before buying the O'Connor Ranch in the upper Centennial died in Salt Lake City. Valley in partnership with Mrs. Doyle's brother, Frank[...]e living on this ranch, they had three However, in 1890 he returned to Lima and Lizzie's father,[...]were civic minded people - especially interested in enough to marry them on October 7, 1890, at the[...]the school board and even allowed a room in their house to They set up housekeeping in Lima where a son, Walter be used[...] |
| [...]and at the Montana Mercantile in Dillon. James attended[...]Hardware in Great Falls until World War II, when he served[...]as a pilot in the U.S. Navy.[...]they moved to Dillon, where Mr. Doyle died in 1945. Mrs. Doyle continued to live in Dillon with Tim and Pete Lasich,[...]house while Tim was teaching. She was active in St. Rose[...]death in 1964.[...]was killed in an accident with a horse in 1908 at the age of[...]Edward and Alma Drown In 1916, Mr. Noonan went to Alberta, Canada, and the Edward Drown was born in Gage County, Neb., April 17, Doyles moved to the[...]- Monida. Their son, Daniel James (Mick) was born there. beth Thompson Norris. The family moved to Beaverhead Besides the ranch in the meadowland they "proved up" on a County, Montana Territory, about 1883 where their last homestead in the hills above the ranch and also bought an child, Maude, was born in August 1884. adjoining homestead from Ray Tipton[...]horses and the )-( on born February 1, 1882 in Glendale, Beaverhead County, the cattle.[...]Mr. Doyle and Robert Boatman were instrumental in garet Elizabeth Huff. She moved with h[...]when the mines began to play out at Hecla. There she met interested in politics, serving faithfully as Democratic Cen- young Edward Drown. tral Committeeman for many years. The Doyles were fine, When Alma[...]years. barn on the ranch was built by Marcus Daly in the 1800s. Some of their children were born near Lima: Edward Ray in The ranch was so located that it made a good stopping place 1901, Marcus Wesley in 1902, Herbert William in 1903, Bert in the winter, when the Valley was "snowed in," and Jim Oliver in 1905, Gertrude Elizabeth May in 1906, Edward and Jo were always hospitable and helpful in "putting up" Francis in 1907. The next child, Calvin Vinson, was born in anyone who came along. Their home life was pleasa[...]09 near Dell. Ed herded sheep for several seasons in the with love and caring. Reading and playing gam[...]. For a brief period they lived in Washington state where a They sent their oldest[...]Dillon to high daughter Annie Hazel was born in 1910. They took up a school. When Margaret was re[...]three youngest children were born: Samuel Russell in 1911, through May until Margaret graduated. James and Isabell Roscoe Harold in 1913, and Daniel in 1916. boarded in Dillon until they were through high school.[...]Normal College and started their teaching careers in their and grew to adulthood at Medicine Lodge, Idaho. "home" school in Centennial. Nell went on to teach in Lima Ed Drown and Bob Bauguess had an argu[...]-stand- Schools from 1936 to 1940. Isabell taught in Armstead, Bo- ing dislike for each other, an[...]~tile When he found Ed wrangling horses in a corral, he pulled a 180-Beaverhead History |
| [...]in 1912. They were married early in April and came over on[...]three trips across the ocean. He worked first in Kansas and[...]the Kidd station and flag a train to go shopping in Dillon. At The D_rown Family, L to R: Francis, Wesley, Calvin, that time there were four passenger trains going through the Gert[...]In 1916, they leased a farm about ten miles south. H[...]ed by Ed Gleed. It is now owned by James was shot in the stomach and lingered until that night when[...]nday. While here their two older children he died in Dubois. The altercation took place on October 17 started to school in Lima. There was a school bus (covered or 18, 1917, near Duboi[...]eight youngsters children from the valley. There were a dozen children going to care for. In 1921 she married Louis Clausen Anderson in to school from that area. Dubois. They had a son, Louis Anderson, who lives now in When the opportunity came, they bought a[...]the Drown children, most lived their adult lives in until their family grew up and left home. G[...]ross the married William Harry Dingley and- lived in Beaverhead fields to Gosman School which was located where the north- County for many years. bo[...]ecades. Alma and Louie An- At that time there were dry years. In 1919, George planted derson moved to Terreton in 1923 where he leased land from 750 acres of g[...]arden At the time of her death on July 10, 1957 in Terreton, where she grew enough vegetables[...]eir four children all married and remained around in[...]children. Two of them are still in the valley and two are in[...]nly their youngest lives around Beaverhead County in 1900 from Iowa. They ranched north here. Their oldest son is in Oregon, one daughter in Wyo- of Dillon on what was known as Anderson Lane, before ming, and one in Boise, Idaho. Their oldest daughter was moving to Dillon in about 1918. Mrs. Drummey maintained killed in a car/train wreck at Dell in 1977. a maternity home in Dillon for many years. When they moved to[...]e of the tucky Avenue was always a show place in the summer with girls remained in Dillon and married H. M. Brundage. shru[...]the Brundage 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 seemed the happiest known as the Drum[...]when he was irrigating in the spring and summer. William died in 1929 and Harriett in 1939. George and Marion had[...]-WALTER BRUNDAGE England. In the fall of 1914 they had the opportunity[...] |
| [...]move to California. Jimmy passed away and sisters in Canada so they renewed their acquaintances[...]-MURIEL NIX George passed away in 1956 and Marion died in 1963. Both are buried in Dillon. -DOROTHY D. PET[...]from Germany in late 1879 or early 1880. They lived in Edwards[...]was born in 1883. From there, they came to Glendale, Mon- Bert Edwards remained in the Centennial Valley after his tana, where George was employed as a foreman in the smelt- parents left. He lost his leg in an accident while working in a er for the Hecla Consolidated Mining Company[...]monthly. the time of the accident. He drove stage in Yellowstone Park George Eighorn, Jr. was 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. Lakevi[...]m. 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 McPherson in Ashton, Idaho, in May thresh grain for the neighbors in the area. He owned one of of 1936. They then bought a ranch in the Alaska Basin the first threshing machines and steam engines in the valley (upper end of the Centennial) where th[...]moved to engine was quite heavy in comparison to the horse-drawn Kenewick, Washington. Peggy passed away in 1960 and traffic for which the b_ri[...]r I for which he received a plaque He passed away in 1965. f[...]MURIEL NIX George Eighorn, Sr., died in 1919 with two of his sons preceding him in death. Willy died young from appendicitis.[...]Henry served in the U.S. Army in World War I and was wounded in the Argonne Forest in Germany and died the Edwards[...]day the Armistice was signed. He was buried in Melrose in late 1918. George, "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 early 1890's, when he took up a place on the north side the children to die. Sabina died in 1941. of the Valley. They raised cattle and put u[...]Glo- had 13 children, four born while they lived in the Centen- ria. nial. Later the family mo[...]ville, Idaho, where they lived until Will's death in 1917. Susan and her younger children moved from W[...]California, after her husband's death. She lived in Antioch until her death in 1925. -[...]James Edwards James (Jimmy) Edwards lived in the Centennial Valley for many years. He married Stella Tessimond at Monida on July 1, 1908, and they lived in Lakeview and operated a hotel there. Jimmy drove stage from Lakeview to Monida for years. They also had the Summit Hotel in Monida for George a[...] |
| [...]charge, pride, and responsibility. In the late 1920s he mar- They came north, the fo[...]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. sweating in summer, who laid the railroad north from the Lambert, Jr. ran the store in Dillon until he retired in the Cache Valley across the now dry, prehistoric[...]cross Monida Pass into and finally settled in Mesa, Arizona. In 1977 Eirene died at Montana. In 1882 they stocked the overalls, flannel shirts, their summer home in Show Low, Ariz. Lambert married jackets, underwea[...]d heavy work shoes, the phar- Ethel O'Brien in the Episcopal Cathedral in Helena in 1979. maceuticals, Levis, and squaw gloves. And t[...]pockets; Lambert, who managed the "outpost" store in Gib- Ellerman family moved from Cedar Count[...]ty near the turn of the century, though not when, in 1888, he went to Chicago and brought home a wife,[...]with a passion for Bill Kenison, who came in 1898. Because of their enthusi- health; and Frank[...]he State asm for the area, others followed. In the order of their ages, Legislature, and one of[...]8) stayed and worked on various up sheep ranching in upper Blacktail on a ranch called the ranche[...]died in 1930. Lambert and Milton didn't stay long. By[...]ad moved to Los Angeles. Lambert and lins in Missouri and had three children when they came. L[...]and Milton entered the printing They settled in the Upper Blacktail area. After a few years busin[...]ro- Margaret "Maggie" (1876) arrived here in 1899 and went fessor at Stanford; Leon, one of th[...]veys; and Lambert, Jr. Bell. They were married in January of 1900. The three boys were raised by Li[...]e. She worked as a cook at the Frank Landon Ranch in the early 1920s Lambert, Jr. returned to Dillon and the on the Blacktail for many years. She married Harry Foust family store. One of Milton's children, John, lives in Laguna and in the late 1920s moved to Hanhattan, Mt. She passed[...]away in 1943 and is buried beside her husband in a Bozeman As the original three brothers grew[...]beck before coming to Montana in 1906. They had five[...]ano for dances in the neighborhood where they lived. They[...]moved to the state of Washington in 1922. Anna (1882) came here in 1907 and was married to Ray Tash in 1909. Frank Henry Ellerman (1887) arrived in this area in 1909. He worked on several ranches in the county and at one time[...]He served in the American Expeditionary forces during[...]World War I, and spent 11 months in France fighting to[...]"the world safe for democracy." He never married. In Adolph, Frank and Leonard Eliel[...] |
| 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 the Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. stories she told. These[...]After all these years we still feel we have many ties with citizens whose contributions to this ar[...]Bannack and Dillon. We have had family reunions there gotten. and made many trips there, but it was never the same with-[...]lis nack, to Nellie Cleveland and Robert Jaggers. There were Thomas Henry Ellis was born March 2, 1845, in Boston, six children in the family and she lived there until being Massachusetts. His father, Henry Ellis, died in 1857 when married in 1912.[...]etime ist Church. She told stories of Christmases in Bannack between 1847 and 1862 and the f[...]nity celebrated together, with toys and There were six children in the family. dolls on a huge Christmas tree. She r[...]sing 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 returned to Missouri for a year, nack. Her grandmother had lived there when Henry Plum- crossing the plains for a third time to return to Bannack in mer was hung and had a boarding house at that tim[...]e across the plains by other relatives also lived there. covered wagon from Illinois with her family in 187 5 to Ban- Her father worked on the first dredge that came there and nack and there she met Thomas. They were married Octo- she often[...]th 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[...]Minnie, Joe, Maude, Myrtle, Lulu, Ab- one summer in Bannack. They were married in Dillon in the bie and Ted. Tom freighted by oxen to[...]d that she until the railroad was buHt, and in 1877 he hauled infantry had never seen such poor people in Montana as there were for General Howard during the Indian War. in Idaho.[...]ad 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 chi[...]1959, and she went to work at the State Hospital in Black- bered were the Marchesseaus, Tashes,[...]Thomas and Cordelia moved to Colville Valley in Wash- have worked longer. She died in 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 G[...] |
| [...]down the river. did. It states: "His sight failed in later years and the last Fred located about[...]ay on the other side of the nine years were spent in darkness. He was a patient sufferer river. He[...]ere he lis,' as he will be remembered by hundreds in Montana, was bought a farm and married Miss[...]d 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 Supe[...]containing a message their father had been killed in an much."[...]fast and as hard as they could, couldn't get there for the[...]were married in Butte. She was born in Walla Walla, Wash-[...]on a honeymoon trip to Yellowstone Park. This was in[...]In 1906, they were blessed with their first child, H[...]died. I was told hers was the first funeral in the Wisdom[...]In 1907, Lucy Jane was born, followed by George Weld[...]in 1909. George died in Hamilton in 1988. He ranched in the[...]Fred Arthur appeared in 1911. The Else Ranch has been[...]home ever since. He married Jennie Lawrence. Next in line came Ethel Rose. She died in Great Falls after brain surgery in 1978. She was married to Dell Bacon.[...]Nettie Ellen was born in 1914. She still resides in the Big[...]in 1915. She died in 1972, in Great Falls. She was married to[...]Margaret was born in March 1917. She lived four days.[...]Anna Fay was born in 1918. She married Bert Bacon.[...]They have lived in the Big Hole all their lives. Four generations fr[...]Annie Else Andrew Fletcher Weldon Else was born in Rockland, New Brunswick, November 12, 1873, the s[...]e E. and Rebecca Siggins Else. He came to Montana in 1893. His father and brothers, Fred and Wesley ca[...]e same time. His father acquired a hardware store in Superior, Montana. Wesley didn't stay but Fred and Weldon, after a short time spent in the Bitterroot, went over the mountains into the Big Hole Basin in 1894. In 1895, Weldon located a homestead on the No[...] |
| Grace Hope was born in 1919. She married Ole Hegge- lund. They are spending their retirement years in Dillon. Lester James was born in 1921. He married Tina Carpen- ter of Walkerville.[...]The ranch was an ideal place for a large family. There was a hill for skiing and sledding, ponds for ska[...]rn, plenty of horses to ride and a stream to fish in.[...]Esterwold Ranch In January, 1925, some of the children came down wit[...]ther until they grew to adulthood. He passed away in 1960. At this writing there are 140 living descendants of this couple.[...]-LUCY ELSE OLD purchased in metal cannisters. The carbide produced gas[...]age ed a tract of 320 acres on upper Coyote Creek in 1905. He batteries, producing 32 volts. Most ranches on Horse Prairie added to his holdings in 1916 with the purchase ofland from installed[...]nts during the teen years and Katherine M. Brown, in 1917, a homestead from Anna El- they were in use until rural electrification was available in mose, in 1920, another tract from Katherine M. Brown, and the thirties. in 1929, a homestead from Jens P. Jensen. In the late teens he leased the ranch to Carl Hansen[...]-EDITH PALMER spent a few years in California. This adventure proved to be disappoin[...]Simeon Estes was born February 10, 1834, in Lewiston, Shaffner, and Don Shaffner.[...]Mary Ann Frank moved to Dillon. He was married in the early for- (Grant) Estes. In 1855 he moved to Mobile, Ala., and se- ties but t[...]cured a position as overseer and later engaged in the pur- His later years were spent doing ranc[...]sorted, 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 inev[...]in 1861 moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he worke[...]the North- was a carbide lighting system. Carbide in cube form was ern Route led by Captain J[...]Estes with four mules and a wagon, and left in his care a 12-[...]Estes opened a feed stable in Bannack. On the night of[...]Henry Plummer. The committee was successful. In his later[...]In 1865, he transported Governor Edgerton and his fa[...]River and farmed and raised livestock. In the spring of 1866, 186-Beaverhead History |
| [...]tie Wartham Oliver was born May 1, 1846, in Springfield and came to Dillon in 1880 as a young widow with two[...]Estes farmed 450 acres in wheat, oats and hay, raised fine[...]returning in the wee hours of the morning.[...]oners sentenced by · House of Representatives in 1868-69.[...]cal Justice of the Peace and the jail was located in the was also a Maine native. They arranged to meet in Council rear of his own saloon. He ran a livery stable in Dillon in Bluffs, Iowa, and were married there, then came together to 1896 and 1897 with his[...]d Soda "Uncle Sim" was instrumental in bringing several other Springs. They lived at the[...]ster Mary Ann and her property to Mr. Shineberger in 1868. husband John Tab[...]ber of the Territorial House of Representa- in 1881. The sons of his sister Rachel Eliza Dingley, Fred tives in 1868-69, he had a special concern for roads. As a and Royal Dingley, came to Dillon in the 1880s. His sister member of the Public Lands[...]out and Culver), came to the Watson Station in 1880 and was Sim's building a road from Silver Star in Madison C~nty to the housekeeper for awhil[...]sking Congress to construct a road from Box Elder in Utah living in Beaverhead, Deer Lodge and Jefferson counties. to Helena in Montana Territory. He lobbied actively for the[...]stes died five years later on May 16, 1909, at In 1871 he purchased the Watson Station at Barrett's his step-daughter's home in Dillon and is buried in Moun- from Philip Lovell and operated the stage s[...]d Fort Benton, known as the "Great Bea- to many relatives, friends and neighbors, and as Justice[...]the Peace for decades, his name can be found on many as Ryan post office, Beaverhead Valley township. marriage licenses in Beaverhead County. Sim Estes was a The wayside[...]Tendoy, chief of the Lemhi. Rebecca Estes died in 1880 and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery. They had no children. The[...]t Charles Wesley Fairbanks Watson closed in 1881, and the stage station soon after, partly pu[...]ness by the coming of the Utah North- Born in Anamoose, North Dakota, December 10, 1906, ern Ra[...]Charles W. Fairbanks came to the Centennial in 1908 with Estes was one of the wheelhorses of the Democratic Party. his parents. When they were living in Anamoose, for the two He was Justice of the Peace for many years. Sim Estes was years his mothe[...] |
| [...]Wes lived in the Valley until he married Edith Fordyce in[...]Born August 27, 1880, in Dodge Center, Minnesota, Tom Edit[...]y an older sister. As a young man he drove a dray in school with a horse and buggy. Apparently she was[...]t. Paul, Minnesota. He married Hattie Amelia Hunt in fond of kids because she used to knock Wes out of[...]she had threatened him. When more In 1908, the family came to the Centennial Valley, filing children got in school they rode horses, two per horse. It was[...]when they got corduroys built across the swamps. There were as he had free time. He did carpentering, including work on the many as 35 students (all 8 grades) in the one-room school. first dam that was put in at Hebgen Lake. Other jobs includ- Ages ran from[...]tion: well as maintenance w9rk on the roads in the Valley for taking the little boys by the heels and dipping them head Beaverhead County. first in the spring holes in the yard at school. Great fun! It In the 1920s they had a long series of earthquakes, as sounds like there just wasn't very much in the way of disci- many as 25 a day. One day had been extremely scary wit[...]el T Ford so when Doyle and Herb Buck in between. His eyes were glazed and threshing time[...]g and he finally stammered out this story: "I was in the Milk River, and on up to the Canadian border[...]ork, but and all over me. I ran to Jim's, there wasn't nobody there the food was good. Since they went to work before[...]d gone and left me here morning and mid-afternoon in addition to breakfast, lunch all alone."[...]r particularly bad day, neighbor, Monte Kent, had in the early years, and at age 14, he stacked hay all one been helping there all day. When they finally sat down to summer. He[...]was really getting her kicks. load for each trip. In the late 20s he started taking hay They[...]table, between bites. Almost everything was in motion, in- income with trapping in the winter to support his family. cludin[...]and Evelyn (2) were Someone said to Tom, "How come you're crying?" His reply alone in the house while the parents were out doing chores[...]too damn close to my eyes." wall telephones in the front room where the kids were play- When supper was over, there were still chores to do. Lan- ing and lightning came in over the wires and knocked the terns ne[...]ibuted to another escapade. Tom right in the eye and replied, "You can go straight to They[...]es and Fannie hell! I'm not going out there in the dark, alone." 188-Beaverhead History |
| [...]In her later life Hattie developed considerable arti[...]talents in watercolor painting and oils. She sold many of her[...]children. These are treasured heirlooms. Hattie died June[...]en. Farming on a diversified farm held no appeal. In his teens he enrolled in and graduated from a business col- They moved from the Valley to Armstead around 1935. lege in Zanesville and took a job with a firm in Chattanooga, They lived there until 1938, when they moved to Birch Tennessee. Creek where they lived until buying a motel in Dillon in The West, however, was calling. Intrig[...]first job was in a law office and was of short duration. His[...]brandished. Joe fled the office in terror, deciding that fron-[...]for a tenderfoot from Ohio. Born May 20, 1884, in Audubon, Minnesota, Hattie grew His business degree served him well. He held various up in an area where the last scalps were lifted by the[...]assessor and tax of this and the coinciding fears in her early childhood. collector, he travel[...]he Beaverhead State Bank. At age 29, he enlist- In 1905, she returned to Anamoose, North Dakota, and in ed and led a local contingent of volunteer[...]Townsend Carpenter Fairbanks Wright in Spokane. He was assigned to the Quartermaster and their first son, Charles Wesley, was born there. In 1908 Corps and trained at Camp Johnston, Flor[...]ial Valley and took up their home- sergeant in a Remount pack team, he served with the AEF stead in the east end of the Valley. in France. Their other eight children were all born there, delivered After the Armistice he returne[...]h Irene, who had to had met while assessing in the Centennial four years earlier. make do with h[...]ince she made a hurried On their wedding day in Butte, it was 40 below zero. The appearance. Dona[...]aller farm. A year later, however, they were back in Dillon the Murray Hospital in Butte. This isn't a very common with Jo[...]War II, owned and operated the Credit Bureau in connec- something in the way of news. It spread via the "grapevine"[...]call to see the newest Companies. He retired in 1963. resident. Jesse Marble was a rough-spoken,[...]nd Ann Faller was born March 12, 1898, in Butte to Patrick eccentric individual. Hattie pro[...]t do you think of her, Jesse?" After a few in a family of nine children, she was christened Ann[...]beration she growled, "Guess she's alright - In her early years the family ranched in the Twin Bridges but cats look pretty damn[...] |
| [...]plish the many chores they performed. The Fallers milked[...]a small group of customers in the neighborhood, raised rab-[...]morning ritual trip to the Post Office. There on the steps he[...]Farrand When Anna was 16, she enrolled in a program at Montana Normal School (now Western M[...]School course with a Bachelor of 13, 1870, in Hardin County, Ken., to Jared Farrand and Arts de[...]the summer ri where he grew up. teaching in the Centennial Valley. That session in a rural Ernest came west as a young man an[...]ths with a salary of $65 a month. She dredges in Alder Gulch. He was a very interesting person, li[...]. train at the Dell Hotel -in Dell. Passengers waiting for the Ann graduated from Montana Normal School in 1919 and train would shoot pool or play cards in the back room and became the general substitute teacher in Butte schools, lat- have someone listen for the train whistle. Then they would er a teacher in Grant School at Butte, and then taught ru[...]and catch the train. Tan had a new summer school in Basin Creek. Her youngest brother, John, pai[...]ound the lobby, Ann was an enthusiastic worker in St. Rose Church, serv- he spotted his overshoes on the biggest man there. One left ing numerous offices in the Guild and Study Clubs, while and a righ[...]ught the train. He survived a ruptured was active in the Parent-Teacher Association, American[...]cated and tireless community worker, espe- cially in Veterans' affairs. He was a charter member and fo[...]thusiastic sportsman-field and stream, as well as in baseball. It was said he had major league potential. The Dillon nine in the '20s was semi-pro and traveled often throughout the area by train, playing teams in Helena, Butte, Anaconda, Idaho Falls and S[...] |
| [...]Florence McIntyre was born January 16, 1878, in Page County, Iowa, to John McIntyre and Margare[...]onal tailoress. She attended a tailoring school in St. Louis, Mo., and used to go to well-to- do h[...]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[...]s a good outdoors person and a good driver. Not many women could drive a car in those[...]Dick Faten days. They delighted in taking their nieces and nephews It is[...]settled in the North Fork area about 1892, taking up 640 They moved to California in about 1923, where he worked acres of land. He ranched on that place for 20 years raising in the oil fields, but returned to Montana about 192[...]d ones, but they were worked on various ranches in Madison County, herding small. He use[...]a good team to make those hard They retired in Dillon where Ernest passed away June 9, trips. 1953, and Florence on May 17, 1959. They are buried in About 1915, with the help of a neigh[...]-MARGARET HAGENBARTH still in use. His other buildings were not nearly as well[...]ind of tins any more. One had "Union Lead- tana in the early 1900s from Germany. Al, born in 1872, er" written on the box, another wa[...]carrying the mail, the postmaster sent ranched in the Melrose area. Two children born to them in a report that he wasn't exactly on schedule. It was later died as infants, one in 1906 and one in 1908 and are buried in learned that Faten received a fine. However, al[...]e Christen- Frank, born Aug. 7, 1885, arrived in December of 1908. He sen) said .had he known that was all there would be to it, he worked on his brother's ranch, then homesteaded in sure wouldn't have bothered. Brow[...]ew miles from Glen. He and Alice Leary There was (and still is) a great spring on his place. It has were married in Butte in 1918. They continued to live on the never been known to dry up no matter how dry a year that homestead for awhile, but decid[...]then later to California. In 1919 he sold out to Weldon Else and moved to the Gebhard Fassler was born Feb 9, 1895, in Dietmans, Ger- Bitteroot. It was later learned that he bought a car and many, and came to Beaverhead County in 1912. He was 17 taught himself to drive[...]Plains, Montana. He returned to Germany in about 1918 with the idea of[...]ENNIE ELSE learning to make cheese but was back in Melrose working on his brother Al's ranch when Al died in 1920. Rather than make cheese, he continued to[...]Featherly Family brother's widow, Lena. In 1924 he bought the ranch which G[...] |
| They first went to Kansas, then to Utah before arriving in Montana in 1880.[...]James H. Febes Mauldin established here in 1881 on land which was the county farm. He sold it to the county in 1890 and bought the old Stodden farm, which remained in the family until 1946. James Mauldin, brother of[...]nt to the ranch of the parents. George was active in community affairs and was credited with organiz- ing agriculture committees for the improvement of the in- dustry. He brought in such mechanical aids as the potato planter and digger. He helped organize the farm institute in the county which became the county extension. In 1916 James Febes was one of the early[...]y, 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 n[...]tely following the Civil War. He had participated in Reed was the oldest. He married Gladys Gray in Butte in many battles with the Company T of the 11th Illinois V[...]Febes and a partner found $3,000 worth of gold in one where he started the Beaverhead Bar Supply. He died in month at the Alder Gulch diggings. He was also active in 1953.[...]aw and order to Bannack and Georgia, born 1884 in Butte, married Frank Hendrick in Virginia City. After placer mining dwindled[...]partners with a Mr. Hinch. They engaged in the horse busi- William was born in Dillon in 1889 and worked on the ness and had their[...]om Western Montana College. Albert R. was born in 1895 and married Sarah Hasting in There is a story about his nickname of "Pickhandle Jim"[...]d at the corrals with road grader. He also worked in the city water department. a broken wheel on his wagon. Mr. Febes gave him another Sarah worked in the Dillon Steam Laundry for many years. wheel on the promise of it being ret[...]e and when he returned two years Fred was born in 1894 in Dillon and married Josephine later asking t[...]s refused, men- Davis. He worked for the city for many years, then moved to tioning the broken promis[...]grand-nephew of Mr. Febes, who was Cecil, born in 1897, homesteaded on the Hoffman Gulch instrumental in bringing Joe to Dillon. Mr. Febes remained and worked on the ranch for many years before moving to a bachelor all of his life. He died in Dillon June 10, 1912 and California. is buried in Mountain View Cemetery. Martha was born in 1905 and went to several colleges. She[...]to Seattle and later divorced. Walter was born in 1899 and married Roxie Goodwin in[...]James A. Fellows came to southwestern Montana in the was sold in 1946. The couple had two step-children, one[...]ative of England, he was Kenith Featherly, living in Dillon. Two other boys, Walter, active in the Dillon St. Elmo Commandary 7 and acted as Jr.[...]uple. Commander of the Guard in 1896. Louise Featherly died in 1931 and George in 1944. Clara Anderson was a Swedish i[...]father was a cobbler. This was in the late 1880s. She worked (From the Dillon Tribu[...]al Edi- as a cook for railroad crews in Lima, Red Rock, Dillon,[...] |
| [...]d Major ed in a bustle of steam, clanking side-rods, ringing bells and, Role in Lima's History[...]CM converted to gas, this busi- Lima was prepared in 1976 by Ken Marler, who also ness[...]a. Yard engines were taken off. The ing appearing in this issue. Marler is a longtime em-[...]removed from ployee of Union Pacific, now living in Idaho. service. This action w[...]same property entered Montana Territory at Monida in March time, the turntable, too small[...]0 and the first locomotive maintenance facilities in Mon- in service, was removed. tana were erected at Lima t[...]heels of this, the round- first wooden roundhouse in 1902, a new brick roundhouse house was then too small. Business increased. Engine as- was finished in 1903. This roundhouse was modern for its[...]rose to a total of 11 Mikado and 2-10-2 time and in it all necessary repairs could be made to the class locomotives most of the time. Many engines were nev- largest power in use, the Consolidation type locomotive. er housed except for monthly, quarterly, semi-annual in- Number 12 stall was the "drop pit" where an e[...]was rocked by the savage, well as to connections in various places in the Lima railyard. driving thunder of 3500 cla[...]o- Although the roundhouse was a big structure in which 12 motive. This engine was equally a[...]coal But diesels came to the North End in 1952. The round- chute were a considerable comple[...]switch yard itself was even larger. Five tracks, in addition to house, among road crews, at the depot. Slow attrition con- the main line, comprised the yard. In it, yard engines bullied tinued. Train[...] |
| Dr. L. C. Ford in his Lima Drug Store and Post Office ( 1910) mechanical foremen were eliminated in the 1960's. Six more There is an irony which lies almost unnoticed in the gone.[...]as cut from daily to tri-weekly ser- shakers in 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 appurt[...]he unsuccessful attempt thus became reality. town in Southwest Montana.[...]s "RD," house was stripped of machines and burned in 1957. The taken from Alerdyce. Telegra[...]he remaining yard tracks, except No. l lead, went in 1972. Spring Hill, "RD" for Lima. Besides t[...]only the house track, the stockyard But there are memories for some of us. There is the sound, track and the "wye" on which an occ[...]A three-story ice house, 20 by 40 feet, was sold in 1960. uphill towards Idaho. In memory will remain the mounting The water tank was sold in the early 1960s. Of 15 houses tension of[...]ain. The depot will go as soon as the In memory men swarm around a ghostly engine. An air-[...]agency. Then it will be sold or torn down ings in quick, explosive exhalations of compressed air. H[...]cinder pit. Coal cascades from a chute apron in a dusty black $0, the bone, muscle and blood w[...]into a dry tank. from losing the largest payroll, in dollar amount, there are And in the dark night a conductor twirls a twinkling, ot[...]of the town's tle. And Morse will clatter in a sounder, "RD RD RD," some three emergency medic[...]For the people left behind in Lima, time is passing. Steam So, Lima, which o[...]dvance, fell power is but 28 years ago. Yet many people now in Lima victim to it. The advent of bigger, better steam engines was never had the opportunity to glory in the rampaging thun- instrumental in the closing of helper stations at Dillon,[...]e hesitant, poetic rhythm of the one-lung gas for many years. engine powering the line shafts in the machine shop. They 194-Beaverhead History |
| [...]narrow margin. Unsuccessful in that proposal, the railroad[...]then suggested building 130 miles of track in the territory in AND[...]proximately $1 million in freight charges per year and it was From the time of the Stevens survey in 1853-55, Montan- thought that the railroad would reduce that amount by one- ans had lived in the hopes of a railroad. With a population[...]ased, When Montana's silver mining boomed in the late 1870's, and when mining began to convert[...]the railroads became much more interested in the region. or quartz, an actual demand for rail[...]mines around Butte and Glendale were particularly in- proached Montana in 1879. Both companies proposed volved, as they were producing ore of such quality and in building to the heart of the silver mini[...]ne had the shorter route and product to smelters. There were no smelters in Montana at reached Montana first. that time, the closest being in Utah. As the Utah[...]on Pacific that obtain a right of way. Many different proposals were !!lade had completed its[...]l hit upon the idea of giving the Great Salt Lake in 1869. However, people in Montana were Indians free passes to rid[...]ait Missouri River at Bismarck, Dakota Territory, in 1873. Be- for another train and so on. ca[...]auge line soon reached Eagle Rock (Idaho remained there for about five years. Around 1878 the line[...]at the same tana Territory was aproached in the fall of 1879, and the time construction was starting in Utah to extend a line construction hea[...]nes. By 1878 the line had forced a change in plans. been acquired by the Union Pacific and ren[...]tion headquarters stopped at Beaver and Northern. In the spring of 1878, the railroad construct-[...]sked the legislature of Montana to subsidize them in the convenient to do so. Terminus was lo[...]d to pass it by a lon, and Melrose, all in Montana.[...]named Benjamin Franklin White. White, a man of many of hot steel, hot steam and hot oil.[...]Pacific engaged er, and a fruit grower. In 1879, he was the principal agent for railroad art[...]e calendar, but it was fated not to be. But it is in a booklet freight wagons for shipment to Butte, Helena, or other the railroad published in its Centennial year. He says of it, points in Montana. "One of the most beautiful spots on the[...]s and washermen were And they will be strangers in this, the first railroad town residents of Terminus. The town usually consisted of about ever in Montana Territory.[...] |
| dentist), and assorted hat makers and jewelers. There was On September 8, 1880, the Terminus b[...]neared for a lumber dealer, kept busy unloading many carloads of Rattlesnake Cliffs. Included in the group were B.F. White, material.[...]- was expected that the first rail would be laid in Montana on chase. Deacon invited them to eat,[...]om it. William Dodge, the dentist, led the crowd in a few songs and Several of the group objected[...]tles of champagne. Telegraph sion then and there. Sebree and Morse took Deacon aside, messages wer[...]The land was surveyed and layed out in lots. Helena and arrival of railroad transportati[...]ion of lots was planned for the following Monday. In honor Helena began to promote their cities to the[...]the decision to build to Butte, because the mines 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 town that was machinery. In September the Northern Pacific switched its[...]e construc- for the property was recorded in the county court house in tion superintendent, ran into a formidable proble[...]ded down the Beaverhead Dillon townsite are Howard Sebree, Edward S. Ferris, Sam- River, they[...]of the businessmen of Ter- Kupfer paid $400 in gold for the first Dillon lot at the south- minus[...]ver. chased nearby lo~s· for similar prices. In less than a day most Dunn and the businessmen[...]shipping point for freight and passenger traffic in The instant town of Dillon took shape in ten days. The Montana. The businessmen kne[...] |
| [...]s all through Dillon. loaded on flat cars, moved in and became the leading hostel- Dillon became[...]e longest narrow Gallatin Valley. gauge line in the world. Utah and Northern crews operated In the spring of 1881, the railroad continued north[...]d bag- Butte. It was rebuilt to standard gauge in 1887 and merged gage cars, fourteen passenger co[...]Considerable permanent construction took place in Dil- 8:20 A.M. daily for a twenty-four hour trip to Ogden, the lon over the next several years. In September of 1883 the northbound arrived at 6:40 P.M. Scheduled freight trains Tribune reported there was nearly a continuous stretch of also traveled[...], fanned out of Dillon to provide passen- out many of the early wooden buildings. When they burned,[...]er thirty- the same site by the Metlen Hotel in 1897. The block donat- three million pounds of f[...]The first brick school was constructed in 1883 where the aside free sites for churches and[...]classes. The original building was replaced in 1905 and 1913 corpse." The Dillon postmark remai[...]The Mary Innes School was constructed in 1921. C.L. May 31, 1881, Dillon got its own post[...]ool was built on the site of the present building in In January of 1881, Beaverhead County Representative[...]. began his house about 1883 and finished it in 1884 or 1885. Residents of Dillon quickly acted[...]through the He later added several large homes in the same area for the legislature and the electi[...]editor of the it was destroyed by fire. Many brick store buildings were Sheridan, Mt. Messeng[...]pa- built along Montana and Idaho streets. In 1885, Dillon be- per called the Tribune, helped.[...]d the recognized leader of the town ers who were in the valley when the railroad arrived,[...]as governors or lieutenant governors. Among them are R.B. free of cost to the taxpayers for five year[...]. Hazelbaker, George M. held on the first Monday in May (1881) and Dillon became Gosman, and[...]Territory of Hawaii. $14,000 courthouse in Bannack became the Meade Hotel. The[...]rapidly and the group of far- eral things worked in Dillon's favor to cause it to prosper sighte[...]mited access from several directions. As long as there was no other railroad in Montana, the passenger (Compiled from information contained in various[...] |
| [...]is the county seat of Beaverhead County, quarters in Wisdom, Mont., and in the store at Dewey. I where we lived. We[...]friend, Dave Hirschy, Wise River, and rode in the inside compartment. I don't who was raised, l[...]t Wisdom was the main the side of the road. In those days horses were afraid of headquarters; there they had a blacksmith shop for repair- auto[...]se it ing the equipment and harness, and kept the many head of was a curved-dash Oldsmobile, pro[...]nd pick up the mail sack for the ranch. There was only one other automobile in the area and that The drivers were all friendly,[...]as owned by a fellow named Strowbridge, who lived in any late-breaking news. Wisdom, and it caused many a runaway of horse rigs. I think In the morning when the stage left Divide headed for[...]When we got to Divide, the stage pulled in to the Wunder- that team at Dewey to pick up the[...]derlick took off the lead team and set me up in the driver's took the stage to Ralston, where the[...]team. railroad depot. I can still remember how scared I was be- This team took the stage to Squa[...]Divide stage at dinner at Ralston, going on from there to said that drivers as young as 16 would[...]n his name but, when stage line operating. Horses are like tires, you have to have I talked to Dave[...]e evening after he had made his For excitement there was the occasional runaway, like the run he was murdered at a bar in Wisdom by a young Mexi- time the stage team broke[...]the road supervi- Mexican fell ow was taken in the wrong way and the Mexican sor (my uncle Seth[...]eld place just out of Wise River, was rather late in the front axle broke, it left the horses free, an[...]lines. that day. There was no mortician. The body hd been pre- The dr[...]body from a big box filled with ice and place it in a home- the Galbraith Grade, near the Big[...] |
| [...]near present-day Gardiner. In 1898 Haynes, together with[...]undary line of Mon- photographer, recognized that there was no tourist service tana and Idaho. M[...]rough the 40-mile-long Centennial Val- carpenters in the neighborhood. ley, over the Divide, past Henry's Lake in Idaho, and back It was a bad time for me and I[...]ix to eight day round trip from Monida depend- In later years I talked to Otis Mudd and my friend,[...]lled my from the train at Monida where there was a hotel and a friend. They both told the same[...]ould stay and entertain followed the murderer and how they corralled him in a themselves until the stage left.[...]ce. Thirty miles out of Monida the stage went but many people doubted it.[...]akeview which had a hotel, general store, post In my memories I think of Divide, the town where the[...]ngs and a the coal for the Divide Pumping Station in the days when stable to the M-Y for a l[...]med Bob Duff worked for Haynes and would and from there to Butte. Teams and wagons hauled the coal[...]driver would take the whip from him and how the man held when they had no more need for it. it in his hand if he was experienced. The drivers were[...]now a livable residence that still coiled in a certain direction and if the need arose to use[...]legend has it, could flick a fly the rail siding are all gone. of[...]ip and never touch the The warehouse platforms in early spring were lined with horse's ear.[...]hauled them to Wisdom before haying season began in the durable coaches made. They had a s[...]the hide along the back. This suspension resulted in the crossing stood the small general store, owned[...]e railroad stockyards The stage line had many horses, up to 200 some people equipped with cattl[...]es. say, which they would keep pastured in the valley. There Divide was the railhead for shipping cattle from[...]a fresh one was available. Some settlers in the valley, such as In 1916 a carload of Yellowstone Park elk was shippe[...]ves as drivers to was the starter of the elk herd in that area. the stage[...] |
| [...]trance was $12.50, but it might vary depending on how well by horses using fresnos and in the large cuts they used black a passenger knew t[...]did suffer a few accidents and runaways. There was a large section house on the right side west[...]Grant while the station at Grant was a box car. There were Lake, the team took off down a mountain road, went around ore bins in Grant and the ore was then loaded in freight cars. a sharp bend too fast, and the stag[...]Woman's Hill. there was also a water tank on the north side of the Br[...]nnial Valley was ter- of the Barrett Hospital in Dillon. However, distance and minated because of[...]here ore hauled the first passenger train arrived in the West Yellowstone from Goldstone and Sag[...]down. The M-Y Stage Line Idaho Divide. There was also a coal dock at Metlen's to continued to operate in the Park until the end of the 1916 handle Medicine Lodge coal but there were too many clink- season after which horse-drawn transportation in the Park ers and rock. The scale for weighi[...]ing was by far the mainstay of settlers who lived there. Gilmore & Pittsburgh |
| [...]. He had already done the pro- dollars and it was in debt about twice that amount when it ject I h[...], here is the product railroad shut down sometime in 1940. thanks to the ski[...]The first Mason to set foot in what is now Beaverhead NA THANIEL PITT[...]record of Masons in the county is noted until gold was[...]Creek near Bannack on July 28, "Father of Masonry in Mon- 1862, by[...]- iel Pitt Langford journeyed to St. Paul, Minn., in 1854 and curity and all the other marks of civ[...]t completely a society of the Appointed second in command of the first Fisk Expedi- individual, and there was no order. Law was the law of each tion which left St. Paul in 1862, he conducted (with two for himself an[...]tate of things. tana's designation as a territory in 1864, Langford was ap- Secretly and powerfully[...]man lena Lodges, he was appointed Grand Historian in 1866 by dared lift a hand against them; and[...]knowing his neighbor, was extremely careful in all his ac- meeting in Virginia City. In 1869, he was accorded two ma- tions with that[...]The first death from natural causes in the camp came on Langford was a member of the[...]lowstone Park what was then called "mount~in fever," and he requested marvels in August of 1870. He was appointed the first super-[...]ves us intendent of Yellowstone Park and remained in that post just the simple facts, bare and[...]elt, when a skinny, Langford returned to St. Paul in 1876 and died there in 1911 fever-shrunken claw was thrust out from th[...]hand was grasped in the long familiar Strong Grip. We can[...]in due and ancient form in accordance with the last sad and BEAVERHEAD COUNT[...]initially began to collect all the ing how many members of the fraternity were in the camp; papers and facts I could find. I was about halfway but in compliance with his promise, he sent out a call "[...]I found a paper my father the Masons in the gulch to meet on Yankee Flat at the ca[...] |
| So many Masons responded to the call that there was not have been enlisted. room enough f[...]ace. They The Grand Lodge of Nebraska in due 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 Montana was held "in a little old of George Armstrong, M.W. Grand Master, dated April 27, log cabin on Grasshopper Creek in back of Jack Oliver's old 1863, it declare[...]never met under this charter. It remained in the possession cious attentions of Plummer and hi[...]within the Grand Lodge archives. It, along with many other guarded secrecy of tyled lodge. Plummer him[...]oyed by a a petition to join the lodge - probably in order that he might fire. keep the lodge's activities in sight; and while his position as In the next year or so, lodges had been formed at Vi[...]variously from Kansas and Colorado, and in 1865, these fraternity would have been willing to[...]Bannack brethren petitioned the Montana Grand There is definite proof of the fear in which the road agents Lodge for a charter early in 1871, and on October 3, 1871, held the fraternity[...]thout equivocation, that of the 102 murders which are thereby formed Bannack Lodge 16; First[...]n, George M. Brown, one of those 102 was a Mason! There is also the definite Junior Warden, P.H[...]Bannack at this time was the largest community in Bea- It is also my belief that the lodge had a far greater part in verhead County. The lodge was quite active, both in its own the actual organization of the Vigilantes than present day internal affairs and in the life of the town. We note that the historians seem to realize. You will read that five men in brethren erected their hall in 1874, building it in a joint Virginia City, one man in Nevada, and four in Bannack, undertaking with the school[...]is is accepted as quite a remarkable In the year 1873 another camp was founded in the moun- coincidence.[...]rthwestern part of the Beaverhead. Billy To me there is too much evidence, both direct and indi-[...]t which he located and named the meeting was held in Virginia City about the 20th of Decem- "Trapper Lode." There was soon an inrush of prospectors ber, 1863; the[...]23, 1863, but the men and found rich ore in quantity on a high limestone mountain of Bannack[...]ctions indicate 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 came int[...]lars a ton, was hauled to Corinne, Utah, and from there were known, Sanders, who had been at the first meeting in shipped to Wales for treatment. In 1875, however, Charles Virginia on the 20th, upon[...]ected a small, 20-ton furnace at the taking place in their sister towns and secured the coopera-[...]tten, the numbering 1500 to 1800 people. There was a water-works Masons were meeting at this tim[...]tection furnished by the company, a the only ones in Bannack where Vigilante recruits could[...] |
| [...]ed 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 hotels, three dry goods stores, seven[...]le began to eight grocery stores, and 13 saloons. There was a bank, Noah decline in the early 1900s, and it became necessary for our[...]rug stores, two shoe stores, a fine brethren there to give up their charter. At a stated Commu- jewe[...]" Glen- Grand Master S.C. Kenyon present and in charge of the dale also boasted a fine brass band[...]Robert J. Hathaway, grand master of Masons in the State as, Treasurer, and Rufus A. Furster, secretary. There were of Montana, was present and took charg[...]of Dillon 23 and Bannack 16, and informed the In 1880 the Utah and Northern, a narrow gauge railwa[...]dges for the remainder of stopped for the winter, there came into being our present the current Ma[...]odge of Montana, AF&AM. ry. We see that in its three-quarters of a century the lodge Christi[...]30; William C. Orr, S.W.; W.R. Gil- unique in Montana Masonry. Our history and activities, bert[...]through our brethren of Glendale and Bannack, are the tary; George W. Dart, S.D.; F.F. Coyner, J.D.; John Gannon, oldest in the state. No other lodge has been so colorful an[...]s so exciting a past, and we can take quiet pride in the fact In addition to Bro. Mead, I note the names of Gilber[...]ich might be of interest can be listed; In 1893 Masonic brethren at Lima applied for a chart[...]. It was he from whom the townsite listed are: V.W. Grace, worshipful master; J.A. Boyd, senior[...]Dean, secre- We note that the lodge at first met in Dart's Hall - but soon tary. From 13 members in 1893, Evergreen Lodge No. 45 at there was thought of acquiring larger quarters, and in June Lima has grown to 42 as of the l[...] |
| [...]thren who gave o much to u · and to our land. 45 in the latest Masonic census. The founding officers were: The roots of our fraternity are deep in the past, and from the Charles E. Miller, worship[...]Charles E. McFarlin, ancient wells the water are drawn to nourish the pre ent. senior warden; Will[...]However, a Ma on we mu t ever remember that we are George Woodworth, secretary.[...]Row 4: Edith Hansen, Christine Hansen with in- sen, unknown, unknown, Hans Mikkelsen, Marie[...]ce Han- son Ralph, Margaret Nels en and small son How- sen, Edward Jensen, Margerete Je[...]unknown, unknown, (Note: There are forty-five stars in the flags.) 204-Beaverhead History |
| [...]membership in the mid-70s.[...]that to _this southwestern corner of Montana came many Danish people, seeking their fortunes. It was onl[...]d the first generation of Danish families develop in this area. To preserve and promote their Danis[...]Permis- sion was asked of the Danish Brotherhood in America to begin a lodge which would offer benefi[...]hey prepared for naturalization and citi- zenship in this huge state of Montana. A charter granting[...]Baseball - Sagebrush Style received in December of 1908, with 31 members enrolled. On[...]and probably courted. The memorable photo, taken in the Bishop Precinct to celebrate the New Year, the new of such a group with Bald Mountain in the background, is[...]This photo of the Bannack Team was taken in 1914: Front[...]ensen Ranch (having a A July, 1888, item in the Salmon (Idaho) Recorder-Her- large three-story brick home built in 1892) were favorite ald noted, "The First National Bank in Dillon received from areas for Danish picn[...] |
| [...]drill must be turned in the hole. As the holes deepened, Early-day Fourths in Dillon lon[...]m their coach, The Fourth-of-July celebrations in our town ranked 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. A many miles around, most of them riding in wagons or bug- good team could make the[...]e on the main street, where florid oratory. There would be a lull in the crash of explo- the celebration would be held[...]ion was centered on the All afternoon there would be races and at night the Indi- railroad to see the special trains come in from Butte. The ans would stage a war dan[...]y crawl into ed with members of the Butte militia in their blue uniforms, bed after the last lit[...]ontana Band, said to be one of the two best bands in the nation at that time. When the Butte militia fell in and[...]lly opened. A parade would follow the militia. There would be our Before the turn of the c[...]drill team from the Woodmen Lodge sent in widely distributed shale beds covering the southe[...]County. The vast amount of high- actual Indians, in full regalia, from the Lemhi reservation in quality, oil-bearing sha~e gave reason to bel[...]upright while Eph Stoller climbed to In 1898, the first attempt to drill for oil was made in the the top and slid back to the ground. Perhaps[...]y disbanded. Thus, the fever the sidewalk, placed there for people who were tired of subsided[...]tween the Every small boy had a ."dynamite cane," in which small years 1910-15 with the lo[...]structures ranging from the tiny ones which came in bunches to the "cannon crackers" about 15 or 16 inches in length and about four inches in diameter. I remember that someone put a large cra[...]r keg. Pieces of that keg blew half a block away. There were 14 saloons, and all did a flourishing busine[...]'clock, the scheduled performances would be- gin. There were straight races and novelty races, both on foot and on horseback, all taking place in the main street. Prizes were generous. Double-[...]Butte would compete for the world's championship in rock drilling. A team consisted of two men, one t[...]s were drilled into chinery for their plant in 1917. Note north end of an enormous block of gran[...]edge blow, the present-day depot in background. 206-Beaverhead History |
| [...]oil However, a strong flow of gas was encountered in one of the wells at 100 feet; although a hopeful[...]Co. worked dili- gently sinking prospecting wells in and around the shale bed in Smallhorn Canyon, two of which were drilled to de[...]out realizing that their efforts were not totally in vain as it was their testing which demon- strated that the shale bed in Smallhorn was the richest and largest known deposit in the United States. Properly re- fined, each cubic yard of shale would yield 25 gallons of oil, which in turn would yield a handsome profit. This informa-[...]and again the fever began to intensify. Early in 1917 C. W. Robnett and Alex Walker of Butte, Anna[...]llon Oil Co. Dillon people to buy shares of stock in the company. It was[...]ame major stockholders and Following are the names of the trustees and major share- actively participated in the venture. holders:[...]F. Bishop, Charles The refining plant, located in the Smallhorn Canyon, was Bennington, Roy W[...]gs of the local small shareholders (of which there were over 200) process as its secrecy was well gu[...]fficient enough to keep Maybe sometime in the future!! the venture successful. The company was declared insolvent in 1920 and Mr. Robnett left Dillon, probably to loo[...]d leases and trans- fortune was realized in the sale of liquor to Indians. One of ferred all[...]of a horse was four gallons of that stuff. main in the area, and economically benefit the ent[...] |
| [...]A strong fellow hooked the "go-devil" in place behind the[...]lon with ice from a small pond and tiny ice-house in a more pay was received. swamp northwest of the city. An old ox-bow in the Beaver- As the blocks went over the[...]the top of the ice for insulation. occupied in '80), barns and other buildings were built. The[...]e largely pasture for a few horses and Cards in the windows- a red cardboard rectangle about milk[...]other assorted domes- 8X10 inches, with ICE in big black block letters, and S.S. tic animals were cared for there. Patterson in smaller type below. Of course orders were also[...]ss came to the top when the pond was first filled in John Holm was the last and best liked of t[...]rom the back of the truck to thirsty kids. caught many finny beauties. In the beginning a team pulled the big loads[...] |
| [...]lower Bea- Beaverhead County, but anthropologists are even now verhead River to below the ju[...]ir forebears because of their recent acqui- found in conjunction with a camp of primitive man on the[...]hanged their way headwaters of Horse Prairie, and there is a Medicine ring, of life, allowing them to[...]ice sheets some 10,000 years ago. hangs where many artifacts have been found, and the roofs Arrow[...]the Avondale culture dating about of the caves are still blackened by smoke from their fires. 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 used wickiups made of brush, old poles, cov- shone pottery was found in a cave on Sheep Creek. ered with bar[...]dians from the around the county, though many have disappeared having Lemhi on Horse Prairie an[...]been destroyed or rotted away; however, some are still Sacajawea Park at the head of Trail Creek commemorates standing. this moment in history. The Blackfoot Indians, recent new-[...]r and used the same rocks to hold down their were in this area. teepees. We also are able to find artifacts not only of arrow- The Flathead Indians summered in the Big Hole Basin heads, but also tools,[...]needles, stone mauls and horse hob- would travel in large bands for mutual protection from the bles. A broken spear thrower was found in a cave along with Blackfoot into the buffalo coun[...]e buffalo bone meat chippers. The artifacts are those of the recent hunt would return to the moun[...]ent forebears. break up into small bands and live in areas where there was Trapping brought the fur trappers and t[...]y for them. Later, due to the depre- country. Many of the early trappers joined Indian tribes, datio[...]of Nez Perce Indians and can still be found in certain groves of trees. was whipped by them Augu[...]ndians were displaced, most famous Indian battles in the State of Montana, and is eventually to be confined on reservations. Many of the Indi- one of only two markers in Beaverhead County to mention ans frequented early butcher shops in Bannack and Virginia the Indians. The marker for Beaverhead Rock is also in City to obtain the offal that the butcher discarded. Their Beaverhead County, but the rock itself is in Madison Coun- game was gone, the fur was gone[...]head Indians, leisurely hunting on the For many years the Indians would travel through the area w[...]or what they could find, snaring rabbits, fishing in The Beaverhead Valley was one of the favorite[...]hemselves, but supported each other from the in a poker game with the P & 0 Chinese cook a[...] |
| [...]essional photographer who had a successful studio in Dil-[...]Emphrey William "Bob" Hildreth was 11 years old in[...]y originally lived over by Salmon as Indian Heads in Beaver- p[...]the unique site of two unusu- If they came in by way of Pass Creek, they would always al natural phenomena. camp there. They would come in the early fall when the pine An Indian head silhouette of a chief in full ceremonial nut seeds were ready to be g[...]osity 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 Lemhi Valley. To this day, there are still cent decades. The silhouette is outlined in sage brush on the remnants of their teepees in Pass Creek. Most of the hides high hill at the old Dave Metlen ranch a few miles west of are off of the poles due to age, but some of the poles are still Clark Canyon Dam and not far from the site[...]reek and obtained from Shoshoni Indians who lived in the area. when they left they would go[...], and back to Fort Hall, making a circle. details are remarkably plain. In fact, the huge image has The group of In[...]actually Roy Tendoy and their little groups. There were about 20 have been the work of an Indian artist or group. The region adults plus children in each group. The 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 migrations. In reality, a next. They always were accompanied b[...]sh would camp across from the white hill, in the open area image retaining its appearance for many years. Laura Tol- across from the Hildreth shearing sheds, in the meadow by man Scott, who ranched near[...] |
| [...]n wound around a the skull had a hole in it. If you wanted yellow leather, they amrod of[...]hide was removed by rolling the hide in ashes, then wetting 1 Their women wore their hair unbraided and parted in the it with warm water for several days be[...]such as polished bones, animal claws worked in this jacket in the winter time. He still has it. nd teeth, por[...]why he didn't go to the timber for fire ~athers in their hair. The horses were also dressed with[...]from the saddle and bridles. Bob how wood would let sparks fly and burn little holes in They liked all types of strenuous games, love[...]bone, would help take the hair off lieved in spanking children because they didn't want the[...]camped in the meadow he would be awakened in the middle[...]The Hildreths have many stories of their lives around the[...]In the early 1930s as Roy's little band was heading[...]road worker near Dell, because Roy wanted to camp in t heir[...] |
| Native Americans in Bea- the basin found many Indian artifacts at the site. In later[...]In 1974afieldcrewfrom the UniversityofMontanaArchae-[...]the States, about the time of the Mormon uprising in the terri- Tukadika Shoshone Tribe, and in[...]ng Indians", that is, they travelled from here to there bance.[...]l and transport. The arti- Stmrrtparty was caught in the midst. It could neither return facts found in the floor of the cave as deep as 16 inches to Cal[...]e head of Medicine Lodge. These lodges were still in use now sits. Here they spent the winter in a large Indian camp, by the Shoshone Indians after white settlers moved into the living in elk-skin tepees, and eating wild game.[...]quiet and friendly. They spent their In the years 1910-1919 a small wickiup was still sta[...]' deep) was located about a hundred yards "Hands" in which one player would take a polished bone in north of the present two plunges. A smal[...]hand to the other until he felt feet tall was in place in the trees a few yards west of the he had sufficie[...]present larger plunge. It was destroyed in the early Twen- then guess which hand held the bo[...]These small lodges differ from tepees, in that they are two streams, between the townsite of Dillon and L[...]for the other suitable brush, and they are immovable. Tepees are a camp.[...]Artifacts have been found on Dillon's west side. In an pine trees for framework and covered[...]e for a "buffalo jump" or "buf- Indian occupation in such settings can be found in most falo fall." The pishkin was a cli[...]form a V. The wings consisted of piles of rocks, in this area include: obsidian, basalt, flint, chert[...]made stone tools and that evidence is inches deep in grass the runway narrowed, the animals were forced over the cliff. roots. Only in areas of soil erosion are they presently visible. At the bottom of the dr[...]all. Specific circumstances and prop- Wickiups in Beaverhead[...]Many hands were required to skin the animals, remove Wickiup poles are still in place, in a secluded cave near meat from the bones,[...]for sewing garments, hafting tools facing north, in a narrow part of the canyon. Early settlers in and securing arrowheads and feathers to shafts in arrow 212-Beaverhead History |
| [...]d A roller skating craze swept the nation in the mid 1880s over a wood fire. Another method of[...]delightful Pishkins were used over a period of many centuries until sensation superinduced by the excitement of music and the the Indians acquired horses in large numbers. They, then, proximity of a[...]arrows or spears. some figure gracefully sways in unison and motion with your One pishkin site in Beaverhead County is a sheer cliff on own to[...]ned by the Montana De- thority asserts there is no danger of producing a concussion partment o[...]row. Concerned citizens began to worry when their are remains of a primitive game trap, apparently buil[...]ure deer and possible mountain sheep. The trap is in the adults also began to skip worship ser[...]y out from the local pulpits. corral. The runways are bordered by cribbed logs and follow By Ma[...]The animals were forced into the run- nipped in the bud and the youth of Dillon were warned to wa[...]customized for these men and women and boys in such trunk was wrapped with a band of mud a few i[...]ity. Catho- fell the tree. Most. of the logs used in the structure average lic and Methodist clergy[...]s of the 1940's, but enough remained to determine how the trapping worst kind. was accomplished.[...]d of March, 1885, the skating rink owners were In 1973, the University of Montana Archaelogical Survey fighting back. They had invested $50,000,000 in rinks across made a study of the trap. They were[...]ouble James LaMarche of Melrose, who first saw it in 1903 while continued to plague the rinks as the press and pulpit came working in the Lost Creek area. James D. Keyser of the[...]tailed report of its construction crowds that 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." L[...]The Dillon Pavilion closed for the summer season in late[...]ss and prepare themselves for the fall reopening. In 214-Beaverhead History |
| [...]ered one of the best rink structures in the territory. A sec-[...]gas explosion in a stove in the saddle shop. The religious[...]heir foolishness." The fire served a dual purpose in ....,_[...].~ Dillon. After years of fire losses, many that destroyed entire t:"-4[...]tion in Dillon. The foundation of the Dillon Brewery had[...]< experience a resurgence in Dillon when the Dilmont Park ...... t:"-4[...]~ opened and operated in the 1930s and 1940. O>[...]- - The DILi.ON BR/1.~S IIANI> will 'be in • nth:n,t:mcc; al~o \he DILLON[...]and again in the bunkhouse at the Dave Metlen ranch on the[...]the bartender, and Metcalf were quarreling. There was bad "Dillon Skating Pa[...]ct and were in the yard at the time of the shooting were Noah th[...]Bruce Watters), who operated a stage line between in its own frightful way. On April 15, 1886, early in the morn- Red Rock[...]hearing the two shots, found the place in disorder. A window Firefighters found it impos[...]ent on the ion and spectators said it melted away in a sheet of hot[...]. flame. A carpenter shop next door was torn down in an Frank[...]with blood. Brain matter was oozing from the hole in[...] |
| [...]and of his deliberate, premedi- Noah Faubert, in his testimony, described a homemade tat[...]saloon to the house." pistol, then and there loaded and charged with gun powder Mrs. Hunter, in the dwelling adjacent to the saloon, was an[...]band was dead. She 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[...]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[...]off as aforesaid, then and there, willfully, feloniously, and of Metcalf and H[...]penetrate and woundhim, the said Frank G. Hunter, in and bloody rag over one thumb which had adeep cut[...]nk G. been bleeding intermittently since the fray in the saloon. Hunter, giving to him, the sai[...]mb accounted for the blood seen all about there, with the leaden bullets aforesaid, so as aforesaid dis- in the saloon and in the yard. Frank Hunter's blood was char[...]f the pistol aforesaid, by the said Paul confined in a pool beneath the telephone. Metcalf, in and upon the left side of the head of him, the Paul was in an emotional state. He felt the pressure of[...]tal wounds he, the said Frank G. Hunter, then and there George Metlen tried unsuccessfullyto persuade him[...]s gun .... I think I can get away .... " in the manner and by the means aforesaid, feloniousl[...]and murder. Contrary to the form of the statute in such case was located in Missouri, his home state. He was arrested for[...]r and returned to Montana for trial. He would sit in state of Montana." the county jail five m[...]Paul Metcalf was found guilty of murder in the second County, Kansas. Beaverhead was billed[...]s: degree and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Lawyers for the Brown County sheriff, $13[...]won a new trial. Paul again was secured in his familiar The[...]County Attorney Everton J. In January of 1898, the Beaverhead County sheriff wa[...]and attor- notified that one Paul Metcalf was in custody in Oklahoma. neys f[...]of Beaverhead, on or about the In 1898, a new county attorney, Joseph B. Poindexter[...]the county of Beaverhead, in EDIT[...]the state of Montana, in and upon one Fra[...]Hunter, then and there and Beaverhead CountyCriminal Re[...] |
| [...]The same year the Sunday School was organized. Many[...]Still there was no permanent pastor to lead the flock until[...]dent pastor. Until 1898, there was no parsonage in connec-[...]help in this project, certificates of $1.00 shares were s[...]at the Baptist church would become a great factor in the[...]been lacking in many of the necessary furnishings. Soon the First Baptist Church in Dillon, Built l886 chairs gave way[...]s, the Ladies Aid Society had been a vital factor in the were those who believed in churches and schools to make church growth[...]ng this period, the church carried on despite the many from time to time, holding services in homes, in the school hardships and discouragements along the way. house, in the skating rink, in fact anywhere they might Ministers thro[...]k a location for the meeting place. They reported there were five lots on the corner of Idaho and Sebree[...]y, which is still held by the church congregation in 1989. After its organization, the church was w[...], during which time services were frequently held in either the opera house or the school house, which[...]J. McCune, who would become John T. Dingley's son-in-law the next summer. The foundation for the building was laid in October, 1885. The dimensions were 40 x 80[...] |
| [...]MMA St. Rose of Lima Catholic |
| [...]In 1901 the church was enlarged by the addition of t[...]transept, chancel, the vestry, and choir room. In the spring[...]James became a self-supporting parish. Also in 1911, the[...]Guild Hall was built, one of the few in the Diocese at that[...]one time, it contained a stage and many community activi-[...]basketball and roller skating have been held there.[...]ilt to As early as 1880, plans were being made in Dillon for hold all the metal and wooden[...]el S. diameter by 3" tall to 5 or 6 inches in diameter by 6 feet tall. Tuttle, who started the Episcopal Church in Montana, Wooden pipes were square and metal pipes were round. traced the history of the church in Beaverhead County in a Metal pipes were bent by pliers to tune.[...]days to tune the organ. The "My first service in Beaverhead County was held in Ban- present organ was given by Carolyn White in memory of her nack on Sunday, July 26, 1868, at French's hall. In the after- mother, Elizabeth Davis White, wife[...]er until and including 1880. I held service first in The stained-glass windows are some of the most beautiful Argenta in a log cabin August 6, 1869. I held service in the in Dillon. The five in the front of the church, made in Italy, Poindexter school house August 26, 1872. I held services in featured leaded colored glass that was also[...]September 10, 1879. I baptized Alice again in a kiln which fused the paint into the glass. This Augusta Selway and two of her children in the home of process shaded the figures[...]every The center front window was put in place in 1901 by Philo- year up to 1880, I held services in Argenta and Poindexter mella Palmer for Dr.[...]On February 10, 1881, Bishop Leigh Brewer arrived in by his sisters Bertha and Anna, the wind[...]ce by his wife Mary. The others by the altar were in Dillon. The congregation gathered in the school house given for Catherine Will[...]ch later became the first court house. This stood in the by his wife, for Elizabeth French by her children, and for center of the block in which the church is now located. Thomas[...]eth. The round window Work began on the church in the summer of 1882 on lots in the back of the church was given for Sara and Phi[...]month, water cost $1.50 per month-this was in the 1920s. Bishop Brewer. Two services a month we[...]irst furnace E. G. Prout of Virginia City. He was in charge of St. James was purchased from bazaar money in March 1922 for from the time it was organized as a mission in 1881. Since the $206.80. costs of building exce[...]debt was removed. The Rev. A. D. Drummond came 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 his direction in April 1883, St. James Mission organized the St. James Guild, with 15 members. In August 1883, it was at last possible for the day[...]or consecration of St. James by Bishop Brewer. In June 1885, Rev. Drummond resigned due to poor health and Rev. Sidney Hooker was sent to take charge in August. He was Rector for about 30 years.[...] |
| [...]Ii home in which to rear their families and for their own spiri- tual strengthening. This exciting meeting was held in the ' First Presbyterian Church with P[...]. <b i "Article 8. The duties of a member are: a) By the grace of[...]are of all sin and scandal and to conduct himself in a Christian way; b) With prayer and concern to use the Worship services continued to be held in rented build- means of grace that faith may be qu[...]onferred, strengthened by love; c) To participate in Pastors from surrounding congregations[...]urch records of First Evangelical Lutheran Church in T[...]llon include minutes of five annual meetings held in the[...]ime and never recorded. During those 13 years, there was a continuous striving to Mormon-Latt[...]were going with their friends to- other churches in Dillon while important Early history of Mormons in Beaverhead County date to events such as weddings[...]es of the Utah Northern Railroad estab- had to be in the churches of other Protestant faiths. These lished a church in Lima. In the 1880s Mormons traveled transitions in their lifestyles could not have been easy. through Dillon on their way to Canadian settlements. In the World War I saw young fathers going to the[...]1890s LDS missionaries often met hostility in Dillon. They vices of their adopted country. The[...]ier kits together. The club later In the 1920s the Dillon Latter-day Saints purchased[...]Records of this infant, floundering congregation are a big group included: Jack Reis, V.P. of F[...]d Warner, owner of Warner's Food Store; Jay Jepp- there was a struggle between loyalties to one synod ove[...]wner of Dillon another. Monies raised were placed in a personal account, Cleaners, William Caspers, owner of Busy Bee Market; and rather than in the name of the congregation, and in the style Theron Sargent, later Dillon may[...]to recover $5,217.84. The courts settled the case in favor of the congregation.[...] |
| Pioneer Methodists in Beaverhead County In autumn of 1866, several Christian families arrived in Beaverhead Valley, which was then almost entirely[...]about where the first court 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. Mrs. John Selway was the most[...]t time on, religious services have been conducted in this vicinity without interruption. This relig[...]s moved to a new entry from the Bannack Street In this case, the itinerant preacher was Rev. George[...]Bannack. Dr. Iliff of Salt Lake City participated in the to Montana. While in Virginia City in the fall of 1869, Rev. dedicatory services in October 1895. That building cost Comfort received[...]urch has four glass art windows, dedicated to the in the valley in November, 1869. From here he went to Ban-[...]the next year. 1912 the average attendance in Sunday School was 120 and The school district[...]3 - Other pastors who led the church in early years were Poindexter School. The first term of school in the new loca- Stayton, Elder, Norris, Mill[...]soll, Wilks and tion was taught by Mrs. Anna Hart in 1870. The Sunday Tait until 1895. W[...]ool moved with the school building abnd continued in mole came, serving from 1895 until August 1899. He was 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[...]circuit that included Virginia City and Bannack. In Lacklin 1910-14. Rev. Albert Hamilton, the[...]lley. have an automobile, came and left in 1914. H. G. Humphrey "Brother Van" was asssociate[...]en Edward Smith from 1918-25. next five years and in 1880 Rev. Shippen came. In the fall of The Methodist church and its[...]n was bought and surveyed. portant part in the developnment of Beaverhead Valley for The cor[...]more than 124 years and will surely be involved in service to were donated by the owners of the orig[...]let titled "Pioneer missionary, were instrumental in securing the lots and rais- Methodists", w[...]in 1966. ately and was finished and dedicated the next summer. Bishop I. W. Wiley dedicated the church. In 1895, it became necessary to enlarge the church and the Spiritualism in Dillon new addition served as a church fro[...] |
| [...]ith 15 members was organized with Spiritualism in varied forms has had numerous surges in Charles W. Birchard as superintendent in September, 1888. the United States. During the 18[...]school. The Sab- the Pentecostal Union was active in the Dillon area, the bath School grew[...]l. Spiritualist movement was also being preached. Many of its During the winter and spring o[...]ms and lost penses. Services were held in Dart's Hall, which was also their assets for thei[...]For the first three years, the A small article in the May 23, 1885 issue of the Dillon Presbyterians had no regular place of worship. They met in Tribune read, "Spiritualism has broken out in the New the city hall, schoolhouse, old courthouse, and Dart's Hall. England States in epidemic form. It is reported that there A small group worked diligently to secure money to build a are villages in which the whole population has apparently church or chapel, but there was no mention of financial gone mad over it, and[...]e of the Ouija boards and tables Hall." are still in the families of those past believers. The move- ment waned in the 1910s. Today's equivalent is called New Age,[...]f a Presbyterian minister to this county was made in 1864, when the Rev. George Grantham Smith arrived in Bannack from Philadelphia. This was the year of t[...]ilt tana at Deer Lodge, preached the first sermon in the old 1900 school house in Dillon in 1881. He wrote in a book, "The In June, 1892, specifications and design of the church Presbyterian Church In Montana," published in 1906: building were accepted and[...]t, "The build- congregation, visited every family in the village, promised to ing with furniture[...]h lasted from get a minister, the Methodists came in and organized. I December 14-16, 189[...]e thought to providing a home for its nize, until in 1888 I was invited by the Methodist minister to ministers and the Manse was built in 1900. In 1901 it was come and organize a Presbyterian chur[...]pastor at a salary the town. I did so, organizing in the Methodist church Sep- of $1,000 and have free use of the Manse. In 1902 Dr. A. B. tember 16, 1888."[...] |
| In May, 1888, the first women's group was organized,[...]nberg: A Name Promi- who helps." The record books are a story of dedication, nent to Mon[...]icant for the active and prominent role he played in missionary society was organized in 1906 at the home of Mrs. the history and dev[...]tana, arriving in Fort Benton the early part of June, 1865. The[...]d to transport the berg preceded him in 1862 and 1864 respectively. His broth- women. In 1907 the group went to Argenta and was "royally[...]Fort Benton the latter entertained by Mrs. Ross." There were 86 present, includ- part of June 186[...]ne miles south of town. Nick located in Blackfoot City, Montana buying the Sixty members[...]of Alder Gulch, the site of the first gold strike in Selway home. Manse Society was als-o entertained at the Montana in 1863. His brothers Conrad Kohrs and John Featherl[...]on the Rattlesnake. In March of 1873, Nick sold his "Blackfoot City" but[...]vity that was carried on for well Later in 1877, Nick established a meat business in Butte over 50 years. They also gave receptions fo[...]became one of the foremost businesses of its kind in school students and faculty.[...]In 1883, the era of the Montana cattle barons, Mr. B[...]-GEORGIANNA ANDERSEN in a livestock and butchering operation forming "Bie[...]berg and Company" in Anaconda. Nick Bielenberg is cred-[...]ited as the first stockman to feed or winter beef in the Big PLUMMER'S GOLD[...]ey. Of the buried treasures reportedly stashed in Montana, It is evident that Nick Biele[...]l Lake near Virginia City. Despite the efforts of many search and fear no one." parties, it remain[...]d the gallows at Bannack, he pleaded for his life in exchange for his weight in gold. Oldtimers feel cache and I'll leave the territory forever."' there is a strong possibility that some $300,000 in nuggets Asked if he ever looked for the[...]I spent several agents' hangout south of Sheridan in Madison County. weeks each year digg[...]Vigilantes, claimed that fortune had been hidden there, A small portion of Plummer's loot w[...]train bound for Fort Benton, were found buried in the dirt "As Plummer was being led to the Banna[...]he remainder of that road agent booty is shrouded in 'Owsley, hanging me will not give the dust[...] |
| [...]from Page 192) Many supplies were ordered from Chicago during the Mel[...]nt. Two hogs were killed and a portion of Melrose in 1891. A daughter, Beatrice Fellows, was born to[...]o 10-gallon crocks were filled with this marriage in 1893. 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 returned to England.[...]ig Horn River, past the Beatrice Fellows lived in the Dillon, Butte, Helena and Crow Indian[...]ervation Salmon areas. She married Dalton Watters in 1917. He was near the Custer Battlefield[...]eyed on to Fort Cus- a miner and worked the mines in Butte, Helena and Idaho. ter at the mout[...]pties A son, Bruce D. Watters, was born at Helena in 1919. Dalton into the Big Horn, near what is now the town of Hardin, Watters was killed in a mine cave-in at Marysville near Montana. Helena in 1921. Beatrice Watters returned to Dillon with[...]on 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. They[...]f Billings, Big Timber, Clara Anderson Fellows in about 1900 married Abner C. Livingston,[...]the divide back into Montana The Leacocks moved in the early 1900s to a mining claim and int[...]ar Rock Lake. Cobalt, Idaho. They engaged in mining, farming, and oper- They then f[...]nd ating a stage station. They maintained banking in Dillon the Beaverhead River to Monida an[...]Rock, Dillon, Divide, and Silver Bow, stopping in Butte Abner C. Leacock died in 1943 and was buried in Salmon, where they camped for a few days.[...]Clara Leacock died at the home of Bruce Watters in 1954 Valley, and after visiting friends they knew in Butte, they and was buried at the Dillon cemetery[...]In the summer of 1897, the family decided to move on[...]ranch they acquired there. Ferguson[...]ret l,Jrsulla Kerr. taught school for a term in Salmon and was working as She, the youngest of five siblings, lived with her parents on a postmistress in the post office when she met and married homestea[...]h to start to school, Dewey, Montana, in a log cabin which is still standing, on and after[...]rn Montana, their destination being the in 1882, and a sister, Mattie May, who was born in 1891 but Flathead Valley.[...]family made His early years were spent in and around the Big Hole plans and preparations fo[...]e Basin. His father predominantly mined in the Quartz Hill covered wagons were purchased and prepared with bows, area in order to provid,e a living for the family. During[...]gauge, double barrel shotgun from Montgomery Ward in When he was twelve years old, his[...]ed with his mother. been content with heretofore, in preparation for the right- He traveled with his father through the mining camps in fully anticipated larger and more plentifu[...] |
| [...]owns. Whenever they stopped, Grandfather enrolled in school; however, each stay was too brief for a fu[...]r left and stayed with the Charles Ralston family in the Big Hole for six years until he was grown. Du[...]Edgar and Clara Ferris living in Butte and driving a team for the Hanson Packing[...]arents of a son, Edgar Francis and a daughter, In 1910, Grandad moved to Salmon, Idaho, and was work- Margaret Louise, both of whom were born in Dillon, at the ing as a teamster when he met his[...]e, a mid-wife. trude Kerr. The wedding took place in Salmon on Septem- After 18 years of ranching in Idaho, the Ferris family ber 11, 1910, and was at[...]FERGUSON 1933 until Edgar's death in 1950, the couple worked -dili-[...]Ferris faith in Christ and loyalty to the Methodist chruch. Clara[...]dedication was recognized by others in the fellow-ship when Edgar Ferris was born February 9, 1874, in Deerfield, an unusual honor was bestowed in the naming of the "Clara Missouri. He was the eld[...]Ferris Circle". years old, Edgar left his home in Missouri and traveled with Reminiscing about the early days in Dillon, Clara told of a wagon train which followed the Oregon Trail to La getting off the train in Dillon on a beautiful April day in Grande, Oregon. His dog traveled with him until t[...]er were swept into their fa- reached Boise Idaho. There the dog became separated from ther's arms. He had preceeded his wife and children in com- his young master, joined another wagon train[...]ht their son had returned. died in 1927. Clara died in 1965, and was buried beside her Very soon /after his arrival in La Grande, Edgar found husband at Mountain[...]er he became a student at Link's Business College in Boise,[...]-MARGARET FERRIS PYEATT Idaho. There he became a roommate of the young man who later w[...]h of Idaho. James S. Ferster In time, the rest of Edgar's family moved to La Gran[...]were a brother, around the Horn to California in 1849. He married Lucetia Amos, and sister Jessie[...](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 was engaged in pushed on to Beaverhead county, Montana. In 1903 he mining. He died December 11,[...]ck Schuler ranch. It September 19, 1897. Both are buried in ~annack Cemetery, was here he met the girl who be[...]Bannack, Montana. Margaret Schuler were married in the Metlen Hotel, with Rufus A. Ferster was born November 16, 1855 in New Charles and Ola Burden as attendants. The wed[...]e crossed the plains with his parents who settled in place December 26,1904. Bannack in 1863 and became well known in the county. He The couple ranched on the upper Horse Prairie for the was found dead in bed at the age of 34 years on January 14, next 10[...]ddie and Jessie, after the death of their parents in Oregon. mined that death resulted from natural[...]er a brief venture into the butcher shop business in Arm- buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Dillon, Montana.[...] |
| Emma Jane Ferster, born May 3, 1858 in Battle Creek, A saddle horse put a foot in a badger hole and fell on Mr. Mich., also crossed[...]eaking his leg. He couldn't seem to get over that in Bannack in 1863. She married William G. Blair, a pioneer injury. While he was in the hospital he longed for a drink of of Beaverhead County, June 17, 1873, in Bannack. They had cold spring water and a[...]Virginia Miller Fitch owned and years in Idaho Falls. ranched a large place about a mile n[...]e. Vir- ginia always had a fine saddle horse tied in the shade, away from flies and mosquitoes. After[...]itzharris breakfast, she would prepare a hot meal in a dutch oven and This history book contains names of courageous, take it to the hayfield in a spring wagon. That done, she rode hardy pioneer men and their families we are proud to for relaxation.[...]itzhar- begin to roar down on the lakeshore where many cattle ris. / grazed. It was time to j[...]ere a rival bull was roaring his and settled in Dillon about 1883. They purchased land and heart[...]t the gate open before the bull got lived in Dillon in the area known as "Hogan's Alley". Morris there" or spend many an hour building a new gate. start[...]ime of preparing for the long and quarry in the Frying Pan Basin. Materials were hauled by bi[...]llon and were contracted to sup- sawed and stored in the shed attached to the kitchen. That ply[...]sang very well. She After Morris' death in 1890, Kate was alone with six chil- had her piano[...]h, Mollie, Margaret, Judith, and everybody joined in a fun evening of singing the old songs. Eliz[...]n "unloaded" persuaded the men to stay on in her employ, which they did. one, and shot the leg[...]ids business to prosper. Kate excavated for many buildings now all loved him. The Fitches had just[...]vestock so moved to Tragedy struck Kate in 1898. She lost her only son, Mi- Idaho Falls where he worked in a garage._ chal, age 12, in a runaway wagon accident. Over the years[...]In November of 1918, the devastating flu epidemic hi[...]word out to "call Kate". Kate assisted and nursed many[...]days apart in November of 1918. Hiram Brundage, Jr., in an interview once related the story of how, at the age of 16, he helped his father Everett[...]the undertaker to dress and put him in the casket. She[...] |
| served the men gathered in her parlor an Irish whiskey Equipme[...]Flager died of a heart attack at the Grand Hotel in Kate; so he took his drink, but poured it into a receptacle of Butte August 9, 1929, while still in the employ of Mr. Laue- some sort near the casket[...]ssed by, she paused, sen. He is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Butte. looking down on her brother John and remar[...]el Flint Richard Nolan of Dillon and they ranched in Argenta. Kate George and Catherine Smith of Parker, Idaho were the Fitzharris died in Dillon in March 1922. parents[...]thought of by all who knew him. In his late teens he left Warren and Hannah Flager[...]Dave Hannah Digsen was born December 17, 1878, in Norway. Metlen, Sr. ranch where he drove a derrick team during She married Dr. Holmsen in Norway and they emigrated to haying.[...]the United States. Dr. Holmsen practiced medicine in Ennis ranch where he helped break eight[...](or steers) and was also a general practitioner in the Big Hole. Not to be used in the hay fields. From there he went to the much is known of the couple durin[...]a stagecoach in Yellowstone Park hauling "dudes" from Dagmar m[...]vorced and later Mammoth to Canyon. In 1916 he worked as a mail carrier on married Marti[...]ke, 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. Ha[...]y grade, completing her education in Florida where her grand- 24, 1909, at the Baptist Church in Dillon. They had four parents lived.[...]en: Warren, Forrest, Bill and Gladys. Hannah died in adept with all the housekeeping tasks a[...]at the age of 46 on July 27, 1924, and was buried in lent cook. Her special interests were music, especially the Mountain View Cemetery in Butte. Gladys was adopted by piano,[...]ding. Visiting relatives out of town Carl Huntley in September of 1928 and now lives with her[...]Warren Augustus Flager was born August 17, 1878, in the St. Rose Catholic church; Fathe[...]morning they boarded the train Woods. He grew up in Greeley, Colo., with his sister Pearl. f[...]king utensils. They spent the rest of their two _ in Co. D 1st Colorado Volunteer Infantry Division during weeks in Parker visiting Leonard's family. They returned t[...]eceived an honorable discharge September 8, 1899, in son, Donald Henry, was born April 10, 1918. In 1919 they San Francisco, Calif.[...]needed for their live- met Hannah Digsen Holmsen there and they were married stock. From their home on the hill they could see nearly all in Dillon in 1909. From this union were born: Warren, Jr.,[...]l 8, 1920. A few years later they moved to a home in der, Mont., is now retired, and his sister Gladys[...]big interest was their large herd of Warren died in Tacoma, Wash., and Forrest in Ontario, Black Angus cattle and th[...]t was extremely busy cutting and stacking the hay in Wisdom for many years and was also a barber by trade.[...], operating a stage line ter months. In December, 1954 Leonard and Hazel sold this from B[...]irst franchise ranch to Wayne Montgomery. In February, 1955 they re- for a stage line from But[...]chestral away June 23, 1986. Both are buried in the cemetery in 228-Beaverhead History |
| [...]eserve a special Creek, where Percy died in 1889. place in the history of Beaverhead county, for their roots Title records to the property are dated August 17, 1902. were solid and their contr[...]Annie Flynn received a Certificate of Title in October 1908. among the best. She lived in her log cabin until her death in 1923.[...]Their sons and daughters married and lived in the area of[...]This pioneer family had its beginning together in the Their son, Clay Jr., married Glady[...]rk. 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.[...]tery. Mary K. married Mr. Thornberg and they live in William, about two years; Percy a daughter, Sadie[...]. 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[...]Flynn was a native son of the Emerald Isle, born in[...]chial schools in his native country. There he continued to assist in the work of the family farm for a number of years[...]In 1872, he decided to try his fortunes in America and upon arrival in the United States he made his way to the city[...]In February of that year he came West locating in Salt Lake City where he found employment in a smelter. In[...]South America, attracted there by reports of wonderful dis- The story is told about this time James Percy was in- coveries of gold. The expidition proved fruitless in results volved in a war 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[...]erection of the first smelter in the locality. The Flynns came to the Dell area, called Spriiig Hill in the In October 1874, he came to Beaverhead county, and p[...]On July 19, 1883, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary[...]sangunity. She was born in Ireland and came to the U.S. in[...] |
| [...]Dr. Lewis Clark Ford, Sr. was an early pioneer in Beaver- -HELEN BROWN head County. He had come to Lima in 1889 with his wife,[...]Dr. Ford was born in Keokuk, Iowa, on July 4, 1852. He Mr Thomas Fl[...]ounty Leitrim, Ire- spent his early youth there and married Lucie Miller Ohler land, where he was[...]therine McTiermon practiced medicine in Nauvoo, Ill. until 1884. One son, Lew- Flynn, bot h of whom passed their entire lives in the Emer- is Clark Ford, Jr. was born in Nauvoo on July 9, 1879.The ald Isle.[...]small family moved to Monte Vista, Colo. in 1884 where Dr. Thomas Flynn was educated in the public and parochial Ford continued hi[...]il moving to Lima, schools of his native country. There he assisted in the work Montana, in 1889. Two daughters were born to the family in of the parental farmstead until the time of his e[...]tates and were The Ford family arrived in Lima on March 26, 1889, engaged in mining in Montana. where[...]as physician for the Mr. Flynn came to Montana in 1876 and was employed by Union Pacific Rai[...]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 invested in a number falfa, he engaged in the production of shorthorn cattle. of pie[...]ion with great vigor. He owned a stable of horses in the He was constantly making improvements on his ranch by early 1900s. Traveling in a horsedrawm phaeton or buggy, bringing more land[...]attending to peoples' feed for his stock. It was in the city of Butte, November 22, illnesses and d[...]eveloped a yen for 1885 that Mr. Flynn 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 se[...]- was 17 with her brother Michael Laden, who died in Butte gine red. The recklessness of his driving 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 Flynns. They spent In addition to his work, Dr. Ford was a sterling exa[...]tail ranch, which 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[...]great interest in Yellowstone Park. Whenever a new geyser The Dr. L[...]or spectacular spring was discovered in Yellowstone, he[...]The Doctor was extremely active in Masonic affairs. He[...]was Past Master of Evergreen Lodge 45-A.F.A.M. in Lima,[...]ern Star in Lima, member of St. Elmo Chapter 7-Knight[...]Baghdad Temple in Butte.[...]Dr. Ford continued his medical practice in Lima until his[...]wife are buried in the Lima cemetery.[...]and high school in Nauvoo, Ill. and in Lima. He attended[...]Montana State Normal College in Dillon, helping to start Lucie a[...]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[...]died in the early 40's and Billie, after marrying Mickey[...]O'Brien in 1932, moved to Oakland and later to Winters.[...]ks ranch switchman for the Union Pacific Railroad in the Lima yards and was friendly with all o[...]and if there were any around you could always find him with In 1914, he married Lola Converse, originally from[...]tsoever, his mood Bluearth, Minn. who had arrived in Montana in 1904. They would change. Without saying[...]ngs and leave. After a few weeks, or months, he'd there until the 1919 panic forced them to give up the h[...]fun to be around when 1925 when they settled back in Lima. he was in one of his good moods. Also, he was an excellent[...]beautiful singer, so he was was highly respected in the community. He served as Jus- always[...]ies and dances. He was well like by tice-of-peace in Lima for many years despite a handicap of everyone who k[...]. Then, after Both Mr. & Mrs. Ford were active in Masonic affairs, he he had his homestead,[...]f the time he'd spend several months at the hotel in patron of Elva Boardman Chapter-O.E.S. and Mrs. F[...]st Mrs. Ford passed away on October 12,1948. Both are in- three years on active duty until wounds and illness brought terred in the Lima cemetery. They were survived by one son, him back to a veterans' hospital in California for an ex- Lewis C. Ford, III, born Ma[...]completing hated him with a passion. college in 1941 and has since lived in Schenectady, N. Y., Part of the time he ran his sheep on the summer ranges in Spokane, Wash. and in Portland, Ore. where he lives with Idaho or Wyoming. It was in Wyoming (June of 1970) where his wife, the former[...]asin. They have a son, Bryan Lewis Ford who lives in but never proved. The cause of death[...]lap, so the coroner called it a heart early life in Lima before going to school in Dillon. In Dillon, attack. He was buried in the Veterans' Cemetery in Ogden she married Dr. Maurice Walker, who practiced medicine beside his brother, Percy. there. They had one daughter, Dorothy, who married a ge[...]ice 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 Cameron Fordyce her death in the early 1950's. She is interred in the Dillon cemetery.[...]ey Fordyce 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[...] |
| tling in St. Anthony. He had walked behind th~ wagon most of the way. In 1906 he came to the Centennial, taking a homestead in the upper end of the Valley, and working on vari[...]When World War I began, Percy tried to enlist in all branches of the service but was rejected in every case be- cause he was too short. Then they[...]Wash- ington, he was sent overseas and remained there until the Armistice was signed. Since he was so s[...]s bad enough, but knowing that if I were captured there was no way I could let the enemy take possession[...]h him for intermit- his father had learned in Scotland and, in association with tent stretches and he did a lot[...]uor hauling down John Cusick, helped construct many dwellings, business to the speakeasies all over t[...]t several months singing on the radio In 1885 he married Mary Jane Williams of Salt Lake City. station in Del Rio, Texas, one of the two most powerful in She was born in Baltimore in 1860 and had come West with the nation in the early days of radio. He'd come to see us at her parents at an early age. The account of her marriage in indeterminate times, one time it would be in a brand new her parents' home in San Francisco says, "She has long been car; the next time he'd come in riding the rods on 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[...]e intermittently from that time on, as he engaged in the great zest for living and love of life. He .[...]ilt a home at 535 South Pacif- everyone liked him in spite of the fact that everyone knew ic St[...]amily homestead. Their son, Roy William, was born there Rell died as he had lived. He went to Rexburg, Idaho, and in 1890. Mary Jane Forrester was active in church affairs. A bought a new pickup truck. On h[...]was going too fast and couldn't make family in later years, almost in one breath, as "Grandma, a the curve. He rolled t[...]the Methodist Church." and killing himself, still in his forties. Recalling[...]d to remember Percy married Helen Ruth Bowers in 1930. Her parents trips to the Landon ra[...]an- owned a working "du~e" ranch at Henry's Lake. In 1932, 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 remembered once[...]a boy of 16-17 he rode line fence for the P. & 0. in the summer, fish hooks in his pocket and fishing line wrapped John S. Fo[...]. to Dillon shortly after his 21st birthday. Born in Edinburgh, Roy attended Butte Business College, then worked in Scotland, in 1861, he came with his parents when he was[...]Utah, coming to Dillon with Irene Wuerz. Born in New York City, she had come from the Utah and Nor[...]h her father and sister, and had gone to terminus in 1880-81. school in Alameda. Their courtship in 1915 was in the excit- 232-Beaverhead History |
| ing time of the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francis- In the winter, transportation was by sleds and a goo[...]team of horses. The mail left Monida early in the morning, back to Dillon and worked for th[...]ry'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. a[...]the gothic spires of the Normal College sled. In the warmer weather, it done was with wagons. The[...]eir new home. route was much longer in those days and very uncomfort- John Forres[...]for him. He also had a barn Forrester's death in California in 1923, his widow sold the man at each location[...]l 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 1946. their holdings in Lakeview to 'Curley' Flint about 1944 and[...]fe 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- died in Idaho Falls, February 22, 1969. Both are buried in er. One early adventure was a trip by canoe d[...]dropping by for a chat and coffee. In 1919 their son, Roy William, Jr., was born in the house[...]ancher on the Black- chill Foster, arrived in Dillon from Durand, Mich., in the tail with his son. He died in 1955 in Mexico where he had spring of 1908. People in Montana mistakenly assumed that gone to spend the winter with his wife and granddaughter the "R" in the initials "R.E." Foster stood for Robert so 1 Kay. Irene died in 1980. Rodney became "Bob" and was so known in Montana for Ethel Mary married Alan Bradle[...]Forey Ce- Bob had worked for the railroad in Durand but a disas- derburg.[...]oy, Jr. married Dorothy Ann Davis. Their children are brought a promising railroad career to a no[...]however, was already in Montana at this time and had been Burnel[...]working on ranches in the Beaverhead and Ruby valleys. F[...]Tom convinced his brother that there were plenty of oppor- tunities in Montana and so it was that the family of three - Al Forsythe was born in Kitchner, Ontario, Canada. He with fourth[...]married Christina Larson, a sister to Mayme Bray, in the train bound for Dillon. A second son, Walter T. Foster, was fall of 1900 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. They moved to Lakeview b[...]the store, remodeled it, and made living quarters in many years, and were joined by Emma's mother, Mrs. Add[...]o Yellowstone Park, with a stopover Churchill in Kansas City, Mo. in Lakeview. Chris had the responsibility for the tourists' Bob Foster was born in Dundee, Mich., on January 19, lodging[...] |
| [...]brother, C.W. McDaniel, who in his youth, had constructed[...]the first telephone exchange in Hannibal and the second exchange in the world. Addie Churchill died at her brother's[...]home in Kansas City on December 7, 1933.[...]Bob, Hilda, and George lived there for five years before[...]oad traveling to Greeley, Colo. He was going there to consult in Durand. Emma Georgia Churchill Foster was born in Hannibal, Mo., on February 2, 1880. 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, Emma's grandparents, the McDaniels fam-[...]ark Twain. The McDaniels Candy Store is mentioned in several of Mark Twain's books and in biogra- phies of Twain. It was written that whene[...]ons and their children. Bob Foster's first job in Dillon was with a livery stable, with a busines[...]but before long he saw the opportunities existing in a boom- he and his son, Walter, were feeding s[...]ing sheep. fields for market. He was buried in the Foster plot in Moun- This became his lifelong business interest which he later tain View Cemetery in Dillon. Mrs. Foster died in Idaho expanded into feeding sheep to fatten them[...]ship lasted even though they later from Butte in 1885 and joined their son Charles in locating became keen competitors.[...]other son Fred, who had been trapping and hunting in denly following what her family had thought was t[...]Sheep Creek. W.W. tine surgery. She was missed by many but especially by the Francis and sons had the first sawmill in the valley and young people of the community who[...]al and happy gathering place. Grand- house in the Big Hole. This house had six rooms, la[...] |
| [...]ny of the neighbors or strangers called for help. In the summer she would ride her little horse, Hill,[...]el onto the sidesad- dle, and away they would go. In the winter she would drive her team hitched to a[...]the Big Hole as a small child from Waverly, Ill., in Novem- ber, 1897. They had two children, Wallace and Evelyn, born in the early 1900s. Great-grandfolks David and Ma[...]Grandad Frank H. Pendleton came into Big Hole in 1885 and started a ranch in Briston, where he raised horses and cattle, inclu[...]y Anthony H. (Tony) French was born in Bannack, Mon- Ann Dudley January 22, 1890. She ca[...]wo half-brothers, Tom and Dave Thomas, and family in Hughes French, who arrived in the mining town September 1887. She taught school in 1888. 17, 1863. Tony was baptized in 1868 at Bannack by Daniel S. Frank and Mary An[...]nch 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 Bannack was his home beca[...]r, Della and I (Melba) did. Beth went to there with relatives. High School in Dillon, Don in Indiana and California. Don He married Florence Conway on June 27, 1912. She was went to College in Logan Utah, and like his Dad Fred, Don th[...]in the Glendale-Hecla area. Florence was born Septem[...]life in Beaverhead County. James R. and Oleta[...]briefly in the Big Hole Basin before returning to the French[...]family home in Argenta, where Mr. French conducted min- James[...]ns, ing operations until 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 r[...]er was born April 15, 1888, at anniversary in 1962. Medicine Lodge, to a prominent Beaverhead C[...]James R. Freeman and Oleta Eda Craver were united in Pioneers. Mrs. French died April 23, 1[...]Alva and Clara Garr "Susie" died in 1958, and is buried in Mountain View Ceme- Alva G. Garr and Cla[...]27, 1891, in Moulton, Iowa. James and Oleta Eda owned and o[...]Alva's brother Milton spent the winter of 1888 in Mon- on Horse Prairie. James died July 30, 1957, and is buried in tana and was so infatuated with the w[...] |
| [...]pupil, and this was an asset later in her teaching. By 1917[...]many Montana boys volunteered for service, among them[...]1918, Private Otto B. Harvey, age 22, was killed in battle at Soissons, France. He is buried in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Otto's mother had Nettie[...]In the fall of 1918, Nettie started teaching at the[...]flu closed schools; in November she was very ill with the flu. The Garr Family, taken in 1907 during a covered In early 1919 she was hired at the Reichle School ne[...]The Reichle School building which burned in late 1988 and Alva Garr.[...]at that time, and one of the first-class arrived in Dell in the spring of 1902 where Alva found a job schools of Beaverhead County. There was an original build- as a ranch worker and late[...]th a pump, two Sons Paul and Montana were born in Montana early in outhouses and a barn, for some of the pu[...]cord cold year of 1919-20 Nettie stayed at cation in Dell. Gladys and Grace attended Montana State[...]10-12 from Lima High School. Grace taught school in Montana for mile round-trip. nine years and married Ray Martinell September 1, 1928, in During the 1920-21 term she taught seventh grade in Butte. Two children, Lois and Wend ell, were born[...]gham Normal College, Bellingham, Gladys taught in the Montana schools several years and Wash.[...]at Dillon, graduating from the two-year course in August Paul attended Montana State College at B[...]nch at Dell. He married Flor- She taught in the Billings schools 1922-25, and at Ogden, ence[...]Utah, 1925-29. She received her B. A. in Education at Mon- Montana spent three years in the Army during World tana State University in Missoula in 1929 and from 1929 to War II and was in France during D-Day. He returned to the 1935 was a teacher in the Dillon schools while serving as a family ranc[...]e The only surviving members of the Garr family are Grace Martinell and Montana Garr of Lima.[...]Nettie Mae er, spent her early childhood there, starting school at Mead-[...] |
| at 420South Dakota in 1933, four rooms and a basement, for th[...]Charles Calvert was born Sept. 1875 and died in March Farmers Union Trading Company and she worke[...]tine Geary Calvert was born March 1883 and died In 1944 the Garrisons adopted a baby boy, Bernard Fe[...]er 1973. ing Garrison, who is now a senior ranger in the Santa Clara Leonard Calvert was born July 1905 and died July 1977. Co. Parks and lives in San Jose, CA. He never married. Clifford Calvert was born February 1907. In 1949 J. B. Garrison died of a heart attack. Netti[...]the United States on their honeymoon. They landed in Canada and[...]y knew. Garry Geiger came to Armstead in the teen years to be- They went from there to Dillon, to visit friends. come a Westerner. He left a wealthy family in the East, who Ernest bought a team of horses a[...]of every college east of the Mississippi. There was no doubt ranch. They homesteaded this place and lived there until he had been exposed to a life o[...]and ride range horses. The Indians were still in this area a lot and whenever Mrs. During[...]nd dancing. Music was fur- Mrs. Geary was born in Rough Clouse, England, in 1858 nished by an automatic piano at[...]ne. Gladys and died July, 1942.Mr. Geary was born in England in Diamond came from Idaho to work a[...]he and Ernestine Geary married Charles Calvert in 1903. They Garry met at the cabaret a[...]For a time they lived in a log cabin, formerly Harmon While the Calvert[...]n, son, Cliff, had a very close call when he fell in the river and if a couple miles south of the Me[...]stock to Butte for contests. Cock-fighting was In 1918 and 1919, Mr. Calvert was fireman on a steam[...]re out on the flat between Little Sheep and Lima. There When company came to their cabin hom[...]akfast and milk Prairie liked to stop there for refreshment. Every spring[...] |
| [...]round up horses. The ranchers paid them to bring in work all the rules of good manners and never said an unkind word horses which had been turned out in the fall to winter them- about any person. s[...]ed hand-rolled Bull Durham cigarettes. stockyards in Armstead to be shipped to the "can" (can-[...]s would not hold a fire and several matches nery) in Butte.[...]ie. of fifty-gallon barrels and rough-sawed 2x4's in the willows They got into the pig-raising bu[...]placed a gar- Garry had a sister living in San Francisco. Grace was a den rake, teeth side u[...]itchen door. The social and cultural leader in the city and held an administra- plan came togeth[...]Garry stepped out the door tive position in an exclusive athletic club. Grace had been to ont[...]ead several times to visit Garry and Gladys. They in the face, resulting in two black eyes, and bruised nose and housed he[...]nch, retelling the story while Garry demon- in the rural area east of San Francisco. strated his[...]back to Beaverhead, hired Garry built a device in his corral designed for breaking a flyer ou[...]e people I've ever known and two of the horse was in a vicious mood and Gladys helped Garry get[...]stopped The first six Gelhaus children in 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 in Iowa. Eleven of the thirteen had red hair. My fat[...]arms to return her J. Gelhaus, was born in Maryland on August 25, 1863. He affection. Gladys[...]spent his early boyhood and school years in Mt. Savage, quirt, and lashed out. Garry ran to t[...]Md., and the family moved to Iowa when he was in his teens. himself until supper time. In due course harmony again After reading[...]sisters (who had ventured forth to that state in 1886), Dad It seemed rather odd that Garry had[...]ecided to follow their trail and came to Glendale in 1888. drive a car. Most of those years on Horse P[...]ing through. Gladys would open the gate. He in Montana. drove through but he did not stop. Gladys was obliged to Glendale in those days was a thriving mining town of walk the[...]l, a doctor, a lawyer, and not have a gear shift. There were three pedals on the floor, several saloons. Dad secured a job in the local smelter and from left to right: low gea[...]who had her own dressmaking shop in Iowa City. They Their livelihood was precariou[...]nned to spend their honeymoon at the World's Fair in dollars here and there on any short term job that was avail- Chicag[...]any ranch where they taken. might drop in, usually at mealtime. Garry was articulate Dad and Mother had a house in Glendale two doors away and could tell sto[...] |
| [...]preserved in a bottle of alcohol. Each time company came to[...]After the smelter closed, many Glendale residents moved[...]al Glendale. The the owner or manager of the mine in Hecla, and he had built Knippenberg h[...]Dad took over management of the hotel in Melrose after lilies to 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 Mother had to leave in the stage between Melrose and Glendal[...]party. Tony Gelhaus in charge. Many were the hilarious jokes that Dad served on the school board and in this capacity drove he and Minnie Kau,[...]was sent to his grandmother's to a sister school in him/her to Glendale. A number of the boys at scho[...]travelling salesmen, a brick house was rented and there I self, "This little runt will not last a day-I s[...]pocket, laid it Dad went into business in Armstead and later in Dillon. on his desk, and said, "I will use it if[...]uring World War I and later two years at the job. How different now, when a teacher is mov[...]University of Arizona and at Adams State College in weight-lifting and trick shooting. A man from New[...]ere her outstanding work as President of stopping in Butte, heard of Dad's prowess and came to Southwest College Registrars earned her a place in "Who's Glendale to observe. After some trick shooting, Dad shot 48 Who in American Women." Later, Dorothy served as regis-[...]accountant, and continue to live in Dillon to this day. York and in a year I shall make you the world champion,"[...]r said, John R. Gilbert was born in Penzance, Cornwall, Eng- "Don't do it, John, she might move her hand." I then held land, in April, 1846. His obituary, published in the Dillon up a Monarch can and Dad shot the eye[...]n on the Tribune following his death in March, 1902, recites that "he emblem.[...]was educated in England and came to the United States in My brother Albert proved to be a source of he[...]" He was a miner and a mining engineer and worked in amusement to the neighbors but was the exasperation of his mines in Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, and California parents. On one occasion, Mother dressed him in a starched before coming to Montana.[...]e was expecting company from the 2 in the year 1864. east. While Mother greeted her friends, Albert slipped In Montana he was superintendent of mines located at[...]air and eye- dent of the Alta Mine in Wickes and operated the Helena brows singed-came running in and said, "Mama, I am Mining[...]tle finger to period he was interested in ranching in Madison and Bea-[...] |
| verhead Counties and acquired ranching properties in such the six smaller children with the help of Mrs. Beardsley, counties, as well as properties in Missoula County and in the their long-time housekeeper, at the Gilbert[...]Beaverhead Ranch. He operated a Gilbert in 1902 was superintendent of the King of Arizona go[...]erated liam A. Clark of Butte. He died there in March, 1902, at the mines in the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora.[...]e Ann Buµiby at Silver Star, Commencing in the early 1870s, John R. Gilbert engaged Montana, in February, 1877. She was the daughter of Wil- in the ranching business, in addition to mining. The Gil- liam A. Bumby and Sa[...]rother of John R. Gilbert, Silver Star), Montana, in 1873, coming "around the horn" mined near Silver Star in 1864 and later was in charge of a by boat to San Francisco, thence by r[...]Utah Radersburg mine and operated a store in Silver Star before (where they acquired teams and[...]and William R. Gilbert had some joint interest in ranching Virginia City mines in 1864 after service in the Civil War properties in the Beaverhead area. and the other joining him several years later. There were After the death of John R. Gilbert[...]Mary rated Gilbert Livestock Company and in 1916 and 1918 sold Brook, who was accompanied by[...]e Larabee and John H. (Harry) Gilbert was born in Radersburg; Jenny Judge ranches. Harry Gilbert worked in banking, first at the Lois Gilbert was born in Jefferson Valley, Madison County; State Ban[...]derick A. Gilbert and Norman S. Gilbert were born in First National Bank of Dillon. Fred A. G[...]t 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 te[...]rted train loads of Mexican cattle into Ari- born in Dillon. Wilbur (Duke) Gilbert was named after[...]taching the last two cars of livestock on each In November, 1897, the entire family (except the fat[...]ver. Sarah Bumby, the grandmoth- and Norm in operating the Gilbert Livestock Company er then l[...]er 6; and Jane came lawyers and practiced in Dillon. Minnie Ellen Gilbert Ann Gilbert, aged 42[...]orge M. Gosman, a the City of Dillon water system in about the year 1902. Dillon druggist.[...]Like many other Englishmen in the second half of the[...]in the greatest period of immigration in history. Billy was only 22 in 1864, when he arrived in New York.[...]John. He stayed there only a short time before heading to Gilbert Famil[...]ight)-Zetta and Minnie. experience there led him into mining. He was a miner at[...] |
| [...]the State Bank. In 1909, he met Nydia Spencer (1889-1956),[...]from McMinville, Oregon. She was in Dillon visiting her[...]Chester and Nydia managed the Lima Hotel in the early[...]Nydia's sister in hotel management. Spencer died in 1919 of[...]California in the 1930's.[...]ed for Monida, the Big Hole Basin, and Divide in Beaverhead long because it depended on isolated,[...]ess. not on the large "mother lodes" lying buried in rock.[...]heavy equipment were used. William Gilbert stayed in mining for a while as foreman of the principle mine in Radersburg. James and Katie Giles In 1872, he moved to Dillon to take up ranching. There, in James Milton Giles was born in McFall, Mo., on January 1873, he married his firs[...]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 land in In 1883, Emma Elizabeth Macklen (1857-1945) was trav[...]Centennial Valley and made a home for his family there. eling in Montana with her brother, Mathew E. 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 e[...]north of Dillon (later Katie Bulla was born in Albany, Mo., on March 12, 1881. known as the Carl[...]raised by her grandfather after her mother died. in 1896. He was a founding member of the Masonic Lod[...]as always proud of the fact that she was a direct in Beaverhead and Madison Counties.[...]4- James and Katie Giles were married in Albany, Mo., in 1950), and Montana (1892-1954). 1904. They had two children, Norman born in July 1906, Mathew Macklen, 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 Schwartz, of move to a drier climate. The family tried Ogden, Utah, in Bannack, and Mrs. J. A. Myers, of Butte.[...], but were flooded out and so moved on to Montana in At his death on October 23, 1896, William R. G[...]al shares of the Beaverhead Canal Co., as well as many other items incidental to ranching. Both children from Billy's first marriage stayed in the Dillon area. Edward died from typhoid in 1897 at age 21. Thomas worked on ranches in the area, as well as working for several years in the mines in Butte. He died in 1922 from a skull fracture he received from the k[...]ldren moved into Dillon from the ranch. She lived there until her death on November 25, 1945. Emma was a[...]ent to Dillon schools. Chester went to college in Iowa and returned to work in Norman, Eleanor, and Kate Giles[...] |
| [...]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. The[...]ed the Montana air with saving her life roles in the June, 1927, flood, coordinating rescue oper-[...]ie died after a series of ence produced rodeos in Wise River, Wisdom, Deer Lodge strokes in December 1967. and Anaconda, trailing stock in the late Thirties to the Norman lived out his life in Beaverhead county. various shows. E[...]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 succumbed to heart problems in Great passed away in October, 1987. Her son David Moffet lives in Falls, Montana, February 12, 1986. Atlanta, Ga.[...]Her daughter Jean has three children and resides in San Diego, Calif.[...]er North Fork. Ferd and his Fred Gill was born in Dewey, Mont., November 1, 1885, to brother first worked for B. B. Lawrence helping in the hay Joseph Gill and Ellen Isbell Gill. After[...]ly owned by Charley Fred Woods. Florence was born in Butte June 11, 1899, to McCaffery. Along wit[...]loped to Butte, traveling from Wise that time there were quite a number of folks getting mail at Rive[...]n Green Bennett, and James. Bud Green was injured in when they lost their dogs; everyone heard about it. 1956 in a car accident, and Veda Gill Green is now marrie[...]and raised some great head lettuce, selling it in Butte. are: June Evelyn Bertrand, Kay Keil, twins Douglas an[...]Born March 7, 1865, in DeKalb County, Missouri, Duke[...]Gist spent his early life on the family farm in Missouri, acqui~ing his education in the public schools of McFall.[...]journeyed to Montana and for two years worked in the[...]neer butcher at Glendale. After a year in that job, Duke[...]spread of 1,520 acres in the Big Hole Basin, which he sold in[...]McGraw Sharkey, in July of 1904 at Dillon. Duke was elect-[...]County (1903-1909) and was active in Masonic and Odd 242-Beaverhead History |
| [...]d-naturedly cited as" ... the only girl ever born in the county jail." Mrs. Gist succumbed in October of 1926 and Mr. Gist died in April of 1927. -MARY[...]doro Filpe (Doro) Giudici was born April 3, 1860, in the southern Swiss Canton of Ticino, Switzerland. His father as the race was beginning. Since there was no time to change owned horses and freighted[...]ro got into the race, before the tunnel was built in 1882. The family lived in his wife and daughters still with him, and actually finished Giornico in a large house that is still owned by relatives. Due in first place. to a misunderstanding about religion[...]who with the Simoni Family, who operated a dairy in Brown's became a nurse and now resides in California, and a son Gulch near Butte.[...]Louis who died when a young man. In 1890 he arrived in Beaverhead County and his first Of th[...]ho produced and sold milk Schnell, lives in Moscow, Idaho. She graduated from Mon- in Dillon. Here he met Amanda Grant who journeyed from tana State Normal College in Dillon (now Western Montana Smoland, Sweden, to Chicago, Ill., and had in 1877 jour- College) and has a son, Phili[...]neyed to Sheridan, Mont., to visit with cousins. In a short <laughers. time she became employed in Dillon by the B.F. White Grace m[...]sons: Warren who is deceased and Jack who lives in Seattle. of Dillon and was also the last Territorial Governor of Mon- The Temples are now both buried in Mountain View Ceme- tana.) tery in Dillon. - 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 Pauline Giudici Swanson who graduated the Bliven[...]. Their 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[...]r they acquired land for pasture for their cattle in the Sweetwater area from where they brought milk, cream, and butter in a buggy drawn by horses in the cool morning hours to load onto the train to market in Butte. Their dairy operation was gradually change[...]ranch. Isidoro, because of a lifetime interest in horses, became associated with Marcus Daly of But[...]ne of these horses loved to race. Races were held in Dillon and this horse was often entered as a way[...]o took his wife and two little daughters with him in the buggy to town. They got a rather late start and arrived just Giudici childern in 1910[...] |
| [...]d team took the family to the Malad Valley in Idaho where attentions. Olga Giudici, now Mrs. S.[...]George and his from Montana State Normal College in Dillon. Mr. and Mrs. brother Henry helped[...]edding Day. They before becoming involved in the freighting business. In this raised two daughters, Joan and Pat, both of whom reside in line of work, George met the man in charge of the B. F. Washington. Catherine Gi~dici[...]l Phillips' 20-year-old daughter Emily in 1884. School and has two daughters, Mary and Moll[...]ng gift, Phillips presented them with one cow ing in Helena, Mont. and persuaded the newlyweds to join him in filing for home- The son, Philip Isidoro (Phil), married Florence Nelson, a stead land in the Montana Territory near Springhill, a set- dau[...]the present town of Lima. Peder and Mary Nelson - in the same Methodist Church in George's land was in the area of the old stage station (near Butte whe[...]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 the Wendell Cluff now buried in the family plot in Mountain 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 s[...]ome: a two-room log The Giudici Family records in Switzerland date back to cabin with dirt f[...]lebration 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 furn[...]Giudici Schnell and his wife of Carmel, In the years that followed, four more children were[...]Christmas was a sh~ple affair; there was no tree to decorate[...]small gifts on the chairs beside 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 fa[...]ent during such gatherings was a card game papers there. He then moved to Butte and drove a delivery called "smut," in which the loser was smeared with stove- wagon for[...]At this time he met Ada Fairchild, who was born in Dun- George Gleed was the first rancher in the area to fence off bar, Penn., October 17, 1883. They were married in Butte on his land, and in doing so, received criticism from his neigh- Octo[...]bors. "There ain't nobody gonna steal that land away from From this marriage came eight children: Stella in 1901, you," they kidded, but in time they saw his wisdom and Louisa 1904, Ada 190[...]he long cold winters, traded Louis and Ada were in business in both Walkerville and the excess hay to other ranchers in exchange for cattle at the Butte before moving to Wisdom in June 1915. They imme- rate of one-half[...]ext to the hotel. These businesses were wiped out in the big at Wood Livestock in Spencer, Idaho. Mayday fire. The Masonic Temple w[...]e the house. Emily found them 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 the Wisdom Cash Store.[...]nessed how they snared burrowing squirrels, then coated[...]the whole unskinned animals in mud and buried them deep George Gleed was born in Pardis-Glans, Wales, on Sep- in the fire embers to cook. The animals were[...] |
| [...]spent most of her married life in Butte where Mr. Barbour[...]and Delmar, all deceased. Anna and Lew are buried in[...]In 1913 Hazel married Elza C. "Doc" Franks (1888-195[...]first in the Big Hole Valley and then coming to Lima where[...]children: George Gleed, residing in Dillon, and Olive Marie[...](Shaffer) who resides in California. "Doc" served in F Com-[...]ary Forces during World War I in Germany. He received a[...]Purple Heart for a machine gun bullet wound in his left arm[...]also showed weekly movies in the Opera House. For a time Children in foreground are George Franks and Alice[...]s a butcher until his retirement. "Doc" is buried in the stop the child's fussing, threatened to give[...]resides at the Parkview Convalescent Center in Dillon. to the window to see "Indian Pete" (as th[...]d Charles E. Reeder (1887-1955), a cowboy peering in at them with his hands cupped against the glass.[...]into owned by James Munday. Charlie is buried in the Lima raiding their mother's cupboard for more[...]Cemetery and Alice, who is 96 years old, resides in a rest Indians prepared to leave, "Indian Pete" appeared at the home in Billings, Mont. cabin with some ponies, hoping to[...]e kept awatchful eye on his children serve in World War I and upon his return married Mae A. for several days thereafter, remembering how Emily's Fagan of Anaconda in 1918. Three children were bor11-to mother had been nearly abducted a few years earlier. Many them: a son Norman who died in infancy in 1919, Jean years later the grandchildren discovered a young Indian (Pierce) Nelson who resides in Blackfoot, Idaho, and Ber- woman's grave below the ranch in a cave along the river. nice (1927-1969)[...]on the property, closer to Lima. After sever- in the Centennial Valley, and from Snowline south to[...]old Gallagher Ranch north of Dell. Bill and Mae are buried equipped with indoor plumbing and electricity from a Delco in the Dillon Cemetery. power plant. The two-story f[...]rd George Gleed died January 2, 1914, in Butte of a ruptured went on to Utah State College[...]il her death from a stroke on June 18, 1928. They are coming home to work with his father on the ranch. In 1910 buried in the Lima Cemetery. he married Iris Candice Peeple[...]GLEED FRANKS 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 G. Gordon was born August 13, 1909, in Chicago, Lima. Ed and Iris are interred at Shrine of Memories in Salt Ill. He moved to Armstead, Montana, wit[...]infant in 1910. Emily Olsen was born December 23, 1905, at[...]on of a Dillon attorney, and Fox, Montana, in the Big Hole Valley.[...] |
| Albert G. Gordon and Emily L. Olsen .were united in marriage September 4, 1929. Four children were bo[...]Dellar R. Gordon was born March 10, 1889, in Whites- December 24, 1932; Donald Roscoe, October[...]is buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Dil- In the fall of 1910, Dellar left Tennessee for Monta[...]where he had two brothers in Armstead - Robert (Bob) and After their marriag[...]mer (Happy). He came by train and when he arrived in was able to find jobs and be employed. He worked for Moun- Dubois, Idaho, he had 15 cents in his pocket. tain States Telephone Company with th[...]on the Scott and Decker Ranch. Dellar phone lines in the area. He later worked on construction worked there for approximately one year. Then he worked when t[...]w. They Lillian (Lillie) Lippert was born in Brown's Gulch in owned and operated the Armstead Garage for severa[...]ne singing German songs to her. Lillie lived in Brown's Gulch Company at the Armstead office unti[...]o Twin Bridges and lived installed. Albert served in the United States Army during there until 1907. She worked for different families in the World War II. Later they moved to Sacramento, Calif., and Twin Bridges area. Lillie also worked in the laundry in made their home. Albert was employed for over 30[...]hotel owned by Scott Albert died July 11, 1983 in Sacramento and is buried at and Decker. This i[...]riage and were Emily continues to make her home in Sacramento. wed March 10, 1913, in Butte. Their daughter Edna was born in Armstead on February[...]Elmer R. Gordon was born December 5, 1890, in Whites- burg, Tenn. He moved to Montana in 1910 and worked for[...]Mary Gray was born April 3, 1886, in Manitoba, Canada.[...]She moved to Armstead, Mont., in 1910 with her infant son,[...]small meat market and store in Armstead.[...]Elmer R. Gordon and Mary Gray were united in marriage[...] |
| [...]was born March 8, 1873, in Malad, Idaho, and came to Lima[...]with her parents in July, 1887. In the early days, her father[...]man Chapter, O.E.S. in Lima; Dillon Chapter 8 R.A.M. and[...]St. Elmo Commandery in Dillon; Zabud Council and Bag-[...]dad Temple of the Shrine in Butte.[...]rter member of the American Legion Auxiliary unit in[...]gustus F. Graeter They operated the "Inn Hotel" in Armstead. Elmer and Augustus F. Graeter was prominent in the early history of his brother Dellar hauled pa[...]ward the up building of business and commerce in the area. After the hotel was closed they continued to make their He was born in Allentown, Pa., on July 29, 1834. His father home in that same building. They operated a ranch for Augustus F. Graeter, Sr., was born in Wurtenburg, Ger- many years, raising sheep and cattle. many, March 16, 1803, was educated at Liepsig and Stut[...]property gardt and came to America in 1828. A book and newspaper when the Clark Canyon Dam was built. In 1961 they moved publisher, he settled in Allentown where he married Sarah to Dillon where[...]il- ber 24, 1965, and Mary on July 24, 1976. Both are buried at dren in this family. Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. In 1836 the family moved to Warren, Ohio, where the[...]spent his early days there and received his education in the[...]nia, locating at Meadville, where he clerked in a store for Otto C. Gosman, an early Beaverhea[...]year. He then returned to Warren for a short time in Lohr, Germany, June 1, 1864, and came to the Unit[...]o Warren, then went to Florence, Nebr., and on to in Milwaukee and in his early youth took up railroading, Pi[...]became a conductor, working While in Colorado he heard about the Idaho gold fields so between Huron and Pierre, S. D., and in 1889 came to Lima, went with a party to t[...]conductor between Lima and Butte on there, they found the camp excited with news of gold st[...]gon Short Line until he retired from the railroad in on the Grasshopper and he joined the rush for Bannack, 1905 to enter ranching. In 1906 he was elected Beaverhead Montana, reaching there about 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 Beaverhead County. City, Utah, for his winter's provisions. In 1908 he was elected county sheriff and was re-elected He became associated with six other men in the construc- in 1910. He retired at the end of his second term bu[...]e- short time became undersheriff. He was serving in that ca- quate supply of water brought to[...]as killed by ditch was completed in 1863 and it marked a major expan- Albert Yiek in April of 1919. He served out that term but in sion of mining at Bannack. Graeter worked claims in Buffa- 1920 was again elected county commissioner[...]g 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. Brandenberg in the Lima mining at Alder Gulch during[...]y operated that business for next year in the Helena and Blackfoot areas. Mr. Graeter many years.[...] |
| in Virginia City at the time Boone Helm and four other Iva Beaulah Holder was born in Napton, Mo., on Septem- desperadoes were hung on[...]9. She came to Montana at the age of seven and In the fall of 1865 he resumed his mining operation in was raised on the Joe E. Brown ranch, which is now part of Bannack and also engaged in mercantile business, forming a the Hagenb[...]mith and Fay and Beaulah were married in Blackfoot, Idaho, No- Graeter. This continued for[...]hey closed out. vember 24, 1906. They lived in Beaverhead County for the In 1871 he purchased a ranch on Horse Prairie and ga[...]the ranch at Glen, Fay was a water commission- In later years he was involved with operation of dre[...]Oasis Cafe. boat built by him and his associates in the Gold Dredging They had four child[...]to be the first ever constructed for that purpose in eldest, Julia, 81 years old in 1988, lives in San Mateo, Calif. the United States. At one time[...]The two older sons, Edward (Bud) and Raymond are both dredges in operation. deceased. The youngest son, Harold, 65 in 1988, lives in Mr. Graeter married Emily Drury on July 28, 18[...]k of Eureka, Calif. Mr. Graeter's first wife died in 1878 and is buried at Highgate, Vt., her birth- place. In September, 1881, Mr. Graeter married Mary J. Taylor, who was born in Coversdale, New Brunswick, September 26, 1849, da[...]er brother, W. Tate Taylor and his wife, arriving there on March 16, 1881. The Graeters resided in Bannack for a few years, then moved to the ranch[...]e Union Electric Co~ Mr. Graeter was prominent in Masonry, belonging to all bodies from the Blue Lodge to the Shrine. In Bannack Lodge 16, A. F. & A. M., he passed all th[...], who married E. L. Poindexter. Mrs. Graeter died in Octo- ber, 1908. In 1916 Mr. Graeter married Mrs. Nellie May Padley.[...]ng and illustrious career as a pioneer and leader in Beaverhead County. Fay and B[...]ther Fay Gransbery was born September 24, 1884, in Seward, John traveled from South Carolina to find work in Montana Nebr. As a young man he lived for a while in Chicago with on a sheep ranch in the summer of 1912. They stayed and his sister an[...]the other hand, disagreed; told worked for a time in the mines in Butte. his broth[...] |
| [...]out and see other people once in a while. She did enjoy[...]her little girl wouldn't live and being as how Bess had just[...]et some kind of work at the G & P and was married in September of 1915. They stayed in Railroad, otherwise known as the"Ge[...]h Carolina until after their first child was born in July road." This was mostly night work but h[...]road until her that it would be a beautiful place in which they could it was done away with. r[...]e. Now the kids were in school and they were both very busy, Times were difficult in January of 1917 when they packed yet their[...]to get from South Carolina to Arm- bed in one room while they danced in the other until four or stead, Montana, and it was a long, tiring trip for R.C. who five o'clock in the morning. After the dance they would go was si[...]res and then try to catch a snooze. Jim one night in particular, the porter of the train came and[...]e always a good time for both of parents asked if there was a chance that they could get some them.[...]n at the site where the dam was just kidding, but in a little while, to their surprise, the was to be built near Armstead. In 1970, Jim passed away in porter came back with a large glass of buttermilk. After R.C. his dream home in Dillon, yet he was never able to obtain his had d[...]her children and grandchildren. When arriving in Armstead, Bess asked, "Where do we go Bess passed away nine years later in 1979. Today four of the from here?" and Jim told her, "Be patient, we're almost to six children are still living, as well as 11 grandchildren and the[...]a nearby spring, candles and kerosene In 1909 Oscar J. Gravely (1884-1962) came to Beaverh[...]ded to get Lodge. He returned to South Carolina in 1912 to marry Ara extremely crowded for a family[...]stead. His job consisted of being a years. In 1929 they purchased Mrs. Gravely's late br[...] |
| ranch acquisitions in their entirety were both sheep and cattle operati[...]velys five children were born, three of whom died in infancy. The surviving children were Henry Gravel[...]pouses purchased the ranch from Oscar J . Gravely in the mid-1960s, dividing the ranch into[...]. Gray George F. Gray was born April 18, 1860, in Clark County, Mo., the eldest son of Robert and Susan Gray. He arrived in longer necessary. In later years, it was used primarily for the Bannack with his parents in 1865 and grew up on their stage stop[...]hange passengers and cargo. Hunters and fishermen in the Grasshopper Valley. George was a great story[...]or days, often bringing guests and their relating many wonderful tales of his early life, most of which[...]I recall is of his driving served by the Grays in the large, well-appointed hotel they a supply wagon in the Battle of The Big Hole. He had great h[...]iends of Chief Tendoy and his tribe. The Many basket socials, costume parties or get-togethers[...]es and money bags given to the Gray place there, and the large dining room often served as a family by the Tendoys are cherished keepsakes. dance hal[...]y were progressive people, ready to rock remained there for years and was only removed in take advantage of any new invention t[...]Mary Jane Stevens had also crossed the plains in a cov- anything made by Maytag; the reason being that he was ered wagon - - first settling in the Lemhi in Idaho. They then taken in by a salesman selling a Maytag car, their first c[...]s. an astute businesswoman. During the early days in Ban- They travelled the short back roa[...]the Maytag nack, she was always ready to help out in any emergency. quit them. It was a long[...]ambs to buy a new Buick; not the first One of the many babies that she delivered was Evelyn Lloyd[...]-fated Maytag. whose family, the Ed Lloyds, lived in Bannack at that time. Mary Gray died sud[...]George and Mary worked at various mining camps in the buried in Bannack. George continued to operate the ranch ar[...]ers. Some time was spent at Hecla son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Reed Featherly. He lived at the[...]Millpoint was mainly used as a The family settled in Bannack where they operated the stop-[...]ied Marie Birkland, an area school teacher. style in the large dining room and were prepared for 60 or[...]eath on De- more people. When the mining activity in Bannack de- cember 28, 1928. He was laid to rest in the Bannack Ceme- clined, George and Mary[...] |
| [...]where Guy was happiest, on the Grasshopper in the moun- Guy E. Gray was born January 29, 1888, the son of Mr. tains or fishing in Grasshopper Creek. During this time, Guy and Mrs. George F. Gray. He spent his early life in the was elected mayor of Dillon, a pos[...]til the Grasshopper Valley, attended grade school in Bannack and pressure of his work took h[...]Feeling that this was mal education was completed in the old Agriculture College unfair to the council members, he resigned and Lee in Deer Lodge. He was active in high school sports, lettering McCracken was appointed to finish his term. Guy was in hurdles in track events.[...]Guy Gray and Ruth Knotts were married at Dillon in survived by his wife, Mildred, son,[...]h. The Gray's first home was on buried in Dillon. his parents' ranch, known as the old ranc[...]anching 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 c[...]lso had trouble Robert N. Gray was born in Indiana in 1840. He moved to getting the bread to raise in the cold kitchen. Dad Gray, as Keokuk, Iowa, in his youth where he met and married Susan she called her father-in-law, sympathized with her struggles Ellis.[...]- - Will, John, and made gentle suggestions as to how Mary did it. A strong George, Henry, Ed, A[...]Artie. The young couple decided to go West in search of new bride, Ruth felt a bit intimidated by her mother-in- good ranch land. law's efficiency but[...]ield to visit. After the first two children in Bannack in 1865. The Grays located land a short distance were born, she took them along in a wagon or sled. A close from Bannack on Grasshopper Creek. There they settled friendship developed that continued[...]productive citizen. He and his family were active in commu- on a homestead on land adjoining the old r[...]ected County Trea- found time to join in the social functions of the community. surer in 1916 and the family moved to Dillon where they[...]ol where their lived until Guy completed the term in 1920. Guy had leased father served on the[...]ile preparing Sunday dinner for guests, and moved there from Dillon and remained for several years, died in 1885. during which time the homestead house was c[...]to the ranch to H.R. Paddock. He died in 1921 and is buried in the future. Things went well until the economy st[...]e was survived by three sons, George, cline. Like many other ranchers, Guy never fully recovered[...]ters, Susan (Mrs. George from the Winter of 1919. In the settling of his father's estate, Tash) and[...]him The former Robert Gray Ranch is still in operation and is to lose everything that they had[...]affner family. Several years ago, the country was in the grip of the great depression. The family[...]ld two-story log house built of was separated and there were several years when the future hand h[...]James Gaven Greer was born April 21, 1843, in Glasgow, ful and enjoyed working with livestock a[...]was respected for were prominent merchants in Johnstone, Renfrew, Scot- his fairness and[...] |
| [...]der Henry Plummer and for America, first settling in St. Louis, MO. While living in Buck Stinson, another gang leiutenant. At the t[...]ther left Mis- on elk horns over the counter in the Graves Store. When souri and moved to Nauvoo, Ill., where his father secured a F.L. Sr. died in 1913, the pistol was passed to Lou. school teachi[...]and crossed the plains to Salt Lake City arriving in October the street and would eye the intriguin[...]about it. Finally about 1920 for Wellsville, Utah in May 1865. James later moved to Partage safety's sake, Lou took the pistol and soaked it in water so on the Idaho territory line. In spring of 1872, he commenced he could safely u[...]ll loaded since Frank freighting with his brother-in-law, Timothy Feilding Par- Sears took it fr[...]lax, tobacco, and over 50 years before. Lou in later years recalled how the caps coal was freighted to Fort Hall, Idaho,[...]were green from corrosion and age. When Lou died in 1926 Virginia City and back to Red Rock.[...]James spent a very severe winter outside Dillon in 1873. ed its history and delighted in showing it to anyone who In his journal he wrote that the temperature dipped[...]the wagon F. L. Graves, Jr. was active in Bannack Lodge No. 16, A. F. box.[...]r for five differ- James never married. He died in 1906 at Sunset, Utah. ent years. Lou also served as the Lodge's secretary for many[...]Dillon Masonic Lodge in 1921. Fielding Louis Graves, Jr., was born in Bannack, Mon- The Graves store was mov[...]Nay, a prominent pioneer of he held for many years. On March 31, 1926, the Graves Store Wyomin[...]and Post Office purned and Lou died in the fire which After attending schools in Dillon and Helena, F.L. Jr., consumed every[...]r known as Lou, became associated with his father in How the fire started will per haps never be known, though the Graves Store at _Bannack. Lou's abiding faith in the the explosion of a gasoline lamp is th[...]s a merchant fire was discovered about 2:30 in the morning by Mrs. Leota although one by one the[...]was a mass of flames and nothing could be done to in the area, many of whom became good personal friends. combat the blaze. It was Lou's custom to sleep in the store Among them was A. Frank Sears, t[...] |
| attempt to save valuable records and papers kept in the two many years. A. L. Trask bought Murphy's share of the s[...]from the Post moved to another location. In the early 1880s Graves bought Office. Both of the[...]ves House on Bannack's main street. The store was in[...]F .L. was also engaged extensively in placer mining and Fielding Louis Graves, Sr.[...]was financially interested in the Gold Dredging Company Fielding Louis Graves was born in Fayette County, Lex- which in 1895 launched the "FL Graves" dredge which ington[...]ar Lexington. His mother was Sid- dredge in the world. He was the first president and a direc[...]il 1912. He was a lifelong Democrat and ticipated in the siege at Yorktown.[...]il 1879 held the position of Treasurer of Bea- In 1853 F .L. graduated from Georgetown College, Geo[...]nty. town, Kent. Following graduation he assisted in the oper- In 1889 F.L. was a delegate from Beaverhead County t[...]rst Constitutional Convention which was held War. In 1861 he volunteered for service in the Confederate in Helena. He was a charter member of Bannack Masoni[...]inson Lodge 16 and was instrumental in building the Bannack Graves, who raised the Secon[...]fantry Regiment. Masonic Temple, the first in Montana. He served the Ban- Under the command of[...]17 years, a brother, Colonel Graves, F.L. engaged in the battles of Lex- record in Montana Masonry and probably in the entire ington, Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge as well as other engage- country as well. In 1872 he was elected Junior Grand War- ments. His[...]om- den of the Grand Lodge of Montana and in 1873 he was manding officer at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo., in appointed Grand Marshal. He refused progression in the August of 1861.[...], choosing instead to devote his Masonic ener- In 1863 F .L. was captured at Cross Hollow by the Un[...]of Pea Ridge and was remanded to the for many years. Federal prison facility at St. Louis priso[...]nnack; Fielding parole and spent the war fighting in the Confederate Army. Louis, Jr. (Lou) was[...]m St. Louis Prison, he decided with his father in the Graves Store at Bannack; Edith was to leave the States for the West. In 1864 he left Lexington, born February 23, 188[...]ontana driving a mule team for Thomas and in 1942 moved to Hood River, Ore., where he died J.[...]F.L. died Saturday morning, December 27, 1913, in Ban- at Helena was discovered July 14, 1864, and[...]to Helena and work for his friend, T. J. Murphy. In ic stroke after which he sank rapidly. His son-in-law, Dr. R. June of 1869 he decided to move to Ba[...]ician at the time of his fortune, where this time in partnership with Murphy he death. He wa[...]later reburied at the Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon Road Agent gang, had rather suddenly given up ownership when the family plot was moved there. of the building in 1864 at the end of a Vigilante rope. This[...]ing H. Graves and F. building still stands today. In July of 1871 Graves and Mur- Lee Graves by Wa[...]urial at Dil- who ran a general merchandise store in the building for lon in 1925, the casket and contents were checked[...] |
| Funeral Home in Dillon. Walt said that the soil at Bannack contai[...]er brother of Fielding L. Graves, Sr. He was born in Fayette County, Kent., six miles from Lexington at Donarail in 1845. His father was George W. C. Graves who was[...]yman. reach Montana. He arrived in Melrose in the 1890s, having The following information was contained in a Dillon been born in Iowa in 1865. He had spent his childhood newspaper articl[...]contractor in Missouri. "Carrying hod" meant carrying "Henry[...]im I recall that hump, the laugh ing. Mr. Graves, in company with A. F. Graeter, was coming line[...]wn eyes, and his glorious, from Bannack to Dillon in a buggy and when about 10 miles thick, coa[...]short double-barrelled away at the age of 78 in Dillon. gun, slipped out of the buggy and presuma[...]Walter, his son and my dad, was born in Maryville, Mo., in struck the hammer, discharging one barrel, loaded[...]- buckshot, the entire charge striking Mr. Graves in the left rose, Montana, and Dad grew up in the mining camps of side, just above the hip. Mr.[...]uld stop the the age of 18 months drowned in a small creek at Hecla. Dad team and get to his s[...]did not write them coming to Helena from Kentucky in 1864. From Helena he down, and now it i[...]ous madam at the mining camp. She passed away and in the mercantile business in company with his brother, the story told of moving her remains in a wooden box that Hon. Fielding L. Graves. Mr. Graves was well known was placed in a wagon. The driver, the wagon, and the re- throu[...]convention, which team eventually engaged in a runaway and the box bounced convenes at this pl[...]school for a while and in 1912 began his postal career. He[...]n Grimes Stephens went to work as clerk in 1912 and in 1919 was promoted to[...]assistant postmaster. He served in this capacity for six years When Rev. Charles Grymes arrived in York County, Va., under Postmaster Eugene Poindexter. From 1920 to 1925 he from Kent, England, in 1644, he certainly did not know that served[...]erm he 344 years later his arrival would be noted in a history book- switched professions and worked ten years as a bookkeeper this book prepared in a place known as Beaverhead County, for El[...]as studying and pre- Montana. The family remained in Virginia several genera- paring for the day when he could have his own business. In tions and genealogy studies show that several mem[...]d at "Grimes by", Middlesex County, al- In 1938 he passed a comprehensive exam from t[...] |
| 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 clients, b[...]ocal beauty shop his wife patronized. death in 1923, Jules enjoyed fishing in Horse Prairie Creek, These checks had always been[...]layed Anna died two years later, in 1925. throughout southwestern Montana as well as[...]-EDITH PALMER other towns in Idaho. People who danced to their music still tal[...]ish they could hear them again. They danced a lot in those days and Dilmont Park (north of[...]ts. Dad also shared his musical talent by playing in the Dillon City Orchestra and the Dillon Military Band. Walter served as clerk of School District 10 for many years. T~e clerk then, in addition to other duties, was also responsible fo[...]Henry Hackett children living in each house. He was elected to two terms on the[...]and Loan. He married my mother, Thelma Jensen, in 1919. Their children were born in the old Barrett Hospital. Bruce lived in Missoula and I live in Dillon. In 1952 he married Lillian Ulm Henneberry. Dad die[...]is father came home from the A Frenchman, born in Paris in 1844, Jules Guyaz came to Civil War, he too[...]y (Lillian, Mary and Henry) to Red Rock, Montana, in 1870, by way of Boulder, Colorado. visit relatives in Maine. The children were scattered among During t[...]e intersection of the passed through Centennial in 1875, perhaps on his way to, old Horse Prairie Ro[...]wagons and stage coaches running be- rived there in 1880. In 1886 he came up to live on the James tween Bannac[...]ches. tennial with him. In 1888 he married Anna Kuntz, a 31-year-old immigra[...]nry married Thaire Coulson from Dubois, Idaho. He in the Horse Prairie - Medicine Lodge area, the nearest leased the Charley Dunham ranch and they lived there that doctors being at Bannack, 15 miles distant,[...]ay. 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-[...]sheds for Tibbles over at Teepee Creek and tress. In 1914, the mail service was moved to Armstead.[...]at Wetmores. He worked 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,[...]he passed away on October 18, 1932. He was buried in Washington. They had three children: Louise, Margaret, Dillon. and Walter. Lora died at her home in 1930. Sophia, born in -SHERRIE HARRIS[...] |
| Leo Hagel ... .The Bi.g Hole Pass In July 1986 in his 98th year, Leo Hagel died doing what he loved[...]mind, Leo was able to recall details further back in time than the spans of most people's lifetime. Leo first came to Salmon, Idaho, from Illinois in 1894 at the age of seven. In 1907 he made his first trip over Big Hole Pass to[...]were driving shorthorn cattle-"no Hereford cattle in those days, just good husky shorthorns." This was well before the pre- sent Big Hole Pass road was completed in 1910. In those days it took four horses to pull a wagon up[...]ivide from Wisdom to Gibbonsville. It was in those days." earlier that Cloyd Wampler drove the[...]f. We had to trap all winter long or else we'd In 1912, Leo married Pansy Willey of Wisdom, the dau[...]eadows where "I've done damn near anything there ever was done to the 1120 Ranch is located. By th[...]ms at Pioneer. The Wonderlake boys were the first in the area. They patented their claims before 1900[...]as caretaker for the Pioneer Gold Mining Company. In exchange for his caretaking, Morgan got board and[...]mined at Pioneer for nine years and he believed "there ought to be some pay in there now." In 1919 he took $750 worth of Pioneer gold (9[...] |
| [...]e nowadays," he explained. in March of 1890~ Toward the end of Prohibition,[...]d with Beaverhead County as Big Al, was born in Orangeville, Or- Leo at the 1120 Ranch, insisting[...]san Halbert, who named him for his never crossing in the same place on the Divide twice in a row paternal and maternal grandfathers, Indi[...]aught. However, one day he got into a In 1875, when the family moved from Indiana to Kansa[...]d trapping. He witnessed train for Sherman in the march from Atlanta to the sea ;ncredible chan[...]during the Civil War. what the land could produce in utilitarian terms, and One reason f[...]children. Pansy died August 3, earlier in the century. 1952. In 1954 he married Ruth Fredricksen Schlegel; she[...]rip to Kansas they encountered floods on the died in 1987. All are buried in the Gibbonsville, Idaho, Wabash, and in Missouri had to post night watch while cemetery.[...]mily burial in a strange town. Otherwise, the journey was pleas-[...]odstock, New Seth did not remain long in Kansas; he moved on to Brunswick, Canada, in June of 1880. They came by railroad Colora[...]he northern Rockies, to mining town. They settled there for a short time before Glendale, Montana Territory, when it was in its prime, establishing a ranch on Birch Creek, n[...]for over 25 years, both spending their last years in friend and later his partner in freighting and his brother-in- Dillon.[...]ents into Big Al and Horace used to tell how the rattlesnake prob- maturity lived in Beaverhead County for varying periods. lem in the new town of Glendale was solved by turning ho[...]fered no ill effects father, but moved to Alberta in 1907. Edward B. Raining from ingesting the snakes nor from snake bites. Maybe hogs came to Dillon in 1895. He worked on ranches. For many were first to consider snakes a delicac[...]r- With the decline of mining activities in Hecla, Al and nett Avenue. Annabel Raining married Hamilton Bothwell Horace saw possibilities in ranching. Together they looked in 1890 and moved to Missoula 15 years later, then lived in over the upper Big Hole, but when on July 3,[...]or a location at drive stock for Granville Stuart in 1878, and was express a lower elevation. agent for the stage line at Watson, later Barretts Station, in They finally located near Wise River on adjoining 1879 and 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Smith lived in Anaconda for ranches, Al along the Big Hole River, Horace along the road. many years where he was employed by the copper reducti[...]daho, haul- Idonia Rosanna Raining was a pupil in the first term of ing supplies to the Eliel Brothers' Store in that mining town the first Birch Creek School in the winter of 1882-1883. over the[...] |
| [...]ters lived in Colorado and California. In his lifetime Seth Halbert saw the railroads come[...]oiled highways like U. S. 91 in 1929. Three kinds of roads in a man's lifetime.[...]etter Halligan, Sr. -came from Ireland to Montana in freight wagon, Wise River, 1890s.[...]into Butte, Montana. They later became interested in real problem. Still in 1950, at the bottom of the hill, you ranching-cattle raising in southwestern Montana. They could see a great pile of dead timber, which were trees cut settled in the lower part of the Centennial Valley and devel[...]eight wagons to help hold oped two ranches in the upper Red Rock River basin. These back the l[...]between Dewey and Divide. their residence in the Lima area, they added to th~ir land This stag[...]county. After a flood they and land owners in the section. John Halligan became ver restored th[...]Wise River. At one time, cancer, and died in October, 1916. Petter Halligan bad be- in the early 1900s, Al was road supervisor for the c[...]ranch quarters for about from Al and his partner. There was a market for this high- ten years. He passed away in December, 1916. Both are protein hay among race horse owners in the East. buried in the Halligan lo in the Lima Cemetery. In 1909 Seth Halbert married Mrs. Emma Campbell. She[...]e and Chester Campbell. ing in Ireland. Before illness struck at the Halligan ranch In 1917, when his nephew, John Hand was to be marrie[...]and to live with and assist the Halligan brothers in 13-year-old brother, Rock, went from Melrose to W[...]ise River and two days on the sister in that operation. return to Melrose, a 44-mile roun[...]ce of the Halligan family, a third relative of In 1918 when the Montana Southern, a narrow-gauge the Senior John Halligan, became involved in the Halligan railroad, was built between Divide a[...]the lie by relatives at the Halligan home in Ireland. Ceceilia valley, saying a railroad ruine[...]r Eileen Helen stepson was the driver, and Al sat in the front seat, door held Richardson was born o[...]ning board. This man from Northern Ireland in the year of 1913 to Canada, where who had driven[...]motor car, but he was by then an Railroad. In 1915, the family moved to the United States over[...], April 11, 1931, Great Northern Railroad. In the year 1919, this family following a lin[...] |
| [...]Silver Bow Junction in Montana. Two sons William Elza[...](8/2/1882)and James Robert (11/24/1883) were born there. In company with Andy Nelson, they arrived in the upper Big Hole in the spring of 1884, near the present site of[...]became a public school teacher. While teach- ing in the Lima schools, Eileen met another school teach[...]le taught public schools for 37 years and retired in 1975 to Yakima, Washington. The second daughte[...]Ben Hamby High School in 1936 and married George Ed Fults, a gra- duate of[...]f California. George Ed Fults was employed for many years with the United States Bureau of Reclamation. George Ed and Mar- garet Fults retired in 1968 and made their retirement home Ben an[...]Noyes' home in 1884 celebrating the first wood floor in the The Halligan Ranches on the Red Rock River[...]s!" and George Richardson (whose wife Nellie died in 1944 and It was toward the end of haying season on the morning of was buried in the Lima Cemetery Halligan plot) moved[...]as preparing breakfast as the day back to Ireland in 1946 to spend the remainder of their was[...]bear had been in his barnyard on other occasions and killed[...]s, a fearless rugged man of 39 motherhood (in 7 weeks my father Parker would be born mmmers, lies somewhere in the secret recesses of the willow making 6 children). thickets in the valley. Only the Creek, the Trail, the trap-[...]le of trappers who came to ,tead, the rail fences are his monument; silent witnesses search for B[...]his body lying face down and 3.ttest his sojourn in the Big Hole River Valley. badly mauled, not far from the cabin, across the river in the Ben and wife Orlena left their nativ[...] |
| [...]grizzly into the foot- youngest son, Parker, in Atchison County, Missouri hills where, after he had sliced open one of the horses, nar- in her 85th year; she had fought a good fight - she[...]and Henry Mallory made the casket and buried Ben in the willows under three tall pine trees. Only 10-[...]Elzy attended the burial. Four children were born in the Horace Hastings Hand was born to Wi[...]n Harrison Willson HandDecember 1, 1860 in Woodstock, New Bruns- 7/12/1887, George 4/6/1889,[...]s born November 1853 to grant of land in Canada for his service in the British Navy William and Louisa P. Nix Hamby[...]nd 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, seven day[...]of 11 children, orphaned by age five, work in the brickyards until the spring ofl879 when he we[...]mber 22, 1879, to Ogden by train and from there by team and covered Ben then 26, married 18-year[...]Leaving Ogden on July 5, 1879, they arrived in Glendale The Hambys left the valley with its a[...]y 18, 1879 after an eventful journey of 370 miles in two able beauty, with its fringe of mountains, 10[...],000 tains" that had lured Ben Hamby and kept him there. steers being driven from Oregon to[...]ians were not the only hazards. At Mountains, and are proud of our heritage, the beautiful land Eag[...]the narrow and it's people, from whence our roots are entwined! gauge Utah and Northern rai[...]d; Harry Lapham; Horace worked in the brickyard a short time. Later he hired Emil S[...]In late 1883 after the Northern Pacific was complete[...]ace moved to Dewey, and in partnership with Seth Halbert,[...]never hunted. In the fall of 1892, soon after the Utah and[...] |
| [...]they were back in Montana, and bought the Donovan[...]In the spring of 1917 they sold out and bought the E[...]They put in a ditch, cleared the sage brush, built fences,[...]and put up a big white ranch house. In 1919 they sold out and[...]in 1920 Horace repossessed the ranch; the family followed in June back-tracking on the Oregon Trail in a Maxwell tour-[...]Earl Ranch, where Horace died in July 1936. Maggie Hand died in Butte in October 1948, remembered[...]in many arts and crafts-sewing, quilting, embroidery, kni[...]Susan Edith came to teach at Dewey. Maggie, born in Orange County, Hand, 1911, Melrose. Ind[...]neer Indiana fam- ilies which traced back to 1709 in Virginia and had partici- pated in the American Revolution, War of 1812, and the Civ[...]born August 29, 1895 to Horace After teaching in Dewey two terms for $65 a month, Mag- Hand[...]na. gie Halbert married Horace Hand, July 6, 1894 in Dillon. He grew up there learning about ranching and also freight- They ha[...]ing from his father and uncle, Zeth Halbert. In 1910 the cause of a railroad strike. On their ret[...]their home. After just two months in Maine they became Five children were born on t[...]disillusioned and came back to Melrose, Montana, in De- they lived until the spring of 1910 when they[...]y was living here that "Ma said she wouldn't stay in a country where they had to violence erupted between the cattlemen and sheepmen. tie their cows in the barn all winter and put dope (commeri- Sheep were being shipped in from Idaho to Chicken Gulch cal fertilizer) on the land in the spring." Before Christmas and that was wh[...]It was in the Melrose area that John became interested in Horace Hand in mining. Hecla and Glendale had b[...]he liked what they had done. He went to work in the mines[...]In the meantime the family had sold out at Melrose a[...]worked in the mines to make extra money.[...] |
| [...]November, 1970 at his home in Argenta. They are both buried in Mountain View Cemetery at Dillon.[...]ber of the Danish Royal Cavalry, in 1908, Carl Hansen John and Ida[...]whom he called Kristi. She slipped away in the night and home at the Foote Ranch, then the H[...]hey would ever see of their homeland a few of the many moves for John and his family. In Hecla he was the little seaport city of Esbjerg. They eloped across an worked in the mines and Ida ran a boarding house, then[...]Carl worked as a ranch- of Butte where he worked in what he called the "slave sta- hand and Kri[...]This was where timbers were framed for the mines in Metlen. Three Metlen children, Joe, age 19,[...]ng the ing American history and government in preparation for railroad bridge that was damaged in the Wise River flood. naturalization. The[...]n back to Argenta where the family finally in the Grant area. He and Kristi lived in a tent near the settled. At Argenta he went back[...]ig and Pauline Graeter, Bannack pioneer, in the 1860s and consisted of Pfeifer Hartwig. She g[...]le 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 of enjoying the social functions in these larger towns, going there by train and horse and buggy, of the fancy dresse[...]ers. 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 plenty, she would "just put an- other bean in the pot". John and Ida had a family of seven ch[...]ff, and Horace Hand. Ida died December 27, 1967 in Dillon of cancer. John died Carl Chr[...] |
| [...]cancer of the pancreas. By this time there were babies, Alice, born in 1909 and Third generation descendants:[...]iam Crosby IV ahead of schedule, and was born in the tiny log cabin. Mrs. Born to Daphne De[...]o Lucille Higgins and Chris 0. Hansen: Dillon in 1912, was sent for. He arrived by horse and buggy[...]Christian three days later, but all was well in the Horse Prairie mead- Gail Marie ow.[...]Fourth generation descendants: In the meantime, Carl had won a promotion. The Beave[...]Born to Joan Stevens and Joseph Hansen: In 1913, Carl and Kristi bought the ranch. With mone[...]Five years earlier they had stepped off the train in spelled different ways on early documents: Kr[...]mile north of the old Medicine Lodge stage stop. In 1917, eighty acres were added to the benchlan[...]the railroad and the old Horse Prairie road. In 1921, a desert[...]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 Hansen Hans[...]land to the United States and began a new life in America. Alice started school in Grant in 1915, traveling by train on In 1912, Amos came to America. His brother Carl Hans[...]ould owned a ranch on the Horse Prairie in Beaverhead County. walk a half mile to the ra[...]to drive cattle from Grant to the railroad In 1916, Carl and a neighbor, Claus Anderson, built[...]fight for the school district. The school was in use five years. The Ander- United States. Whil[...]e the school was abandoned. dredge in Nome, Alaska, he was drafted to duty. He was[...]nt school, serving with the U. S. Army in France when the Armistice transported by the[...]an American citizen on July 29, 1918, at Camp there were eleven kids aboard, sitting three-deep, with[...]he cowboy life on enough floor space for that many feet and lunch pails. Win- the Horse Prairie[...]ently got 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 des[...]of this grind the family moved to Dillon for in America, Anna Hansen attended a "Return Home Part[...]at the Country Inn which was being held in honor of those The long-range goal of these[...]parents was Danish soldiers who had fought in the war. At this party, a to see their five c[...]for the Car1Hansen undiagnosed liver ailment in 1928, at age 39. Carl, with the family who were later to become her in-laws. help of the eldest daughter Alice, held[...]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.[...] |
| [...]r homeland of I?enmark, only with Joe Metlen in his Cadillac and Tom Pierce in his Stutz to soon come back to live out their lives in "America - the Bearcat. land of opportunity" and to settle in Beaverhead County. During the time the[...]Joe Metlen. Ejner, who lived their childhoods in the Dell area of Beaver- In the twenties they operated a ranch west of Glen.[...]also lived in Madison County and then moved to Butte Amos wa[...]June 21, 1959, while irrigat- where Ras worked in the mines until retirement. ing on his ranch near[...]ie Kristiansen, at age 17, emigrated from Denmark in Fred Hanson was born in Brentwood, New Hampshire, 1913 and lived for a ti[...]Mrs. Venora son. He and his mother arrived in Dillon in 1880 and in 1886 Metlen. In 1918 she married Rasmus A. Hansen, a brother moved to Centennial Valley. He received his schooling in to Mrs. Wilhelm Jensen of Dillon. They were married and Dillon and in Twin Bridges schools and was a beautiful honeymooned in Spokane, returned to Beaverhead County[...]d the ranch from Frank Esterwold. They moved from there to the Selway Place, a ranch owned by the Metlens[...]Ras worked for Joe and Dale Metlen as hay foreman in the Selway meadow, the adjacent Sunnyside meadow,[...]frontation and nothing came Fred ranched in the same vicinity as his mother and both of the i[...]appointed U.S. Land Commissioner in 1906 and served in[...]This marriage ended in divorce and he never remarried.[...]After selling his place in Centennial, he moved to Dillon and[...]spent his last years there. Fred passed away September 15,[...]1954 and is buried in Dillon. Ras Hansen's 1916 Model[...] |
| [...]Little is ·known of the destiny of the many Hardisty men,[...]amuel Vincent Haptonstall was born July 13, 1869, in[...]All the Hardisty members listed on the census are from 1894, in Vermilion County, Ill. .[...]unty, Ill., with Samuel worked with his father in Kansas and later as a[...]assumed that they are part of the Huff, Seybold, Hardesty, living in Indiana, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Minnesota.[...]and identified as U.S. 136, as family to Montana in 1908 and took up a homestead on the[...]part of the western migration. Many of them ended in Mon- Sweetwater Road. Seven children were born[...]ta, Ruby, Vera, Dale, and Basil. The family lived in Dillon -SALLY GARRETT[...]ed and Howard were old enough to go to the timber in Axes General and Sivilla Har- Canyon whe[...]ily spent their summers at the homestead 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. When Christopher died in 1875, he left a widow, had moved for the winter m[...]al minor children. Ma- and attended the full term in Dillon so that her education linda died soon[...]o live with his older brother James, and got work in the Samuel farmed his land for several years.[...]o dry farmers. Samuel's son Dale was born In 1865, the year our nation's Civil War ended, Sivilla in Dillon in 1910. In 1914, after the property was sold for a Huff was born in Wilcox, Mo., the 10th child of William good price[...]here 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[...]probably played together. made their home there. She came to Glendale in the fall of 1879 with her parents,[...]nine houses apart in the boom town. The first Hardisty family membe[...]6, Sivilla Huff married General Hardisty, age 21, in Glen- Dotson Seybold, who came to Glendale in the late 1860s of dale by the local Justice[...]he mid 1870s several had come to Glendale to work in the mines and smelter in the district. The oldest son, James, and his w[...]B., twins Ida and Ina, and son Charles 0. settled in Glendale. James' younger brother General Ray live[...]son Loren and a one-month-old un- named baby boy are shown on the 1880 census. Two doors down lived[...]s, William and John. Brother Andrew was living in a nearby boarding house. Walter Hardisty,[...](1883) his wife Eva. Pendleton G. Hardisty lived in a boarding Sivilla Huff Hardisty,[...] |
| la's brother-in-law John Vinson Seybold and General's[...]days later. winter they lived in Big Sheep Creek Basin. In February, A year later a son was born of this[...]ht hay and fed them until the Glendale/Hecla area in 1883. Sivilla Hardisty and her spring and th[...]into the Basin. young son Walter were two of the many casualties. Five more children we[...]of When the mining activity began to play out in the Hecla twin girls. The second oldest son, Miles, 12, was killed in area, General moved to the booming mining town of Roch- May, 1910, in an accident at the old shearing camp. 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 Rochester for almost 20 years. He He is bu[...]n grew up on the ranch during the time the helper in the dining room, they employed a young woman Indians, under one of the many Chief Tendoys, were coming from Idaho, who was ha[...]ss the Divide to summer. The boys used to delight in Pearl E. Paice.[...]quaws and their Later General Hardisty ranched in the Twin Bridges papooses, only to be ch[...]ndishing area. His death date and burial location are unknown. big knives.[...]return home to find Indians in the house waiting for them. Ernest and A[...]ians would trade them ponies for flour and sugar. In fact, Tine lived up there for three years and never saw any Ha[...]There were also lots of outlaws in the Big Sheep Creek Ernest Isaac (Ned) Harknes[...]e- the front of the house before coming in. field Corners, Ill. Ned died March 11, 1944, at the ranch in Big Sheep They were married on November 21, 1894, in Prescott, Creek; Arabina 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 areas eventually, except for Ernest B. He had married they moved to Big Sheep Creek Basin in Beaverhead Coun- Ruth Ann Kent from Dillon on January 28, 1923. They ty. Ned had come here in 1892 then returned to Kansas to moved to th[...]ll cabin on Cottonwood Creek and and lived there until 1929. In 1925 a son Bernard was born spent the first Montana winter there. Even the dogs lived in and in 1927 a daughter Bonnie was born. the cabin to stay alive. Mountain lions sat on the roof at In 1929, Ernest contracted to buy the home ranch fro[...]his father, Ned, and they moved up there to live. The ranch They moved down on N[...] |
| [...]-BONNIE MCNINCH aches were many. George and Hazel's greatest sadness was[...]George loved the outdoors. He excelled in skiing, skating,[...]ison ed in early rodeos, riding saddle bronc, and enjoyed wo[...]ys born to James Cooper and instrumental in starting the Annual Dillon Labor Day Ro- Olive M[...]abeth Harrison great grandchildren and many friends in Dillon. Smith. He had one older brother, James D[...]George Hedley Harrison died at his home in Dillon at age and two younger brothers, Russell[...], Elizabeth died during the flu epidemic some in Dillon at age 87 on June 19, 1985. in 1918 at age 23. Twin brother Ralph was killed by[...]29, 1854, in Lewis County, Ken. He taught school in Ken-[...]his marriage, Cooper came to Montana and located in Bea-[...]located permanently in Grasshopper Valley on May 2, 1887.[...]seven children born to Stephen Calvin born in Kentucky. Carrie (1882) married Sylvester Hirsch- and Mary Ellen Evans Hartzel on February 19, 1898, in man in Butte in 1904. They had two daughters, Dorothy and Bloom[...], Bernice. Onie (1886) married James Crook in Butte in 1909. and four sisters: Laura, Lillian, Velma a[...]Hazel The following children were all born in Beaverhead Coun- worked in a match factory and later in a carpet factory. ty: Mattie (1889) marrie[...]n older Elizabeth (1895) married Dow Smith in 1917. A chief opera- sister. They found employm[...]Ranch, presently Holland Ranch). died in 1918 during the flu epidemic in Dillon. Hazel and George met in 1915. Their courtship was on James (1896) married Agnes Gauthier in 1913. Their chil- horseback to basket socials,[...]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 married in Dillon June 11, 1917. Following their marriage Hazel Hartzel in 1917 at Dillon. Born to them were Lucille, they lived in Butte, while George worked in the mines. In Ralph, William, Phyllis, and Jerald. Ralph was killed in · 1918 they returned to the Grasshopper Valley where George 1906 in a horse accident. managed the Harrison Ranch.[...]Russell (1901) married Myrtle Smeby in 1924 and they Their five children were raise[...]Ralph Calvin married Ramona Quackenbush in 1926. Their children were[...] |
| [...]William McKinney Harrison was born in Laclede County[...]near Lebanon, Mo. He came to Sheep Creek Basin in Bea-[...]sheep rancher in Sheep Creek Basin. William was a direct[...]Alice Lounsbury Harrison was born May 8, 1892, in Bates, Several of Cooper's brothers and sisters were also in this Mo. She moved to Sheep Creek Basin with h[...]area. Franklin and Charles had a furniture store in Ana- Andrew J. Lounsbury and Ida Mae Kenison Loumsbury, in conda. Franklin later moved to Dillon. Elizabeth came to about 1907. Bannack in 1873 and married Dillon Mason. Her ranch is[...]lerk. Cooper developed one of the best ranches in the county. His home is now part of the house of[...]ht Harrison. He prided himself on having the best in bulls and cows. Cooper is said to have been a gre[...]le, unassuming and law abiding. While vacationing in California he died of paralysis, January 22, 1920[...]ivide (Montana-Idaho border), 1908 20, 1941. Both are buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Dil- lon.[...]les Harkness. They were He married Agnes Gauthier in Butte on June 4, 1913. Jim about 19 year[...]ty given in honor of Kenison's 18-year-old son, Floyd. After[...]16, 1910, at the Courthouse in Dillon.[...]brother in 26 degrees below zero weather to catch the train,[...]in Beaver Canyon on the divide between Montana and I[...]a 50-mile train ride, the family finally arrived in Dillon. Bill and Alice were married in the office of the Clerk[...]Harrison, January 25, 1911, in Dillon; Evelyn Mae Harrison,[...]April 24, 1913, in Sheep Creek Basin; and Nina Beryl Harri-[...]son, August 5, 1919, in Dillon.[...] |
| [...]Evelyn also remembers the music in their home and her[...]he William Harrison family left Sheep Creek Basin in[...]Ben Hart, who came to the Centennial in 1889, was born lyn, Nina, and Le[...]in Brooklyn, New York, on December 7, 1866. He worke[...]ach from cook for the crew. With the money earned in Idaho, they Lakeview to West Yellowstone. He was wintering in the each took up desert claims of 160 acres on the old Lon Arp upper end of the valley in the winter of 1890-91 with Jim place on Cabin Creek in Sheep Creek Basin. Blair an[...]of the cattle They built a log cabin and a barn there. Big hills sur- froze to death standing up[...]is still called He filed on a homestead in 1899, next to the Bob Boat- Harrison Hill. Leo was born in Dillon. Evelyn was born in a mans. On July 8, 1900, he and Julia Jones were married. In cabin at the head of Nicholia Creek among the she[...]he felt he had made a mistake. In 1933 they moved back to In 1915, the Basin was surveyed by the government an[...]stead of 640 acres between the Keni- years there then sold to Haligans and moved to Dillon. Ben so[...]rs ranch. Bill moved the build- passed away in 1946 and Julia in 1963. ings on Cabin Creek, log by log, with team[...]hey were put togeth- and wife Florence live in Shelton, Wash.; Mary Van Ant- er again as a cabin and a barn. werp lives in Hermiston, Ore.; Ruth Hogue lives in Butte, On this property, there were lots of native grasses. The and Ben is married to Orlene Shanholtzer and lives in Dil- whole family grubbed out sagebrush and carri[...]es. He also worked and having only 12 cents in his pocket. Bill Culver picked out for neighborin[...]rainbow trout and sage chick- ens and ducks were in great abundance. -ORL[...]Y VAN ANTWERP After a new schoolhouse was built in Sheep Creek, Harri- sons moved the old log school[...]Hartwig been held at the old school were now held in the new school- Fredrick Julius Hartwig was born June 19, 1862, in Dav- house.[...]velyn Harrison remembers starting the first grade in the shortly after their arrival in the United States from Ger- new school, located right across the fields from their home. many. His mother died when he was quite small. His fat[...]ents as all part of a big family. by relatives. In 1882 he came to Dillon by train, just two[...] |
| [...]in Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. Pauline died August 7, 1935, in Dillon of complications of[...]diabetes and is buried beside her husband in Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon.[...]Elizabeth Knippenb.erg, born in Germany in 1839, came incorporated into a much larger home t[...]Otto Boetticher in Indianapolis, Ind., in the 1860s. There In the time that Julius lived here he saw the horse and were three children born to this union: Julia in 1866; Alice in buggy days go by, the railroad steam engines change to 1868, and Otto in 1872. diesel, cars and airplanes (Fred Woodside l[...]den Cyrus Harvey married Wealth Ann Cooper. Three in his meadow), paving of U. S. Hwy. 91, the town of Willis children were born to this union: Edward H. in 1865; change its name to Reichle and move north a[...]Edward H. Harvey married Julia H. Boetticher in Indian- damage and destruction to the valley but[...]tracks. settling in Hecla where Ed was in charge of the Hecla Min- Fredrick Julius Hartwig was very interested in the com- ing Co.'s Commissary and the boar[...]he min- munity and served on the school board for many years. ers. They lived there until November 1891 or '92, when a Pauline Pfiefer Hartwig was born September 21, 1867, in snowslide swept their home down the hill.[...]erritory (an family to Glendale earlier in the evening by sleigh, so they early mining town[...]P. Pfiefer and Bar- were lucky. Ed stayed in the commissary. The family never bara Beck Pfiefe[...]ered Butte moved back to Hecla, staying in Glendale until 1902, when when that camp boasted[...]family moved to South Boulder, pany, in the store and at one time was in charge of the Jefferson County, where they import[...]charcoal kilns on Canyon Creek. He worked in the store in planted the first apple trees in the area. It was here that two Melrose and later worked in Butte. Nez Perce Indians tried to rope sister Ida[...]06. sister Louise attended the St. Mary's Academy in Deer William was drafted into serv[...]cember 26, 1921, he married Hole was fought. From there they moved to Boise, Idaho, to Katharin Drayton (a school teacher) in the Presbyterian make their permanent home. It was there that Pauline mar- Church in Melrose - the first marriage ever performed there. ried Fredrick Julius Hartwig on September 20, 1892, and There were two children born to this union: Katharin H.[...]or her family and friends. Ev- old smelter in Glendale, and worked in the Melrose Store. In eryone spoke highly of "Aunt Polly" as she was af[...]1943, the family moved to Helena where he died in 1953. ly called. She loved to fish and on a lazy[...]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 said "she caught them by the tub full." was drafted in the fall of 1917, and discharged September 4,[...]1919. He was with the "Army of Occupation" in Germany Hartwig Hand, Louise Hartwig Kambich Hirst, Julius Fre- many months after the Armistice. He never married. Kar[...]April 8, 1925. A son, Edward E., was born in 1930. Herbert They raised a large garden, kept several hives of bees, raised died July 16, 1952, in Butte. 270-Beaverhead History |
| 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 26, 1917. Otto was killed in action July the hills to Ten Mile and across[...]e 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 1922, Otto's remains were head Val[...]dice Stage Sta- returned from France and interred in Arlington Cemetery. tion), and finally ac[...]'s Roost Q.nd Maurice E. married Gladys Dennis in 1931 and they lived Virginia City. in Missoula. Two children were born to this union, J[...]the railroad reached Red Rock (now Dell), Archie in 1932, and Eunice M. in 1934. Theodore E. died in infancy stopped freighting and became a cowb[...]gard cattle in Judith Basin where he worked with Charlie Loui[...]years, then married Robert Russell. Still in the family is one of Charlie's earliest oil Leslie Jones on October 3, 1928. I have lived in Wise River paintings, a picture of Archie on[...]Flying W steer. Edward H. died June 28, 1934, in Wise River where he In 1889 Archie homesteaded in the Centennial Valley. He operated a general merc[...]then moved to married Mary Melissa Kingery in 1890 at the courthouse in Butte to live with Karl. In 1942, they moved to Helena Dillon. They[...]daughter, Amanda. They lived in the Centennial Valley -LOUISE I. JONES except in the years 1909-1915 when they went to Nebraska[...]so the boys could go to school. Amanda was born in 1909 in Edward H. Harvey[...]The family returned to the Centennial Valley in 1915. Charles Harvey They hauled their belongings in horse drawn wagons. They[...]the Henry Knippenbergs. They operated the stores in Glen- nial Valley and returned to cattle r[...]lidated Min- some of the first Angus cattle in the area. ing and Smelting Company. Samuel served in the Army in World War I. In 1887, they returned to Indianapolis, Indiana, where a The family sold the ranch in the Centennial in 1936 to the double marriage ceremony was held. Ed[...]ndants still live at nieces of Henry Knippenberg) in a very impressive marriage ranching and var[...]Hazelbaker. He attended rural schools in Linn County, 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 in 1863. Later he Beaverhead County, which was always afterward his home. mined near Silver Star. In 1875 two of his sons, Archibald At the time[...]lon and, the year following, end of the railroad. There they purchased a pack horse and taught school in the Big Hole Basin. In 1899 he acquired an walked to join their father at Silver Star. William helped his interest in a general mercantile company at Wisdom, a step fa[...]ut owner and operator of the C Bar D Ranch in the Big Hole spending my life in a mine." Basi[...]nne, years, became one of the most important in the state's live- Utah, to Bannack and Virginia C[...]onship. He was an organizer _The route traveled in what is now Beaverhead County and for many years secretary of the Beaverhead-Madison[...] |
| [...]nation. In his own community he has had a major part in practically every civic movement and in cooperative causes[...]sive in their successes . . In addition to his ranching interests, Mr. Hazelbake[...]many other business holdings. He was the owner of the[...]Hazelbaker Building in Dillon, Montana; conducted a real[...]ous business enterprises of a varied character in other parts[...]BPOE, and with many Masonic bodies. In 1905 Frank A. Hazelbaker married Carrie E. Wood-[...]In September 1923, Frank A. Hazelbaker married Lois[...]Hazelbaker died at his home in Dillon on July 6, 1939.[...]After his death, his widow continued many of his business ventures and was active in community affairs. Following a[...]he district court of Beaverhead 1974. County in 1904, an office in which he served until the close of the year 1912.[...]nvention of 1904, he was designated secretary and in every succeeding[...]Family History State convention, except one, for many years, he acted in John Helming moved to Montana from Waukon, Iowa in the same capacity. In 1912 he won the Republican nomina- 1898. At first he worked in Anaconda, then made his way to tion for Secretary[...]enberg and Walker, at engaged almost continuously in party service. He was elect- what is now the Huntley home ranch. In 1899 his wife Ma- ed secretary of the Republican[...]o-chairman. train at Silverbow in January and drove a· wagon to the In 1920 Mr. Hazelbaker was elected to the State Sena[...]der boys walked the journey. Three more chil- and in 1924 was reelected without opposition. In the legisla- dren were born to the family: Mab[...]ed the leadership resulting from Howard died in 1906 from typhoid fever. his standing in the party and by his force and character,[...]considerations, strongly influenced ditches. In 1908 he purchased the Fox Ranch and opened the conduct of State affairs. In 1928 he was nominated for the post office a[...]term. Matilda died in 1909. Later that year John married Carrie In 1932 the Republicans of Montana selected him as t[...]hio, whom he met through a heart- standard bearer in the gubernatorial campaign and again in in-hand letter. In 1918 they moved to Santa Ana, Calif., 1936 he was accorded this honor. In both years the Demo- where he bought a fa[...]site. George and Mabel went with them. John died in each occasion by the narrowest margin, due to nat[...]on religious causes Mr. Hazelbaker 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 1913 they built a garage at Fox, which was the fi[...]It was largely because of his skill and judgment in auto garage in the valley. Grover, Harry and Clarence served col[...]exhibit that Montana's agricultural display in World War I. Harry and Clarence moved to W[...] |
| the Taylor Blacksmith Shop. In 1919 they moved into what was then the Ajax Saloo[...]ming Brothers developed the first electric system in the valley and, when they sold to the Rural Elect[...]organization. He was also county commissioner for many years. Grover, while in Jackson, operated a freighting business between J[...]had a son named Morris. George went to school in California and then moved back to the Big Hole wh[...]nces 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 "Du[...]oreman until his · Mabel married Ralph Hunter in San Diego. They had retirement in 1946. They moved to Pocatello in 1960. He twin daughters, Beatrice and Beverly. She died in 1986. died there in 1962. Resoltha died in Pocatello in 1971. Clarence married Julia Kramer and lived[...]tchie" by her family and friends, was of his life in Wisdom. He died in 1975. a niece of Mary Ju[...]Lake City. They had two girls and a boy. died in 1974. Daughter LaVera lived in Rexburg, Idaho, until 1942[...]Van Inwegen in 1944 in the Army Airbase Chapel where he Rollo a[...]was stationed as a sergeant in the Air Corps. Carlton died in 1974. LaVera is still living in Pocatello. They had no chi- Henderso[...]Rollo S. Henderson was born December 23, 1878, in Lex- -MARGARETHAGENB[...]d Midge of Mrs. Earl Rogers of Sweeney and Rogers in Sheep Creek Basin.[...]a, while the son, Floyd, was raised by his father in Oregon. He spent a year with the Hendersons in Big Sheep Creek from 1916-17. The Hendersons h[...]he east side of the Basin. They eked out a living there until the bad winter of 1918-19 put them so far in debt they left the ranch and Roll went on the rai[...]ous sections until they located north of Armstead in 1923 at the Grayling Section. They moved to Armstead in 1925 and to Tetonia, Idaho, about 1929. They went back to Red Rock about 1938. In 1942, they moved to Micha[...] |
| [...]rry ably a brother of William who was born in Baden, Germany and his wife Margaret. Michael B.[...]n March 10, 1842, came to America with his family in 1857 Alder Gulch in 1863, where he and his cousin, James Ryan where they located in St. Joseph, Mo. Joseph Hermann was started a store. In 1866, Michael B. established his ranch and one of the largest brick manufacturers in the Northwest. with his cousin Ryan built the Gre[...]William Hermann and Lizzie Lawlor were married in St. road. Before this the canyon was impassable f[...]who was born April 10, 1858. In 1882 William and Elizabeth, Michael Angelo Hen[...]At the same time he established a Angelo's death in 1940, Midge (Bunny) moved to their home brick kiln, having· learned the trade in Missouri. He fur- in Dillon where she lived until her death in 1954. nished brick for many of Dillon's early businesses, including Archie[...]en Hotel, the Odd Fellows Hall and the Conger for many years. At the time of his death in 1947, he was a house. Also, numerous cabins, homes for many Chinese, Beaverhead County Commissioner. built in the area known as the Cabbage Patch, were con- Paul married Louise Viemann in San Francisco after structed of Hermann brick. serving in World War I. They had two sons, Paul Jr. and R.[...]ern man with a long, crook- Michael. They resided in California but returned to Mon- ed-stemm[...]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 was in a Dillon parade with a bombing mission over Rumania. R. Michael resides in San clipboard sign on each side of his[...]arried Francis Tonrey and, with the In the early days, Joseph K. (Joe) and William N. (Bill) exceptions of some winters in California, lived all her life in ranched in the Dillon area. Bill never married and he was a Dillon. In later years, she told many interesting stories cowboy in the true form for much of his adult life. From ~h[...]often flagged the train to come was summered in the Big Hole Valley. Bill rode the hills for to town to shop. May died in 1984 at the age of 87. Rocky Hiller[...]which grazed in the hills when not used for haying or othe[...] |
| [...]yrstad. Knut was a 1932. farmer living in Skaun, Norway, a small town near Trond-[...]ck of chickens and turkeys to supplement the farm in- frightened their parents and their father finall[...], Ingeborg and her cousin came to America by ship in the Dillon Choral Club. She held a great appr[...]perfect- music; Kate Smith was a favorite and in her later years she ly. After seven years in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she re- enjoyed L[...]oyage to Norway They farmed until retiring in 1954. The bought a house in in April, 1912, they passed the fateful luxury liner[...]Danish ship heard the S.O.S. reports con- there seven years, then moved to a rest home in Sheridan. cerning the iceberg but the officers of the Titanic ignored She remained there until her death on June 12, 1964. Both them, sinc[...]hip to be unsinkable. Over were laid to rest in Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon, 1500 passengers aboard the Titanic died t[...]WII. Ingeborg returned to America around 1914. In the 1920s[...]-ARLO HERMANN Ingeborg's brother Lars settled in Washington. He was the only other member of Ingeb[...]country. Ingeborg's second trip over settled her in Arm-[...]Edith Scott Decker came to Montana in 1897 to join her Here, she worked in the local post office for Lottie Kim- father,[...]ed to Dillon where she worked for Eliel nage in Red Rock. She had been happily employed in a law Brothers Department Store. While working at Eliel's, Inge- office in Ludington, Mich., living with her Aunt Ida and bo[...]first sight. Ingeborg, barely 30, married Joseph in August of Scott convinced her that she should be sharing in the excit- 1917.[...]), and Arlo Alpheus Decker had come west in 1882. His wife had died William (January 8, 1923)[...]death, after nursing him farmed and raised sheep in the East Stone Creek area. After night and d[...]over's Kansas homesteading venture undertaken in 1878 by him Leap, near the railroad tracks about one mile from town, in and his brother Albert. As soon as he was st[...]his three-year-old daughter to his wife's sister in Pierce[...]City, Mo., and then headed west. Edith lived there with her[...]aunts and uncles in Iowa, Indiana, and finally Michigan. In Montana, Alpheus joined his brother-in-law, J. W. Scott, in a partnership which owned and operated C D[...]House in Red Rock and a ranch near Armstead. By the time[...]ad County, known to everyone as "Colonel" Decker. In[...]terms. He was one of the "Young Turks" in the Legislature,[...] |
| [...]e. Despite his efforts to save it by selling furs in the East,[...]There had been another sad occurence: Uncle Walter[...]lived winters, Colonel Decker with them, in the big Scott house in Armstead; summers they moved to the ranch,[...]which Roy managed for his father-in-law. In 1924 the Herndons moved to Dillon, where they liv[...]on his health forced his retirement in 1931. reports. She helped with the hotel work. She was part of the Colonel Decker died in 1929, Roy Herndon in 1950, and Scott & Decker family and had a wide circle of friends in Edith Scott Decker Herndon in 1958. They are buried in Red Rock, Armstead, and Dillon. For 10 years this was the Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon in the Scott & Decker pattern of her life.[...]plot. The year 1907, however, brought changes. In January, the[...]request that she take a committee clerk position in[...]t her husband John Herzog spent living in what is now Glen, participating fully, too, in the pomp and gaiety of Helena's Montana. elegant social season. She was often included in her father's Pauline was born in Stuttgart, Germany, the oldest social life, and also in affairs for the legislative staff (theater, dau[...]man. The father was engaged in what would now be known Then, in April, she went to Pierce City, Mo., for two[...]some important project, he also lost his estate in order to the Scotts and Deckers in the now thriving town of Arm- pay[...]ny of such glowing reports of fortunes to be made in pant in the business and social life of this growing mini[...]come to America. They stayed for some time in Chicago and half later, they were married in The Inn in Armstead, on then came on to Glen,[...]hich was at that June 16, 1909. They were at home in Salmon by June 26. time known as[...]and saloon on Lemhi County. He had come to Idaho in 1897 from Leba- the spot where t[...]to the Richards and Garrison and Cocon- involved in Democratic Party affairs and served in the Ida- augher ranches. There was a great deal of activity going on ho State Legislature from 1904-06. After his term as county in the railroad at the time. The railroad station at[...]being rebuilt to the present site of Glen in order to give the Roy and Edith led a busy, happy life in Salmon. In 1910, trains a greater distance to build up steam to make the hill though, there was heartbreak. 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[...]rs later, on August 4, Jane Decker was born. Then in That was where Pauline and her fami[...]ork. 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- the prosperous ran[...] |
| [...]e Birrer brothers who had been their neighbors in Germany. Young ' August filed for a homestead acr[...]the ditch for each of her children, and they were there for many years after her death, which occurred soon after ' the family's settling in Montana. August felt there was more · chance of making money in the city and soon joined his brother Adolph in Butte. He purchased the Atlantic Saloon with h[...]e present location, where Grogans were the owners in much later years. It was at this place and in the hotel build- ing where my mother, Clara He[...]e of years before Clara's birth and was buried in the Reichle cemetery beside his grandmother El[...]metery holds the remains of sev- eral who died in the community, mostly young children. Soon[...]. ' ued to be called Reichle for many, many more years).[...]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 (named in memory of his dead young brother), was born in Butte as and they were married in Butte City on July 27, 1898. Her was another g[...]hich may still be seen at the St. Lawrence Church in Butte. They had five children: John D. bo[...]s scenes which were on the ceil- Virgil born in 1900; Alice Mary born March 4, 1906; Ruth ing of the St. Patrick Church in Butte. 1:fis name is now born July 29, 19[...]On the 1900 census, the family was living in Basin, Jeffer- Smithsonian Institute.[...]with the 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, Carl, in 1937. moved to Stevensville in Ravalli County where the children[...]Y GARRETT DING LEY John Hildebrand 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[...]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 Dillon where she spent her te[...]She met John Hildebrand, a quartz miner living in Basin, Elenore, who though younger[...] |
| [...]had shot. The lion had been in a tree and the sheepherder[...]Still another time in the cow pasture the cows kept cir-[...]cling around and around in a large circle. On investigation E. W. and Bessie Hildreth there was a year ling bear in the middle of the circle feeling leader. They used to take bamboo poles and put them inin- for hours at a time. The girls also spent a lot of time playing creased. One memorable event in his life occurred when he in the river which was taboo. But it was just too mu[...]the Worlds Fair in San Francisco, all by himself. He brought One[...]went to town and left Elenore and home many souveniers and still talks about that great ad-[...]turned. First they next to each other in town when the children were going to made a spon[...]six boys on the Medicine Lodge ranch. They are Henry two chickens but succeeded in only nicking their necks. (Pat), Bill,[...]live close by. The folks retired to Dillon in 197 4 and still ens got away. Then they tried to[...]-DARLENE HILDRETH when the folks arrived home there were no chickens cook- ing. But the folks wonder[...]y Daulton Hildreth was born November 4, 1872, at in a log cabin on the Selway Ranch to Henry Daulton[...]e 15, 1892. Their first born, Henry Jona- Dillon in 1974. than, died in infancy. The young couple left Madera County[...]eir love, best childhood anyone could ever want. Many of his adven- hopes and dreams were high[...]wild animal life as he helped on the ranch. in the principals of Christianity. One day as a you[...]nied suddenly and ing sheep, first living in a sheep wagon and later a small took off. Out of[...], 1896. During this time Henry skiddaddle out of there fast.[...] |
| [...]t. were faithful in recording daily happenings. The Weenik him as required by the "Homestead Act" of May 20, 1862. In Studio in Dillon was used for family protraits, preserving[...]urchased a band of 750 Hampshire ride in an automobile in 1914, the car was owned by the sheep.[...]rst one on the Lodge. Henry and Henry went East in 1911 to purchase Rambouillet rams to Hattie purchased their first car, a "Ford", in 1916. improve his herd and later added Oxford Down sheep from In the earlier years Hattie taught the children as s[...]rchased more tion. Houses were rented in Dillon until 1917 when a perma- land and Hattie f[...]1908; developed a heart condition early in life and after several and Helen Dorothy, Septemb[...]he died at his ranch home June 26, 1925, at born in Montana were delivered by their father aided by a[...]ghbor lady or visiting nurse. This was the custom in those their Dillon home to live, with only an[...]and fire- attained her Masters and Doctorate in Sociology from the wood. Extra money came from tr[...]2, 1944, was Assistant Director of Research in the Sociology ing with the Lemhi Indians that cam[...]Department of the University. and the Chinese in Bannack proved beneficial. Bob married Bessie Olsen November 7, 1924. They even- There were a number of sheep camps to attend which[...]ton, Robert William, Emphrey Eugene, Lowell began in May with a five man crew, mainly on the open[...]d Edward Barton. range. A good lamb crop was 60 % in the fall. The shearing Daisy met Claren[...]sheep sheared around came to work for Henry in 1917 and they married June 1, seven pounds with t[...]ck Springs, Wyo. Clarence was a coal miner at but many sheep were lost due to the shear cuts. It took six Reliance. He returned to Montana in 1922, homesteaded on days with three wagons to ha[...]ailroad. dairy at Armstead. In 1927 he purchased a dairy farm north With their first Kodak, purchased in 1910, many pictures of Dillon which became their home until Clarence died in[...] |
| 1964 and Daisy in 1977. Their three children were Boyd, Ruth Harrie[...]HS basketball team winning the State Championship in 1920. He married VaNita Kohl November 25, 1921 and moved to California. Divorcing in 1928, he returned to Dillon to work with brother[...]ig on the Superior Dairy. He died April 28, 1978, in Seattle during heart surgery. John graduated from Beaverhead County High School, where he starred in athletics. He attended Normal College. John and Clarence Koenig purchased the Superior Dairy north of Dillon in 1927. John sold his interest in 1930 to sell McConnon products, worked on the For[...]lice Force. Naomi graduated from Normal College in 1933 and that year married Survantus "Heavy" Kerr[...]le during WWII, where Naomi lived until her death in in Red Rock and then Dewey, Montana. Her third and l[...]assignment was in West Fox in the Big Hole, where she met Helen Dorothy graduated from State Normal College in Dave. After a whirlwind courtship they were married in 1934 and married Tom N. Chapman on February 11, 1[...]and moved down to the Quit Owen Ranch, six miles in Butte.[...]th of Wisdom, where their daughter Helen was born in -RUTH HANS[...]ill used until the early Dave Hirschy was born in Lynn Grove, Ind., on December 1930s in the winter, when teams of horses carried the mail[...]rifts from Divide to Wenger Hirschy. They settled in the Big Hole in 1894, Wisdom. Also trail herds of cat[...]where they took up a homestead. Times were tough in those stopped and were fed overnight. day[...]s Because this was a stopping place with many people com- and making cheese. This was hauled to[...]cient sum of $8.00 for him. He wild horse in the open by charming him. Jim LaMarche and rode with his father for many years, traveling the surround- his cowdogs w[...]rea buying cattle. These cattle were then trailed in to back. Others included Charlie Williams, a[...]k Gish, brother of Lillian Gish Once each year in the fall a trip was made over to the (the great actress), and many others who spun yarns and Bitterroot Valley with[...]it for the winter. This was always a family In later years Dave became well known in five western affair, and Dave has told many times about the steep hill states and Can[...]Hole. hay derricks were invented and used in the Big Hole for Before going down they always cu[...]ag behind years and were so successful that there was a demand for the wagon to help as a brake. At the bottom of the hill there them wherever hay was put up. In all Dave had built over was a pile of logs used b[...]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[...]Fred and Flora Hirschy, cattle ranchers in the Big Hole Cecile Leifflen of Butte was a young school teacher who Valley, were married in June of 1915 and raised four chil- started teachi[...]dren, all of whom (at this writing) still live in the valley. 280-Beaverhead History |
| [...]active in the local church and the Jackson Friendship Club.[...]13, 1884, in Vera Cruz, Ind., was the third of 12 children. Hi[...]father, a cheesemaker, homesteaded in the Big Hole Valley in 1893 and brought his family out from Indiana the[...]g year. They traveled by train to Dillon and from there to[...]and after school each day. In the year 1910 he borrowed[...]Flora ~haw Hirschy was born on December 26, 1892 in deal of respect from those who knew him ... in his own quiet Hawarden, Iowa. Her parents broug[...]ved to tease, and he had a knack for saying a lot in later at West Fox in the Big Hole Valley where she met Fred. a very few words, e g: "There is a lot of truth in that man ... Flora was a dynamic person ...[...]e 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 emotionall[...]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. In October 1972 he was se- ever keep in touch with those she might meet briefly while[...]n incident that happened at a political gathering in -ANN[...]... I know you ... you're the man who keeps me in heat!" Flora also had determination and tenacit[...]family of Frederick decided she wanted to learn how to fly she took flying les- Louis Hirschy first saw the valley that would be home to sons, and soloed in February 1948. Then she took up them[...]d great-grand- skiing .. her first lesson being in Sun Valley. She arrived children. Carly and[...]trip excited because the Shah of Iran was are the fifth generation of this ranching family to live in the there and had spoken to her! When asked what he had sai[...]e Frederick Louis Hirschy was born in 1859 in La-Chaux- dance floor he said 'excuse me."'[...]fe 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 a friend, Mary Shaw, she there in 1880. Seven children were born to them in Ohio and campaigned long and loud for improved[...]Indiana, where they later moved. Big Hole. In 1945 she was Worthy Matron of Eastern Star,[...]ber of the Daughters of the boat, working in the galley for their passage, and Cecile had N[...]eyed to Ohio to visit her brother, August Wenger. In County Farm Bureau, she was elected Beaverhead County's 1882, Wenger left there to settle in Montana. He later urged first president of Cowbelles in 1955. For many years she was the Hirschys to come to M[...] |
| [...]born in June to the Hirschys and a school was soon starte[...]for the three summer months for the children in the area. After getting settled in their own house, the cheese fac-[...]tled there. Hirschys built an underground cellar for the whe[...]he cheese and butter, a big corral and homestead. There were good opportunities for a man with a l[...]r Lena had 20 cows to milk before going to school in Hirschy, with his eldest 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 che[...]wns spring. He returned to Indiana for his family in the spring of several times a year, bringing th[...]n. They took the train to Dillon, making the trip in an was evident that the future of the family[...]ld their household goods, 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[...]to the needs of the family. When they arrived in Dillon, Gus Wenger met them with Cecil[...]en Jorgenson, helped him with the when there was a death. She took her daughter Ida with her m[...]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[...]August drowned in 1900 while working in southern Idaho,[...]near Jackson until their retirement to Dillon. There are two of their grandsons still living in the Big Hole.[...]to the valley to teach, and their two sons are ranching in the[...]close by, and two of their sons are still operating the family[...]killed builder of the Beaver Slide Derricks which are used extensively in western Montana and Idaho. Emma married[...]The last five children, born in the Big Hole, were Charles, Frederick Louis H[...]Bessie, Bill, Mabel and Ellen. They were educated in Spo- 282-Beaverhead History |
| [...]California and married and raised their families there. Mr. and Mrs. Hirschy retired to LaMesa, Calif.[...]g their ranch to son Fred. The elder Hirschy died in 1933 and Cecile in 1950. They are buried in Chula Vista, Calif.[...]Ben Holt first rode into the Centennial Valley in the early 1900s, trailing horses to Idaho for the[...]what he saw and returned to home- stead and ranch there.[...]Joseph Benjamin Holt was born April 26, 1869, in Jeffer- son County, Montana, to James R. and Juli[...]o 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 1943. Returning for a brief visit in the spring, their father's ranch.[...]child of William Bailey and Lucy Ann (Nave) in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Tinsley of Willow Creek, Mont[...]tayed on to help with the ranch and the 16, 1871, in Gallatin County, Montana. grandchildren. She passed away in Dillon on March 27, To this union were born: M[...]Neoma, February 1, 1896; Lawrance settled in and loved. Lamar, March 24, 1899; and George Tins[...]Harry and Kathryn When Marcus Daly died in 1900, Ben went to work for[...]hers, two sisters and he moved to Glendale, lived there for several years. Mother May, as she was known,[...]lived at Glendale Idaho Falls, Idaho. Ben worked there for a while hauling and Vipond Park befor[...]l government were hiking up a canyon east of there and came upon a came into the Valley and began to[...]area for the Chinese man hanging by a rope in a tree. It didn't take the Red Rock Wildlife and[...]n just what had happened to the man. they settled in the far end of the Valley in an area called By 1898, Harry had moved t[...]Berthaline ·Knudsen, was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin,[...] |
| [...]Wil- February 16, 1882. After teaching five years in Wisconsin, ford's father and uncle "took up"[...]is not certain when the family sister and brother-in-law who were ranching on the North moved to[...]t at the Divide Depot at 4:30 a.m. by her brother-in- kilns run by his family. law with a team and[...]that would bring Harry and Katie were married in Butte, June 24, 1908, in a little cash such as mining, trapping or "workin[...]. Another endeavor was cutting telephone foreman. In the fall, they took a trip to Wisconsin to meet[...]hborly picnics at the nearby Battle- Early in Wilford's life, he learned the wheelwright's trad[...]American War broke out. He informally added one In December, 1916, they moved to Wisdom and pur- cha[...]or the church and was a Sunday school teacher for many years. During the early 1930's, the couple went back to ranching. In 1936, they bought a tourist cabin court at Wisdom[...]assford Hopkins. Most of his early life was spent in Beaverhead County and the Salmon River Valley.[...]Myra and Wilford Hopkins tana with his parents in 1887. He remembered the trip well. . .. at their wedding in 1908 284-Beaverhead History |
| [...], Wilford worked for the Geodetic Survey, engaged in mapping the Big Hole country. In 1903, Wilford Hopkins married Myra Anderson of Gi[...]le had six children: twin boys, who died at birth in 1904; Rose, born in 1906; Herbert Frederick 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 m[...]a homestead on the benchland northeast of Wisdom. In the early spring of 1912, they moved to a ranch o[...]William, Esther and family left Walla Walla in the early proved too small for their needs and th[...]fall. in a covered wagon drawn by a mule team. Wilford was foreman of the Ajax Ranch in the Big Hole The baby, who was born in May, died on the way and was when Myra became ill and was hospitalized in Anaconda, buried in Springfield, Idaho, some 450 miles from his birth- where she died of tuberculosis in late June, 1917. Myra's place. schoolteacher sister, Aura, "came over to help out and never There was no school in Vipond Park or Canyon Creek so left," as she put[...]dit from The State Bank of Wisdom. charcoal in the smelting of silver ore. In 1919, Wilford married Aura Anderson. They lived in About 1900, they moved to the Big Hole B[...]Fork of the Big Hole ity, sharing their home with many relatives and friends. River, about 13 mil[...]buildings where he and Myra, Wilford and Aura are all buried in the Wisdom Esther spent most of their re[...]In 1915, William's health began to fail. Their sons[...]and seamstress. She spent the rest of her life in her little William and Esther Hopkins[...]home on the Else Ranch. Every family needs a live-in grand- William J. Hopkins (1843-1916) and his[...]earby. Bassford Hopkins, (1840-1922) were married in England soon 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 was employed in the construe- · tion of Dr. Dorsey Baker's "Stra[...]fam- ous short line from Walla Walla to Wallula. In 1875, when the railroad was completed, he was the[...]id- ed to move to Beaverhead County. They arrived in Vipond Park in the fall of 1887. William's brother, Fred[...] |
| [...]hen he turned his hand to the died and was buried in the Wisdom Cemetery. kitchen[...]o write home often. He was working for a surveyor in saw was a brainchild of Jack's. He had hooke[...]dom. Need- Joseph (Joe) spent most of his life in Beaverhead County. less to say, it was a sensational caper. He trapped and did He worked in mining as well as other jobs. He died in Oro- ranch work. They say, one couldn't qui[...]Sometime during the 1940's, he became a patient in a Family.) nursing home in Dillon and died there. Wilford (1876-1959) - (See Wilford Hopkins Fa[...]Bane of Butte. She died soon after their marriage in 1908. 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 hi[...]1957) - (See Harry Hopkins Family.) in Bannack with her parents, Wilson and Mary Jane Ba[...]er early She was born November 23, 1849, in Stephenson County, years in the Big Hole. He did a lot of paper hanging and[...]Colorado intending to go to the Deer Lodge Valley in Annie (1884-1925) - (See Weldon Else Family.)[...]le and James Stuart William and Esther arrived in Beaverhead County with resided. She and[...]ith the exception of Esther and her baby brother, are Beaverhead Valley, they heard of the gold strike at Bannack buried in the Wisdom Cemetery. so went there instead of to Deer Lodge. In an interview in There are over 200 living descendants of this couple.[...]who had come to Bannack in 1862. He had been born March[...]s 12, he was taken to Ireland by his aunt and put in a[...]ch tell- with a ship captain and when he was in his early 20s, the ing and make good listening. P[...]Utah. He left his sons at the He built a cabin in the timber on the west slope of the Big home of[...]Hunt at Oxford, Idaho, where they Hole. Somewhere in that vicinity, he dicovered gold enough wer[...]28, 1870. He was born in Warwick, Canada, and had moved Those who knew h[...]hildren of that era, re- to Saginaw, Mich., in early life. He served in the Union member him as a kind and gentle man. One winter he hap- Army in 1861-62 with the Michigan Infantry. He came to pened in on a family deathly ill with the flu. "Why didn't Bannack in 1866 and spent 11 years there engaged in min- you send for me?" he exclaimed in dismay. Whereupon, he ing. hasten[...] |
| [...]l 9, 1925, at the age of 51. She was laid to rest in Silver and is buried at Dillon.[...]r Topeka, Kansas. The Howards moved to Glendale in 1877 where he en- We stayed on for a couple of 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 M[...]he ranch and Howard died September 27, 1941. They are buried at Moun- moved to Idaho to spend th[...]as, The large pendulum clock on display in the Beaverhead about 1893, settling in Butte where his father was a building County Museum was first used in 1882 at the jewelry store contractor. Samuel, hav[...]ther being unable pounds with quick silver in the pendulum.When operated to care for me, so I,[...]ditions, it ran within 30 seconds a Howell family in 1898. month. In 1904, having read of a small ranch for sale in Beaver- The Huber family (cousins of Mrs. K[...]k Creek on Horse Prairie, clock and put it in the window of the Huber Jewelry, Op- Samuel Howell went to look at the ranch and bought it. In tometrist and Watch Repair Store located on[...]ock. Butte by rail on the Oregon Short Line. From there it was a This was before the Courthouse clock was installed in 1902. long day's drive over very bad roads to the[...]The Huber family came to America from Germany in the eight years old and had come down with the mu[...]jewelry part of the store as I remember it. There were three and I had to endure the train trip, almost smothering to sisters in the family living at Dillon. Anna, an RN, married[...]hat Henry gave his bride Anna a snows were melted in the canyon above the ranch on Bloody teacup[...]. They always The Huber family lived in a home they had built on the stopped at our ranch[...]Basin, then to Salmon of the house included many windows and served as a conser- and back to their[...]Fritz married a Phys-Ed teacher who taught in the Bagley Butte with a young man of 14 ye[...] |
| [...]1901. School. I was in one of her classes. She helped organize the annua[...]later Fred Woodside located it, bought it, and in Bannack. An older sister was born in Green Lake County, donated it to the Museum. The[...]udge Christian Meade and large sale. It contained many beautiful antiques. Rudy Ann Cornell Meade, lived there. Broksle now owns the former Huber home.[...]ril 2, 1895, at age 15, she married John Davidson in -HARRIET WATKINS[...]Blackfoot, Idaho, and upon their return settled in Dell.[...]in 1899. Angeline Huff Taylor befriended her. Fearin[...]Calvin Hardisty Huff was born February 12, 1868 in Blan- Sarah to Angie's brother Calvin's plac[...]Idaho. After spending his earlier childhood in Nodaway County, Cal Huff was one of the first white men to take up land in Mo., he came with his parents and three of his si[...]logs from the surrounding woods and survived in a harsh then journeyed to Glendale, Montana Terri[...]nly by the Indian tribes that and wagon, arriving there in October 1879. passed through[...]in men and As a 12-year-old, he attended school in Glendale. His fur trappers. daughter, Myr[...], he moved with his birth were recorded in 1902, as was often the circumstances parents to f[...]iving for decades by trapping fur- 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 of National Geographic Magazine in a muck-raking 288-Beaverhead History |
| [...]o hunters and trappers. Cal returned to Dillon many times to visit his aging par- ents and his sister[...]lment at the age of 64. Cal died on July 4, 1950, in Seattle after watching fireworks at his daughter Myrtle's home. They are both buried in the Ever- green Cemetery at Priest River, Bonner[...]llen Black were all able to attend a Huff reunion in 1985 held near their grandparents' home- stead on[...]re their father had lived when he first ar- rived in Montana. Some visited Bannack where their moth-[...]is 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[...]king 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[...]arah Huff there they went by team and wagon and arrived in Glendale,[...]William Hamilton Huff was born August 31, 1825, in team was a fellow named Johnnie Oran[...]ter, on the 1880 Federal census, William is shown many and lived in Pennsylvania before migrating to Ten- a[...]school, and the two youngest are still at home. Sarah Ann Graham was born November 21, 1830, in Ohio. When the mines in the Hecla district began to play out, Her parents died in a wagon train accident and she was the[...]near Barrett's Station south of Dillon and in the Red Rock to western Illinois when that land o[...]war land warrants. William and Sarah were married in the lower Grasshopper Creek (near the current Don 1844 possibly in Schuyler County, Ill., when he was 20 and[...]arming on the upper Grasshopper north of Polaris. In their They farmed in McDonough County, Ill., for 15 years. later years, they lived in Dillon. James Elias was born in 1845, Margaret Elizabeth in 1847, Of their children, Dora, Missouri, Richard and Theodore Eliza Jane in 1849, Anna Mary in 1852, Julia in 1855, Dora all died at an early age. James married Susan "Polly" Nel- in 1856, Missouri in 1859, Richard in 1860, Ada Belle in son and remained in Nodaway County, Mo., but traveled to nearby Adams County in 1863. the Dillon area many times to visit his parents. Their other· The f[...]villa son, Calvin Hardisty Huff, settled in northern Idaho as a was born in 1865, back to Illinois where Calvin Hardisty was young man. born in 1868, then made a permanent move to Nodaway William purchased and sold property many times but his County where their three youngest c[...]lways an "X". William and Sarah were re- Theodore in 1870, Angeline in 1872 and their last child, presentative of many of the early settlers of Beaverhead Harriet Catherine, in 1874. - Count[...]most of their lives, they continued to look west in ing, sometimes succeeding, occasionall[...] |
| [...]bonsville. He and Lucian Eby, who spent some time in this and had many friends." They practiced a Quaker-like reli-[...]ss was always somber familiar character in the Big Hole. He panned for gold in and dark and they lived quiet private lives.[...]every creek on the west side of the valley. There are two William died a few months later on February[...]rs of their lives with their daughter, Valley in Montana and the other into the Salmon Valley in Ada Belle Brothers, on Kentucky Avenue in Dillon. Both Idaho that are named for him and called "Hughes Creek." funeral[...]ld of buying gold from local Salvation Army. They are buried at Mountain View Barney. From a letter written by Allis B. Stuart, wife of Cemetery in Dillon.[...]lle Stuart, about a visit by Barney to their home in -SALLY GARRETT DINGLEY Butte in August, 1907, "My memory of Barney Hughes, of[...]that day, was a slight, slender man about 5 ft. 6 in. tall,[...]e. I do not remember of Barney Hughes was born in Ireland in 1827 and came to Granville ever bringing home a guest that we enjoyed more this country in 1839. He caught the gold fever and mined in than we did Barney Hughes." California, Bri[...]Fred Else, who lived in the Gibbons District east 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. There he met Bill Fair- headstone in the Wisdom Cemetery placed there by the weather, Tom Cover, Henry Edgar, Bill Swee[...]the words, "Barney Rogers, and they left together in 1863 to join up with James Hughes, born in Ireland 1827, died October 27, 1909." Down Stuart[...]ounter at the bottom, scarcely visible are the words, "One of the with Crow Indians and neve[...]ghes Bill Fairweather took the pan they cooked in and washed George Hughes at age 24 rode[...]t a little gold for tobacco. They soon realized in various enterprises as he was getting acquainted[...]which occupied a large building on Montana Street in Blacktail Deer Creek empties into the river, a mi[...]e Beaverhead River, later digging it up to invest in San wall paper, leather goods, musical ins[...]ied Lillie May Oliver, daughter of Wason While in British Columbia, at an earlier time, he met Oliver, and they had one son, James Emerson, born in 1904. George (Clubfoot) Ives, the desperado who was later hanged Lillie May died in 1912. George later married Dorothy B. by Montana[...]t Ives was a fine, Couch, who was raised in Pony, Montana, and came to Dil- honest and hard-w[...]ow when he first met him, and lon to work in Eliel's store. it was with much regret that he saw him end his life as he did In 1918, George and Dorothy bought a ranch in the north- a few years later.[...]southern slopes of When Barney Hughes arrived in the Big Hole is not the Big Hole Div[...]nown exactly. He was among those who placer mined in the elled roads, offered seclusion[...] |
| [...]roduced an abundance Hulsizer, mainly in Silver Bow and Madison Counties, of native ha[...]upply of irrigation water from Mont. Searches in various areas to find information on what Pai[...]early schooling was by a parently died there. teacher living in their home at the ranch and later at the[...], who died At age 19, Shirley lost her life in an automobile accident in April 27, 1908, at the age of nearly 14 years. 1942. Preston now resides in Missoula. On June 24[...]zer of Glendale, Dorothy and George retired in 1942, selling the ranch to Montana, marrie[...]Meryle Aiken Tess, who submitted this article. There is a died in infancy in 1933, five days old. Son Denton was raised "g[...]pected ranchers of the Big Hole Basin. Two to Australia.[...]3, 1917, at the home of her uncle, John Hulsizer in Butte. Minerva and Jim resided in a new home at Wise River, Joel Hulsizer, m[...]was born December 4, born November 15, 1795, in New Jersey. On April 18, 1819, 1918. When[...]ly moved Joel married Margaret Probasco, born in the year 1800. My home to care for her.[...]ld of 11 children born to Joel and resided in Glendale, Butte and Sheridan. A daughter was[...]Edward 0. Hulsizer born to this union in 1900 and the family moved to the grew up in New Jersey, where records show that he married[...]-MERYLE AIKEN TESS There were three children born to this marriage: John P[...]hool- ville, Ill., 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 s[...]ungate, father of Adoni- teach common schools in the Township of Hope, New Jer- jah Pia[...]married and lived in Illinois for a time, then in Iowa and I have no data on how or when the Ed 0. Hulsizer family Missouri[...]e, Mont., resident Miss Short, who taught in the Bagley Grade School at Dillon says that a Hulsizer lived in Glendale as early as 1882 and for years.[...]ht at the stage depot on the same place tries in New Jersey dated 1859 to 1886. The first entry in later owned by Charles Edward Crawford. Th[...]put his hand on "Nige's" shoulder, and in pidgin English coucher, dated October 8, 1887. Over several years, there said, "White man not know how to fish. Me show you." were mining cla[...] |
| [...]they would come to him when he called, no matter how far out in the fields they might be. He had one favorite sad[...]Although the historical home of the Hungates is in Eng-[...]inally Hungate. The American Hungates have fought in the[...]jah Piatt Hungate's issue: James, born 1867, died in Cora; (front) Adonijah, Ed and son.[...], 1875, death date unknown; Cora Ellen, born From there they went by wagon the five miles to Glendale[...]ord on March 17, 1895; Charles, born about worked in a smelter or mine or something to do with min- 1872, died in infancy. ing.) They then moved to a ranch at Twin[...], Edward Theodore Hungate, born July 19, 1868, in Blan- 1961, married Eileen Johnson, second[...]ied March 22, 1929, Shepherd, September 26, 1888, in Virginia City, Mont., married Roy McNinc[...]d (born April 26, 1870, died April 2, 1932). Both are buried in the Lima Cemetery. Ollie was a sister to Sanfo[...]nd cowboy and stockman. When he was getting along in years, my cousin Clifford Crawford asked h[...] |
| [...]Clarence Emery Hunt Clarence was born in Webster, Mass., in 1871, and lived to be about 86 or 87. He was th[...]his bicycle and came out to Montana, ending up in Centennial. He'd almost From left: Osmer U[...]banks gregarious. He settled in Lakeview which was the headquarters and[...]pants. he did maintenance depot for all stages in the area, including the retrieve his catch and take it in for his money. ones through Yellowstone Park. H[...]the entertainment of his always trying to work in the saddle horses for individuals. guests. H[...]r. He dug a reservoir, Tanzy charged him out in the yard, chasing him clear into built a flume[...]ight hand. The again. When he didn't come in for breakfast she went look- index finger was in three pieces. It was 150 miles to the ing[...]his horns under his body, toss him way up in the air and back on, but there was no way this could be, so Clarence had whe[...]-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[...]When he got an order for a Canadian Born in Detr01t Lakes, Minn., in 1873, Gilbert was en- Lynx, he proceeded to fil[...]feet tied together with buckskin woman in his life. He contracted typhoid and, after a long[...]for home. Fate was out to throw "a fly white in his early twenties. in his ointment". Going down a hill he hit a soft place in the He came to Centennial and filed on his h[...]ig financial loss but it had to take second place in impor- to provide the power. One day a[...] |
| Clarence cut off three of his fingers, the index in two pieces. McKevitt (1894-1933) to run the b[...]earest doctor Clarence to Eunice Huntley in 1922 and their children are Dwain wanted Gilbert to sew his fingers back on f[...]was such a sensitive and squeamish per- In 1924, Carl contracted tuberculosis and went to Ca[...]ned off to the side, with Ranch from Don Albee in 1925, but died in 1929. a definite crook. All three fingers grew ba[...]. Remarkable, to say Huntley Home Ranch in 1914. Having 10 children he put the least.[...]seven bedrooms in the home, but the third floor was never Clarenc[...]brother helped me Huntley remodeled it in 1949. do. I can point over the hill and around th[...]" much an introvert as Clarence was an extrovert. There was no way they could possibly have been less alike in any way -[...]ing in the Big Hole Valley in the early 1900s. They took up a Will Huntley ([...]t is presently the Schindler Livestock Hole Basin in 1912 to assess the value of what is now the[...]arted company. Pearl Will Huntley was involved in running his other proper- went to Cana[...]d the afore-mentioned bank, the Bohe- in wheat farming with several other brothers. mian B[...]journeyed to South America for several years. He in the Palouse country, so he sent his oldest son Ca[...]e and purchased a place 1929) to manage the ranch in the Big Hole. · on Swamp Creek from Jean Fox in partnership with Mr. Carl managed the ranch an[...]ch and the Elliott ranch. brand is still in use by the Husted Brothers (which came Carl started a bank in 1917 in Wisdom, known as the Wis- from Jean F[...]ink sold his dom State Bank. He hired his brother-in-law, Dewey interest in the ranch to Jack. Mr. Weenink never lived in the[...]Big Hole but operated a photography studio in Dillon. Many of the photographs taken in this era of people and[...]10, 1906, in Dillon by Reverend A.B. Martin, pastor of the[...]member of a pioneer family in Beaverhead County. Jack[...]Jake Neidt, Sr., in 1909. At this time they purchased the[...]Jack and Esta set up temporary living quarters in a log 294-Beaverhead History |
| [...]living there at the time of his death.[...]came to the Big Hole in the late 1800s. They bought out[...]road. The house found to do. was completed in 1913 and is currently home for William,[...]raldine. She was later married to a man by the In their 29 years together the following children we[...]th (Cooney) Boetticher. born to Jack and Esta and are still living: Edith Husted Hutchins fi[...]ce Husted (Beason) 1909; Idella Hust- lived in the North Fork area. For a short while the Hutchi[...]rothy Husted (Grimm) 1913; Charles lived in Wisdom where their little girl attended school. J[...]) 1917; was always busy and worked at many different jobs. Some- William B. Husted 1920; Eli[...]s. Hutchins 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 Big Hole, but they both In the summers they trailed them to the other end of the Big passed away here, as they were getting up in years. They had Hole near Mussigbrod Lake for pasture. William recalls his many friends who mourned their passing. father having a severe toothache, stuffing tobacco (chew) in Many will remember how she always called him "John his mouth and riding[...]Jack was an active member of the Masonic Lodge in Wis- that was all they heard. dom, often r[...]IE ELSE ings. A strong family man, Jack delighted in antics with his children. Esta often told her gra[...]Hutchens and Louisa Vincent were married and for many folks of that day.[...]one mile east of Glendale on Trapper Creek lived in Cumberland County, New Jersey in the 1700s. The Road. The Vincents came or[...]via Salt Lake City. Some of Louisa's family were in Iowa and were also farmers. Jack was the seventh[...]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 Joseph Hutchens was born Aug[...] |
| [...]attend school there. Transportation from their isolated[...]horse and wagon or horseback for many years, and winter[...]years old when he arrived in Dillon in 1905. His first job was[...]wild hay in the Big Hole Basin. The following winter he was[...]Batching in a log cabin with no cooking experience created a[...]River near Fox. Fox was the nia, and were buried in the Glendale Cemetery. A family mail stop[...]ight 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 neighbor bought a h[...]ha Schlunegger, also of Grindelwald, married John in Nellie who married W. G. Grose. All the Beall chi[...]1916 at the home of his sister, Margaret Nelson, in Wisdom. born at Glendale, and Bessie and Nellie w[...]husband Fred was a U.S. Commissioner and a Notary there. The Hutchens name may have been Hutchins.[...]married Walter The name Beall didn't last long in the county after 1920. White of Wisdom. With the death of Orren in 1928 and his wife, Emily, in 1937, Alice Bertha Inabnit was born in the two-story white it disappeared. Two grandsons[...]ame house on the ranch at Fox on August 26, 1917. In and Harry Grose, are the only direct descendants. There are recent years the house has been moved across the river but Beall family members in Kentucky, where Orren was born. still sta[...]he When Orren and Emily were running the ranch in lower Nelsons, Anna Inabnit and the Hunsi[...]g Beach and per- on the wagon while Orren pitched in the field. On occasion a suaded John and Berth[...]ught the Fox ranch so the move was made possible. In this happened, Emily would quickly jump off1[...]rned to the Big Hole to take back their property. In about when she felt ill, so as not to mess up the[...]he most severe winter months Alice was one of the many stops between Butte and Dillon. stayed with Anne and Wendell Jardine in town. Besides Emily lived in Melrose from the time they left the ranch[...] |
| [...]ring. Beach in 1942. John Inabnit died in 1954. Bertha died in But having washtub baths, kerosene lamps and an o[...]2. The Inabnits spent most of their ranching days in the privy was the norm on most ranches. Most of t[...]Big Hole Basin. party telephone lines so there were many listeners. The mail stage came in from Dillon for the upper valley and one could tr[...]cks for the winter and the batteries were brought in so Minnie Kau on August 26, 1903, in Rochester, Montana, a they wouldn't freeze. There were two stores in Jackson but[...]started school in Glendale, a small town west of Melrose In the 1920s young couples attending winter dances in Jack- whi[...]eral times, Agnes spending one year in a Butte school and on benches near the stove. Dan[...]y time in Melrose and Wise River where her father worked on hours with a midnight supper served in a nearby house. the Vineyard Ranch. In 1912 she moved with her family to Families arrived home in time to do the early morning[...]ve office in Armstead for several months. She attended part of[...]with the in Salt Lake City, Utah. U.S. mail truck. The irate[...]Returning to Montana she started business college in waiting for those pranksters upon their return. T[...]eturning to Horse Prairie. nutritious wild hay,so many drives passed the Inabnit[...]boring rancher, at the Catholic Church in Lima by the Rev- her dad to the railroad shipping point at Armstead in the ere[...]he old Nay Ranch before moving to the upper house in the Grsshopper Valley. John shipped his own cattl[...]Tom became ill and died at the young age of 30 in 1928. that included irrigating and repairing harn[...]Fero left the ranch and her brother-in-law, George Smith, Hayhands entered the va[...] |
| [...]He spent his boyhood in Bannack, then resided at Arlee,[...]Viriginia City, where Mr. Innes operated a store. In 1919 he[...]and resided there until 1927 when he returned to the Dillon[...]Carlton. In 1930 the family moved to Salmon, Idaho, and[...]Innes operated the Innes Market until he retired in[...]October 16, 1965. They are buried at Mountain View Ceme-[...]John C. Innes was born in Bruce County, Ontario, Can- ada, in 1836 and was educated there in the field of mining Agnes Pierc[...]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 1928 she purchased the Lena Boone home on[...]Ontario numerous times and married Pacific Street in Dillon which she kept for many years. Catherine Orr Young in 1866. Their first child, Carlton In- Agnes married Rufus Ingersoll on April 8, 1948, and nes, was born in Goderich, Ontario, on December 7, 1866, moved for[...]na. They 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[...]1. dence in Montana. John S. Innes was born in Argenta in Agnes took care of her mother, Minnie Kau, until Mrs. 1873, Evans George in Bannack in 1875, followed by Euphe- Kau's death in 1970. mia in 1878. John was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Agnes still resides in Dillon. that time.[...]Street in Dillon in later years. John died in 1919 and Cather- ine in 1924. Both are buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Carlton Innes[...]day ranchmen of Bea- Martin Innes was born in Goderich, Ontario, to John verhead County. Born December 7, 1867, in Ontario, Can- Innes and Catherine Young o[...]Young Innes. He came to Bannack with his parents in the early 1870s and later located with them on a[...]local schools, became associated with his father in stock raising and later acquired a ranch on the Rattlesnake Creek, west of Dillon. He was also interested in mining ventures. He died March 3, 1936,[...] |
| [...]t Goderich but moved to Bannack with his fam- ily in 1873 and was raised on his parents' ranch. Martin's working career was spent with Eliel Brothers' Store in Dillon. For many years, he took a supply wagon out to the scattere[...]nd 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 r[...]He married a widow with three children and farmed in the Jocko Valley near Missoula. He was killed in 1949 while working on a freight car. Euphemia Catherine Innes was born in Bannack on Au- gust 10, 1878, daughter of John Innes and Catherine Young. She· was raised in the Dillon area on her parents' ranch. Euphemia graduated from high school in Dillon and later will never be erased. attended Pratt Institute in New York, where she studied Dillon's library was founded in 1888. The books were kept dressmaking. In later years, Euphemia did dressmaking pri"." in a room in the old St. James Parish Hall and there Miss vately for her friends. Innes first assisted in the library. She gained her early li- Euphemia[...]7) and and when the new library was built in 1902, she assisted Winifred Winona (1910). Euphemia and Gilbert raised their there. In 1903, she was appointed as one of the acting librar- family in Virginia City and later in Bozeman, Montana. ians. She assumed the post of librarian in 1909, a post she Euphemia died in 1970. h[...]School, now Western Montana College, in the early 1900's. Mary Lyle Innes, the daughte[...]raining at Young Innes, was born December 2, 1869 in Ontario, Can- the University of Chicago,[...]to Bea- Berkeley and Columbia University in New York. · verhead County with her parents in the early 1870's and Miss Innes died A[...]re. Cemetery in Dillon. Miss Innes was a dedicated teacher. Sh[...]the century, then joined the Bagley School staff in 1895 and taught there until her retirement in 1938. R[...]My father Ray Irion was the 11th child in a family of 12, dedicated in the Primary building. Hundreds of former pu-[...]or the ceremonies. Engraved on the plaque in Iowa, September 15, 1880, but grew up in Nebraska, was this simple message: "In recognition of the exceptional where the family lived in a sod house. From there they came services rendered by Miss Innes to this[...]d raise livestock. Innes was additionally honored in 1953 when the School My mother Olive[...]ution naming the Primary Building Creek in Powder River County, December 15, 1893, the "The[...]arles A. Coon and Etta Miss Innes also devoted many years to the public library Daniels Coon. The Coon family lived in Eastern Montana, of Dillon and in 1962 she was honored by the City Council but also lived 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 m[...]people and paint- my grandparents settled in eastern Montana for many ed by Dillon artist Clayton Schulz. This canvas now hangs years. in the library and is a tribute to a gallant lady whose influ- My parents were married in Miles City, Mont., April 15, ence in assisting. young people through the gift of knowledge 1915 and I was born there July 17, 1916. My brother Loren[...] |
| Ray was born in Miles City, September 4, 1918. We both a[...]and a half years, and John, attended grade school in Armstead and I atten'ded Beaver- fourteen m[...]zen and head County High School. Loren was killed in an accident therefore the family also beca[...]1939. My parents, Loren and I lived on a dry farm in her barrels and trunks filled with all the nece[...]government trapper. dishes. In the fall of 1920 we moved to Beaverhead County an[...]for and lived until May, 1922, on the Hart place in the Centennial received homestead rights in the Big Hole Valley. They Valley. I remember the trip from there to Monida very well. bought all the necessiti[...]r married my help getting things ready in such a short time before winter. uncle, Farber S. Irion, who also hunted and trapped. In the Antone hauled logs, cutting them with an[...]d clay to chink between fiddle player for dances. In 1927 we moved to Armstead so the logs. The[...]. Its had taught us the 3 R's so we were not long in catching up construction was important with[...]fry pans and dutch ovens set on racks in the fireplace for[...]with smoking island between Denmark and Germany, in 1882, arriving at and salting fish and mea[...]clothes-what a busy Leadville, Colo. After mining in the day and lighting the time-but they were adequately prepared for their first carbide street lights in the evening for six months, he sent winter. Th[...]s, who were very friendly then, taught the family how to preserve and prepare the animals. There were no willows or elk in the valley in the late 1800s and buffalo and cow chips[...]ous, but there was always enough and everyone was welcome[...] |
| [...]John (1882-1961), married Margaret (1892-1971) in 1913,[...]Late in 1880, brothers Herman and Antonne Jackson and[...]Antonne a daughter Hannah, both born in 1880. The first record we find in America of the Jacksons was in Leadville, Colo., in 1881. Apparently attracted by the[...]to Beaver Canyon near Dubois, Idaho. In 1884 they located[...]on ground about seven miles north of Wisdom. In 1936 a Antone and Eda Jackson[...]lt which ernor Creek. One child (Minnie) was born there. A very hard was still standing. Martin's gr[...]nto the snow and then into sleds, but to no in the wagon. It is still a prized possession of the[...]eath of their cattle, they moved to the Hot In 1886 the brothers moved their families to the upp[...]John deliv- cattle out on the Lapham hill in the hope that they might ered mail by horseback f[...]llside. The the valley from Bannack or Dillon. As many as 20 wagons only students were the Jackson and Lapham children. In with six to eight teams each made up these supply[...]The family moved to the ranch west of Jackson in June, mile south of Jackson. 1899. They lived there until 1913 when son John brought Afte[...]from New Hampshire and Association. In 1890 Herman bought a ranch known as the bought th[...]property, Railroad Avenue. This property remained in the family un- and built a two-story house, full basement, running water, til Margaret Jackson died in 1971. two bathrooms, one of the first modern homes in the valley. Antone and Eda's granddaughter, Eda Shepherd, is the There were six children born of this marriage, three sons present postmaster in Jackson, the eleventh since Antone. and th[...]on, is the present owner of one who settled in the Big Hole. the ranch west of Jackson, which has been passed down In 1903 Martin married Emma Bertha Farlin, grand- th[...]ntana and who with Eda Hansen (1857-1916) married in 1877 and had seven their son S[...] |
| L. Farlin, co-founder of Butte, about whom it is written in took the train to Montana Territory, where C[...]lliam Farlin and to him alone did Butte in Bannack-another couple occupied the back half of[...]. "Grandma Dishno" was the only nurse and midwife in the It was decided that perhaps she[...]Grandma Dishno come with her lit- by being in the fresh air. Harvey bought a pony from the tle[...]fe for her to ride the horse until they could see how the In 1903 Herman sold 480 acres of his land west of th[...]that time. George put on Cora's skirt and Martin. In 1913 Herman sold the home ranch to George[...]the area on horseback. discernible because of the many additions made throughout A companion o[...]cille, and a son Noel were born of the first in Montana! Doctor Atwater trained Cora to be her th[...]they were need- location until their deaths, Emma in 1945 and Martin in ed on their horses. Many stabbings, shootings and births 1947.[...]were attended by these courageous women. In 1885 Antonne Jackson was appointed postmaster and[...]eir horse and buggy and she known as Carrol Hill, in the winter except on snowshoes. At stayed with them in their beautiful mansion. She told of the that time freight teams were busy in the early fall, hauling ugliness of early But[...]the snow went vegetation. People had to go out in the early morning before off in the spring.[...]Cora and Harvey ran the Goodrich Hotel in Bannack and ranchland to his share. In 1964 Mildred and her husband employed a[...]ind the bar. The hotel his wife Laverne now ranch there. Three daughters were was recreated in later years at Virginia City by Bovey. Bo- born o[...]vey took Cora through the Fairweather Inn in Virginia City and Twyla.[...]Harvey erected a general merchandise store in Bannack[...]which they ran for 16 years. The post office was in the same Harvey and Cora Jackson[...]uilding and Harvey was the postmaster. They lived in the Cora Evelyn Tash was born March 27, 1866, in Clark rear of the store. One night Cor[...]ren and the eldest daughter had that "habit" many times before, Harvey didn't get up of Lewis Tash[...]is currently in Bannack which is referred to as the Jackson Co[...]re Donald Tash Jackson, their first Normal School in Afton, Iowa. A contract was signed by c[...]brother George driving a stage- $22.50 per month, in 1884. It was also signed by Noah M. coach[...]de watching Jackson, who was to become her father-in-law four years him come down the hill wi[...]While she was in the store and post office, her brother Cora and Harvey were married March 22, 1888, in Afton, George was Sheriff. One time[...] |
| [...]in the hospital and in people's homes. She seemed to spe- cialize in "hopeless" cases, with many good results. Her son- in-law, Earl, finally put his foot down and said "no[...]mer to visit relatives in Twin Bridges, Melrose, and Dillon.[...]much blessed by her presence in our home. She broke her hip in November of 1955 and died at Cut Bank, June 26,[...]1957. She was buried next to her husband in Twin Bridges.[...]said he could have left and she'd not have gotten in his[...]James K. Jaggers was born in the state of Illinois in 1856 Another unusual factor of Cora's life was that she was and came to Montana in 1871 with his father, Sam Jaggers, appointed the[...]the first electric who mined and ranched in the Grasshopper Valley. James dredge in the United States. To see the pictures of that large spent much of his life mining in the Bannack area except for dredge and then to lo[...]day Grasshopper Creek is an 18-month stint in the Montana State Prison at Deer rather astoundin[...]"Jaggers Cora and Harvey moved to Twin Bridges in 1906 and Gets Eighteen Months." The[...]entenced born. Harvey sold real estate and farmed in the Twin James K. Jaggers, convicted[...]eit money Bridges area. He 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[...]aggers was train. A financial difficulty resulted in that venture folding. asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be Harvey lived in Mexico for about one year during which[...]mer- time Cora, Donald and Dorothy visited family in Iowa. ciful as he was a married man. Judge Knowles said that Harvey had an appendectomy in Butte. There was a terri- perhaps Jaggers had not been[...]the mercy took care of the whole floor. They were in Butte at the of the court, just why, th[...]a bill. During the time that Cora and Harvey were in $5,000. He would give him one and one-hal[...]off lucky. Jaggers was room and wet sheets boiled in lysol water were hung all taken to the[...]g that the Sheriff the farm and Cora went to work in the Orphans' Home. was "hot on his t[...]k for the into Grasshopper Creek where in his opinion they would be Kappa Delta sorority at[...]ork again. She became a practical nurse who lived in the the Sheriff. The "F. L. Graves" gold dredge was brought in home with a family and nursed the ailing back to[...]o another position when no longer needed. She was in recovered the counterfeit lead plugs. One[...]f being able to bring Morgan dollars is now in possession of Donna Landa, James people back to h[...]nddaughter. At the age of 70, she came to live in Cut Bank with daugh- Jeff Mathews,[...] |
| [...]he only had one leg and a six-shooter school there. Born August 4, 1886, the son of James and on eac[...]at time Eleanor (Wandlass) Jaggers, he worked in mining and (which would date the incident about 1[...]James Jaggers died at his home on Railroad Avenue in On May 27, 1907, he married Hazel Mathews, also a Ban- Dillon on Friday, May 6, 1927, having been in gradually nack native. They had two chil[...]bruary 12, 1910, and Hope Jaggers (Lucas) born ed in the family home by the Rev. H. B. Rickets of the December 27, 1913. Methodist Church in Dillon. Two daughters survived him, Tragedy struck the family in late 1916 when the flu epi- Mrs. E. D. Reed of Po[...]children were adopted by the Mathews in 1917 and hence go Samuel and Jane Jaggers[...]muel Jaggers was an early rancher and stockgrower in -JEFF MATHEWS Beaverhead County, arriving in 1866. He 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-[...]astion. 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 German at home. There were five children born to Galena. He also served[...]ur children: James, Mary Anne, Joseph and Robert. In of where Fred Rutledge's lower ranch is now. Mr. Jahnke 1863 Jane died. In 1871 he married 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- dr[...]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 the ranch for awhile, then to Missoula. he was successful in quartz mining and prospecting business Ma[...]Montana, with their four children. Mr. Jones died in Dillon and Bannack), the Springfield Mine, and at[...]was married to a Mr. Winkler for some time and In 1877 he took up a ranch on Horse Prairie which he[...]rried Arthur Klessig 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. He was also j[...]peace for Horse While the Jahnkes were in Butte, they became interested Prairie Township. in mining and had a claim near Philipsburg. It paid well for Samuel Jaggers died in Dillon on March 2, 1910. a while t[...]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 father, Samuel Jaggers, to[...]-JOAN WILKE he too engaged in mining and ranching. He married Eleanor W andlass, a native of England. They raised three children in Bannack: Ethyl (Hunt), Myrl (Enderly), and Roy. J[...]Louis and Eliza Jane died in Dillon on April 29, 1927.[...]Born in 1866 to Harmon Jakway and Mary Arkshire in Roy Jaggers[...]ion of his family to live young man, probably in the 1880s. He was a merchant. in Beaverhead County but the first to be born[...] |
| [...]erts), Idaho, in 1909. He ran a farm machinery firm, later a[...]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[...]rest in the Idaho Falls Cemetery.[...]dine ranched at Jackson for many years until his death in[...]Mose was born in Willard, Utah, in 1876. His father[...]They settled in Willard, Utah. Mose's mother, Susannah[...]Dudley, was born in Nantyglo, Wales, and came across the[...]They also settled in Willard. The family later moved to[...]Lucy was born in Austin, Nevada, in 1878. Her father,[...]e HuffI Hainline Ind.) to work in the open air and recover from consumption (1898 in Dillon) (tuber[...]also from Huff and Sarah Ann Graham. Born 1849 in Blandinsville, LaPorte. They married in Austin, Lucetta was born there in Ill., she moved with her family to Wilcox, Mo., in 1869. 1878 and two years later her brother[...]line at her father's residence. The family lived in Nodaway went into the Big Hole, some of the first settlers there. The County, Mo., and had two sons, Thomas and[...]ns alone. Liza and her sons moved to Montana in the 1890s. She settled in Lima where hr,r sisters Ada Huff Brothers and M[...]midwest, married a woman named Maude and lived in Elkhart, Ind., where he was a successful photog[...]liam 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 akway, a local businessman. They were married on September 17, 1898, in Dillon at the par- sonage of Reverend E.[...] |
| [...]ened, and Lucy wanted to change drivers and ride in the buggy with Mame. Uncle Charlie Francis, Mame[...]n horseback. The hot springs area was homesteaded in 1884 so this was probably the same crossing near[...]h of Wisdom. 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 his own ranch in the Briston or Sunny Slope area. This ranch was l[...]Ritschel. To this ranch he brought his bride Lucy in 1901. Mose and Lucy were married in Dillon. The ceremony was planned to coincide with[...]endle- ies and other supplies. Besides the wagon, there were faster- ton, Edna Noyes, Maggie Lewis: ce[...]or a quarter. No suits, no mixed crowds. Mame was there, although her name is not in the wedding Since this was a stopping[...]freighters, there was also a large barn and corrals. One early After a wedding breakfast in a cafe, the parties left for morning the barn burned, a spectacular fire and there was home. With the wagon already loaded, bride an[...]me to get the horses out. Everything else burned. in the high driver's seat. Lucy must have changed fr[...]ay, white trim, black beading. Several days later there was a shivaree at the Bris- roof. A smaller, a[...]rage area ton ranch. Their two children were born in Grandma Pad- was built at the same time. My father loved horses, had dock's front bedroom in the log house south of Wisdom. The many of them and was proud of his Belgians. Only the s[...]mber a beautiful 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. My mother Lucy, who grew up in the Basin, was an two of them were regi[...]ds of the Ten Miles between Jackson and Dillon. In the winter antelope in the valley. time, for grownups there were Literary Society meetings, Lucy's family[...]t ranch homes. My moth- Emily (Paddock) Ingersoll in LaPorte, Ind., to finish school. er always brought me a little piece of cake wrapped in a They thought she would go to high school, but first she was fancy paper napkin. put back in eighth grade. This was embarrassing because Mose died in St. John, Idaho, in 1924 at his sister Molly she was older than the r[...]'s home. He was buried at Cherry Creek. Lucy died in was sketchy, only a few months a year with the teacher California in 1955 and was buried in Cherry Creek beside "boarding around" with families. Mose. In 1911 Mose bought the B. 0. Fournier place and hot[...]Wendell H. and Anne and all somehow connected. There was a cement plunge Jardin[...]Anne Marie Jorgenson was born March 18, 1906 in Ana- 306-Beaverhead History |
| [...]bred Herefords. The herd was dispersed in 1968. In 1973,[...]munity in Woodburn, Oregon. Wendell passed away August[...]28, 1975. Anne still makes her home in Oregon.[...]there was a toll road near the Beaverhead River as it r[...]Jardine worked there and his wife, Jane Thompson Jar.dine died there in childbirth, May of 1879.[...]William Jardine was born in Alva, Scotland; grew up in Hespeler, Ontario, Canada; enlisted in the American Civil Anne Jorgenson Jar[...]l H. Jardine,age 5 war in the city of Buffalo, New York, where he met Jane.[...]family ranch west of Wisdom and attended 1 school in Wisdom. She recalls that her first grade teacher[...]ame a member of the Chi Omega Sorority. Back home in Wisdom, she was employed part time by Harold Capehart in the Wisdom Bank and also worked for the Wisdom Bu[...]had one sister, Helen Susanne. The family ranched in the Briston area of the Big Hole until 1911 when[...]Wendell and his sister attended the ~rade school in Jackson. After completing the grades Wen- :lell attended high school in Dillon when the ranch work :1.llowed. His father[...]Wendell and Anne were married on October 25, 1928 in 3utte, Montana at the Lutheran Church. The ceremo[...]and Wendell made iheir home at the Jardine Ranch in Jackson. While there, \nne was active in Eastern Star, Home Demonstration :;1ub and the J[...]dell served as Coun- ;y Commissioner, was active in Farm Bureau and was a[...] |
| They began their family in Hespeler, but William found work in the West. When his young wife visited him in the new territory and could not deliver their thi[...]Jardine. -Effie Jardine Christman came by train in 1910 to Dillon with four children, following the[...]ario, and her second son, Bruce, entered business in Southern Cali- fornia.[...]Copenha- gen, Denmark, emigrated to this country in 1910. They came aboard the U.S.S. Mauritania to New York and since a sort of Danish Community had formed in Dillon, MT they traveled on to this place in search of friends, and employ- Fr[...]1915) ment. Wilhelm worked for various ranches in the area while Christina found employment as a ho[...]bit of history is the land under the They married in 1914, and leased a ranch on what is now[...]Glen, Fred was the first-born son, born in November, 1882, to a MT, known at that time as th[...]immigrant couple that came to Wisconsin about In 1918, a son, Harry, was born, their only child. In 1921, 1881 to carve out a farm. He grew up harv[...]ob of He first came to Beaverhead County in 1912 to work on ranch manager for the Ed Rowe Ran[...]d Christina cooked for the family and hired help. In railroad from about seven to ten miles nort[...]pur Ranch during the summer for Ranch. They lived there for 12 years before selling. They several[...]nown as the Selway Ranch, tana and decided in 1915 to take up a homestead and move and it inclu[...]evrolet, Lions Den, and on down to the ing how to irrigate land with water from a mountain strea[...]ve known that it probably was not a good idea and in 1941 disposed of the balance of the ranch.[...]Wilhelm took a job at Western Montana College in the south end of the Hog Back. Neverthel[...]Late in the summer of 1915 Fred completed the required[...]k" and went back to Wisconsin to get his 90. They are survived by son Harry, his wife Mary and t[...] |
| [...]time to get serious about marriage. He In January, 1924, Fred's father died. His mother was[...]arents' old home was heavily he would have to get in the 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[...]Depression of the 30s, the second child, was born in May, 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[...]-ELEANOR JOHNSON MCCAULEY to their homestead in time to get settled and plant a field of flax the[...]May sive and colorful character, shrouded in mystery and on the and Mrs. Carlson.[...]help. C. D. had gone to Dillon. The baby was there. He dug back into the hill by hand and carried th[...]re a doctor came out to register the birth out in a bucket. But, alas, at a distance of about 25 fe[...]led out 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[...]sions to borrow His endeavors were many. Collecting animals to sell to the $7,200 to buy 80 acres with water rights next to the Spur. In zoo in Butte was one such enterprise. The traps were set[...]between two pack mules. Thus, the captives family in Wisconsin for the first time since they married.[...]Swan John Johnson, born April 16, 1868 in Virestad, Swe-[...]den, came to the United States in 1886. He spent some time in Kansas, Minnesota, and North Dakota before coming[...]Montana and the Big Hole in the 1890s. He walked to Fox,[...]earn his supper, breakfast, and night's lodging in the hay[...]He worked for John Peterson in the Big Hole for a time[...]and then was associated with Sam Peterson in business for a[...]married in the fall of 1909. She was born in Virestad, Swe-[...]ack", north of Dillon to join him in business. Gus was single and Carl and Hild[...] |
| [...]n 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, 1912 Alice Mari[...]t 29, 1920. All the children went to grade school in Jackson. During the teens, Gus and Car1 and family sold their interest in the Andrews place to John N. Anderson and[...]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, Justice of the Peace[...]n on October 26, 1845. They were married on 1883, in Judith Basin, Montana.[...]nd was far from the Hayden's and attending school in the summer looking for the so-called "Promi[...]he winter as we do now because of the severe in the Centennial. winters. She says they went to school with Alan Buck's kids The story I remember of how my grandfather got the and they usually didn't ha[...]he also remembers carrying water to the house and how how bad the woodticks were that spring. wonderful it[...]bered him, but I have many fond memories of Grandmother Leona met Earl Hug[...]were married Jones. I would have just moved in with her. She smoked a in Virginia City, December 11, 1924. Earl ran the ma[...]ed January 3, 1913, and Martha Jones Supply Store in Monida for Ora Roselle. He also ran a gas died January 15, 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 Sep[...]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 grandchildren. Charles Franklin (Frank) Tuck Jones ranched in the Valley until the Government bought ranches for the Bird Refuge. Eva passed away in[...]Eva, moved to Monida the ranch and he passed away there June 26, 1956. Both are in 1901. Mrs. Davis worked for Mrs. Paull at the Mercantile buried in the Jones Cemetery 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, she met Charles buried in Missoula. Leona lives in Missoula at the Clark Franklin (Frank) Jones and they were married in Dillon by Fork Manor. the Methodist Minister in 1912. -LEONA JONE[...] |
| [...]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 lives down the hall from her cousin, Leona Jones Huggins, at the Clark Fork Manor in Missoula. -EVA JONES[...]and a daughter Mabel who resides in Chelan, Washington.[...]ranklin on Long Creek. After their father's death in January of 1913, the two brothers[...]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 neighbor, always he[...]68, and came to Beaverhead County with his family in[...]-RUBY SPERRY SWANK In 1888 the family moved to the Centennial Valley wh[...]Frank married Florence Burwell August 12, 1912. There north side of the Valley today. Th[...] |
| [...]ried Caldon Hone October 28, 1930, in Blackfoot, Idaho.[...]At the time, there were at least six schools in the Valley:[...]caused a swell in school-age children and the county super-[...]over the country. Many taught for only a short time and[...]keeping quiet in class and was spanked with a ruler many[...]Ralph and Guy rode horses to school in good weather and sleighs in winter. School ran from September through May,[...]pleted the eighth grade. Guy dropped out in the seventh[...]high school was in Dillon. Unless a family was rich enough to[...]ave a town house or able to find a boarding place in town[...]hildren, high school was a dream until the school in P. J. Jones family. L-R: Daughter Myrtle, son Lee[...]"Jeff". (Taken Weenick Studio in Dillon, 1901) owned by Bill Rerun. |
| [...]away from city life, drink and party, and unwind in the rustic atmosphere. One of the brightest memories of living in the Centennial Valley was the dances that were he[...]great steps to get to the dances. Some were held in local ranch houses. Many others were held at Henry's Lake, Lima, Monida, M[...]who were big Tom Warner, who was Frank's brother-in-law. enough to work built fence and worked in the hay field. The best part of living in Centennial Valley, as far as a Martha Jones, W[...]t that time, so Mrs. Rock River would freeze over in the twenties, some of the Jones and daughte[...]iver to Lima bank with scissors and carried it in a bed sheet to feed the to attend the dances.[...]at. of the bird refuge and they continued to live there until the John's mother, Catherine VanDyke J[...]and SALLY GARRETT ranch in July of 1900. John set aside a piece of his prope[...]family members are buried there as well as many old time John Allen (Pap) Jones[...]the first to be buried there. Family John bought homesteads in the Alaska Basin until he John Allen Jones was born in Inclain, Virginia. His wife, owned most of the land there. This land he leased to John Delila Jessup, was born in Indiana and they were married in Bray for summer cow camp. Bobby Allen was chief cook. Iowa. Their eight children were born in Hayesville, Iowa. The eight Jones children were John Paris, Katherine Ra- They came to Monida in 1893 by immigrant train. They chel, Albe[...]zabeth, Emma Lou, had loaded all their belongings in a boxcar and didn't have Matilda Jane, Charle[...]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 G[...] |
| [...]and Anna Peterson. She attended schools in Sweden and came to the United States in the early 1900s to join her[...]brother, John Peterson, in the Big Hole Valley. When she[...]disembarked from the ship in New York City there was to be money there for her, sent by her brother, John, to make the[...]train trip to Montana. But the money was not there. Neither[...]They married at Ingrid Nelson's home in Dillon April 2,[...]children: Gladys, Raymond and Lucille. All lived in the Centennial at one time. The Jones family gave[...]g populated. Mrs. Jones died at the ranch home in August of 1932. She was eighty years old. John Allen died in Monida at his daughter Jane Miller's home in February of 1935. They are both buried in the Jones cemetery in the Centennial Valley.[...]of Jorgen and Anna Jorgenson. He attended schools in Denmark and came to the United States in the 1890s. He came to Montana to join his brother, Jorgen Jorgenson, in the Big Hole Valley. Jorgen's ranch in the Big Hole is now the present Jack Hirschy home[...]Amanda, Anna and Hans Jorgenson ... in Sweden Amanda Peterson Jorgenson was h[...] |
| Wisdom. Their only child, Anna Marie, was born in Ana- conda, Mont. on March 18, 1906. Early in the summer of 1906 while the family was visiting at the John Peterson's ranch, there was an electrical storm. The Jorgensons were having a phone installed in their home and the wiring was incomplete. Lightni[...]elter for the haymen as haying was soon to start. In the fall, they built a permanent home which still[...]ned to Denmark and Sweden to visit their families in 1910, and returned to Mon- tana in 1911. Charles and Tilda Benson (Amanda's sister a[...]ad just sold their ranch on the Gibbonsville road in the Big Hole and offered to take care of the J or[...]journey. Hans was a Wisdom School trustee for many years and the instigator of a two year high school in Wisdom so the children wouldn't have to leave the[...]as appointed livestock inspector for the Big Hole in 1944. Amanda was known for her excellent cooking[...]lways received the gift. They were both active in Eastern Star, Masons, Shrine and Daughters of The[...]Bob Joy (1891) lights was driving to Butte in their 1916 Buick to attend nothing was[...]a popular place with Big Hole hiding in the bushes. Bob decided that it was skunk or resi[...]Their daughter, Anna, married Wendell Jardine in 1928 night the fellows were tired and hungry, and when they and moved to the Jardine ranch in Jackson. A few years smelled the aroma of the stew, they couldn't wait to "dig in". later, the Jorgensons leased their ranch to Ama[...]usly ew, Elmer Jensen and they moved into Wisdom. In April, until he asked them if they kn[...]old and Mae Nelson. They They looked up in surprise and shook their heads: When lived in Wisdom until their deaths, Amanda in August 1946 Bob told them it was skunk, they dumped their plates, held and Hans in October 1952.[...]s. Robert "Bob" Joy was born February 22, 1860 in Colum- The trek through the mountain passes nearly ended in di- bus, Ohio to a Scottish family devastated by[...]or's blood 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. do[...]prospectors and started out on their own. There was no tion, Iowa where he found work in a coal mine. After months railroad[...] |
| [...]ch a good boss as Mr. Shank. Consequently, he in Dillon. forgot all about gold mining and settled down to thoughts of Lee Joy served in the United States Army at Camp Lewis buying his[...]1880s passed rapidly, and Bob became so involved in discharge he joined his father in partnership on the ranch. working and saving mon[...]o wom- The Joys bought their first Buick in 1918, and toured en. However, one day he chanced[...]y at- Maude Joy Green married Joseph Pace in Silver Bow tracted his attention, and it wasn't[...]a piano. Grace Leora Bean Edwards In 1891 and 1892 he bought land from William Barbour[...]Milton and Henrietta Bean, early settlers in the Centennial born April 17, 1896. All of them w[...]She attended schools in the Valley and Salt Lake City. The Joy girls a[...]ears after selling also went to a boarding school in Deer Lodge where they their property in the Centennial, later coming back to the studied[...]ranch displaying the Quarter Circle S. wards in Alma, Wyoming May 3, 1891, the third child in a Brand.[...]family of 13. The family moved to the Centennial in 1907 Maude Joy married 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[...]Joy Grace worked at the Summit Hotel in Monida for Ossie Ranch. The Greens moved to Idaho[...]wards on March 1, 1913, at Dillon. They lived in Monida for the Joys. Genevieve and Archie Green a[...]and on the Pearl Joy married Jake Mittelmeier in Butte, January 4, Staudaher Place for Poind[...]Vernold on July 16, 1914, The Mittelmeiers lived in Dillon where Jake was employed and a daug[...]Bill filed on a homestead on Clover Creek in 1917 and[...]built a house on the property. The family lived there part-[...]for the P&O at the Stauduhar Place in 1918 when the flu[...]is buried in the Jones Cemetery in the Centennial Valley.[...]of time had to be spent living on the property in order to[...]ued working on the P&O in the Valley and also on the 316-Beaver[...] |
| [...]1889, to Joseph and Lucy Judy, the third child in a family of[...]Tug came to the Centennial Valley in 1909, and worked[...]for the P&O Livestock Co. for several years. In 1913 he went[...]They ranched there until selling the place in the late 1940s.[...]Tug passed away April 19, 1964, and is buried in Moun- tain View Cemetery in Dillon. Blacktail. Vernold Edwards died on Novemb[...]IX a ruptured appendix at the old Curtis Hospital in Dillon He is buried beside 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. E[...]overnight while trailing cattle to sum- mer range in the 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 l[...]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.[...] |
| [...]and the children then moved back to their home in Dillon.[...]Katie was remarried in later years to Michael Boka but[...]kept the home on Thomsen Avenue until her death in 1981.[...]A son, Albert Kajin passed away in August 1981. Surviv- ing children are Mary Kajin (Pilgrim) of Los Altos, Califor-[...]Matt, Katie and their son Albert are buried in Mountain[...]Kajin Matthew Kajin Jr. was born July 6, 1891, in Butte to Matt and Annie Kajin, who operated a nei[...]bich store. Matt had one younger brother, Joe. In April 1899, when Matt was eight years old, his mother John Kambich was born in Semic, Austria in 1854. He and father sold the family business and[...]the ranch for about one At that time, there was nothing but brush and rocks cov- year and in 1900 sold the ranch to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph[...]mily to the Lima area where hauled rocks in what he called a "spring wagon" which was a they[...]ld highway. places where there were huge boulders, large sagebrush, and On Ja[...]the ditches had to be dug with a pick were united in marriage by Daniel Foley, Pastor of the St. and shovel. There were many places where a ditch couldn't Rose Catholic Church in Dillon. Katie Pershe Kajin was be dug, s[...]lly. here, a flume made of born January 23, 1890, in Kuti, Yugoslavia, and at age 21 boards was[...]e gully immigrated to the United States, arriving in January of or crevasse. 1911. From New Yo[...]became active mining camps and work was plen- In 1913, Matt and Katie sold their ranch to Mrs. Mary tiful. In 1873, John was employed at the Glendale smelter. Burke (which in succeeding years was owned by Charlie A[...]om 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). To th[...]The panic of 1893 touched off a decline in the district Foreman for the Beaverhead Lumber Co[...]north of Dillon from Jens Petersen on what in this area was no longer profitable for the compan[...]ler Lane. At John went back to farming. In the fall, hay was cut by that time there were three ranches along this lane; Matt h[...]le irrigating, Matt was struck by hooked in the middle with a rope to release the catc[...] |
| [...]LA KAMBICH Oshula Kambich married John Kambich in Austria and came to America as a bride. She came[...]ambich, better known as Grandma Kambich, was born in Austria March 15, 1862. Living in Austria was hard for young Oshula. As a child she[...]very poor and only the very rich had shoes. Even in the winter while herding sheep, she would be bare[...]r leaving Austria Grandma and her husband settled in Glendale. They cleared off the first bit of land[...]miles from Glendale, and the smelter was located in Glendale. Mining both gold Ste[...]Grandma baked family is written by his daugher-in-law, Frances Moran 15-20 loaves of bread each day and sold them as there was no Kambich. The following is from recollections of stories of bakery in town. She churned butter, molded it and sold it,[...]on the border Perishable food had to be preserved in the fall for use the of Austria and Germany. He used to say his father's farm rest of the year. In the fall, pigs were butchered. Bacon, was so situated he could put one foot in Austria and the hams, ribs, etc. were put into br[...]r scrapple. The intestines were farm, and in the late 1870s, Stephen and his brother, John, cl[...]tates. 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[...]town of Glendale, Mont., and there they journeyed. Fish were salted down to prese[...]Grandma's life. She chopped her own worked in the town. It was there his little daughter Anna, wood and carried it int[...]before two seven sons and one daughter. She died in 1964 at the age of brothers, Steve and[...] |
| [...]or his family, and when news came of land in 1923, after a heavy rain, the boys went to the river to fish being offered to homesteaders in the Ronan area, near and swim. Young Jo[...]im. He was mountains to Wisdom, Montana, and from there hitch- caught in a whirlpool just below the Glen bridge. The fishe[...]rmen realized the boys were not John, to join him in buying a ranch in the Glen valley. This fooling, and tried to he[...]se them alone. same, and passed away early in 1935. But Fate intervened! A letter came from Idaho saying that a Mary Kambich died in 1944. All of Stephen Kambich'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 wa[...]Steve Kambich had a great belief in education. He built After a short period of co[...]he first schoolhouse on his newly purchased ranch in 1886. become Stephen's wife and a new mother to h[...]ry hard to be a good helpmate, and she tree. In 1912, he donated one acre of his ranch to what wa[...]t age 10, his beautiful and served for years in that capacity. His years at Glen truly little dau[...]cow- helped the community and all who lived there. girl, died of rheumatic fever. Her death devastated her par- His descendants are Margaret Kambich Clinch of Helena, ents.[...]and They became the benefactor of all families in need. Indi- Carl Donald 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 Kambic[...]th Steve and Mary while getting used Fifield are the children of Carl and Frances Moran Kam- to Am[...]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. When the n[...]church was built, Steve and Mary donated the bell in the tower that can be heard in Dillon every Sunday to this day.[...]Jacob and Johanna Kambrick were- married in Butte at[...]The family moved to Dillon in 1914 and bought a ranch[...]in the 1940s. She died in May, 1955. Anne lives in Long[...]h, Calif.; Mary died June 13, 1986; and John died in[...] |
| [...]Les Kelker was born June 30, 1884, in Pueblo, Colorado. He was raised in a railroad family, and his three half broth-[...]W. Kelker, was born in 1827 in Lebanon County, Pennsylva-[...]Minnie Kau in time became a Sales Engineer for the Baldwin Loco[...]and eventually became Matthew W. Kau was born in 1871 in Waukesha, Wis., a master mechanic for t[...]mmond, Mont., doing timber and RR shops in Pueblo, Colorado. ranch work with relatives. A few years later he drove stage- It was in these shops Les became an apprentice at age 15. c[...]ked as a young man, but eventually he came to Los in a hotel in Melrose. 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. an from[...]ving Myrtle had three children. Two were born in Los Angeles: to Butte where he went to work for D[...]Robert Collins, born April 4, 1911, now living in Lebanon, He drove a delivery wagon, pulled by six[...]elyn, born November 13, 1913, now meat to markets in Butte. He continued at this job approxi- living in Laguna Hills, California. Their third child Winst[...]neyard Ranch at Lester, born July 29, 1923 in Portland, Oregon, now lives in Wise River doing ranch work. Oceanside, California. Les worked in Los Vegas for a short In 1912 he and his family moved to Horse Prairie, se[...]belonged to his daughter, Agnes Pierce. He lived there for several years and then moved to Dillon retir- ing due to poor health. He died at Dillon in July, 1949, leaving his wife, two daughters and n[...]was a member of the Masonic Lodge. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery at Dil- lon. His widow, Mi[...]Kau, born May 1884 lived out her remaining years in Dillon, becoming a member of the Catholic Church. She died in 1970 and was buried in the The Union Pacific Clubhouse, erected in 1917 at family plot at Mountain View Cemetery.[...]dining room in later years when diners were re-[...] |
| the Santa Fe in Needles, California. About two years later he became a foreman. In about 1917, he was sent to Lima, Mont., as round[...]table were vital for traffic over the mountains. In those days, two steam locomotives, and on occasio[...]an American flag and commended. Les enjoyed life in Lima. He was an avid fisherman and bird hunter an[...]fishing trips to Yellowstone, and grouse hunting in the ranch coun- try. In about 1920, a job opportunity as shop superintendent became available in Portland, Oregon, and as much as he regretted lea[...]fter the war, Les retired and lived com- fortably in Portland. He passed away May 3, 1957. The Kelker Family (Kelliker) originally emigrated from Swit- zerland in 1743 and settled in Lebanon County, Pennsylva- ma.[...], and both students at Texas Christian University in Ft. end of Sheep Creek Basin and erected a one room log cabin. Worth, rode freight trains north in the summer of 1903 in It was in that cabin that son Edwin Gordon (Eddie) made an[...]buggy Sunday afternoon while a baseball game was in progress. from their homestead a f ~w m[...]spend the night, were on hand to assist in the delivery. The the locals to the extent that they were offered jobs in the hay only complication was, and is, an obvio[...]belly button. A daughter, Mary Louise, was born in 1916. agreed but caught another freight train for home at the end She died of pneumonia in December, 1917, and an account of the haying seas[...]of the attempt to get her to a doctor appeared in the Janu- Les, later to be known as "Tex", lik[...]e deeded acreage spent most of his remaining life in Beaverhead County. could not produce e[...]n he played baseball for the Dell team and worked in sheep, a few head of cattle and saddle and[...]aughter, Merle. taken to lower valleys in the late fall, fed there, and then They were married December 18, 1913. Merle had come to brought back to the ranch in the early spring. Montana in 1899, at the age of four, from Prescott, Kan.,[...]fort- were one of the first families to homestead in Sheep Creek able being associated with an[...]ent Les and Merle took up adjoining homesteads in the north in Gilmore and Leadore, Idaho, for the Gilmor[...] |
| [...]rom Armstead, across the Conti- of a judge in all except criminal cases which had to wait until[...]tleman who road of which its president, who lived in Armstead, boasted, always wore a tall hat and[...]at contrasts with the cur- years of her life in a wheelchair. She was able to cook and do rent pr[...]nd and $.85 or so a some housekeeping tasks in spite of her handicap. She 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. are buried in the family plot in Mountain View Cemetery. Les and Merle were divorc[...]an Cummings. She owned and operated a beauty shop in Dillon for many years. She died in Renton, Wash., February 22, Floyd Andrew Kenison 1971. Les never remarried and worked on ranches in the Floyd Kenison, born August 2, 1891, at Prescott, Kan., area until he died in April, 1949. moved w[...]Stark Kenison, from Prescott to Dillon in 1899. They went[...]the second ranch in the area. Several members of the Alonzo Keniso[...]t the turn of the man from the early years in the Basin. One example of that century. As near a[...]innie and three children were the first to arrive in a railroad rail to which they hooked a four[...]e end whom were grown by the time they came here. There were of the day he would sometimes lag b[...]a who was married to Andrew Lounsbury while still in Kan- 'loaded line,' an extra leather fast[...]nd Eva Daisy (1879) who married William H. Wilson in free end, leaving a lash on the end. He was an expert with it 1902 in Dillon.[...]theast of Dillon on the old Blacktail Road. After many years there, he had a new home built on an acreage north of D[...]fic Street. He served as Justice of the Peace for many years and was known to all as "Judge" Kenison. In those early days a Justice of the Peace p_[...] |
| [...]s from those atrocities . . 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[...]race track. men who owned the ranch, either died in the penitentiary or He spent four years[...]of Montana and then were killed resisting arrest. In those days, however, they went to Los Ange[...]hool. This were operating freely, stealing horses in nearby Idaho. 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 going to what is now[...]completion of this watched for the "law" to come in but none did. The leaders course, Floyd we[...]d other ranchers breaking horses and herding work in stealing horses.[...]en were, they proved good neighbors In October, 1917, he married Mabelle Sanders of Rex-[...]. burg, Idaho. They had a small cattle ranch in connection He and his sister Merle were good frie[...]with his father until the ranch was sold in 1918. One son was ters of one of the leaders.[...]Sanders Kenison, on August 1, Travel to Dillon in the first years was a four day trip each 1918. way, going by way of Medicine Lodge. In later years, a road Floyd's father, Ed K[...]enterprise, extracting oil from oil shale in a location near the railroad. At first the road forded the creek many times Dillon. Floyd went to work there but the enterprise was and some of those fords co[...]the unsuccessful so he bought a garage in Armstead. He operat- early days of the automobile[...]me by their around Armstead and over in to the Gilmore, Leadore, and mother for the first[...]t and moved with his wife and son, Floyd S. ments in three and one half years at about the usual age. His ("Junior"), back to the ranch in Sheep Creek in 1925. mother was very interested in education so she saw to it that Floyd's fathe[...]estate was liquidated in 1938. At that time, he bought one of[...]this until he sold out and retired in 1950. At this time, he[...]his death in June, 1956.[...]three children came to Dillon by train in the spring of 1898.[...] |
| [...]In the meantime two more children had been born to t[...]family, Edward Frank in 1906 and Mary Mollie in 1909. The next venture was a ranch in Sheep Creek Basin which[...]stocked with horses and cattle. The family lived there[...]until 1916 when the ranch in the mountains was traded for a ranch in the valley five miles north of Dillon on the Twin[...]Bridges Road. That home was theirs for many years and[...]Edgar Kenison Family homes, one in Dillon and one on the ranch about three miles[...]nisons moved into the big, two-story Dillon in 1899 with children Floyd (age nine) and Merle ra[...]r a chest of drawers Creek. Their first house up there was an old log cabin with a which Belle refus[...]hay for the Poindexter and Orr ranch on Black- · In 1903 Bill started working for Jones and Davidson[...]Edgar and Belle took up adjoining homesteads in Sheep ~alico fabric and lined the walls and ceilings to keep out dirt Creek Basin where there was only one other ranch at that md dust. Inside the kitchen there were a hand pitcher time. It was occu[...]stove. She though at least one spent time in prison in Deer Lodge. On .vas an excellent cook and housek[...]enough to last for six months. horses. Many of these were sold to the United States Gov- rhe[...]from Dell up into the Basin, Big Sheep Creek There was no school in the area the first year the family had to be forded 23 times. As other families came to home- ived there even though there were four families who had stead, the roa[...]ollowing year Bill, Harry Rash, freighted in by four-horse teams and wagons once a year, 3er[...]enison organized a six-month sum- usually in the fall. That arrangement might give pause to a[...]family treat 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[...]the Mother Lode at the mine. The family in that area. The ranch was sold in 1920 for $100,000, and lecided to go ba[...] |
| Edgar invested heavily in a scheme to extract oil from oil had a daughter, Kennette, who married B.J. Smith and they shale in the Blacktail area south of Dillon, but it proved to reside in Dillon. Kenneth married Mildred Erickson after be[...]bout his first wife's death. Kenneth died in 1963. the same time the purchaser of the ranch, a[...]ment, 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 Edythe had both worked in the Oregon Department of Edu- to take the ranch back but had to borrow heavily to do so. cation for many years after graduating from the Dillon Nor- However, he no longer had any interest in ranching and the mal and teaching in Montana secondary schools. oldest son, Floyd, too[...]IN KELLNER Montana, Floyd married Mabelle Sanders in 1917, and there was one son, Floyd Jr., who presently resides in Pierce[...]William W. Kenison City, Mo. Floyd died in 1956. Merle married Leslie Kellner William Webster 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 growing up in the Blacktail area, "Doc," Dillon for many years. After she and Leslie were divorced, s[...]ried Harry Smith and then Ivan Cummings. She died in Renton, Wash., in 1971. Six of eight Kenison children were born in Montana: Car- rie, twins Mildred and Willard, Mar[...]- ell and they had a daughter, Afton. Carrie died in Tacoma, Wash., in 1978. Mildred married Walter Lyons, and after his[...]er 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 wit[...]Barnes and they had a daughter, Dawn, who resides in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. Marion died in about 1930. Kenneth married Crystal Wentworth and[...]This interest in trapping and prospecting earned Doc a[...]find somewhere in the Blacktail area.[...]John Kent was born April 10, 1868 in Diamond City,[...] |
| [...]home in Alder. He was buried on August 23, 1947 in the family plot in Dillon.[...]At this era in our nation's history many families were[...]Davison (1838-1894). Enoch R. Nye was born in Richland, Rosella Wyscaver was of German desce[...]born March 13, 1870. having served in the 44th Division of the Illinois Infantry They married in Boise City, Idaho, on July 2, 1892. Short- Volunteers. Diademia L. Davison Nye was born in Grafton, ly after they married, they came to Dill[...]The last little Enoch R. Nye met and married in 1855. The Nye family girl was stillborn. John Ken[...]Civil War as did the Kent family ing constructor. 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 a[...]now occupied by the Benny Reynolds while in Iowa and then migrated to Nebraska. After a while[...]built the steel bridges over the Beaverhead in Nebraska they moved to Montana and took up a home[...]stead next to the James M. Nye homestead in the Centen- was built.[...]Rock Lake near O'Dell He built the Grand Hotel in Dillon (now part of the State Creek. When th[...]uor Store (now the Dillon burry, Nebr., in 1891, the children, Eugene Kent (1885- Discount D[...]ntana J. Kent (1891-1963) was schoolhouse at Dell in 1902 (now the Calf-A). He built sever- nine m[...]ort 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 also built the Selway Sheep Ranch on t[...]After proving up on their homestead in the Centennial, John and Rose bought the Tromely place and sawmill in the family continued living either on the ranch or in Lima Price Canyon which is on the Blacktail. He r[...]Jennie ran a fairly successful grocery and supply there in the 1930s, then ran cattle when he closed down th[...]ceived most of their education in Lima and stayed on in the Their second son, George, was accidentally shot in August Centennial for some time. As the boys[...]tion with a friend. The bullet severed the artery in his leg Lima. and he bled to death. Homer, the oldest son, grew up in The children of the Julian Kent family are as follows: Dillon and became a cabinet maker bef[...]Spiegel (1892-1978) and from this marriage are the follow- BCHS, and on January 28, 1923, married E.B. Harkness of ing: Infant daughter died in the Centennial Valley, Edith Dell where she lived[...]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. Philipsburg, where he became County Att[...]VanAntwerp (1888-1955) and from this marriage are the passed away on February 20, 1947.[...]st 21, 1947 at the rest 1944) who died in WWII, and Hope VanAntwerp (1912-[...] |
| [...]arried Mary Jenkins (1900) and from this marriage are the following: Allene Kent (1920) who married Sam[...]ied Mel Smith. Leva has an- other daughter living in California by the name of Betty[...]from this marriage is Denise Blanchard who lives in Canada. (Many of these people were married more than once and the ones indicated are those whom the children were by and of whom we ha[...]erick Kerr Fred Kerr was born August 13, 1877, in Lone Pine, Iowa. lived on the closest ranch,[...]family said his Dad, Charles, had fallen in the well. He asked if home was West Branch, Sprin[...]oyhood friends, Al was asked to go down in the well and put a line around Gruwell and Charle[...]back to Dillon, and the family returned to reside in Dillon. Creek coke ovens to fire the smelter. App[...]Hughes took the chil- Rochester mine was located in what was called the Rabbit dren under thei[...]airie 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 sc[...]ed was a very proud father. All three men settled in Dillon (Fred Kerr, Charles Burden For twenty years, Fred was in charge of the farm machin- and Al Gruwell) and be[...]department of the Olmstead Stevenson Company. He there. Fred survived his companions by several years.[...]y until 1945. Fred met Miss Almira Elsie Couch in Twin Bridges. Fred From 1946 to 1954 he was[...]ore. 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 ranching.[...]re born of this union: Survantes Martin held in the fall of the year around Labor Day. Fred had t[...]on the West Bench. This was of lines-three in each hand. a dry land farm-very little rain and n[...]d away suddenly at his Dillon home Sat- be hauled in barrels for the livestock as well as themselves[...]and only one year did it rain enough for a crop. In 1917, the Brundage Funeral Chapel with R[...] |
| [...]Tent Lake in the upper Rattlesnake drainage. He also had James Kirkpatrick, an early-day settler in Beaverhead water from Harris Lake and Rim Reservoir. Water from County, was born March 9, 1848 in South Boston, Massa- these reservoirs was used to irrigate his land in the Frying chusetts.[...]g, the His father, James Kirkpatrick, was born in Buck Haven, dams on the lakes washed out ca[...]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 mother was Mary Abigail Martin Kirk[...]le, Ind., on December 25, 1854 moved to Wisconsin in 1857 with her children Robert, and was[...]a. She was two years of age when the small child. In Wisconsin, Mrs. Kirkpatrick met and mar- family moved to Minnesota and she was in that territory ried James Monroe Mann.[...]state James Kirkpatrick finished his education in the Brunson normal college at Mankato for tw[...]n, and was fifteen years of later was a student in Northwestern University at Evan- age when he set[...]nd family. They left on April 3, 1863 and arrived in Beaverhead County in 1878, making the journey to Mon- Bannack in October, 1863. They had traveled by covered[...]nd then wagon and ox team and the train they were in narrowly overland by stage. She became a teacher in one of the first escaped a band of hostile Indians. schools in the Beaverhead area. For a time James worked the sluices for the miners in The Kirkpatricks were married more than[...]nnack and he also spent time at Last Chance Gulch in when Mrs. Kirkpatrick died, at the famil[...]3, Helena. He then returned to Beaverhead County in 1865 1932. Mr. Kirkpatrick died November 18, 1935. They were and in 1868 he and his brother Robert both took up home-[...]pplies, brought them back by wagon, and sold them in the valleys of[...]He and his brother formed a business partnership in which Robert operated both ranches and James managed Robert Kirkpatrick was born in Pottsville, Penn., on No- the merchandise store they established in 1879 at Edgerton, vember 18, 1846, the son of[...]of Dillon. They sold everything ber 1822 in Buck Haven, Fifeshire, Scotland and Mary Abi- from flour to threshing machines. In the fall of 1880 they gail Martin, born Sept[...]na 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 when[...]ed a new brick building, 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 Kir[...]left for Bannack, to encounter business problems. In 1883 they were one of Montana. the highest taxpayers in Beaverhead County but by 1884 The tri[...]ers of lowed the Oregon Trail to Fort Hall in Idaho and then north Dillon and served from April[...]ebruary 6, 1885. to Montana. Robert arrived in Bannack in 1863, along with James returned to his ranch o[...]and mother, he produced some of the finest horses in the area. In 1903 he when he was seventeen years old. and Ro[...]time, then traveled to owned by the Innes family. In 1905 James moved to the Helena a[...] |
| In 1868 Robert and his brother James took up home- s[...]er Robert and James formed a business partnership in which Robert operated both ranches and James mana[...]fallen on hard times and lost their business. In 1879 Robert returned to the East and married Kath[...]y, 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[...]ber 9, 1887 and Lydia Dodge was a school- teacher in Beaverhead County. The Robert Kirkpatricks had[...]oger Brown was born February 16, 1881 and drowned in Rattles- nake Creek on July 9, 1883; Violet Louis[...]Kirkpatrick's family returned to the East to live in October, 1889. Robert joined them the following fall after he had wound up his affairs in Montana. His ranch holdings were sold to the Ratt[...]Arthur Klessig and friends The family lived in Massachusetts, where Robert worked ranch t[...]icut. His last years were spent at his son's home in On January 9, 1925, he married Lydia Jahnk[...]lessig leeds. In September, 1936, while churning butter, she had a[...]stroke and died within a few hours. She is buried in the Arthur Klessig was born in Neilsville, Wis., on December Wisdom Cemeter[...]about three years old when his mother In 1946 Art sold out to Ole Heggelund and moved to came to Montana to marry Christian Wilke in March, 1889. Wisdom. Art married his secon[...]the name of Wilke until he made a trip to in May of 1964. She died 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. Hi[...]han 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 lived in Stevensville for the next few years, moving in the Wisdom Cemetery.[...]om to live with his half brother, Frank Wilke, In 1907 Art left the ranch on Steel Creek and worked for after Frank's wife died in 1974. Mose Jardine. In 1908 he went to work for Emil Zorn, who Arthur Klessig died September 26, 1977, and is buried in had land on Doolittle Creek. Zorn owned a sawmill[...]Knapp and Sarah Ayers Knapp in Watertown, New York. In 1922 Art bought the Schroeder Place on the North He had two brothers, Bert who was killed in the Civil War, Fork. He had a few cows and some h[...]one 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 in Gilmore, Idaho, but George headed back years, whi[...]Canfield Brothers had a to Kansas, stopping in Wyoming for a while as a scout dur- 3[...] |
| ing the Indian Wars. Rebecca McCannon was born in 1857. She had been[...]Henry Knippenberg was born December 27, 1843, in and he could not take care of the children. She w[...]Hamm Hesse Darmstadt, Germany. beside the road in Missouri to die by her bonding parents T[...]er. George found her and with nent and active in the German student rebellion of 1849. the help of[...]a 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 County, Kansas. the ocean. In 1854 the parents died and left Henry an 11- Th[...]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[...], which he paid to the Bryan and Stratton arrived in Argenta, Montana Territory, in 1883. Five more College in Cleveland, Ohio. This was all the schooling the c[...]ur, Sidney Knapp, John Knapp and In 1860 he accepted a position as assistant bookkeep[...]y of $75 Creek. 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 h[...]n quilts. She died January 31, 1934 and is buried in the Argenta Cemetery beside her husband.[...]He passed through Indianapolis in 1865 and stopped over[...]E. C. Atkins and, in a few months, formed a partnership[...]Works in Indianapolis, succeeded him. Two years later, in[...]In January, 1881, W. H. Morrison, John Thomas and W.[...]est in the saw business and, in April, 1881, took his family to[...]Montana. The mine was heavily in debt; the sheriff was on George and Rebe[...] |
| [...]ts and appointed Lena Knoll passed away in 1938 and Carl Knoll passed a superintendent for each. George B. Conway, a former away in 1951. bookkeeper in the Indianapolis Company, was made cash-[...]Edward Newton Knox tion, in 1882, of a 100-ton concentrator between Glendale Emma Beal Shaw was born in Tennessee on January 11, and Hecla on a hillside at a place which he named Green- 1904. She lived there until 1917 when she moved to Dillon wood. In addition to the mill, the company constructed a[...]ra- were to work, Mr. Ernest Orr drove them there in a seven tor, a four-mile narrow-gauge tramway was[...]r Cadillac Touring Car. Emma lived on the Jake In 1889, Henry Knippenberg was elected to represent[...]one of the 75 men of the Territory, at In 1918, Emma started attending the Jake Flat, Black[...]ozad; and Norman and Lester being the 41st state. In 1895, he was elected to the Fourth Helvie.[...]old the story about the day World War I ended- In 1896, Knippenberg was made one of the three McKin[...]ell of the good ley Electors, a tough proposition in a 16-to-one state. Not- news. The pupils sto[...]rd. He steadily declined all political of- In 1919, a new log school house was built. Mr. Cozad[...]f 45 cents an ounce. This closed all silver mines in the West. Henry Knippenberg was a citizen of M[...]Carl G. and Lena Knoll Carl Knoll was born in 1862 in Germany. He emigrated to the United States as a young man and arrived in Bannack in the early 1880s. He spent his entire lifetime mining in Ban- nack and prospecting on Dyers Creek and at t[...]0 years old. Carl and Lena G. Kolb were married in Bannack in 1892. She had emigrated to the United States from Germany, where she was born in 1871. Lena had worked as a house- keeper in Iowa before coming to Bannack. Carl and Lena's families were acquainted in Nurtingen, Germany, however they did not meet until Lena's arrival in Bannack. Emm[...] |
| [...]de the school more interesting. The last teacher there was Miss Jessie Williams who later became[...]ater Mrs. Sheldon Davis. August 24, 1977) in Dawn, Missouri to Henry Newton Knox The neighbors there were few and far between. Arthur and Ma[...]y of eleven, William traveled from Oklaho- Ranch in 1917. The music was furnished by a phonograph.[...]th working. They were married at the In 1908, he went to work for Fred Waldorf driving a dray Bert Orr home in Dillon on November 22, 1921. Their first wagon. He also worked on the Solmonson ranch. In the home was at the Jake Place.[...]ewton and Mary Davis he homesteaded in 1910. After filing on his 160 acres, he Knox. The family moved to Oklahoma in a covered wagon received his deed sign[...]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[...]e delivered medi- cines and mail to people living in the isolated Centennial Valley. He aided them in every way he could. In the sum- mers he helped move the cattle into the[...]Place. The cattle were trailed to the Jake Place in the fall to be fed. One year during World War[...]oved to Dillon after the birth of their in 1917. He continued meeting expenses by breaking h[...]nd working for his neighbors. Few families remain in the Company for 32 years. After retiring there, he worked at the area today. Lowell Sauerbier Ranch in Alder until he was 80 years old. On April 25, 1917, William married Ethel Anna Martinell, There he was affectionately called "Grandpap" by every-[...]am and wagon to a one-room log Emma was active in Neighbors of Woodcraft and in the cabin on the upper end of Long Creek. They lived there American Legion Auxillary where she supervised th[...]to rummage sales for years. She wrote poetry for many civic this couple were Marie (Gibbons),[...]Flemming), Carl, Gertrude (Gosman), Alice Church in Dillon.[...]n were born to them; Grace Emma - Sep- in 1935. tember 7, 1923; Jessie Velma - September 25[...]Bruce Edward - August 8, 1929. They all now live in the McKnight, Peter Anderson, Harry Sma[...]ison, Jay October 6, 1984. Both were laid to rest in the Mountain Tallent, Ed Jordan, Max Rost, Charlie Neslin, Harry Hoen- View Cemetery in Dillon.[...] |
| [...]and Olive Koontz Frank Raymond Koontz was born in Warrensburg, Illi- nois, January 1, 1881 to Rober[...]ther and older brothers. He came to born in Madison County; and Afton (1936), born in Dillon. Dillon in 1900 to join his father and brother who were em- All are living except Sherman who died in 1975. Three ployed in mining operations in Farlin. daughters, Mabe[...]and found employment Marchesseau all live in Dillon. on a ranch near Barretts Station with Joh[...]o employed by Beaverhead County to maintain roads in the area. His[...]ed with dump "Will" Knudsen was born in 1887 and came to the Big boards, picks, shovels a[...]Hole Basin from Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1906. Wisdom On November 9, 1910, Ray married[...]was a growing and expanding town at that time and there daughter of Sherman and Martha Sapp. She was born in was a demand for the carpenter trade.[...]rpenter, homestead until 1915. Ray and his father-in-law then and they constructed various buildings and projects in the formed a partnership and purchased the Ernest Mauer Wisdom area. Ranch at Blaine in Madison County.[...]their two small children, Mabel four, who was in Wisdom helping Mrs. Moss operate a hotel. Born an[...]to this couple were William L. Knudsen in 1916, Lorense the Sapp family, and the sheep ranching venture began. The "Bud" Knudsen in 1918, and Bernard A. Knudsen, 1920. following yea[...]as built for the younger family. Bernard died in 1935 of flu and pneumonia. During World War I,[...]skilled hunter. Will and Maude sold their home in Wisdom ranch operations. Hay cost $60 per ton and had to be hauled in the late 1940s and moved to Jackson. Here he buil[...]ities, they forged ahead and contin- bridge in the Jorgenson Lane when struck on the back of the ued ranching on a smaller scale. In 1933, the family returned to Dillon and operated[...]8. Mother, with the help of her son Harry and son-in-law George Williss, continued the ranch operation[...]College and later married Charles Quick. He died in 1977. She continued to live near her daughter, Afton, until her death in 1981. Ten children were born to Ray and Olive Koontz. They are: Mabel (1911) and Sherman (1913), both born in Dillon; Harry (1915), Ethel Rae (1917), Ll[...] |
| [...]ulia Kramer Helming head by a beam he was putting in place. He died January 30, operating a saloon in Jackson at that time. 1949, as a result of that accident. His wife Maude died They were married in Dillon on July 1, 1900. Ellen cooked November 19, 1957, in Spokane, Wash., where she had lived on the J.[...]d also bought land from a Peterson. They sold out in -DOLORES HUSTED[...]r Kramer died in 1940.[...]Joe and Ellen had four children: Julia, born in 1901; Nels, Joe Kramer was born in Heuer, 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 ye[...]d also worked for Jorgen Jorgenson his first year in Montana. Mrs. died. Julia married Clarence Helm[...]taught Joe to speak English. 1923, and lived in Wisdom. Oline married Jake Barnosky of She did a[...]le Road. A sister, Hannah Hendrickson, also lived in the valley and he had another[...]Adolf and Margaret Kruljac sister in Denmark. Adolf Kruljac was born in Severn, Austria, February 14, Ellen Ottun Kramer was born July 14, 1879, in Kenyon, 1890, and came to Dillon in 1909. His parents were Bartle Minn., where she re[...]ister 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[...]when Mary's Margaret 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[...] |
| [...]est, Bernice. The other children were: Mary, born in 1911, who died in 1955; Marguerite, born in 1913, now living in Santa Rosa, CA; Rudolf, born in 1916, died in Dillon in 1981; Bert, born in 1918, died in California in 1978 and buried in Dillon; Frank born in 1920, lived in the Big Hole until 1984, now livingin Valejo, CA; Lillian, born in 1914; Jeffrey 1928, and Bernice 1928. When Adolf[...]he lived out his retirement years. He passed away in 1977 at the age of 87 and both he and Margaret are buried in Dillon.[...]ERNICE HOLCOMB the timber was cut in Jake Canyon. One winter he operated[...]a sawmill in the canyon and was often snowed in for days at Oliver Kurtz[...]l janitor. But he was provided by the college in Dillon and all eight grades were more than that,[...]isters to His life before the high school days in Dillon was filled come west from Pennsylvania for a trip through· Yellow- with many adventures. He was born in Centralia, Pa., stone Park. They arrived in August 1913 and the party of 16 March 26, 1877. H[...]erable horse trading and training. Oliver learned how horses and a heavy wagon to carry tents, bed[...]handle horses at an early age. This skill he used in many supplies were in the procession. The trip was completed in jobs throughout the West, and eventually brought him to 30 days despite many difficulties. Two of the couples who work for the[...]es It was the unpleasantness of his early life in Pennsylvania married Mabel Phillips and his sis[...]o Sheridan, Montana, where Oliver worked for jobs in the mid-, south-, and far-western parts of the co[...]nd 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[...]Each of the boys helped during the time they were in high Blackfoot, Idaho, and was also working at th[...]indextor and Orr livestock He continued in the high school job until his health failed compa[...]l. They offered Oliver a job at and he retired in 1941 and died at his home December 24, their ranc[...]e soon 1944. Four of Oliver's six sons 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 most of his time breaking horses, serving in the Pacific and George was flight engineer servin[...]er were needed during the haying season. in the Far East. The two older boys, Oliver, Jr., an[...]s, and those with the square and man, were in work essential to the war effort and were compass[...]unable to leave while the war was in progress. Oliver filed on a homestead in 1910 and moved to the East At the foot of Oliver's grave is a marker reading: bench in 1911, where he farmed for several years. Crops In Memory of were poor due to the low rainfal[...] |
| Mrs. Kurtz continued in the old home at 249 Railroad Avenue, enjoying her many friends and church activities.[...]hn Laknar, born December 8, 1864, left Yugoslavia in final resting place beside Oliver by her six sons[...]known, to come to the United writing all six boys are still living. States. H[...]two or more times before remaining in the United States[...]worked in coal mines. He purchased land in Minnesota, Patrick and Agnes Laden[...]that turned out to be a Patrick Laden was born in Co. Leitrim, Ireland, on Octo- scam. Later he came to Butte, and worked in the mines, ber 1, 1872. A sister, B. Flaherty in Co. Leitrim, Ireland, striving to save enoug[...]s wife Kate, born April 16, 1869, been a fire and many records were destroyed. His father was their[...]ne year old son, Frank, born May 6, 1897, arrived in Butte. Pat was married at St. Rose Catholic Chu[...]uncomfortable situa- ary 12, 1943, after residing in the county for 34 years. Pat's tion because food wasn't available and there was very little brother John passed away a few we[...]1943. Pat died on February 10, 1947, having lived in Beaver-[...]Mary and Frank. Pat came from Ireland in 1890, arrived in New York and went directly to Montana where he wo[...]had brought bread with them. One kindly gentlemen in-law Thomas Flynn, who owned a ranch in the Blacktail shared his bread with the two children. While in Butte, the area south of Dillon.[...]is questioned since the spelling on the tombstone in Moun- and John was anxious to get out of t[...]roperty where he and Agnes lived and land in the Beaverhead valley was taken, either by home-[...]illon from John A. Nyhart. property until he died in April, 1980. The family ranch is In March, 1909, the family moved onto their property[...]ed by John's son and Pat's grandson, lived in a board shack until they could build a house. It[...]uilt it. ber 23, 1916. They moved north of Dillon in 1936 to the A well was dug and the l[...]used to prepare land reside. Francis passed away in 1988. for pla[...] |
| [...]In April, 1919, John became ill with the flu, which[...]farm. All shared in the work to the best of their ability.[...]Kate, Mary, and Frank all passed away in Dillon; Kate on[...]June 6, 1983. Mike passed away November 21, 1987, in[...]Extra potatoes and vegetables were sold to stores in in the 1850s from France. He worked for the Hudson's[...]Fur Company. He and his companions trapped fur in the horses, and a small sorrel pony on which the childr·e n all Great Slave Lake area in Canada. learned to ride. Mike was born September[...]ers up into Canada. This loved to hide their eggs in these straw buildings. A barn was boat was supposed to return in one year with supplies and built in the same manner until a permanent structure could[...]derrick. agreed upon, the boat was not there nor did it show up. They One day in 1910 Norman and Herb Gilbert, riding horse- waited there for a month or more. Hunting was not good in back through the adjoining Selway pasture, spotte[...]d the investigated, they found Mike, a baby, tied in a chair in the furs and pulled out. This happened three years in a row. smoke filled room with flames close by. They removed him When the trappers would come in the fall to the cache, from the house and put out[...]m der, lead and other supplies would be left in their place. the Birch Creek and Willow Creek are[...]1, Agnes third year they went to the cache in midsummer, hoping was born in the new house. George was born there January they would catch the boat, get the[...]starved the previous winter. When they arrived In 1916 John bought 160 acres of state land on the w[...]in was built, and he and his son Frank dug a well there, by hand, that was over a 100 feet deep. The wate[...]had an oily appear- ance on top. John grew wheat there using waste water from the Boatman farm which adj[...]ling to and from Jim LaMarche and Dog Team in Big Hole Battle- Dillon, she and her husba[...] |
| [...]lked south and reached Stock Association for many years. He spent most of his North Dakota before winter had set in. working life on horseback and rode until he was 85. He died In North Dakota, Andrew LaMarche met and married his[...]age 95. wife. They went to Colorado and settled in Cherry Creek, Hazel and Margarite were k[...]EIGHORN French Town, Dewey, Glendale, and Hecla. There is a led- ger book where Noah Armstrong paid LaM[...]Frank Landon in Hecla in the year 187 5. LaMarche Creek is also named[...]ezy, also hunted Frank Landon was born in the providence of Ontario, and fished for a living. Olezem married Stella Cole in the Canada, September 6, 1852. When a young[...]hauling ore from Hecla and opportunities in the West, he made his way to Montana in freight from Melrose. Their first child, James An[...]orked for the Poindexter and Orr Marche, was born in Glendale, October 26, 1888. Two girls, Ranc[...]ve the P. & 0. and was one of the first ranchmen -in married. Beaverhead County to engage exclusively in raising sheep. When Jim was seven or eight yea[...]steadily increased to one of the better ranches in the county They lived on Rock Creek at that time[...]oper- home they walked through a big Indian camp in the fields of ation. Woods Livestock. As the[...]that his wool clip and lambs were always in demand. LaMarche had wintered together in the Great Slave Lake He was a man of[...]Mrs. Landon, the former Bettie N. Wood, was born in with the old Indian and stayed and talked long af[...]worried and came looking for them spent in Kentucky and Missouri. She attended Woodland on f[...]Jim said she was a bit angry when she College in Independence, MO, and graduated from that found t[...]an, but that he was glad to go institution. In the spring of 1880 she arrived in Montana, home.[...]niel Wood Ranch, which was a picture) He enlisted in the U.S. Army July 16, 1917. He was few mile[...]e On November 14, 1880, she was married in Virginia City, of Company F of the Tenth Engineers. He served in France to Frank Landon. They made their h[...]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[...]rs out of this time the Landons built a home in Dillon, where they the Big Hole for various peopl[...]ended school. Co. of Butte. He worked for the ACM in Butte in 1935. He During his later years Frank was interested in other en- carried a card which read, "To all Supe[...]rer, James LaMarche, is a interested in civic affairs, but never held a public office. Hi[...]g Com- influence was often solicited in matters of the county and pany, and you are requested to pass him on all company st[...]nterest of his ranch, but also found time to fish in the creek Signed, William B. Daly, General[...] |
| popular fishing spots on the Blacktail. Mrs. Landon, in poor health for the two years following a paralyt[...]oldings were sold to the Orr Brothers. He retired in the spring of 1926 and on August 19, 1927, he pas[...]s parents had migrated from Spitzenberg, Germany. In Ger- many their name was Langendorfer. On coming to the Uni[...]er 28, 1880, Simon married Regina M. Spicker- man in Akron, Ohio. Her parents had migrated to the Unit- ed States from Alsace Lorraine, France. Regina was born in[...]Simon was just four. All their children were born in Akron, In 1909, Simon moved again, this time to Dillon, Montam Ohio between the years of 1881 and 1903. Their names are: where he homesteaded on the East Bench. Re[...]steaded on the east bench. While living in Butte, her hus- Simon and several of his child[...]daughters. She had to make a stone Rubber Company in Akron. During the years Simon living fo[...]worked for the rubber company he was instrumental in the ents seemed logical. Her father, mothe[...]and it flew up hitting her in the eye. She went to her parents The Langdorf home in Akron, Ohio was directly across place for[...]cellent golfers. Learning the sport would in the eye was lost but they didn't have to remove i[...]ies had good crops for several years. Then the of how a golf course was constructed got them jobs building dry years came. Simon lost his place in 1925. His daughter Butte's first golf course at t[...]ky enough to sell hers to Mike Boka. With this In 1906, Simon decided to move west. He, his wife and ten money she bought a small house in Dillon. She registered of the remaining children settled at Homestake, Montana. the house in her and her mother's names on March 16, 1927. The one child left in Akron was a daughter, Addie. She had Addie dearly loved her mother which is evident in the fact married Elsworth Leveta Barber and within a few months, that she used her mother's name in both daughters' names, they too had come to Monta[...]ces Regina and Regina Barher. The family lived in Homestake two years getting out tim- When[...]o town, the parents separated. ber for the mines. In 1908 everyone moved down the moun- Simon lived with a daughter and son-in-law Lucille and tain to Butte, the father got a j[...]aughter, El- An old Scotsman that was experienced in golf course layout veretta and a son, Samuel[...]lding Addie owned the home she didn't live there. She got a job as 340-Beaverhead History |
| [...]there they moved to the County Poor Farm as managers.[...]They worked there until it was closed. After the closing Jean[...]Jean and John are both dead as is one daughter, Elveretta.[...]operator in Dillon for many years. Late in life she married[...]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[...]one daughter, Kay. Lucille, Ray and Kay are all dead now. Le~ to right: George, John, Petter,[...]ber 26, 1903. He never married and spent his life in 3. ranch cook in the Big Hole and took her girls Frances and Di[...]r. many interests. He processed photographs with equipmen[...]airplanes and built equip- ·he rest of her life in Butte. They had twelve or thirteen ment for[...]Regina Langdorf died in 1930. Her husband Simon died John Langdorf, born June 14, 1894, also spent his life in in 1943. The last of their children died in 1986. Butte. He married Lucille and worked in the mines except[...]-NORMAN & SHIRLEY BANKS :or the time he was in the Navy during World War I. They 1ad two girls,[...]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, Montana. They had two sons, George 1[...]ls Jean and Dorothy. He riage, left Kansas in 1878. The Laphams on their trek from ~orked for t[...]Idaho. There, Hiram taught school and their first child Pe[...], worked for the Claud was born. While living in Idaho, Hiram's parents Mr. ;elephone company in Missoula, Montana. He served in the and Mrs. Nelson P. Lapham and his two[...]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 was the first white child born in the Clarence Langdorf, born September 15, 1891, was wound- Teton Basin of Idaho. id in Europe during World War I. He was then assigned as In 1887 the Lapham family moved to the Centennial Va[...]o Gen. Black Jack Pershing. When he re- ley in Montana. They put up hay around the Red Rock ,urn[...]wo boys, Bill and Donald, and two girls, Jean there. md Shirley. He died when he was just forty eight years old, In June of 1888 the family moved from the Centennial[...]. ied John Wenger from the Big Hole. They lived in Dillon They traveled through the Valley,[...]ourse for several years. From ton District in what is now called Sunny Slope. They settl[...] |
| [...]r that year Harry and Claud bought the That fall there was a fire that burned part 'of their hay crop.[...]owned by Russell Peterson. interest in the Majors place to Harry. The old Paris home- Claud and Harry went to school in the log school house at stead buildings stil[...]Jacks~m. Daddy Stevens, and Hiram Lapham in 1890. The third son Harry and Rose L[...]January 9, 1965. Harry continued to reside in Dillon at 616 In 1891 they moved to the upper end of the Valley. T[...]operated the hotel in Jackson until Claud's death in 1950 In 1892 there was a school built about half way between and Myrtle's death in 1958. their homestead and the homestead of Antone[...]Soren P. Larsen was born June 16, 1869, in Hverring, for Claud and Harry, so they built a cabin in the willows on Denmark. After spending seven years in the United States, Warm Springs Creek, where they[...]tes was a land of great opportunity, 1988) living in Dillon, Montana at the age of 94). Sadie died[...]ross the Atlantic Ocean and er. During their life in the Big Hole Valley they raised cattle the Uni[...]Jo- moved to Jackson. They owned the old "Plunge" in Jackson hanne arrived on June 14, 1912, in a snowstorm at the Dil- - the current sight of th[...]tana, depot, then a village of about 2,000 souls. many years before it burned. They are parents of a son Their lives remai[...]relatives. In that period of time, they lived in five different In 1904 Hiram traded the homestead for a hotel and l[...]ing chicken pox, measles, pneumonia, and ty- barn in Jackson. A dance hall was built the following year. phoid fever. Finally, in the fall of 1917, through an $11,000 Hiram went t[...]ent at It didn't matter to Serine that there was no phone, no the time, and lost all their pos[...]ilet. Most importantly, they Hiram Lapham died in 1937 and Anna Lapham died in had electricity. The five of them w[...]small farm a place to be proud of. In 1906, Charles Berry and Harry Lapham started buil[...]gs, and chickens for working cash. Their finished in 1907 with the help of many of the townspeople. It field crops were soy[...]s. Yet, ing still stands near the Bud Lapham home in 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 Ja[...]hundred pounds of potatoes sold for $1; a 200- In 1912 Claud married Myrtle Mitchell. In 1913 their first pound hog brought $7. They[...]he farm until the child Hiram Clay "Bud" was born in 1914, and now operates children were gro[...]re always ready to lend a help- "Bonnie" was born in 1930. She had a heart condition and ing hand in time of need. The Jens Bays, the Hans Ander- died in 1943.[...] |
| [...]; she fed the hoboes and the gypsies so prevalent in the depression years. She was never too busy to h[...]the farm as Soren's efficient helper. Finally, in 1935, with the girls gone and Serine and Soren now in their sixties, they departed. So after a big auction sale in a severe fall 1934 snowstorm, Soren, Serine, and[...]-MARIE LARSEN MEYER was in a panic, not knowing where to go with the family.[...]George Lasich and Katherina Lasic were both born in could, when she could, and not worry a[...]y paid and the ranch was He immigrated to the USA in 1884, arriving in Butte, Mon- saved. It stayed in the family for about 80 years. tana. George was f[...]son at 16, came and went, trying After living in Butte a few years, he sent a ticket to Kath- to[...]ket to show who she was. She was put on the train in New 30 miles away to be ground into flour.[...]one. She and George Lasich were midnight in order to be there when the miller went to work. married on December 23, 1888. They continued to live in This was with horses, of course. He traded some of the Butte and four children were born there: George, Jr., No- wheat to have the rest[...]was almost midnight again. It was a long day, but there October 17, 1894, and John W., July 31, 1896.[...]had a ranch They had school on the ranch in a cabin for some of the near Dillon, and when a r[...]a devout Catholic, drove whole new life, ranching in Montana. Four more children to Dillon to Mass in a horse drawn buggy. She always took were born: F[...]eter W., June 16, which had been heating in the cookstove all night, in the 1906. The father, who liked horses, managed t[...]rain and a They got their first car in 1917-a Model T. By 1921, Mrs. garden.[...]f the mortgage and When a very bad freeze came in October, all the family start a house. Du[...]e, worked late to get the potatoes and vegetables in to prevent 2-story, 5-bedroom house. their f[...]20, was always a day for a turned into pneumonia. There was no hospital in Dillon at family reunion. There was usually a potluck dinner with that time and there were no antibiotics. He passed away on fri[...]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, lik[...] |
| [...]where he and Jessie lived until their retirement in 1971. The Lasich family all became upstanding,[...]s. They all married. George married Isabel Costle in September, 1926; they ranched south of Twin Bridg[...]on Ann and George. Kathryn mar- ried Earl Ogilvie in November, 1917; they had one daughter, Helen. Rudy married Faye Anderson in January, 1931. Rudy homesteaded on Stone Creek an[...]and Faye had no children. Jack married Ida Wiant in June, 1921; they had two children, Marjean and Ja[...]outh of Twin Bridges. Frank married Verl Morrison in June, 1926. They had no children. Frank and Verl[...]eder Adolph Lauterbach on Bannack Street in front of the Street in Dillon for 25 years. Anne married Fay Gillies in courthouse. To the right are the Holcomb Boarding August, 1928. They had one d[...]1906) ried Jessie Violett in May, 1934. They had no children. Pete married Isabell Doyle in October, 1943. They had one both pastti[...]ary for a Steve Lasich was born April 30, 1856, in Vienna, Austria. successful camping trip. In 1883 he became an American citizen, and he came t[...], Adolph married Mildred Peter- Beaverhead County in 1886 to the ranch where he lived until sen, da[...]visit Margaret with his other daughter. Express in their railroad freight car division. They had no After two weeks, he became ill and died. He was buried in children. They returned to Dillon annually to visit until Dillon. Margaret died May 28, 1945, in California. their deaths, Mildred in May, 1967, and Adolph, July, 1967. The Lasich f[...]Dillon on the road to Twin Bridges and other land in the Poindexter addition. Steve's niece Ann and ne[...]with the ranch chores. Mrs. Lasich sold the ranch in 1926 to the Skander[...]in the mines. They lived there for several years during which Adolph and[...]uying a few head of cattle, they filed on a claim in Lauterbach[...]Adolph Michael Lauterbach was born July 9, 1897 in decided Nettie would move onto it and s[...]s the only child of Michael "Mike" Lauter- there. So with their two daughters, she set up housekee[...]n immigrant, and Marie Nelson Lauterbach, in a little one-room cabin. He continued to w[...] |
| [...]d Mrs B. B. Lawrence Quite often, Indians rode in to visit and ask for food. by Bart, Nina an[...]e, taking her training at the old Murray Hospital in much to her relief. Butte. May was a talented artist, with many flower and By 1888, the whole family was livin[...]for 30 years and also held the well's death there on February 7, 1929. Nettie passed away job of weatherman for many years, keeping track of the at the ranc[...]at time, a big two-story house had father are all buried at the little cemetery in Wisdom. been built to replace the much added-onto first little cabin. This big log home still stands and is in good condition. The Lawrences named their ranch "[...]Frank and Rose Lawyer its beautiful setting in the North Big Hole with a view of the On Marc[...]tie Lawrence was an expert quilt maker. Every bed in Ellen had for several years lived at the Wa[...]ver the floors. She was Frank was born in Minneapolis, Minn., March 29, 1883. especially cl[...]l a small child, he and his family went to Kansas Many a pair of mittens she made, along with knitted ca[...]her Edward decided to go West. They worked on the many years. When their son Bart was old enough, he too[...]horses. working at a livery stable in Dillon. When they had enough Four years after[...]February 17, 1914. He had sold his home in Dillon, located Their oldest daughter was Eva,[...]r years later on March 25, 1893. Millie was sixth in line, born Point of Rocks he took it. June 20,[...]1896, followed When the Lawyers located in Madison County in 1914[...] |
| [...]came and ruined us. Things really looked great in the spring of 1922! Potatoes would bring a good price in the fall. Word, even then, got around quickly. Ev[...]ellar, put a fence around it, and turned the pigs in. In 1918, on October 15, another baby came: Harry Lew[...]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[...]after he and Maude had separated. Leonard retired in Dillon where they stayed until they left us for[...]uly 31, 1960,'and Mom on November 15, in the hospital. None of them were happy in Missouri, so 1971. they moved back to Montana in 1929 and went to work for[...]TILLIE MAE WHITE Johnny Peterson in the Big Hole. Later the three of them[...]School. Andrew was born in Perry, Missouri, December 8th, 1882, Maude 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 liv[...]Snowline, south of cousins. He later homesteaded in Alaska Basin. He met Lima. Henriett[...]Maude passed away August 5th, 1962, at her home in eleven children of the Milton Bean, Sr., family,[...]lness. Her sweet nature endeared pioneer settlers in the Centennial Valley. Maude was born her to all with whom she came in contact. She was an artistic March 30, 1892.[...]person. Jim McBride preceded her in death. Andrew and Maude were married May 14, 19[...]ew on Feb- 20th, 1934. They have lived in Utah for 47 years, with Leon- ruary 17, 1913, and[...]ith the Union Pacific Railroad. He Both were born in Dillon. The family lived on the home- retired as Terminal Trainmaster in Salt Lake City, May stead at the time of the 1918[...]and to Monida where Andrew drove mail stage from there to his family reside at Clearfield,[...]the Oregon Short Line Railroad. Maude in Denver. Her husband works for Chevron Oil Company[...]uished service that spanned three vided music for many dances in the area. Later the family wars,[...] |
| [...]he time of his death. He died ln 1910, there was a lottery for 300 acre parcels of land on in a Seattle hospital on April 4th, 1982. He was mar[...], Minnie said if Ralph Andy, as he was called, in his later years worked as Custo- was serious,[...]dover and meet the family dian of the County Yard in Dillon. He was a kind, person- or cut out[...]d received a semi- able man and a familiar figure in Dillon. He loved and formal welcome. He was a wild woolly westerner! T o many enjoyed his grandchildren. He met a tragic death in a car members of the family, if Burt had not put in some good accident near Arco, Idaho, on July 7th,[...]trip to visit her grandparents, just walking in 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 cl[...]he planned to visit her Uncle Burt and his family in I, Philip Andrew Liggett arrived. When I[...]d went back to An- Howell, born October 24, 1864, in Brockeville, Canada. He dover via Silver[...]vation and settle elsewhere. She was determined I in Butte before moving to the Way Station at Monumen[...]Burt and his family had moved turned in the 300 acres of reservation land for a full home[...]ver), and returned the section of ground in early 1917. to Monument where she remained with B[...]d, Mother and I came west to several years. While there, she met Ralph Liggett. Burt's pla[...]September 16, 1874, at route. We lived in a tent until we could move into the house. Sidney, Iowa, and died in 1948. He was at times a farmer, Then we s[...]corral, then other outbuildings and clearing the there was work. He completed local schools before leavi[...], and a On January 20, 1920, Mary was born in Mrs. Drummey's team of light draft horses, as he[...]January 15, 1869, the oldest of any miners hired in Butte for the Dark Horse Mine - also four brothers born in Granite, Montana, an early day min- known as the[...]e able to go out on their own. Charles and the In the winter when the road was closed to wagon traf[...]go by sled or, if necessary, by ski or what there was to offer ambitious young men. The other two s[...]When Minnie went back home to Bannack was in need of a meat market and had one in Andover, Mass., they kept in touch by correspondence. opera[...] |
| [...]Charles bought a Model T Ford in 1913. It had a brass[...]In 1914, he came home with another Studebaker classe[...]as a nine-passenger. There were three jump seats which[...]folded down to the floor when not in use leaving four feet[...]new doctor had located in Wisdom prior to this time and[...]Brothers Meat Market had a very thriving business in the early nineties. Estella Hill was born in Wellsville, Utah, October 24, 1875. The pioneerin[...]Dillon a few years later and served as Chief for many years. Estella Hill arrived in Bannack in the summer of 1897. She married Charles Lloyd in 1898. The first child, Phyllis Ophelia, was born[...]orn October 27, 1901. Dr. Ryburn and family lived in Bannack and he delivered both children. In 1902, Charles and Ed dissolved their partnership.[...]kson and bought a part- nership with Frank Dunbar in a saloon business. William M. was born November 1[...]Lloyd became his namesake. and Dunbar Saloon in the fall of 1910. Early in 1918, Charles sold the saloon business. He knew[...]hibition was to spawn more crime than it did good in the building program was a laundry room with a gas during the 14 years it was in force. engine driven washing machine.[...]cessary to move the family to Dillon and enter In 1912, Charles bought a Baldwin Piano as a birthday three more boys in high school. However, it was late in gift for Phyllis and also to grace the par[...] |
| [...]ool after high school but was not much interested in teaching. She accepted a position as bookkeeper with Beaverhead Motors. The Ford Garage was located in the Bishop Building adjoining Red Star Garage on[...]ths. Ed constructed a two-room bunkhouse that was in debt. A decision was made to make a fresh start,[...]day on their children and grandchildren In 1916, when their three children were of high scho[...]e the decision to sell the ranch on Ed grew up in Philipsburg until tragedy claimed the lives Buffalo Creek in the Grasshopper Valley and purchased of his paren[...]an orphan at the age of 11. Ed's property in Dillon. The Lloyds moved into the apartment young[...]o live with an uncle. Ed and Charles brother-in-law, James F. Blair, operating a car agency and d[...]h going south and headed for was dissolved in 1939 and Ed and Elizabeth purchased a California. They both got jobs in California working as sta- home at 536 East[...]s Lodge No. 1554. He also belonged to the Red- In 1891, Ed moved back to Montana, settling at Lima.[...]two sa- Ed died from a heart attack in a Butte hospital on Sep- loons, at Bannack and Ja[...]at age 70. Ed tried his hand at gold dredging in Bannack, cut timber Elizabeth Parkinson L[...]e her father to Bannack, using a four-horse team. In 1897, Ed and Char- Timothy Fielding Parkin[...]education chickens, cattle, and sheep, to be used in the Lloyd Bros. at the Old Rock School in Wellsville. In 1897, Elizabeth was Butcher Shop. On December 28,[...]Her first job was secured at a boarding house in Marys- ditions which would total 3520 acres.[...]red into the cattle business with George in the Bannack Hotel for Mrs. Cora Tash Jackson. Whi[...]ey purchased a ranch five miles out of Ban- stead in the spring. They would be loaded onto boxcars at[...]first child, Evelyn Parkinson Lloyd. Two auction. Many winter weekends were spent traveling by[...]s during the long, cold winter purchased a home in Bannack, near the Bannack School.[...] |
| [...]r, Jane Greer Parkinson, would come In the spring of 1881, further quoting Sam, "My father, from her home in Wellsville, Utah to take care of the chil- J[...]other, my sister Cora, and myself came to Montana in hired cowboys. She also cooked for a part-time sc[...]Soon after their arrival in Montana, the family settled on In stature Elizabeth was only 4'9" but in character stood the Sage Creek Ranch about 20[...]h of Dell, Mon- 10 feet tall. She died peacefully in her sleep on December 27, tana, and engaged in stock raising. The children of James 1963, at her home in Dillon. She was 85 years old. Samue[...]Free- Martha Ann Freeman was born July 3, 1843 in Nankin, man Anderson. Sam, coming out o[...]the age of 72, Cora leading the Labor Day Parade in Dillon man and Lydia Baughman Freeman. Martha Ann[...]ripe age. They gave their best to the early youth in the rural surroundings of their Orange Town-[...]tana! ship (now Nankin), Ohio farm. Martha passed many a hap- -YVONNE FREEMAN ROSE py day in the company of her grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins who lived on farms nearby. In 1863, Martha Ann worked at the hotel in Grinnell,[...]Andrew Johnson Lounsbury was born April 13, 1865 in Isaac Roe, an Englishman, from Bannack, Montana. In a Bourbon County near Fulton, Kansas.[...]Ida Mae Kenison Lounsbury was born May 24, 1874 in was going to marry him and go to Montana for life[...]ae's parents, Alonzo were married April 16, 1864, in Grinnell, Iowa. On May 4, and Mary Justus Kenison ·moved to Dillon from Prescott in 1864, they started their honeymoon, which they sp[...]tice of the Peace at the County Court House in Dillon for hazardous journey, frought with many dangers, averaging many years. Mr. Kenison also had served as a minute ma[...]annack, Montana, at 5 p.m. on Sep- house in Dillon for college students and was affectionatel[...]November 18, 1873, Isaac Roe died at age 34 years in Bannack. Martha continued her home there. On January 18, 1880, Martha Ann Freeman Roe married Thomas Loughridge, a rancher who came to Montana in 1865. Mar- tha and her husband engaged mfarming and stock raising in the Beaverhead Valley. Martha Ann Freeman Roe Loughridge died in Bozeman on May 11, 1920. In 1879, the Freeman family of James Samuel and Rebec- ca were stranded in Texas. James was the brother to Martha Ann Roe. Q[...]t corrals on Meadow Creek, from Dillon); this was in the fall of 1879."[...] |
| [...]There were 82 men in the group coming across the plains.[...]In 1863, Mr. Lovell entered into the butchering busi[...]in Bannack, at a time when road agents were active in Ban-[...]Mr. Lovell had many exciting experiences and narrow Andrew, Dan, and Andrew J. Lounsburg with fur escapes in the early days of Bannack. He was present at the catch in 1910 meeting wh[...]Henry Plummer and Prescott. They moved to Dillon in 1907. They came by train. the other road agen[...]ad on Meadow Phil Lovell continued in the meat market business until Creek in Sheep Creek Basin. There, two more children were 1868, when he took[...]ne still living. She is Mrs. Jolly Addy and lives in Beaverhead County to the World's Fair in 1893. He also Glendora, California.[...]come from his homestead. The had children. In later years Mr. Lovell had a home built in children attended the first Nicholia School which[...]c Street. Phillip ed east of the Ras Hansen ranch in Sheep Creek Basin. Lovell passed away June 18, 1907 in his Dillon home. Alonzo A. Kenison, his wife, M[...]drew 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. Lounsbury died February 22, 19[...]ell was a native of Yorkshire, England, born in Dillon; both were quite adventurous. This pair fr[...]Thomas Eilert Luebben was born October 25, 1879, in When Phillip was nine years old his father die[...]Germany, and Mary Spilker Luebben, a native of In 1860 he came to America, first to Toronto, Canada[...]They had a family of six children. Thomas grew up in then to Wisconsin where he worked on a farm and a[...]schools in Toledo, and Tri-State College. Ill health influ- In 1861 he got the spirit of adventure and decided t[...]the age of eighteen, he was a sugar beet foreman in trip across the plains to Montana by the northern route. Sterling, Colo. Later, he became a guide in the Cave of the This train of settlers was mad[...]Winds, near Colorado Springs. Lovell had a wagon in partnership with F .E. Curtis of Butte, In 1900, he did archaeological work on the Isthmus o[...]an outbreak of Sioux was volcano, Mt. Ajusco, in the record time of sixteen hours. He[...] |
| lived several years in Mexico, and installed the first central O.E.S., and culminated her many years of service by being heating plant in Mexico City, in the Hotel lturbide. elected Worthy Grand Matron to the State of Montana, in Tom went to Whitefish for his first experiences in Mon- 1935. She later assumed 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 was destroyed in a forest fire. He went on Order of Rainbow fo[...]e first advertising sibilities. agencies in Montana.[...]logy, and she pur- The next move was to Butte in 1906, where he was active sued this energet[...]ecretary- led to membership and leadership in the Daughters of the Treasurer of the Local Plumb[...]Revolution, and other organizations requiring In 1912, he came to Dillon to manage the contracting[...]department of the Olmstead-Stevenson Company, and in gent of the Beaverhead Chapter and S[...]ana Chapter. Other organizations she participated in himself. This business was known as The Luebben C[...]ny. His brother, Ernest Luebben, joined him later in this able Artillery Company, Magna Carta Da[...]Montana. He was raised in Masonry 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[...]ut Lodge No. 16, A. F. & A. M. He was most active in Masonic their active years. Both died in Dillon: Tom predeceased organizations in later years as Past High Priest of Dillon[...]zabeth Hinshaw Luebben was born October 21, 1886, in Ridgefarm, Illinois, to Quaker (Society of Friend[...]ancestors. Elizabeth married Agnes Culig there in 1902, and the couple came to attended local schoo[...]as a fireman on steamships and also worked in the steel of Illinois with a Bachelor of Arts in Home Economics in mills. The family resided briefly in Butte where Mrs. Lugar 1914. She was a member of[...]g his wife's death he immediately moved to Dillon in September to be Director of moved to Beave[...]short time and then homesteading on Fish Creek in the Normal College. She married Thomas E. Luebben in Ridgefarm, Ill., Sep- tember 27, 1916. They became the parents of two sons, both born in Dillon: Thomas E. Luebben, Jr., born September 20[...]Clark Hinshaw Luebben, born July 24, 1922. As there was no Lutheran Church nor Quaker Meeting House in Dillon at that time, Tom and Elizabeth decided to join St. James Episcopal Church. They served St. James in many capacities, including vestryman, and guild presid[...]mained active communicants throughout their lives in Dillon. Elizabeth was very active in organizational work after she resigned fro[...] |
| Centennial Valley in 1916. wounded soldiers in the army hospitals in France. During the 1930's he lived in Florida, returning in the "The turmoil of war," she said, "was not the right time to 1940's to live in the Big Hole before retiring to Dillon in enter into marriage." She felt the proposals were inspired by 1947. He passed away at the age of 84 in Dillon on July 22, gratitude for healing wou[...]In her later years, she was visiting with Lillian Gr[...]ated to the Miss MacGregor replied, in her soft, slow manner, "Oh ... United States from[...]t think so ... I never have." Grand Trunk Railway in 1897. ·[...]-EDITH PALMER Yet an alien in this country, she volunteered her services to the United States Army Nurse Corps and served in Frank Madden France in World War I. By a special Act of Congress, pas[...]to the Polaris area of Grasshopper alien serving in the military or naval service of the United Creek from his home in Manchester, Connecticut in 1903 at States during the time this country is engaged in the present the age of 21 years. He came to Mo[...]n Janu- Mine and working as a delivery boy in Butte during the time ary 26, 1920, she recited t[...]ed for the State of Montana Veterinary Department in She was employed as a school nurse in Dillon serving in Madison County. that capacity for the Monta[...]l College and the Various baseball teams in Beaverhead County in the early Dillon grade schools simultaneously. Th[...]ography, fishing and good horses. He was involved in With a soft, soothing voice and an air of effi[...]roomed and Frank returned to Connecticut in 1916 for a short time boarded.[...]lassroom teacher. Carrying her briefcase In the 1930s Frank purchased the Andrus Fountain, a[...]items, popular gathering spot for gentlemen in Dillon. The Andrus she walked to every home in town where there was a sick Fountain was known as "the office" by many businessmen child; to the far ends of Thomsen and[...]ks. Frank, however, would not tolerate rowdiness. In These mothers, who are now great-grandmothers, have said, fact, F[...]for gentlemen to play cards or meet with friends. Many personal hygiene. Children who stubbornly resiste[...]usiness deals were struck at the "office." It was in this mothers' directives: "Wash your neck and ear[...]Miss MacGregor says so." many patron friends. This event became a highlight of the For many years following World War I, Katherine Mac- year and is still carried on in his name. Gregor was the only female member of th[...]rried, was regarded by Legion Post. She took part in all the patriotic observances many as a true philanthropist. Much of his generosity was and marched with the Legionaires in the Armistice Day done anonymously. On[...]ttire included hat and gloves, at that time, in the Andrus Fountain. He was called "Uncle an esse[...]er street wear. Frank" by many of Dillon's young people who accompanied Katherine never married. She told of the many proposals his real nieces and nephew[...] |
| [...]In 1919 the family decided to return to Denmark. The[...]daughters still live there but Aksel returned to Dillon in[...]daughter of Fred and Pearl Bourassa. She was born in Wy-[...]n came to this area in 1915 to look over the country with Will by many groups and organizations, as well as individuals[...]daughter Vera, son Milt (born in 1909), daughter Erma Franks main hobby in later years was raising quarter (born abo[...]born about 1915), re- horses. He took great pride in his small stable located just turned to this area in 1916. Vera was eight years old at that south of Dillon and in his horses' lineage. time. Th[...]train to Dillon and homesteaded 600 Frank died in 1965 at the age of 83. He is buried in Moun- acres on the Sweetwater, now belonging to Art Christensen. tain View Cemetery in Dillon next to his brother and two They lived there until about 1925 when they sold the land. sisters[...]Fred also worked on ranches as a farm hand in addition to[...]-ANN MITCHELL Helen, born in 1918; Richard, 1921; and Robert, 1932.[...]SE KAJIN Vera remembers living in a tent that first year of 1916 and[...]and doors. It was heated with a wood stove as there were lots came west and settled in Dillon, Montana. The next year of quakies[...]a on a washboard with water heated in a boiler. They made Kathrine Nelsen Rasmussen, ca[...]t attend On October 29, 1905, they were married in Dillon by school. The following spring[...]chickens, and pigs. Many winter mornings they'd find bear They started their married life together living in the tracks around the cabin. Traveling was done in a wagon with house at the head of Carrigan Lane.[...]After the first year, they also rented a house in Dillon so her real name was Astrid. On May 3, 190[...]ovem- worked on ranches and the coal yard in Dillon. Vera remem- ber 7, 1908, at 6 months old of Cholera Infantum. To the bers many picnics with neighbors. Her father had made a del[...]totter, and merry go round for the children, 1909 in Dillon, Aksel Rasmussen and Ruth Kathrine (May)[...]ater Vera worked as a waitress at the Wilber Cafe in to Armstead on a ranch. The three kids went to school at Dillon. She married John Hill in 1930 and they had two Armstead. Tom Pierce employ[...]p children, Irene Hill McLaughlin (born in 1930), now resid- Horse Prairie. ing in Ramsay, and Harold (born in 1932), deceased. They In early 1908 Mena's sister, Nelsine, came to visit. In were divorced and John Hill died in 1963. Vera remarried in October she became ill. Nelsina Kristina Rasmusse[...]2 years old. Her parents were Madsen (born in 1948) of Dillon, and Linda Madsen Reichle Rasmus[...]Anna Kathrine Nelsen Rasmussen. (born in 1949), also of Dillon. Marius died in 1971. She is buried at Mountain View Cemet[...] |
| [...]natatius, came to America from Slovenia, which is in the George Malesich was well known in the Beaverhead Valley northernmost part[...]sent for the rest of their families. Born in Austria, George Malesich was married to Francis[...]unced Tur'-chitz. John who was born June 24, 1875 in Venica, Austria. When her father mov[...]r. Therefore, when Angela, her mother to the U.S. in the late 1880s. He spent some time in Pennsyl- and her three sisters, Rose, Frances[...]vania before coming to Butte, Mt.,where he worked in the Butte, their last name was also chang[...]. citizen on September 4, while they lived in Butte. Angela's father wanted his daugh- 1894 in Butte.[...]r George sent for his son, John, who came here in 1893 when name. he was 18 years old. John also worked in the smelter in John and Agnes Miller were storekeepers in Butte. They Butte. John married Angela Miller on May 10, 1900, in owned the MillerGrocery Store, which a[...]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 Montana Street. ter-in-law to help with the ranch work.[...]oned man about 6'3" tall, lean, and 19, 1900, in Butte by Priest Joseph J. Komorovsky. John strong[...]nt with la's sister. him. He worked all day in the fields, stopping only at lunch John and Angela lived in Butte until March 18, 1903, at and to feed and wa[...]5 p.m. he had gone out to the hay stack to assist in loading racks with hay to feed the cattle. In some manner he lost his balance and slipped, fall[...]ne 24, 1875, to George and Francis Karin Malesich in Venica, Austria. He was an only child, his mother[...]rica first, then sent for John, who came to Butte in 1892 when he was about 18 years of age. John applied for citizenship in Silver Bow County on October 3, 1896. In Butte, he met his wife-to-be, Angela T. Miller. Angela T. Miller was born in Cerknica, Austria, on Sep-[...] |
| [...]Benjamin Barton Mallon was born December 29, 1875 in acres. This property was originally homesteaded[...]ohnson. The original 160 acres was Mallon. There were three other children born to Estella and so[...]George Hale. He was believed to be the only Negro in do. While living there John went out one day and was never Beaverhead C[...]It was never known what happened to him, but In 1917, a parcel of ground on the east side of the[...]delivery wagon for the local gro- "upper field". There is reported to be a shallow depression cery store. Later he worked for the railroad in Great Falls as in this field which was the foundation area of the original a flunky to the cook. He also worked in the mines in Helena homestead.[...]nt to business school. For a short time he worked in The ranch raised draft horses, along with other livestock. the mines in Butte and also hauled mining equipment from One[...]still Ben came to the Big Hole when he was in his late twenties, standing, but was moved across the barnyard when the new living in Wisdom. His mother married Bill O'Connell, who barn was built in 1915 or 1916 by George Broksle (father to owned a blacksmith shop there. Estella and Bill had three Sam and Rudy Broksle[...]children, Bill, Jim and Stella. While living in Wisdom, Ben Beaverhead River near the Point of Ro[...]ed gold out of Gibbons- and farmhouse were built in 1883 or 1884 out of hand-hewn ville. logs, a craft learned in the "Old Country". George Broksle On Se[...]family and friends, was born March 11, 1888 in the frontier kitchen and dining room.[...]ontana. Her parents were Big Hole While living in Butte, John and Angela had their first two Ba[...]said to be the first white woman to live in the Wise River Malesich children were born at the ranch in Beaverhead area. Millie had one sister[...]born November County. Their names and birth dates are: Ann Theresa, 20, 1889. She had two b[...]1914; The George Dodgson family lived in Dewey for a time and Rudolph Albert (Scotty), Apr[...]nd Philip James, also on different ranches in the Wise River area. Millie May 1, 1918. Most of[...]h children attended the attended school in Dewey and the Meadow Creek school at Drummy Schoo[...]Wise River. She attended high school in Butte, at which Angela's children remember her[...]a lot of her vegetables to the Bond Grocery Store in Dillon. John Malesich died July 1, 1934, of "C[...]Rudolph Albert Malesich. Angela purchased a home in Dillon at 467 Thom- sen Avenue and lived there until she entered the Eventide Rest Home in Dillon, where she was a patient for a shor[...] |
| [...]family of Judge Lindsey. She also attended school in Bozeman. When in her teens the family lived on the ranch now the M[...]. When Ben and Millie married they first lived in Divide and worked at the grocery store. A daughter, Vera Irene, was born in Melrose on December 3, 1908. In 1911 a son, George, was born. He died while still[...]while they sold the store to Charlie Miller, and in 1920 they sold the ranch to Babe Dodgson, a cousi[...]is the present Mallon Ranch. Ben and Millie lived there the rest of their lives. Lowell took over running[...]ill be all right before another year, don"t worry in Butte on November 1, 1963. Both are buried in the Dewey about Henry a bothering other gir[...]'t hardly look Cemetery. Vera (Mallon) Clift died in Seattle April 9, 1983. at them or talk to any[...]rley is at home sick with a Henry Mallory, born in Henry County, Ind. to J.B. and cold. We[...]et two hens and will set another this a young man in his early twenties. He was one of four hunt-[...]Clark Smith, who often assist- Smith's are well as common, Mattie sent me a nice black ed each other in a neighborly fashion. Being a bachelor he d[...]y. Mattie is well and happy and has two often ate in the Hamby home. He helped with the family[...]. all go to church then, wouldnt we? How is your father and Henry married Ben's widow on July 1,1893, in Dillon. mother this spring? Oh yes, Len[...]of thread; I get a dollar a spool. was born back in Missouri where Henry had taken Orlena[...]all lived back here again so we his parents home in Carroll, Mont. and on occasion he would coul[...]place the best? Frank is hauling me some hear you in trouble so much. I don't blame you but I t[...] |
| [...]I must quit-answer my letter as soon as in Bannack in the Fall of 1863, concluding a 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 arriving in Bannack James Mann turned his attention to would[...]him on my lap or put him to sleep cated in minerals as himself. In 1865 he went to Rattlesnake either.[...]Creek and located his home there. James Mann remained From your Ma to Lena"[...]g 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. He married Gert[...]dexter Cemetery, beside Mary who preceded him in death daughter of Tom and Emma McCallister, in 1916. Three on December 22, 1897. In 1919 they were removed to Moun- children were bor[...]a Irene, Ray Laverne tain View Cemetery in Dillon. and Freddy Wayne. Virginia married Jesse Spencer and Many descendants of this early Beaverhead pioneer fam-[...]re Dwight, Thomas and one infant, Rodger.She died in Sep- buried here. tember of 1988 at ag[...], Jerry, Sharon and Diana Mal- lory. Laverne died in January of 1970 at age 42. Freddy Wayne was killed in a car wreck on July 23, 1944, at age 15.[...]mes and Anna Mansfield Frederic John Mallory died in Ayugust 1947 at age 53.- BY James Mansfield was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland,[...]Mansfield who farmed in that area. His parents died during[...]James and his sister were sent to relatives in Wellsville, James Monroe Mann was born at Oxfo[...]th his parents until he On their arrival in the United States at the port of New was 12 years[...]father was Aaron left with a family in New Orleans and James continued on to Mann, and mother Sarah (Ingram) Mann, who was born in Wellsville. Later his r~latives went[...]Grafton County. His father was the first settler in the family had departed and her whereabouts[...]James' early education was received in Wellsville and coming to Illinois, worked on his[...]ars and studied two years with on the block in the public market at that time. Dr. Sanford of Elgin. In 1861 at the age of 17 he and two older men named In an early day Mr. Mann went to California walking[...]rted no great difficulty with Indians on any dust in his poke. This journey he made by way of Panama.[...]the trip. He also recalled Denver had only seven In about 1856 he went to Wisconsin, and there made the houses when they passed throu[...]. Mary Abigail Kirkpatrick, whom he In 1862 they again headed for California but heard o[...]as the widow of James Kirk- gold strike in Bannack, Montana, changed course and ar- patrick[...]hildren: Robert, James, Cordelia, and rived there November 1, 1862. He traded two yoke of oxen Clar[...]ked that winter but sold it when it didn't pay In 1863 James moved westward again with his sizable[...]ecruited to join Bozeman and Jacobs for In 1863 gold was discovered in Alder Gulch where he took an attempt at what woul[...]ts of gold. Trail 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 gru[...] |
| [...]Ike Marble was born June 4, 1854, in Effingham, Ill., and came to Montana in 1867, locating first near Bozeman and[...]coming to the Centennial Valley in 1888. Jesse Tibbles was[...]one of eight children, born in Iowa.[...]He was a cowboy, also illiterate. Jesse put an ad in a find your love' column in some newspaper or magazine.[...]decided freighting was more profitable up in their marriage that lasted to the end of their li[...]hree teams and wagons to Fort Ben- I was in their home often as a child and as I remember ton[...]ther. He chewed hundred pounds it was selling for in Bannack. He made tobacco and spit in the fire but somehow kept it going. She several t[...]t Lake to Bannack for a cows after dark in a pint tin cup. Someone asked why she number of y[...]ou died near Pleasant Valley. The man was wrapped in his think those old cows would let that ugly woman in there if bedroll and buried near the trail. His name wa[...]e and Ike left the Centennial Valley they went In 1870 he took up a government claim near the head of to Idaho for a time and then moved to Dillon in the 30s. Ike Shenon Creek in upper Horse Prairie where he stacked a died in 1939 at age 85 and Jesse died in 1950. Both are small amount of hay. The remains of an early model wooden buried in Dillon. frame dump rake still sits near the site[...]and dirt floor, but his housekeeping was very In 1887 Mr. Mansfield married Anna P. Flynn at the[...]Two boys were born to the family: James Nicholas in Freeman was a crack shot. Red Rock River ran through 1888 and Columba Sarsfield in 1890. In later years James his place and his place[...]s it was difficult to keep hunters out profession in St. Louis, Mo.[...]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 lived on the ranch until[...]hunter said, "Mr. Marble, 1950 and upon her death in 1957 was also buried in Dillon. you were shooting right at me, you could have killed me." They are survived by six grandchildren.[...] |
| [...]neck. His favorite words were By Gonny' In the spring of 1885, Ed returned to New York with[...]there that Edward Perry was born August 10, 1887. In the spring of 1883, Edmond and Elizabeth Legge In order to satisfy the Indian women who constantly[...]ng. 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 la[...]nterest 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 was cured the second cattle brand (TP) in Montana Territory. time to take advantage[...]eth, being an excellent seamstress, secured a job in They found sites to their liking a few miles beyond Mill- her cousin's stylish Modiste Shop in New York City. There point on the road to the Big Hole. Cabins w[...]a six-day journey by train, the travelers arrived in children a year apart, Maxie on May 25, 1888, a[...]). This was horse on August 25, 1889. They are buried in the Bannack Ceme- trading country, an art the Mar[...]with a dull their fourth child, Josephine, in March of 1889, a beautiful gray blanket of mosquitoes in buffalo grass belly-deep. but delicate ch[...]lay. Ed epilepsy and died of i~fluenza in the 1917 epidemic. After pursued good horse-tradi[...]army horses for $5.00 each and doubling the money in up the Grasshopper Valley with more bottom la[...]rand which is one of the earliest brands recorded in Mon-[...]being built, and she was soon back at her old job in[...]mics, however, and in the spring of 1892 all four children[...]Elizabeth returned-to Montana in the fall of 1892, leaving[...]husband in the new log house was a boon to her spirits.[...]1893. Marchesseau Family Members in 1910: Front row Ed Marchesse[...]uth Marchesseau; Far al lifeline to many businesses in Bannack, Dillon and sur- right: George Harrison a[...]r: Jim was lush, and antelope in large herds ate and bedded down Purdy, former pro[...]he cattle. (tipping hat), Mary Ellen Pearson (bow in hair), first Soon, however, th[...] |
| [...]e needed, better hay to be cut, neighbors in the Grasshopper Valley, exchanged midwifery stacked and fed out in winter. Stock would be confined to services for each birth in their large families. smaller areas, and grazing[...]of Rose Olive on September 30, 1894, and Bessie in 1896, a large house was needed. A site was chosen[...]"Tilly" Marchesseau evergrowing family; there were finally eight bedrooms in the Frank Erwin Marchesseau was born on February 16, 1896 main house - "lots of room to grow in," Elizabeth said, "to 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 of the Grasshopper Valley. born in this house: Frank Irwin, Florence Ethel, Robert[...]to this regarded as the best baseball player in southwestern Mon- union covered a span of a quar[...]onal play, but a very Elizabeth became active in community affairs, writing a badly broken ar[...]s. The school meetings were lively. She succeeded in Frank's schooling included graduation fr[...]getting a full nine-month school term established in 1908. Polytechnic. He was called to duty for[...]s discharge he returned home to ranching. On some in the later teens wishing to obtain an 8th grade ed[...]as rapidly taken up tana, and attended school in Anaconda and Missoula. in the Grasshopper Valley. Some newcomers employed d[...]ked on the vious means to acquire large acreages. There were those who family ranch. In 1922 they gained employment with Mr. and stole wa[...]h 22, 1923 their of jail to take up land for them in return. This brought oldest child, Delia[...], according to trouble into this peaceful valley. In the dead of night, Ed records, was the only[...]he young thief was caught near the Cana- In late 1923 Frank took employment with Judson Best in dian border and sentenced to 10 years in prison. This inci- Dillon. He was in charge of Mr. Best's rabbit farm, north of dent e[...]give birth to Jane Elizabeth. While still living in Dillon and Nagle places and later holdings at the[...]h his brother The three sons married and remained in the Valley as Dewey on the family ran[...]tter leaving three children for her nership. In the early 1940s, the partnership was dissolved mo[...]ly known, worked side by side with Ranch and died in 1934 at the age of 80. Elizabeth died in her husband, along with raising a family. T[...]She was considered one of the most outstanding In Montana's centennial year of 1989, three of their 12 cooks in Beaverhead County, learning her culinary art from children are still living in Dillon: May Brown, Florence Daly people she ha[...]ment. They moved to Dillon and remained there until their nurtured the family through epidemics[...]on June 17, 1967. All of their children reside in Dillon. lifetimes. Elizabeth and Maria Har[...] |
| [...]obert R. Marchesseault was born October 26, 1888, in Fero Marchesseau was a native of Canad[...]n at Mountain View, Wyo., and spent his childhood in Alberta, Montreal on July 4, 1866. In 1879 "Skinny", as he was Canada, before moving to the Dillon area in 1904. called, came to Montana which[...]e "Montana A veteran of World War I, he ranched in Beaverhead Territory." His first emplo[...]d on the Red Rock to Salmon City, Idaho. In the early 1880s he Pierce ranch for many years before relocating to the Grass- entered[...]until his retire- rie who was also a brother-in-law. He served as cowboy and ment to Dillon in late 1960. cow[...]tury. During the 24th annual Boys State session in 1970, he was His were the days of the "Old[...], Dale Metlen, Martin Barrett, the Nay brothers In 1967, he was awarded life membership in American and all the others ran their h[...]ich time then Post Idaho line and lived in close harmony. Commander Dean Brown declared, "No[...]They left the Pierce ranch in the early 1930s and relocat-[...]"Skinny" became ill and died in Dillon in December,[...]ment was in Mountain View Cemetery. Pallbearers were[...]Sara continued to live in Dillon until her death in Decem-[...]Rever- Bob Marchesseault |
| [...]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[...]Long, all of San Francisco; brothers and sisters-in-law Mr. and Mrs. B. J. McMenomey of Malta and Mr.[...]Menomy of Monrovia, Califor- nia; a granddaughter in Billings and nephews and nieces in California and Oregon. -ADELE ROUSE and LOR[...]of George and Harriet Boatman who came to Montana in Saturday and started for his home on Blacktail creek at 1865 in a covered wagon. With them on their trip from abo[...]ield, he struck one of the mother. They settled in Virginia City where George milled horses; this action frightened the animal, and, in response to flour. They later moved to the Dillon area. the blow, kicked Mr. Maron in the stomach. Two of Ter- Harry haye[...]ys were near and saw the accident. One of in the summer of 1910. There he met my mother, Bertha them started for his fat[...]chased from doctor was summoned and found the man in terrible agony Henry Boatman, Harry's great uncle. They lived there when and internally injured. He was made as comfo[...]born March 26, unconscious part of the night, but in the morning appeared 1913; Harry Thomas, b[...]1921. Barney Maron was born at Cavin, Ireland, in 1847. He left The Martin family raised ca[...]p wild hay on the old country and came to America in 1874. He engaged in the ranch until 1922. They spent one winter in Idaho Falls, mining in Butte for some years where he made many and then returned to the Centennial and spent two years on friends. In 1881, he came to Dillon and settled on a ranch on the 7L Ranch. They then bought a small hotel in Lakeview. Blacktail creek. At the time of his dea[...]rry Martin carried the U.S. Mail for Al Forsythe. In the well-fixed. He is survived by a sister and th[...]Henry's Lake and returned the following day. In the sum- The property that Barney Maron homest[...]The family moved to Stevensville, Montana, in 1928. grandson, Ron Laden. Harry and family lived there until his death in 1941. He was[...]later lived in Minneapolis, Albuquerque, and El Paso. She (F[...]Tribune, October 14, 1898) died in El Paso on December 26, 1980.[...]Beryl married Chester Russell. They lived in Minneapo- Harry and Bertha Martin[...]lis, Minn. and Sedona, Ariz., and are now in Westbrook Harry Martin came to the Centennial Valley of Montana Village in the Phoenix area. They were wholesalers for Indi- in the 1900s prior to 1910. He took up a homestead o[...]Laura married Joseph Gamertsfelder and lived in Co- homestead. On a nearby ranch lived Laura Boat[...]octon, Ohio. They were both teachers and now live in[...] |
| Sedona, Ariz. Thomas served in the Army Military Police. All of thei[...]h work and the He married Arline Dolan and worked in Washington, D.C. ranch expanded. The t[...]lives. May (Can- 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 Dillon. Addie died De- wife Margot live in Ronan, Montana, moving there when he cember 23, 1948 in Dillon. retired from Braniff Airlines as a pilot. He served in the -YVONNE MARTINELL Navy Air Corps during 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 1983. Carl T. Mast was[...]days after the family arrived in Dillon, Montana, by covered -LAUR[...]Anderson Lane. He was the eighth child in a family of 16[...]children and the first to be born in Montana. Elmer Marion Martinell was born December 9,1868 in While he was still a young lad, th[...]m school dian descent. He spent his boyhood days in Iowa, Minneso- at Farlin Gulch a mining ca[...]orking for Young. He also worked on other ranches in the who came from Glenwood, Utah, to be w[...]Elizabeth, who was working in the Dillon Steam Laundry. He married Addie Est[...]eptember 4, 1867 at Piper they were married in $alt Lake City, Utah, on June 26, 1907. City, Ill[...]ey were blessed with a boy to Montana she resided in South Dakota where her parents name Carl[...]t ear until it was hanging by the skin. His sided there and had eight children. They were : May Viola, arm had to be amputated but the ear was sewn back in place. born November 26, 1893; Harry Calvert, bor[...]l Anna, born April 25, doctor took it out in the back yard and buried it. However, 1897; Ray D[...]rn September 2, being twisted. He was really in pain. About three days later, 1901; Bertha E., bo[...]il 14, 1908. The five surviving children remained in Beaverhead County. Elmer's father helped him build a permanent house on the homestead near Dell in 1898. This house is still '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 ra[...]Martinells were to receive half of the offspring in return for caring for the cattle. They also purchased 50 cows with the calves thrown in from J. S. Fleming in 1910. They ran some sheep for a while. Hay was[...]ed on the train at Dell, and shipped to the mines in Butte. They would also winter cattle for p[...] |
| [...]rcelia, came to bless this union. Emma was active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,[...]ty, Utah, South- ern Utah, also to California and in later years to Virginia for visits with her daugh[...]She passed away June 21, 1961, and was buried in Mt. View Cemetery at Dillon. Carl was a contra[...]t foundations, laid sidewalks, and moved anything in Hazel married Roy Jaggers in Butte on June 2, 1908. The sight. His greatest jo[...]dren, 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 th[...]passed away at the age of 72 on August 21, 1953, in by Berry. Dillon and was buried in Mt. View Cemetery. Georgia Mathews left Bannack and enrolled in Beaver- -ISABELLE[...]insurance company for some time. In later years Georgia[...]arious beth (Berry) Mathews at Palmyra, Missouri, in February of organizations. 1851. He attended high school there and college in Shelby Bertie Mathews also graduated fr[...]School, and worked in the courthouse following Georgia's As a young[...]Hardware for a period of for Montana and arrived in Bannack in 1864. On August 8, time, then bought Thomas Book Store, which she ran for 1865, in Argenta, he married Montana Elizabeth Nay. They[...]he Book Store and was employed at made their home in Bannack for some time and later home- th[...]l Church, Eastern Star and P.E.O. with 160 acres. In later years they returned to Bannack[...]h was the old court- house building. He continued in this occupation until his death on June 19, 1907[...]James Mauldin was born July 2, 1832 in Maryland. His Mr. Mathews was affiliated with[...]sons 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 members[...]Mauldin attended school in the winter and helped on the Mrs. Mathews also came from an early Beaverhead pio- farm in the summer. When he was eighteen he went to neer[...]ceship at har- She was the second white girl born in Bannack and one of ness making. He then[...]then back to Balti- the first white children born in Montana. Her parents ar- more where he was in the tobacco business and in the dry rived in Bannack in 1864 after crossing the plains in a cov- goods business. He went to Columbus,[...]opened a shoe store in 1857. He conducted this business The Mathews h[...]Georgia until 1864. He came to Montana in 1865 and brought a stock and Bertie.[...]City by way of the Platte River. Berry worked in the mines at Bannack and Butte and He[...]William T. Mauldin, later bought a fruit orchard in Missoula. He died in 1946. whom he left in charge of the stock of goods in Virginia City[...] |
| [...]plies. where he stayed for four years. In 1865 he and his brother On starting for the east in the fall of 1865, he walked from left for Montana, arriving in Virginia City September 2, Virginia City to Bozem[...]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 busine[...]would travel during the day, land on an in Chicago. From there he went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but island to cook[...]in three years but returned to Montana in 1879 and estab- took the stage to Boone Station,[...]successful retail tobacco business on Park Street in remainder of the trip by railroad. Butte. While in the east, he disposed of his business interests In 1886 he came to Beaverhead County and purchased a[...]e, which ranch two miles east of Dillon. In partnership with his he loaded on wagons in the spring of 1866. He started again broth[...]roperty for the Court House on December 17, 1889. In 1892 his stock there and stored the remainder until the following[...]strict on the Salmon bia Block on Broadway in Butte. River, 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[...]went to Utah On February 11, 1877 in Ogden, Utah, Mr. Mauldin mar- where he secured ca[...]ead of horses which he drove through to his ranch in the first husband, Tyler Dodge Featherly, at Cherango, Ohio, in Beaverhead. There he began raising cattle and horses and 1854 and lived in Wisconsin, where her husband died. After four yea[...]d her marriage to Mr. Mauldin she lived in Dillon, Montana, Percheron horses that ever came[...]market for them James and G. R. Featherly. in Butte. Mr. Mauldin contributed to the improvement[...]Mr. Mauldin died August 21, 1907 and both of them are the ranching industry and was closely identified[...]h his other interests and owned valuable property in Butte, Helena, Joseph and Annie Mau[...]Nineteen-year-old Joseph Mautz arrived in Denver from In partnership with his brother, William T., Mr. Mauldin his native Austria in 1899. He spent several years there platted an addition to the city of Dillon known as Mauldin working in the mines and smelter. addition. James Mauldin de[...]r the Presbyte- Relatives and friends in Butte persuaded him to move to rian Church on Jan[...]ed property Butte where again he worked in various mines. However, he for the High School.[...]-HELEN SHAFFNER In 1907, Joseph homesteaded a tract of land adjoinin[...]families resided in the town. William T. Mauldin was born in Cecil County, Maryland, On one of his many visits to Butte he met Annie Plute, an on Septemb[...]d. His father was for They were married in January of 1911 and made their home many years a prosperous merchant in Baltimore, Maryland. on the homestead.[...]t this first Mr. Mauldin received his education in the public schools home. Joseph then purc[...]ocated along of Maryland and at Tuscarora Academy in Pennsylvania. the road to Birch Cree[...]dianapolis and took a Joseph, Jr. was born there. position in a mercantile store run by his brother James, __Joseph was very much interested in community affairs 366-Beaverhead History |
| [...]ange custom of wearing heavy socks and boots even in the summer. He was famous for his many tall tales. Jack sold the ranch in the early 30s. He was gone for a[...]time but was on hand in the fall of 1937 to help with a "log[...]They would hear how upset he was when he came home and[...]I arrived in Dillon on May 9, 1910, with my mother and[...]shop in Dillon on the NW corner of Helena and Idaho[...]streets. He had convinced my parents to join him in busi- Joseph and Annie Mautz ness. My father was to work in woodwork, repairing wagons, and served several ye[...]buggies, filing saws, etc. My father, later in 1915 or 1916, instrumental in building the Apex school.[...]uilding on the SE corner of Helena and Washing- In 1917, he crushed his leg in a hay-baling accident. This ton streets which in 1988 is still standing. He had a carriage necessi[...]ing the farm and moving to Dillon for works in the front and my uncle Harmon had horse shoeing hospital care. After a year he purchased a farm in the Bar- in the back half of the building. retts area from Ro[...]My sister Bernice and I started at Bagley school in the fall the couple's daughter Dorothy was born there in 1923. Dur- of 1910. Mr. Finch was the princ[...]we did full pages of exercises over and over to In 1937, Joseph and Annie moved to Dillon and their[...]or caught. The beauty of the Annie passed away in 1955. Joseph then divided his time Palmer[...]h me. with his children until he also passed away in 1971 at the age One of the first automobiles[...]arrived. I remember it had no top, a double seat in -ANNE WILLIAMS front and a single seat in the middle back of the front seat.[...]h timber. This was where they made their home for many years. They planned to file on land further on[...]y on this land. A n_eighbor, Al Covey, put up hay there also. He told people he got less than 20 t[...] |
| [...]oke out our government asked everyone to conserve in every way "for the war effort. "Rais- ing victory[...]cause of Peace. All eligible senior boys enlisted in the service and we girls wrote to them. Living[...]raised her Bernice graduated from high school in 1918 and I in 1919. son to adulthood. Hugh came to Dillon[...]rairie rancher, established a large to California in 1925 or 1926. They had a daughter, Stella retail store on Montana Street in the block between Ban- Beth, who died in 1927 and a son, Jay, born in California. nack and Center Streets. They[...]ay and his wife, Jackie, have three children, all in Califor- luggage, leather goods, and a variet[...]ayfield was born March 4, 1916. He went to school in early Dillon physician, who had his office in the stone build- Dillon until he was 13 when he m[...]available to affluent families. In the late Gay Nineties she My father died in the Murray hospital in Butte in 1927. and her best chum, Zeta Landon, an[...]on, prominent Blacktail rancher, cut a wide swath in married Thomas Dubois of Dillon in 1937. They made their 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 California where she died in 1960. All are buried in merry-go-round of Dillon's elite. Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. Her f[...]and Nettie Hugh McCaleb. They were married in Dillon. Their honey- Spencer, of the Big Hole basin on December 31, 1921 in moon included a trip to Salmon by stagecoach and a journey Dillon. Loran's family ranched in the Big Hole from 1904- by train to Salt[...]ifornia where they lived until their store in Dillon. After renting for a time, they settled down in deaths, Vern in 1962 at the age of 91 and Nettie died in 1971 the big two-story house at 803 South Wa[...]Among her many hobbies, Ethel's favorite was shopping Loran a[...]res, auctions, and hunting trash dumps. and lived there until 1981 when we returned to Dillon. We[...]recognizing a "sleeper." She collected had lived in Santa Ana in the same house for 47 years. We discarde[...]ldn't tol- Jesse McCaleb, a Confederate colonel in the Civil War, erate waste. In all of her life she could have everything[...] |
| [...]ious to criticism and gossip, and times in the desert. After their departure she remarked, t[...]p 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, s[...]ught it might have been a germ spread by gophers, there Jay V. and Marguerite being many in this area. Ethel was fitted with a glass eye- bal[...]On February 14, 1898, Jay V. McCarthy was born in Aspen, On reaching retirement age, Mac sold t[...]nic building at Carthy moved to Montana in search of better times and a the corner of Bannac[...]s new life among family and relatives in the cityof Butte. I;fil)ved to the big Murray hou[...]ies of early day Butte; roaming the city at will, many rooms with Oriental rugs and fine furniture, incl[...]ing the ornately carved teakwood chairs purchased in San Francis- streets with his grandfather[...]er While living at the Murray place, she took in and cared for worked at the Hennessey Departmen[...], John Skavdahl, who came to her sick In 1910, Jay, his mother and step father, Charles Bl[...]an over night Mittelmier, who with her son lived in McCaleb's guest stay at a rooming house in Melrose, complete with a bed full house. Mrs. Mit[...]bugs. The balance of the night was spent sleeping in also helped with chores, in addition to cleaning jobs in town their wagon. in stores and banks. They settled a homestead in the Sweetwater area on part The McCalebs emplo[...]ps to the Southwest and Mexi- co. Mac passed away in 1954. Barney stayed on with Mrs. McCaleb. Wishing to spend her winters in the warm South- west, Ethel bought five acres of[...]equipment and polished gem stone which they found in the desert. Together they made jewelry. All of Et[...]diamond rings, bracelets, necklaces and pins lay in a safety deposit box in a Dillon bank while she wore ersatz. Barney's[...]d he was feeble for about a year before his death in a St. George hospital in 1958. Mrs. McCaleb, being in advanced years and having lost her playmate, retu[...]re and Chinese rugs. The sale of her -property in St. George had been a rather unusual type of cont[...]er death, after which a deed would be granted. Many years had passed by when she received a su[...] |
| [...]s carried from the neighboring ranch until a well in excess of 300 feet was drilled. In 1915, after the death of Mr. Black, the farm was[...]ere Jay became employed at Fred Woodside's Garage in 1916. The family moved again to Butte where Jay found employment with a vehicle sales firm. In 1917, Jay joined the U.S. Marines and was assigne[...]rom 1925 until he retired as Assistant Postmaster in 1962. During this time period a daughter, Myrna McCarthy Champine, was born in 1935.[...]of 66 years, Marguerite 86, reside at their home in southwest Montana Territory. On July 8, 188[...]PINE at Mamie's parents' home in Dillon. "Uncle" Sim Estes, the[...]ichael's obituary gives a birth year of 1850, but in order[...]e. A large reception was held at the Dingley home in Michael J. McCune, also known as William and "[...]west. He born circa 1898. While residing in Dillon, he operated the was a Pony Express rider for several months in 1860, then Beaverhead Livery and did contracting in the area. In 1900, came to Beaverhead County, where he learned[...]his lifelong profession. the winter cold in December and January. Lilly Maybelle Dingley,[...]eturn from Hawaii, the family moved to belle, and in adulthood as Mamie, was born January 11,[...]e Michael's contracting business flourished. 1870 in Mobile, Ala. She traveled with her parents, John[...]warehouse for the Butte City, Montana Territory, in 1877. The family were Butte Wholesale Gro[...]truction at the time of his death. For One day in Butte, Mike McCune and a friend drove by the[...]stack from this project was 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 debilitatin[...]his last project, he began to have and well known in the Butte City and Anaconda areas of lab[...]s. His de- True to his word, he came to Dillon in the coming years spondency grew and on Decem[...]to his heart. His buildings lived he was involved in constructing commercial buildings in on as his legacy to Butte. He was buried in the McCune 370-Beaverhead History |
| [...]e. 1919. She died around 1950 and is buried in Portland. He returned to Moni[...]640 acres at Monida. The land at Monida is still in the Girl Scout program in Bozeman and worked with that the McDowe[...]ross and the steads still held by family in the Valley. The deed is signed Bozeman Housekeepe[...]by President Warren G. Harding. ven, taught in Montana State College's (now MSU) agricul- In 1920 Mac shot a black bear on the homestead. He ture program's dairy department for many years. didn't have a rifle, walk[...]was so proud of his accomplishment missionary for many years before returning to Portland. he had the hide made into a rug. This bear rug was in our Son Joseph moved to K wajelein Island. family home for many years. - - - Mamie was raised a Baptist, married a Catholic, and in He started dating Roberta Bean and they[...]y Adventist. She married April 30, 1921 in Idaho Falls, ID. The reason they wrote and published many hymns including titles such as eloped wa[...]and Henrietta Bean. She was born in Sugar City, Utah (now McDowell[...]daughter, Mamie, to have her 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:[...], Inez Lucille, Oct. 31, 1897. He attended school in Nebraska, worked for B. F. Goodrich in Ohio, then left his family to come West, as a young man in 1916 to homestead in Monida. He first homesteaded on Corral Creek while he worked for The Paul Mercantile Store in Monida. He used his middle name Lee but was known[...]friends and family. Mac was considered a dude in this little western town, as he wore suits, ties[...]d the men's respect when they came up against him in a poker game. All the kids were Mac's friends as[...]c training, Mac was shipped overseas where he was in- volved in a lot of action in World War I. His profession on the discharge was[...]General Orders issued from Headquarters Sixteenth In- fantry, Shelters, Germany, May 25, 1919,[...] |
| [...]Roberta continued to live in the family home at Dillon,[...]died of cancer June 8, 1979. Both she and Mac are buried in[...]Frank McFadden grew up in Cadiz, Ohio, where he was[...]born November 2, 1877. There were twenty-eight students[...]by the name of McFadden in the little country school he[...]Montana." So, via Wichita, Kansas, Frank arrived in Twin[...]There he was a partner in the sheep business until his[...]crippled in the right foot. Because of this, he had to give u[...]fectionary Store in 1909. Homemade ice cream, candies, and[...]almost twenty-five years. In 1933, during the depression, he be near medical f[...]of Dean Walter McDowell was born April 3, 1923 in Idaho Beaverhead County, and a life-long[...]Falls. After Dean was born, they moved to Butte, there Mac terian Church. He was one of Dillon's mo[...]Brushes. Loretta Eu- zens. nice was born in Butte, Montana on July 3, 1925. Leaving Nellie Black came to Dillon on the first passenger train in Butte, they returned to Lima where he worked in the Mer- 1882. She was two years old, having been born in Corinne, rell Store. They again moved to Dillon w[...]agent for the railroad. Safeway store in Pueblo, Colo. and from there the family Nellie graduated from Beaver[...]ior, Nebr. where he was agin Manager of the in 1899, as valedictorian. The next four years were spent in Safeway. Aileen Roberta was born on April 27, 1928 in Su- teaching rural schools in Beaverhead and Madison Counties perior, Nebr.[...]until her marriage to Frank McFadden in 1903. After they When the depression hit, Mac[...]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[...]her husband's death in 1948, she took over as public admin- Mac[...] |
| [...]The family was reunited in August, 19i3, at the home of[...]ry, brilliant mind. She was interested and active in business, Mr. Henry McCorry (father), Willie;[...]ge and Agnes Nancy McGahan Charles was born in May, 1873 in the County of Antrim, Ireland. He was given the m[...]had a dark com- plexion. He took a deep interest in music and played the violin, piano and concertina[...]Gahans-From le~: Agnes Nancy, Charles He worked in the coal mines in Scotland and lived at a[...]e married June 22, 1904, at St. Margaret's Church in Ayr, Scotland.[...]ade a big husband Edward Brown whom she married in 1931. Agnes decision to migrate to the United States in 1910. Nancy and died in Dillon on November 23, 1961. Charles and Agnes are the small sons were left behind. buried in Mountain View Cemetery.[...] |
| Two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren live in Montana; others live in Washington. -Theo Bay (The materials used in my account of Charles George McGahan and Agnes Nancy McCorry are from the Dillon Tribune, July 6, 1923, and from t[...]osh Sarah Ann Hudson was born August 30, 1845, in Warren County, Ken., to Hardin (Harry) and Urshul[...]up a homestead. Harry was also a silversmith. In 1'863 Sarah came to Virginia City, Mont., with he[...]uto Sales. The livery barn, located where Terry's IGA is composed of 160 wagons. She was thrown from a[...]rovidence, tie: Sarah became interested in promoting the Normal Col- R.I. He had been a law[...]elds lege. Even with her bad hip, she collected many signatures saw him abandon his studies for the "wild west." Besides in order to have the legislature build the college in Dillon. being a prospector, he was a blacksmith a[...]ormal College. As the student body uary 22, 1867, in Sterling, Madison County, Montana. The g[...]sons. She also gave all her children on to a farm in the Gallatin Valley. On February 10, 1878,[...]ah ran the farm for a few years. On Church in Dillon. She spent the last few years of her life[...]ldest daughter Lillie married Amos her son-in-law and daughter, Chris and Lottie Hansen. Storey, and they spent their lives on a ranch in the Gallatin Sarah passed away January 4, 1925, at her home in Dillon Valley. and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery. Sarah married Henry Mc[...]ught her children and several neighbors' children in tween 1890 and 1920. He was postmaster at th[...]He owned and operated a blacksmith shop in Grant and, on February 18, 1885. Mr. McIntosh was interested in min- as an avocation, wrote a column for[...]under the pen name of Jerry Hopper. Firey, in the Dillon Mine on Old Baldy Mountain. He[...] |
| Horace, Pauline, and Andrew. In the teen years the family lived in a log cabin located in the southeast corner of the John Peterson ranch ([...]t his par- ents' ·home as a young man. He worked in Iowa and then Cheyenne, Wyoming. From there he went to Colorado where he worked for a mining[...]averhead County up the Corinne Trail to Ban- nack in 1889. The following winter was so severe that mos[...]ne. His wife-to-be, Josephine Burnham, arrived in Beaver- head County before him. She was born Nove[...]knittin' for Britain" raise with her own family. In October, 1878, Margaret Bes- sette brought her da[...]annack, to join her BankExchange Saloon in Bannack from Courtney and Sny- husband, Olivier "[...]der Lenkerdorfer. young Levi who were already in Montana. Margaret Bes- Their third c[...]girl, Winifred Margaret "Win- sette's first home in Montana was a log cabin with a dirt nie," was born in Bannack April 3, 1898. Josie's beloved floor and[...]98. 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 Bannack, Verne Park was born November 21,[...]brother- of scarlet fever January 20, 1903. in-law, Amede Bessette, raised her family there. Billy and Thomas Clement calle[...]Saloon." They ran it for nine years, selling out in 1904. walked to school three miles from their hom[...]Argenta to mine. Billy was George Shaffner ranch. In the winter when Grasshopper an excelle[...]. In 1911, the family moved to a ranch near Grant in the William Henry McMannis and Josephine Burnh[...]homesteaded by a man named married by Rev. Hooker in Dillon, May 9, 1892. "Billy," as Cox, but C[...]living. have it. Elliott in turn sold it to Billy. The site lies at th[...] |
| [...]and died September 8, 1925 in Lima, Montana.[...]Dell and Lima. He ran the Dell Garage for many years and S., William G., and Verne P.; (seated)[...]then moved to Lima. There he was road foreman for many Josephine.[...]ll, finished the eighth Wilson and Helen. Both are deceased. grade at Argenta and went to work in the mines and some- Leslie was their seco[...]ft Bert to watch Leslie while they went to the In May 1917, William George (Will) and a friend, Fra[...]at wrong. When they rushed back to the house there were Knik, near Wassilla. When World War I broke out, he quit Indians in there. A squaw was holding Leslie, and it took his job[...]nd that they just wanted the blanket He served in France with the 20th Engineers from Janu- and not the baby. Leslie married Annie C. Peterson in ary 4, 1918 until May of 1919.[...]d Harry married Regina Best, December 1, 1917, in Dillon Ted. at the Baptist Parsonage. Rev. W[...]Leslie worked for Henry Fitter feeding cattle for many the ceremony. Harry was inducted into the army Ju[...]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[...]ess' (now the YA Bar Livestock Co.) and live 1920 in Dillon. Back at the Horse Prairie ranch with her[...]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 the crops. Billy w[...]an accomplished fisher- man, hunter and trapper. In March of 1920, Winnie went to work for the Bell Telephone Company in Dillon. Will was mining, Billy and Harry were on[...]Cecil Milton McNinch was born on August 26, 1867, in Dumas, Illinois (Stark County), and died September 9, 1912, in Lima, Montana.[...] |
| Leslie died in January, 1970, and his wife Annie is still living in Lima, Montana, at the age of 85. Nellie marrie[...]girls. The fourth daugh- ter, Betty Tyler, lives in Lima, Montana, at the present. The third daughter, Bessie Tyler, lives in Lima, and the first daughter, Mary Rolles, lives in Butte, Montana. The second daughter, Opal, is dec[...]he boy, Emory, is deceased. One girl, Zola, lives in Spokane, Washington; and the other girl, Bessie, lives in Coos Bay, Oregon.[...]e cowardly Christian A. Mead was probably born in Pennsylvania in villain who lighted the match." 1814 and lived in Kingston, Green Lake County, Wisc., Thus was the atmosphere in which Judge Christian Mead where he met and married Anna Cornell in the early 1850s. conducted that fall's di[...]s. They had two daughters: Katherine "Katie" born in 1853 Over the next several years, he heard many of the famous who remained in Wisconsin, and Elizabeth "Libbie" born[...]ontin- January 12, 1855, who came west to Bannack in 1880. ued to practice until about 1[...]Prairie road just west of Red Rock. 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 Territory, seemed to enjoy that e[...]stock raising and representing Beaverhead County in the legislature three or farming. four ter[...]l terms. Mason of the first Lodge organized in Montana, which was When the county seat was mo[...]nnack, and was also the first Master Mason of the in 1881, he was probate judge for the district and m[...]gold-handled walking cane was Dillon to practice in the newly constructed courthouse. The prese[...]om- district court heard cases only twice a year, in the spring and as Prater, of Mt. Vernon, Wash., in 1985 along with a derby fall. On August 26, 1881,[...]n his or 50 buckets of water were being passed by many citizens 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 his home. He remained in a coma for a few days, minutes would have been be[...]Creek which wandered past the nack, plus many more. He was buried in Dillon with services edge of town. Only the deter[...]ences prompted the and rainy day, with many members of the Society of Mon- men to act quickly[...]fire was doused and the de- tana Pioneers in attendance who expressed their feelings struction[...]ubt the work of an incendiary. One of the offices in the upright man." lower story contained a[...]ndled. A trail of scattered she preceded him in death since she was not mentioned in shavings leading to the fire gave added evidence[...]ng high and bitter about the shift Katie Paul, in Wisconsin. The other half of the mining in location of the county seat. A volunteer a[...] |
| house and lots in Dillon were willed to his other daughter, valved in mining activities. One son, Perry E. Meade, was[...]killed by a cave-in at the Eugenia mine and is buried in the The courthouse in Bannack was put up for sale by the Bannack Cemetery. Beaverhead County commissioners in March, 1884, but John Meade received his United States citizenship as there was no response to the advertisements run in the recorded in the Fifth Judicial District Court, Beaverhead newspapers. Finally, in June, 1891, two bids were received: County, October 25, 1894. In 1898 the Meades and their C. N. Burrows offered[...]d and the deed ex- where Mrs. Meade died in 1913 and Dr. Meade passed away ecuted and delivered immediately. In honor of the memory January 5, 1921. of[...]ted for several decades, Dillon. She died in February of 1919. especially during the dredging years, finally closing in the[...]ylvester Patric Meade was born February 22, 1893, in[...]came west to Butte, Montana, in 1894. His father left, leav-[...]a girl. During the John Singleton Meade, born in Brighton, Ontario, on following years,[...]se the June 15, 1840, came to the United States in 1859 to join an children alone, his brothers[...]d the rado was called before it became a state. In 1861 he enlisted name Beaute throughout the rest of his life. in the Union Army and, having graduated from a medic[...]other, he found work as a chore boy and college in Canada, was assigned to service as an assistant[...]ght to Beaverhead County and surgeon. He fought in the battle of Apache Canyon near Horse Prairie in 1907 by my Grandpa Howell to work as Santa Fe w[...]his mother in Butte to help her support the rest of his Doc[...]ck he filed a home- and Etta Adelia) were born. In 1888 they migrated to Ban- stead on land th[...]built a two-room log cabin on the property. Then in . 10 years. Dr. Meade also practiced medicine and was in- 1925 we adopted a 17 day old boy whom we[...]in grocery stores and doing some traveling with clot[...]in the shipyards. Son and I followed when school bro[...]In 1944 Beaute was asked to return to Dillon to fini[...]elena. Son and I followed him when school was out in[...]the Republican ticket, won, and Meade, and Jack; in foreground: Albertie. (Bannack, hel[...]against him during his term in office. 378-Beaverhead History |
| [...], 1900. A third son, Paul Leon, was born remained in Dillon for a time after his death working as a[...]1904. Two months before the birth of Paul, clerk in a store, then as a dispatcher for the Police Depa[...]o weeks old, I was born November 14, 1896, I am in good health and Pauline died on March 10, 1904. The obituary in the news- now living in Mississippi.[...]purchased the N 1/2 of Sec- ley with his parents in 1882, when he was 12 years old. He tion 16,[...]at the was born November 13, 1876, at Nuertingen in Wurtenburg ranch today. November 22, 1917[...]rs, once traveled to Charlie and Pauline lived in the homestead buildings Columbus, Nebrask[...]- Meine was an avid horseman and always owned many fine ings in 1900. Here a second son, Henry Mueller Mei[...] |
| Charlie acquired many acres of range on "Dutchman 1875, a daughter, Dorothea Amalia Carolina Johanna Mountain" starting in 1916. This was used for s·u mmer pas- Meine,[...]re for the cattle, and the work horses were taken there in helmina's fifth child, Louise Conradine Leopold[...]and supervisor of the Beaverhead dren born in Germany during this era had so many given Milling Company of Dillon, as well as part[...]hey were named after all of their baptism article in .the Dillon Examiner Christmas edition says that[...]prosperity to the company. many. A leaving or dismissing certificate he completed[...]nor children in their father's care. In 1930, Charlie and his son Henry built a nice log[...]They re- residence whenever he was at the ranch. In 1937, Charlie mained in Chicago for one year, then Conrad brought his tur[...]Johnson, a widow had family portraits taken in Chicago before they left, as it at Kalispell, Mon[...]n he was 77 years old, killed by the Indians in the wild west and he would never see on February[...]Conrad took one of the last homesteads to be had in the Dillon for the funeral, which was held at Bru[...]long the Albers Slough ten miles Home. Burial was in Mountain View Cemetery. Charlie's north[...]ing the NE ¼ of Section obituary told that, "For many years he was an influential 21, T6S, R8W, of[...]uding houses, stable, received with regret by his many friends." barn, corrals and o[...]Conrad applied for citizenship April 6, 1883, in the First THY MEINE Judicial District in Beaverhead County. His Certificate of[...]died at about the age The first Meine to arrive in Beaverhead County was Con- of five. Conrad a[...]lways went rad Meine, who brought his family here in 1882. by Charles F. (Charlie) Mein[...]ine was born August 13, April 7, 1896, in Dillon. Their daughter Dorothea went by 1845, at[...]three brothers and three sisters, possibly more. In Germany Conrad was an agricultural worker called[...]Christina, Conrad, Charlie. Louisa is small child in March 22, 1870, in Hannover, Germany. On September 22,[...] |
| [...]bert (Bob) Earl Melton was born October 17, 1888, in[...]He married Lillie Alice Taylor, June 9, 1916, in Butte. Mother was born in Dillon, January 11, 1898, to a pioneer[...]Conrad Meine Homestead April 2, 1901. In 1890 Conrad bought the adjoining 160 acres, being[...]1899, at the ranch. Funer- al services were held in the Grace Methodist Church in Dillon. According to the obituary, she had been i[...]. Everything pos- sible was done for her. She had many friends in the valley. Conrad was later married to a woma[...]Ben and Angeline Taylor families settled in the Bannack On October 14, 1911, Conrad Meine[...]being named for Ben's a gunshot wound to the head in the granary at his son parents. Charlie's ranch north of Dillon. He had been in poor health My parents had four childe[...]children and 12 great grandchildren. Both parents are he died. Listed as surviving are his wife, a son Charles and of English anc[...]ated their 45th anniversary at the Guild Hall was in Mountain View Cemetery. in June of 1962. Daddy was an avid fisherman, belonged to The Meine homestead was passed down and remained in the Dillon Elks Lodge and was a devout Catholic. Mother the Meine family for over 110 years. Many of the homestead was active in Home Demonstration and a member of the buildings[...]filled in his time being water commissioner on Rattlesnake[...]Daddy died on his birthday, October 17, 1962, in the I, like many others, am guilty of not being particularly Butte hospital following surgery and Mother died in the interested in my parents early life, probably assuming t[...] |
| [...]sold the Lima store to Robert Schendel, who in turn sold it The Merrell Family[...]oration owned by Schen~ The Merrells have been in and out of Beaverhead County del, A. A. Wal[...]s Frank Marion Merrell I. He came took over in 1914. to Bannack over Medicine Lodge Pass by pack train in 1862. In 1939 he sold his interest to his three sons, Mari[...]n operated the business until ly, he came to Utah in 1854. He did not do any good pro- 1976. Th[...]Carl specting and left Bannack for Virginia City. There he took Loomis of Los Angeles. up some claim[...]. He came back to Utah after having been was in Wyoming and coal yards in Idaho Falls. Due to ill gone three years. His bro[...]e sold his mine interest to Burt Ruud and retired in Utah to the Montana mines. They made two trips a year Santa Cruz, California. Frank Merrell died in 1960. hauling farm produce.[...]Francis Marion Merrell II married Hilma 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 Bonnie Cheney in 1926. They had He married Mary Marvin, one of St.[...]. After leaving southern Utah, the Merrells lived in Lila Kay. Brigham City and Corinne, Utah, and[...]Idaho. Winston Merrell married Helen in 1940 and lived in Ida- They finally settled in Soda Springs, Idaho. He visited his ho Falls. He died in 1986. daughter in Glen, Montana, and a son in Lima, Montana, -F. M. MERRELL II before he died in 1920. His son Francis (Frank) grew up in Soda Springs before the Oregon Short Line was bui[...]David Evans Metlen Frank worked in several stores and was half owner in a store David Evans Metlen represented Beaverhead County in at Henry, Idaho. He married Hattie Chester, daugh[...]e was co-sponsor of the bill to authorize brigade in 1856.[...]ll came to Montana the first time about 1890. in the building. He was born in Juniata County, Pa., in 1837, He worked on the Lima Dam. Later, he herded[...]The family moved to Decatur, Ill., in 1840, and after his The store in Henry, Idaho, burned in the winter of 1913 folks died, he lived with[...]clearing land, farming, and doing rough al stores in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada, Frank purchased the[...]o. from Fred Waldorf and A. L. Stone. He In 1863 he joined a wagon train at Omaha, Neb., driving a took possession in January, 1914. team[...]ed. He strike at Bannack and decided to go there. He tried placer handled everything except fresh[...]eer Lodge barbed wire, and groceries were shipped in by the carload. and opened a butcher shop in Bannack to sell meat to the He aided the farmers in selling their grain. One year twenty- miners. A[...]this prosperity Prairie Creek, and located there on what became known as was due to the boom from[...]rmers prosperous. made many trips to Omaha, Neb., and St. Joseph, Mo. The Merrell's property in Lima was homesteaded by John David Evans[...]uly 12, 1889. This was about the time 1850 in Missouri. They had two sons, David Thompson the U[...]Robert. Dade was killed by a property was deeded in 1900 to William Bernstine. It was runaway[...]Evans and Timer gave quit claims to Walter Starr in 1892. Starr married Verona Ella Bridwell, s[...]the Horse and his wife, Belle, deeded it to Young in 1894. Prairie School who came from Vanceburg, Ken. They had In 1897, A. D. Young sold it to Gordon D. Paul. In 1904 it five children: Gertrude, Bruce Joseph,[...]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 members of the OK Paul Company[...]rhead County High School 0. K. Paul was killed in a hunting accident and his widow until her death in 1936 in a hospital at Logan, Utah. Bruce 382-[...] |
| [...]youngest daughter of a pioneer family in Decatur. After finishing college in June 1895 he returned to Decatur for his[...]wedding to Mae Williamson in September of that year. He had his office in Dillon. One day Chief Tendoy came to see[...]sion. He resigned his position in Helena to move to Califor-[...]maps of his surveys of the county are still used in the court- house in Dillon.[...]in World War I and married Emily Buckner from Missis[...]lived in Pocatello with their mother. Fred later moved to[...]some time teaching 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 Medicine Lodge for many years. Berniece tain View Cemetery in Dillon. Metlen[...]She was married June Bruce Joseph Metlen served in the Montana House of 18, 1941, to George P. Palmer and lived in Butte until her Representatives from 1929 to 1939[...]il 15, 1972. Georgia Mae Metlen was born on 1939, in Rochester, Minnesota. Dale sold the CL Ranch and[...]udge, born at Billings on May 2, 1946. They lived in em Life Insurance, ran a grocery store in Dillon, and found- Seattle and at Santa Maria,[...]three years older than David Ev- Portland in 1982. Dale Thomas lives in Alaska with his wife ans Metlen, had gone to Cali[...]-GEORGIA MAE METLEN JUDGE his brother in the freighting business. He was more interest- 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 sti[...]l. It opened on Alexander Metzel was born in 1835 in York, Penn. He February 11, 1898, and Joseph Custer Metlen operated the first came to Montana in 1863, then returned to Iowa where hotel until his[...]Eliza and David Evans and Anna stayed there while Alexander went on to Mon- Metlen, was born in Chinatown Gulch on Horse Prairie on tana. In 1865 he brought his wife and infant son, Frank to[...]s ceived training as a civil and mining engineer. In 1893 he M., Albert, William and Tom.[...] |
| [...]him get started as a blacksmith in Butte.[...]way of life in Butte.[...]Patrick O'Sullivan. She ran a boarding house in Butte. They[...]had one son, Charles, Jr., while living in Butte. Charlie[...]in the Big Hole on Pintlar Creek. The places were ho[...]Creek to work on the ranch and be back in Butte to go to holding Elwyn Metzel; middle row:[...]Charlie sold his interest in the Butte Carriage Works and Bert Paul, R. T. Boa[...]moved to Wisdom in 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[...]coaches until 1915 when they switched to trucks. in the Upper Ruby Valley. He married Etta Boatman wh[...]aveled to Butte on the stage to have her was born in 1883 in Dillon, MT. They lived on the Metzel other two children. John Lawrence Hiney O'Sullivan Miller ranch in the upper Centennial Valley until 1900 when they[...]ller on December went to live on the Metzel ranch in the Upper Ruby Valley. 8, 1907. She stayed w[...]es before and after the chil- They sold the ranch in the Centennial Valley. dren were born in St. James Hospital. Will and Etta had two sons, Alexander II and Elwyn. There was another child, Edward Miller who was born in Alexander married Amy Vanderbeck of Virginia City[...]hers nia where the family still lives and he died there. Elwyn brought him west. Ed and Margaret di[...]ee eye to never married and after his mother died in 1976 he sold the eye, so Ed spent a lot of his childhood years at the Bushong ranch. He is buried in the Nevada City Cemetery where all Place with his Uncle, Patrick O'Sullivan. the rest of the Metzels are buried except Will Metzel and his Ed was probably the most like his father in physical char- wife Etta who are both buried in the Dillon Cemetery. acteristics. Charl[...]ied Gladys Zorn brother Frank. He and his brother-in-law Ruby Boatman and they had two child[...]before they were even childhood and summers in the Big Hole with Charlie. out of Montana. This was in 1919. The Pintla[...]horses. A huge barn was built by Bill Knudsen in 1912, cattle on his ranch as well as guiding hunters. He died there containing double stalls to tie in 59 horses, a stud box stall and is buried in the Nevada City Cemetery. an[...]harles Edward Miller was born September 21, 1874, in directors were Jacob Miller, Charles W. F[...]Wil- Pomeroy, Ohio. Both of his parents were born in Germany. liam Holloway. Subscribers to the[...]y Longmaid, W. L. Mary Bookman. Charles came west in 1892 followed by Holloway, Dan Boyle,[...]. Hurzeler, Charles E. Miller, Charles W. Doggett in the Helena valley and worked for a sheepma[...] |
| [...]nd was never rebuilt. Charles bought or traded many parcels of land. He bought the Robert Jones place[...]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[...]ed Charlie to his hanging. Charles Miller knew many people. Theodore Roosevelt camped on the Pintlar Creek Ranch in 1907 while Charles Russell would sit at a table a[...]ure of him on his den door. Charles was active in the Shrine in Butte, the Masonic Lodge in Wisdom and the Order of Jesters in Butte. -SUE SPARROW S[...]d Georgia Miller Dana was born January 9, 1888, in Pomeroy, Ohio, to Dana trailed cattl[...]on his feet. Those wore out so her parents' ranch in the Big Hole May 16, 1910. They had fast Da[...]They moved to Wise River in 1925 where they bought the Dana came west when[...]rs old. He joined Wise River Hotel and lived there until Dana's death on June his oldest brother C. E. Miller (Charlie) in Butte. Dana 1, 1937. Probably the Wise River flood on June 14, 1927 was worked in the mines and later freighted to Wisdom where C. one of the most noteworthy things which occured. There E. Miller had a store.[...]ew minutes getting visiting relatives Creek Ranch in the Big Hole where Dana was ranch man-[...]e all the water and destruction. Home ranches and in W1sdom. Wh[...]Tommy Flynn? He had come in during the night, gone[...]tairs and to bed without anyone knowing it. Later in the[...]OK. He chose to stay in the hotel until he had a safer[...]ranch. They lived there for two or three years as they had[...] |
| [...]nine years of her life she lived with her sister in Utah. She died at Vernal, Utah, August 31, 1955.[...]rks is also deceased. Jane Miller currently lives in Butte. Edith Thor- son lives near Corvallis, MT.[...]Bill Miller's Garage in Monida -EDITH M.[...]steamboat and from there overland by stagecoach to Deer[...]d 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 Centennial Valley as a young ma[...]ed on the William received his education in the Deer Lodge schools. north side of the Valley[...]orking 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.[...]ood 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- the north side of the yalley along[...]hey view, but they also put up hay and fed cattle in Centennial. built cabins, fenced, ditched and[...]siness College. on her. They had two girls to put in school and so moved to William and Matild[...]f property along the 1905, at Lakeview, in Madison County by Justice of the Snake River and[...]years he hauled gravel with teams and wagons for many of some land from Bert Paul in Monida. He built a garage the early buildings in Idaho Falls. He started what is now facing the Butte-Salt Lake Highway. one of the largest industries in town, Monroe Gravel and Concrete. The farm had pr[...]to them. They loved to garden, so started a place there to raise all kinds of berries and fruits and many kinds of nuts. Hart and Edith both lived to withi[...]f William B. and Corne- lia Hart Miller, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, October 12, 1870. Whe[...] |
| William owned one of, or maybe the first automobile in their own. They lived awhile in Pueblo, Colorado, and then the valley, a 1909 Ram[...]sport hunt- Murray, Utah, where Charles worked in a smelter. He went ers to his brother's camp. He[...]n, Florence, Ethel, Ted at the 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 Monida by train in the ated the Monida Mere where you could buy anyt[...]mmit went to the Summit Hotel and stayed in a cabin at the back Hotel and Saloon. William Mil[...]On April 14, 1913, my brother Doyle drowned in the creek made it from scrap iron at the blacksmi[...]th. He passed away April 6, 1954. He was preceded in death by his wife Matilda in May 1949, and son Ted in November, 1948. William had four sisters and f[...]Lodge. Flora Montana married Sam Clark and lived in the valley and later in Idaho Falls. Richie was killed in an explosion while playing at a deserted powder dump in Deer 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 Paul in Monida. -ETHEL MILL[...]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 getting married, they[...]Doyle is buried in the Jones Cemetery. Margaret was born in 1914, in December, and I remember[...]Bobie was born in Dillon and I was born in Joliet, Illinois, in[...]It was in 1916 or 17 when my parents filed on the home-[...]house that are on the land today. We lived in the little house[...]mery cellar and well. For many years my mother would not eat[...] |
| eggs, she said she ate so many during those early years at the remember. Dad b[...]Going to Monida in the wintertime in a sled with fur robes In the fall we often had the ranchers from the Valle[...]30s. Lin- they could be ready to load by 8 a.m. in Monida. coln and Ted had the clas[...]the Valley every summer They also played in a band along with George North and to sell handm[...]who I heard a radio for the first time in the back room of the came every summer for 15 or[...]of their camps Monida Mercantile sometime in the 20s. We saw the Chau- was on Price Creek. tauqua in Lima. Dad bought our first car, a 1923 or 24 C[...]Several of the Jones Brothers went by nicknames. There car. He came home from Dillon about midnight, we[...]of Jeff and Charlie. Petrified out of bed and sat in the car in our nightclothes. Jones and his wi[...]e quart and a nickel for the pint. We didn't find many but they made it worthwile to keep our eyes open.[...]s he pulled the gun through the fence. born in the north of Ireland in 1862, the fourth of seven Bobie raced toward the[...]ldren of George and Margaret (Gibson) Montgomery. in a badger hole and she was thrown. Someone driving[...]They came to American from 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[...]the ranch 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 Hole during the summer. There was not a fence anywhere in continue ranching. We stayed at the ranch for two[...]s School. We rode our horses, Tom- steads in about the middle of the valley. They hired men to[...]at the time) adding these to theirs, and in this way increasing the size of .1nd Bobie and I.[...]when the weather got bad 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 he established school was conducted there. That proved to be a terrible a brick ki[...]used in the construction of the Wisdom School. His oldest[...]her lived. For the next eight years teach in the Briston School District near William and Jame[...]Montgomery's ranch. 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. She would spend[...]a month staying with each family in the school district. These are just some of the happenings or people that[...] |
| [...]. They lived at one of Butte. Lucy was born in 1892 in Fish Creek, Montana, the the Montgomery ranches[...]ams Morris. Lucy's fa- (owned by Dick Hirschy). There were seven children born to ther Mathew was killed in a run-away team accident. She William and Cecilia Montgomery. They were (in order of had five sisters, Fanny, Mary,[...]eight wagon requiring fore moving to Dillon in 1915. She was working at the old about three da[...]y. Sugar Bowl Cafe in Dillon when she met Dan. William was a most[...]cher and stockman, Dan became Sheriff in 1920 upon the death of Sheriff accumulating more than 11,000 acres in five ranches, which Wyman who was shot by a[...]maintained a large herd of stock cattle out there. Sheriff Dan Mooney called for a posse, selected[...]ead of feeder steers crew and swore them in as deputies. He then commandeered each fall whi[...]e the train's helper engine. which was kept in the roundhouse ready for market by late winter or spring and were trailed in Dillon, and with one coach loaded with men, headed for out in several herds as they became ready. Each drive of Monida. There they cornered Yeik in a barn, captured him cattle would take about fi[...]and returned to Dillon. A gallows was built in the Court Armstead or Redrock, shipping point to the midwest or west House yard and Yeik was hanged there. Thereafter Dan was coast markets. Many of his trainloads of steers fed on Big elec[...]well with corn-fed cattle sold at that time there were living quarters for the Sheriff in the midwestern markets. The Montgomery brands,[...]Cotmty Court House and the family lived there during were recorded in 1886. William was instrumental in starting Dan's tenure in office. the telephone system in the valley. James was killed in a Upon leaving the Sheriffs office in 1928, the 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 ran several bands of sheep in the Sheep Creek to 1920 seemed one of the more difficult. In July 1917 Fran- area. In 1940 they moved to Butte where Dan served with[...]octor came to the ranch from Ana- conda but not in time to save her. She died of a ruptured append[...]rances' death. About this time Anna was injured in a fall that caused a curvature of the spine, which was to result in her death within a few years. The winter of 191[...]Mooney, came to Beaverhead County with his family in 1893. He attended Beaverhead County schools and g[...]ana's first college at Deer Lodge. He homesteaded in Ryan's Canyon in 1912. In 1914 he began his law enforcement career as Deput[...]County. Dan Mooney and Lucy Morris were married in 1917 in Dan and Lucy[...] |
| [...]World War II. homesteaded in Ryan's Canyon where they ranched until They returned to Dillon in 1945. Dan was then appointed Edward retired in 1916. At that time the ranching operation Chief o[...]of the Beaverhead River Motor Co. until his death in 1962. fishing. Cathe[...]until her Edward's brother Daniel resided in Dillon from 1893 until death in 1983. his death in 1937. He had extensive real estate holdings in Dan and Lucy had four children. Three sons, Francis D., Beaverhead 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 Elizabeth married W. F. Henne[...]in the Henneberry Gulch area. They had three sons, A[...]brose, Victer Lee, and Daniel. She resided in Dillon until her death in 1968. Nellie moved to California where she spent[...]her adult life and died there.[...]Claire Edward Mooney was born August 17, 1855 in County Mayo, Ireland. He married Catherine Doherty in 1882. Moore Catherine was also born in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1852. Charles Franklin Moore was born in Aurora, Nebraska, In 1883 Edward, his bride Catherine, and his brother[...]s six years old immigrated to Canada. They stayed in Canada only a short and his father remarri[...]t age 14 he left Nebraska and headed west, riding in dren: Mary Elizabeth, born while they were in Canada in rodeos, helping with cattle drives and doing whatever he 1883; Edward, who died as an infant, born in Pennsylvania; could to make his wa.y to Idaho to live with his younger Daniel, born in 1889 also in Pennsylvania; Ellen who also brother Jim. Still with wandering blood in his veins hear- died in infancy; and Nellie. The family came to Beaverhead rived in Dillon, Montana in 1913. He got a job with the P County in 1893 where Edward worked as section foreman[...]e P and O drove their Upon leaving the railroad in 1902, Edward and Catherine livestock to the[...]parents were homesteaders in the Centennial and her moth-[...]Reta Claire was born in Dillon, February 6, 1892, the only[...]Elizabeth Brundage. The Brundages arrived in the Mon- tana Territory in 1863 and the Boatmans in 1864. Reta attended schools in the Centennial and Dillon, including the[...]Montana Normal College. She later taught in the Doyle School in the Centennial.[...]Frank and Reta were married in Dillon, Sept. 1, 1915 and[...] |
| [...]approximately 600 a team and wagon. They arrived in October of 1927. head of cattle at o[...]Laura Isabelle; George then home again in the winters. Frank always had hogs in Boatman; Robert Gene; Betty Jean; John William; E[...]Louise; Reta Claire and Paul Hubert. Betty in the fall. and Bob and Everett and Etta were twins[...]help of her children, to haul them to market. There were no trucks on the place always raised a large[...]y until Elwood bought a used Chevy pickup in the early 1930s. patch. She sold the vegetables a[...]grown and she moved to Sheridan to make her home in with iron wheels. 1946. Reta passed away[...]Addie May Goff was born in El Dorado, Kansas, and at Frank Terril Morriso[...]the Iowa country. Her father, Charles, was a car- in the Dillon area.[...]worker. She Iowa, on May 9, 1872. Addie was born in Kansas on January always cooked for men other than her family. Through the 1, 1878. They married in Batavia, Iowa, on January 30, 1894. summer months and harvest time there were many more for Frank's father, Izac Allen Morrison, bro[...]rhead Ladies Club from 1912 1887. Izac spent time in Beaverhead County before and until her[...]mes Murray, as he was fully, often for as many as 60 to 80 people. In the days before related to Mrs. Adele Murray thro[...]nk apparently worked at the ranch during his stay there. He spent several years in ranching and other pursuits and then returned to Iowa. After marrying Addie May Goff, he was engaged in var- ious work in Batavia where three of their children, Elwood, Be[...]again to Batavia, Iowa about 1906 and were living there when a fourth child, James, was born. They return[...]a and their fifth child, Rob- ert Allen, was born in the log cabin home near the Murray Mansion on October 24, 1910. It was here that Addie told of how she would watch the Indians riding past her house[...]f stock and personal illnesses and Frank ended up in the Butte Murray Hospital for three months[...] |
| [...]person, was the caller for the square dances held in the granaries. After the grain was sold or fed ou[...]came from all around and brought their children. There were piles of sacked grain, stacked around the wa[...]Frank Terril passed away on a Wednesday morning in the Butte hospital on January 28, 1931. He was a[...]and an operation was performed the evening before in the hope of relieving a pressure on the brain cau[...]Justin E. Morse was held in high esteem.[...]In 1900, J.E. sold the Dillon Implement Company to W[...]by buying all 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[...]sed the Montana ranchers with large land holdings in the area. He water to irrigate his land as needed in the summer. He was a staunch Republican and serve[...]tana State running cattle and sheep in the Sweetwater Creek area east Board of Education[...]resident of Montana Woolgrowers As- In 1908, Morse incorporated all of his holdings into[...]on, Mayor of Dillon, and played an important role in Beaverhead Ranch Company and sold the corpo[...]es Justin E. Morse was born December 12, 1856, in Davis Sheep Company with Hans Andersen in the Bannack area. Junction, Illinois, the sixth c[...]Russel Morse and He was a partner of Al Noyes in the Ajax Ranch located in his wife, Almira Melinda (Lowell) Morse. Justin E. Morse, the Big Hole Basin. He sold his interest in the Ames Sheep known as J.E., attended high schoo[...]ht school and entered the fire insurance business in 1912. Rockford, Illinois. In 1877, J.E. traveled to Salt Lake City to In 1913, J.E. bought the Steve Cook holdings on Sage join his uncle, John W. Lowell, in the implement business. Creek near Dell an[...]d to another all the way north from Corrine, in Beaverhead County with herds of sheep totaling 16[...]ed J.E. Morse married Florence Thorpe in 1886. She was the on railroad flat cars and trans[...]e. They had three children. His son, Howard E. In October, 1880, when J.E.'s store buildings were moved Morse, married Hazel Maurer and lived in Dillon, joining to Dillon, his first night in Dillon was in a rough lumber his father in ranching. Daughters Blanche Morse married shack w[...]radiologist Dr. Hollis E. Potter and resided in Chicago, and this shack to roll out his bed and s[...]lived ing the night it started snowing. Snow came in under the in Dillon. edges of the board walls, so J.E. pulled[...]married New England widow Ida Merrill in 1917. On Octo- In 1885, J.E. Morse became the sole owner of the Dil[...]15, 1928, J.E. Morse became ill and died suddenly in Implement Company, located on Main Street next to the Dillon. Surviving are grandchildren Howard M. Morse,·san railro[...] |
| [...]ranching. F.A. died in November, 1923. Oscar E. Morse Tullia lived in Dewey, and after the war lived at Quartz Oscar E. Morse was born in 1852 in Brookfield, Vermont. Hill in the summer and Butte in the winter with her unmar- His parents were Elija[...]ried son Wesley (Whitey). She passed away in June, 1953, (Lowell) Morse, who moved to Davis Junction, Ill., in 1853. and is buried in the Melrose Cemetery alongside her hus- Oscar E.[...]d, was born As a young man, O.E. Morse settled in Dillon, shortly prior to 1900[...]e 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. Morse. O.E. Morse died in 1899. His daughter, Nellie Morse,[...]rried Alfred Waldorf. Two grandsons of O.E. Morse are Morse Waldorf, born in 1905, and Lansing Waldorf, born[...]sisters and parents stayed in England. Jennings Moseley[...], 1859, at Saint Clair, Mis- hotel in Grant. She was a native of Luxembourg, Germany, s[...]merica as a Athens, Illinois. Mr. Moseley engaged in mining and young woman and living in Minnesota before coming to freighting ore out of[...]sband Fred worked their homestead for berg family in Glendale. They were married March 26, 1896,[...]'s daughter, Della (Girlie) by a former and lived in Glendale.[...]Bill), Tullia's mother, Mary Ann Jennings, died in the fall of who homesteaded nea[...]eys moved to the Ajax rie in 1945 and moved to California where Fred later die[...]hen they moved to Mary died in California in July 1949 and her body was Melrose and he hauled ore from Rochester to Melrose. In brought back to Dillon for bu[...]working his homestead, worked on moved to Dewey. There he ranched, mostly raising horses,[...]also worked in the Butte mines. Bill and Girlie divorced and In 1914 he quit freighting and bought ranchland near[...]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[...].~-::.:--- reside in Northfield, Minnesota .[...]senator representing Beaverhead County in the Montana Legislature, and one in whom the best interests of the state[...] |
| [...]d was closely identified with the affairs of ty in the State Senate. He was Chairman of the Committe[...]ent and influential four other committees. In politics, Mr. Murray never deviat- citizen places[...]active worker in the cause and a prominent factor in the Mr. Murray was a native of Ohio, having been born on a party councils. paternal farmstead in Ashland County on August 8, 1849. Jam[...]was due to a (Nazor) Murray. Hugh Murray was born in Ashland County general breakdown as he had been ailing for a number of in 1816, the son of Patrick Murray, one of the pione[...]ars. He left surviving his wife, one brother Elza in Califor- tlers of Ashland County, Ohio. Patrick M[...]nia, and one sister, Mrs. Balkley, who was living in Nevada. and reared in Ireland and emigrated to this country in 1808, The funeral was to be conducted the following Sunday or where he did valiant service as a soldier in the War of 1812. Monday by the Masonic Frater[...]. was a member. There are now no known survivors. Hugh Murray married El[...]MEINE sylvania and descendant of German ancestry, in Ohio about the year 1840. Mr. Murray died in 1850 at the age of 34, Taken from "Progr[...]d times and lived to be 71 years of age. She died in June of 1892.[...]Fred Myers James P. Murray began early to aid in the farm work and (From the Big Hole Basin[...]cure such educational advantages as were afforded in the The community was shocked last week by the announce- schools in the vicinity of his home. At the age of 11 he was[...], 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 quarrel with the[...]ine prescribed. During the day that he died he In 1875, Mr. Murray came to Montana and settled at[...]yard,unconscious of his real condition. Bannack. There he formed a partnership with Isaac Portras, Fred was born in Germany, February 4, 1849, thus being with whom he was engaged in the wagon-making business 70 years ol[...]month, when he and blacksmithing for four years. In 1879, he was elected attended a meeting of the Masonic Lodge in Wisdom, taking Sheriff of Beaverhead County and s[...]during the cold that night which resulted in his death. which time the County Seat was still located at Bannack. He came to Montana in 1871 and met Christian Wilke, His term of office[...]n and he was reputed as being absolutely fearless in handling were partners in business affairs, with a brotherly love each the[...]ave developed on The two prospected in Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, and in him. James Murray was always considered to have been one Virginia City, Montana, in 1876. In 1877 they tried their of the best sheriffs the county ever had. luck in this vicinity and owned an interest in the Marten During his tenure as.sheriff, Mr. M[...]st of Wisdom, which would be a wealth-producer ed in ranching and, in 1881, took up residence on a ranch he today if we had railway facilities. In 1881 they settled on the purchased five miles nor[...]ell Bond, daughter of Benjamin have been in the recent trouble with a gun on his shoulder- an[...]Their home was a center if not with sword in hand, leading his men to victory. Quiet of gracio[...]to his country or his fellowman, he held a place in the born to the couple.[...]community heart of which any man night well be In the November, 1900, election, James Murray[...] |
| [...]. 61 A.F. & A.M., of which he was an home in Sheridan, MT, near their daughter. On January 6,[...]nd the re- 1940, John passed away suddenly in his home at the age of mains were interred in Wisdom Cemetery, the beautiful 75. He was buried in the Dillon Cemetery, and Mary stayed Masonic ritu[...]served. on to live in Sheridan.[...]a book club. She was also active in the Episcopal Church.[...]trass and son-in-law's ranch, in a cabin built just for her. At the John William Nattrass was born April 9, 1864 in Bow- age of 94, she broke her hip, but was[...], he married Mary Anna Coffin, born ceding her in death. Mary passed away December 1, 1959, at November 22, 1864, in Mankato, Minn. They were wed at the age of 95. the home of the bride in Minneapolis, Minn., by the bride's[...]nion. Margaret Caro- line was born April 10, 1898 in St. Paul, Minn. Miriam[...]milies Isabelle was born September 27, 1899, also in St. Paul. The Nay family consisted of: M[...]n Jackson he was employed by the Hennessy Company in Butte as an and Martin Byron. accountant, before coming to Dillon. They lived in the Dil- Martin V. Nay was born in New Hampshire in 1835. Mar- lon community for several years, and operated a ranch on garet "Maggie" Young was born in New York in 1838. They the East Bench.[...]on Nay, and brother the age of 18, and was buried in the Dillon Cemetery. Mir- William Robert Nay.[...]t several dif- remained several years, engaging in mining. While in Wis- ferent places before marrying Walter Braach in March of consion, a son, Milton Jackson, wa[...]she also taught school. to the Martin V. Nays in Oshkosh. The families departed Their five childre[...]y Wisconsin, bound for California, sometime in 1861 or 1862. Jo, Caroline, and Walter William.[...]They arrived at Fremont Springs, Nebraska, in the late In about 1934, John and Mary left Dillon to make the[...]California destination in favor of Bannack after hearing of[...]the gold strikes in western Montana. The Nay families ar- rived in Bannack, via the Old Bozeman Trail, in Conestoga wagons in September 1863. Byron has said they arrived in[...]The adult members of these families engaged in mining[...]tional children born in Bannack. The young men of the[...]rather than mining and were employed by many of the[...]the opportunity in 1909 or 1910 to purchase the Plymouth[...]wished to return to Boston. The brothers ranched there until the sale of that ranch, in part, to Mrs. Thomas Pierce[...]in 1918. ,The brothers ranched there until the death of Mil- ton in 1936. Byron and son Frank operated this ranch unt[...]in 1950.[...]in Bannack in November 1879 and ranched for a time with[...]the older brothers. Ross later ranched in the Bannack area[...] |
| [...]ch he used to set up a local delivery passed away in 1957. ser[...]otels, etc. Delivering trunks for students (girls in George and Mary Laknar[...]ouse) born April 25, 1892. George Naysich arrived in the United located in the 200 block of North Idaho Street from Ben Stat[...]irst floor. moved to Butte, where he was employed in the mines. George and Mary lived in one of the apartments and rented George received[...]s of North Carolina. 1912. He married Mary Laknar in Butte at Sacred Heart The last tenant in the apartment was Robert Quick, a bach- Church in July, 1914, and moved to Dillon that August. elor. In October 1919 they bought a house at 306 N. Wash-[...]it until two years later. Robert Quick moved in with them and lived there until leaving town.[...]John T. Neal was born Aug. 4, 1873, in Clifton City, Mo.[...]road as head conductor on the dining car in St. Louis, Mo.[...]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[...]are Store is now located. Eliel's sold everything in[...]to keep his pants from getting caught in the chain.[...]hn helped build his home at 127 N. Pacific Street in[...]north of Dillon. Later they moved to Dillon In 1919 the drought hit. This caused John to[...] |
| [...]ity of an irrigation project. Centennial Valley in 1894 as a girl of 14 with her family. She Mo[...]nce this by local business men, was married in 1899 to Frederick Issac Hanson. To this along w[...]ighbor. John Neal had a dream to build a dam in the Beaverhead John was a native of France[...]more bands most of the time. In 1961 the initial work on the $22,000,000 East Bench In 1944 they sold the ranch to Bill and Eileen Jones and Unit was begun in the fall with many of the original Neal moved to Dillon to li[...]hts on the original plans had been given home in Whitehall. to John. He turned them over to the[...]John married Myrtle K. Minter Aug. 29, 1919, in Dillon. John Shaw Neidt They h[...]John served as city alderman and was an elder in the Jacob Neidt and Susanna Catherine Wetzel. Mother was Methodist church for many years. He owned quite a bit of born August 25, 1872, in Muncie, Ind., daughter of John real estate arou[...]e 95 years old, Shaw and Eliza Cook. died in 1965, and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery. His Dad first came to Montana in 1889 with Mother'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.[...]Truro. Joe went on to settle in the Big Hole (at Briston on[...]880 at Hayesville, Iowa the scarlet fever in Big Hole in July of 1901. My brother Jake[...] |
| was born July 23, 1905, and died in February 1981. I was that Dad bought about 1917. Dad didn't know how to drive born February 10, 1908; my sister Rose[...]ired Clarence Helming and we all went to the fair in 1912, and our youngest sister, Ruby Grace, on Se[...]held on January 10, 1890. John D. Fox 1960. They are buried with Jake and "Little Joe" in the was elected chairman of the meeting,[...]to Big Hole from Alamosa, Colo., ranch in the NE corner SE¼ Section 20. Trustees elected at in 1900. They first leased a place from Charley Fran[...]B.F. Hanby, John Wenger and James D. Wisdom then, in 1902, bought a place from John Olsenberg[...]Miss Minnie on Swamp Creek northwest of Jackson. In 1913 they bought Reiferwrath was engaged[...]me When I started school it was held in a log cabin on Little through the valley in the spring and often set up camp Lake[...]k gathering dry willows for finished school there at West Fox. firewood. Soon there would be a fire in front of every teepee.[...]lie N eimeier I was close to the last gunfight in Jackson when I was The Neimeiers homesteaded the land that is still in the about seven years old. I was waiting by the saloon door while family, on January 15, 1920. Dad went in for a drink. Suddenly I heard the biggest pop-[...]she had, fishing and hunting for a little variety in their Nobody got shot but I'll sure never forget[...]ns 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 y[...]either end with a drawstring. We left home early in the Children Olga, Joe and Arthur went to school in the Cen- morning and got to the foot of the hill[...]were born later, after they had were having lunch there on the creek when we stopped. moved b[...]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 an[...]ing we got as far as the Ten Mile. At Badger Pass there were about twenty men working with picks and shov[...]road a little easier. We left the Ten Mile early in the morning, went on into Dillon, loaded up and w[...]s about 10. Someone drove it up through the field in the fall of the year. The next car I saw w[...] |
| cult time getting through the fourth grade because, in the aid R. Nelson. winter, schools would be closed in the Centennial while he Skinny's children remembered his stage-driving days by was there, and in the summer they would be closed in the his sitting on the stage during winter days in a huge coyote- Riverdale area in Idaho while he was there. Art worked very skin coat. These days were terminated, however, by the age hard with his mother in Montana. Much of the time Martin of the au[...]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 almost spent the rest of his working life for Dillon. With his dedica- everyone in the Centennial, they milked cows, separated[...]a well-respected lawman known cream, and sold it in Lakeview. This could not have been for com[...]Usually dressed in a dark business suit, Skinny's tall angu-[...]IER lar figure was a familiar sight in downtown Dillon. A power-[...]Skinny retired in 1946 spending enjoyable years with his[...]ar "Skinny" Nelson, stagecoach driver and in 1948 following a heart attack. His wife Nellie fo[...]ad County lawman, came to Dillon as a him in death in 1953. small boy. He was born October 22, 1874 in Harrison Coun-[...]John and Marie Nelson of Dillon in 1879. His mother, Betty Thompson, died in 1883 John Nels Nelson immigrated to Ellis[...]eir father who then from Svealand, Sweden, in1906 at the age of 27. Crossing settled in the new town of Dillon.[...]eterson, Skinny first started working as a boy in Dillon's livery he, along with Charley Olsen[...]m Dillon through the Ten-mile Station to Bannack. In Cattle Company. 1901 he married Nellie Grant (Dolly) Retallack in Bannack. At that time all the ranchers bought steers from outside The couple then built their home in Dillon on what is now the valley, trailing[...]ts. They through the winter and selling them in the spring. The Big had four children, Ric[...] |
| [...]iled cattle from Idaho over the Gold- stone Trail in the fall. This particular group trailed the cattle late in the fall without any open water. They came to a l[...]Parley Nelson in 1911 at the age of 21, coming to Dillon, Medicine[...]ark. John and Marie were married October, 1912, in Dillon and came to the Big Hole to the home calle[...]ld. Later they moved to the Dan Tovey Sr. Ranch in the These men were successful busi[...]tended West Fox and ed, holding offices in the community. Nephi and Parley Briston schools.[...]the original groups Harold married Mae Jackson in June, 1935, in the Lima of men who started the Black an[...]s of Wisdom. caught in the Centennial Valley. He told about one stream Marie was considered one of the many fabulous cooks of going into the Pacific[...]tlantic the valley. Her rye bread and light white are still spoken of Ocean. with mouth-watering ent[...]hen we drive on the Lakeview Road, past Hell cook in sheep camps for the Danes where she worked upon[...]agine what arriving from Denmark. Her job at home in Denmark was life was like in the Centennial around 1919. milking 16 cows, thre[...](Son of Nephi) John Nelson passed away in October, 1935, at the age of 57, and Marie in July, 1966, at age 76. Son Harold expired in June, 1979, at age 64.[...]father, Niels Nielsen, came to the United States in[...]es. To avoid the snakes he learned to ride one In 1919, Nephi and Parley Nelson, brothers from Rich[...]d, Roe Harris of Richmond, Utah purchased a ranch in Mr. Malden prevailed upon the young Dane to take out the Centennial Valley. They bought cattle in the spring and citizenship papers and introduced him to the judge as Nels sold them in the fall. They also put up meadow hay on this[...]it was across Having been a city boy in Denmark he decided to seek the gravel road but perhaps took in both sides. Parley was employment nearer th[...]wn of Dillon. He on the ranch overseeing the work in June of 1922 when he found work at the "R[...]between the Butte and Twin Bridges roads. There he met a with the help of others, took him to the train in Monida. The jolly, brown-eyed lass, two years his junior, from Missouri. train took him to a hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, where He later[...] |
| [...]land County, to James and Emily In 1910, he moved our house east and south to the la[...]lights. Later he put on carbide lights. In 1916, he bought a child. Soon they returned to Mi[...]-OAKEL NELSON were married June 4, 1897 in the home of banker Alvin L. Stone, better known a[...]en Peter Nelson was born to Nels and Alice Nelson in On March 15, 1899, I was born (their only chil[...]s, and two younger sisters. Nels came to the U.S. in 1885 living in a hand-hewn squared log house on the George R. and homesteaded in the Big Hole about 17 miles south of Featherly fa[...]of Dillon on the Wisdom. Soren left home in Denmark in 1889 to come to the Twin Bridges road.[...]U.S. at the age of seventeen. He had to stop in Ohio to find For years I was called "Babe" or[...]ithout any breakfast be- mother Pearce visited us in 1903. One day she say, "Idie, cause he[...]was 21 he was waiting at the court house in Dillon to file on the one she needed. Grandmother[...]but if that was what her Mother stayed in Denmark. wanted, that it would be. Mother said "I[...]le more prosperous it's mine. I later put the "e" in front of the "l" to keep people then, he bought[...]rie and bought a ranch there. In the early teens, another Nels Nelson came to Dill[...]ter on September 24, 1902 a daughter, Estella, In 1899, Dad bought a 153 acre farm (later he added[...]right-of- steads several miles south of there. They moved to the new way. Originally, the land was acquired in 1881 by Benjamin ranch and into a new ho[...]another daughter, Isabel, was born in Bannack. The other The West Bench land had to flood irrigate but there was children were all born on their ranc[...]ch. Another to school for two years in Dillon. They went the last two ditch was created to carry water from below Birch Creek years in Jackson and then moved to Missoula so Estella can[...]could go to high school. Isabel started in the first grade With the land father acquired a 21 foot well with a wind- there. mill, four dirt-roofed log houses, including the[...]a log chicken house and one around In 1918 Soren bought a neighboring ranch from[...] |
| [...]Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Niblack came to Dillon in 1910 married on September 6, 1922.[...]arroll McCracken's family of whom on a tripod out in a corral cooling out, when a band of T.[...]ped and asked if children. they could camp there for the night. About dark Soren The[...]othing store cater- suggested they bring the meat in rather than leave it hang ing to ladies' an[...]tore is now. The store was it hadn't been brought in. later expa[...]r Edvard Buvarp on November 26, 1860. He was born in Buvarps Traundum, Norway in the vicinity of Stenjar, Norway. He emigrated to the United States as a young man spending some time in the Chicago area. In March of 1881, he arrived in Dillon and shortly thereafter went to Butte where[...]cessful clothing operation over the years and was in The first evidence of name change is in an Affidavit of need of more help, so in 1920 he contacted T. Lee Intent of Citizenship in June of 1883. Theodor became a McCracken, who was working in a shoe store in Seattle after United States citizen in June of 1891. his discharge from the Navy in 1919. T. Lee came to Dillon He was always active in community projects and progres- to work for his Uncle Charlie in 1920. He worked for Nib- sion of the times. Active in the building of the Farmers lack's for two years and left them in 1922 to open his own Telephone line north of Dill[...]st Side Telephone Company. Theodor was interested in the building of the Lima Reser- vior and was a partner with several individuals in mining claims in the Argenta area. He served as a county commis- sioner from 1913 to 1920. He was active in Democratic cir- cles and served a number of years[...]The vows were solomnized by Rev. E.G. Cattermole in the Guidici home north of Dillon. They mad[...] |
| [...]Lancaster County, Virginia to Kentucky in 1804. Both sides Billings. After the sale, the Ni[...]e Revolutionary War. tained and were instrumental in forming the Montana Club Mr. Norris received his early education in the public which is a group of ex-Montanans who have situated in schools of Kentucky. He graduated from[...]fornia. They were very active until their passing in the Normal School at Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1886. He late Forties.[...]law during his leisure time and in the evenings. He arrived in Dillon, Montana in December, 1888 where[...]Governor R. B. Smith. He was admitted to the bar in Mon- Nis Madsen Nissen was born at Marstal on the small tana in October, 1889 and opened a law office in Dillon. He island of Aero, Denmark, on February 8[...]became one of the leading members of the bar in Beaver- he came to the United States and went to[...]ttorney of Dillon, was a ing on farms and finally in 1916 moved to Beaverhead Coun- member of th[...]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- local board of[...]State Normal Col- rally with the war with Germany in full swing, he trained as lege in Dillon. an infantryman. As his unit was preparing[...]to He was elected to the State Senate in 1896, representing Europe, the war ended, and he[...]ears of his term to Beaverhead County and engaged in ranching for himself. in the Senate as President pro tern and was acting g[...]w miles apart on Aero, but had never In 1904, Norris was selected as a running mate on the known each other in Denmark. This is remarkable since Demo[...]- Aero is only 15 miles long and 7 ½ miles wide. In 1923 the ed by a good majority. In 1908, just before the expiration of young couple[...]3 of the Danish Brotherhood, Dil- practice in Dillon. For a number of years he was associated l[...]about 9 a.m. he was out feeding cattle came in contact with him. He was well known for his abili[...]highest character. Truly he was a gentleman in every walk of hurt, lying where he had been throw[...]ways ready and willing to do his full duty. In every public where he died about 11 a.m. without[...]the public Nis was widely known and respected in the Dillon area interest and withal he wa[...]is citizens are greatly in his debt." Edwin L. Norris was born in Cumberland County, Ken- Mr.[...] |
| [...]oor and roof, and started life together at Wisdom in brought back to Great Falls. Beaverhead County. Later in 1882, they took up land for a Mr. Norris married Betty Wilkins, who was born in Bowl- ranch and began the business of rai[...]ing Green, Kentucky, on April 19, 1892. She lived in Great three children born in Butte: Mary Edna on February 7, Falls for a numbe[...]A. Kentucky, where she passed away. She is buried in Great on August 1, 1886, and Pauline Edith, born in Dillon on Falls.[...]operty, some with J.E. Alva J . Noyes was born in St. Anthony, Minnesota on Morse as a pa[...]appeared to be promising but Massachusetts Colony in 1634. Al Noyes was of the Nicholas because[...]ugged terrain from the mine to Divide, where born in Machias, Maine in 1830. George and his wife, Amy the ore w[...]ss. A mill Stanchfield of that town, were married in 1854. at the mine did not prove profitable and in the end cost the In 1861, George traveled west to Idaho where he was a 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 sell stock in the mine. settled in Bannack. In 1866 Al, his mother and younger They t[...]o more years to cows-to Bannack. The family lived in Bannack until 1868 make the mine pay and in May 1907, he sold the rest of their when they mov[...]property. That was the end of 25 years in the Big Hole. The during the winter of 1866 and a[...]y A. Stanchfield. Mary and her son, In 1909, Al worked for the Montana Department of Cha[...]. While traveling the state, he became interested in ri River. In March 1869, Amy died. She was buried in Silver homesteading and settled north of Ha[...]chfield 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. In looked over this area. The Great Nor[...]Utah where he joined his States to settle in this region. Later that year, Al, Hattie, uncles[...]every day of the 40 days of their trip. there followed some good years and bad dry years. When When Al was in Minnesota, his father remarried. The 1[...]p still trying to be successful dry land farmers. In this marriage resulted in three more children, G.W., Laura, 1917, Al[...]e others moved to the West Coast. Al worked at many jobs during the next ten years, mostly Al Noyes was the author of two books of Montana history; in the vicinity of Butte and Silver Star. He prospec[...]irst autobiography pub- worked with stock, worked in a brickyard, made soda pop, lished in the state, and In the Land of Chinook, or The Story milked cows, ta[...]-CARL NOYES In 1878, C. M. Buck, contractor and builder, moved his family from Iowa to Butte. There were several children, Rosa Belle Bean Noyes including one girl, name of Hattie, age 13. In 1881, Al started keeping company with Hattie. Thi[...]ther talked of moving to Henrietta Bean in Livingston, Montana. California. The young people[...]y Rosie, as she was called, was born in Livingston instead of soon and with a Justice of[...]he Valley because a family reunion was being held there. ness, they married April 6, 1882. That evening M[...]also the persuaded Hattie to come home with him. In a few days, same day she delivered another baby girl for her daughter in before a judge in Deer Lodge, when given a choice of going t[...]me or with her husband, Hattie chose her husband. In the babies." month of June of that year, t[...]Rosie worked for Ossie Smith at the hotel in Monida as 404-Beaverhead History |
| [...]ked as a during the long, hard winters in the Centennial Valley. housekeeper for Dr. and Mrs. Best in Dillon. Rosie met James M. Nye's siste[...]husband, Julian Kent, also homesteaded in the same area as engineer for the Lima Dam. Raymo[...](1872-1965) came from New this dam were completed in 1923. York state[...]and obtained a Teacher's Certificate for a while in Dillon before moving to Big Flat, six miles west[...]ns, 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[...]was noted for her paintings and poetry as well as many crop failures forced them to give up the homestead. In 1920, styles of fancywork in the line of crocheting and needlew.9rk. they move[...]The family sold 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 same house for 64 years before moving to Bill[...]r ranching business. After a two-year period in Canada, they her family. During these 64 years, s[...]ut of Monida. They stayed Raymond was involved in the restoration of the Bear Paw on this pl[...]in Bfldges ing him for this 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 home as guests. their place in Portland after Mr. Nye's demise and returned S[...]1923. Rosie enjoyed cooking, her death in 1965. She 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 in 1970, Bur- respective descendents. Lynn Milton Nye (1898-1978)_who nell in 1983 and Roy in 1987. Rosa Belle died September 14, married[...]She was the fourth and the last living riage are the following children: Betty Nye Rasmussen child[...]died in a brush and forest fire near Dell, Montana; Lelan[...]ie Burwell Nye (1838-1894). Enoch R. Nye was born in New York State (1907) and their children are as follows: Donald C. Nye and migrated to Illinoi[...]married Alma F. Stodden (1937); Dorothy L. served in the 44th Division of the Illinois Infantry Volun- Nye (1933-1936) who died in a car wreck on Horse Prairie; teers. After the Ci[...]legraph operators. James M. Nye came to Montana in 1882 when he was 16 years old. He worked for the[...]parts of the state. Their base of operations was in the Sheridan, Montana, area. After a few years of[...]he Twin Bridges area and they took up a homestead in the Centennial Valley in 1896 and ventured into a ranching style of life.[...]now owned by the Bird Refuge. As was the custom in those days, many members of a family generally homesteaded close t[...]ly kept up the family ties but gave them security in num- bers, especially for help during hayi[...] |
| [...]ildren; Phillip Earl Nye (Short) was born there March 27, 1916. He raised grain and (1906-1975) w[...]ins were seven verhead County from Dubuque, Iowa, in 1902 with Will and years old, at which ti[...]ired Pat from Butte. These were both located in the Bond Station Rogan to work for him. As Mauric[...]wa and Even though times were difficult in Beaverhead County, cook for them. Mary E. was bor[...]Maurice persisted in trying to make ranching work on the Maurice the[...]Maurice quit ranching in 1939. He worked for Elwood[...]In 1909, William O'Connor left Perry, Missouri, with[...]move to Townsend, Montana, where John was born in 1910. In April, 1911, William O'Connor moved his family to[...]The homestead was sold to the Bird Refuge in 1933. Wil- 406-Beaverhead History |
| liam and Maud operated the Peat Hotel in Lima for a short high enough to irrigate the benchland where the hay was time. They moved to Dillon. In 1949, William and Maud grown. Fences[...]y business before long, keep- Maud passed away in the early 1950s. William passed ing some for home consumption. They had some stock cows away in the 1960s. Frank passed away in 1980. and later went in the sheep business. Leslie and Gwyneth Steve g[...]ool until a new one was built the School of Mines in Butte. He went to Chicago to work in town. Leslie attended his first year of 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[...]ke. He drove a truck for Roselle Co. for 7 years. In April, 1941, he went to work for Garrett Freightl[...]Henry E. Olsen Family In 1935, William Junior married Mary Bates from Butte, Henry Elvin Olsen was born in Denmark on December 3, Montana. They had one daug[...]on December 1, was a brick mason by trade in Denmark, and the only one of 1968.[...]the Big Hole William and wife Mary, still live in Pocatello, Idaho, after Basin in Montana, as his cousin Jasper Nelson had settled[...]there. He worked on various ranches, then purchased lan[...]children, Bessie, Eleanora and Emily were born there. Agnes McKittrick married Jacob Odenwald. One[...]d 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 Eva was three. She was[...]steers, publisher. He published the "Missoulian" 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 they would put up the wild hay in stacks bonsville, Idaho, from 1889-1893. There he published the for the winter feeding.[...]ily since he came to Amer- ished the eighth grade in Gibbonsville, her uncle taught her ica, Ida[...]visit his relatives in Denmark. They left home October 10, Robert Jon[...]ter C. was the oldest and at sank this ship in 1915) and arrived in Denmark on October 17 he left the farm to make hi[...]travelled to earn enough to get by. Walter landed in San Their arrival was an event of great importance to Henry's Francisco, but he didn't like it there; it was too cold and family. damp after living in hot, dry Iowa. He then headed north, Customs were different in Denmark, of course, some selling stereoscope view[...]r sent Ida to the store for some nia, he enrolled in college and earned a teaching certificate. He dec[...]and Eva Odenwald were married December 19, 1901, in Butte. They lived 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 Les[...] |
| bread. She was surprised to find it came in long, 10 pound During this delay, a heavy[...]ased the Blacktail Ranch, south of Dillon. sters in the streets calling their wares, especially many kinds World War I was soon declared and they ex[...]ds March 16, 1911 their four girls were baptized in the St. Paul were in school there and the teachers boarded with the Lutheran Church in Arhauss. Each child had a set of God- Ol[...]married the Olsen's cousin, Fred Nelson. Later, in 1915, Alma & Hester were baptized in the Luth- eran Church in Dillon, Montana.[...]of Henry and Ida Olsen, by leave for home. After many good-byes and lots of gift ex- Ida Olsen[...]s. Their ship was the Coronia and carried a in Vancouver, Washington with her daughter and larg[...]. They enjoyed the delicious food and the son-in-law, Hester and Clarence Crane. Ida is now varie[...]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.[...]It was written with Shakespearean flourish in 1873. That onto Ida's pocket. The trip from Dillo[...]e entry was the first recording of a cattle brand in what the six of them cost under $1,000 for transportation. In New is now the Treasure State. In 1915 the Orrs purchased the York City, they were charged extra for the heat in their Poindexter interest. hotel rooms[...]William Orr Sr. died -in 1901 and his wife Rachel Orr died In Denmark, the humidity was so great it took several in 1903. Her six sons acted as her pallbearers. They were days for clothing to dry posing problems in keeping the six Matt, Earnest, Charles, Wi[...]anch, nine miles south After they arrived home in April 1911, they resumed of Dillon on the Blacktail. John the youngest was born in ranch life with hired men to feed, cattle to ship[...]1881 the same year Dillon was incorporated. back in school and a new baby expected. On September 21, John's mother had been a teacher in the East before mar- 1911, Alma Adele was born.[...]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 Montana State Normal College. Dillon on Dakota Street, buying new furniture in Butte, John attended local schools[...]ld the story that he had ridden a horse purchased in 1914. Ida remained in Dillon- until their sixth twice and with hi[...]times". He went to the School of Mines in Butte for a short soon moved to the ranch and were very happy there. The time, then to M.I.T. This gave h[...]Home Ranch. He also built a car in the days before they At this time they had a J[...]er his last name, but he was called Tom- in the region. my Olsen. He was a good cook, clean and neat. Every after- In 1918, John married Iva Lea Benedick, a Dillon col[...]nd 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.[...]bought the "Orr Mansion" at the end of Idaho St. in In 1917, they had a very heavy crop of grain promising a Dillon from his brothers and lived there many years. bountiful harvest. Henry contracted to have the grain har- John was active in Masonic, Eastern Star, and Rainbow vested,[...] |
| [...]d interest tion from a nursing facility. She died in 1985. in livestock raising. He worked many years for Mrs. Herbert Wheat, who ran -R[...]with a sister, Marie Overgaard Hansen, in Butte, until his Chris Overgaard (Kristian death in 1964. Overgaard Kristiansen)[...]migrant 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[...]en was born June 16, 1855, at Clinton, Mo. Like many other young aliens, Chris enlisted in the Unit: His wife, Ida Belle Reed Owen, also was born in Clinton, on ed States Army when war was declared[...]1870. Mr. Owen was one of the first homesteaders in[...]Beaverhead County where he filed on a land claim in 1885 at[...]In 1894, Mr. Owen returned to Clinton and married hi[...]They returned to the Big Hole Basin and lived there until Overgaard H[...]upper Horse Prairie three years. In 1911 they moved to Dillon and bought the[...]ent with the 3rd Division to France. He took part in the battle at Chateau Thierry, America'sfoitial s[...]e scene of the decisive Franco-American offensive in 1918. His discharge papers listed him as telephon[...]returned to Beaverhead County and was naturalized in 1920. Homesteading seemed to be the natural course to take. He selected a site near timberline in the northwest corner of the county between Coyote[...]ranching families in the county. Each was a rugged individ-[...]ualist who enjoyed life in the open spaces and received[...]brated their Golden Anniversary in Dillon in 1944.[...] |
| [...]whose families knew each other when living in LaPorte. John and Mary Paddock[...]worked for a dairy while in Austin.[...]ry moved to Tongue River, Utah, and then to Butte in 1882. Before arriving in Butte, two of their seven children[...]Mary Paddock born either in Butte or in the Big Hole. Their names are:[...]ald, Alice Emily, and Ninetta Abigail. While in Butte, John[...]John and Mary arrived in the Big Hole Basin on May 17,[...]r 160-acre homestead, they started out raising In 1884 John Charles Paddock and wife Mary Francis[...]y had moved to Nevada and then to Butte, Montana, in 1882. Two years later they moved to the Big Hole[...]children, Lucetta (Lucy), and James (Jim). Later there were three more sons: John (Jack), Paul and Harve[...]uding 18-20 milk cows. One of the main sources of in- come was the sale of butter. This was made, pack[...]tep-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 Rober[...]e of 600 The four brothers all ranched for a time in the Fishtrap area acres. They continued ranchin[...]Abigail Francis Paddock died on October 18, 1909 in La- moved to Los Angeles and later to Toledo, Ohi[...]ery. John then sold his ranch and retired to died in September, 1987, at age 92.[...]r- James Paddock, Jr., was born April 18, 1806, in Onodaga chase some horses and cattle. Count[...], to James and Ann McClaughay Pad- In the fall of 1906, James and Hank Simmons bought t[...]ah Dudley Jardine had seven children and three of in LaPorte. After moving to Austin, Nevada, h[...] |
| [...]that Simmons was crooked of the state. 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. His younger James sold his[...]ecided to take this time and stay with her family in Cherry was then known as Wright Brothers. Creek[...]s was back on his feet again, he bought 580 in Whallonsburg, New York. Her father came to Montan[...]t 1876 and drove freight wagons between somewhere in Wisdom in the spring 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 eve[...]rothers and sisters. sold to Clarence Strowbridge in 1910. James and Margery Henry Paddock a[...]for the new owners. 1887 in Bannack. They went to Seattle for about a year and In the fall of 1911, they came to Fishtrap and bough[...]acres. James later bought an adjoining 160 acres in his Delia, was born on September 20, 1888. They moved to name, while Margery bought 320 acres in her name. Paradise, Montana, a mining camp near Argenta, where In the summer of 1917, James and his brother Jack Henry worked in the mines. Their second daughter, Gladys bought t[...]land of their May, was born on May 1, 1890 in Paradise. Their third maternal uncle, Fred Franci[...]ery then daughter, Elsie, was also born in Paradise on December 3, went to live on the Paddo[...]. She passed away on August 3, 1895 and is buried in the contracted for 2,180 head of sheep of a Mr. Jankins 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.[...]ied 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 February 14, 1983. (Compiled b[...]orence Ann Paddock. He was born December 15, 1865 in Prairie[...]Delia, Muriel Alice Creek, Indiana. In 1885, he came to Montana to work in his uncle's store. His uncle, Athol Wright, came[...]st pioneers Walter Henry "Smoke," was also born in Paradise on No-[...]Henry engaged in ranching. Two children, a daughter, Geor-[...]enry invested the profits from the Red Rock ranch in a Henry Paddock[...]fered a great loss in this venture so, in order to get back on[...] |
| [...]ll Brownie, Muriel Alice and Nora Dell, were born in Bannack on March 27, 1902, April 24, 1904 and Jul[...]l grew up on the Gray ranch. They attended school in Bannack and walked from the ranch to school excep[...]time as about ten extra hands were hired to work in the fields. Haying usually lasted about a month. During this time, Mary and the girls were busy in the kitchen. Each morning the hay crew was served[...]Original Pahnish Ranch near Bannack a year, in spring and fall, to purchase supplies to last for[...]le trip from Bannack took all day. They many, where he was born in 1838. He lived in various parts stayed in Dillon overnight and returned home the next day.[...], macaroni, spaghetti joined the Union Army in which he rose to the rank of and many other staples while Mary shopped for yard goods[...]ng items such as coats and shoes from In time he came to own 7,700 acres, and ran hundreds[...]on Grasshopper Creek. from Eliel Department Store in Dillon. He also took orders After his dea[...]st child, Clara, was born), the family contin- In 1913, Henry bought his first automobile so travel[...]nd faster. He brought three of Pahnish. He in turn died in 1904. Mrs. Fredrick 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 Norma[...]Fredrick Pahnish also played his part in developing the Henry spent the rest of his lif[...]ng for gold, the exception of a few winter months in California. He died he, in partnership with a man by the name of Michael Ste[...]chased a cabin at Elkhorn Hot Springs and enjoyed many summers there. Several of her grandchildren were always eager to spend the summer months with her. She passed away in Dillon on November 26, 1946.[...]Fredrick and Pauline Pahnish In the territorial days, the town of Bannack in Beaver- head County and the surrounding area began booming with activity. The gold miners were coming in and pioneers were laying the groundwork for some[...]population growth and developments were rap- id. In those days Fredrick William Pahnish, a Civil War veteran, built up a cattle ranch whichremained in the family for 82 years. His wife was the[...] |
| [...]Carl William Parish, the second 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, 1882, his wif[...]der brother, he lived with various fam- ley, died in 1951, William died in 1953. Emma 0., born ilies, such as the[...]16 to Andrew ally with the Gus Schroeders in Dillon, where he attended B. Pyle. They had two girls. Emma died in 1962, and Andy high school. He returned to the Centennial Valley where he died in 1960. Adolph was born December 1, 1884 and died in worked on various ranches, including the B[...]19, he married the Upper Red Rock Lake. In 1940 he met and married Fannie L. Knoll. They bec[...]e 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, 19[...]h and lived around the Los Angeles area. She died in Jim B. Parish 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, Cali- one was not born on the ranch nea[...]fornia. The daughter, Florence, was born in 1917 in Salt Adolph who was born in Michigan City, Indiana. They all Lake C[...]ventually 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 sold in 1952. From this marriage there is one child, a Karen Marie Gillett -ADELE SA WYER born in 1931.[...]Timothy and Jane Carl Hiram Parish was born in Illinois in 1879 and was Parkinson married to Karen Marie Odd Gard, who was born in Thisted, Timothy Fielding Parkinson, J[...]ark on Oct. 21, 1895. .Mrs. Parish still survives in 1837, at Tottington, England, the younge[...]n Fielding. His family joined the Mr. Parish died in 1924. 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, Utah. Timothy, with his mail run from Spencer, Idaho to Kilgore, Idaho in 1914 with father, his brother-in-law, and his son were in a partnership a dog team. At that time, they lived in Spencer, Idaho. The in Parkinson & Sons Freighting Business. family move[...]loaded with supplies, stopping first at Fort Hall in Idaho, ry's Lake to McAllister, Montana. The fami[...]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 1873. lived on the Neoman or Nelson place in the upper end of the valley. There they ran the outfit for Jimmy Doyle's brother. Th[...]ily moved to the Green Meadow Ranch on Tom Creek. In 1924 Mr. Parish passed away at the hotel in Monida and was buried in Salt Lake City, Utah. After Mr. Parish's demise,[...]n of this family follow. Frank Parish was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1914 and when his mother sold the place in the Centennial Val- ley, he stayed on in the valley with various families. He later became involved in various adverse adventures which re- sulted in his being secluded from the public for a p[...] |
| Tim had a favorite saloon he liked to patronize in Dillon. goat and locked it in his corral, where it remained overnight He made many a trip from Whitehall with his wagon loaded[...]r Henry settled around Syracuse, New York in the year 1632. and Bishop W. H. Maughan were amon[...]re born to his to the side of the house, sat down in a sleigh and passed out. second wife. He was fo[...]ensive- Jane Greer Parkinson, an early midwife in Bannack, was ly. He married and spent about ten years in Missouri where born April 9, 1854, at Salt Lake C[...]r Charles remembered picking cotton there. Leishman. In the year 1886 they left Texas for Montana arriving In 1865 Jane's family left Salt Lake and moved to Wells- early in 1887. They settled in the Red Rock Valley where ville in Cache Valley, Utah, where Jane would spend most o[...]len Leish- Mr. and Mrs. William Patterson are buried in the Lima man, was a doctor in Johnstone, Scotland. When she came Cemetery. to America, she was denied a practicing license in America, Most of the children married and settled in the Dell and so she obtained a midwife's certificate. She taught many Red Rock Valleys. young women the practic[...]her stu- Charles homesteaded a place in Sheep Creek Basin where dents were her daughter A[...]gh- he lived for about 19 years. He moved there in 1916. Earlier ter Jane Greer Parkinson. Jane was[...]r losing their mother, Steely stayed on the ranch in In 1898, Jane's daughter Elizabeth married Walter Ed[...]his father. Ena stayed only a year or two. Lloyd 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 Mo[...]zabeth P. Lloyd) 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.[...]. Jane spent the winters from October to April in Bannack -MARGARET HA[...]- burn of Bannack on house calls and assisted him in deliver- James and Maggie ing babi[...]4, 1878, at Gainesville, Jane died peacefully in her sleep in May 1939 in Wells- Texas. He came to Montana with his p[...]f 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[...]youngest of the family, he was privileged to ride in her house as it was lovely inside with beautiful carpets, in the wagon more than the others. They arrived Sept[...]stucco work at sister, was already living there. Since this was their destina- different places.[...]ch he roped a mountain tion, they settled in for the winter. It was the long hard[...] |
| [...]Sam S. Patterson was born in 1862 near Altoona, PA. of[...]Scot-Irish ancestry and grew to be a teenager in a Pennsyl-[...]about 1883. He grubstaked in Hays City, Kan., with two[...]partners and traveled to Dillon in a two-wheeled buckboard[...]anch, carried hod for ten thousand" because of so many cattle that 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 underside of stairs in the basement father died. James attended school at Dell in the red brick of a building on Bannack St.[...]n converted over 40 years. (Upon his death in 1939, he willed this build- into a cafe. Some of[...]Clay Patterson is also displayed at the cafe. For many years, he owned and managed a store and hotel at Dell. James met Maggie Loughridge in Lima when he was 19 years old. Maggie was born on[...]name was Mary Ellen Roe Loughridge. Mary was born in Lincoln- shire, England. Maggie's family moved from the Dillon area to Lima in 1894. James and Maggie were engaged in 1900. Maggie's family moved to Bridger Canyon in 1901, 15 miles from Bozeman. Jim was able to visi[...]st minis- ter. Their first home was at Dell, then in the spring they ing to an adopted son, Spe[...]1907, and Margaret was bottling works in 1884. This business included wholesale born March[...]. in 1896 Dick asked Sam if he wanted to buy the business. He Jim and Maggie moved to Wise River, Montana, in 1937, suggested Sam speak to B.F. White, president of the First then returned to Lima in 1944, where they enjoyed many National Bank. B.F. asked, "How much?" He loaned Sam more years of wedded bliss.[...]20,000, the full purchase price which he paid off in four marriage. They had a wide circle of friends throughout Bea- years. The amount today would be many times that amount! verhead County. They stayed active in community affairs In the course of his business life, Sam harvested ic[...]of 90 on August 17, 1976, at ness. One year, in 1935, the winter was so mild little ice Salt Lake[...]akes were produced compared died August 30, 1982, in Santa Barbara, California. Daugh- t[...] |
| the business in 1937. The operation was too uneconomical with too[...]8 . H. PAUL. Sam with his brother-in-law, Albert Paige (Nellie's broth- kNERAL M[RC[...]Paul Store in Monida and Earl Lewis Wheat after their father Ge[...]. . died in 1903. swellest thing of its kind to have occurred in Monida, with Most would agree: "Sam was an inte[...]iams orchestra of numerous but anonymous. He died in 1939 one year after Lima furnished the music and Leo Truax of Lima acted as Nellie's death. Both are buried at the Dillon Cemetery east floor man[...]The event was held in the large 'M-Y' building. The inte-[...]o be feeling good son, was born December 30, 1853 in Ohio. Lois Ada Riggs and a decidedly enj[...]was had by Mr. Paul's was born November 11, 1855 in Illinois. They both moved to guests, who on[...]em- Texas when they were young. They were married in Texas selves 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 T[...]ccomplished pianist. She gave piano acquired land in Big Sheep Canyon out of Dell and went lessons to the young people in Monida. When they went to into the sheep-raisingbusiness. During this time, they had California in the winters she played with groups there; also three more children. in concerts in Helena. She was awarded several prizes for In 1907 they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Patter- her music. She also taught a Sunday School class in her son died October 12, 1917. Mrs. Patterson lived in Salt Lake home in Monida. City until 1934 when she returned to the[...]th her daughter Annie Brothers. After a short in it such as rakes, mowers, etc. His store housed everything illness she died September 30, 1939. Both are buried in the from nuts and bolts to clothes, ladies h[...]n, tennial Valley. He was born February 10, 1873, in Iowa and was born November 9, 1856 in Marion, Iowa. His parents came to Beaverhead County in 1893. were Alexander Hamilton Paul and Justan Taylor Paul. His In the early days, when stage coaches ran from Monid[...]nd Jane Crawford Taylor to Iowa as early as 1836. there up to the time of his retirement. Goodwin Paul attended schools in Linn County, Iowa, He was also interested in ranching in the Centennial and and graduated from Cornel[...]ughout the county. The ranch he owned is in 1879. After leaving college he was for a short ti[...]arrived in Dillon, Montana, in August, 1881. He worked at When Bert married Mary Leonard in July, of 1906, a 'big the pioneer firm of Eliel Brothers for three years, then orga- ball' was held in their honor at Monida. It was said to be t[...] |
| [...]he people, wagons, horses and mules participating in the Montana Centennial Wagon Train were as rugged[...]between Bannack and Road Agent Rock, as depicted in this piece, 'The Long Haul . "'[...] |
| [...]Dillon. The ceilings are 12-feet high with medallions of fruit[...]d flowers from which imported chandeliers hang. In Dillon three-story homes just aren't too plentiful. The door hinges are made of bronze - shaped like butter- Equally uniq[...]tifully executed aren't really plentiful anywhere in Montana. wrought iron. Door transoms in the house are of ruby glass. So the Orr mansion, started in 1882 and completed in Behind the mansion was a larg[...]pany (Poindexter and Orr). The firm was organized in Cali- estate was a 20-foot water whe[...]to fornia, but, with discovery of gold at Bannack in 1862, they irrigate the gardens and fountains that originally were a decided to head north in the wake of the gold miners. part of the homesite. Caught in the vicious winter of 1863-64 with cattle and no[...]Canadian Mounted Police and to fire depart- Ranch in the Dillon area.[...]Montana. To their surprise, the cattle survived in good shape - so Occupied almost continually since it was built, probably well in fact that they moved their firm operation from Ca[...]most unlikely inhabitants were 25 nuns who stayed in fornia to Montana.[...]College ... Thus the mansion - long a showplace in the valley. The all of which contributes to the Orr Mansion's designation as bricks were made in kilns near Augusta and the sandstone[...] |
| [...]was built. It was the William C. Orr was born in 1829 in Down County, Ireland. largest structure in Beaverhead County and was familiar to When Willi[...]rom throughout the world. to America and settled in Birmingham, Ohio. At age 16 he The h[...]of Dillon went to Wheeling, Va., where he worked in a wagon shop. where the first log cabin was built, and also a fort for the From there he moved to Vicksburg, Miss., to work in a protection of the women and childr[...]acres of land adjacent to the new town of Dillon in 1883. purchased the business. In 1853, he sold the business, pur- Here William Orr built a mansion, completed in early 1885. chased a herd of cattle and horses,[...]It is reported that Poindexter sent to Virginia in the early destined for Shasta Valley, Calif., re[...]ns for his home and that of his partner. Regret- in October.[...]fire, but we do have the Orr Mansion as an gaged in mining on the Virginia Bar on the Klamath River[...]le of a splendid family home of that period. Life in for a short time. In 1856, he sold half interest in the ranch to the old west was still rugged. Orr's oldest sons had to live in Philip Poindexter. In the fall of 1861, a great flood struck Virginia City, some 55 miles away in order to attend school. the area, washing out th[...]estate as the P. & 0. Cattle Company was engaged in butchering and town of Dillon grew[...]to the southeast company suffered great losses. In the fall of 1863, Orr drove and a smaller ca[...]Between the large horse barn and the house there was a remained on the ranch. Orr went from Canon[...]Hearing of the prosperous strike at Bannack, in Montana raise water to irrigate the fine gardens that once surrounded ·Territory, he started out in 1864 with a herd of cattle. On his the house.[...]el, dearly loved flowers and drive he was caught in a terrible storm but was able to get was r[...]greens on the his cattle through. The conditions in Bannack were not house site. suitabl[...]building stand out. It is three were plentiful. There the cattle drifted some 15 to 20 miles stories and basically rectangular in plan, approximately 38' up the Blacktail. Orr was amazed at how the cattle flour- wide by 44' deep. ish[...]The buff-colored bricks employed also were made in the Creek and became Montana ranchers. They home[...]area. Some say they were manufactured in kilns in Dillon and later secured large quantities of choice land in the val- while others believe they came from[...]acks that broke up the silhouette. Supplemen- In 1868, William Orr went back to Ohio to marry Rachel tary heat was furnished by stoves in the main-floor rooms. Cunnard of Newcomerstown,[...]badly cracked one of the lofty chimneys married in Birmingham, Ohio, and he brought his bride, a[...]r, to Dillon. In 1901, William C. Orr passed away, followed by his[...]William and Rachel: Matthew born Rachel in 1903. in California in 1870, Ernest (1871), William (1873), Charles[...]s, Montana Territory's first recorded brand. In 1870, Poindexter and Orr returned to California.[...]and Orr furnish fresh meat to the hungry miners in the area, they began raising fine horses; some o[...]e as well as to the stagecoach and fire stations in the region.[...] |
| [...]after 30-plus years of amateur photography, role in this area 's history. I snapped this shot in the this slide remains my all-time favor[...] |
| [...]of trout fishermen, is fed by fresh, cold spring in the background. This area was once part of the[...]where their home (' 'The Cotton- flyrod here in the early 1980's. woods") was designed muc[...] |
| [...]plate. signing of a contract to build a new hotel in Dillon, erected The hotel rooms were occupie[...]alesmen headquartered at the hotel, ing interests in Sheep Creek Basin. displaying their hardware, clothing, groceries, etc., in the The new building of pressed brick and ceme[...]side trips to Lima, the Big Hole proof and modern in every way including an automatic elec- and[...]o upper floors were comprised of 65 hotel in the evening. Doctors treated their patients at th[...]a barber shop, bar, cafe, dining room, and there and many hours were spent playing cards. Drinking kitchen.[...]n on the corner 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[...]1918. Harry Andrus impressed upon was in the right place to draw up a contract or a bill o[...]ss transactions. Myrle moved into her office 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 years. dedicate this new ho[...]es were covered with the finest linen, bellboy in the United States. He was a Great Dane named chin[...]ight of cry- King Pharoah, who would carry bags in his mouth from the 422-Beaverhead History |
| [...]memorable one and is the beginning of a new epoch in Over two hundred guests were present and[...]e enchantment of At the public reception given in the afternoon, the Dillon the occasion. At midnight a tempting supper was served. Brass Band was in attendance and opened the ceremonies Am[...]re present with the well-known piece, "A Hot Time in the Old Town were Gov. R. B. Smith, Chi[...]etlen is a fine large three-story brick building. In in profusion. The hostess, Mrs. J.C. Metlen, was assisted in the basement is the furnace room, storeroom,[...]ests. The reception gowns worn by the ladies were in is the ladies' parlor, bedrooms, etc. T[...]nd cold water and electric lights. At 9 o'clock in the evening, The Metlen was crowded with[...]people was Gov. R. Montana, having come here in the early sixties. He is an B. Smith, who paid hi[...]_icinity have long felt institution as The Metlen in our midst. Chief Justice Pem- the need of a[...]w do their part berton next addressed the company in his usual jovial in maintaining the same. Mr. Metlen has the best wis[...]as well as amused. Between jobs Pharoah would sit in one of the big green leather chairs in the lobby, with his front feet on the floor. The Andrus was featured in two different novels by two local writers, "Golde[...]of the Dog" by Tom Savage. The hotel remained in the Andrus family continuously for over fifty years. When Harry E. Andrus died in 1941, his wife Margaret took over management. With the accidental death of Fern Andrus Schuyler in 1951 and the death of Margaret in 1954, Harry J. Andrus bought out the shares of Wi[...]the hotel until it was sold to M & M Enterprises in 1969. It was sold again in 1979 to Doug Harvey, was remodeled into a furnitu[...]mart, a longtime furniture and appliance business in Dillon.[...] |
| [...]H CREEK By Jim Corr ''During many years of driving to Birch Creek for my attentio[...]fascinated by the weather that changes was in::;tantaneous. This small watercolor and in[...] |
| [...]The Fred Crouses bought the McLaren homestead in[...]so exceptional for dry land in any district, Fred Crouse The East Bench was a thriving, growing community in the expanded his holdings by buying another[...]few years and neighbors worked to clear the road in gine thresher. Jay McCarthy and Clarence Lang[...]om the Bench to A diverse group of people from many localities settled on Dillon in February for ten cents a bushel. Each had a six- the Bench. There was an influx of people from the fertile h[...]the wagons and shovel it out again when arriving in record crops and was cheaper than in the Gallatin. Accord- Dillon. Because the C[...]us at ing to former county assessor Jay McCarthy, there were 530 that time, they had to cut through[...]illon. stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Black, in March, 1910.[...]ble Stanley Sisterson was one of the bachelors in the commu- Weeds Flew nity. He was an E[...]roved up" on crops continued the few years there was moisture, but in the Harry Bostwick place and put in 50 acres of wheat with a 1919 the drought beg[...]Elfreda Williamson Woodside remembers that in 1919 He had to sell everything when he enlisted for the first there was no moisture from April 1 until late October.[...]h price at impossible to keep anything clean in Dillon with the dust that time. The second day he was in Dillon, he met Dr. rolling down the streets. Of course, there was no paving or Bimrose, a Dillon dentist, who o[...]A Missourian who keep a house clean out there. The wind blew the tumble brought a love of mules[...]. He gave her a job after school and Saturdays how much a horse or cow can drink when he or she sees[...]On the other hand, it was disheartening Shop for many years. Hazel remembered the young people[...]Jay McCarthy recalls that in 1920 it was so dry that there The Nattrasses came from Minneapolis and shared their was not one crop in the entire valley. He said the river was so books[...]clubs to which they belonged. They also dry there were handsize cracks in the river bed at Dell. He owned and shared a fine[...]Mrs. Nattrass was the returned to Dillon in 1920 after serving in the Orient in the only lady who worked in the fields with her husband. She M[...] |
| [...]Although the East Bench was not considered to be in the also hauled wool from the Selway Sheari[...]rip took three 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 Montana dust clouds built that blew[...]st, newspapers of that day said. posts in town. They went to the mountains for trees with[...]ed the fields to kill weeds and conserve moisture in were hauled and mounted on the lamp posts f[...]s the event it came. They spread grasshopper bait in an at- apiece. tempt to kill them. That wa[...]Fred Crouse and several others became involved in road mechanization. The bait was a mixture of bra[...]n slips and Mormon scrapers and graded (although there was probably no need for this since they w[...]d send it After taking a wagon load of wheat in, the customer went over the dry hills and swales,[...]cks of wheat and the crops and alfalfa, just like in the valley. It was a beautiful wheat components[...]g the way of the canal were One of the many sad stories of the struggles on the East only abo[...]the family who raised several hundred turkeys 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 grasshoppers, the coyotes tran[...]lack of killed most of the flock. Turkeys are a delicate fowl to start. feed due to the crop lo[...]tops when they were young. After one of the sons in the who kept any livestock had to pay $100 per to[...]ney and were unable to disappointments in those drought-stricken years, many of adapt and continue. The banks took over the fa[...]nders of dinners or parties that had been enjoyed there.[...]nt numerous changes, the First National Warehouse in Dillon and hauling salt back to most[...] |
| [...]rize-winning cameraman, whose works have appeared in a number of national publi- (I)[...]uding Life Magazine, Fred Bridenstine has resided in Dillon since 1940. He (I)[...]al photographer at the Dillon Jaycee Rodeo and 23 in a similar post 00 Photo by Fred Bridenstine[...]ated between Elkhorn and Wise River) was recorded in the mid-60s. Little remains[...] |
| [...]llon. Although it fades quickly, its sweet appear in the spring. It grows on rocky, barren scent and delicate beauty are cheerful and uplifting[...] |
| [...]was more than a decade before it became available in Killer Diseases[...]contracted 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 Doctors usually p[...]ze of blood appeared. A drop of the temperatures. There was no treatment or cure. Most infec- gunk was put in the middle,covered by sterile gauze, and tions we[...]rgical tape. If the vaccination "took", two or There were times that Heise Brundage at the Brundage[...]When the scab people often brought their deceased in the back seat of their sloughed away a scar was left ranging in size from a half inch touring cars. It was not un[...]r more; a lifetime souvenir. country road driving in the direction of Dillon, where he Dr. St[...]gious diseases which were a constant threat to in fashions, Dr. Stephan, at this date, would be har[...]ere he could leave a scar Quarantine was required in these cases. Quarantine signs that wouldn't show. about 12 to 15 inches in size, of heavy tagboard with bold The ear[...]s throughout the county bear evi- letters printed in contrasting colors, were nailed to the denc[...]strangulation or heart failure. Diphtheria in infants and with this blatant sign advertising th[...]ase had run its course, (about three weeks, In the teen years and into the Twenties there was a "ton- four weeks for smallpox), it was requ[...]lling vapor. Cracks around eases originating in the throat: whooping cough, quinsy, and doors and[...]ing signs were of Anaconda, specializing in tonsillectomies, came to Dillon placed outside th[...]hursday and, with Dr. Stephan as assistant, spent many days of open doors.and windows were necessary to[...]malady was frightening, and victims were avoided. In Streets, kitty-corner from the high school. Patie[...]the case of loners, they were often left to die in their cabins, there included college students residing at the dormito[...]ually, and with treatment and vaccine, only a few in the throat and ears, fever and other physical discomforts. days in bed are required for recovery. The papules leave pitted s[...]shoes"), was A smallpox vaccine was discovered in the late 19th century a slow-death disea[...] |
| [...]impression on the state of Montana. In time the placer Tommy Haw, Chinese Waif,[...]tune there was left.[...]ans around Yereka were always harassing the in Montana[...]of a of Beaverhead County. He was found, a waif in the welter of little child who had been care[...]ity of his employ- the white people around him. In time he became a chore ers, he accumulated 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[...]ook. Inciden- white woman who had befriended him in his last 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 this state. the gold mines of California were attracting much attention, 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. P[...]Orr, and was given an opportunity to make a start in the _formed a partnership which lasted all their[...]em, re- brand was known to every stockman in that section of the sulting in pallor and the gradual wasting away of the body.[...], and even and leased a ranch. He continued in this business for several years. Tuberculosis inf[...]shallow, dug wells, often being Queen Mine, in association with Harry and T.E. Poin- the source[...]dexter, and the Boston and Montana in association with Childhood nuisance diseases i[...]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 infections be tolerated in time of his death, in 1913, his fortunes were at a low ebb. childhood so as to establish immunity. If occurring later, in Four months after Haw's death, Governor B.[...]found among his papers a sealed will. In this will Haw be- The heart-breaking battle ag[...]alike worked from dawn to dark ed that in the event of a sale, Mrs. Gray was to pay $5,000[...]en kind to him during his sickness. He was buried in the Many a young·mother went to an early grave as a resul[...]It is recorded of Tommy Haw that he many times sought The dissemination of knowledge co[...]e United States, but this was denied improvements in home sanitation, high standards of sanita- him. No man stood better in the esteem of the people of tion required by law in public places and food outlets, more Dillon[...]control or elimination of the killer dead. There are many people in Beaverhead County who diseases.[...] |
| [...]... Original Water color by Cathy draw depicted in the lower left corner of this painting. Border im[...]cottonwood branch, snowflake stitching, fish in the water, and night sky are Weber, © 1989 All rights re- symbols of everyday life in Beaverhead County."[...] |
| [...]ued from Page 416) nized the Dillon Furniture Co. In 1892 he bought out the entire interests of the company, which he actively managed. In later years he was assisted by his son Frank. He and his brother Erwin also raised cattle in the Centen- nial Valley in the early 1900s but gave up that venture after the hard winter of 1917. He was active in the Democratic Party and in 1891 was elected City Treasurer of Dillon, servin[...]mber of the board of education for several years. In February, 1901 he was ap- pointed to the State Board of Education by Gov. Toole. In November, 1900 Mr. Paul was elected as representative for Beaverhead County and served in the Montana State Legis- lature. Mr. Paul marr[...]phine Bourret December 1, 1889. She had been born in North Bench, Nebraska, on September 8, 1870, the[...]ourret, French-Canadians. While still a In the year 1911 at the age of 26 she came to Horse Prairie, child, her parents returned to their former home in Mon- sponsored by John and Tilda Peterson[...]Hans and Selma were married on June 12, 1913, in Dillon. grant at Louisville, near Montreal.[...]y is at Villa Marie, Montreal. She came to Dillon in 1887 to join identified by the Hans Pedersen D[...]arm land on the north side of the valley. founded in 1880. Her father, a saddle maker and leather[...]p and her mother was a milli- George was born in June, 1914; William in November, 1915; ner. Ralph in July, 1917, and finally a girl, Betty, was born in The Pauls had three children: Hortense, born O[...]hony Nolan; Lucile Justan, born June 28, In 1920 the house burned to the ground and most of t[...]on Selma's home- Mr. Paul took an active part in the Masonic bodies and stead close by. was[...]ty had been injured and was losing her speech. There was no Paul was a member of St. Rose Catholic Church, of which cure for that type of brain damage in those days and she her father was one of the foun[...]Hans and Selma moved to a ranch near Dillon in 1937 and Paul died March 17, 1947. They are buried in Mountain to the Bitterroot in 1943. View Cemetery in Dillon. -HELEN[...]d Selma Pedersen Hans was born August 8, 1880, in Jutland, Denmark, the first of five children born to Anton and Bolene Pedersen, a school teacher family in Velev. In March of 1898, at age 17, he came to Horse Prairi[...]freighting between Red Rock and mining companies in the upper Big Hole kept Hans occupied for several[...]st Petersen Creek, which relates to his residence in that area at an early date. Selma was born March 15, 1885, in Skane, Sweden, the second of six children[...] |
| Selma died in 1975 at age 90 and Hans died in 1976 at age ings. William L., born July 18, 1912, Jean, born August 9, 95. They are buried in the Hamilton Cemetery beside Betty 1914 a[...]s marriage. William Sr. married Laura Ames Novem- in 1975 and is buried in Oklahoma. ber 23, 1920, in Dillon. A historical note about the Hans Pedersen property on They moved to Boulder in 1925 where he was a licensed the north side of Ho[...]from Bloody Dick Creek into was buried in Tempe, Ariz., in December 1960. Laura was Reservoir Lake where a dam was built to store a sufficient buried in Paonia, Colo. in 1971 at the age of 70. Son Howard amount of water to be used to power a hydroelectric plant died in November of 1944 in Seattle and was buried in for the electric dredge in Bannack. When dredging was com- Boulder, Mont. Jean passed away in Mesa, Ariz. May 1979 pleted, the water right was transferred to irrigation projects and was buried there. William Jr. and his wife, Hazel, live in on the north side of Horse :Prairie. Needless to[...]Tom was born August 17, 1885, in Rockburn in the Province -AUTH[...]of Quebec and Ida December 14, 1885, in Wisdom. Tom The Pendergast Family came to Montana in 1890 with his parents. He moved to the[...]Big Hole Basin in 1904 and bought the John Tessier Ranch. 1[...]d Ida had one son, Daniel, born December 1, 1910. In with the marriage of John Pendergast and Roseann Iby in 1919, they bought the George Woodworth[...]hey south of Wisdom. Tom had an interest in the Dillon-Jack- settled in the Grasshopper Valley in Montana in 1890. Al- son stage line for two years. Th[...]ed at Wise River though John was born May 2, 1852 in Ireland, the place of and Melrose, where h[...]birth is uncertain. John always said he was born in Ida's death July 8, 1948. He was a 45-ye[...]" Masonic Lodge at Wisdom. He died in 1962. Both he and when he was 20 years old. He died in Jackson, Mont., in 1934 Ida were buried in Dillon. Dan retired to Dillon in 1977. and was buried in Dillon. Roseann Iby was born in Rock- Dan was born July 7, 1887, in Iron Mountain, New York, burn, in the Province of Quebec, in 1857 and died in Bal- and Minnie, September 22, 1890, in Jackson. He came to dwin Park, Calif., in 1932. Eight children were born to this Montana with his parents in 1890. They had a homestead on marriage. They were[...]mas, Daniel, He- Swamp Creek. He worked in the mines in Butte and later on len, Marguerite, Jean and Walt[...]different Big Hole ranches. In 1919, he bought the George 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[...]He was a prominent sportsman and served many years as a stumps Henry Plummer was hanged on. He was a licensed deputy sheriff in Jackson. He died in Dillon in 1957, and engineer and a miner. He owned a mining claim on the Minnie died in 1965. Both are buried there. Bonacord ground and down the creek from Spring G[...]three Pendergast girls attended He also had stock in the Grasshopper Mining Co. with Hans the State Normal College in Dillon. Helen graduated in Andersen Sr. He was an accomplished violinist and was in 1911, Jean in 1914 and Marguerite in 1916. demand to play at dances. John married Coral Herr in Sep- Helen was born August 18, 1890, in Rockburn, Canada, tember of 1908 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 East Fox School in the Big Hole, died January 31, 1957, in Butte and Coral died September 7, riding to school by horseback. She also taught at Deer Lodge 1983, in Dillon, where both are buried. Forrest, their son, and Long Beach,[...]ried Wilhelm ("Bill") Ran- was born June 2, 1909, in Dillon where he now lives. Daugh- now, December 24, 1919, in Santa Ana, Calif. They had one ter Alice was born in Dillon February 7, 1913. She died in daughter, Margaret, born October 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, his parents Tempe, Ariz., December 24, 1964. For many years he was were living in Iron Mountain, N.Y. His mother went across[...]. Bill came to passed 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. Their daughter, Margaret, died July 6, Grasshopper Valley. He married Mary Lawrence in Wisdom 1979, in Tucson, where she is buried. in 1908. She died at Elkhorn in April, 1918, during the Jean Pendergast was born June 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 |
| in Jackson. Marguerite Pendergast was born July 19, 1897, in the Grasshopper Valley. She taught at Hardin, Mon[...], Calif. She married James Chipman July 16, 1924, in Miami, Ariz. Jim was born in East Texas in 1882. He too was an electrician. Marguerite died in the summer of 1980, in Tucson and Jim November 24, 1985, in Fort Worth, Texas. They are buried in Tucson. Walter was born in the Grasshopper on June 1, 1899. He 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 Wilmar, Calif. Walter passed away in Baldwin Park, Calif. in 1934. Ruth is now Mrs. Ruth Sorver and lives in West Covina, Calif. From her second marriage she[...]hy. At this writing it is a pleasure to report there are four After a couple of years, Frank, Tom Lo[...]Jim Montgomery each took up 160 acres of land in the Big boys to carry on the Pendergast name. Hole valley in about 1885. Everything was in partnership.[...]leton Sr. did. Frank was born on January 23, 1857 in ple of years, then sold and bought Mary An[...]nch. This later became known as the Turner ranch. In ton. Frank's mother died when he was five years o[...]l he had accumulated worked on his father's ranch in his young years. 2,200 acres. Some[...]r., Elenor, On his travels westward, he worked at many jobs including Bethsheba, and Rula. four years in Iowa corn country, farming, digging trenches While in Hamilton for supplies, Frank became interested an[...]work. Frank and a friend moved on to work at in a race horse named De Capo. He was very knowledge[...]ck about horses and bought and sold them for many years. He Springs, Wyoming and coal mining. A mine accident, with had great interest in racing horses. mules, broke his back. He layed in a cave in the hills for Frank met Joe Shaw in Hamilton and Joe offered to help three months whi[...]s tended to him. raced in Boise, Salt Lake, and Butte. Frank also built a r[...]d started track on his ranch and had races there. It is said that the westward again. They worked[...]property now owned by Mr. Erb. able. They arrived in San Francisco by train, bummed Eventua[...]One thousand head of cattle were bought in Malad, Idaho money having for a couple of years.[...]trail drive al- horses from the Umatillo Indians in Pendleton, Oregon. He though they were shipped part of the way in freight cars. and his partner herded the horses t[...]tation. Lane. Lew Beal and Frank stayed in Horse Prairie for three or four Frank Jr. at[...]the Lane. The remains of the building are still there, just west of horses. In the spring of 1883, Frank bought a ranch in Horse the Nelson Bros. ranch. B.R. Stevenson,[...]rtner. This ranch was and his wife, Jenny, are reported to have taught there. located at Medicine Lodge. It adjoined Dad Summers ranch Frank Hazelbaker Sr. also taught there. The school district whom Frank had worked[...] |
| [...]ed to Logan, Utah when Mary Ann married Joe Shaw. In Logan, Frank Jr. furthered his education by attending A.C. College, an agri- cultural school in 1911. He returned to the Big Hole during summers[...]and from Joe Shaw and his mother on Briston Lane. In early 1914, Frank married Clara Jacobsen from Ana[...]meat packers as fat cattle. These cattle compared in price with corn fed cattle from the mid-west, due[...]Peter J. Petersen came to the United States in the early each weighing 1,400 to 1,500 pounds. 1890s and eventually settled in the Beaverhead Valley. Horses played a big part in ranch life. They were used for Anna Petersen was born in Odder, Denmark, November transportation, feeding[...]Nelson. She also came to the United States in the early use. 1890s. She worked for a time in Nebraska as a maid/cook in Winters were quite severe at times in the Big Hole Valley. the home of Dr. Lamhoffer.[...]supplies had dairy backgrounds and found work in Dillon at the Rife for the ranch. His transportat[...]k. Frank stayed at stage stops were married in the home of their employers, Mr. & Mrs. during th[...]the Presbyterian Church performed the being used. Many old timers from the Briston district are ceremony. They lived in a small house behind the Rife home buried there including members of the Pendleton family. and that was where their two daughters were born: Ella There are 46 graves on record.[...]as almost out of town, wander- of Wisdom Lodge 61 in 1917. Frank was very active in both ing groups of Indians frequently came[...]n, 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 chor[...]e post office and was very busy during haying in June 1901 on the White Star Line. For the sum of[...]north of Dillon in the area now known as Beaverhead Acres.[...]nd 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 Aero, Denmark. He was[...]C. which was the popular IXL Restaurant. In 1904 Jens sent an Pedersen and Ellen M. Si[...] |
| [...]1908. Annie continued to live in her log cabin until her death in 1923.[...]in Dell and Lima for many years.[...]dren were all born at the home place there on LittleSneep ery wagon (about 1920[...]f the children went to school at the Lima School. In alfalfa at the Exposition. good weather they rode in to town in a converted sheep From 1920 to 1924, they leas[...]wagon, driven by the youngest Thompson boy, Joe. In win- from Jens' brother Peter J. During that time they operated ter, the snow in the lanes sometimes required they use a the Dillo[...]to drive, but Percy and Irene engaged in farming, sheep raising__and bought a 1924 Dodge t[...]hown on deeds and re- driver and daughter and son-in-law, Mildred and Adolph cords are dated 1908. Some of these records bear the names[...]adventuresome investor. De- Irene died in 1924. Percy died in 1943. Five daughters ciding that wasn't the place 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 t[...]ima for several years. After the death oihis sold in 1942 and they retired except for the summer when[...]Annie Carolyn (Carrie) married Peter H. Peterson in in 1948. Anna continued to live in Dillon. She passed away 1900. They lived their entire life around Lima and in the Big in 1957 while visiting her daughter Ella in California. Sheep Creek area where they engaged in ranching. They had[...]of these children married and have children in the area, James P. and Annie Flynn except James D., who died in 1928. His one son lives in James Percy Flynn and Annie Murphy Conner were mar- Oregon. ried in 1871 in New York. They were both previously married[...]ge and Percy had a daughter, Sadie, the same age. There was an older child.[...]The John Peterson Family They lived in Fairfield, Connecticut for a while. Mary[...]t recog- Elizabeth and James Percy Jr., were born there in 1873 and nized in the early 1900s as one of the "best stock ranches in 1874.[...]cattle king" (The Butte Daily Post, Oct. involved in a war with the Indians. One Indian liked Percy's[...]The Flynns came to the Dell area (actually Lima) in the ern Americana. early 1880's and homest[...]Mr. Peterson was born to Peter and Anna Peterson in Creek, where Percy died in 1889. Title records are dated Smoland, Sweden. They were[...] |
| through normal schools prior to his coming to America in Helena, secretary of the Montana Stockgrowers Associ- 1889. He settled in Alta Vista, Kan., earning $12 a month to ation[...]ividual tax- repay his passage fare from Sweden. In 1891 he came to the payer. The Horse Prairie[...]uld expand to deeded with the remainder in leases, forest permits, and 8,000 acres. This pro[...]ally supported 6-8,000 head of Ranch near Wisdom. In 1895 John became a naturalized cattle[...]herd was used to continually upgrade the rest. In 1907 John married Thilda Svensson, a native of Mj[...]parents, ship ranch. Sven and Bengta, were in the lumber business. On August 8, Though[...]essman, he was 1909, they bore a son Herman Ralph in Butte. charitable (donating l[...]ool district) and After selling their property in 1910 for $100,000 they helped others in need, supplying neighboring ranches with spent some months in Nooksack, Wash., and visited their much[...]1921-22. Part of native homeland. Upon returning in 1911, they purchased his success was by[...]borrowing money from Mr. the Martin Barrett ranch in the Horse Prairie. With some Barrett at the State Bank in Dillon to buy cattle when additions this "home ra[...]ng; always trying to look beyond the pre- with as many as 4,000 head of cattle. It had the reputation of sent-like having much hay in reserve for next year- being the first irrigated ranch in western Montana-pro- buying bulls in Denver for better stock in the future-build- ducing an abundant hay crop wit[...]buildings-all were Peterson trademarks. was born in the ranch house on the home place. In the early "Johnny Peterson" was known for[...]Cross. estimate number of cattle in a field or in counting them by "Johnny Pete" was ever expanding and experimenting in "fives", while shipping them. He was also strong. In his the livestock business. He liked the Salmon, Idaho, country youth, he reportedly won a $100 bill in a Wisdom bar for and once owned a place there. He was involved with the chinning himself on a nail-with one finger!! Peterson Hansen Company in the Medicine Lodge area be- John had[...]r 7,000 Swede, Tilda Nelson, and settled in the Big Hole as a ranch- sheep and would become t[...]d Bar L Lazy S were sen), and Christinna in Sweden. Thilda had three sisters- brands used on[...]ntana Nels. None of Thilda's family settled in America. "M" in the Beaverhead County Museum in Dillon. The Both John and Thilda were prominent in Masonic organi- fireplace was donated in loving memory of their parents by zations.[...]; Zabud terson carriage used on the ranch is also in the museum. Council No. 2, Royal and Sele[...]ar, Dillon; Butte Consistory, ual cattle operator in Montana, according to E. A. Phillips of Scottis[...]Church in Dillon. John was a Democrat and Thilda was a[...]611 South Pacific Street in Dillon. Previous to 1916, it was[...]1942, after a lingering cancer illness. Both are buried at[...] |
| [...]Peter Christian Petersen was born July 14, 1878 in Stok- keby, Denmark, on the small island of Aero located in the Baltic Sea north of Germany. He was the youngest of 13 children. He emigrated to the United States in 1897. It is presumed he travelled directly to Mon[...]thers, Jens Ditlev Petersen and Peter J. Petersen in or near Dillon. The correct spelling of their surname is Peder- sen but they all changed it to Petersen. In 1899 Peter returned to Denmark where he married K[...]sen on February 25, 1900. The marriage took place in the Lutheran Church in Rise (pronounced Reesa), Aero, and was performed[...]is equal to dean and is a rank higher than pastor in Denmark.[...]Threshing on the Petersen farm. At len center are The couple left for America shortly after. They b[...]about child, Ellen Marie, was born July 15, 1902, in a log cabin[...]was born October 11, 1907. dence was now in Denmark. At this time a new home was being built on the property Ellen married Thomas H. Jensen in Copenhagen N ovem- close to the road leading into[...]1907. Ellen attended ruary 22, 1931. They are living in Jeanette, Penn. Harry Dillon Public Schools, her first grade teacher was Miss In- remained in Denmark. Carl is living in Cerritos, Calif. nes, second grade teacher Miss J[...]more visited Dillon along with the Jensen family in bers being taken to school in the buggy or sometimes being 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 ho[...]visited her childhood home north of Dillon again in afraid of cows fenced in on either side of the road. Ellen also 1971. It[...]nother son, Carl Einar, was born. were still there. In November 1912 Peter returned to Denmark with his Peter Christian Petersen died May 30, 1966, in Copenha- three remaining children, the family hav[...]s death from peritonitis on the way to a hospital in Butte, Montana, befell the family on May 29, 1911[...]and Margrethe Pe- lightning during a heavy storm in August 1912. That was the last straw.[...]orn January 23, 1869, at Stokeby, ica on business in 1917 and 1920 but his permanent resi- De[...]June 24, 1898, in Boston, Mass. Their first daughter, Elna[...]Dorthea, was born June 23, 1900, in Dillon. In 1902 Peter J. Petersen sold out his holdings near[...]After six months in Denmark, it seemed too small, and[...] |
| [...]Sometime in the Twenties, Dad and Mother decided to[...]ful eight-room house where Mother catered many dinners[...]rg Marie, was born March 31, 1905, at this place. In early 1907 they purchased the home place from Pet[...]d happy time, we rode horseback and went swimming in Dad and Mother celebrated their fiftieth wedding anni- our large pond. In the winter neighbor children and friends v[...]at My father always got us up at four o'clock in the morning the Point of Rocks until Mother passed away in May 1959 to see the colorful circus train as it came through our field on and Dad passed away in August 1959. its way to Dillon. Then Mother took us to the circus in the -VAL THELIN and TERI PET[...]Sam Peterson and Tilda Nelson Peterson were born in Tragedy struck in November, 1918 when Elna was a ju- Steningeboda Dio, Sweden; Sam was born April 26, 1868, nior in high school. She became very ill with a ruptured[...]en the years old and worked for an uncle in Kansas for a couple of Spanish influenza hit her.[...]years to pay for their tickets (he was paid only in the sum- away November 16, 1918.[...] |
| [...]One winter Sam was buying cattle in Idaho. It was nearing[...]then bought the Forty Bar Ranch from Skelton. In the fall[...]Elvera attended school there until spring (Joe Carlson's[...]Place from Henry Olson. In 1940 the Ajax Ranch, purchased[...]den together and the two of them worked on a farm in Hallok, Minnesota. In 1889 Sam Peterson came to Anaconda to work in the smelter. Sam Johnson and Sam walked into the[...]lvin, Elvin, Elvera and Alfred keep house for him in his one-room, dirt-floored cabin. Sam Peterson became a naturalized citizen at Butte in to the Forty Bar Ranch (Fox, Montana) becau[...]erson was having bad labor pains without results. There ers, and grubbed buck brush by hand on his own la[...]n and Sam were married Hirschy. At this time there was a doctor in Wisdom and in Gothenberg, Nebraska. Eight children were born of[...]ay 15, 1901); Elvin Sam (Febru- Dr. Ryburn in Bannack, but he was unable to start out until ary[...]May 24, 1987). arrived, he found the trouble. There were twins, and one In November of 1906, Sam Peterson, Swan and C[...] |
| [...]w John Nelson. One winter there were two strangers who intended to Sam Peterson died in 1944 at the age of 76 years. Tilda spend the winter trapping. One of them left, with all the died in 1934 at the age of 60. Both are buried in Dillon. furs, in the spring. When asked about his partner, he said[...]idly he gave it a kick. It came off with a foot in it! Since so Phillips[...]much less ever solved the murder. One of the many myster- Fannie Belle Fairbanks was born Feb. 2[...]fam- ies of the Centennnial. ily homestead in Lakeview, MT. She spent her whole life in the valley until she reached high school. She the[...]lips years, coming home and helping with the work in the sum- James E. Phillips, one of the[...]head County and a grand old man, was born in Princeton, On graduation, she went to the Murray Hospital in Butte North Carolina, September 14, 1850 and in 1942 died in and got her R.N. degree. She came back and delive[...]o work for Dr. Stanch- about the same time in 1865. One of them, Lindley Patrick field as his n[...]Phillips, settled in Dillon and became a successful cement She and[...]contractor. You can still see his handiwork in most of the together, milking cows and all the re[...]ddy, 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[...]was trying to hook the woodchuck to drag him out. In ters including Calamity Jane, Liver-eati[...]ster's defeat. Crook was Wes hooked the woodchuck in the rear-end with the hook, the animal grabbed Fa[...]Fannie and Gleen, her husband, ran a restaurant in Ari- zona for a short time. She then spent about[...]t various places on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona. Jack Dunnigan was one of Fannie's fav[...]wife got a divorce and they put all of their kids in the Orphans Home in Twin Bridges. He worked for John Bray most of the[...]n drive right on through. He found out putting it in reverse would stop the car. One day he and John O[...]he timber. Jack needed to slow up, "I'll show 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[...] |
| coming west and north in an effort to help Custer, but his Thom[...]brothers, John and Richard, im- army did not get there in time (thank heaven) because migrated[...]eral years, being one of the pioneer goldseekers in that state. A. Carter in Sullivan, Illinois. They resided in Sullivan 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 Beaverhead County they resided where the[...]he Meine Ranch is now. John A. Phillips was born there. Later, took up a tract of land, to which[...]. remembers an ness and was successful in his efforts, being known as one of old goose who[...]tory told was about John and participant in the Nez Perce Indian War, the warriors of Mary, t[...]be having passed his ranch on their way to Idaho. In didn't knock at the door, simply put their faces[...]came to the Pierce ranch and cared ing contractor in the Beverly Hills area and raised a family f[...]On January 18, 1897, Mr. Pierce was united in marriage 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[...]ch 9, 1898. Mr. Pierce had away October 30, 1918, in the flu epidemic, married Pearl 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 the beautiful city of Los John married Kathleen May Ehrick of Argenta in 1911. Angeles, and his remains were[...]rchesseault Sarault Pierce, of pure French lin- In 1919, James sold his property and moved to Dillon. He eage, was born in Ampherville, Canada, in 1859 to Frank was county coroner for many years and had an employment and Florence Marchesseault, natives of Canada. She was office in town until about 1940. When the ranch on the[...]worked for the ACM as an electrician. While still in Beaver- ault. They came west to the Grasshop[...]lungs, born on the family ranch. Ten years later, in Anaconda, they he and Adele turned to agricu[...]1888. Their father, Francis, and the two children are Montana when it was on the very frontier of civilization. He buried in a family plot in the Bannack Cemetery. assisted in laying broad and deep the foundation upon[...]Mr. Pierce was a native of the Emerald Isle, born in Thomas Richard, was born on March 9, 1898. Mr. Pierce, Queens County, Ireland, in 1833, the son of William Pierce. having gone to California because of poor health, died in William Pierce lived his entire life in Ireland, his death California on March 14,[...]a mere child, the youn- of the ranch. gest in the family. The maiden name of Thomas' mother was In addition to the homestead ranch Mr. Pierce owned, Lamb, likewise born in Ireland, where she died.[...] |
| [...]aged both ranches. She also had about 2,000 acres in the vicinity of Red Rock and raised cattle upon a[...]inated with her husband, Tom Pierce, and is still in Tom Pierc[...]and integrity and made a success of ranching. In 1919 he hind the one which had burned. This was t[...]Adele was a good looking woman and stood six feet in ents, Matthew and Minnie Kau, wre neighbo[...]of the Catholic Church, a They were married in Lima at the Catholic Church by the liberal held in highest esteem in the community. Reverend Timothy Clifford. They made their home in the Adele became ill with cancer. She submitte[...]ere born to them: Thomas Matthew, Oc- great faith in the healing waters of Gregson Springs and was[...]dele, October 24, 1923; Lorrayne, March 24, taken there, where she 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 an[...]wooden leg and who, one morn- McCormick of Butte. Many residents of Horse Prairie and ing, awake[...]He was fond of good cars and owned many, including a Adele left one son, Thomas Richar[...]I Thomas Richard Pierce was born in Los Angeles, Califor- nia, on March 9, 1898 to Th[...]was a year old. He spent almost all of his life in Beaverhead County. As a child he was tutored at h[...]ege at Helena. He be- came an outstanding athlete in football, baseball, golf, handball and tra[...] |
| He was a member of the Elks Lodge, having joined in Virginia City in 1921 before an Elks Lodge was chartered in Dillon. Some of the members at that time included[...]ms reserved. His love of music led him to play many instruments in- cluding the piano, banjo and cornet on which ins[...]the Reverend Father Lechner. He was interested in developing a line of fine horses for use in his ranching operations and had many good ones. Around 1923 he was one of a few fro[...]mmy Gibbons which was held at Shelby, Montana. In the spring of 1928 Tom became ill with what was d[...]ora Pilon doctors had little knowledge. He stayed in Dillon until he[...]hospital where an abdominal operation work in the Rochester Mine during this time. was performed at the Murray Clinic. The appendix was In 1873 he returned to Canada and brought his family[...]day morning with requiem high mass Church in Laurin. A second son, Arthur, was born in 1876, from St. Rose Catholic Church with the Rev. F. X. Lechner and another daughter, Dora, in 1878. officiating. Floral arrangements were so nu[...]Daughter Olive married Washington McKinney in 1884 place could not be provided for all of them in the church and and Leona married John Tessier in 1885. Both couples es- nearly half of the host of friends who had gathered for the tablished homes in the Twin Bridges area and moved to services could[...]parents moved to Argenta of the longest ever seen in Dillon and hundreds were gath- some years later, as they are listed in the 1880 Madison ered at Mountain View Cemetery w[...]Alex purchased a lot in Argenta in 1893. He and his wife The active pallbearers w[...]d Marcus Rand, all of Horse it from him in 1901. This structure bears some description, Prai[...]he since it was probably typical of hotels in Montana mining honorary pallbearers were George L[...]llivan of Butte. which in turn opened into a center hall with bedrooms open[...]g children, he was ing on either side, six in number. Each room was large survived by uncles, F[...]e Marchessau of Karto, had one window. There was an outside stairway on the west Washington, a[...]led to the backyard and the "nec- and his parents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Kau of Grant, as ess[...]he end of the hall led to well as several cousins in this county. the dining[...]Behind these rooms were the Alex Pilon was born in Quebec, Canada, June 4, 1844. He kitchen a[...]ening space filled were born to this union: Olive in 1868, Leona in 1869, and with dirt for insulation. The roof was also dirt, about one Albertine in 1869. Shortly after Albertine's birth, Alex came foot in depth covered with boards. It had double windows[...]River, where he filed which made a cool room in summer and frost-free storage in on a homestead and built a house. He rode[...] |
| be set in shallow pans to allow cream to raise. Pickles were stored in crock jars and vegetables stored in bins of sand. A woodshed and meathouse were ta[...]t the nest, Alex and Alphonsine continued to live in their home, which was next door to the hotel. Ale[...]e, they bought. At that time, the sales were held in Dillon on North Idaho Street. In 1920, Alphonsine became ill and was taken to Hami[...]he Innes Ranch, on the lower Rattlesnake. He died in 1922, and was buried alongside his wife in the Darby Cemetery.[...]Lillie Pilon (foreground) Homer Pilon was born in 187 4 to Alex and Alphonsine Cemetery. B[...]er own family, they moved to the Big Hole boyhood there and as a young man moved to Argenta with[...]parents. When he was 19 he worked for W.A. Clarke in tha's aunt. There, near the community known as West Fox, the mine u[...]r daughter, Lillie, was born May 11, 1902. worked in various mines and got out timber both for mines[...]or rela- and for firewood. He also did freighting in later years. tives, so they moved to the Bitterroot Valley where he ob- In 1900 he married Martha Rhino and they lived in a tained employment at a sawmill on the Camas. house he had purchased from George French. In 1901 their On December 17, 1904, their[...]on first son, Elmer, was still-born and is buried in the Argenta June 19, 1906, a second daughter,[...]ily. In December of that year Homer suffered the loss of[...]right forearm in a mill accident. This was a terrible blow to[...]Somewhere in the mountains one horse slipped and it's[...]built at this time. This was all hand shoveling. In 1910[...]Cushing, who owned it at the time. They lived there until '23[...]high school and Homer went back to work in the mines at children[...] |
| [...]a single-jack or pitch hay with the best of them. In fact he always stacked all of his own hay as long[...]Poindexter Family Philip H. Poindexter was born in Danville, Va., about 1831 and died in 1892. He was a partner of William C. Orr o[...]m and Merrell. He had several nephews who lived in Dillon. Jesse (1864-1930) wa[...]were prominent citizens of Har- Conger, who died in 1918. They had two children, Everton lowt[...]er. Mark," married Grace Graeter. They spent time in France, They had three children: Joseph B[...]he studied medicine and she studied music. While in and Leslee (1936). Helen Poindexter was married late in life Europe, Dr. Mark witnessed the first Caesare[...]rformed. His life was saddened when his wife died in -FRANCES S[...]emarried. Dr. Mark continued to practice medicine in Dillon for many years.[...]Sarah Mathias Thomas Polish (Polisch in the original spelling) Graeter, whose family ran[...]were both residents of the village of "MrKopolj" in station was located where the State Bank is now.[...]Austro-Hungarian Empire, near the German border, in Thomas W. Poindexter (1864-1906) worked for his[...]February 23, 1870, and became a woodsman by trade in[...]taurant) in Vienna. He married Fortunata Tadevich known[...]by her family as "Aggie" in 1895. Aggie was born on August[...]de Janeiro. From there they went to Brazil on a cattle boat[...]ferent from the climate of their homeland. Aggie, in par-[...]the present spelling of Polish. Roosevelt in Hawaii during World War II Mathias worked in the mines for a short time, and Aggie[...] |
| in turn became a successful boarding house entrepren[...]chle Their first child, a daughter Mary, was born in August of on September 8, 1910. Agnes marrie[...]Mary married George K. Se- Butte and they in turn had two sons, Richard and Robert. bena, a pr[...]two sons, William Agnes presently resides in Sacramento, California, at the (Bill) who was bo[...]age of 78. May 17, 1921. Mary presently resides in Three Forks, Mon- Joseph Richard was born[...]driver. Their second child, John, was plane in Minneapolis he and his sister-in-law, Evelyn Nellie born in Bannack in 1900. (John died in Detroit, Michigan, in (wife of his brother Rudy), were killed in a plane crash on 1985.) Due to the hazards of dri[...]on August 5, 1914. Albert died while serving in the U. S. 1903, Frank Joseph, was born, perhaps also in Barrett. At Navy on the flagship Pennsylvani[...]d injury which he gery. He was laid to rest in the family plot in Dillon on succumbed to on October 3, 1921. At the[...]s death August 21, 1933. his parents ranched in Reichle, Montana. Evelyn[...]Their fifth child, Rudolph H. (Rudy) was born in Ana- on the ranch in Reichle on August 8, 1916. She attended conda on[...]dy ranched with his parents Montana Normal in Dillon. Evelyn married Robert McCor- and brother[...]Nellie gave birth to a daughter, residing in Detroit, Mich., died of cancer on November 23, Al[...]gie died February 2, 1972, at the age of 96. Both are vows with Estella Ball of Dillon. They had a son, Robert, buried in the cemetery in Dillon. Aggie survived six of her 10 born in Dillon. children. Rudy bought the Will Braiser Ranch in the Fleecer -MARILYN JO POLISH SCHWAB Mountain area in 1957 and raised cattled until 1964 when health pr[...]Potts business. They owned and operated the bank in Deer Lodge Family until the time o[...]aughter of Mathias and Fortunata, was married in 1902 at Butte. Maude was the daughter of Mary born in Willis, Montana, on October 4, 1908. Lena died at[...]1870, and came to Wisdom in the late 1900's. Mr. Staley was[...]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- tana. Mr. Potts was born in England December 6, 1877, and came to America in a sailing ship with his family when two[...]and three sisters who all grew up there. A daughter was born to Maude and Joseph in their small, Polish Family-From left: Mary[...] |
| [...]to Wisdom soon after and bought the Wisdom Hotel. There on July 8, 1910, a son, Ralph Staley Potts, was b[...]el and bought the Horace Hand Ranch at Wise River in 1911. There for many years he ran one of the stopping places for cowbo[...]ver medal for timothy hay and a bronze for clover in the Worlds Fair about 1918. He also raised horses[...]ting and fishing. He caught some very large trout in the Big Hole River which ran within a mile of the ranch. In 1916 he bought a Buick touring car and retired a[...]old driving mare. His car was about the third one in the community; however, the yard was usually dott[...]he cold winters it was He arrived at Bannack in time to start the New Year of a summer school, an[...]children carpenter at an opportune time when there was much need had to come five or six miles. for building. In 1864-65 Henry served as deputy postmaster[...]s Mann, Henry Pond was born on August 16, 1841 in Farmingdale, who homesteaded on Rattlesnak[...]Keppler, the earliest manufactur- Massachusetts. In 1860 he attended Knox Business College ing jeweler in Montana Territory. in Galesburg, Illinois. On April 28, 1862 he bade fa[...]e buried with his mother up on the hill in the old Bannack "Emilie" also owned by the LaBarg[...]death, Henry continued his mercantile business in Ban- $100 for cabin passage. On board were about[...]ter a grueling boat ride At about this time, many of Montana Territories' earliest aboard the "Shre[...]concern for historical preservation resulted in his being Henry's carpentry skills kept him busy[...]ore among a handful of the earliest settlers in Montana Terri- for Worden, and his busines[...] |
| [...]He married Maude Fisher in 1908 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. On March 18, 1877, Henry married Ethelia Romain in the Maude Fisher came west with her sister's family, Ora Fisher sparkling new County Courthouse in Bannack. They re- Evans and husband J. W. Evans and children Phyllis and sided in Bannack until 1878 when Henry packed up his Richard, to Black Eagle in 1903 to farm. They purchased a entire store and m[...]ssed with two sets of twins. The first twins died in which is 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, were born in 1880. Ernest also died in 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[...]ortunes did not Melrose from 1935 until his death in 1940. His widow Lillian materi~ize from this venture and in 1914 he went to work for (Maud) continued on as postmistress until her retirement in Montana Auto Sales. 1951.[...]Charlie seemed to fit right in with Fred Woodside and Henry Pond maintained u[...]urray's operation and the three formed a lifetime in the mercantile business at Argenta, Glendale, Mel[...]sino). Charlie George Vance and Albert Gunderson. In 1881, Henry was found spare time to pu[...]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 its inception in 1881. ister th[...]revered member of the A.O.U.W. gation. In 1925, due to Shell Sweet's (Chairman of Montana Lodge of Dillon. All who knew Henry S. Pond, held him in Fish and Game) friendship with Roy Murray[...]deals, Charlie be among the largest ever attended in Beaverhead County. was persuaded to leave Fred Woodside's Auto Sales to be- He is buried in the fmaily plot at Glendale with Ethelia and[...]four children. there were seven wardens in western Montana. As a fitting tribute to Henry S. Pond, many descendants When Mr. Price took over as warden in this area in 1925, continue 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. many other areas. With the cooperation of Beaverhead a[...]population to over 1300 head in 1950 and opened this coun-[...]ge area. Charles R. Price, born July 29, 1880, in Astabula, Ohio, He was instrumental in hand 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.[...]apping Black Eagle (which is now Roberts, Idaho), in 1905. He was a and relocating them to other n[...]helped Shell Sweet start and manage a game farm in Jacob-[...]duced more and more game populations in this area, sports-[...]a's first suaded Maude to leave Eliel's in 1935 and run the office in game warden[...]this remarkable alliance until his retirement in 1950. A gala[...]partment with many State dignitaries and sportsmen[...] |
| [...]Oregon Trail in 1867-69. He was born in 1886, and was[...]ed on the family wheat ranch at Pendelton, worked in[...]cisco minor leagues. He came to Grasshopper Creek in about 1905, and remained in the Polaris, Montana, area.[...]Mary (Mayme) Madden came to Polaris in 1910. She was born in 1886, and was a second generation daughter of Iri[...]weavers who lived in Manchester, Connecticut. She came to[...]Jim and Mayme married in 1916. Their daughter, Mary Charlie and Maude Price ... in their new l9l6 Chev- Louise, was born in 1917. They homesteaded near Polaris.[...]short. A freight team runaway caused Jim,s death in hunting and fishing and helping countless children and 1918. Mayme returned to her work as a nurse in Dillon. She sportsmen enjoy the fruits of his lab[...]ranged from a banker,s family, where fulfullment in helping children of all ages throughout their[...]near Polaris chanic for them up until his passing in 1954. School. She married Bill Carroll in 1926, and moved to the To help out the college[...]s, the Prices Carroll Ranch near Jackson. took in college boys to fill empty rooms in their large house. The number of boys they housed over the years are too -MARY LOUISE PU[...]erous to mention but they always held a soft spot in their hearts Marcellus and Ruth Ann In 1914, Maude,s sister, Ora Evans, was looking for[...]Marcellus Pyle was born January 30, 1841, in Perry Coun- Black Eagle which had no high school.[...]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 raise[...]Knoll, all of whom Stem Ranch and moved to Dillon in 1919. They bought a resided in Beaverhead County, Montana; 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 A[...]great moved to El Cajon, Calif., where J. W. died in 1942. A few grandmother came from New York in covered wagons. They years later, Ora Evans moved[...]took up the study of Maude Price continued her many organization affili- medicine, thinking[...]necessary to care for her ations and enjoyed her many friends after Charlie,s retire- people durin[...]Charlie,s death and tending to all the folks in the long train of covered wagons. passed away in 1955.[...] |
| Civil War and during the war were many and she exper- until their passing. Marcellus died at the age of 84 on June ienced many hardships but also many happy _events. 14, 1925. Ruth An[...]r 4, 1927 at Polaris. The Marcellus Pyle lived in Illinois until he was 14 years old. Pyle place was a large two story home about one mile south In 1854, he moved with his parents to North Missouri[...]rented 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[...], The Civil War came and Marcellus Pyle served in the Missouri. He married Mary Elizabeth Pattison, who was Union Army. He enlisted in Colonel Crane's Regiment in born August 3, 1865 at Stockton, Eng[...]1924 ble of Missouri. The records show he served in the 41st at Vancouver, Canada. She wa[...]871. Missouri infantry. Mr. Pyle was mustered out in July 1865 Willard M. Pyle was born D[...]Montana. moved to Lamar, Missouri. All the farms in that area were Arthur J. Pyle was bo[...]rn February 12, 1872, at Lamar, That first winter in Lamar, Marcellus and Ruth Ann lived in Missouri. She married William Ruben Woods[...], 1936, and is buried at Monterey, California. In the Spring, Mr. Pyle bought an eight horsepower s[...]ried Milton Elmer Hayes, who died first buildings in Lamar after the war. Marcellus opened up[...], As the town built up, things were lively again. In 1866, died in the 1950s at Butte, Montana. Marcellus was electe[...]He married Evelyn Henrietta King on June Missouri in 1878. 26, 1905. George died September 25, 1947 in California and In 1884, Marcellus and their family moved to Livings[...]to Mon- 13 years, Mr. Pyle operated a meat market there. In Novem- tana. They resided in Kelseyville, California, at the time of ber of 18[...]1883 at Bannack, Montana ers owned this property in 1924. In 1899, Marcellus and to William Fredri[...]Ruth Ann moved to the old home place and resided there ranched in Montana and in later years, Andy was a caretak-[...]er at a cemetery in Kelseyville, California. They moved back[...]Emma October 6, 1962. They are buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. Ruth Pyle and Lucy Emma Pyle were[...]Charles E. Quick was born in Piper City, Illinois on De-[...]Lucy Quick. He spent most of his childhood in Missouri and[...]on October 17, 1906, married Edith Hudson in Iantha, Mis-[...]1_910 at Arcadia, Kansas. In 1913, Charlie and his young bride 452[...] |
| and son came west. Charlie found employment in Idaho for food. Sometimes the Chief wo[...]cut wood or Falls and Dubois, Idaho and remained there until 1916. help in the hay fields. He always fed them as they never stole They took up a homestead in the Big Hole Valley on anything from h[...]o Dillon for supplies for the tended grade school in Jackson until the family sold the winter.[...]l was lost. The Quick family returned to Dillon in the late 1920's.[...]Ralston shift boss at the Ermont Mine. In 1931, Charlie quit mining to start his own freigh[...]The W. A. Ralstons came to a homestead in the Big Hole Dillon to Jackson and Wisdom. in 1886, which they purchased from a Mr. Ethridge. At that Edith Quick passed away in 1932. Charles sold his freight time there was no such place as Wise River town and the business in 1935 and resumed his old love of mining. The[...]ing to have permanent residents and an im- mines. In October, 1946 he married Olive Sapp Koontz in proved road built to facilitate travel fo[...]liam Alexander Ralston (1846-1914) came to Mon- In retirement Charlie still enjoyed mining, carpentry and tana Territory in 1866 from Illinois via Salt Lake to Helena. gardening. He passed away in March of 1977 at the wonder- He hauled ore in the Gold Creek-Pioneer area now known as ful age of 92. Olive passed away in March of 1981. Deer Lodge. There he met Frances (Fan) Cox (1848-1914) Boyd married Doris Stinson in 1938 in Dillon. Their only who had come to Drummond to visit her sister, Molly 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 in January of 1966. Boyd passed their two elde[...]-Charles Samuel ('7 4) and away at the age of 78, in December of 1988. Alexander Gilbert ('76). They moved to Butte in the late 70s[...]first year in the homestead cabin on the south side of the Chauncey Quinn was born in Ohio, the second of a family river in Beaverhead County. Coming from Butte with them of eight children. He came to Montana in the 1880s and rode was their only daughter, A[...]r son, and worked with Charlie Russell on ranches in eastern Mon- Edward Lindsay, was born after[...]he turned down the quarters still remains. In 1910, a large, ten-bedroom, mod- offer.[...]ing with running water and electric lights was In 1899 he married Eliza Winifred Knowles. She was born erected to accommodate the increased traffic. in East Liverpool, Ohio, on April 20, 1881 to the Knowles Ralston, as it was known in the early days, was a halfway China Co. family, w[...]d and meals and changed teams at Ralston. There were also ac- then homesteaded on Miner Creek, on[...]Hole, about eight miles from Jackson. They lived there until the upper valley. 1910 when poor health[...]rt visit and stayed for six years. Ralzy was born in Crawford Coun- ty, Ohio, on March 10, 1846. He wa[...]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 life in the early days in the Big Hole. He said Indians always stopp[...] |
| [...]a motorized vehicle to Mr. Ralston was active in community affairs and served a "whatever" could negotiate the trip. The large brown house term in the 12th Montana Legislature. Mrs. Ralston was[...]and her ability to cope with a known landmark in Southwestern Montana. large bustling household. B[...]RALSTON were drowned June 17, 1914, when the car in which they were passengers ran off the road into[...]oldest son, Charles S., who returned to the ranch in 1909, assumed management of the ranch.[...]Sarah Ann Hudson was born 30, August 1845 in Warren ed from Medico Chi College in Philadelphia and was living Co., Kentucky, to Hardin (Harry) and Urshula Wright in Utah. Their daughter, Alice, graduated from the U[...]ildren. Because the sity of Pennsylvania hospital in Philadelphia in nursing. family was homesteading on groun[...]is later served as Supervisor of Nursing at U. C. in Berkeley, family to Missouri where he once[...]University of Utah as a mining engineer. In 1863, Sarah came to Virginia City, Montana with her He worked in Butte for the Anaconda Company and in sister Molly Powers and family as[...]ns. A purchased the holdings of the elder Bryants in 1890. troop of soldiers rescued them and escorted the wagon train In 1892, two other Lewis daughters, Kate Richmond an[...]at this time. Frances Mary, joined their parents in Dillon where they Henry Randall came[...], moved after selling the Bryant homestead to son-in-law Rhode Island. He had been a law st[...]Randall were married 22 came by train to Montana in 1893. She graduated from high January 1867 in Sterling, Madison County, Montana. The school in Dillon and taught at the Mc Vay School during the[...], located near Deer Lodge, was believed to be and in Gibbonsville when he drove freight teams between[...]t gold field, but the supply of gold did not last there and Divide carrying passengers and supplies into[...]0 the family moved back to Virginia City and then there at the time. In the late 90's, they purchased a ranch by on to a farm in the Gallatin Valley. On February 10, 1878, Dickey[...]oldest son, Francis Alexander ("Rusty"), was born in oldest daughter Lillie married Amos Story[...]15, 1899, and a daughter, Florence Alice ("Sis") in 1901. 1882 and they spent their lives on a ranch in the Gallatin About 1900, Wm. I. Ferguson came[...]ed on a place through his "growing years", living in the Wise River area close to the Beaverhea[...]children, Osborne and Oscar until his retirement in 1947. (twins)[...]dren and several neigh- ty, taking an active part in school affairs as trustees and bor's children school in a log cabin using a smooth log for a clerk. Mildr[...]daughter Alice Randall was married to Samuel, Jr. in December 1916, and William Alan in June Samuel Leslie Bell on 18 February[...]on even after Mr. McIntosh was interested in mining and worked with 454-Beaverhead History |
| [...]his homestead in 1906 to finance a trip to Denmark. While there for two years, he met and married Petrina Marie P[...]en on July 14, 1908. She was always known as Mary in[...]new home in Wisdom. Mary always said the stage coach ride[...]in the Steel Creek area, east of town. After four ye[...]In the fall of 1918, the Rasmussen family moved to W[...]dom where the oldest children enrolled in school. Chris and Sarah and Henry[...]Mary settled down for good in 1919 on the property now his partners, Messers Perkins, Hammer and Firey in the owned by Pete and Bessie Rasmusse[...]es was. The livery barn was located where Terry's IGA is now. Both the barn and hotel burned to the gro[...]by her daughter Lot- tie. Sarah became interested in promoting our Normal Col- lege. Even with her bad hip, she collected many signatures in order to have legislature build the Normal College in[...]of the ty roads. He held this position for many years. They never girls. She sent for her friend[...]thodist died May 29, 1943, and John died in 1918. Church in Dillon.[...]1958. Chris died the following May just short of in-law and daughter Chris and Lottie Hansen. Sarah p[...]issing her 89th away January 4, 1925, at her home in Dillon, and is buried in birthday by two weeks. the Mt. View Cemetery[...]Rebich Chris Rasmussen was born June 2, 1867 in Langeland, All of the Rebiches and Rebishes in the Beaverhead Val- Denmark. He came to the Unite[...]ley can be traced back to this one couple. (IN AUSTRIA worked his way across the country and settled in the Big THE NAME REBICH MAY HAVE[...] |
| [...]home place in Dillon working for their great uncle, George[...]and Catherine Stephanatz Rebich, there were three daugh- ters who settled in the Beaverhead Valley. They were Mary,[...]City, Montana. They raised a family here in Dillon,includ-[...]in infancy.[...]Lucy married John Mehlich August 20, 1891 in Butte.[...]d Joe had Wedding of Matt Rebich & Johanna Borich in 1903 a ranch on the east end of[...]s holding son Joe Butala Valley in California and did very well. Margaret was later[...]rgaret died bride: Johanna Borich Rebich Children in front, left March 8, 1976 at St. Hel[...]Katie Re- As it was the custom in the Rebich family to name chil-[...]Mary, Catherine, Joseph, George, Lucy, Mi- in some way helps those interested in knowing more about chael and Margaret, all of whom were born in Austria. Of this first generation and th[...]TE MEINE HULL, MARTIN MARKOVICH, States and lived in the Beaverhead Valley for some time.[...]ND AGNES REBISH HELLE Catherine married a Swedish in Austria and some of thier childern came to Beaver[...]be George Rebich was born February 9, 1866, in Austria, son of known as the Rebich home place. A[...]ge and his wife, Mary Butala Rebich, is contained in changed the spelling of his last name fr[...]and Michael and his wife, Ellis Island in New York and then by train to Montana. He Mary Stefanie Rebich, are also contained in this book. came to work on the George[...], her aunt and uncle. later settled on a dry farm in the Great Falls area. He was Mary Butala was born in December of 1860 to Joseph married to Margaret Mu[...]oldest was a son whom they also named Matt, born in April of 1883, then four girls, Mary, Margaret, Kate & Edna. The younger Matt worked for many years in Dillon on the Rebich home place for his uncle, George Rebich. He was married in Dillon to Johanna Borich in 1903. Matt and Johanna had one daughter, Ann, born in August of 1904. After Johanna's death, Matt marri[...]ix boys and one girl. Their names and birth dates are: Matt born Oct. 12, 1908; ~l - .. Mary born in 1909, died as a child; Peter born Aug. 2, 1911; P[...]h all of these six boys lived most of their lives in Rebich Ranch, south of[...] |
| [...]ead County sister. Mary also came to this country in 1884. Directory lists George Reb[...]Melrose at George and Mary also had a house in Dillon at 120 South a place called Lions City, ab[...]August 7, 1887, at children, they lived in Dillon, where some of the children Lions City. St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Butte has a attended school. Their teache[...]ree 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 Paul died October 18, 1913, at age 16, in a Butte first child, George William, was born in Hecla on June 15, hospital of complications[...]tart For about two years George and Mary lived in Butte. on their own place. All were in Beaverhead County, except Their second child, Luc[...]December 14, for Michael's, which was in Madison County. About 1919 1891.[...]herd to severe After that, the first of their many land purchases was cold. This figured greatly, I'm sure, in their decision to move made when they bought 160[...]eyard at 830 Fulton Lane, St. Helena, California, in River. This is where George and Mary's next three[...]This being the time of prohibition, there wasn't a market dred acres of this was on the wes[...]lifornia 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, comp[...]to make wine. seph, was born. Joseph always lived in the house where he Thus the start of the f[...]902, George bought the NE¼ of Section In 1933 with the repeal of the 18th Amendment (prohi[...]Section George and Mary lived together in St. Helena until[...]death April 14, 1933. Funeral services were held in[...]Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon on December 3, 1939.[...] |
| a mining town. His father was engaged in mining and his new home. Three children were born at the home ranch mother ran a boarding house. In 1892, his father purchased where George's mo[...]four brothers, John, Mike, Joe and Frank, in their new home. and one sister, Lucy. Frank died[...]hers and sister all worked for their and son-in-law. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and trapping. f[...]xtensive land holdings. When George had In 1921-1922 George and his son Frank spent a year in his 21st birthday his dad decided his son needed[...]s. He leased the ranch to John Swetish two nieces in Yugoslavia who would make good wives and[...]pictures. The young Although he retired in 1945 and bought a home at 530 ladies liked the id[...], 1948. He was Mary and Verona (Veronica) arrived in Dillon, Montana, in survived by his wife, Verona, and children:[...]ly, 1912. Three days after they arrived, July 12, there was Donna Green, Mary Bolick, George Rebich, Ca[...]e. infant son, Phillip, in Mountain View Cemetery at Dillon, After George[...]ronica, known as Verona, was born April 24, 1893, in ed near Barretts Station and at the time of the p[...]ar. Her _dad was the village blacksmith and lived in the abandoned hotel until their home was built.[...]Katerine and Anna. Her mother The house was built in 1915 and the family moved into their died at[...]not an easy life and they had many hardships to endure.[...]dren were in school. Verona and George had seven children:[...]Verona died at her home in Dillon in November of 1972.[...]John Henry Rebich was born on December 31, 1893, in Dillon, Montana. He was the third born in a family of six[...] |
| [...]when he bought property in Sections 2, 10, and 11,[...]Talent in Sections 22, 27 and 34, T9S;9W on March 11, 1944.[...]Melton located in Sections 6 and 7, T8S;R9W, and Sections[...]00 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 s[...]and Sophia had their first child, known and many sought his advice and help. He was an John George[...]m on active community leader, participating in many community May 3, 1917. About a month later, on Ju[...]n H. died June 8, 1953, at the St. James Hospital in Butte, Montana. They made their home on the Rebic[...]s Out of respect for John the businesses in Dillon closed for born September 27, 1919. Their second child, a son, Wil- his funeral. In his obituary, The Dillon Tribune referred to liam[...]ard was born May 5, 1926. pride in having top quality cattle and horses. John H. Re-[...]-ELSIE ANN REBICH NELSON south of Dillon in Section 4 and 5, T8S;R9W. Death beset John aga[...]st 27, 1932. Later, John married for a third time in Butte, On Michael and Mary Francis October 1,[...]Mike Rebich was born August 5, 1877 in Rodanitz, Yugos- With the help of his family,[...]f Yugoslavia, Mary Rebich Krul- threshing machine in Beaverhead County, and after doing jak an[...]s mostly shipped by railroad to the dairy farmers in with his brother George in Montana. He worked many dif- Butte. In later years, baled hay was transported with truck[...]two threshing machines, with full ranches in the Beaverhead Valley, for Marcus Daley in crews, working at the same 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 own rough Butte. It was in Butte where he met Mary Francis Stefanie. lumber.[...]Mary was born February 7, 1880 in Brodmarorits, Yugos- John expanded his[...] |
| [...]The boys slept out in the bunkhouse. Mike and Mary re-[...]e and Mary were conservative people, as most were in[...]days. Mary had a garden approximately three acres in[...]come by train in less than two weeks.[...]ike and Mary bought their first Buick Touring Car in[...]Mike Rebich was often the first to start haying in those Angeline Rebich Gregorich, Katie Cicilia Re[...]- acres he had to do. An article in the "Dillon Examiner" told dle row: Mary Lucy Rebich Mayerle, Mary Rebich, of how he was the first to start haying. Mike Rebich, an[...]go to a dance or out on 1900, and moved to Dillon in 1901. They purchased a ranch the town, he[...]ch place) from Mr. Bajuke. the day's work. In 1908 they purchased the Jim Christensen ranch (first In 1918 Mike Rebich signed a lease with Hoover Develop- half of the Bill Rebich place) and in 1919 the Ewing Ranch ment Company which re[...]el Rebich born April 15, 1902, died July 11, 1940 in an have free gas for 5 stoves and 30 inside lights in one frame automobile accident; Olga Agnes Rebich[...]1988; John and Peter Rebich brought in by drillers. Lease void if operations are not begun (twins) born 1905, John died January 8,[...]ich Hren born December 31, 1907, presently living in Dillon; Margaret Elizabeth Rebich[...]bish Aspesi born April 14, 1909, presently living in Bradford, Ill.; Joseph Rebish was born in 1869 to George Rebic and Francis Emma Rebich Peru[...]910, died Catherine (Stephanatz) Rebic in Austria. Joseph had three December 25, 1964; Will[...]n, and Margaret. April 27, 1914, presently living in Twin Bridges; Edward Joseph left Aust[...]dolph Rebich born June 20, 1915, presently living in he was 15 years old. 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 Dillon.[...]Riverside. Ten of the children went Alder in the winter with a horse drawn sleigh. He had abou[...]an-to kitchen on one side. knew a man had $5 in his pocket he would kill him for it. As[...] |
| [...]run over his leg. His leg was broken and there was serious dumped the man face down in the snow. As he escaped, Joe permanent dam[...]Lovell Ranch it Dillon for Butte where he worked in the smelter hauling was not unusual to have over 20 men working there at a small rail cars of hot slag to the dumping area. While work- time. The ranch ran many horses, cattle, and put up a lot of ing in Butte he met Katie Mehalich, who was working in a hay. Katie, their oldest daughter, met Martin Markovich boarding house in the Meaderville area. who[...]atherine (Katie) Mehalich was born March 18, 1872 in Lovell place on November 29, 1914. Allenm[...]on what is now called the Nissen Lane. Joseph was in the ber 11, 1891, in the Catholic Church in Meaderville. The process of buying the lan[...]"Chronic Brights Disease", which is an obso- 1896 in Butte. Joe was born August 12, 1898, also in Butte. lete term for kidney disease. Joseph d[...], 1921, at Because they still had family and land in Austria, they did a the age of 52. Katie was le[...]pitched in and helped.[...]of those children there were 22 children. Katie Rebish was[...]she died May 17, 1956 at the old Barrett Hospital in[...]Adolph Reichle was born in 1850 at Stuttgart, Wurtten-[...]berg, a small state in the German Confederation.[...]Little is known about the family in Germany except that Adolph Reichle was in the service of the King of Wurtten- berg. In 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War, Wurtten-[...]berg became a state in the German Empire and, with special[...]eir third coachman to the king. child was born in Austria, April 18, 1901. Joseph and Katie Adolph's wife was Theresia V. Hartig, who in her younger then moved back to a ranch, south of[...]When war was declared between Prussia and France in born August 14, 1907. Again they traveled to Aust[...]d Frank, their last child, was born March 7, 1915 in Dillon. through the French lines to the Germ[...]the King of Wurttenberg and resided at the Palace in was changed from Rebich to Rebish.[...]as during this time of Joseph and Katie ranched in the Beaverhead Valley for service that she met Adolph Reichle. Upon his release from many years. They ranched what is now known as the Spor[...]e during the Franco-Prus- ranch on Carrigan Lane. In 1907, Joseph was doing some sian War. Adolph resumed his service with the King. In 1873 logging in the Sage Creek area where the logs were hauled Adolph and Theresia were married in the Royal Chapel of out with a team of horses and[...]load of logs, the logs broke loose and a log In 1883 the family was persuaded by former friends a[...]neighbors, the Birrers, to seek a new life in Montana. They thrown from the wagon and un[...] |
| [...]t 1870 north from Salt Lake by wagon, and settled in the area and worked his way _as a young[...]· Ann Bray at Houghton, Michigan in May 1873. For a few years, they tried their ha[...]was born April 16, they were ill-fitted for. Life in a still mostly savage land 1874, in Iowaback, Michigan before the family traveled to[...]mps of eastern Nevada and western vided them with many frightening experiences. Utah. Maude Louisa was born April 13, 1877 in Pioche, In the mid-1880s Adolph sold or traded his land holdings Nevada. Nellie Grant was born July 27, 1879 in Silver City, in the Glen area to the Birrer family. The family moved to Utah. Three more children were born in Milford, Utah: Butte where Adolph built the City[...]an Friendship Society or "Deutsches In 1888 mining slowed for silver, accordingly the fa[...]mps of Butte and Anaconda Plagued by ill health in 1900, Adolph retired to Germany where Eliza[...]was born in Anaconda November 10, 1889. He returned to Butte after undergoing the treatments, In 1892 the family moved to Bannack where Charles oper- but on February 23, 1903 he died and was buried in St. ated a blacksmith shop. Here he rai[...]. OGLE purchased a saloon and drug store. In later years he was[...]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-up of their family. Matt event[...]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.[...]n B. Rhino, an Addie May Jones, on March 3, 1909. There were three chil- immigrant from Quebec. In Canada, the name was spelled dren born to this un[...]them. Some members of Gladys married and lived in Beaverhead County and Ray- the family ther[...]nd and Lucille also married and spent their lives in ers Reno. Butte.[...], moved into Michigan fol- Matt and Addie lived in the Centennial Valley until 1930 lowing the[...]of an English sea captain, who was born in New York City south of Dillon. After ranching for[...]they and had an uncle, John Howard, who lived in Cherry Creek, sold their place and retired to Dil[...]first child, Martha, was born July maining years in town. 3,[...]daughter, Grace, was born there in 1884. Grace married Retallack Edson Haines in Dillon, April 9, 1900. They had two sons: Charles E. Retallack moved to Bannack, Montana in Otis, who lives in Great Falls and Elmer, who lives in He- 1892. By trade he was a blacksmith. In Bannack he was first lena. Both worked for an[...]tember of 1885, and they lived there until 1890. Since John Charles was born March 21, 1851 in Poole, England. He was a smelter man, evi[...]liam Retallack and Mary Pierce's four closed in Bannack and he moved his family to Hecla t[...] |
| [...]it that fall. His oldest Alice Rhino was born in Bannack in 1885. She married daughter, Martha, was then working 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 which[...]he basement where the two years old and is buried in the Jackson Cemetery. He was girls washed them[...]ing stove. The girls had to Howard Rhino was born in Bannack in 1887 and he died in wear paper cuffs about their wrists to pro[...]He tried to ride a horse his father had acquired in a trade In the spring of 1896, the family moved to a ranch a[...]ore a this ranch. John's wife, Anna, died in 1902 from complica- doctor could be summoned.[...]n's failing health and the Anne Rhino was born in Bannack in 1889. She later mar- baby, Clara, forced him to move in with the Dishno family ried Bert Kerlee and lived all of her adult life at Darby, where he died in 1905. They are both buried in the Jackson Montana. The Rhino family lived in Hecla in 1891, because Cemetery. George Rhino was born there in August of that year. Field- After the death of John, children still at home were ing was also born there in 1893. After the huge avalanche, farmed out to[...]people and destroyed several homes, the ried in 1900 to Homer Pilon of Argenta, Grace to Ed Haines family moved to Glendale. Maitland was born there in 1895. in 1901, and Alice to Bert Cozad in 1903. Annie lived with Shortly thereafter, bec[...]m the smelters, John moved his family to the in-law. She moved to Darby where she lived with the[...]o) and liam Mackay family until her marriage in 1909. George was Celina (Mrs. Dolphus Paris) and[...]e 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[...]struck out on his own working on ranches in the Big Hole,[...]School. He served in World War I and later moved to Co-[...]children so there are no Rhinos by that name living now,[...]George D. Rice was born in Cottonwood, Idaho, on Janu-[...]in 1918 where they leased a cattle ranch. They left Ennis in[...]In 1924, George, his wife Henrietta, and daughter Ka[...]ryn, left the ranch in Apex and moved to Monida, Montana.[...]ge worked for Bert Paul, who owned the only store in[...]George developed pneumonia in April, 1930, and passed Back row, from le~: Anna,[...]away June 6, 1930, at Murray Hospital in Butte. He is center: John Rhino with baby George; bottom: Alice, buried in Dillon. Howard and Annie Rhin[...] |
| [...]the Brown's place on Rock Creek for five E. Hilts in 1933 and moved to Seattle, Washington. Henriet-[...]nd moved into the ta worked for the Olympic Hotel in Seattle for 42 years. house in November. The next spring 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, Washington.[...]it was Kathryn Rice Brenner is now 68 and lives in Bellevue, finally controlled. Washington.[...]her Family In 1916 the need for a school became apparent, as th[...]rist) Rieber of Glen. He was born March 31, 1877, in Thaddaus (Teddy) Mauz donated the land and[...]ber was a school Hauser. He first came to America in 1907 and spent some trustee for many years. The Rock Creek School served the time in Washington, D.C. Later he came to Butte and[...]na Mauz on February 6, 1908. Regina Mauz was born in electric lights, a big improvement over[...]y also were the first to put up ice for 15, 1879. In November they came to America. The Statue of use in the summer. Liberty and the Niagara Falls were th[...]then by a one pole derrick worked as a carpenter in a mine. The following spring, he with a swin[...]ked for Joe Brown and they lived at Brown's Lake. In used on the mower and rake. The hay was sh[...]Changes in the methods of farming took place. Machinery[...]In 1923 Christ Rieber bought his first car, a Model[...]em for electricity and had the first modern house in the[...]ing a living. There was the year that many potatoes were[...]Rieber Mrs. Rieber died in 1950 and Christ Rieber in 1956. Their 464-Beaverhead History |
| son, John, died in 1985. He owned the ranch on Rock Creek, ried[...]to penetrate the vir- both retired teachers, live in Bozeman. gin Montana territory and, seeing the possibilities of a pros- I ·have many pleasant memories of my life at Rock Creek. perous community in the heart of the Beaverhead valley, he[...]took up another ranch, part of which later took in the city[...]Rife dences in the city. Retiring about 1910, he gradually dis- David Reiff was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania posed of his property and a few years later became associat- in 1751. The U. S. Census in 1790 changed the spelling to ed with his son, Jardine, in the ranching business west of Rife. His son Sam ([...]his wife with their small town. family lived in Adams County, of which Gettysburg was the[...]895. It was county seat. They emigrated to Canada in 1825, proceeding during his term of office[...]esbyterian Church. tile land. After several years in Waterton County they final- Mary and Abe's children were: Isabella born 1872, mar- ly settled in Guelph Township. David Rife was the son of ried Ernest Orr in 1902, died 1918; Maidie born 1876, mar- Sam and a[...]aised a family of seven. ried Lee Van Ettan in 1909, died 1960; Katheryne born Isaac was born[...]Mary Rife on 1879, married Albertus Williams in 1900, died 1904; Fred Jan. 31, 1857, in Hespler, Ontario. Isaac came to Beaver- bor[...]d 1937; Andrew Jardine born head County, Montana, in 1878. Upon his arrival in the 1885, married Elizabeth Van Tobe! in 1919, died 1945. county, he found work in the George W. Dart Hardware and Abram S[...]'s ranch about two years before. to Bannack. In the spring of 1881 he trailed cattle from[...]VERN Beaverhead County to Calgary, Canada. It was in February 1884 he married Miss Catherine Barrett.[...]Ritschel came to the Big Hole Basin from Wiscon- In 1881, she came to Beaverhead County to visit her[...]on to the Big Hole. Esther was born in Walla 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-[...]met a gallant young cowboy ried and lived in Dewey where Frank worked in a store. Isaac Rife, who became her future husban[...]Later they moved to Gibbonsville and worked in a store erine (later known as Connie) were married at the ranch there. home of Catherine's uncle Martin Barrett at Hors[...]ey travelled to Isaac's ranch about 30 miles away in a ground. Frank and Esther moved from Idah[...]Ruby Ranch where Frank was fore- Isaac engaged in mixed farming for awhile but eventually man,[...]fenced and he went into sheep raising. Their many years before retiring to California. first home w[...]Catherine and Isaac's the oldest son, was known in the Wisdom area as a good children were: Frank Ba[...]n. 30, 1886, married bronc rider. He died in 1968. Chester lives 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 T[...]e Roberts came to Montana as a small boy with his in 1845 at Hespler, Ontario. Before he attained his[...]ol at Glendale (now Melrose) and he went overland in the early 1860's to California where he[...] |
| [...]ts 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 d[...], John, Gladys, Myrl, and Hazel) attended school in Jackson and Dillon. Charley moved to Ten Mile,[...]several years prior to his death. His wife lives in Hamilton. Earl was born in Butte in 1903. He was in Roberts Realty at Victor, Mont., for many years and is retired there. His wife Alice passed away a few years ago. John, born at Jackson in 1905, spent 33 years in the Postal Service in Missoula. He retired 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 many relatives including the Sages who then lived in the Big Hole. Father George had just one cousin,[...]d, who had the grocery store and was ·postmaster in Jackson for several years.[...]y Rodgers Henry G. Rodgers was born July 5, 1871, in Coles County,[...]zpah Chapter, Order of year, and got an education in accounting that helped him as Eastern Star. He was Past Patron in 1938. a lawyer in certain cases. He also attended Lincoln Universi- Judge Henry G. Rodgers died in 1942 in Dillon, Montana. ty. In 1898 he began work as a clerk or stenographer in the -AUTHOR[...]Adams, a girl with whom he had become acquainted in Missouri. In[...]an to practice law. Charley Rody was born in Illinois at the end of the Civil He continued this practice until he was elected Judge in War. When his father was killed in the war his moth-er lived 1924. He served out the full term and was re-elected in 1928. with the other relatives on a farm close to Chicago. Charley In 1931 he resigned from the office. He was elected again in saw the big Chicago mine as a young boy. As he got older he 1936. He was elected to the legislature in 1920 and.1922. He worked at jobs. When he was[...]City Attorney for Dillon. gold strike in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho country. Henry and Mrs. Rodgers had two sons. Both boys were In 1882, he came west as far as the trains came. There he educated in Dillon. Henry G. Jr. lived in Portland, Oregon, got a saddle and horse and camping outfit. The andirons he until his death in November, 1983. Henry married a Port- had for part of his outfit are in the Beaverhead County land girl. She died in July 1986. Henry Jr. and his wife, Museum.[...]Leila, were members of the Order of Eastern Star in Port- working for ranches through the wint[...]. After that he came to Montana. After serving in the armed forces, Hiram W. returned to The[...]e, Christine, have one daugher, Red Rock. In the 1880s, Charley Rody homesteaded the Lois Adams Reynolds. She lives in London with her hus- land where the Rod[...]f 1904 Hiram W. is a Mason. He became a member in 1938. and they lived the rest of the[...]ch. Charley Henry G. Rodgers' wife, Tiny, died in September 1930 of Rody was 69 years old whe[...]Henry Sr. Minnie Hallas Rody was born in Wisconsin. She grew up 466-Beaverhead History |
| [...]as covered with standing timber. As a ida in the fall of 1904. He stayed at the Rody 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.[...]t to a homestead that was taken up by her parents in er and mother stayed and lived there. The next year Irwin Minnesota. They lived in a sod shanty the first year. The also took[...]. 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 she was in high school. She came back to Nye before movin[...]s Wisconsin. Next she went to school at a college in Madison buried in Lima. where she got a teacher's certificate.[...]s was the third brother who lived on the ranch In 1892, there was a World Fair in Chicago. Mother went with his mother until[...]anches to the fair and saw a drawing she had made in her art class around the Valley. In 1916, when World War I began he was the winter before in Madison. working in Belgrade and enlisted in the army. While sta- About 1895, she came out west to teach in Great Falls, tioned in Chicago, he became ill. An army doctor checked Montana. In about 1900, she came to Butte, Montana. In him over and found Karl had tuberculosi[...]e to the Centennial Valley to years later in a government hospital in Arizona. teach a summer school at Lakeview. That[...]-DORA RODY PASSMORE school in the lower end of the Valley and lived at the Sham- bow Ranch. Sunny Bean was one of her kids in school. The spring of 1904 she went back up to a[...]school Edward Bertram Roe was born in Bannack on January because it was too hard to hav[...]rgaret (Shineberger) Roe. His view come to school in the cold and deep snow of winter. father[...]arley Rody at Mon- County, having arrived in Bannack in 1862. William Roe, a ida, Oct. 2, 1904. They both lived there until Mother passed native of Lincolnshire, England, came to the 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- 1908 in Monida. Dora was born in Dillon. ing news of gold[...]neer and prominent rancher at Redrock. She was In the spring of 1905, Otilly Hallas, Minnie Rody's[...]er was a merchant and banker. He attended schools in youngest children came with her-a son, Karl Halla[...]From Belgrade, Karl and his ness training in the latter city. Sometime after his parents mothe[...]las took up a homestead moved to Dillon in 1899 and his father became an incorpora- where th[...]the Mayberry place. tor and an officer in the State Bank of Dillon, young Roe The first[...]o decide that he pre- Mrs. Hallas and Karl stayed there. She died in 1929 in ferred ranching with his uncle, Joseph[...]In 1902 Edward Roe met Effie Tong of Butte while visit- John Hallas came west from Minnesota in the summer of ing mutual friends, the Ham[...]rie. It was 1905 to Monida, Montana. He had lived in Minnesota with a horse and buggy courtsh[...]railroad car) and packed the boxes and furniture in one end eymoon on a train trip to Indiana an[...]Falls. of the car while the family and dog stayed in the other end of Thereafter they began their ma[...]er ranch upon his He worked around the ranches in the valley. He filed on uncle's death in 1908. In 1913 the large colonial family home the land for[...]til 1927 when sheep were added to the animal work in the Butte mines. He married a Butte woman who production. In that year Edward Roe and his son-in-law, died two years later when the baby George wa[...]g, Idaho, for some years and married engage in the sheep business. In 1946 Roe bought out again. George grew up in Idaho. John died at the age of 82 Smith's i[...]and his son, Joe W. Roe, carried on and is buried in Lima.[...] |
| [...]brated their 50th wedding anniversary in Seattle in Febru-[...]Edward Roe died in Seattle on April 7, 1955. Effie Roe was in frail health for a number of years and died in Seattle on September 21, 1966. Both are buried in the family plot in Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon.[...]Survivors at the time of Effie Roe's death in 1966 includ- ed a son and daughter-in-law, Joe W. and Margaret (Doyle)[...]Roe of Armstead; sons-in-law and daughters, Andy and[...]pany. unit, "Roe Ranch Company" in 1950. In 1880, the U & N Railroad Co. was laying track north- Earlier, in 1921, the Centennial Valley "Boatman Ranch"[...]sition made possible the first white settlers in the community. Annie was six the increase in the number of head of livestock his ranch y[...]L Ranch", named for the Roe brand, until its sale in 1965 untamed, and she could trace the ever-in[...]ers followed her father with managed by Roe's son-in-law, Andy Forsythe, from 1926 their fam[...]ed local government. Effie (Tong) Roe was born in Butte, Montana, on October Annie's family[...]d gloves. came from the Midwest. Tong was engaged in extensive She remembered when the Indian in this locale 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 an[...]rried George Roe, whose family came from England, in · spent their early summers in the Big Hole Basin where their 1910. George l[...]He spent time at an early age running wild horses in children were educated in Butte schools and the three girls western Sou[...]ended a girls' school, St. Mary's of the Wasatch, in Salt that time. He met and became friends with Charles Russell, Lake City. George Tong died in 1902 at the age of 56. His who also was try[...]illiam Hay- buying horses at that time. den, in Wenatchee, Wash. When widowed a second time,[...]of Lima, now known as the Julia Tong Hayden lived in Seattle until her death in 1940. Railroad Ranch, until 1944 when they so[...]sters, Gladys Gilster and Georgie Tong, and in Dillon. George, however, went to work at the Dillon Im- her brother, Arthur Tong, preceded her in death. plement Company, then owned by Gene Bond. In later years the Roes spent their winters in Arizona and The Roes only surviving family are a granddaughter, Jean lived most of the rest of the year in Seattle where three of Gleed Nelson, an[...] |
| [...]ly con- William Roe was born October 11, 1838, in Lincolnshire, cerned about the terrorizatio[...]farmed with the most desperate characters in the history of Montana his father until 1858 when[...]ays the young immi- at the private house in Bannack, surrendering to Roe, who grants landed in New York City on their way to Grinnell, also played a part in the capture of Sheriff Henry Plummer Iowa. With t[...]robbed an unknown number more. They were executed in by way of Laramie and the Platte River told of pl[...]ity. William After less than two years of work in a quartz mine near Roe, aged 28, at this time built a house in Bannack which Denver, William Roe joined a party[...]n was claimed to be the first frame house in the Territory. The River country in a train of 33 wagons. The rivers were high h[...]the water. The stubborn cattle were led In 1878 Roe (age 40) married Margaret Shineberger (a[...]oat. year before. The couple made their home in Bannack until It took four days to complete the f[...]ne 1899 when they moved to Dillon. They lived in their home human life in the operation.[...]on City, it discovered the respective lives. There were three children born to this gold was 300 mil[...]rs aban- union: Arthur and Edith, who died in infancy, and Edward doned their wagons and packed[...]on the road brought news of Bank of Dillon in 1899. A resolution passed by the Board of good mining prospects at Bannack. Thus in 1862, Roe and Directors at the time of Mr. Roe's death on September 12, his companions arrived in this Montana Territory. Claims 1913, stat[...]Roe, we have suf- were immediately staked out and in the first day's oper- fered the loss of o[...]since we began business 14 years ago. discoveries in Bannack. His interests turned to freighting, Our association with him in business has given us an oppor- merchandising and[...]ow him as others could not and we have learned In the winter of 1863 Roe was one of 13 volunteers t[...]or supplies. Upon heart. By his decease we are deprived of a wise counselor, a their return, Roe[...]to live in the family home. She was Past Worthy Matron of[...]Her interest in community affairs prompted her to increase[...]William Roe and daughter-in-law, Edward B. and Effie Roe of Redrock[...]Earl William Rogers was born December 27, 1869, in Oli-[...] |
| [...]In 1925, Helen entered high school in Dillon, graduating in 1929. She attended Normal College and graduated in[...]North Medicine Lodge in the following years. Doris was in high school from 1929 to 1933. She went to[...]nursing school in Salt Lake City. After a short illness, she[...]lege. Upon graduation, she worked in the business office of Ora and Earl Rogers with W[...]until 1935. She While cooking at a lumber camp in Arkansas he met and attended the Normal Col[...]ch. 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 mountains into Big Sheep Creek Basin in Helen married Charles Godfrey on January[...]Ora Elma Henderson was born January 15, 1884, in Their happiness was brief as Charles died of pneumonia on Washington County, Iowa. In the spring of 1908, she decid- January 1, 193[...]o visit her brothers, Rollo and Delver Henderson, in Big and Helen again taught at Nicholia School. Sheep Creek Basin. While in Montana she met Earl Rogers In June of 1938, the Sweeney and Rogers families cel[...]brated the 40 years Earl and Bill had been in Big Sheep 1909, at the Harry Andrus ranch and liv[...]s death had for all intents injury. After 11 days in a coma he gradually regained con- and purposes ended the history of the Rogers family in sciousness. In October he went to the Mayo Brothers Clinic Beaverhead County. in Rochester, Minnesota, but nothing could be done a[...]Myrna, Diane, Sandra, Linda, and Kathleen. All are or have been married and there are 17 grandchildren and six great[...]in Central Valley, California.[...]served in the Marine Corps during World War II. She mar-[...]ried Henry Rayburn in October 1945. They lived in Califor- The Roge[...]row), tired from the navy they settled in Lynn Haven, Florida. Helen (middle), Billie Doris was killed in a car accident in March 1962. She left[...]Billie had joined Doris in Salt Lake in 1939. She married[...]te to live. Two daughters were born, but one died in[...]rried. Their daughter Esther and her husband live in[...] |
| [...]Nellie Grant Jones of Clinton, Mo., in 1905. She had a son[...]Patterson and Wengers and Jewell lived there with him.[...]n died at the age of 66 and is buried in Dillon. Jewell married (Jack) and two sisters Cor[...]retired rancher nack from Illinois. After a time there, they moved to the and they live in St. George, Utah. Jackson area of the Big Hole very early in the settlement of Jack Romain ran the Hot[...]goes that he made his moonshine right in Jackson. During George Romain homesteaded just[...]d Ora Roselle Edward Albert Romain homesteaded in the area of the The Roselles came to[...]took a homestead in the Alex Draw area above Kilgore. Ora[...]took to trapping and breaking horses in the Centennial Val-[...]trapping was in the Beaverhead. He told a story about using[...]camp in the morning. He also told of coming down Sheep[...]Jack Romain Creek and getting in the hole in the rocks to keep him and[...]In 1917, Luanna came to the country to stay with Ora[...]Clay's homestead while Clay went to the army in WW I.[...]attest to the fact 1917 in Alex Draw.) In 1918, the Roselles were reunited and moved to the[...]place at the foot of the hill in Monida. Luanna took up with[...] |
| [...]called the Roselle cabins and later the Buffalo. In[...]also killed at the same time and is buried in the Roselle plot in Dillon. The killer was later shot to death by aut[...]John Thomas Ross, born in Nova Scotia, Canada, filed a[...]gold claim during the 1880s in Argenta, He sent a friend for[...]Monida, Pat Brown, four children in their two-story log house. The older daugh-[...]y county superintendent of Photo taken in mid-1920s. schools, wh[...]something that cannot be U.S. Army pilots in the World War I era, before he returned stopped.[...]oped bookkeeper and the wife of a rancher in Idaho and J. T. was her cooking abilities by cook[...]on the ranches. a certified public accountant in Seattle. Their fifth child, Of this union, Iola,[...]uanna recalls one year putting up hay for the elk in Jackson Hole. She cooked for the crew and, as her[...]Clay married Florance Miller of Monida and lived in the local area for some time. Ora married Genevie[...]. They moved to Tonopah, Nevada, where Ora worked in the mines. They moved later to Las Vegas to work in the railroad shops and then to Pocatello, Idaho,[...]- uct for a Mr. Hagerity, who ran a bar and hotel in Cokeville. They lived on a creek where the resour[...]and the product and came to Monida. They lived in the old dance hall in adjoining rooms and owned a very good business. O[...]ties were used by local dignitaries. Ora remained in Monida, employed local people and made money. Som[...]. Clay returned from his vacation to a business in the Arm- Catheri[...] |
| Jessie, died at age four and is buried in the cemetery in Argenta. Tom Ross, as he was known, died in 1924 in Argenta; Catherine lived to be 94 years of age.[...], October 17, 1928. Death marked a third casualty in the Cashmore family in a week. She had just returned from a funeral service in Idaho for a cousin and was helping prepare a fune[...]d Anna Cashmore's oldest son, who had passed away in Ore. She was survived by two brothers, Wili- lam and Alfred of Dillon, and a sister, Edith, in Lewistown. Lizzie loved outdoor life and spent[...]Elkhorn Hot Springs. She was born March 21, 1873, in Evanston, Wyo., to Isaiah and Amelia Victoria Cashmore, and came to Dillon with her parents in 1880. She was mar- ried to Julius A. Rounds on Sept. 16, 1900, in Dillon by R. P. Smith of the Methodist Episcopal[...]919, at home. Ken- 16, 1920. Both he and his wife are buried in the Cashmore lot neth died October 21, 1929; another son Robert was born at Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. Mr. Rounds was a July 22, 193[...]nt Co., 22, 1974. where he worked for many years. The saddles, hand-tooled[...]Dr. Robert H. Ryburn was born in Cresson, Texas on[...]October 7, 1872 and educated in area schools. In the early Harry and Lela Rutledge[...]Harry Charles Rutledge was born March 3, 1885, in Butte, College. In 1897, he moved to Bannack, Montana where he to Wi[...]ical practice and soon was one of the best school in Butte and later in Wisdom. When Harry was 16 loved and most highly respected doctors in Southwestern years old, he drove the stage from D[...]sdom, the Montana. youngest stage driver in the State of Montana. A few years His obituary recorded in the Dillon Examiner of August later he drove the[...]school and his profession was his religion. In those earlier On May 4, 1910, he married Lela[...]s at Bannack, when the horse and buggy formed the in Wisdom. Lela had moved from Mouth of Wilson, Virg[...]who needed him. He thought nothing of arising in the mid- er who was injured in a sawmill accident. She worked in the dle of a cold winter's night and making[...]eback church and babysat for most of the children in Wisdom and or by buggy through drifting s[...]than just a friend, he was a true benefactor." In 1917 Harry and Lela homesteaded at Fishtra[...] |
| [...]da, and Mrs. William (Ruth) Berge- son of Helena. In 1901 he joined Bannack Masonic Lodge No. 16 and s[...]ell Salmon about 3:20 yesterday afternoon. Others in the Telephone Block (also called the White Block)[...]op business and they moved to him slumped forward in his chair, his head upon the desk Jackson[...]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[...], while Alice also played the piano at the lodged in the brain. Attending physicians declared at once[...]me and went to work at the Keating Hotel. to rest in the Mountain View Cemetery at Dillon. She rented rooms in her home to G. & P. railroad builders[...]she would put it in the Leadore Bank. Alas! The bank was[...]ed as freight wagon drivers. They saw an opportu- in Montana with one nugget worth $19,000.00. The min[...]. Here Alice started a opened and shut four times in its history. The mine was shut new life. She[...]ths she mith, and machinist. Henry bought a ranch in the Gallatin would go back on the train an[...]m Jr. end of the boardwalk. It was fenced in her yard, where a They moved to Bannack and engaged in mining. Here their small irrigation cree[...]house was made of lap youngest son Earl was born. In 1902 Alice's twin brother board siding, p[...]good person and worked at the small window. There was linoleum on the floor and hard to help suppor[...]needs, Art and his team of horses pulled many stranded motor- 474-Beaverhead History |
| [...]plied, "Why no, she'll get off before we ever get there". The reason he said this is because the train had the reputation for being the world's slowest. Wes died in the early 1930s. Art and Alice ran the ranch unti[...]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 wife to be, back[...]tery. Art made his home with Dolly and Bill Hayes in June 20, 1880, in Aero, Denmark. They were married May Dillon for s[...]He then moved to Salmon and lived 25, 1908, in a church wedding in Dillon. with a niece until his death.[...]was born May 29, 1913. In 1914 they purchased a ranch near[...]n In the fall of 1937 Andrew purchased a dairy ranch in Nampa, Idaho. They farmed there until his retirement in Andrew Salomonsen was born August 27, 1879, in Aero, 1941. They returned to Dillon in 1948 to make their home. Denmark, a small island[...]rica when he was 16 years old and spent two years in September 13, 1964. They had two very young sons who Exira, Iowa, where he worked in the cornfields. preceeded them in death. He drifted west and worked for awhile on the railroad in Wyoming. Finally he arrived in Dillon and worked on[...]Nick Salvo In 1908 he returned to Denmark and brought Johanna[...]An Italian emigrant, Nick Salvo arrived in Beaverhead County in 1906. He was born in Montemaggiore, Sicily, on[...]landed in New York on April 12, 1906, spent some time in[...]ful in this industry. Nick went to work for the Union Pa[...]Railroad Co. in 1906 as section foreman. On September 3,[...]World War I interrupted his railroad career in 1917 and[...]ew Salomonsen (on joined Nick in Dillon in 1915. Joe also went to work for the Golden[...] |
| [...]ars as a working Nick retired from the Railroad in 1929 and continued his cowboy, then as 'cowbo[...]and selling prop- ranchman. erty and livestock in Beaverhead County. Other[...]all the regalia of a working cowpoke. There are pictures too,[...]working cowboy broke and gentled exact but these are my recollections of their history in the many a wild horse to the saddle, recalled that when he[...]D. was for Worthy Dingus, not Dan- arrived in Dillon as a 'tenderfoot easterner' he took one of[...]oy for the P & 0 Ranch, later He was hired and there he stayed for many years. becoming cow foreman. He worked at the hom[...]as president and vice-president. In 1916 he married Ella Flynn, the only daughter of a He became a member of the Dillon Elks Lodge in 1930 pioneer family who lived on the bench near D[...]been a member ever since. He took an active part in filed on a homestead on the north side of the Cen[...]Valley near the Staudaher Ranch. They only lived there ranchers throughout the state. while 'proving up,' then, in about 1926, they bought a ranch[...]he brought cattle to the Valley was 1958. He died in 1960. Mrs. Sandy Sassman died in June of 1967[...]t when he time cow-foreman at the old P & 0, died in Mesa, Arizona. and his family left Mi[...] |
| [...]d des- most of his family he returned to Missouri in September sert girl in the elaborate Metlen Hotel until employed at the[...]Minnie, a staunch Methodist, became active in church over the Big Hole River. Otto W. Boettcher[...]work after she was 90 years old. Frank, who died in infancy. Minnie was born February 12, 1884, in Putnam County, The Boettchers returned to Dill[...]- Charles Sassman and Minnie Boettcher married in Dil- vas, making and repairing awnings an[...]nd set up housekeeping on Kentucky known in this area as an expert seamstress. Avenue, where[...]21, 1904, earned a two-year diploma at ed school in Dillon and finished grade eight at Rock Creek[...]ation at Browning. He Charles Sassman was born in Brenbach, Germany, on earned a B. E. d[...]rated to the United States and tried to find work in a Pennsylvania steel mill. He soon came to Beaver[...]Charles became a stone mason and found ample work in thriving Dillon. In 1908, he was hired as a policeman. Then on July 7[...]the Sassman family moved to Frederick's homestead in 1918. The ranch was three miles northwest from th[...]ty of Montana in 1940. He did further graduate work at the[...]World War II. After 40 years in education, he retired as an administrator in 1969. He and his wife, Winifred, reside in[...]paper and Mrs. Charles Sassman, and Oren Sassman; in back- continued publishing[...] |
| [...]ly tion. Presently he and his wife, Elsie, reside in Dillon. impossible to have hauled the fish[...]riage to Clyde G. Edwards, from Springhill, in the early winter of 1886 with his wife and March[...]. They had couple. The family moved to Washington in the mid 1930s. come from Rosebud, close t[...]the Centennial to make their home still known ing in Montesano, Washington, after retiring from keeping as the Bean place. The snow they encountered in Springhill, medical records at an Aberdeen, Washi[...]Sawtelle was in town with fish. The Beans met him and he[...]gether and ate Christmas dinner in a cold forbidding coun- Gilman Sawtelle was a[...]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 t[...]r that he was most adventurous and wished to live in often bringing mail and other needed supplies. isolated country, to do as he well pleased like many men of It was on one of these trips and v[...]istance from the Bean home when he had to cross a there for any man's need and could be taken at,will. So[...]the ice on the opposite side, in so doing the sudden lurch There is no question that lordly Sawtelle Mountain was[...]ght have had difficulties with Indians or outlaws in between the double trees and single tree,[...]ams and lakes snow to the Bean house. abound in game, fish and fur-bearing animals.[...]hbor to help him set the arm. elevation resulting in deep snows during the long winters, A docto[...]y husband's father to him, they had a The fish in Henry's Lake then, even as now, were a very wide table and sat Gilman on one side of it in a chair, tying fine species of cuthroat trout. Th[...]pounds, their flavor exceedingly tasty when they are cought across the top with his injured arm toward the other two in the winter thru the ice. Markets in Butte, Montana and men on the opposite sid[...]lked back perhaps-nights, fishing through the ice in extremely cold to his sleigh and resumed his journey. There was never any weather, drifting snow and freezing[...]n hauled his frozen Sawtelle had property in Monida, a house and ice house cargo out to the ra[...]SONNY and THELMA BEAN the way there was no road nor was there a marker in that vast open country. The thermometer hovered f[...]to Francis Schindler and Caroline Glotten in Fridentall, Aus- five feet in depth. No place to stay at night, no warm[...] |
| [...]claim, and winter months working in Butte. When Mrs. Nelson died in childbirth, Andy lost all desire to live in the Big Hole so in the spring of 1891, Joseph[...]stead and completed the terms of the claim. In 1905, he[...]After establishing permanent roots in America, he decid-[...]in her so she turned him in to the army induction officials. There was 20 years compulsory military service, so Joe[...]on Coming home he visited a friend in Columbus, Neb. and (189[...]and Maria Benda left Austria-Hungary and arrived in the settling in Columbus, Neb. They later established perma- United States in the spring of 1879. Emma, the youngest of nent residence in Enid, Okla. His younger brother, Francis thr[...]y 28, 1870. Joseph and Joseph Schindler, remained in Austria, and during the siege Emma were marri[...]mil, was born January, 26, 1904, and their placed in a concentration camp and communication was[...]1906. Joe arrived in the United States in the fall of 1879. His first employment was in the woolen mills at Lawrence, Mass. He followed the agriculture trade in Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska until he arrived in Omaha, Neb., where he was employed in a bakery owned by Lewis Schmittroth. In later years, Lewis and his family moved to Dillon and oper- ated a bakery there. The Union Pacific Railroad was coming west so[...]. He continued west and his next employ- ment was in a mine at West Glendale, where he worked until it[...]chindler, Marie Benda, John took great delight in relating the following story[...]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 which collapsed on them. John remarked: "just too[...]e log cabin school house (still standing) located in the have a funeral," but Joe crawled out and his[...]as: "Where is my pipe?" A corncob pipe was always in his After that they rode horseback to the J[...], they would say: through September, then there was fencing, brushing and "The little fellow that[...]e caretaker of lost each year. After school there was always work to do, the Andy Nelson homestead,[...]dy to eat breakfast 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 found later in the willows in 1931, selling the ranch to their children. close[...]cher by trade, had filed a claim on the homestead in the Big Hole. He and his wife[...] |
| [...].."'. . Frederick Schuler was born in Germany, August 26, 1842. When he was old enough[...]ay on a sailing ship bound for America. He landed in New York City after several narrow escapes while aboard ship. He found work in the New York area, banding with many other German immigrants. Margaret Huffman was born in Saxony 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, w[...]The Schuler ranch home, built in 1897, pictured in Frederick traveled west with several of his Ge[...]1902. Le~ to right are Clayton Schuler, Edgar Fer- friends and decided t[...]ry Schuler, Frederick Schuler, Margaret his home. In April of 1884 he was joined by his wife and[...]original house was built in 1882.[...]prominent character in early Bannack. Three children were[...]fare in World War I, and later lost his life while on a h[...]trip in the Bannack area. May married a railroad man, Wil[...]liam Moody, and lived in Billings. One son, William, sur-[...]the Cushings were the first twins born in Dillon, according[...]Henry (1878-1940) was known to his many friends as "Harry". He married Anna Reece in 1910, and lived on the[...]Clara Margaret (1880-1965) married Edgar Ferris in 1904.[...]brother of Clara. He married Sarah E. Moreau in 1919.[...]Louis Schuler (1883-1931) was a baby in his mother's arms when the family arrived in Dillon. He was the only[...]family member to leave Dillon in very early manhood. Frederick an[...] |
| family. She was born in the ranch home. Emma married and married in England and immigrated to the United Robert Bidstrup in 1907. They had four children: Marvin, States in 1837. Robert, Margaret and Berniece. J. Walter Scott graduated in 1872 from Lagrange (Indi- All of the Schuler ch[...]the home ana) Collegiate Institute, clerked in a drug store in Lima, ranch. After the senior Schulers moved to Dillon, Clayt and Ind., for a time, then spent 10 years in agricultural pursuit in his family, then the Robert Bidstrup family, ran[...]final resting place for the Scott were united in marriage. Laura M. Tolman Scott was pioneer Schul[...]ven children who arrived born August 6, 1857, in Marlborough, N.H., as were her in Dillon by train in 1884 are buried there. Most of the father and grandfather. She was of Puritan ancestry on both descendants shared in some way the ranch life of southwest- sides o[...]rn Montana, the lure of a meandering trout stream in a Revolutionary War. The Tolman family ha[...]meadow, or a Beaverhead Valley sunset. in the annals of American history since its earliest[...]ment. In 1630, the Rev. Thomas Tolman came to America[...]lton Scott In 1880 when the railroad was being constructed over[...]ked with Decker on called, received his education in Indiana. In 1916 Alton and this crew. Calwell had a cabin[...]Decker stayed in the Red Rock Valley working as carpen- Alton and his brother took up homesteads near Dillon. ters. In the months that followed, they accumulated live-[...]stock and land. They registered the CD brand in August Hotel in the later part of 1916. They had one daughter, Vera 1883. Scott Pitman, who was born in 1918. Alton worked at var- Alpheus (Col[...]s through the years on ranches, for the railroad, in J. Walter Scott. Elizabeth died shortly after[...]th, was born. Colonel Decker wrote to his brother-in-law Sheridan where he was fatally injured in a timber accident telling Scott of the area[...]Scott cs.me to the Red Rock area in 1882. His wife, Laura[...]Tolman Scott, was teaching school in Red Oak, Iowa, where James Rollie Scott[...]on. James and his gun. Both of these items are still in the family. younger brother, Alton, came to Montana, stopping at Red In 1884, J. W. Scott purchased the holdings of Mr. C[...]cker partnership, consisting of T. and J. Walter, in 1916. ranchi[...]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[...]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, while serving in the army he ily to the town of Red Roc[...]-VERA S. PITMAN In Red Rock, the Scotts operated the C.D. Hotel, a l[...]ter. Their fourth child, Kenneth Tolman, was born in 1897, James Walter Scott was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on but he live[...] |
| [...]Scott (see history, this book). He was born in 1892 on the[...]high school for one year in Dillon and completed his high[...]ucation while living with his uncle, Louis Avery, in[...]in Bozeman in 1917 with a Bachelor's Degree in Animal[...]joined the service during World War I. He served in[...]that if he went to war in France they would never see him J. W[...], caught the train and, as fast as they could get there, egon Short Line a few miles north of Red Rock.[...]of |
| [...]spread but finally switched to cattle in 1938. For many years[...]Tom was a noted fly fisherman and he caught many trout[...]land. He also had the skill and patience to teach many young people how to fish. In 1941, Tom became sick and they had to move into[...]hay each year. After moving to Dillon in January, 1942, attending high school and again in Armstead after she and Maggie kept busy b[...]out their remaining years in their "wee hoose" on Kentucky Parke and Mildred[...]WILLIAM R. TAIT in Armstead in the old Scott and Decker home near the school. In the summer they stayed at the ranch in the house that was built with the lumber from the[...]A. Frank Sears in Redrock.[...]nk Sears, he made Parke and Mildred were active in community activities, a significant cont[...]ory of Montana. It was Frank Sears who served for many years on the Beaverhead County Fair[...]Ned Ray, and ended up with his pistol. active in home demonstration. She was a charter member of[...]e the Armstead Home Demonstration Club, organized in came to Montana is unknown, althou[...]one of the oldest settlers here coming to Bannack in Parke passed away in 1974 and is buried in Mountain 1863." He was a prospector b[...]View Cemetery. Mildred continues to make her home in the strikes in the gold camps along with scores of other men Dil[...]of his profession. He had instilled in his inner being a sense[...]lantes of Bannack. He was an active member in the Bannack[...]pistol and Tom Scott came to the United States in 1877, working in eventually gave it to F. L. Graves of Bannack. He was an steel mills in the Chicago, Ill., area. He later moved to Lead-[...]Masonic Lodge 16 joining May ville, Colo., worked in a smelter, and was naturalized in 16, 1874, and serving as Worshipful Master in 1882. He Denver in 1892. While working in Colorado, Tom married prospected over[...]ve "struck it rich." He died on May Porter Scott, in 1898. Shortly 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 mov[...]e Masons at Bannack conducting the fu- Tom worked in the mines as a stationary engineer. neral. Margaret Leighty Tait married Sandy Douglas in Glas-[...]d, but she was widowed when he met a tragic death in a shipyard accident. Margaret, who had received[...]Butte where she met Tom Scott. They were married in Butte, May 6, 1911. Man In 1914, they moved to Hamer, Idaho, and bought a small HE LIVED IN A HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ranch. They literally "st8:fved o_u t" on that place so in 1916 ROAD AND WAS A FRIEND TO MAN. Cleve[...] |
| [...]gossiped not. Money and position were unimportant in his "live and[...], sons Oren, The Seefields came from Minnesota in 1880 to Helena Homer and Harvey, and[...], 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 s[...]nd perma- spent the first eight years of his life there. His sister, Lydia, nently moved there. They lived on Tom Creek until their was a teenag[...]y a disgruntled neighbor over a pas- diamond ring in a beauty contest. Lydia's grandson's wife[...]Theodore Seefield moved his business to Anaconda in Monida to Henry's Lake, Idaho. Fay d[...]vide. Cleve's youth was spent in Anaconda driving a hackney In 1933, Fay and Edna got a 99-year lease on the for[...]sort. They built a road from the lower end of Elk in at the beautiful inlaid wood portrait of Daly's f[...]when they retired. They spent their summers in the Centen- elegant bar room floor.[...]moved to Sheridan, MT. Pride and joy twinkled in his eyes when he told of picking up John L. Sullivan in his horse-drawn cab at the train[...]ter the bout was over, Cleve triumphantly related how he delivered the victorious[...]ry. mersetshire, England, in 1847. They settled in Kenosha In 1906, Cleve and his father moved to the Big Hole[...]Selway, to settle an estate. While there James died and is North Fork of the Big Hole Rive[...]buried near his birthplace. Mary remained in England after cattle on this place which was his[...]ranch, one just north of Dillon and the other in Madison Beef Trail into Butte. County. There were nine children born to James, Sr., and There was a brief marriage but no children.[...]m as judge of James Selway, Jr., born in England December 3, 1840, the election board at Fishtrap District in Deer Lodge Coun- started West in the spring of 1863, joining a wagon train as a ty[...]t day by the ladies immediately found work in Mining until cold weather, then of the community. He declared that biscuits and gravy were in company with others, hunted and trapped up and do[...]erhead, Gallatin and Boulder Rivers for a living. In The fishermen from Butte and Anaconda were reg[...]r, two brothers and As the years rolled by and many old timers came no more, two sisters arri[...]nt was Robert H. took up homesteads in other parts of Beaverhead that "Everybody's in such a hurry now; people don't neigh- Co[...]e went to Dillon and nal homestead, raised many fine horses, went to Oregon and remained in a nursing home there until his passing in 1967 trailed home a band of sheep. His m[...]tter toes which she sold to the miners in Bannack. Mother Eliza place for having passed this way. Selway died in Dillon, June 18, 1870 at the age of 63 years.[...]Hers was the first funeral to be held in Beaverhead County.[...]Herbert Bohan was born in 1875 and died during the flu 484-Bea[...] |
| [...]Thomas M. Selway, born in England July 24, 1841, died in[...]August 1, 1829, died in Dillon May 5,1888. She married[...]Philip Thorpe, Sr. in 1853 and they lived on a ranch four[...]Anna B. Selway, born in 1847, died at Dillon in 1930. She[...]son Hugh. Fred married Zetta Landon. Lee epidemic in Dillon 1919. He married Mary Elizabeth Mona- died in Dillon in 1929. Guy married Dovie G. Grannis, and han and t[...]little is known about Nell Selway as she remained in Carlson and Mae. Mae married Lyle Mulky, also a r[...]isconsin and married a man by the name of Buffin. in Salmon.[...]Robert H. Selway, born September 9, 1846, died in Dillon Hawley J. Selway married La Villa Nelso[...]ng 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, married they had se[...], 1880-1946, no Jane Reynolds, November 25, 1857. In 1866 they moved record of marriage or[...]l 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 a[...]to- had no children; Roy R Selway, born in 1886 and died in ber 14, 1870, died in Dillon February 21, 1931, married Lily 1954,[...]son, Charles, Marvin and Douglas. 1873, died in Dillon September 1935; Blanche, born July 7,[...]-JIM SELWAY 1874, died in Illinois August 16, 1910; married Lewis B. Alger[...]h Dakota August, 1939; married Josephine Reynolds in Robert H. Selway was the son of James S[...]gust 18, 1903; Selway, the first settlers in the Beaverhead Valley. Josephine died in 1914 (Richard married again in 1918 to James Selway came to this territory with Philip Thorpe in Ruth Hines, to this marriage was born Blanche Selway). 1863 and they engaged in mining for a short time in Alder[...] |
| [...]shouldn't let the Indians stay there but she ignored them.[...]Ironton, Ohio, who was a school teacher in Ironton. They[...]e help of his sons for his mother until she house in this part of the valley. He returned to Wisconsin to sold it in 1937 to William Jensen. bring his family out. Bef[...]His oldest daughter, Mary, accompanied him. While in England, James Sr. became ill and passed away. Mary stayed in Eng-[...]on of Henderson the rest of the children came out in 1864 to settle the land Franklin Seybold and D[...]22, 1895, between Dell and Lima. white women in the valley. The first church service was held He married Iona Adkins March 12, 1916, and they had in the Selway house in 1865. The first funeral in the valley five children. Charles E. was born[...]Leona on January 28, 1919: Agnes Fern in August, 1920; Robert was born in Somersetshire, England, in Septem- Archie Clyde on April 8, 1927, and Theodore Vernon on ber 1846. In 1848, when a child of two years, he was brought January 7, 1929. Agnes died in 1928 after years of poor by his 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 purchase[...]t he built was considered one of the finest homes in the area. It had hot and cold running water. It had a huge tank in the attic that you pumped water into with a pump in the kitchen. Robert planted crops but was not[...]turned to raising horses and cattle. Robert sold many of the horses to the U. S. Cavalry. Robert was[...]y and his braves would come to the ranch and camp in the yard while shopping in Dillon for Arch and Iona Seyb[...] |
| [...]tle Sheep the next morning to go to school in Lima. creek about 1915 where they ranched for a few years. The There were three families on Little Sheep creek then- f[...]t at Merrell's living on Birch creek. Store in Lima that ran for a year at a time and was only[...]nd a tough brothers and their families in two Maxwell cars and camped winter followed it. A[...]s brother Floyd and Myrtle were gravel roads. In 1931 they made the same trip in a six- on the west fork. They moved together on the middle fork cylinder Durant 4-door sedan in one day, all on paved roads. when winter started.[...]cows and 200 sheep between them. dances in the early days. All three of his sons played the[...]led 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 winter Vernon played with them on guitars in the early 1940s. Ralph Boone, who was married to[...]was left vacant. Harry Little Sheep creek in 1940 where they raised sheep and Hoenstein, a nei[...]taying with his uncle cattle until he died in 1965. Clarence Peters who was driving the school[...]nch and continued to help run ter, went to school in Lima. The school wagon was mounted it until 1988 when it was sold. Iona died in 1979. on a sled that winter and when they would t[...]Henderson Seybold'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[...]Lima and lives there. He no longer ranches but plans to keep[...]Charles Harrison Seybold was born May 26, 1851, in Ma-[...]October 5, 1859. All were born in McDonough County, Ill.,[...]tory, ending up in Glendale working in the silver mines and[...]In the mid 1880s, the six brothers left the H[...] |
| [...]Rear Marion and John Vinson, (circa 1880, in Glendale, Mt.) Luther was married for a short[...]30, on November 4, 1887, near Dell. He is buried in the Seybold family plot at Lima Cemetery. Charles died from injuries from being kicked in the head by a horse. He died at age 56 on June 21[...]ood pressure and its complications, and is buried in Lima Cemetery.[...]y President Known as "Uncle Charlie" to his many nieces, nephews and Grover Cleveland. Luther's ce[...]ber 1, 1956, at age 88. Charles Seybold is buried in the seph received certificate number 5266 dated J[...]ly Seybold brother, Luther, who continued to live there for another two Dotson Seybold was born February, 1802 in Washington decades and died March 10, 1937 at age[...]was born June 6, 1814 in Washington County, Ky., and[...]n- Charles Seybold was born on January 18, 1868 in McDon- ty, Ill., about 1815 or 1816 where[...]They were married March 24, 1831, in McDonough Coun- He lived in Illinois and Missouri before moving with his[...]ter and brother to Glendale, Montana Terri- in McDonough County: Elizabeth Margaret born Novem- tory, in the mid 1870s, where his father worked as an engi[...]in He operated the Red Butte Garage at Dell for many years. born February 15, 1847; Lucet[...] |
| [...]The destinies of Elizabeth, William and Lucetta are un- known. Nancy Jayne married John G. Woodside a[...]Henderson Franklin married Julia Huff, who died in childbirth. John, Henderson, Charles, Joseph,[...]. By 1885, he had Hereford cattle until he died in 1968. quit working at Hecla and moved to Hubbell,[...]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 where they live[...]d SALLY GARRETT Dotson died February 15, 1888, in Dillon at age 86. Polly[...]DINGLEY died November 2, 1895, in Dillon at age 81. They are both buried in the Lima Cemetery in the Seybold family plot. Frank C[...]He grew up in the area and homesteaded at the mouth of Floyd[...]ld and Daisy Drown, on the family York in 1911. Susan was born August 21, 1891 in Willow homestead between Dell and Lima, Montana.[...]916 where they ranched for a few 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, 1[...], where he died December 8, 1971. Lester was born in the Sheep Creek and later 480 acres on Straight C[...]for the Union Pacific Railroad at the roundhouse in he worked as an engineer on the Denver[...] |
| [...]shut down in the mid-1880s, he filed on 160 acres between[...]He married Daisy Drown in 1887. Daisy was born June[...]bought 320 acres in Missouri. He raised horses, both draft[...]and saddle, and shipped them back to his place in Missouri[...]round), 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 Paci[...]transferred. After 26 years with UPRR, 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 h[...]dren. 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[...]Daisy and Hans divorced, and she married Gilbert in McDonough County, Ill., the seventh of twelve chi[...]Mary "Polly" Hardisty. horses for many years. In his declining years, he suffered He married Jul[...]'s Disease. His brother took him back to the died in childbirth. He joined his five brothers and sister and horse farm he loved in Missouri, but the change in climate and locale did not help. He died there February 13, 1922 at age 75. He is buried in the Lima Cemetery. Daisy died the[...]next month, March, 1922 in Butte. She is buried next to[...]Henderson F. Seybold in the Lima Cemetery.[...]Nellie Belle married Leslie Dingley. She died in 1960. Floyd[...]yed for some of the local dances at Dell and Lima in the[...] |
| [...]ond of 14 chil- Margaret probably stayed in Missouri where she gave dren in the family of William Hamilton Huff and Sarah Ann birth to their second child, Annie Josephine, in 1869 in Graham, was born March 7, 1847 near Blandinsville[...]child, William Marion, was born December 29, 1872 in Illinois land that had been opened for settlement in the Nodaway County, Missouri. He moved his family to Glen- early 1830s. Many of the settlers used warrants from the dale, Montana Territory, in the mid-1870s where he had War of 1812 to claim t[...]Twins were born on February 1, 1882 in Glendale. Son[...]May grew to adulthood and died in 1957.[...]miles south of Dillon. In a personal letter dated Dillon,[...]Montana, August 19, 1886, he wrote to his mother in Hub-[...]has been the driest season I ever saw in Montana. Crops are[...]we are safe. We have about seventy head of cattle .... a[...]Later in the same letter he writes, "We expect to start to[...]In 1888, they were living at Ryans Canyon. Later the[...]took up land in the Alderdice (now Lima) area. Always[...]of 70 in Dillon and is buried in the Lima Cemetery. An[...]epidemic may have hit the Lima area in the fall and winter[...]ber 25, 1909 at the age of 37, and is also buried in the[...]garet Huff Seybold Hardisty died January 18, 1934 in for this reason when Tennessee and Kentucky became Idaho Falls and is buried in the Dubois Cemetery. crowded.[...]usly. Their first child, Charles Wesley, was born in 1868 Nellie Belle Seybold in Illinois.[...]Belle Seybold was the second child, born August In the-late 1860s, John Vinson Seybold and hi[...] |
| [...]William Marion Seybold was the third child in the family[...]was born December 29, 1872 in Nodaway County, Missouri.[...]some and the family had many photographs taken of him.[...]He worked as a laborer in Lima, never married and had no[...]hit the Lima area. He is buried in the Lima Cemetery near[...]John Herman Shafer was born December 29, 1861 in Bre-[...]nch Shafer. Com- Nellie Belle Seybold (taken in Lima, 1907)[...]grew up on the ranch and enjoyed going to dances in Henry and Carl they joined their sister, An[...]Anderson on October 14, who was a doctor in New York. Two brothers remained in 1908 in Beaverhead County. After divorcing him, she mar- Germany. After a few years in New York the brothers ried Ralph Boone on February 26, 1917. They ran sheep in moved west, joining a cattle drive that t[...]braska but John moved westward, arriving in Argenta, Belle and Les tended sheep in the Lima area for several Montana in 1893. While staying at Rebecca Knapp's board- yea[...]irplane 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 Arizona for several years, Les returned to Dillon[...]s born. He died September 3, 1988 at age 85. They are buried beside each other in the Lima Cemetery.[...] |
| [...]hunter to feed the workers. Returning to Argenta in 1896, he married Bertha Shafer, Jessie's sister,[...]n- nack, Montana and he ran the first gold dredge in Montana. They moved to Gilmore, Idaho and after a[...]came back to Argenta, buying a home and settling there. He worked at a number of jobs that included stag[...]e died October 27, 1946 of a stroke and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon, Montana. Bertha Knapp Shafer was born[...]o George Madison Knapp and Rebecca McCannon Knapp in Jewell County, Kansas. The family came west by wagon train, ar- riving at Argenta, Montana territory in 1883. Bertha spent her childhood in Argenta helping her mother with her youn- ger bro[...]a time for her family. She loved flowers and had many growing in her house as well as outside. She grew oleanders[...]tha died July 5, 1956 from a stroke and is buried in[...]In 1913, Della Kurtz, her mother and sister planned[...]t John F. Shaffner was born September 18, 1887, in Harris- son George was born there in November, 1914. In either late burg, Pennsylvania, and Della Rae Kur[...]or early 1915, the Shaffners filed on a homestead in the 29, 1886, in Muncy, Pennsylvania. They married in Dillon, Rattlesnake Creek area in Beaverhead County, with Della Montana, on September 13, 1913, and were the parents of staying there in the summers while improving the land and four son[...]Don and Dean. John staying in Custer, Montana, with the railroad. John Shaffn[...]r to the various other jobs before working a year in a postal telegra- homestead. It was a long, har[...]met Della Kurtz. She child who were living in a tent on their homestead. He graduated as saluta[...]e train, which went to Butte and Sprouse W aldens in Muncy. then[...]with the buggy. He Shaffner also worked one year in Washington, D.C. for an found out later he[...]In the fall of 1917, Shaffner went to work as[...] |
| for the Union Pacific Railroad in Dillon, planning to work dren, Lorin and[...]r Willard's brother, John Shaffner. boys were in the service and he needed to be at the ranch. Willard was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on July 10, His request[...]ad so he quit. He later 1881. Cora was born in Toledo, Ohio, January 26, 1886. considered going[...]Willard worked as a painter and decorator in Dillon, com- was not good, their son Walter had been killed in the war in muting from the homestead by horse and bugg[...]n were Lida, born August 27, 1918, and He- troops in the Pacific. .[...]Dillon from the homestead, Willard and they lived in a tent. That fall a Mr. Pickeral helped Shaffner[...]ar II. They moved to Layton, Utah north of Dillon in 1921 and lived there until about 1932 where Willard worked a[...]ake. Hill Field Air Force Base. While there, he invented a labor- During this time, they a[...]rd by the gov- They eventually sold the sheep and in late 1936 bought ernment. some drough[...]f Mizpah Chapter and George had to meet the train in Dillon at daylight to O.E.S., Master of[...]River Road and had a lot of angry housewives out in work with Rainbow Girls. their robes a[...]they moved to Dillon. Della Shaffner passed away in worked as a maintenance painter for the[...]Florence Hotel. He was Executive Secretary of In 1967 John married Frances Harper in Texas. They the International Brothe[...]joyed four years together before her sudden death in Trades, Local 851. 1971.[...]Cora died in Missoula, February 27, 1968 and Willard on Del[...]f Dillon. helped start one of the first 4-H Clubs in Beaverhead Coun- They had four children, t[...]remarried. Shaffner is proud to say he voted in every presidential Mary Greisinger married Jay Counts in North Holly- election since he was 21 years old. He always voted for a wood, California and lived in California until she died, Jan- Democrat, except[...]s regrets that vote. uary 18, 1987. In 1987 he celebrated his 100th birthday with family[...]to Missoula where Morris taught in the public schools until His son, Don, practiced veterinary medicine 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 from nurse's training in Salt Lake City Helen Lloyd, now ranch near Dillon[...]ived Eloise Anderson and they have a book bindery in Missoula. for a while in Van Nuys, California, later moving to Mis- His so[...]e boy. ber 21, 1979, and a son, Walter, a 1st Lt. in the Marines, who was awarded the Purple Heart, wa[...]-LIDA AND HELEN HOMME Islands in the South Pacific in October 1944. Shaffner has six grandchildren and[...]George Shambow remained in Magdelan after his parents moved and in 1897 he became Postmaster. The name was Willard[...]1908 to 1913. In 1916, Willard and Cora Shaffner and Cora's two chil In the meantime, Ellen Scollard came from Neb[...] |
| [...]ol. Later they moved back to the ranch and stayed there[...]Harry Simpson. Helen married James Cleveland in Butte, and Monica married Boyd Wilson in San Bernardino, Cali-[...]When Levi Shambow died in 1927, George and Ellen went[...]ried and died in 1963 in St. Cloud, Florida.[...]stands at the site of so many happy times. The pond which[...]to transport passengers and the mail. They lived there until 1913 when they moved to the ranch where the[...]len Shambow with daughters Hazel, Lakeview. While in Lakeview, six girls were born. The ol-[...]dest girl died shortly after birth and is buried in the Lake- view cemetery. Hazel was born in 1918; Alice, Monica, He- len and Dorothea were bo[...]When Levi and Mary Jane Shambow arrived in Centen- teams. It was a three-story building, gam[...]nial Valley at Magdalen, later, Lakeview, in 1888 they were room and kitchen on the first floo[...]rs. Water from a spring was pumped into the in new territory. house. While living there, they milked cows and shipped Levi was born in Montreal, Canada in 1843. At age 15, he cream and acquired a large he[...], they sent the other girls to high Nebraska in Meadlow County. They took a claim on the[...] |
| [...]ing mountains to the south. There were few people who lived there but game and fish were plentiful and the family[...]hat place is one of the best producing hay fields in the[...]nearer the railroad. They lived there until 1913, when all the[...]There was yet another adventure for them. After pioneer[...]ing in Nebraska, Oregon, and Montana, they went by Pull-[...]limate. Levi became President of the Peoples Bank in[...]there until Levi died in 1927. Mary died in 1938. Both are buried in St. Cloud, Florida.[...]and lived there many years. John married a lady from Utah,[...]they lived there and reared a large family. George stayed in[...]ghter Blake's cousin. They lived there until 1927. Mary Jane Vaneta Blake), Mary Shambow[...]two girls and a boy. Alcon River. Here they lived in a sod house and farmed for[...]shoppers 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[...]nd the Shambow family decided to join them. After many miles fording rivers, sun, wind and dust, they arrived in Oregon near a trading post now named Eugene, Oreg[...]they could build rain- and water-proof shelters. In spite of the days of rain and meager food supply,[...]rming, and also organiz- ing the work done. While in Oregon, two girls were born. One baby girl died s[...]n August 8, 1879. Levi heard of the great boom in mining and railroad building in Butte and decided to bring the family to a new territory. After a side trip to Washington, they arrived in Brown's Gulch July 4, 1881 and got a contract to[...]r the mines. The youngest child, Lester, was born there in 1886. The contract finished in Butte, Levi investigated ranch- George and Mary Jane Shambow observing her 92nd ing in Montana and decided on the Centennial Vall[...] |
| [...]m L. Shambow William L. (Bill) Shambow was born in Meadlow County, Oakdale, Nebraska, on April 3, 18[...]amily moved to Eugene, Ore., where his father was in the sawmill business for some years. They then moved to Deep Creek Falls, Wash. In 1881 the family moved to Butte, Mon- tana, where they lived in Browns Gulch. His father was in 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. Bill Shambo[...]foreman for several years. In 1942 he returned to Beaver-[...]plans on his 92nd birthday, |
| [...]oltzer in Dec., 1941. Dad sold his holdings in the Centennial to Sam Grover in 1944 and moved to Coram, Montana. He and F[...]Jack Forsythe built some tourist cabins there. In a few years[...]amily came to the Centen- He passed away in June, 1961. nial Valley on May 11, 1916. James Orr was born in Nevada, The Shanholtzer children Beatrice[...]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, lived in Shanholtzer, came to Montana. They 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 go to college. He nursing home in Libby, Montana. He is divorced and had no met Mabel McFarland. Mable was born in El Dorado children. Ben and Orlen[...]They have four daughters. Damie Jo Mitchell lives in Wash- Orr and Mabel were married in December 1908 and ington. Molly Cloninger lives in Washington, Sally Kamps moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma. Orr drove an ice wagon for owns the Truck Inn in Dillon and Sarah Kautzman lives in Muskogee wholesale grocers and played baseball on[...]dren were born, two girls moved to 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. worked for his Dad in the Gallatin Valley for one year, then[...]ed on a dry land home- stead. The family lived in a tent until he got a one-room log[...]Oscar and Gertrude Sharp cabin built. In September, another daughter was born, and[...]rp, with their two children, Mar- every two years there was another daughter until there were gurite and Dorothy, came to Beaverhead County in 1912. nine children. Orr made their living by tra[...]They moved from Edina, Mo., to try their luck in this land badgers, muskrats and skunks in the winter. In the summers of promise. he built log cabins[...]traveled several days wood stove, and took baths in a Number 3 washtub. We had with a team of[...]ouse. But it sure took a lot of courage to go out there was necessary to start from scratch-they bui[...]er was available, the livestock had to be wrapped in tin foil. We would save the tin foil. Mother[...]d stars of cardboard.We kids wrapped hauled in barrels. them in the tin foil and that was our Christmas tree trim[...]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. Back in those days there was no television, radios or[...]Oscar Sharp scratch. There was only one child out of nine who saw a doctor u[...]rup and ground sage for worm. YUCK! Sassafras tea in the spring of the year to thin your blood and for[...]nd for anything else that you got wrong with you, there was always a dose of castor oil. Mother passed away at her home in the Centennial Valley 498-Beaverhead History |
| [...]In the late 1800's, Harry Ellsworth Shaw came to Dil[...]genta where they rented the He was born in Ohio June 2, 1861, the son of Samuel and Hand pla[...]st janitors at the Retirement years were spent in a small house on Ken- Montana State Normal[...]rrounded by devoted fam- born July 31, 1866, in Guernesey County, Ohio, where she ily and friends[...]s 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,[...]called Dolan or D. C., was born August 14, 1898, in Lawrenceburg, Tenn. He lived there until he moved to Beaverhead County in 1917 with his par- ents and sister Emma. He wo[...]rriage to Violet Rae, and later to Florence Shaw. There were no children. Dolan had many friends wherever he lived. He passed away Dece[...]fter an illness of several months, and was buried in the Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. -GRACE K[...]Emma Beal, January 11, 1904. Lizzie was born in Kansas, the rest in Tennessee. The family resided in Tennessee until 1917 when they[...]In 1924, the family moved to Dillon to spend the win[...]Shaw lived her 21 remaining years in Dillon. She was a[...]part in the local activities of that church. She passed a[...]on March 3, 1945. Both she and H. E. are buried in Moun-[...]Mary Ann Dudley, age 17, ar~ived in the Big Hole with[...]Dolan Shaw pump organ in 1888. Family legend says the young pioneer[...] |
| [...]Both Joe and Mary Ann Shaw were active in Big Hole They filed on homesteads but must hav[...]hing herself as one of Montana's early "Liberated in valley affairs and mother to two pioneer Big Hole[...]County Commissioner on the Democractic ticket in the late Born into a Mormon plural marriage at[...]hter of Joe Shaw was a prominent leader in the construction of Moses and Helenor Stephens Th[...]. He was a member of the Pendleton of Logan, Utah in 1890. They began a ranching Masons, the Shrine and Order of Eastern Star. operation in the Briston area of the Big Hole. Their mar-[...]k Jr., Nellie, Beth, and rodeos. It was said many of his fine animals came from the Rula.[...]Nellie married Ullman and Lucy Hughes, are largely responsible for the first Big Stewart and lived in California. Rula married Carvell Hole r[...]automobile Campbell and operated a general store in Nelscott, Ore. She travel. now lives in Longview, Wash., the only surviving child of[...]Shaw. born in 1907, Obed born in 1909, and Ivan born in 1912. All Having been divorced from Frank H. Pendleton, Mary were born at the ranch home in Briston. Ann married Joseph Edgar Shaw on July 7,[...]e University of Utah, Warren Joe Shaw was born in Muncie, Ind., on August 25, 1872, married E[...]Dillon and joined the family and probably arrived in the Big Hole in 1897. An excellent ranching operation. Warre[...]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 became Secretary of Agriculture in the cabinet of Presiding Billings. Harding.[...]ogeth- had two children, Kenneth who lives in Billings and Carolyn er in a single operation the properties of several homesteads who was killed by an automobile in Portland at age 4. Obed and other Briston holding[...]the foundation for died suddenly at age 19, in 1929. what was to become one of the most prominen[...]weeks later at his ranch, age 62, in 1934. His death and the[...]in 1944.[...]Mary Ann never left the Big Hole. Living in Wisdom, she remained interested and active in valley affairs until her death in a Butte hospital on October 9, 1951. She is buried in[...]John H. (Jno) Sheser was born November 16, 1863, in[...] |
| [...]the trail to the Sheser ranch in hopes of getting a lodging[...]rassing to some woman but not one bred in the best tradi-[...]ranching in 1925 and lived in Dillon until he died January[...]25, 1951, and she December 2, 1952. Both are buried in[...]nk, 1877; Emma, 1880; and Carrie, 1888, All lived in the east except William, Ralph Edward and Samuel[...]Blair of Horse Prairie. Rev. Crawford united them in mar- riage. They made their home on Mr. Sheser's[...]ffice also handled express being sent to ranchers in the area by stage and let it be known via the new[...]ed up, signed Snow and Sheser the proprietors. In December, 1892, just two days before Christmas, f[...]hi Placer com- pany and supplies to the merchants in Idaho passed by on the stage road. Upon reaching[...]orses with old time miner and prospector in Beaverhead County before it into the gulch below,[...]turned from the war with Spain. He died in Spokane, Wash., spring. Rescue efforts were start[...]Idaho side and Brother Ralph Edward born in Reynolds, Ill., in 1867, was 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.[...]n passengers served his country bravely there and then returned to Bea-[...] |
| [...]Soon after his return he and his brother in New Mexico and back to Denver where he arrived ne[...]ayden, Idaho, where he starved, clothed in a pair of overalls made of a wagon sheet lived un[...]ip 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. He was engaged in After being staked by his brother-in-law Briggs, Shine- mining for several years at Ar[...]il Nevada City, Colo., with some success. In 1862 he made his Creek. He was fatally injured wh[...]and he received a fractured skull. Death In the spring of 1863 Shine berger again headed west[...]in Barrett, destination ine Sheser who was living in Spokane, Wash. Burial was in Salmon River country. This journey across[...]t the remaining brothers and sister as they lived in the east and only visited John and Nellie when th[...]Joseph Shineberger Joseph Shineberger was born in Philadelphia, Penn., on January 5, 1836, the four[...]is living as a manufactur- er of soap and candles in Philadelphia. Young Joseph Shineberger was educated in the common schools until the age of 12 when he be[...]mpany. At 13, he began learning the drug business in an uncle's store. Dissatisfied with both occupa-[...]everal others before apprenticing as a blacksmith in a shovel factory. In 1859 the gold excitement of Pike's Peak drew Shin[...]est. Leaving from Alton, Ill., he and his brother-in- law Leonard Briggs traveled with four other prai[...]of oxen each, until they reached Boulder, Colo., in July. There they sold their stock of goods and wagons. Briggs[...]ne mining site to another over the next few years in Colorado,[...]course. After arriving in July both men joined in a stampede[...]partners in business. Barrett looked after the ranching in-[...] |
| [...]ock raising on an extensive scale until his death in 1908. A near disaster occurred in the severe winter of 1886-87. For miles in every direction on his seven-mile-long ranch, the[...]e- breeders as being as nutritious as that raised in Kentucky for racing horses. In a single year he was known to have shipped as muc[...]rtline R.R., which was built through his property in 1880. Shineberger remained a bachelor througho[...]erson (Tong) Roe, to make their home at the ranch in 1904. Three Roe children were born before Joseph Shineberger's death ended up in Phoenix where he went to work for the Arizona in 1908, at which time this employment was discontin[...]- At the time of his death the Dillon Tribune, in Shine- round haying. berger's obituary, st[...]nt nose bleeds and was of patented ground and had many thousands of acres of losing strength.[...]argaret Shineberger Roe, All the while in the States, he had heard about the Big wife of Wi[...]ard 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 in Dillon, he met a local dentist Dr. Frank Bimrose[...]se place for three years and had an that facility in Dillon. Upon his death, ownership in his opportunity to buy for $500 the Harry[...]But the war in Europe, which made wheat raising profit-[...]ed Stanley Sisterson was born January 30, 1889, in Fleet, the war and Stanley sold his livestock and equipment and Hampshire, England, the youngest in a family of 11 chil- enlisted. He was ass[...]la on a hill named Highview. Stanley was educated in 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.[...]Canada and Armistice Day found Stanley in a hospital, victim of rain, when Stanley finished[...]g behind a four- toes). After four months in hospitals in Belgium and France, horse team and rake.[...] |
| [...]en Stanley was working on the Ball Brothers ranch in[...]He also saw Indians buried in their typical way, on top of a[...]Stanley died on June 15, 1975, in Dillon. Both he and Sally are buried in Mountain View Cemetery in_Dillon.[...]s laid on the freezing States from Yugoslavia in the 1890s. After working in the sidewalk on his birthday as the aides thought[...]ob met the lady to be his wife, Mary A. Lawrence, in seen alive."[...]ey was too ill to notify any of his family he was there Mary was born in Austria-Hungary. A young woman 27 so he didn't se[...]a maid for a doctor, his wife and three children in Austria- He returned to Dillon in May, 1919, too late to plant a Hungary. Th[...]They boarded the luxury liner Titanic in Southampton, a suit wouldn't buy one in Dillon. While working at Dell, he England. T[...]ica. Five days out to sea the bought the only one in Dillon for a big price, a 25-20 from Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in 2 ½ hours, with a loss Sam Arndts Store.[...]d needed some to start farm- sea and docked in New York City aboard the ship Carpa- ing again. H[...]truction Mary recovered and went to work in northern New York of the Ruby Dam in the early 1920s. st[...]ort while later she learned of an uncle who lived in of San Francisco in Dillon. Sally was born and raised in the Dillon, named Isadore Thomas. Mary lived[...]Gallatin Valley, 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. She was a[...]neer parents. Her father, 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 Boze[...]ain used those talents to teach for several years in the Birch Creek School. She served many years as clerk to the Birch Creek School Board. In 1927, they left the East Bench and moved to the M[...]s for the Union Bank and Trust Company of Helena. In 1941, they moved to a ranch at the mouth of Birch[...]young- uarked the first time that Stanley lived in a home where s[...] |
| [...]arskins 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[...]ge logs it required two ally for the Anaconda Co. in Butte. The enclosed photo was men so they o[...]s Grandfather taken at their farm north of Dillon in 1919. The Skenders Clark and Henry would e[...]and Grand- and their six children moved to Butte in 1929. Jacob father often remarked tha[...]r the Anaconda Co. until he better cooks in the valley. Always when Grandfather was retired in 1940. The Skender family home was located at 63[...]and Mallory had put those horse shoe Skender died in 1946 at the age of 71. Mary Lawrence nails in Ben Hamby's coffin, which was a sure sign to bring Skender died in 1947 at the age of 64. Anne, their first child[...]life. But it was the only nails to be passed away in 1929, age 12. Frank, the eldest son passed[...]ody was so badly mangled that they used what away in 1983, age 65. Surviving son Rudy Skender lives in they had to get him buried. Butte. Daughte[...]ore of Vancouver, Washington, and Cather- how badly mutilated the body was and as she took to t[...]the ripe old age of 107 and he loved to Missouri in the early 1900s. They had land along the North talk about the days in the Big Hole Valley and told them Fork and built[...]family. house looked as though it had been built in sections of about The above account was giv[...]h, as I spent a couple of hours interrogat- lived there for a number of years. ing a backpacker at the Jackson Lodge in August, They had no children, although Mrs. Sm[...]age: She did quite a bit of practical born here in the Big Hole up toward Twim Bridges in nursing and ushered many babies into the world for the· l9l5 but moving away in l9l8. He is Clark Smith's women in the area. One of the Weldon Else children,[...]wife had lO children including a George, was born in their big log house on June 4, 1909. set[...]e 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 hired a head for the hills[...]the Bitterroot they rented. Some of these cabins are still in use today. and Selway mountains for five weeks, covering 500 While the Smiths were in Wisdom, she took in laundry miles. He had a close encount[...]ith passed away, old grizzly and her cub in the Selway mountains. His Albert returned to Miss[...]plans were to settle back in the Jackson area. Their log house stood for many years as sort of a land- mark, but little by litt[...]as related by Sgt. Major Clyde Smith, USMC in time it was gone altogether. However, everyone kn[...]tana, in 1910. The train was the fastest mode of travel at[...]ime, from Roncevert e, West Virginia. He remained in[...]65, at age 81. Clark Smith came to the Big Hole in the 1870s or 1880s. He A federal charter h[...]claim cific rail line from Omaha westward in 1862. Also in 1862, and building a cabin up on Rock Creek. Late[...]years and paying a registration fee of ten dol- There were four trappers who claimed the upper B[...] |
| [...]While in West Virginia he married Madge on February[...]gift - a great amount of money in 1916 - which she never The law said the person mu[...]were brother, Hubert, seven miles east of Dillon in a cabin on just for them to enjoy! their[...]s sister Lelia By 1917, Clyde's brother-in-law had built two rooms of a and her husband, Ray Weikel, were already "proving up" on frame house in time for the arrival of their first child, Lou- h[...]ise. By the time Gilmer was born in 1918 it was enlarged to Later Clyde chose a spo[...]s and two large porches. wide and moved the cabin there. Hubert took a bride and Dennis was born in 1919. By this time, there was a con- built a larger house some distance away for them. In a draw tinuing drought and Clyde was havin[...]several rods down a steep hill from Clyde's cabin there was a year at a ranch a few miles away to ma[...]e doing, hoping their dreams of homesteading them in exchange. He put up boundary line fences, a hog l[...]Rosa Smith He knew when a blizzard was blowing in from the north as Edward C. Smith was[...]Hannah Jane Rourk Smith on August 7, 1860 in Yreka, Usually a blizzard would rage with hard wi[...]alifornia. Edward's father, William, was a farmer in Cali- into impenetrable drifts across fences and[...]cat- zero for ten or more days. Often afterwards there would be tle in 1866 and after a difficult three-month journey ar[...]ting snow and making raging torrents of in the Argenta area. Edward's father engaged in the freight- icy water for days to come, or it might lay in icy drifts that a ing and dairy business until[...]e planted winter wheat each fall and spring wheat in tinued ranching and raising cattle adding[...]e. until he owned one of the largest ranches in the area. He broke horses, fed hogs and put in 16 or more hours a day Edward had five[...]Cap- Edward married Emma Rosa Ripley in 1889 at Newco- 506-Beaverhead History |
| [...]led him) went to what they called "common school" in children, Earl Ripley Smith, Harry Cosby Smith, E[...]the winter and worked on the farm with the slaves in the Mae Smith (Leimert) and Emery Keller Smith. E[...]l he was 21 years old. He then got a job teaching in a into Dillon residing at 333 South Pacific Street. country school near Milburn, in Hickman County. While Edward was a member of the Dillon Lodge No. 16 A. F. & there, he met and married Eliza B. Hughes on September[...]Eliza's father, Lewis Hughes, came from Virginia in the Knights Templer, the Butte Bagdad Temple of the the early days, settled in Nelson County, and later moved to Shrine and the[...]urch. Rosa, Ed- Hickman County. He died in 1851, but Eliza's mother Eliza- ward's wife, died[...]moved back to the farm in Graves County, where they re- The stories of th[...]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[...]and settled in Malad City, Idaho. He was very successful in his law practice, and in 1893 he was appointed by President Edward C.[...]never did take to ad- married. He spent his life in this area working on ranches vanced learni[...]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 M[...]and 1888 he joined his brother Eli Smith in Dillon in the ton), and J oAnn (Baer). The youngest of thei[...]ng business. He lived the latter part of his life in ery Keller Smith, married Dora Elizabeth Nelson.[...]on't know when he died, but it was some- children are Emery C. E. Smith of Twin Bridges and Donald[...]Butte, and spent a couple of years in the contracting busi- ness in Dillon. He was big, strong, and athletic, and was[...]especially attractive man. He was struck down in the prime My great grandfather, Eli Smith, was[...]by an attack of appendicitis, which was much more in New York State. He moved to Louisville, Ken., about 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[...]a, for a number of years. He married Nancy Walker there in nammed Emma Ann (1865-19??). She marrie[...]seven children were born. My grand- Jewell in Kentucky in 1884, shortly thereafter moved to father, DeWitt[...]bert had his law office. George November 5, 1831, in Louisville. was a blacksmith and had his own shop in Dillon for many In 1841 Eli and his family moved to that part of the[...]own as "Jackson's Purchase" and settled on a farm in She died sometime between 1930[...] |
| [...]was then he discovered the men he had been lived in Union City, Tenn. Number nine was Mary Edna[...]y him. It was decid- Smith (1876-1970) who lived in Lowes all her life and mar- ed they would poo[...]would get in a poker game to win enough money for Hu- Numb[...], 1873. Like his brothers After a few days in Dillon, he decided to seek a winter job before him, he worked as a youth on the farm until he in the Big Hole feeding cattle. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Pin[...]t University of Kentucky, graduating with honors in June, while in Dillon and as the ride to the Big Hole was extrem[...]Hubert worked in the Big Hole that winter for various He worked about a year as a guard at the State Prison in ranchers including Jules Wenger and Tom Pinker[...]had all selor at the State Reform School for Boys in Miles City. the checks he had received for[...]the mail While holding down this job, he read law in his spare time, freight wagon until Bill Tash came by in a light buggy and a preparing for the Montana Sta[...]nations. After slick team and said, "Kid, how would you like to get to passing these and getting his license, he opened a law office Dillon in a hurry?", so he rode the rest of the way at a much in Miles City. He told me his office was on the seco[...]o himself, "That's the girl I'm going to In the next few years he cut timber in Ax Canyon as well marry!" As usual, he accomplish[...]mith. Millard Holeman. In 1908 he took up a 160-acre homestead Mother was teaching school in Miles City and living with next to Millard Ho[...]nt of a bank land from Gene Bond and planted it in flax which did very there, Charles W. Butler. Mother had an identical twin[...]s from Norman ter, Camilla, who also 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[...]e Norris, Hurd, and Smith. They had their offices in a gray potatoes weren't worth very much, so[...], and the business prospered. After a year In the spring of 1915, Margaret Lee 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[...]e they were married. They returned to her parents in Lisbon, N.D. Dad followed, and they were[...]n the homestead. Their oldest child, Mar- married in Lisbon on July 15, 1909. After a short honey- jorie Lee, was born there in 1917. moon they settled down in their new home at 717 South Times were hard, fighting drought in summer and endur- Pacific Street in Dillon. It was there I was born on October ing the long hard winter[...]ranchers and in 1920 Hubert and Granny Grachet took sev- Joseph C. Smith died November 21, 1942, in Dillon. Clara eral boxcar loads of horses and[...]n, Texas. R. Smith passed away November 13, 1966, in Great Falls. They would trail the horses[...]ing with the cotton farmers, who Before his death in• September, 1985 lik[...]bert L. Smith in January, 1921, their second child, a boy, Hubert L. "Tex" Hubert L. Smith was born in 1885 near Ronceverte, W. was born in Amarillo, Texas. Hubert and Charley Garland Va.,[...]k another train load of horses and mules to Texas in ters. 1925. At a young age he went to work in a paper mill and later In 1927, Blacktail 2 schoolhouse reopened with eight was employed in the woods. In 1906 he left West Virginia, children[...] |
| [...]tennial Valley, using horse-drawn road equipment. In the winter he trapped and sold the fur. Start- in[...]nto cattle ranching. Margaret Lee (Maggie) died in 1946. In 1948 he sold the ranch, keeping the cattle for three more years. Hubert lived in Dillon where h_e died in 1978 at the age of 93.[...]In 1902, Pearl I. returned to Kansas City to marry N[...](Lenore) Marsh. She was a bit insecure about life in a small Pearl I. Smith town and a mining camp. In 1905, she returned to her Kan- On February 5,[...]arm home near Lawrence, Rachel Lenore. In 1908 she bravely stayed in Dillon for the Kansas. Irvin and Celinda were des[...]f her second child-a boy, Ralph Irvin. They lived in migrants. They had hoped and planned for a daught[...]new child his residence. Pearl Irvin. In adult life he was affectionately known as Pearl I. established an office in Dillon where he compiled "Pearl I.", and had to tolerate many quips about his phys- a set of abstract boo[...]pen born. Following the last birth, Celinda died. In a short time, tunnels and stopes as they follow[...]l school was a widow, Mrs. Mary Johnson. For some in- was needed for war materials. Foreign s[...]iners to work around the clock. younger girl died in infancy. Wh[...]hite stone building on Bannack residential rights in Kansas for many years. Street, when the Secur[...]of Barrett Hospital, Beaverhead ceiving training in mining engineering, surveying and land Coun[...]er of where, somehow, he became deeply interested in the miner- the short-lived Wranglers' Club. He created and awarded al, graphite. How this interest developed or where he pr[...]spring for Beaverhead County elementary schools. in 1900 he travelled to Colorado and Montana. In Dillon he In the 1920's, Pearl I. entered state politics. A Re[...]had can, he represented Beaverhead County in the Montana found a deposit of high grade graphite in the Ruby Moun- Legislature, serving one term in the House, during its 19th tains east of Dillon. Pearl I. decided to settle in Montana. Session in 1925, and one term in the Senate, during its 21st After acquiring the m[...]rty, developing the mine and 22nd Sessions in 1929 and 1931. became the ambition and interest of his life. Injured in an accident in which a car, driven by an intoxi-[...] |
| cated man, hit his car, Pearl I. Smith died in 1937. His son, Payne Morris Sparrow. driving, and his wife, also in the car, survived. Nora Smith When Frank was about 14 he became the man of the died in 1949 and Ralph in 1982. Pearl I. is survived only by family,[...]a creative, largely self-educated man, work in the woolen mills to help out his mother, who was[...]id his best for his town, his county and In 1884, Eliza died when Frank was 17. He and Winnie[...]yed with neighbors until Charlie came to get them in -RACHELL. SM[...]1886. Charlie, now a painter and paper hanger in Anaconda,[...]Smith In 1887 Frank and Charlie went to the Centennial Valley William Smith was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, on to ranch. Je[...]on his father's farm until of age. He then in-law. He married their sister, Cora, the three bei[...]ember 11, 1856. . spending a mild winter in the Centennial Valley when live- She was born Jul[...]inter long. The next summer dad After engaging in farming for some time he borrowed $200 boug[...]rough the roof of the barn. at Yreka, California, in 1859. They car[...]hichever it was, all winter and then butchered it in the their residence in California, two more children were born, sp[...]Centennial she cared decided to come to Montana. In the company of Mssrs. for and I gues[...]d eight children: Charles G., Mickey, Elma, Cora, many experiences with Indians and untold hardships on[...]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 nearly 34. In about 1900 he married (Lucy) May what property he[...]d the Rattlesnake Creek below Argenta. He engaged in ranch- had two daughters, Blanche and Dor[...]ing 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 of 1903 a daughter whom they named Maybelle after state. There were two more children born to Mr. and Mrs.[...]d look after a fine home for his family, residing there until his death on tiny baby, a two year ol[...]aybelle. Blanche was adopted by window was placed in the Grace Methodist Church in mem- other people. ory of William and Hannah Smith. When the old church was Frank was in demand as a fiddler at all of the local dances. r[...]side of the present Frank was mowing hay in the marshy meadows the ground church. However, th[...]a large section of the origi- would rise up in waves ahead of the machine. Many of the nal window were lost in the move. streams[...]also saved by his horse in the blinding blizzards that came in Charles, Frank and James[...]Frank Belle Sparrow was born September 12, 1866 in They said the ranchers believed t[...]parrow and Eliza even changed your clothes in the winter, you'd catch your 510-Beav[...] |
| [...]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[...]reat-grandchildren. 1932. James Sparrow lived in the Centennial at the same time as his brother F[...]cated they were married by a Justice of the Peace in Lion John A. Spehar was· born in Yugoslavia (date of birth City on Augu[...]Mary had their first unknown but approx. 1875). In the late 1800s, he and his child, George William, on June 15, 1890, while living in Lion two brothers journeyed to America to join their father in City, It is not known when they left Lion City, but they Kalamazoo, Mich., where they all worked in the coal mines. eventually moved south of Dillon and ranched there until When the father decided to return to Yugos[...]1920. They later moved to St. Helena, Calif., in order to brothers moved on to Butte where they worked in the cop- grow grapes for the making of wine. per mines. John met Anna Sweet in Butte and they were Lucy Mary Rebich, born December 14, 1891 in Butte, was[...]Lucy grew up on the family ranch in Beaverhead County,[...]She married Joseph Spehar, a native of Austria, in 1909 and[...]thers, Nicholas and John, and joined their father in Kalamazoo, Mich., where they all worked in the coal mines. Spehar Family - Front row, from[...]hree brothers moved to Butte, Montana, and worked in the Anne.[...]seph, Nicholas, and John all eventually married in 1902. After living in Butte for several years, they moved to the Beav[...]of that type ofliving so they moved to Dillon. There they bought a small acreage (now known as Hall[...]nce of her produce was sold to the grocery stores in town. John worked as a janitor at the old Ba[...]way through town was finished. John passed away in September of 1942 and Anna in July of 1962. There were eight children born to the couple, tw[...] |
| came to marry and live in Beaverhead County. Joseph, his brother John, and his father-in-law George Rebich built numerous buildings on the[...]parents and I came to Montana from Vinton, Iowa, in 1904, when I was four. My mother had asthma and h[...]me country and ranching was good, so they settled in the Big getting through the snow drifts, even in April. During my Hole Basin. They encouraged my f[...]rthur Wilson the third. Arthur had a notion store in Jack- was relieved considerably.[...]was sometimes unbearable for her. Her first home in the Big grandparents G.P. and Martha Spencer were living in Dil- Hole was a log cabin with a dirt roof. She m[...]ouldn't sign ing and games that were so prevalent in the large family. for me to go. After th[...]When the war ended, and we had won the war, there were farmed there on a rented farm. some financial catastrophies that affected many ranchers Montana drew them back in 1909, when the government that spring[...]inviting for people high priced steers in the fall, fed them all winter and bought (who cou[...]high priced hay to finish putting weight on them in the later "Desert Claims". My folks took up homesteads in the spring. They thought the price would[...]been because of the demand for Army beef. In the spring the adjoining the homestead land, whic[...]selves in a similar predicament. To prove on the homeste[...]s out of the year for three on the range in the Big Hole and there were many predators. years consecutively. For Desert Claim,[...]topped at the first ranch I came to and stayed In 1918 my dad and I took down the log house and bar[...]lves tracks and moved them to a lot he had bought in Jackson. We following my horse and me. numbered each log so we could put it up in the order we took My sister, Louise was born May 6, 1913, in the Big Hole it down. These two buildings are still in good repair with Valley with Mother having only a midwife. Ella Mae was people living there in 1988. born in Dillon, November 6, 1914. Dr. Bond delivered her.[...]hool, I rode my horse We left Montana in the summer of 1919 for northern three miles to th[...]lived close by. They had parents lived in California until their deaths. They were two sons[...]ol. Since they had come from Eng- both in their nineties. The long hard winters of Montana land, we wondered how they happened to come to Montana. prepared them for long lives. They are buried in Rose Hills Because of the heavy snows and[...] |
| [...]departed for California that day. We came back on many vacations to Dillon as our daughter, Sharon, married Otha Graham in 1947, and they and their children were a big draw[...]. Since we have our son, Danny, and his offspring in California, we divided our vacations. In 1981 we moved back to Dillon to spend our retirement, and are very happy here. -[...]Henry F. Sprague was born in Heron County, Ohio, 1823,[...]was the sixth of 10 children and grew to manhood in[...]In 1948 they set up a trading post for Indians near[...]the return trip, he was caught in a blizzard and his mocca- My mother was born Ju[...]t froze before he could reach the August 6, 1878, in Madison County. They were married in cabin. His feet were off right above the[...]ade sheepskin pads on his knees. Henry was a tall in 1910. He had a contract to haul freight from Moni[...]e and Mary Ann set out for Homestead Sperry spent many summers on the ranch with us. She was a in a homemade sled down the frozen Iowa River. Along[...]ee children: Ruby, Ruth The family lived in Homestead until the 1870's, then and Walte[...] |
| moved to Montana in 1881 and staked a Squatter's claim at the mouth o[...]ng this time he sold butter and eggs to the store in Lima. He re- turned to the Rosebud, but he and Ma[...]picture and Charlie's friendship. carry his body in his own wagon and team; it appeared that[...]d his neck was on the endgate of his name in that capacity appeared with that of the owners, t[...]ding William C. Orr and Philip H. Poindexter in the Montana off in the river, and his wolfhound had returned home.[...]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. For many years he ran his stock hole. 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 Indi[...]this union five children were born: daughter May in 1890, ished the young bucks by banning them from the tribe. He is Martha in 1891, Laura in 1894, son Blair in 1902, and Joe in · buried in an unmarked grave in the old Forsyth Cemetery. 1906. In 1912 the Sprinkle family moved to a home on South[...]buttom up on a knoll. Pictures and early dates are taken from "They Came and Stayed" - Rosebud Count[...]Worth, Tex., to Wichita, Kans. Still a young man, in 1876 Budd moved up to "Bullwhacker" on the Poinde[...]its glory among the top stockmen of the world. In 1882 an Englishman by the name of Conklin contrac[...]delivery of 7500 head of cattle to the Bow River in Canada. Bud was put in charge of the herd. He E.B. -Sprinkl[...] |
| [...]broken couple of years. They came to Dillon in 1904, bought land bones. His legs were badly bowe[...]and started the Stahl Dairy. Louis was also in the real estate was from improperly healed breaks[...]Flat. That land is now them only to say, "My legs are as straight as a stick!" How- known as the Stahl Addition. ever, as he grew older, he no longer rode horseback but did In 1921 Louis Stahl and Louis Schmittroth bought the[...]rom 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 the[...]in which he conducted the office. He possessed a keen sense In his later years, Bud retired to his Dillon home w[...]33. Thus ended the though he lived comfortably in later years. Judge Stahl died career of a cowboy[...]mother. Syrena died at the Washington Street home in February of 1945. One of her legacies was a scrap[...]even though their political views were not always in agreement. Montana was their beloved home, and th[...]Louis and Julia Stahl Louis Stahl was born in Hohn Oellongen Uke Westwald, Germany in 1861. He married Julia Klukner of Hesse Nas- sau, a regency of Prussia, on October 4, 1884. 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 Kl[...]many 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 many of their fellow countrymen had settled. While in Michigan Julia became ill and was told by a docto[...]o a drier climate. They came to Beaverhead County in 1888 and settled four miles above Argenta in a mining camp. The Back row, from le~: Bill[...]ther. with a dirt roof. There were seven people quartered in this in 1949. one cabin so the Stahls built another cabin[...], they lived to be 94 years old. She died in 1955. moved the cabin to Bannack where it still s[...]ghteen months; Lillian, who died at three months; in the mines. She often fed hungry Indians who came[...]German or English and Esther. Sometimes, in German families, if a baby died then Julia spoke[...]layed out, Louis moved Katherine Klukner are buried in Argenta. his family to Bannack and also moved the[...]Paul Stahl was married to Mida Mitchell in 1911. They[...] |
| had four children. Paul lived in Dillon until his death in They had four children, two sons, Paul Jr.[...]rnestine and Fern. Carl Stahl, the second Carl in the family, married Eva[...]became a civil engineer working as city engineer in Oakland, Calif., until his death.[...]y 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, M[...]Murry. They had no children. He Myrtle. lived in Dillon until his death in 1971. Francis at age 16 fought in the Civil War - on the losing Louis Stahl marr[...]side by the way. He was a justice 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., where he lived unt[...]ather, Joseph Potts, came to America from England in 1880 Esther Stahl married Louis Schmittroth. T[...]e of four. My grandfather, being a miner, settled in children. She also lived in Dillon until her death in 1975. Boulder, Mont., where he continued to mi[...]Staley in 1905. I was born in Wisdom at the Hotel in 1910. Paul and Mida Stahl, Sr.[...]of Louis and Julia Stahl, was Wise River. born in Germany in 1885. He came to the United States in So, by 1920 I did not have the time to be[...]- 1887 with his family and lived for a short time in Michigan. ious teenager. The family came west in 1888, settling in Argenta where his RALPH S. POTT~ father worked in the gold mines. In 1892, they moved to Bannack and Paul started scho[...]"Dutch," arrived from Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1888. Afte1 In 1904, the family moved to Dillon and Paul, his fa[...]Skeets Cafe. At that time and for many years to come Paul attended Beaverhead County[...]d Albert Stamrr. which won the state championship in 1906. The team mem- and Son, after which i[...]h Walter Stamm unti Gilbert Sr., and Bill Drummy. In 1911, he coached the October 1, 1963, at[...]at Ogden, Utah, June 15, 1895. From this marriage there baseball and bowling.[...]Walter Al- Paul and Mida Mitchell were married in the Methodist bert Stamm, born November 11, 1896, died June 21, 1974: Church in Dillon in 1911. Mida Mitchell was born in Kansas and Anita May Stamm, born June 10, 1900, died Novembe1 in 1893. The family moved to Beaverhead County where her 20, 1920. father contracted haying jobs in the area. Tragedy twice in Albert's life was almost unbearable. He Paul o[...]e birth of their third child. Rose several years. In 1912, he and Fred Woodside were partners Stamm of Milwaukee, an unmarried sister, came to Dillon in the Montana Motor Supply Co. He sold his share ou[...]years he sang each Sunday in the choirs of the St. Jame Paul died August 10, 1978, and Mida died in 1981. Episcopal Church, and the[...] |
| [...]In 1918, Husteds moved to Wise River onto the ranch[...]which is still in the Stanchfield family. Harve joined the[...]Marines and served in Cuba during World War I. He later[...]attended medical school in Minneapolis at the University of[...]Minnesota. While there he married Ruth Davidson and[...]to Dillon. Harve died in 1954. His son, Robert, is a doctor in Shelby and has four chil-[...]in Minneapolis and is in the advertising business. He has[...]Verne has always lived on the ranch. In 1934, he married[...]He was a member of dentist, and they reside in Florence. She teaches special the first volunteer fire department in Dillon. He played the education in Missoula and is the mother of three girls. flute in the Dillon Band. He was a charter member of the[...]Virginia City and became a 50-year member. in 1960. Their family included three children-Justin[...]welers he employed by the Forest Service in Wisdom. had his own accounting business, the Dillon Audit. He mar- Frank married Edith Rieber in 1969 and they are parents ried Frances Hiscock from Ekalaka, Montana, in 1924. They of a son, Lance. Frank operates a[...]s: Patricia Stamm (later Mrs. Chester ness in the summers and works on the ranch during the[...]Clayton Stanfield Walter Stamm's interest in Montana history and espe- cially that of Beaverhead County, led him to spend many Family hours in the Montana Room at the college. He read and Clayton R. Stanfield was born in Fairmont, Ind., on Nov. studied Lewis and Cla[...]about Beaverhead Rock and gained was born in Illinois, and, when she was 10 years old, her[...]t and married projects was tracing old trails in Beaverhead County. Ill Clayton Stanfield on[...]ted him from completing this project. in Kansas: Louisa born Nov. 18, 1874, and Addison Bl[...]1895, in childbirth. The Stanchfield Family[...]Clayton and Emma left for Montana in a covered wagon in 1881. Emma was pregnant with her third child Montana, In 1882, W.F. Stanchfield drove a four-horse team fo[...]Valley. He seven more children, all born in Farlin. was so impressed with the country that in 1886 he and his Altha May (Dot) was bor[...]e of son, W.A. Stanchfield, took up a homestead in the area, 16 Dot married Thomas Tritt in 1899. Dot and Thomas had later known as Fox.[...]rank) was born May 17, 1885. Frank 1 teach school in Jackson for a year and then married Will A. married Vernie Phillips on Oct. 26, 1909, in Argenta. They Stanchfield. Two boys, Harve Avery and Verne Martin, had two children born in Dillon. Charles Frank born Feb. were born to th[...]nd Lillian (Lilly) born March 9, , run the ranch. In 1906, Emily married Frank Husted. Isaac[...] |
| [...]because they would spend the winters there so they could go to school in Dillon. The winter farm is located where the Big[...]Sky Cinema and surrounding business are now.[...](1844-1897) came to Beaverhead County in the early 1860s. They ranched in the north end of the Beaverhead Valley,[...]Two of the children remained in Beaverhead County.[...]George Staudahar was responsible for many of the people[...]of Austrian descent moving to this valley. In fact, he spon- sored several families. In later years, he moved into Dillon[...]Les Staudenmeyer arrived in Butte, Montana, on the day[...]n the way from Wisconsin by train, he had stopped in Lillian (Lilly).[...]ding to visit some friends who lived up and lived in Missoula; they later divorced. Lilly had no[...]and gun, off the hills came some cowboys on lived in Salt Lake City, Utah.[...]ome of the Butte and on to Dillon. ranches in the Big Hole. He drove stage for a time between[...]ond O Ranch for several months Divide and Wisdom. In the winter it was a horse drawn before[...]o Wisconsin. The flu epidemic of 1918 was sleigh; in the summer it was a motorized vehicle. During W. W .I Roy served in the Veterinary Corps. in Paris, France. In 1919 he was discharged from the service. On De[...]Blanch married Alice Elizabeth Short and lived in Farlin. In 1911 Alice bought the limestone quarry at Farlin from Orlando Mast. Blanch ran the lime kiln for many years. They had no children. When Blanch was a young child, his father, Clayton, worked at the lime kiln and in mines sur- rounding this area. In 1890 Clayton had a mining company in partnership with Mr. Fox. To help support the family, Emma ran a boarding house in Farlin. In 1895 and 1898 Emma bought land on the nort[...] |
| [...]rst came to Dillon and he had the flu. Being sick in the bunkhouse at the ranch, a neighbor woman, Mrs. Sapp, nursed many during the flu epidemic and came with whatever me[...]he nursing of Mrs. Sapp. He returned to Dillon in July 1922 with his bride, Ruby Thompson, of Rio, Wisconsin. They were married in Rio on July 17, 1922. When Les and Ruby first cam[...]trailed them to the Centennial Valley for pasture in the summer. Shearing was[...]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 Beave[...]ktail to the Centennial Valley livestock for many years. where the Metzel place was leased from Swi[...]enmeyers and is still Hawaii after service in the Army during World War II and owned and operated by them. who died in 1972; Velma Platt (Woodrow), who has made Late[...]iled to Bond over by the Nelson her home in Butte for many years; Edward, who has lived all School where the[...]is life on the family farm; William, who enlisted in the train to Monida. They were unloaded and trailed to the Navy in the early months of World War II and who was Cent[...]0 miles. The cost of a boxcar was killed in a car/train accident in 1952; and Elvira Berg (Lyle) $32 then. who lives in Missoula. Nowadays, most cattle are trucked to summer pastures in Joseph died in 1947 and Mary in 1985. Both are buried in the Centennial Valley. .Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon, as are Chester and Wil- Speaking of winter in Beaverhead County, Les tells of the liam. wi[...]from 43 de- grees above zero to minus 40 degrees in a 12 hour period. The Beaverhead River froze soli[...]John Stefonic clear. You could drive across it in the morning. John Stefonic was born December 28, 1877, in Brod Mar- Ice used to by cut during the winter and packed in saw- avice, Austria, now part of Northern Yugoslovia. He mar- dust in the icehouse at the ranch for use in the icebox during ried Margareta (Maggie) Stajdohar in 1898 while still in the summer. Many freezers of homemade ice cream were Austria, and there they had two baby girls who lived only a made wit[...]e. Les and Ruby had four children: Alice, born in 1924; John came as a young man to the United States in 1900 Marjorie, 1926; Jean, 1932; and Bill, 1935. and settled in Dillon, where he lived in a log house near Ruby Staudenmeyer passed away[...]ion. He worked on Mike Rebich's ranch for illness in December 1972. four years. Mike 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 remained in a village they still reside at the family home in Dillon. called Stefanci, that[...]amed Stefanija Slavka (Staffie). She was baptized in -ALICE DUFFNER Joseph and Mary Stefanie |
| Plemenitas on April 24, 1901. A year later, in 1902, John's wife and daughter came from Austria[...]903. On December 14, 1904, John bought a ranch in Section 10, Township 8 South; range 9 West, South[...]rother, Joseph Ste- fonic, bought a ranch located in Section 9 and Section 4,[...]h; Range 9 West, across 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[...]both ranches. John he leased it and moved in with Dade and Amy. He continued and Margareta had[...]Stefonic was a seamstress and made most In 1919 he sold his ranch, but in a few years had to take it of the clothes for the[...]e of the chickens and the garden, and also helped in ranch. In 1932 he sold the ranch to Dade and they were both[...]Rosie, the baby back where they had started in 1889. was only two years old at the time and John needed help in Grandpa died on the ranch May 23, 1934. H[...]a widower. On May 18, 1926, he sold his interest in the jointly owned ranch to his brother, Joseph. H[...]NIC REBICH NILSSON The Stephens Family |
| [...]f Eden." and worked on the railroad in Idaho, and finally in Red Among the early-day teachers were Frank A. Hazelbaker Rock, Montana, in 1891 which brought him to Dillon in and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Stevenson. Mr. Stevenson, a[...]worked late at night I was wrapped in a fur coat and slept on Skiing was a favorite sport of the boys. In spite of their a table. My father worked in the Olmstead-Stevenson Gro- crude homemade skis[...]ven building jumps for excitement. ance in the latter years of his life. Dade worked at h[...]yterian Church. We age 21 he bought his own place in the Briston area. lived right next door. My father and I sang in the choir-I On September 15, 1901, Dade marrie[...]er of a mile from the Armi- er was active in the Manse Society. Because we were so close tage[...]ere born to this union, but a baby we were in and out of the "Manse" regularly. boy died at thr[...]Armitage and cheting. My aunt did pictures in needlepoint and my moth- Newt Gossett properties.[...]as also Bris- er was a great bird watcher. There was a feeder and bird ton postmaster.[...]tching birds and especially blue herons. Her bird In 1909 he conceived the idea of the stacker now kno[...]eaver Slide. He explained his idea to his brother-in- had taken Phil May, the Presbyterian min[...]e blueprints which were sent to the patent office in Washington, D. C. On May 31, 1910, the patent was[...]h of 1929 to the financiers. Times were tough and there was the added burden of sending three girls (Ilma had died in 1923) to high school in Dillon. Mom moved out with us and helped by havin[...]ng for others, and working out- side the home. In 1926 Dad decided to give up the ranch and worked[...]original Stephens ranch from Grandpa. Dad died in 1952. Mom and Amy continued to run the business until moving to Livingston in 1969 to be with Hal- lie. Mom died February 3, 1973 and was buried in Briston. -HALLI[...]My mother, Katherine McCoy Patterson, was born in Williamsburg, Pa., on January 16,1864. She came to Dillon to visit her brother, Samuel S. Patterson, who was in busi- ness there. She met my father, Benjamin N. Stevenson, and stayed! They were married in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 20, 1897.[...] |
| [...]the born September 16, 1920. They ranched in the Big Hole male and the female sang. I went hom[...]March 14, 1965, and Peggie and Teddie had babies in my room in the big cage Pearl on December 8, 1970. Both were buried in Hamilton. and could not be disturbed![...]e attended Wisdom Public School continued to live in Dillon, although my father spent two through the eighth grade and later attended Utah State years in Billings with me where I was teaching. College in Logan, where his parents maintained a home for My[...]JORIE A. STEVENSON He served in the U. S. Army during World War I and[...]American Legion, in Wisdom and a member of the Wisdom George Henry[...]ch and for dam, N.Y., on April 6, 1862. He worked in a grocery store as other ranchers in the area, was a telephone lineman, and a young ma[...]ated a wood-hauling business. fortunes being made in and around Butte, came to Montana He m[...]teacher, who was about 1888 to seek his. 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 three children: Robert[...]-ANN HIRSCHY largest ranchers in the area, where he stayed for a period of about three years. While there he heard about the Big Hole Basin, and de-[...]nd 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 the early 1900s soon acquired some land which is[...]leaving the Craver Ranch, they moved to the Dell there are still the remains of both an old-time, house-draw[...]chased the Peat Ranch above Lima. They also break-in of his cabin by a bear, he decided to move closer[...]hey lived at the 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[...]Edna, were born to the her sister, Alice Turner, in the Big Hole. They built a log William Stewarts. Catherine died in infancy. Edna G. Stew- cabin on the ranch and lat[...]h 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 ran[...]the post office Scott Place north of Dell. In 1946 they sold the store and was also located at[...]born five children: Walter D., ent's ranch. In later years they sold the ranch but retained May[...]ma (Mrs. Roy the "home place" and resided there until their deaths - E. Murray), January, 1898; Bessie ( Mrs. H. R. Capehart), Edna in 1982 and Pascal in 1987. June 21, 1889; and Alice (Mrs. E. L. Haggar[...]others Walter D. Stewart was born May 7, 1894, in Malad, Idaho. born in Pickens County, S.C., came to Beaverhead County He was educated in Wisdom and Malad and later attended in the early 1900s. All the brothers with the exception of Utah State College in Logan. As a young man he returned to Crayto[...]nd 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 DETTON SCHULER They ranched near Jackson for many years, before mov- ing back to Wisdom. The[...] |
| [...]They went to their land near Apex and lived in a tent until[...]water tank wagon, dug and cemented a cistern in the ground in which to store water. This worked adequately as l[...]They lived there for a year, but realized that rainfall was[...]In 1917, Gladys and Inez were taken to the Apex scho[...]umner and Harriet Hubbel buggy and team. In winter if the snow was bad, they rode in Stinson, on the farm near Houston, Minn. He grew[...]f sled runners. The family also went to education in the nearby country school. He was an admirer[...]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 far[...]by Louis Anderson (three Walter's father died in 1902, which left him, as the oldest miles south[...]d to make a living. The children went to interest in a local cheese factory, moving to Beach, N.D. He school in Dillon, often walking the three miles, unless luc[...]enough to get a ride with a considerate passerby. In the steam engines and equipment which were coming[...]l. While on this farm, mother on the Stinson farm in Minnesota. their second s[...]n March 7, 1922. Walter and Mabel were married in a small home wedding Farming was not proving profitable for them, so they June 24, 1909, in Beach. They later acquired a piece of land, mo[...]rk. 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[...]of the great state of Montana, and dren. the many acres of land open for homesteading. After an[...]road car, they loaded from the claim is still there, as well as two other houses he all their[...] |
| [...]homesteaded up there. He worked as a freighter, freighting Luther Stocker was born in Port Washington, Ohio, in wheat and supplies with oxen from Athaba[...]to 1861. He and his wife Caroline came to Montana in 1889, first Edmonton over the lakes in the winter. He liked it so much locating at Box Elder. up there he decided to stay, and got his start homesteading In 1910 they came to Beaverhead County where they oper- from his brother. He gave up his U.S. citizenship in order to ated a store at Grant and had extensive ranch interests on homestead there. Then the cost of freighting wheat became Horse P[...]more expensive than the profits it brought in, so Charlie Five children were born to this couple. Eva was born in decided to return to the U. S. 1885 and cam[...]lon and the State Uni- decided to homestead there. Charlie picked out a section versity. She taught for 25 years in the Grant School, which located in the Shesher Creek-Trail Creek area. was a one-roo[...]al years proving up on his homestead long illness in 1940. because he was sent to Cannes, France in 1918 to serve in the Annie, born in Box Elder in 1893, was associated with her military. father in the Stocker General store in Grant and was Post- While he was in France his homestead claim was jumped mistress for many years. She also operated the family ranch and when he returned home he found someone else there. property on Horse Prairie until it sold in 1955. She died in Their logic was quite simple. 'Vell, you might[...]ook it back again Twins, Roy and Mae, were born in Box Elder in 1897. Roy and proceeded to prove up on it.[...]of when her sister moved to the ranch. She served in this overalls were six bits. You could b[...]10 and have capacity until the Post Office closed in 1967. She married lunch thrown in for free. It wasn't just any old lunch either. Dellas Mulliner in 1946. The two enjoyed a happy life to- Usua[...]d eggs. By 1920 Charlie Stoll was a familiar name in the Harry lived at Saco, Montana. No other info[...]ble about him at this time. Luther Stocker died in 1934 and his wife Caroline in 1939.[...]spirits in sculpting the commerce of Dillon. Busily engaged[...]drick Stoll was born January 31, 1889. He was in practical work since boyhood, he still found time[...]nterests represented outside the realm of practi- many but had immigrated to the U.S. and when Charlie w[...]ham Lincoln Stone to indicate his party politics; how- was then turned over to his dad.When Charlie tir[...]n reached the age of ma- he left Illinois to work in the Kansas oil fields. jority, he changed his name to Louis. In 1910, the Milwaukee Railroad was sending people w[...]egardless of whether they worked for the rail- in 1825 and in 1837 accompanied his parents to a pioneer road or[...]e came west to Montana, first through the home in Eaton County, Michigan. He received most of his D[...]he worked on the threshing crews education in Michigan, was a student in an academy at and then on through the Ruby Valley[...]gree 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 White- Irrigation Company, irri[...]friend Sam Licks, was killed by a tick, of which there was an and settled on a farm in Leavenworth County, where he died over-abundance. He decided that the Bitterroot was no in 1904 at the age of 79. He married Martha A. Hotchkiss in place for him to be.[...] |
| [...]ers, from left: Gus D-1 Hardware in 1898 - J. E. Morse (seated), A. L. Graeter, Josep[...]denti- and builder. She was well educated and for many years[...]fied, probably a customer assisted her husband in his school and college work. She died in Leavenworth County in 1872. Young Louis had one 1912, when he w[...]and, J.M. Gilman, had been a prominent Republican in Louis became chairman of the Executive[...]the Kansas the Montana Bankers Association in 1909 and its Vice State legislature.[...]he age of six, Louis grew up on his father's farm in nings Bryan, former presidential candidate and[...]is parents, who were also educating children in Louis's home. His unannounced arrival for dinner[...]rity for the State Bank was a first grade teacher in Leavenworth County for several changed in 1919 when it issued its' last dividend for over years. At this time he became interested in merchandising. three decades. With the breakdown of agriculture in the Not enjoying the best of health in Kansas, he sold his state, the State Bank b[...]own as well. During interests and came to Montana in 1885. At first, he was a the twenties, many loans were charged-off the bank books clerk with McMillan & Cluett at Butte and in 1888 moved to as borrowers were unable to pa[...]s secretary and treasurer. to keep the bank in sound condition. From 1889 to 1892 he was superin[...]an to fail as well. When the stock market crashed in nental Life Insurance Company, but also of the Li[...]e start over. He died on April 16, 1930 in his house in South Dillon Green House company and president of[...]me a prominent Unquenchable faith in his county and its future was a democrat in Dillon, serving on the City Council, and was a[...]r. Disap- copal Church. He also owned real estate in Southern Cali- piontments failed to alter h[...]b He withdrew from the Dillon Implement company in 1899 Veronica Gelhaus was born in Mt. Savage, Md., in 1856. and on the first of August established the[...]24, Wintermeier Gelhaus. John Streb was born in Germany in[...] |
| [...]In 1911, the Streb family suffered another tragedy w[...]reported in the Dillon Tribune of July 28, 1911: "Shot down[...]in cold blood while endeavoring to assist the Deputy[...]of Melrose in arresting two men who were creating a distur-[...]bance at a public dance being held in Melrose Saturday[...]of that place died in a Butte hospital Monday morning, and[...]was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, near this city,[...]and Veronica Streb and in 1916 bought a ranch from Veronica's brothers loca[...]ed about three miles south of Melrose in Madison County. grated to the United States and m[...]died on August 30, 1922. Her two boys, Ralph and in 1883, in Leadville, Colo.[...]Florence married The Strebs moved to Glendale in 1884 and started their Gebhard Fassler in 1925. They ranched one mile west of family. The first child, Charles, was born in 1885 (d. 1911); Melrose on Trapper Creek a few miles from Glendale. the second, Ralph, was born in 1887 (d. 1953); the third,[...]-MARY FASSLER HUNT 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[...]d built some of the kilns himself at Canyon Creek in 1884-85. He also made the bricks for the hotel in Melrose. He got the clay In 1835, as a youth of eighteen, William Sturgis left his for the bricks near Glendale. In 1886 Mary Gelhaus, Veroni- boyhood home at[...]and John Streb planted pine trees along the road in own. Not content with farming, he became interested in the Glendale which are still standing over 100 years later. vast milling enterprises in Iowa and Minnesota. Moving The Streb family mo[...]ddle West became so settled that it no longer man there. On the way a harness on his team of horses broke challenged the pioneer in him, Sturgis turned his eyes to the and the horse[...]1, 1862, and journeyed with it to Fort Benton. In a letter dated January 22, 1901, Veronica wrote t[...]the rich strike made that July at Bannack, sister in Iowa about the tragedy: "Well, dear Sister, I fee[...]met with a horrible accident. She describes there was great demand for lumber in the mining camps. John's accident, suffering, and[...]ince John died, some valli Indian Mission in Missoula County, he set up his first over six hun[...]ck. Part of his mill machinery was also freighted in from coffin and a nice black shroud, but not so v[...]$2500 on our property yet, but John had his life in- Not satisfied with this one en[...] |
| [...]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 life at Sturgis S[...]n, later called Barretts by the railroad company. There was also a lighter coach from Bannack which made[...]All passengers were served one dollar per plate. Many prominent men enroute ldonia and El[...]other points north, Ontario, Canada, in 1882, at the age of 18, by way of Ogden, spoke of[...]road and would say, Wait until we reach Sturgis, there's and on to Butte where he worked with[...]ur or six horses, as the unsuccessfully, in the Birch Creek area in the following weather conditions might require, m[...]an see the one from Salt Lake, Paxon. In 1883 Mr. Sutherland, with several other top rider[...]s three-hundred-mile relay trip from Salt In 1886 he homesteaded near Apex where he was witnes[...]ng of the railroad tracks from narrow to stan- In 1873, Sturgis, in company with Dr. E. D. Leavitt, Judge dard g[...]Washburn Stapleton, and W. J. Creek in March, 1890, at Dillon. In March,1891, the couples Milligan, joined the grea[...]ting at Argenta dur- rose. Locating a silver mine in early September, within a few ing the 1880s[...]ndiana- Dillon for shipment to smelters in Butte and Anaconda. Mr. polis, for $100,000, and[...]Badger mines to Dillon, so the family still stood in Glendale in the 1930s. moved to Argenta in 1899. He used a wagon with a six-horse Suffering ill health in these high altitudes, and desiring to team, and[...]Argenta ore, so trail back to Sturgis, Michigan, in 1873. After his return John Sutherland sold his teams and wagons in 1903 and east, Sturgis voiced to his daughter Kate, his dissatisfaction joined two friends in a roundup of wild horses between with the "penny business" there, feeling perhaps as Charlie Horse Prairie[...]7, John was employed by J.E. Morse Not content in Michigan, Sturgis later engaged in sheep to handle horses on the various Morse ranches. During the raising in Kansas, and in real estate business in New Mexi- 1920s he drove a county road gra[...]He died at New Smyrna, Florida, at the age of 84 in 1901. helped in the construction of many county roads, until he Although arriving soon[...]main here has tended to era~e They lived there until 1940 when they moved to a ranch froin local history his part in developing Beaverhead Coun- north of Dillon, owned by their son-in-law, Dr. Sheldon E. ty, yet eleven years of his life are woven into our history. Davis.[...]first a Model T Ford and then a 1930 Plymouth in which she[...] |
| [...]in 1911. He was employed as a ranch hand and an irri[...]In 1917, Warren enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to[...]p Lewis, Wash., for his basic training. He served in the Argonne Forest, France, as a wagoneer in the 348 Machine[...]Warren needed, so he marched many miles with his feet wrapped only in leggings and rags. Warren survived the[...]battles in the Argonne Forest wtih no wounds and no shell[...]After the Armistice was signed in 1918, Warren returned[...]ed his bride-to-be. He went back to Pickens in the fall of 1927. with teams on the ranch north o[...]awn and cleaned the sidewalks at the Post Office. In 1960, his 90th year, when his wifes failing healt[...]n, They celebrated their 69th wedding away in September 1961. anniversary in 1959; Mrs. Sutherland died soon thereafter.[...]years John Sutherland contributed a col- freda in 1928 (deceased 18 days after birth) and Peggy Lou[...]e Dillon Examiner, recounting inci- born in 1930. Peggy, now a retired teacher, is married to[...]he people who had Julius H. Kapla, and lives in Denver Colo. been in southwest Montana "in the old days". His memory Janie (Winch[...]hobby of sewing and operated an alteration shop in Dillon enjoyed reminiscing. He died in June of 1961, a week or two for nearly 30 years. She passed away in July of 1971 and was before his 98th birthday.[...]buried beside her husband in Mountain View Cemetery. Elizabeth Sutherland, sister of John Sutherland, born in[...]-PEGGY KAPLA 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 Virginia City in 1881; Rosamund Helbig Swartz they lived in Silver Star and for many years in Twin Bridges. Swanstrum Mrs. Chambers spent the last 12 years of her life in Dillon where she was a faithful attendant at the[...]in Wapello, Iowa. She was the daughter of Catherine[...]Civil War veteran who was in the Union Army. Twins were Sutherlan[...] |
| born November 4, 1867. In early 1870 Rose and Lewis wood, Camero[...]Eleanor McNamee was born December 18, 1869 in Mount was a Swedish cabinet maker who had immigra[...]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 years. Pat evidentl[...]in that was headed for Mon- made some money in that area which he took to Sheep tana. Rose was about six months pregnant with the first Creek Basin. There in Sweeney Gulch in the north end of Swanstrum child, later to be nam[...]digging for necessities. The wagon train arrived in the Beaverhead even when the assay said there was nothing. Pat could wield Valley of the Territory of Montana in July. The baby, Al- a simple jack just as we[...]was a glutton for work. the Beaverhead River in the Point of Rocks area. Other Pat was[...]tence, he took up some ground near Nicholia Creek in Sheep settle there.[...]part. It was not unusual to see him stacking hay in a home. Rose's mother, Grandma Mauer, was an expe[...]John, Pat and Eleanor McNamee were married in Dillon on May 26, 1873; William, February 21, 187[...]mile across the field from the Bill Sweeney home. In the and many acres of hay and forage crops. Many winters the summertime the Bill Sweeney chi[...]and by the time the family was grown, the In 1935, Pat married a lady whose first name was Sar[...]16, 1937 of pneumonia. Sarah returned to Early in the 1900s most of the family members decided to[...]everal years later. make a move to Ashton, 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[...]RET HAGENBARTH permanent residence. Occasionally, in winter, they made a trip to California to visit R[...]William Sweeney was born December 24, 1867 in Titus- 1923 the oldest daughter, Kate, and her hu[...]and Mary Sweeney. Kaiser, came to live with Rose in the Ashton home. Three sons were b[...]am. William was two years of age when Rodger died in free from stress. During this time she developed remarkable 1879. skill at crocheting and devoted many hours to this activity. Mary Sweeney married[...]oling ended with third grade but he was very good in Carl are buried in the Masonic Section of Forest Lawn math. When he was 16 he was contracting hemlock bark Cemetery in Los Angeles. which was very much in demand at the tanneries. He was an[...]and Eleanor in the summer and to the south in the winter. He arrived in Montana in the late 1890s with Earl Rogers.[...]lked Patrick M. Sweeney was born March 17, 1865 in Drift- up Sheep Creek to visit Bil[...] |
| [...]Lillie arrived on the scene, quite a while before in[...]Communication was not so good in those days. By the time[...]n he did with auto- Earl and Bill took up land in Sheep Creek Basin right at mobiles. Bill and[...]After the purchase, Earl and Bill were in the car in front Bill worked for Harry Andrus, the man wh[...]couldn't agree on which was low gear Andrus Hotel in Dillon, and for Ike and Katie Rife on North[...]l was sure he knew so he shifted, Medicine Lodge. There he milked cows and hauled the let ou[...]ight up against the door of the cream to Armstead in a buggy. hotel[...]ld supplement their income by working way. in the woods in the Missoula and Seeley Lake country dur- William was a very 'kind, religious 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. It had a dirt (gumbo) ro[...]bin. It had a room 30'x 30'. others who dropped in unannounced at mealtime. She was They used to hav[...]assed away June 18, 1943. Lillie passed away home in the morning. They came by team and wagon, sled or September 18, 1956 after a long illness. Both are buried in by horseback. Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. Lillie McIntyre was born in Page County, Iowa on August 24, 1883. Her parents[...]f 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, Nevada. Lillie arrived in Montana in 1912. She taught the upper Nicholia School and st[...]William Sweeney and Lillie McIntyre were married in Butte on October 21, 1913. To this union five[...]eney Hagenbarth of Dillon; John Sweeney, who died in a tractor accident on September 23, 1955; Peter S[...]erian school teacher. Lillie never made a mistake in grammar. William didn't ever known there was Lillie and Will[...] |
| [...]ows on the small farm owned by her parents. Early in Amanda's life her father left home, never to retu[...]ads, especially a rolling bread called Povaticia. In spite of these enterprises the family income was[...]stroke. A daughter age three and a half drowned in the west side irrigation canal. In 1919, a flu epidemic swept the val-[...]which posed a For about two years after arriving in the United States, problem since transportation was limited. A hike to church Amanda worked in Butte. Through friends and acquaint-[...]to cross the Beaverhead River that trick's Church in Butte on March 17, 1907 (St. Patrick's m[...]Although Michael's background, as a youngster in Yugos- be cut in half. Because of the terrain, trees, underbrush, and lavia, was in the grocery business, relatives and the beauty[...]w years of their marriage they feasible, but how to ford the river posed a problem. With the leased the Tom Flynn Ranch in the upper Blacktail Creek aid of friends, neighbors and older boys of the household, a area. In July, 1915, they bought a farm west of Dillon fro[...]d into the Brown Ranch Company of Spencer, Idaho. In May of the ground on each sid[...] |
| [...]ch end but sagged only a few feet above the water in the middle. In similar fashion, another pair of light- er cables[...]ver, this did not prevent the bridge from swaying in the wind or from creating a rippling effect when walked upon. There was another smaller creek in the pathway to town that posed a problem. This wa[...]creek bank was higher on one side than the other. There were no hand rails and bal- ancing took acrobatic expertise, especially when there was frost or snow on the logs. The lower end would often get submerged when high water arrived in the spring. These two by-ways did provide a short[...]h family wore a lasting pathway. This pathway led many callers to the Swetish farm. Many to fish the cold clear waters of the Beaverhead R[...]e, causing it to sway way out"of the ordinary and many times causing much needed repairs. As the foot[...]rine came to Butte, Montana to live with a sister in pioneers.[...]person, dren were Frank, born 9-9-1904 in Butte, died 5-1913; Ann, Amanda was soon surrounded by good friends and neigh- born 4-3-1908 in Butte; Mary, born 1-17-1910 in Butte, died bors at her home in Dillon. She enjoyed reading, needle- 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 Glen. Ann Kelley now lives in Deer Lodge, they had the time to visit. 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 They homesteaded at Glen in 1911, ranched there until Dillon.[...]some of their operating equipment in partnership. In May, Valen and Katherine[...]ieved for this Valen was born February 14, 1873 in Sungar, Croatia, man-child, their only[...]nd worked as a The first schoolhouse in the Rock Creek-Glen area was woodsman until 1911 in the Bannack-Boulder-Butte area. built[...]the parents-Reibers, Turners, Gransberry, He died in November, 1957 at age of 84. Katherine was born Sassman, Tadevich. November 15, 1883 in Suhor, Slovenia, Austria. She died in I recall the first teacher, a Mi[...] |
| [...]friend to the community as a whole. serving in the Civil War for the Union in the 13th Kentucky During 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 brought the decorat- on Sage Creek in 1882. ed Christmas tree they had at the school program, with all Our parents were married in Dillon in 1910, rearing four the goodies. She could not com[...]he kitchen Thelma Tallent Cutler was 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! Idaho. In later years, they bused the children from this school Ernest K. Tallent was born in Dillon November 11, 1913, district to the Reichle School in Glen. presently residing in Oregon and Whittier, Calif. At an early The ran[...]date he left Beaverhead County and wasemployed in var- built a dam and reservoir at Rock Creek Lake[...]after enlisting in the Army in WWII in the Combat Engi-[...]EY neers. He spent most military time in Europe and after[...]sylvania in 1956. The Tait Family Henry L. Tallent was born in Dillon October 16, 1923, and Alexander Dempste[...]nected disability from his enlistment in the Navy during Gladys May Paddock-Born: May 1[...]Jay P. Tallent was born in Dillon December 8, 1925, al- Alexander "Scotty" Tait emigrated to Butte, Montana, in ways having been a resident and rancher on S[...]ried April 20, 1918. except for enlistment in the Army during WWII, serving in From this union, four children were born, namely[...]nd automatical- Thayer, Union County, Iowa. In 1884, George was the first ly became a U. S. citi[...]. Three brothers and two overseas where he served in France and Belgium in the 91st sisters would later join him as ear[...]side of for bravery. "Scotty" never lost the burr in his speech. He Bannack. He later rode shotgun and stage coach driver with appeared in many American Legion sponsored minstrel and hi[...]Tash. They drove stage be- stage shows performed in the Hartwig Theatre at Dillon. tween Bann[...]uated from Bannack grade school and worked in the retail meat business with Charles and Walter[...]rked for the telephone company. She also enrolled in and attended Montana State Normal College, althou[...]March 19, 1894, and passed away on April 7, 1971, in Dillon. Her father and mother arrived from German[...]ckson. Our father, Nathan Jay Tallent, was born in Dillon on April 25, 1884, and passed away[...] |
| [...]Gray on the 20th Mildred Tash Clark (1906), in Ruby, Leland Austin Tash of October, 1890 at Dill[...]ra Jackson, also George later acquired a ranch in the Grasshopper Valley lived in Bannack. Some of the children and grandchildren of and he engaged in the stock business for several years. In those brothers still live in Beaverhead County. 1917, he sold his ranch in the Grasshopper Valley and After abou[...]s- moved to Dillon. George operated a meat market in Dillon. ter, Mont., where he worked in a mill. His prime interest was George died at the age of 76, May 4, 1940, in Dillon. gold dredge boats, and after a y[...]mber 16, 1866, at the Ruby, Mont., where there were several dredges. Most of the frontier stage station operated in the early days near the time he worked on Num[...]g, 12 per day, seven days a week. Every six weeks there after her parents (Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Gray) arrived in was a long change, which meant there would be a free day. Bannack from Missouri. A short time after her parents ar- After several years there was a welcomed change as the rived in Bannack, they took out a homestead on the out-[...]schedules. Instead of two shifts of workers in 24 hours, there Susan attended schools and grew up in Bannack. Susan would now be three shifts o[...]up the gulch towards Virginia children were born in Bannack to the couple: Pearl Tash City, th[...]orn March 28, 1906. Eventually there were four dredge boats in the area, each Susan died at the age of 90 in Dillon, August 20, 1957. one designated by a[...]el Company built Number Four Dredge, many young men -LOWELL PA[...]Homer could see that gold dredging would settlers in Iowa from the state of Pennsylvania. Homer A.[...]look for a ranch to buy and Tash came to Montana in 1896 from his native state of Iowa. found one near Twin Bridges, Mont. The home in Ruby was Homer drove a stage his first winter in Montana and later sold and on March 2, 1912, Ho[...]their five worked on a gold dredge, the Bonacord, in Bannack. In children started for the ranch. They had to ride in an open September of 1898, Homer met the train in Dillon and spring wagon for 24 miles an[...]s to say, that trip was long but not were married in the Metlen Hotel and set up housekeeping fondly remembered. in Bannack.[...]: Vera Tash Muench to as the "Clausen Place". There were two large barns, a (1899) in Bannack, Edith Tash Ramsey (1903), in Ruby, granary, machine shed, milk[...] |
| built in the 1860s. The place had been a stagecoach stop Bannack. The comparisons in travel and accommodations (Salisbury) between Salt Lake and Helena for many years. were made by her 55 years later w[...]traveled by jet to Alaska. Clara Tash Kelly died in W enat- weather boarding. (some years ago Mr. Bovey of Virginia chee, Wash., in 1981. City purchased the log part of the house and it was rebuilt in In 1908 Mary Weeter Tash sold the family farm in Thayer Nevada City, now 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- family in Melrose, where she died in 1922. Her son, George ia City).[...]ck to Thayer where she was Homer was active on many committees. He was on the buried beside her husband Lewis in the Union County electrification committee in the late 1930s. He was active in Cemetery. the Farm Bureau and was a member of[...]-BILL TASH Committees. At the time of his death in September 1943, he was serving a second term as c[...]Dell, where Ray was employed as the Ranch fore- There were eight children born to Lewis and Mary Eliza-[...]on the family moved to Glendale, where they lived in nack in the 1880's and early 1900's[...]ading and teams of horses. A few years were spent in the born in Clark County, Iowa, February 13, 1862, and settle[...]on several ranches, including the Niblack place. in Alliance, Nebr., where he served as a district co[...]elyn attended the original Reichle School for for many years.[...]high school at Melrose. Cora E. Tash was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, March In the late 1920s and the early 1930s, the family sp[...]on. They managed large amount of time in Dillon, where Ray worked with the the Goodrich Hotel in Bannack for a period of time in the Beaverhead County High School students enrolled in horse early 1900s. They had two children: Donald T., born in judging and care classes. Ray continue[...]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 Beaverhe[...]er at Beaver- Ora Tash was born March 16, 1879, in Thayer, Iowa, and head County Fair time[...]Tash or to find a children: Marguerite Mary, born in Bannack, January 15, picture of him wit[...]or a 1903; George Henery, born December 10, 1904, in Bannack; horse in hand. While the family lived in Dillon, Evelyn Thomas Joseph, October 5, 1907, Bannack; Francis Ed- ward, July 10, 1909, in Satsop, Wash.; Isabel Ann, February 24, 1911; Mon[...]phen, March 24, 1919. The latter three were born in Mel- rose, Mont. Ora Tash Connor died at Butte in 1918. Clara Tash was born October 15, 1884, in Thayer, Iowa, and married Elmer Kelly on February[...]widowed mother, Mary, manage it until it was sold in 1908. Clara and Elmer had five children all born in Thayer: Harold Everett, May 5, 1906 (only lived f[...]from Thayer, Iowa, to Dillon was $48. She stayed in the Metlen Hotel and took the stage to[...] |
| graduated in 1934 from the old Beaverhead County High School located in the same area as the current High School and she[...]ormal College until 1936. Ray Tash passed away in May 1945 at the A O Schulz Ranch in Sheridan where he and Anna had worked for sev- er[...]na continued to work as a cook on various ranches in Beaverhead County including the William S. Tash R[...]at the home of her daughter, Evelyn. Ray and Anna are both buried in the family plot at Moun- tain View Cemetery in Dillon. -CARL RAYMOND ROBERTSON[...]at Colorado Springs, Iowa. He was the fifth child in a family of eight children Colo., September[...]Bill came to Bannack from 'his home state of Iowa in the Bannack where her father practiced medicine. She attended 1880s. Bill was appointed Deputy Sheriff in Bannack. His schools at Bannack. She met a[...]career was colorful and adventurous for this was in the "Bill" Tash, October 12, 1897. In January of 1919, she devel- days when Bannack was in the heyday of its frontier life. oped Spani[...]s a Deputy Sheriff he had pneumonia set in and she died at the ranch home in Grass- numerous occasions to reach for his gun, in which use he was hopper Valley, January 27, 19[...]nce associated with a partner, Mr. Lenkersdorfer, in came to Beaverhead County in 1880, the year the railroad the operation of a Butcher shop in Bannack and Dillon, the reached Dillon. Emil[...]Committee, and was active in politics and community af- Bill's ranch boasted[...]of the Montana Livestock Hereford breeding ranch in the state of Montana. On Octo- Association for many years. ber 12, 1897 at Dillon, Bill married Etta[...]Franklin P. "Frank" Tate was born June 11, 1862 in Cen-[...]were married in 1886 and took up a homestead.[...] |
| [...]head High School. Bud passed away in Butte in November,[...]Camp Creek and he also mined in Hecla and Bannack. They[...]son John, who presently lives in Wyoming.[...]in 1939, the place was taken over by Ernest. After s[...]old the old on what is known as Tate's Flat. From there, milk was Tate Ranch. hauled lby team[...]Flemma V., died at age 18 on August 28, 1907. In later years, range cattle came to the front. At o[...]Benjamin Bray Taylor was born December 21, 1854, in the Tate Ranch had 800 head of cattle. Four other ranches either Sidney or Melbourne, Australia. He was one of 13 had been bought up and added to[...]settled in Bangor, Maine. He had a twin brother Franklin Son Hilary operated a threshing machine in the valley for Raye who died as a young boy. When he was eight, he trav- many years, working from Divide to Dillon. He married[...]he big house after Grandma they ranched in the eastern part of the territory but were (Mina[...]s to twenty people for meals every day. She baked many brother some prospect holes in the Argenta area that were of loaves of bread, pa[...]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 August 31, 1872 in Wilcox, food over through the fields on horseback[...]Nodaway County, Mo. She came to Montana in October gravy was in a 10-pound pack, mashed potatoes in one buck- 1879 with her parents, her brothe[...]nother bucket of vegetables. I carried three pies in and Harriet. They settled in Lion City and later moved to my hands. The dishes[...]re her father .worked for the Hecla Mining hauled in boxes on the hay wagon with the men when they[...]hen the mines played out, the family took up left in the morning.[...] |
| [...]Robert Melton. She died June 17, 1972, in Dillon.[...]buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon.[...]Estella Berniece was born July 31, 1912, in Dillon. Ber-[...]niece lives in Dolan Springs, Ariz.[...]being that stern stuff that made the west in general, and Montana in particular, the greatest part of a great country.[...]Ben Taylor died February 14, 1916, at his home in Dillon[...]of Lima, native of Akron, Taylor, taken in Dillon 1904. Ohio, and Angie Taylor were married October 6, 1919, in settled on 160 acres at the mouth of Grasshopper[...]. He sat me on a square fence Peace Simeon Estes. In 1897, Ben purchased the 160 acres post and[...]asshopper Creek, known as As far as I know there was no trouble in the family at all. It the Huff ranch, from his in-laws, William and Sarah Huff, was as if the[...]old Allen ranch where they chant, about 1928 in Roberts, Idaho. Lou was the widower of resided un[...]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[...]om 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 Elizabeth Raye was born there in 1840. They may have[...]known each other as children and possibly grew up in Ban-[...]Melbourne areas of Australia where they lived long enough[...]to have seven daughters die and be buried there. Their sons[...]Bannack, Idaho Territory, in 1862 although some records[...] |
| [...]eaverhead County's last probate judge while still in Idaho Territory and upon the creation of Montana[...]864, he be- came the county's first probate judge in the new territory. He held sessions at the old courthouse in Bannack for most of 1864, then resigned to take u[...]ace on Taylor Creek. The Taylors moved to Argenta in the early 1880s. John C. taught school for a term in Argenta about 1883- 1884 and his students said th[...]onally he worked as a carpenter, but his interest in mining never Myrtle was born on January[...]ed a very colorful and active life. She interests in the Black Hawk No. 2 Lode, the Dingo Lode and[...]n Laundry for several years. the Mohawk Lode, all in the Blue Wing Mining District and In addition, she also owned many small cabins on the the Thomas Elwood Lode, in the Montana Mining District. streamnorthea[...]ration of Myrtle befriended her renters and many others and al- the estate by the widow. Judge Mea[...]le handwriting and the court records support this in- terrific sense of humor and often recited poet[...]es. She had a great knowledge of birds was buried in the Argenta Cemetery.[...]d with crayons. the Argenta school District No. 4 in Beaverhead County, Myrtle loved educati[...]on- dence courses; she also took an active part in government. ers appointed her County Superintende[...]n until September 3, 1888 when she ·re- In 1971 she was honored for 50 years of membership in the signed.[...]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. Dau[...]n, she took special inter- other two sisters that are mentioned in Ben's 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 probably buried in Argenta At age 42 she married George Larsen; he died in 1954. She with John C.[...] |
| [...]Raymond Davison. They were married June 25, 1912, in William Tate Taylor (b. September 19, 1839; d. February East Helena and made their first home in Polson. Their two 16, 1916) was born in Fredrickton, New Brunswick, Canada. daughters Mary Louise and Mildred Edith were born. In 1863, he headed West from Canada to Oregon via the In 1919, Dr. Taylor returned to Dillon, where he est[...]Territory of Idaho and lished his practice in Optometry. He served on the State Montana. With Levant Pease, he formed a partnership in Board of Optometry and held various offices in Montana the promotion of western mines, with headquarters in Chi- State Association of Optometrists. As a young man, Carl cago. They were engaged in mining operations in Idaho, Taylor played trumpet in the green-suited city band, and Wyoming, Montana,[...]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 country. Over many miles of trail, they carried a gum boot of trea[...]r 250 pounds averdupois: gold from Idaho. He told many Dillon Wranglers' Club, I.O.O.F., Modern Wo[...]America, and Rotary International. In 1889, he married Mary Louise Gross (b. January 1, Ivy Lee Davison Taylor was born in Twin Bridges, Mon- 1858; d. June 15, 1938), daugh[...]High School, she attended Mary Ann Beatty Gross, in New Brunswick. They came to Montana Sta[...]made their home until 1897, when they ated in 1905. She taught in Red Lodge and East Helena. moved to Dillon.[...]At MSNC, Ivy was active in forming Kappa Zeta Nu They were parents of thr[...]sit the papers of orga- Hainds (d. July 15, 1951) in 1912. Their children were Helen nization, for[...]h 18, 1884; d. July 14, 1935) mar- was active in the Normal College Alumni, the local and state ri[...]of Chapter AD, on June 25, 1912. Their daughters are Mary Louise Taylor P.E.O. in Dillon. Hilden (b. August 22, 1913) and Mildred Edith Taylor Soll In 1946, she moved to Missoula where she resided unt[...]MARY LOUISE HILDEN Late in life, Mr. Taylor's eyesight failed. It was then h[...]Dave Terry and a brother Howe. He told Howe that there was the girl he was going to helping groups[...]and asked for an introduction! They were married in flatboats to be traded off or made into wagons, obtained 1881, and left to make their home in Bannack, Montana, horses, oxen or mule t[...]ethuel Francisco, and then to Montana by railroad in stages, as Miller and Amantha Gordon. Dave[...]hen Mrs. Taylor moved to make her ried in the Salt Lake City Endowment House on Dec. 1, hom[...]s given to 1866. They had both been baptized in the Church of Jesus the music department at Weste[...]returned to Corrine, ping, and to her former home in Canada. organized a train[...]Carl Byron Taylor received his early education in Ban- Elizabeth and belongings and headed no[...]k drainage west of Melrose to try their luck ern) in Dillon. He obtained his O.D. degree in 1906 from at prospecting. Northern Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago. When Hecla and Glendale[...]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. Grace was born in 1876 but I'm not sure where. The next[...]three were born in Glendale: Louella on Jun. 22, 1877; Ra-[...]lived in Glendale and Rochester, Montana. Della married[...]Sam Davis and lived in Missoula. David drowned in the Big[...]and lived in Glendale and Rochester. Raman and Carl never[...]same area in Quebec as the Pilon family since he married[...]their daughter, Leona, shortly after his arrival there. On[...]in-laws had moved previously, so grandmother could c[...]ed 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 spent some time with his Tessier gra[...]s of guiding wagon trains. He became friends with 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 unders[...]: Aldric, Wilford and Albertine. Later they moved There are two large fir trees there that the Terrys planted. to Dillon and operated[...]ow a housing development. A fourth son, were born in Cottonwood, Utah: Ida A. Terry, born Nov. 22, Frankie, was born in Dillon ..[...]to work on his own. He worked on several ranches in the Big Hole area and later in the Argenta mines, where he[...]Tessier, in 1909. They settled in the Bannack area where[...]uncle Bessete, who owned it as well as a house there. From lefi: (standing) Blanche Arbour[...] |
| Their first three children were born in Bannack assisted the Thiels moved to Butte w[...]erall Gang. moved to Dillon where Dalton was born in 1915. Life turned the tables on him there and they moved back to Later they moved to the[...]Dillon about 1924. for the Marcus Daly Ranch in the Bitteroot as a horseman John had be[...]Daly's daughters. the Elks in Pocatello, Idaho, and became a chartered mem- In 1920 they were blessed with another girl, Helen, who ber of the Montana Elks when it was formed in Virginia was born in Darby, where they had a ranch. 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 Mountain View Cemetery.[...]later had two more children-a appeared in the Dillon Examiner best tells the kind of man girl Lelah in 1925 and Harley in 1934. he was: "The larg[...]worked for the Forest Service and helped to in Dillon and the surrounding country was an unusual[...]hose 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. retired they returned to the[...]ing most of Cast upon his own resources early in life with the natural their children living in the Bitteroot they moved back to a gift of winning the good will of all with whom he came in small place there. co[...]reputation of being a square Both passed away in Hamilton-Florence on February 6, shooter[...]natural for him to be 44 great grandchildren and many great great grandchildren kind, generous a[...]Lima/Dillon area about 1935 and died in a nursing home in John L. and Jessie Thiel Sheridan in 1952. John Louis Thiel was 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 Alsa[...]zerland. John was the youngest of died in infancy while the other four have a total of seve[...]children and seven grandchildren. Jack died in Dillon in mother died in childbirth when John was about five years 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 th[...]ldren. children to live with their maternal aunts in Marshallville, -JACK[...]Around the age of 13, John left home. He lived in Utah, Colorado and finally Idaho where he married[...]her, James P. Smith, were the owners of a saloon. In 1903 John purchased it from them. Isadore Thomas was born in 1875 in Austria. A carpenter While in Soda Springs, Jessie and John had three sons, by trade, Isadore was very skilled in the art of hand hewing William David West born in 1903, Matthew born in 1904 logs for building, a trade he learned in the old country. and Jack Louis born in 1907. William died in infancy. Isadore was married to Mary Lawrenze while still living in In 1915 John and Jessie, with their two sons, moved[...]1916 renze. She was born March 25, 1861 in Austria. Polk directory shows John Thiel and Will[...]Isadore and Mary came to the United States in about as the owners of the Shamrock saloon in Lima. John was 1901. They had no childr[...]for teams and parents and grandparents to many Dillon residents. They racing. His son Jack was t[...]e other kids since were Catholic godparents to many of the Rebich, Malesich, he drove his own buggy a[...]spring of and Spehar children, as well as many other families around 1919/1920 the Thiels travel[...]children, and were much loved by all the son Jack in a military school while they joined the horse[...]a gambler and a chance taker. After birth of many children in the Beaverhead Valley. their return from California they moved toDillon where in Mary's niece, Sophia Lawrenze, came to D[...]later married John Re- During the first years in Montana life was good. In 1923 bich. She is the only known relative either of them had in 542-Beaverhead History |
| [...]many years she walked every morning from her residence[...]ars of age at the time of her death. Her obituary in the[...]Dillon paper said she was highly esteemed in the communi-[...]esidence, only the little house he and Mary lived in on Mr. and Mrs. Thomas at Thomsen Avenue home in Thomsen. Many people I spoke to about them remember[...]n visiting there as children. Mary and Isadore did a lot of Dillon[...]h of babysitting for friends, and were always there to help in any her third child, but the Rebich family always[...]ork, or so relates a George Thompson was born in 1830 in England. As a boy man who worked with her at Stam[...]at plains. Six months later George arrived in Salt Lake and as a pin, but was reluctant to let[...]team in 1859. He settled in Smithfield, Idaho, in 1860 when the people in that section were still fighting Indians. He[...]took part in more than one of those battles. He helped build[...]the first Presbyterian School in that area and his children[...]The Thompson family arrived in the Valley in Septem-[...]have told many interesting stories of early days, but being a[...]He moved to Hamilton in 1919 and remained there until[...]were close to him. Rebich; in front is John Rebich, Sophia's son[...] |
| [...]-DON NYE George William Thompson was born in Nebraska and |
| a crank, some wire, and insulators. One was installed in the Thompson house and one in Percy Flynn's about a mile away. (Percy was in the sheep business with his father-in- law). They had to get several poles, but they[...]stance. After a few trials and errors they got it in operation. It was their first tele- phone and at[...]very morning. She was his favorite daughter. Then there was that first horse-powered contraption for sawi[...]terrible winter of 1919. It dealt a death blow to many of the ranchers in Beaverhead County, among ffANCH ~,.,,,[...]0 l\eres) . them the Thompsons, who hadn't been in very good shape to begin with financially. There was the additional burden trip. of the sh[...]inter he had to pay $80 for a ton of hay. In the spring of 1864, Mr. Thorpe returned to Montan[...]his first house on the West Gallatin. He engaged in -From the autobiography of JOSEPH PERRY[...]ty was organized March Phillip Thorpe was born in Lancanshire, England, on 11, 1865. He was a member of the Territorial 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 1880 Phillip Thorpe moved his family to Beaverhea[...]d on a ranch north of Dillon. He married Anderson in Lancanshire and stayed with him until 1849. Sarah Selway on October 20, 1853, in Kenosha, Wisc. They He landed in New York on July 4, 1849, then went to Chica-[...]let, 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[...]a born July 14, 1861, who married Justin E. Morse in Washborn. Phillip then crossed the plains to Cali[...]ouncil Bluffs he joined a wagon train and arrived in Sacra- Phillip Thorpe died in 1888 at Dillon. mento four months later, after le[...]pon reaching the city, Mr. Thorpe asked a jeweler how much he would charge to clean his watch. "Eighteen dollars," was the reply. "How much will you give me for it?" "Five dollars" - s[...]ars 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 Virg[...]Gallatin Valley. He returned to Racine, Wisc., in December after a hard[...] |
| [...]She was 16. The around 1900. They moved to Dillon in 1910 where Thomas marriage took place[...]Arah Roberta "Bobbi" was born Janu- ill. He died in 1913 at the age of 44. ary 30, 1906 in Nebraska. Many of his mother Anna's rela- Kathlyn, Hayesl, and Francis remained in Dillon. Hayesl tives had moved to Beaverhead County during the previous married Anson Baxter in 1914. They had one daughter, thirty years, so in 1908 he moved his wife Alice and their Billie, who was reared in Dillon, graduating from Beaver- two-year-[...]l and Wes tern Montana College. sheep in the Lima area, then worked on the Union Pacific Anson died in 1935 and Hayesl in 1960. Railraod for two years. In 1916 Francis married May Henneberry. Francis He was seriously injured in a round-house accident which worked for Eliel's store for many years until he had a heart left him with stiff ankles the rest of his life. He moved his attack. In later years he owned a fox farm and a men's store[...]lroad Avenue. The city gave the street the violin in the Baxter-Tonrey orchestra. They were well- name of "Timmons." The house was still standing in 1981 known throughout the county as they played dances in all and was being used as an office for a junk yard. The street the small communities. He died in Dillon in 1966. They had one son, Francis (Jake) who gr[...]l and Montana State Uni- versity. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was a fighter pilot in the South Pacific during World War II. He married Wanda Dalehite in Texas in 1942. He remained in the Navy after the war until ill health forced his retirement. He died in San Diego at the age of 45. Wanda still lives there. May continued to live in Dillon until her death at 87 years "Bobbi" Timmons of age in 1984. -BILLIE BAXTER HE[...]muel Clarence Timmons were married March 13, 1880 in Maryville, Mo., and moved to Burlington Junction,[...]now part child, Clarence Eugene Timmons was born in Clyde on of a pasture between Frank[...]The "homestead fever" caught Clarence in 1913 and the[...]in a boat on the Beaverhead River. It took them all[...]It's unknown how far they traveled by boat. Eventually they[...]arrived in Ekalaka where he did carpenter work and worked[...]In the spring of 1914, he filed his claim and built[...]s foot tar paper shack. They lived in this shack for the first[...]924 on their homestead near Ekalaka. The droughts in 546-Beaverhead History |
| [...]He married Hannah Swanson September 22, 1909, in Mt. they couldn't repay, wreaked havoc upon the f[...]Washington. She came from Sweden when she was did in most of the state. In the late twenties, while Clarence 18 to visit h[...]ildren: Ruth, Jessie, and Ralph. Ralph was killed in distributor, his wife Alice opened a store in Ekalaka. the second World War in San Diego in 1942. Life was never easy for the Timmons, but their daughter In 1912 they sold the Livery Stable and bought the Chris- Arah has many good memories of those earlier years. When[...]Meat moved to Missoula. They came back to 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 Charley Gnose in Anaconda. Jess bought horses for World of their l[...]wedding anniversary before sold his interest in the ranch and moved to Utah. Clarence died. Alice[...]95. Jess was Master of the Masonic Lodge in Wisdom two They are buried side by side in Missoula. different terms.[...]rta, married Tex Bullock and Eastern Star in Wisdom. She was honored at a party in 1966 they live in Spokane. Lavona married Anton Lee Nelson[...]bership. They drove the 10 miles to and they live in Mesa, Arizona. attend meetings. In the winter they went with a team and[...]IM- during September in Wisdom. In the winter they held card MO[...]William Jesse Tope, one of 10 children, was born in Clin- Telephone service was from nine A.M.[...]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. The Post Office for Gibbons was in our home Army.[...]istress. She worked the mail and Jesse arrived in Beaverhead County in 1867. He worked sold stamps. After she gave it up, Mrs. Bert Canfield had it, for several years in St. Louis before coming to Montana, and t[...]here he worked for a family by the name of Thorpe in the discontinued altogether. Weldon Else w[...]10 miles with Charlie Miller. He was the sheriff in Wisdom for many team and sleigh. years. They had a jail in Wisdom at that time. He and his The fir[...]h. Later they brother purchased the Livery Stable there. They rented out built a new one a half-mile from our place. At one time there buggies and took people to Divide to catch the tr[...]ught a car by the name of "Maytag", the first car in Wisdom, and used that -RUTH[...]Henrietta Sprague in Miles City, Mont., July 25, 1881. She[...]came to Centennial Valley in December, 1886, at the age of[...]She married Detlef Frank Brammer in January, 1898, at[...]in a sleigh to the ranch where William S. Lewis, a y[...]who she was in love with, and wished to marry the young[...]daughter and act as coachman for them in the 16-mile drive[...] |
| [...]married in 1883. The Bean family Bible shows births with[...]have been written in Milt's clear precise handwriting, but[...]Mary Ida Bean, July 25, 1881, written by Milt in a bold[...]that Mamie's name was not entered in the family Bible, she[...]This fact is also documented in the R. 0. Bean family[...]David E. Stephens to Monida, and on their arrival there, made the would-be and his 13 year old son Dade left Malad, Idaho, April 6, 1889 son-in-law board a southbound train, and told him to leave trailing 250 head of cattle. They arrived in Big Hole April the state and show his physiognomy in those parts no more. 19, 1889. Mrs. Tovey[...]came to believed he would enjoy better health if there was consider- Dillon by train, arriving May[...]an Tovey and Dave Stephens took up property quite in the district court, he failed to put in an appearance as the close together in the Briston area. They didn't arrive early prosec[...]the case was dismissed." enough in the spring to develop hay fields. The hay crop in Frank and Mamie Brammer moved to Salt Lake Cit[...]89 was very poor and they were unable to buy hay. How- live. Four children were born to this marriage:[...]1, 1901; Delmar Frank, ing the winter. In the spring of 1890, Dan and Dave dug a Sept. 21,[...]lda Elizabeth, Aug. 11, 1906. Frank hole in the ground and threw dirt out thinly over the snow to Brammer died in November of 1907 at Bisbee, Ariz., and is[...]the cattle could eat the new grass under- buried there.[...]d three children: Danny, who spent most of family in front of the Bean home in Cottonwood, Utah. his life in the Big Hole; Janey and Bill, who left in early Mamie married Charles J. Torp on November 28, 1909, in adulthood. Danny married Maggie Steph[...]he Centennial Valley and years they lived in the Briston area about three miles north lived on[...]Leslie, July 26, 1912; Arlee Adrian, Nov. In 1917 (or 1918) Danny bought a small ranch about h[...]1916; and a baby boy mile north of Wisdom. There was a little lake near the born in January, 1921, who died at birth.[...]orp, came to America erated the only dairy in the Big Hole for many years until from Rebba, Denmark, when Charlie was[...]erta Williams and Charlie was born July 17, 1888, in Rebba, and attended moved to Dillon. school in Murray, Ut. His parents later moved to the valley[...]roads and built bridges while nice died in the 1970s while Myla still (1988) lives in the the family lived in the Centennial. In the winter they would Seattle area. Janey (Jean) attended school in Logan, Utah, move to Louisville, Idaho, and aroun[...]ccomplished pianist. She married Walter he worked in the sugar factories. In 1931 the family moved Welty, a talented y[...]scholarship for voice. He taught vocal music in Logan, Utah, for the city of Idaho Falls until retirement. for many years. Jean and Walter had a daughter who was[...]son Bob is and has been for Charles J. Torp died in April, 1961, and both are buried in many years, the weather man on KSL TV. Rosehill Cemete[...]signed to operate his own insurance business in Dillon Henrietta had a two-year-old daught[...] |
| [...]death, Bill married Anna Anderson who still lives in Dillon. Thomas and Martha Tritt |
| [...]s, neighbors and friends rallied round. There was one large room that served all purposes excep[...]within the structure. The house was sold in the mid 30s to playing the fiddle and baseball, It was Mac's interest in Chris Hansen as his Rest Stop-Over for t[...], was 14 when they met, but being the tenth child in a family Lila and Avis. Four were born in the cabin, Bernard was of 13, she matured early. born in another frame house in Bannack, and Avis was born Sadie's parents, Thomas Lewis Thompson and Martha in Dillon, July 10, 1923. Mac died May 30, 1923, of stomach Ellen Ashworth, were born, raised and married in the carcinoma at age 40. Sadie was[...]The Bannack Cemetery is the resting place for many of in 1873 and started west by covered wagon in the summer of these families, including R[...]s well as their youngest son Charles, who drowned in sie Clare, five years old, William Thomas, three,[...]and Jessie mund George, one. After their arrival in Townsend, Mon- Clare, are also buried in Bannack, as well as Merle, the tana, a baby girl[...]Sadie and Mac Underwood. Montana (Montie) Violet. In all there were 13 children in[...]thood. Sarah "Sadie" was born September 15, 1892, in Bannack.[...]stories involved John Verbance was born in Draga, Croatia, Yugoslavia, the fear and awe all[...]shared for the Indians. on May 4, 1885. In the small parish of Lukovdol, also in Upon one occasion, a group of besotted braves stu[...]rch. On May 10, 1905, the greeted them with broom in hand and dispatched them childhood sweethearts were united in marriage. One year without a blow falling. The yo[...]John served in the Austrian army the following three Sadie, according to pecking order, was the sitter and in years. Croatia was part of the Austro-Hung[...]p the road to the Paddock ing this time. In November, 1910, John left his homeland Ranch for[...]riage rolled over it. Relieved the baby was still in the carriage, Sadie retrieved the blob, reshaped[...]gravel) and once home, placed it without fanfare in the family co_oler. When Sadie and Mac met, on[...], the couple courted for five years. They married in Salmon, Idaho, May 1, 1912. Within that[...] |
| 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 mines until he had enough money to se[...]er 23, 1849 (died September 27, 1941); Richard In May 1913, Josephine and her two small children, C[...]terranean 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 May 16, 1862, planning to go to the Deer[...]ake River crossing where Calumet, Mich. The depot in Calumet was a great disap- they waited[...]to make what pointment to Josephine, who thought in America every- proved to be an uneven[...]iner's strike prompted a move to the copper mines in Price's Canyon and halted at Birch Creek, where they Butte, Montana, in 1914. Another daughter was born in learned of the rich discovery of placer gold just two months 1916. After working three years in the Butte mines, the before at White's Bar in Grasshopper Gulch. They forgot family moved to Di[...]annack. Two of the wagons, driven by Jim Harby In 1919, John, Josephine, and their three children m[...]o what later became to the Glen and Melrose area. In 1927, he became foreman of Bon Accord. In a few days, they rejoined the others at Ban- the Wood Livestock Company Ranch at Glen. In 1931, they nack. At that time Bannack w[...]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. Carolyn Poole. In the mid-1940s, they added the Vineyard While living in Bannack, Wilson and Mary Jane had two Ranch and J[...]ville, which was a mile or so July 21, 1976. They are buried in Mountain View Cemetery downstream from Bannack, was named after Mary Jane in Dillon. Wadams, who was the first white woman in Bannack. Mary Their daughter, Josephine, marri[...]Jane is also remembered as the woman who, in 1877, rode ber 1, 1937 and lives in Pocatello, Idaho. Carolyn and Mack horsebac[...]e Prairie that Poole were married March 24, 1928, in Dillon and live on the Indians were on the move in the area after the Battle of the Browne Ranch. Jo[...]ary 15, 1969 and is Big Hole. buried in Dillon.[...]Mary Jane and Wilson Wadams were early settlers in[...]Hans (John) Walchli Bannack, Montana, arriving there on September 18, 1862. Hans John Walchli, born in Berne, Switzerland, came to Wilson Wadams, son[...]Wayne), Ind., where he was married dams, was born in New York State on March 29, 1823. His a[...]ent to Wadams Grove, Stephenson County, Illinois, in the In May of 1894, he brought his family to the Big Hol[...]llon via an immigrant car on the railroad, family there in 1834 and they were one of the first families to[...]ght wagons into the Big Hole. He took up a settle in that area. homestead on the river in the Fox area on Jorgensen Lane, Wilson Wadams[...]near where Jack Hirschy now lives. dams Grove in 1843. She was the daughter of George and[...]eesemaker. They sold their cheese and butter died in Kentucky when she was small. Her mother was half[...]a Scotch and half Menominee Indian, who was born in Ken- year by teams and wagons.[...] |
| [...]mar tered the English language, he was successful in busines, and was remembered as a hard worker whos[...]trip, John met Victoria Hjort, the pretty his son-in-law, Jacob Kunz, who was daughter Barbara's[...]t Victoria was born September 28, 1875, in Fairview, Utah. age 62 in 1916. He is buried in the Jackson Cemetery. As a young girl s[...]and also to Salmon, Idaho, and son Fritz remained in the Big Hole worked for a local cheese maker. becoming a prominent rancher, specializing in breeding An- The young couple fell in love on the wagon trip from Utah gus cattle.[...]to Idaho, and were married on December 28th, 1894 in Egin. The last line of John Walchli's obituary is worth noting John and Victoria stayed in Idaho that summer, working here: "Funeral service[...]-ANN HIRSCHY Idaho and remained there for the next 6 years.[...]John Leonard Waldemar was born April 15, 1864, in decided he wanted to make the Horse Pr[...], the first of 12 children born to John home. In the fall of 1901, he moved the family to Montana.[...]liza Ericksen Waldemar. There he worked on cattle ranches, putting up the wild[...]violin, without much success. John did There were no schools on Horse Prairie, so the children[...]re family to Egin, Idaho As he grew to manhood in Mount Pleasant, he acquired a for the schoo[...]few years, the population of Horse Prairie had In the fall of 1894, John heard William Hjort[...] |
| [...]liked the area and soon moved his family there. because of John's work, and the school sort of m[...]live with his grandparents since By this time, there were three more children, Trevor there were no schools on Horse Praire at that time. Aft[...]e 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. By held at the Bob Roberts place, another year at the Howell 1907, there was a school on Horse Prairie, so they could stay[...]John built an extra room on the house they there the year around. were living in for classes to be held. After that, the children[...]as 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[...]About this time, John and Victoria bought a farm in Egin, play the violin, so he saved his mone[...]boys to do the farming. Since He enlisted in the United States Army on June 27, 1918 Ina was t[...]e always accompanied her father to and served in the Medical Corp in France until his honor- cook for the haycrew.[...]able discharge on May 24, 1919. In 1922, John reJ!ted out the farm and moved his fam[...]for hauling. stead in Browns Canyon. When they reached Montana, they rented the old hotel in The rest of the Waldemar 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 a[...]dance band which played for many dances at Grant, Mill- The musical talent of th[...]Estella Dickson was born Aug. 14, 1903 in Thornton, Ida- cian, playing the violin and saxop[...]oth- Lyman Dickson. She spent her childhood in Thronton ers to play. They formed their own band and played at many where her parents owned a farm. Stella and[...]and Grasshopper Valley. eled to Montana in the summers with their parents who John spent the rest of his life in Grant and passed away contracted hay for the Nay Brothers Ranch. These trips there on March 12, 1937. were made by wagon. In 1922, the Dickson family moved to Victoria mar[...]1941. They the Tash place above Millpoint in the Grasshopper Valley, moved to Aberdeen, Washington and lived there for many where Jud was employed as a ranch fore[...]ce at Millpoint that Stella met John Waldemar. He in-[...]uced her to his older -FAY WALDEMAR McCRACKEN and IN A WAL-[...]married December 1, 1925 in Dillon. They moved to len's homestead in Browns Canyon, above the Hughes ranch on[...]union were, Leonard Franklin Waldemar was born in Mount Pleas- Leonard Milton, born Au[...]Davidson started going to Mon- working in the hay fields in the summer, building fences, tana in the summer to put up hay on Horse Prairie. John[...]s and hay derricks for local ranches and trapping in the[...] |
| [...]Beaverslide hay der- rick which is still used on many Beaverhead County ranches. Len and the Waldema[...]ether and were especial- ly good at the waltz. In 1935, Len was hired by Nay Brothers to manage one of their ranches in the Grasshopper Valley. The faamily lived on what[...]nd emergencies. with his mother Victoria Waldemar in Grant for one year, Mother Sarah Waldorf died in 1934 at Dillon, age 84, then moved them to Dillon[...]ir never regaining health after being in 1933 earthquakes in grandmother, Gundel Dickson, until they all finished grade Long Beach, Calif. She lived many years making a home for school. He then moved his family into a small home in Fred and his two sons. Sarah was born in England. Dillon.[...]grew up pretty fast since they were responsi- many others as he bec~me a successful business man. So[...]an to fail after Stella died. He spent a lot In 1903 Fred married Nellie E. Morse (1876-1913), artis- of time, his last few years, in the Veterans Hospital at Fort tic and musical[...]Margaret Fyle and Oscar Harrison. He passed away there on January 25, 1948. He E. Morse. Thei[...]Morse (b. Salt Lake City was buried beside Stella in Mountain View Cemetery at 1905); and[...]ived by one son and two daughters. In 1909 Fred opened a store in Lima, living with his moth-[...]and son, Morse. Nellie and son, Lansing, remained in -FAY WALDEMAR McCRACKEN Dillon with mother Maggie Morse. In 1912 Fred returned to[...]Nellie died in 1913 and Fred and sons lived with his mother J[...]Warren, Ohio. on Episcopal Vestry, served many times on city council, and Family moved to Hays, Kansas in 1885. Fred left for Dillon was a charter member of Montana Life Insurance Co. of in 1896, seeking work to bring mother and Harriet we[...]Morse, manager of Dillon board meeting in Helena in 37 years and held the distinction Implement, trading in harness, saddles, grain, hay, grocer- of shaking hands with every Governor during his life in ies. J.E. found Fred asleep on the counter, financially un- Montana. He was checking in for second time to manage the able to rent a room[...]and died. Mother Waldorf and Harriet came West in late 1890s.[...]-PAT WALDORF Harriet (state winner in Elocution) was one of three women in first graduating class from the Normal College. She taught a year in Helena, then became a secretary at the[...]Joseph and Beesy Wall State Capitol. In 1911 she married Senator Clarence P. Too- When Joseph Wall was a lad in Pennsylvania and Beesy ley, Meagher-Wheatland Counties. They resided in Two- Brady a girl in Ireland, who could have known they would Dot, the[...]rlowton. Both were affiliated with meet in Nevada, marry in Utah and become Montana pio- TwoDot Livestock Co.[...]d bought wool. neers? Clarence died in 1918 and Harriet continued all busin- J[...]mmigrants, esses and partnership with E.C. Baxter in TwoDot Co., and Gotthardt and Catherine ([...]n No- ranching south of Harlowton until her death in 1955. Jessie vember 28, 1856 in Alleghany City, now Pittsburgh. His (Poindexter)[...]e busi- father was killed by highwaymen in November 1874. Joseph ness, selling for several c[...]no children and his brother George enlisted in the United States Army 554-Beaverhead History |
| [...]They lied about their ages since they were In 1882 George Wall married Beesy's friend from Elko[...]Mary Monaghan. The brothers lived for a time in Ogden, tioned for a discharge certificate in his rightful name. then moved with their families to Dillon, in 1887. In August The family spelling soon became Wall ou[...]sy homesteaded the Keystone ranch brothers served in the Indian Wars. Joseph was a private in near Dell. They raised potatoes, Herford cat[...]more children: Elizabeth "Bes- Calvary. He served in the campaigns against the Nez Perce sie" B[...]he climbed a fence. All of the Wall family are buried at against the Arizona Indians. For over a year he carried the Mountain View cemetery in Dillon, except for little Eddie. mail from Fort Halleck, Nev., to Elko. There he met his fate Joe and Beesy worked hard to fulfill his ambition to be a in the person of Beesy Brady.[...]Brady. She came to New York state as a child and in 1877 president of Gilmore and Pittsburgh Rail[...]ent to visit her storekeeper brother, John Brady, in Elko. they had no family. Nevada married ran[...]d April 1881. Next day, he and Beesy were married in old age; they are survived by their children: Mr. Joseph Ogden, Uta[...]The baby of the family, William Penn Wall, served in the children in Ogden: Edward Joseph, who died at age two, Army in World War 1, returning to help Joe work the ranch[...]William's early death of a heart attack in 1930. She then[...]March 1934. The ranch was sold in 1931 to Amos Hansen[...]William Penn Wall ll, now retired in Tekoa, Wash., re-[...]married Hilary Ann Corrigan; they lost a son in Vietnam and another in a car accident. Three daughters and a son[...]Beesy's great-great grandson in Tekoa, John Thomas Wall.[...]t is always a little boy's dream to become famous in some[...]traveled to the New York World's Fair in April of 1964.[...]Wamplers, in 1886. They located on Sheep Creek, later took[...]esy Wall Cloyd grew up in the Big Hole Country. Wisdom did not[...] |
| [...]work began early. For his birthday after arriving in And bothered me quite bad the west from Vinc[...]chool. At 16 he received a scholarship from the There's Gladys Mifflin's Butte Business College. He did[...]t he should get married. They arranged a trip There's Lucy Paddock back to Indiana for him to visit a[...]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,[...]Cloyd lived the rest of his life alone. There's Belle Martin's mighty nice He enjoyed an int[...]nk and call you dear for a sheep company at Dell. In his later years he sported snow-white hair and a[...]bit more shy. litter on the streets of Wisdom, or in the ranch yards where he often was. There's Lena Stanchfield, It was after he finally re[...]ep, Cloyd died October 26, 1968, and is buried in the Wisdom and with her talkin' Cemetery.[...]I was born May 10, 1910, in Dillon, Mt., on South Atlantic For solid work to be begun. Street in the home of Mrs. Streit, a mid-wife who assisted[...]beth 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 1915. My mother died in 1914 when my twin brothers Rob- He must show he k[...]ennial Valley ranch on and off for And one of the many problems, several years following my mother's death. Set fore him in this life,[...] |
| [...]feed the snakes. He kept these snakes in the garage to keep[...]The Chautauqua came to town and set up tents in the[...]inity of South Dakota Street. Entertainment would in-[...]would set up the big tents in the same vicinity when they[...]In May the college gymnasium class and the local sch[...]There was a black shoeshine man there. My brothers had[...]in the shop thought it was funny and laughed. Ralph[...]e real eggs and use the shells for decorations. In 1916 my father married again and in 1917 he sold the Weng[...]United States in 1871, leaving behind two sons, Jules and I atte[...]t August to be raised by maternal grandparents. In Ohio, grade.[...]Nelson, whose mother died in childbirth and his father in a When we were living in Dillon where my father owned a runaway wh[...]hn ran a dray business. John had a Deal Bar in Butte for a time. He died in New York City. barn on his property on the corner[...]e original home he built on horses would get down in the barn at night and would kick the ranch[...]other would get on He also owned a sawmill in Fox and cut timber on Fox Creek the phone and tel[...]of Jackson. Charles used to keep rattlesnakes in glass-front boxes in Gus was involved in many mining ventures. Wenger Gulch his garage. He had a ranch in the Frying Pan area where on Ruby Creek was named for him. He also mined Mission there were scads of snakes. He would pay us kids[...] |
| [...]Langdorf on October 9, 1924, in Missoula. They lived there a[...]1976; George Duane, January 16, 1928, deceased in 1929 and[...]While living in the Big Hole, John worked on several[...]Moving to Dillon in 1929, John and Jean bought an Inter-[...]houses for a living. And in 1933 they took over the manage-[...]ment of the old golf course. In 1934, the family moved with horse team.[...]olf course to the other side of Dillon till 1941. In 1942, Gus was responsible for many people coming to this coun- they then manage[...]lities. the land for two more years. In 1896, he sent for his son Jules and his wife, Marie, and In 1955, they bought a small farm in Stevensville, Mont. their two children, John and Marguerite. He later lived in They resided there till John's death in December of 1980. Jackson with his son, Jules. Gu[...]then lived with her son Bun and his wife Chickie in Helena until her death in May of 1984. John and Jean are -MARY JO WALDEMAR buried at the Riverview Cametery in Stevensville. John(Jean)Wenger John (Jean) Wenger was born December 10, 1895, in Le-[...]ted States with par- John Wenger was born in Grendelwald, Switzerland, in ents Jules and Marie in 1896. 1856. At[...]iverboat to Fort Benton. He Division, and trained in the Infantry at Fort Lewis, Wash. then went by foot to Helena. After operating meat markets In the two years he served, he was honored on Decemb[...]eer Lodge, he decided to try his guim for bravery in action, the Victory Medal for combat at hand[...]le. Ypress-Lejs, Meuse-Argonne, Defensive-Section in Flan- John married Sarah Conrad from Ohio at Deer Lodge in ders, and the Purple Heart after being wounded 11 days 1883 and in 1885 they homesteaded 10 miles above Wisdom. befo[...]He was one of the few cattlemen in the Big Hole Valley He was discharged from Balt[...]s. Later the valley was built into a ber 7, 1919. There they took a rib to make him a new nose[...] |
| lived in a log cabin with dirt floors. Thier son, Edward,[...]rguerite to bed and taking John by the hand, born there in January of 1887 and their daughter, Lydia,[...]snow and cold to Aunt Cecile was born at Jackson in 1888. Sarah did not appreciate the Hirschy'[...]had no scissors so they They moved to Anaconda in 1892 where he returned to struggled back[...]up. With Mrs. Hirschy attend- the meat business. In 1897 he became associated with the ing, so[...]birth of Ida followed on September 7, 1900. ery in 1906, running a slaughterhouse and buying cattle. He Marie claimed a homestead on Cow Cabin Gulch in 1901. retired from the cattle business altogether in 1918 and built Jules continued to work on ranches and help his father. the Alpine apartments in Anaconda. Their daug[...]Cabin Gulch on John Wenger died while visiting in Long Beach, Calif., in October 3, 1902. 1929. Sarah Wenger died in Anaconda in 1961 at the age of In 1904, they bought the Ludvig Garlin holdings, one mile 98. Fred Hirschy, a neighbor in the Big Hole, was a pall- south of Jackson. While living there, these children were bearer at her funeral. Both Edward and Lydia are also born: Jules Ernest Wenger, Jr. on May 10, 1904; Charles, buried in Anaconda.[...]Jules Ernest Wenger was born November 13, 1870, in steers to feed till spring; fattening t[...]very spring, cattle buyers ried November 25, 1893 in LeLocle, Switzerland. They came came to buy the steers of Big Hole ranchers. to the United States in 1897. Their son John, born Decem- Marie[...]Dale Strodtman, Grandpa "Gus" Wenger met them in Dillon with a cov- they retired to their ranch in Wisdom, which was the origi- ered wagon, taking them on to the Big Hole, where in Fox he nal Al Noyes homestead. had built an a[...]tead at Fox where on Janu- while residing in Wisdom. They, as well as Grandpa Gus, ary 10, 189[...]Grandma Barbara and their foster daughter, Ida, are buried in the Dillon Cemetery.[...]moved to the Centennial Valley in 1891, where he previous-[...] |
| [...]d Winnie Wharton, Fred and Flora Hirschy of hotel in Monida[...]Elizabeth, 1953 Then they bought the Summit Hotel in Monida which they He had what many regarded as a model ranch, using the ran for abou[...]d was an expert on Montana and years while living in Monida. His son, Henry, Jr., took over American History. In 1925 he was married to Winifred Wil- after Cecil[...]itage, and a Kenneth worked on construction. Both are now retired. brother Griff Williams, wh[...]sheep that Winnie took pride in caring for. She and John John Calvin Wharton was born November 9, 1890, in put up all the hay with very little h[...]tacking. Noyes Wharton. The elder Mr. Wharton for many years was They traveled several times[...]lectric Railway System and Colum- family. In April of 1953, John and Winnie along with Fred bi[...]he was 17, his folks sent him Winnie's brother-in-law who was Lord Mayor of a city near to a ranch in the Big Hole for his health. Following high London. The foursome also toured Europe and visited in school, John enrolled at Montana State College at[...]duates, receiving After John's sudden death in 1956, Winnie remained on his degree in 1913. The following year he went back to the[...]anch until his death. in 1984.[...]Nellie Louisa Paige Wheat, was born in 1884 at Paigeville,[...]in Dillon on September 13, 1903. It was his responsi[...]see that his father was laid to rest in the small cemetery[...] |
| [...]located on the west side of the Jefferson River, in the McArther Mountain Range. The road wound down[...]il. But Dad knew the team; his Dad had taught him how to drive the horses, and he watched with a young[...]the ore, and pay them with the bottle of wine. In 1905 or 1906 father mov~d to Dillon and went to w[...]Butte hospital, which left the ranching entirely in[...]ation until his death in 1932. Mother continued to operate[...]the ranch until four years before her death in 1967.[...]uring our school years, Helen and I attended Mary In-[...]of Forestry. Helen went to beauty college in Salt Lake City,[...]in Butte, winning a number of awards in hair styling. She died in 1963 and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery at[...]Ranch which I bought from Uncle Earl Wheat in 1943. Willard Jensen, Red Rock Rodeo Champ[...]WHEAT My mother, Edna Legeve Jensen, was born in 1883 at Hyrum, Utah. She lived for a time with the Neilsens in George and Nellie Wheat Idaho falls,[...]An- George W. Wheat (1841-1903) was born in Hawleyton drew Jensen, moved to Dillon where she[...]f 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, was born July 11, 1913, in Dil- When the two boys were quite young their parents divorced lon, in an apartment above the Dillon Bottling Works, now and Nellie took Earl to live in Dillon. George's tombstone in the location of the Masonic Hall, where my parent[...]e married. Wheat, Born in Hawleyton Broome Co., N.Y. 1841. Died in In 1914 Charles Herbert, in partnership with Willard Jen- Dillon, Montana, September 13, 1903. A place is vacant in sen, homesteaded 64 acres on Sage Creek, 26 miles[...]and raised cattle and sheep. We spent the In Dillon, Nellie operated a boarding house and met[...]ntary stock to this area for the winter, we lived in town at 209 and high schools in Dillon. Mary Innes, his first grade teach- Railro[...]from Montana College at Deer Lodge, in 1903. That summer In 1918, Willard was kicked by a horse and di[...] |
| [...]were manufactured and sold. In 1933 the Act was repealed.[...]Utah, which he sold in less than an hour, primarily to the bars in Dillon. In 1942 Earl was very ill and closed the business le[...]rhead Bar Supply. Kenneth was with Remington Arms in[...]was in the army; and Don was in the air corps. In 1945[...]souri via railroad train to Dillon in 1906. He worked at stoking coal and water in railroad engines for two years[...]nnie, Kate, Maggie and Anna - were already living there[...]married except Kate). A brother, Frank, also was there, and served in World War I-1914-1918.[...]latter in town from door to door. They brought three chil-[...]dren from Missouri and three more were born in Dillon. From lefi: Harold, Earl. Lillian, Eleanor[...]Elma, Virgil and Margaret were born in Missouri, and Jim, Kenny[...]Lucille and Stella in Dillon. Stella died at age 16 months in in Butte. They lived in Dillon where Earl worked as a book- Barrett Hospital and was buried in Mountain View Ceme- keeper for his stepfather, S.[...]l Kenneth (1909-1957); Elsa Eleanore In 1914 Margaret, Jim and Lucille babysat the three[...]m kept track of his ice business and coached Earl in the operation. When Sam died, he left the 200 acr[...]ce business). Earl moved to the ranch but sold it in 1943 to his nephew, Herbert Wester Wheat. Herb st[...]plateau 200 yards northwest of the old house. In 1911 Earl opened Dillon's first nickelodeon, a movie house. Later he tried operating movie houses in Sheridan, Wyo., and in Salmon, Idaho. He lived briefly (with his fam- ily) in Sheridan but returned to Dillon. In 1921 the Hartwig family built a new theatr[...] |
| [...]l the children Benjamin F. White was born in 1838 in New Bedford, until it cooled down, and he gave Fr[...]ing the last territorial gover- that he, Jim, was in charge of that stove. The Crouses had an nor o[...]at Pierce Academy, Middlebar, Mass., 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 w[...]ses. Mr. Morton's store was called "The in the Napa Valley kept him in the California area for nine Dillon Dry Goods" and was in the block where the Hotel years. Andrus[...]In 1868, Mr. White moved to Idaho where he studied l[...]base of a tree by a stream, and his parents went there and recorder of the U.S. District Court. He later became associ- dug up $700 in gold coins.[...]e and became the largest freight company in the west. they felt rich. They bought a Model T F[...]e entered the Beaverhead Valley with the railroad in granary in which they gave Saturday night dances. Paul[...]been platted on a piece of brown wrapping paper. In a mat- played drums (self-taught). Our nearest an[...]Crouses, Harry Browns (parents of Hazel Sorenson in "Hazel's Dress Shop") plus the John Frizzels.[...]years with crop failures caused Bank- er to work in the Butte copper mines for a couple of years. He left the wheat ranch for good in 1922, stopping at Orondo, Wash., where Banker and Molly and their three children worked in the apple harvest 20 miles north of Wen- atchee.[...]myself) married an orchardist named Leonard Zanol there and stayed in Orondo. Eventually Banker, Molly and Jim with his[...]nd became a licensed barber. He still lives alone in his own home at age 88, Martha having died in 1983. Elma died in 1981 at Gold Bar, Wash., where she and her second[...]ved 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 Angeles with her husband. Ma[...]rchard that she and her husband Leonard purchased in 1925. He died in 1975 after selling his ranch to son Bill in 1964. Bill retired in 1986 after having sold to his daughter Joa[...] |
| [...]nderful business and sold groceries named Dillon, in honor of the Union Pacific Railroad presi-[...]t and Walter had a daughter, Lil, who was born In the early winter of 1880 the firm of Sebree, Ferr[...]Lil helped in the grocery store by keeping books and Pete In 1882 White was elected to the Republican ticket a[...]and cut up representative from Beaverhead County in the territorial meat. council. He was no[...]Later Walter bought a ranch for Pete. Pete was in the tory by President Harrison in 1888. His vigorous campaign Navy and when he returned he did not want the ranch so he resulted in the admission of the territory into the union in sold it. 1889. A big party was held at the W[...]everyone both old and young. In 1888 White was elected president of the First Nat[...]-LILLIAN WHITE WILLEY livestock industry in Beaverhead County. He became known for his method[...]c- Frank Wilke's parents were both born in Germany. His ter rather than security. By these m[...]ig Hole father came to the United States in 1869, landing in Rich- Basin was developed from a barren and uninhabited prairie mond, Va. He was a brick mason in Chicago during the early land to one of the most famous cattle regions in the world. 1870s, then moved on through Colorado, 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.[...]83. The depression of 1919-1920 hit, resulting in the bank fail- Amelia Shrader, Frank's mothe[...]Arthur to Butte accounts over to Wall Street, who in turn sent out a new where she married Christian Wilke in March, 1889. president. B. F. White died in 1920 at the age of 83, fortunate Frank Wilke was born in Butte, on December 26, 1893, in being spared the suffering of such a loss. and his wife Anita Richards was born there on March 5, Benjamin F. White was married Febr[...]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 born to this union; Carrie, Frank spent his entire life in the Big Hole Valley. He Emrys, Ralph and Greta. E[...]ge Featherly. in 1964. A house was then built in Wisdom, where he and[...]nd Margaret White Walter Taylor White was born in Kansas City in 1868. He bought and sold cattle for Walter Hanson in Butte for a few years and then worked in Phillipsburg for a few years. Margaret Sch.lunegger and her sister Bertha came to the United States in June of 1915. They had to come via Italy because[...]d started so they were unable to embark on a ship in France. Margaret was born June 22, 1883 in Zurich, Switzerland. Margaret and her sister came to relatives in Chicago and then moved to relatives in Port- land, Oregon. They did housework for families in Portland and then moved to Wisdom, Montana. Marga[...]One of her brothers is still alive and is living in Portland, Oregon. After arriving in Wisdom, Margaret Schlunegger met Vf alter White while working in a hotel. They were married in 1916. Walter and Margaret owned and ope[...] |
| Frank was always interested in woodworking from about 1916, when he built a tabl[...]ed to Wisdom. During his early years he learned how to make charcoal for use in black-smithing and tool-sharpening. He remem- ber[...]ay at Stewart Meadows from 1905 to 1907. He spent many hours looking for rocks, polishing them and makin[...]ther George, and their mother, went to California in December, 1920. He remembered a fish dinner selli[...]e. They left for home the first of April, 1921. In 1922, Frank and his brother George bought a sawmi[...]cut the logs during the winter, then saw them up in the spring. The price for the sawed lumber was $2[...]a pound, live weight. Frank met Anita Richards in Butte, on December 28, 1930. They were married on[...]oneymoon. They arrived home on July 7, 193f, just in time to start haying. Three boys were born to Frank and Anita: Frank Arthur in Butte, May 31, 1932; John Fredrick on Steel Creek[...]May 21, 1938. Anita Richards 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.[...]was given the use of a small rural cabin to live in, so he -JOAN WILKE stayed there by himself all winter, caring for the stock and[...]time Big Hole rancher, was born and stayed there for nearly four years. September 11, 1880 in Little Grant, Wisconsin. His parents Asa[...]ey and Sophia Butterworth Pendleton, in 1898, and encouraged them to come to Big Hole, where both of whom were born in England. In his early years the Frank was already established in the ranching business. family lived in Glidden, Iowa, where his father owned a[...]was a cheese maker. Asa re- He arrived in Wisdom in the winter of 1898, when he was 18 ceived his education there, having entered college directly years old.[...]for a necessary pair from grammar school because there were no high schools in of overshoes, and had exactly one nickel[...]early his starting capital. His first job in Montana was in J. P. age, 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, P[...]family later arrived, he gave the job in the store to his elder When Asa's father died in the winter of 1894, the eldest brother Perc[...]thers also operated a horse-drawn Some cousins in Mississippi offered to help his widowed dr[...]i River that fall, by The family settled in the Briston area of Big Hole, where himself, from Iowa to Mississippi. In spite of his young age they lived for many years. Asa helped his mother rear his he managed the trip safely and arrived in Mississippi with younger brothers a[...] |
| Elizabeth Ellen Leonard was born in Gibbonsville, Idaho, dropped out of school, and for the next seven years, he on Christmas.Day in 1897. Her parents were John Leonard h[...]ranch. He also worked for other ranchers in the Big Hole, on Ontario to Michigan, and then we[...]h near Salmon, age of 21 he enrolled in high school in Dillon. Upon gradu- Idaho. Her father drowned whe[...]n, he entered the Montana State University, where in experienced difficult economic times. She graduated from 1913, he earned a bachelor's degree in agronomy. He was high school in Salmon and worked until she was married.[...]on 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 Welsh of Cheyenne, Wyoming. They transferred to the Sta- first home was in the Briston area where they lived until tion in Sheridan, Wyoming. Two of their seven sons were 1[...]ed the home ranch on Johnson born there. Creek near the Big Hole Battlefield. To _this un[...]th, Marjory June and brother Ray. While there he found it necessary to act as a Charles Wayne.[...]ing his stay Asa and his brother Percy ranched in partnership until there he was chased up a tree by an unfriendly bear. hi[...]o-year-olds for premium prices as the beef raised in the venture and the family moved back to Ch[...]which he was trained. He filled these positions in various Through the years Asa (who always was called by his places in Nebraska down through the years. initials, "A. C. ") was a leader in the Gib hons area, serving on Leroy was prou[...]his sons to college, that three of them had been in He was an avid reader (history and geography his[...]his wonderful father and devoted husband. He died in Butte of devoted father when in 1968 he required a leg amputation heart disease o[...]due to gangrene and soon died of a stroke. buried in the Briston cemetery. His date of death was fifty[...]idden, band's death, she sold the ranch and lived in Missoula for a Iowa. few years. She then o[...]The father Thomas Willey passed away in February of shop in Wenatchee, Washington, and later returned to Dil-[...]that the family could not collect 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.[...]family moved to Jackson, Mississippi in 1894. They operat- -ELAINE SEIDENSTICKER and CHARLES WIL- ed a cotton farm there. While in Jackson, one of Sophia's[...]In 1899, Percy's next younger brother, Asa, came to[...]tana and the Big Hole in February. Percy then joined him in Leroy D. Willey Montana in late April of 1899. Their mother and other[...]children came later that spring or in early summer of the Leroy D. Willey was born o[...]same year. They settled on a small ranch in the Briston area. Wisconsin to Thomas Henry Wille[...]- Percy and Asa became partners in the ranch. If either of worth Pendleton. The family moved in 1890 to Glidden, them could work ou[...], 1894. The fam- Percy worked at a store in Wisdom for about two years. ily then moved to Mis[...]e working at the store he met Lydia Ann Pendleton there, to the ranch in Briston township in the Big Hole near who came to Montana in 1900. Wisdom, Montana. Upon completion of[...] |
| [...]arter ranch several days later and is burned down in 1924. buried in Mountain View Cemetery. His life-long friend, Percy and Lydia were married in Dillon on December 29, Sam Freeman, kept t[...]hip until Asa passed wanted to be buried in the mountains among the sagebrush. away in 1944.[...]bouquet of flowers next to the pink stone each In December of 1912, Earl was born to Percy and Lydia. Memorial Day. Percy retired to Dillon in 1948. Percy died October 27, 1955[...]Francis Harry and Mary Williams moved to Dillon in Henry "Rose bud" Williams[...]y I was very young when I knew Henry, sometime in the was employed to manage the Farmers[...]company buying grain and managing elevators in Minneso- Henry was breaking some horses for th[...]ta and North Dakota. However, homesteading in Montana Flynn was sitting on the gate post watchi[...]Harry and Mary Williams Years later Henry rode in from the Carter ranch on a lovely saddle horse an[...]to Dillon to accept the job with Farmers Elevator in 1914[...]The elevator and mill burned in the early 1920s so Harry[...]A daughter, Marian, was born in 1918. When the children[...]were old enough to be in school, Mary opened a boarding[...]larger enterprise and included college students, many[...]and many teachers. Harry passed away in 1950 and Mary in 1959. "Rosebud" Williams (near D[...] |
| [...]when possible in times of sickness or childbirth. J.W. Suth-[...]k- A few of the names of the families in the area were Ozias men.[...]z, J. W. Sutherland and He was born on a ranch in the Blacktail district on Octo- Mrs. Veronica[...]e five years before the town of Dillon was There was a school close by as my aunts and mother told[...]ere occa- City pioneers who came to Montana early in the 1860s and sionally held, the music for[...]hters and The younger Wilson became interested in the cattle busi- one son were born on the hom[...]to the ness while still a youth and later engaged in the raising of youngest, was born in 1889. The Wilsons had their share of sheep. For many years he was associated with Charles Bur- sadness as they lost a son along the trail from Texas to den in the management of a ranch on Horse Prairie. Durin[...]home. Both daughters were buried there. Surviving him were his widow, two sisters, Mr[...]graves were encircled with small rocks. There were few lon; a brother, William Wilson of Dillon[...]Reverend H. N. Tragitt officiating. Interment was in Moun- the main fence restored and the tombstones righted by tain View Cemetery in Dillon. members[...]inslow, father of Harry Winslow, Sr. He and years in Texas before deciding to move. They came up[...]and came to Alder Gulch when who was just a babe in arms. They eventually ended up in it was in its heyday. It was in Alder Gluch that our father, the fall of the year[...]na, where they Harry Winslow, Sr., was born in April 1864. He was said to spent the winter.[...]be the first white male child born in Alder Gulch. Our The year was about 1880 as it was about the time of the grandfather lived there for a number of years; then he arrival of the rai[...]ll bridge daughter was born during the winter and in the spring of the between Waterloo and Whiteha[...]rtheast of the Harry Winslow, Sr., grew up there and married Mary site where the frontage road cro[...], farmed and did other work for a number of years in 568-Beaverhead History |
| and near Silver Star. A son, Ivan, was born in Pleasant Valley, north of Silver Star, on Aug. 29, 1888. Finally, he bought and settled on a ranch in the Centen- nial Valley, on what is now known as[...]s doing quite well until the terrible hard winter in 1890 or 92. He lost most of the herd; they froze[...]Despite this setback, he continued raising cattle there for a few years. While in the Centennial Valley, three more children were b[...]told about the snow blowing through the key hole in the door in a little pile on the floor until it would reach h[...]the key hole. My dad was an excellent hunter, and in the late fall the neigh- bors would furnish him w[...]amily. His family added three more children while in Silver Star: Ervin born on July 1, Henry Wombacher in fl,y making shop 1898, Erma on July 3, 1900, and[...]e the final resting place for Harry Winslow, Sr., in er, filling 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 bumped, he quit t[...]-GERTRUDE GUSE He and his wife came to Dillon in 1893 and he followed the barbering trade for many years prior to his death in 1935. Sarah Jane Wolfe was born July 8, 1870, in Wayne Coun- Fred and Elfreda Woodside ty, Iowa. During her 50-year residency in Dillon, she was a I was born September 11,[...]e were 50 miles from a doctor. Mrs. Wolfe died in 1950 and is buried beside her husband Her husband had the first drug store in Bannack. in Mountain View Cemetery.[...]uion, Ill., to teach school. His first school was in Wash. Phillipsburg, Mont. He had to snowshoe in to reach the[...]d May 20, 1896, on the D-C Montana. He also lived in Melrose, received his education in Ranch. My father 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 October 3, 1913. They In 1904, we moved to Dillon as my father want[...] |
| [...]d a rooster who attacked me every time I set foot in the[...]and killed him. I just let him lay there, never telling my folks[...]years. My senior year I apprenticed in Frank Hazelbaker[...]Sr.'s office as a secretary. I also apprenticed in Addie Bald-[...]In 1917, the year of graduation, World War I broke o[...]and the boys enlisted in April which deprived us of Junior[...]After graduation I worked in the Oregon Shortline Rail-[...]road freight office in Dillon. For me this was a very exciting[...]job. Anytime there was a wreck or damaged freight, I was[...]take a deposition for the railroad. I quit my job in[...]man, Fred Woodside, who pioneered in the automobile[...]esh bread as the horse- Ted Woodward was born in 1891 at Divide, Montana, and drawn bread wagon ca[...]milk wagon deliver- married Mae Ferguson in Butte on Feb. 18, 1914. Mae was ing milk to your door. In summer, Chinamen, carrying wick- born in Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 20, 1891. In 1898 she moved er baskets hanging from a shoulder[...], two brothers and one sister. bles at your door. In winter, cutter sleighs carried well They lived there with an uncle who owned the Red Wagon dressed people, with sleigh bells ringing in the air, as they Gas Company and she graduated from Butte High School in passed by. Skating parties were held with young a[...]1908. She obtained a college degree and taught in country skating to music.[...]hools for three years and then at McKinley School in I entered school the fall of 1904. My first te[...]y Innes, who taught longer than any other teacher in In 1919 they bought a ranch on Doolittle Creek and l[...]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 Alice Russell, died there in 1986. who later taught at the Normal College (now[...]de, Miss Delia Dor- chester, reputed to have eyes in the back of her head and she disciplined with a r[...]uckles with a ruler! The first winter we lived in Dillon the house was poorly constructed and the frost hung on the walls. It was so cold we had to all sleep in the same bed to keep from freezing. The next year[...]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[...] |
| [...]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 train[...]ed 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 Billi[...]everal rental homes and retired. They passed away in their late eighties within two weeks of each othe[...]d 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 N[...]en. Later she married Mert Fullerton and she died in Jackson in 1931. Fanny married Roy Jackson and they lived at[...]hildren Roy and Helen. Mary married Harry Helming in Portland Ore., and they moved to Wisdom. They had[...]Philip about. Jim, in his younger days, was a hard-partying, fight- dent. I saw the truth, and in school one is supposed to be ing, gun-toting, bro[...]form. I wanted to go to Bozeman to learn ticipate in celebrations in Jackson, which was the main kind livestock and[...]g but the folks wanted me close, of entertainment in those days. My mother Mary told of so I went to Dillon. being cold in the winters on the homestead, where her[...]e work and hardships that a you get out in a blizzard and look after your sheep?' I told family in those days endured.[...]trong In 1909 she married Paris Warren Armstrong, who was[...]d of T. B. and Mary D. Craver and came to Montana in Mary 1911, Philip 1913, Carl 1914, Ralph 1[...]ey moved to Beaverhead County to go into ranching in tried every tactic in their war with suitors and would-be 1882. With pr[...]ent week trip to Yellowstone Park by spring wagon in 1899 with on the rocks. I tried to be a good[...]d to make him cousins and other young companions. In 1904 she, sister Eda a happy home and raise a[...]nters. When haying time came, the hay just wasn't there. I Montana Normal in 1903. "I took no joy in graduating. I was wanted to buy hay in Idaho where itwas only $5.00 per ton, like[...] |
| [...]y learned to suck eggs." Armstrong, yet dissolved in tears as I left the courthouse in The family lived at various rented farms nea[...]alter 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 pneumonia in 1933. were over, many could hear the waves thundering on the Flora moved to a house she purchased at Silver Star in rocks of financial disaster."[...]Montana economy into a tailspin. ver Star in the 1950s and lived with various of her children[...]e, the state led until she died of stroke in 1958 in Anaconda. inbankruptcies, and 50 percent of Monta[...]il for contempt of Charley York was born in Golden, Colo., in 1879 and court. I know I must have had friends in secret because one moved to the Wisdom area[...]sorry I let go. The letting go was like ranch in the Wisdom area until about 1958 when ill health[...]lived alone on his ranch with his 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 mak[...]Maybee and Mrs. Claude Schroder. He passed away in 1959 up. We had not 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.[...]house by the side of the road. He is buried in the Sunset cloudburst swept us. I had Jack in his basket on top of my Memorial Gardens Ce[...]e Thunder roared and the boys had to run barefoot in the rain to the U.S. in early 1914 to learn about the Wild West. He to co[...]k." worked at many different jobs in the western states, mostly They spent the night in a vacant new house. on ranches. In 1917 he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served "We got to our destination the next evening at the so- in France during World War I. Since he was not a cit[...]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 andclog[...]able." finally decided to squat on acreage in Madison National In 1924 Walter Wright located a place for rent on Dr[...]rest, by Alkali Creek. This is his own account of how he Creek north of Silver Star. In a scene that would presage the and Fallon built their cabins as winter began to close in. Oklahomans' travels ten years later, they set out in April The first thing we did was buy a t[...]al head. They were big - The sale of ithelped out many times, and with my mending I weighed[...] |
| [...]the ends of the long logs, and filled in the inside partway[...]for town. This time I went in a home-made sled: a deep[...]d Sam, together with full harness for them. in one day, but the trip back took two days with our[...]the cabin. After oats for the horses. We also put in a supply of "grub" that putting the horses away and feeding them in the makeshift would have to last until spring, pl[...]ght two the chinks between the frozen logs in the walls. After sup- axes and a crosscut saw.[...]ailed down. came to an abandoned shed. We stopped there and camped We didn't finish the chinki[...]t at morning we regretted it. About two o'clock in the morning the other end. We called this shed ou[...]e door knob and opened the door (for some reason, there.[...]door and I were pushed back- The next morning, there were a couple inches of snow on wards,[...] |
| [...]at his wife We heard later that the temperature in Dillon was -55 bawled him out something[...]rd. degrees. At the time, however, we didn't know how cold it was, so we started to cut and haul the lo[...]s cabin -(Reprinted from America Fever: A Swede in the and outbuildings. We hauled enough logs to bo[...]Editor's Note - Erick lefi Montana late in 1922 to before I turned them loose. They kicked u[...]a mile or so away. Gustafson. They settled in Dearborn, Michigan, and[...]the Dearborn Police Department in 1924 and retired[...]He never forgot his years in Montana; they were special to him. In 1971, he and his wife visited Dillon[...]R. C. Zakariasen was born in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1888 I had to leave my claim from time to time to earn spending and emigrated to the United States in 1907 via Ellis Island, money, because my land pro[...]ving near jobs working on ranches or lumber camps in the area. One Dillon (J.E. Morse), and R.[...]d by Ernest 0 . Selway, a well- learned in Denmark. educated man. Beneath his polish, however, he was still a In 1909 Johanna Marie Hansen, who would later become[...]me to Dillon from Aero, Denmark, hands he behaved in rough and tough, no-nonsense style. where she had been born in 1889. Her brother (Rasmus One evening, shortly after I started working there, five of us Peter Hansen) had ventured here the[...]cousins Albert and Hans Mikkelsen were already in Dillon, overnight at one of his outlying ranches.[...]all having come from Denmark. could have stayed in the "big house" there, he took his While working as a domes[...]us into the old, almost aban- were married in October of 1910 at Dillon. Their first son, doned[...]de the barn over to the Sidney, was born in August, 1911, at Armstead and several corner furt[...]en sit Their second son, Harvey, was born in 1914 at Vancouver down and tell me about his earl[...]years later the family moved to Alberta, settling in the impression that his marriage hand't turned ou[...]blacksmithing because his wife would rather stay in Dillon than out at the trade. They again move[...]on out to the ranch farming community and, in 1919, a third son, Arnold, was for picnics along[...]beside him, then placed his sandwich farm in the Handhills, south of Delia, and it became a hi[...]ke up loudly: "Damn it all! The R.C. died in 1962 at Drumheller, Alberta, and Marie died older[...]top of the chip. This broke Power Co., died in May of 1988 and his widow, Ella, resides[...] |
| in Drumheller. Harvey is retired and living in Drumheller while Arnold farms near Standard. Descendants also in- The following is an argument in favor of relocating the clude 10 grandchildren an[...]s Don't stretch clothes lines cross the alleys in town. built in inaccessible parts, mileage fees by the thousands[...]ls attend the Dillon Public dollars, and in supporting a clique of chronic hangers-on, School[...]who by reason of their isolation are enabled to hide their The up-bound passenger t[...]. Nesbitt, artist, will open a photograph gallery in the past and a better state of affairs for the future." -Dillon about three weeks in the new building now in course of Tribune, 4/30/1881 erection[...]nack Streets. Horse grub has advanced a little in price. Mr. J.M. Mann of Rattlesnake brought in a specimen of The attention of the Mayor and C[...]ranch. The stalk measured 7- ½ inches in circumference, 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 them.[...]this market at a rapid rate. The ever grown in the Territory.-Dillon Tribune, 6/18/1881 hens of Southern Montana are doing their duty now. The baseball fever is beginning to break out in Dillon. It is to be hoped that the fever will be better muscled than it was In Beaverhead County, the prices are now ranging from last year.[...]$19 to $21 per head, where buyers are purchasing bands of Dillon alleys will need a thorough overhauling soon, if cattle that include many three and four-year-old steers. The sickness is to be prevented. Some of the streets are piled full time is approaching to commence the[...]with the use of a branding iron, can, in a few years, raise a[...]'em long enough the greater portion of their road in Montana than to pay for to find out the qua[...]A thirty minute ride up the Beaverhead valley in the remains the letter on the genuine[...]you to will be B; if three, C; and if there should be no remainder the Cascade Springs, or ra[...]ple, a note is registered 8239949, springs tumble in some confusion down the bluff, falling a[...]s with stone, any substance with which it remains in contact any considerable length of time. Mr. P.T.[...]heap now com- the virtue of these healing waters. There are many natural pared to what it will be a couple[...]become greatly enhanced in their value. The county needs a[...] |
| [...]t can be gent, asked the wagon owner, "What are you going to do licked up by fire in a few minutes of time. In truth, the only with all that water?" thing sub[...]ne, 6/30/1883 "How far is your ranch?" asked the miner.[...]family disturbance on board. Charley thinks they are too tired 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 mining camps, white women were precious[...]use of his little tavern, where they can lie down in few. One young man, tired of living alone, mar[...]iss your wife. you ugly devil!" Servant girls in Southern Montana get $30 per month, |
| [...]rings laborers from distant places, with Many ranchers would not permit transient workers to di[...]the ways bedbugs were transported from here to there. iences was a comedy.[...]was from Oklahoma. He described an inci- there were so many cozy hiding places in the joints of the dent in which the ranch puppy had barked and nipped at hi[...]us fellow called Lonzo had a different dia- how to do her own work. Preparing three meals a day i[...]exacting, and she will tolerate no interference in her sched- Louisiana and had worked on oil rigs.[...]the stacker, had to go to town for sup- In that giant-sized coal-wood range, how did she ever turn plies. Lonzo volunteered to do the stacking in his stead. The out those perfectly baked loav[...]n cookies came out of the oven just right. There was no ther- the stack, was getting irritated wit[...]et through experience pus. He called down to them in a loud and threatening voice, she had develo[...]t around to get any had any formal training in Home Economics, yet the daily satisfy, whatever t[...]steak, Another day, Lonzo's hayboat broke down in the field. He hash-brown potatoes, eggs, ho[...]hen door and asked to ally smothered in whipped cream. Cream was turned out of borrow a f[...]two or three quarts every morn- plained, "Da muts are eating up my woolen underwear in ing and evening. my knapsack." So that[...]dinner bell at 12:20, and the supper bell at 6:20 in the woolen fabrics and furs.[...]le matched the workmen, who were up Moth balls are white crystalline marbles containing cam- a[...]es caught and harnessed phor or naphthaline. They are placed with woolens or furs before breakfast. put in storage. As the balls slowly disintegrate, they e[...]zer for Yes! Bedbugs do bite and were a scourge in our early Sunday night supper.[...] |
| [...]ter each day's Dillon merchants were generous in offering credit. Many work. The boss gave him permission to keep a bott[...]ept it hidden and did not share it with gave many free gifts throughout the year: kitchen and the o[...]rting the generator each evening after work. From there They were advertising gimmicks. he could s[...]a rancher paid his bill, he was given a thank you in the potato bin.[...]tes and told to "take this Due to an emergency in the hayfield, the choreboy was home to t[...]grocery stores also offered free delivery service in Mack went for the potatoes. She found the bottle,[...]The order was made up and placed in an ingenious folding · The ranch wif[...], designed for that purpose: HUBBARD'S WIRE noted there was nothing ado in the cookhouse. After search- SEWED FOLDING[...]Mercan- Ice boxes were manufactured in the 19th century. The tile Company, located in the old Eliel Building at the corner better o[...]. The pan was emp- Canned vegetables and fruit in quart and gallon tins were tied periodically[...]h permeated the compartments prunes, raisins came in wooden crates of twenty pounds, where food was stored. whole bean coffee was in wooden drums of 30 pounds. Flour A yea[...]ck ice was harvested every winter. and sugar were in cloth bags of 50 or 100 pounds. Two kinds A[...]d on the floor Vinegar and kerosene were retained in casks at the store. (or ground) to a dept[...]the bedding. Saw- The word "recycling" was not in use but the process was dust was filled in between the blocks and layered over the commonly[...]ldren's underwear. amount of ice put in storage was determined by past years' Alfalfa see[...]e lifted from the water by means of heavy iron There were no garbage dumps. The pigs and chicke[...] |
| [...]E TREADMILL ing and any carelessness could result in a dip in the icy[...]o the 20th century. The treadmill ice compartment in the ice box. Stored ice remained solidly[...]nch wide endless belt extended from the pulley In the summer, ranchers took turns butchering beef,[...]readmill. taking half. Quarters of beef were hung in an insulated[...]ide panels and a pole across the front to tie the in a screened entryway. Only enough meat for one day[...]6 boards cats fared well around the butcher block in the late evening.[...]Once the treadmill was set in motion, the horses seemed thymus and pancreas, wh[...]any size A by-product of beef was tallow used in candle and soap log which the blade would a[...]ll beef fat was saved, cut into pieces and melted in direction of the saw blade, the belt was twist[...]fter the tallow contraption was discarded in the teen-years when the sta- set up, the candles[...]ese two products were mixed and heated, resulting in a creamy smooth white odor- The butcheri[...]done outside; the mixture that when, in the mid-twenties, RCA Victor and Atwater stirred in an iron cauldron, hanging from a tripod over an Kent installed it in their radios. open fire.[...]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 it was strai[...]ally, it is sodium hydroxide, a caustic alkaline. In reached a boil, the mixture was poured into[...]- up. When chilled, it was sliced and fried in butter to be used dom visited, housewives made th[...]In the meantime, the pig was dipped into a vat of near- It was also a potent bleach, and used in solution for whit- boiling water to loosen the[...]crapers. After another bleaching process was done in a clothes boiler on a wood- washing with h[...]intestines removed and separated. Organs were put in cold[...] |
| [...]ent that the open- 10 inches long and a half-inch in diameter. Turning 15 feet range method of raising cattle was not practical in Montana. of intestines was tedious and repugnant[...]ry chore. After several washings they were placed in This meant cutting the hay at its peak of gr[...]ld later be used for stuffing sausage. it in such a way as to preserve its nutrients over a period of These casings, transparent and tissue paper thin, are a nu- time. Some kind of derrick was needed.[...]for the specific purpose of stacking hay con- In the meantime, the pig was being taken apart. The[...]re carry a boom pole of possibly 600 pounds in weight. Derricks cut away from the ribs (commercially called sow bellies). All were built in different sizes and shapes, and varied accord- th[...]ing to the builder's own desiign. sugar, placed in a container and covered by the same mix-[...]its resting place ture. They would later be hung in the smokehouse to be- on top of the fram[...]the base, was chained loose- come ham and bacon. In Beaverhead County the best wood ly so a[...]lacement. 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 rende[...]nce called a hay boat. It con- boiled and pickled in a vinegar, salt, sugar, and spice brine. sisted[...]uding the jowls, tongue, ears, snout, and the in diameter, usually mowing machine wheels, or any m[...]pepper and spices. The broth, exceptionally rich in boat, drawn by horses, moved along, it wou[...]he floor. The sausage meat was ground outdoors in an over-sized The net consisted of six or[...]engthwise. The two ends of the net were se- mixed in a wash tub, 40 or 50 pounds per batch, adding salt, cured at the top of the rack fore and aft. In the center of the pepper, sage, and certain other[...]hrough the tube. The stuffed sausage was laid out in large opposite side of the derrick, hooked t[...]s onto a table and pricked with a needle here and there to the cable attached, were driven forward, lif[...], the boatman With six or eight hogs butchered in one day, the process- attached a trip rope to[...]in place, then back to the field to pitch more hay.[...]g on the amount of hay, this procedure might used in the making of household brushes, known as[...] |
| [...]ms brought it to an end, with unstacked hay still in the fields. For the average ranch, a dozen or more hayhands were required and many horses were needed. Often times 10 or 12 teams were in use. The teams were rotated, as the horses were p[...]he same job can be done with two or three workers in two or three days. Code of the Cow Country |
| [...]On one of these journeys, Hector's ship put in at an Italian[...]iven for officers of the ship, and was attend- There has been little recognition of the role which she[...]ers of the Italian elite. During pherders played in building Montana's vast sheep empires. the[...]Count made an insulting remark about Without them there would have been no empires. Their Que[...]ctor MacDonald took exception to the contribution in the development of the sheep industry in disparagement, and challenged the count t[...]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 win[...]s were recited. Hector's band of sheep to milling in panic. Lightning has the peculiar mark was the[...]to reach earth by the shortest route dead in the courtyard. possible and seems to seek out lon[...]ayed to crowds at the party, sheepherder standing in an open field is a favorite target for Hector's[...]use pile- cealed him aboard one of the ships. In due course, they ups. The sheep seem to lose thei[...]ng shelter, injuring and smothering City. From there he lost no time in moving westward. The one another.[...]Scotsman, he had a natural inclination for sheep many thousands of dollars. His wages averaged $30 a mo[...]lacktail Deer isolation and loneliness, but he is in tune with his natural Creek. William C. Orr I[...]loan at story, but only to a trusted friend, and in his own environ- the First National Bank of D[...]for others. Emmett Jones was one who came Born in Scotland in 1853, Hector in his teen years entered from Idaho to winter a band of sheep in Carl's meadow. It the service of the British Roya[...]back in business with a loan that bought 1,000 head of[...]len in 1944.[...]and practiced all the courtesies he had learned in his chival- rous youth. In the early Forties, Catholic nuns were stil[...] |
| [...]ter Skirts the need arose. This nicety originated in the horse-and- ness in 1895, remembers these faithful herders: buggy day[...]by mud from the ing records to play for drop-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, in a restaurant, he assumed complete responsi-[...]guests saved his money for winter vacations in Wisconsin and need not deal with waiters. Switzerland. In 1946, at age 93, Hector lay in the Barrett Hospital There was always a competitive spirit among the herders[...]e bitter memory of as to which one could bring in the best lambs at the end of the incident which d[...]p, it did not impair horizon. Hector lies at rest in Mountain View Cemetery, his ability to m[...]s grave marker, his name is spelled road in Monida. McDonald. On other records, it is spelled[...]eep Co. on away from a broken marriage. He herded many years at the Sage Creek, Pinkerton in Big Hole, John Anderson on the P & 0 Ranch until[...]hris Nelsen, a native of Denmark, started herding in In his youth, Steve had been a cook in the Marine Corps. 1910 and made it a lifetim[...]mendous amount of hard work he could deliver in a day's Happy Orr and Roscoe Cornell discovere[...]im Harrison, Pete also run away from a membership 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 brothers, he later took part in the rituals of the order. Claren[...]Smith, one-quarter Indian, was especially skilled in sheriff under Lloyd Thomas. He was on duty in the sum- working with sheep. He had lost a leg in World War I. mertime in Armstead and at Jackson.[...]ding hailed from Rhode Island. He was a gentle In the mid-Sixties, Steve developed colon cancer for[...]n for Hans period of time but remained active and in good spirits until C. Andersen at Bannack in the Thirties. He also herded for his death in 1969.[...]epherder's Hans Andersen, whose father started in the sheep busi- monument, a giant-sized monument four or five feet in di-[...] |
| [...]s of his sheep empire, and Paul Stein, an stones. Many other herders built monuments, generally one[...]s. or two feet at the base and three or four feet in height. Packing a string of horses with[...]ian markers of the same construction were evident in the sheep camp required special skills. The[...]r the Hurley Leach place for Albert Smith, banker in The first of the larger sheep ranches in Montana was Twin Bridges.[...]p and Richard Reynolds trailed 1,500 head brought in top lambs year after year. from the Dalles in Oregon in 1869. The clip of this flock, Leonard Hansen,[...]ers: Another important drive was made in 1871 by William C. Steve Sarlga, immigrant fro[...]Since these two men had brought in the first herds of Norman Hamilton herded for Leonard, the Harkness cattle in 1864, this developed a combination of cattle and[...]raising which is still successfully practiced by many Henry Dunkin herded for Whitworths and Sonny P[...]an Crnkovich, and a family their grain in. George Stimpson had a big threshing machine favo[...]visit or we had company in our home. Mother raised lots of The camptender[...]hool until the neighbors got together and decided there papers, magazines, medicine, personal needs, dog food, and were enough children to afford a school in our community. sheep salt. If the camptender was[...]red deprivation. There already was one school, District Blacktail 1. Our[...]moved on the retirement, they lived side by side in trailers on the west Willis Garland place;[...]day School and also church services. his own life in 1968.[...]s: Ras Erickson, who tended camp for Hans' father in miles from the school. During summe[...] |
| [...]on the dry farm. All the time to modern drama. In the spring of 1906, Dr. Carrie neighbors took pi[...]Comtemporary Drama in 1916 or 1917 came the first single I was abou[...]considered it an honor to be a Mother and Dad are gone now. All the brothers and sis- guest. In discussing the Annual, Mrs. Kress said, "At the ters are in California. In 1917, Hazel married Jim Johnson. time I came[...]evidently early Their only son, Jimmy, was born in May of 1931. established, was the[...]College (now Western Montana College). In 1903 ambitious[...]historians. The following ac- fund. Many of the members enthusiastic in pushing the count is taken from a 1948 history wr[...]activities of the club merit particular praise. In 1891, a group of Dillon women enjoying a picnic in The club maintained the loan fund from w[...]ch Mrs. Betty Norris had received from her sister in girl to the Vocational Congress at Bozeman. It has always Kentucky. In this letter Mrs. Norris' sister said that she and[...]call for contribution that has been made. others in her community were getting much pleasure from a[...]sibly by to 30, then to 35, and finally in 1924 to 40 members. Mrs. Norris herself, that a S[...]14, 1921, the Shakespeare Club sponsored a dedi- in Dillon. The letter, the suggestion, the picnic, t[...]the Dillon Public Library. In 1888 she formed a book club Charter members of[...]ely Chapman, nucleus of our library. In 1896 the City voted to maintain a Emma K. Cong~r,[...]Shakespeare Club which held its first meeting in the library. Hooker, LassiraWilliamson White, Kennie Coffin Jones, The following are excerpts from historian K. Broman's Blanche Lamon[...]s Women's Suffrage, Prohibi- Butte were organized in the same year and are among the tion, and Civil Service reform. oldest literary societies in Montana. From the organization Although p[...]only Shakespearian plays also contributed to many community projects, such as the were studied. Dur[...]s, Orphans' Home and Beaverhead County Muse- said there was comparatively little discussion and du[...] |
| [...]' Hospital at Fort none but ladies residing in the country should become mem- Harrison, and fl[...]tess started her fine new gramaphone. There was a sound of In Montana's Centennial year, 1989, Shakespeare Club[...]y literary. It still has a Murray entertained in their 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 tie with Western Montana attended a Christmas dinner-the first of many such par- College endowing an annual scholarshi[...]stu- On August 20, 1908, the first of many club picnics was dent majoring in English. One major change is the reading, held in the Selway field with about 120 in attendance. In which is today largely novels with occasional f[...]g the spring, Its initial meeting, the picnic in Sheep Canyon in 1891, summer, and fall and then happily en[...]has not been repeated, but the interest generated there has bands at noontime gourmet dinners durin[...]Many of the women took sewing, knitting or crocheting[...]equally nimble tongues. In those days of no telephones, Club[...]ly enjoyable occasions. Ladies of this group are most proud of the longevity of Through[...]been of service through donations to conception in the early days of the century. In the first years wort}t1 causes, such as the Red[...]es, they met every three weeks, on Tuesday, and in later years, Barrett Hospital Auxiliary, Bo[...]The club has endured many changes and events through The story goes that in February, 1907, a number of ladies the years[...]nvention of electricity, tele- of farm families in the area north of Dillon, having been pho[...]wn as the Hulet place), came by horse In closing, we believe the real reason for the succe[...]Mrs. Theodore bers have, throughout the many years, lived in perfect har- Nelson invited the group to her home on March 12 and they mony, performing the many vital acts of charity and kind- outlined organi[...]olled: Mrs. Theo- better and happier place in which to live. dore Nelson, Mrs. William Drumme[...]n was chosen president. Roles in County Growth In seeking a name for the club, there were many sugges- tions. To quote from an early record, "[...]ture to Dillon. Among them were ranchers' wives, many of Mrs. Pete Jensen entertained the new club[...]34 North Idaho Street 2) to aid the unfortunate in our midst. Article III stated that where[...] |
| [...]the fact that 40 school districts were formed in Beaverhead[...]The first teacher in Montana was Lucia Darling, a niece of[...]Sidney Edgerton. She taught in Bannack. There have been many outstanding educators in the Dil-[...]d by Joseph Keppler whose log cabin jewelry store in Elizabeth Sutherland Davis, wife of Dr. Sheldon Davis, Bannack was thought to be the first one in the state. He was president of the Normal College from 1919 through 1946, was born in 1884 and died in 1920. From Bannack he went to County S[...]visits to rural exactly like the jewelry he made in Bannack so, it is thought schools. Her parent[...]at his design became the Black Hills gold design. There is Dillon received national recognition when a book entitled a beautiful pin in the Dillon Museum that he created. "M[...]cted as Book ships of their primitive conditions. Many felt a terrible lone- of the Month by the Junio[...]and Iva Orr. John took all of the ranch pictures in the It must have been particularly frustrating[...]with the added problem of not ever saw is in this book. The Orr parents had to go to Helena knowing the language. Many of them first worked for fam- on business which was a long hard trip. Dillon was the termi- ilies in town before marrying young Danish men. I wonder[...]railroad at that time. Just as they were leaving, how many girls of today would like Metty Christensen's[...]hey bought flour, salt honeymoon. She was married in early April, 1925. They and sugar. Si[...]other moved to the Ames Ranch above Bannack (just in time for asked their father to buy a wa[...]seeds and flesh thrown out, they cut the rind in pieces- for learning to drive. She did it all by[...]reat!! Another book of local interest, ask anyone how to get it out of reverse-so she took numer-[...]tor Eleanor Traxell, is "Pammy and His ous drives in reverse.[...]incipal of the Mary Innes School. It is a Then there were women who didn't understand much[...]ter, Jr. and his St. Bernard dog, Googer. The for many years, was one. One especially cold and stormy[...]s, a longtime first spring, Clara asked a rancher how the calving was going. grade teacher and[...]brass had to postpone the calving. That was news in the next plaque honoring her in that school states that she retired in paper! Some women performed acts of heroism. The[...]ars. She and children were sent to the courthouse in Bannack at the was the daughter of pioneer[...]A lovely painting of her by Clayton Schulz hangs in the rode horseback 50 miles to notify ranchers of[...]Dillon is fortunate to have the beautiful mural in the post Norris, also rode with the men to the Ho[...]Butte, an artist of national note. having hidden in the willows. However, she found one of the An author of special interest in this area is Hughie Call owners, Montague, and ot[...]idenced by President Sheldon Davis while in Dillon two winters with[...] |
| [...]hen she outgrew her pony, was pub- ests in the Lewis and Clark expedition of this area and were lished in Reader's Digest. The jealously between the two helpful in placing markers. horses was amazing. After Wezie[...]nd was appreciated for the contributions she made in the when she died and had never met without lash[...]- 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. Ve[...]e was not employed ew of Miss Bishop. there next year. She also taught in several other schools- Two other ladie[...]Curtis Hospital in 1918 at 719 South Washington Street. Dr. She[...], Pickman established the first hospital in Dillon in 1889 on Episcopal and Methodist. She expressed h[...]eet (where Eliels is now located). His hospi- lon in the book as a result of the treatment of her brot[...]presenting mood music for the action taking place in the old some of the wives in the wrong places which fired some men silent black and white movies. That organ is now in the to take action. This is the quote from her bo[...]Nevada City Music Hall. people were engaged in services at the Bridwell home and On[...]illon. When the Matt Orrs were on their honeymoon in smashed windows and broke the doors and took Brid[...]d gave was the home she wanted. It was cut in Florida, shipped him a coat of roofing paint."[...]ail to Dillon A couple of quotes from the book are, "Butte, veritable and assembled at 521 S[...]Orr Mansion. of morals and respectability . . .. There was a vein of crimi- One lady who ran a boarding house in Dillon was Nellie nality running through inhabita[...]head County. Louisa Paige. She was born in New Hampshire of Puritan Churches of Dillon are no more than religious clubhouses paren[...]She moved to Dillon frpm Twin Bridges area and In her book is also an account of the death of Dr. Albert B. made their living taking in boarders. It was at her boarding Martin, Presbyte[...]d married Nellie. Sh0 was the grand- ary 9, 1910, in the Metlen Hotel. After dinner as he prepared[...]services at the church, he bent over to There are nine midwives of which I am aware and I know put[...]n and dropped dead. Quoted from the book there were many more. A lady Margaret was an obstetrical is "A me[...]t and the sad news of their beloved nurse in Scotland. After her little six-month-old daughter[...]as killed, she came to Butte. He was the faces of many." Messengers were sent to all churches[...]sending him to his death on the deck tin remained in Dillon and was an influence in bringing below. She came to But[...] |
| [...]n Rawhide Creek on Horse Prairie south- In all church histories women played an important pa[...]father didn't get home with his pay born in Hartford, Conn. in 1857. Her grandmother was Mary check. Mrs. Scott'[...]her 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[...]na became a state. I'll Mr. Scott was an engineer in the mines in Butte. When he bet that was a culture sho[...]The quarter century of Mrs. Hooker's residence in Dillon the Irish lady where they were. She said, "They moved and was a formative period in the history of Dillon. Mrs. Hooker took the house[...]te, "Man Without a Country" She grew up attorney. In later years she babysat for Aileen Peterson who in Hartford in a literary circle whose members included told me[...]Dillon. and crew of men from Tiperary, Ireland, in 1894. They had As a wife of a missionary clergyman, she gave her first cabins built for the men in an area across the tracks known service to t[...]lled at ed by friends of Mr. and Mrs. Hooker in the East. It was age 12 when a team bolted.[...]Coast has expanded. She ruled with an iron in the spring of 1888 contributed the nucleus of the[...]g the lever to the Carnegie Library was built in its present quarters in 1903. coal chute by the tracks where the trains w[...]but she had which she enjoyed. not learned how to turn it off. She unhitched the horses[...]plied volcanic ash blocks for homes and buildings in of the painting of Mrs. Hooker that hangs in the library. The Dillon. The stone from the old H[...]trance to the cemetery and the storage house out there. May 14, at the Training School Auditori[...]n of Mary Russell Perkins Hooker's por- she lived in a sheep wagon and cooked for the crew there. trait to the City Library. Mrs. Thomas E.[...]presented the portrait and asked that it be hung in the Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Ross, Sr., and their famil[...]., accepted the surprised to see two Indians ride in at noon. They were painting for the city[...]tu- Millinery stores were very important in the early days as ous dinner with home gro[...] |
| [...]tribe and its chiefs", "the Bannack ring", etc. "How Lillian Hanson Culver came to Dillon (with her[...]shire on the first Oregon Short Line "are you going to pay tribute to the Bannack tribe? How passenger train to reach Dillon in 1880. Widow Hanson long are you going to live in fear of the tomahawk and opened a millinery shop in Dillon. Zella Hanson Lugar is her scalping kn[...]envenomed and declared Disaster struck Dillon in 1882. It is recorded that at 1 that "in order to execute their fell design of destroying[...]eered as fire fighters. Everybody tion in the Dillon ranks while Mr. Taxpayer scratched a w[...]ear. section to Center Street but the women were there. The legislative act authorized[...]"Why squander thousands in tax money for changing 1881[...]wide spot in the road?" was the gist of their argument.[...]mining as the main experiment?" industries in Beaverhead County. By the same token, Ban-[...]us meccas of the frontier-was evolv- payer" in a tender spot-the pocketbook. It was apparent ing[...]as the Montana territorial capital while millions in gold In desperation, a meeting of Dillon citizens was cal[...]t session emerged one of the strangest coalitions in ter had been snatched from her grasp by Virginia[...]submitted to commissioners-and had printed in the Tri- glory was the county seat status and thi[...]County of B~averhead, guaranteeing to furnish In February of 1881, however, the Territorial legisl[...]of five years good courthouse accomodations ture-in session at Helena-passed an act calling for a spe[...]said county, free of expense to the cial election in Beaverhead County to vote on changing the c[...]trict judge upheld the stability it would afford. Many and bitter were the accusa- validity of the[...]aint and dancing by selfishness, to keep the seat there. with new zest, t[...] |
| [...]lon but its location near the county boundary and in James Selway. rugged hills, posing diff[...]e vote would preclude Dillon's chances of victory in the election-while Precinct[...]19 10 there.[...]1 early day had a total of 1,160 ballots cast in 14 precincts. Glendale[...]9 30 ers), who were camped in and near the town, had been Spring H[...]9 bribed to vote for Dillon. The count in Dillon was 405-28 TOTALS[...]school building while county offices were placed in a frame building at the corner of Glendale and Wa[...]heir water buckets. The blaze had been discovered in a litter of material, but, after a strenuous batt[...]county seat. Securing the new status resulted in many favorable ef- (Notes by W[...]The dray wagon backed into the irrigation ditch in front When freighting business began to wane, agr[...]of the new library. With the back wheels in the ditch, the stock-raising kept the area prospe[...]. Metlen. The library had been in the old, wooden courthouse Comprising m[...] |
| [...]hite stone building 1902. I felt some pride in that I had taken in some of the very was built. I was to know much la[...]had "F. LOUIS GRAVES" around the known to be deep in Grasshopper Gulch, no one was sure dial[...], the first successful electric bucketlift dredge in yards of gravel per day and its total cost[...]he country was launched near the old Wilson House in the yet even with these additional expense[...]about a mile of stream to bedrock, thirty feet In the presence of a large concourse of people . . .[...]On two successive weeks, when the boat including many ladies, witnessed the ceremonies from the[...]the company, broke the custom- shipped east. In July 1896 the company workmen went on ary bottle[...]he trouble, one of the ditch "FIELDING L. GRAVES' in honor of one of Bannack's well f[...] |
| For many years, Bucyrus-Erie used two pictures of the miles of underground workings in the heart of Lion Moun- "F. L. Graves" dredge in their advertisements in national tain, along with a 40-ton lead smelter at Glendale. publications with the caption, "In 1895 Bucyrus-Erie in- The decline of that district originat[...]the first successful elevator-type placer dredge in the dwindling ore reserves and low price of silver brought on by United States." In its heyday the dredge was quite a conver- re[...]ss- produced nearly $20,000,000, principally in silver and lead. hopper. All that is left today i[...]rusting away about a mile upstream way in 1913 with the start of mining operations in the Elk- from Bannack and a few larger parts such[...]ioneer Mountains. The buckets and safe on display in Bannack and at the Museum Boston-Montana[...]gs totaled 24,000 feet. During the late Twenties, how- MINING HISTORY ever, lack of ore resulted in financial difficulties and debts The first mini[...]reduced development the discovery of placer gold in a small tributary of the Big program. By 193[...]Mineral resources of Beaverhead County are varied and Lott and 11 companions. Three weeks la[...]from Beaverhead County mines. In 1866, after completion of ditches to bring additi[...]r, placer mining was revived at Bannack. With the in- troduction of dredges in the 1890's, it continued on a modest Census[...]until 1916. It h~s been estimated that $2,500,000 in placer gold was taken from the gravels of Grassho[...]into those Silver-bearing veins were discovered in 1864 in the Ar- frontier demographics. genta district, about 15 miles northeast of Bannack. That In 1870, the county's total population was listed at[...]tain, 381 Bannack, 144 Beaverhead Valley and 27 in the Big were shipped as far as Swansea, Wales, fo[...]handle those ores Only 37 had been born in Montana Territory. New York on a local basis. Acc[...]tlying districts were successfully processed but, in 1893, leading that group. the last Argenta s[...]roduction from Half a century later, in 1920, the population had grown to the district le[...]listed a total of 3,099, Lima 614, Wisdom 566, In 1873, a Beaverhead County treasurehouse was disco[...]211. Mountain at the head of Trapper Creek in the heart of the Representing f[...] |
| [...]ne place on earth is neces- formations within many of today's mountain ranges. sarily a complex and extensive exercise in visualization in This period also saw the development of[...]insects, no exception. Events which occurred here are so fantastic, and then the first coniferou[...]cumulated to a thickness of several thousand feet in Bea- The earliest formations present in Beaverhead County verhead County and reveal through the fossil record, devel- are the so-called basement rocks which form the Conti[...]tion important to Beaverhead County was deposited In fact, the large area of basement rocks at the sur[...]undulating surface. No plants or animals were yet in County and western North America as well.[...]western oceanic plate to years. Also accumulating in the sediments were the first life begin to su[...]tern continental plate rais- forms to be recorded in the fossil record; small invertebrate sea-dwellin[...]~~~-~ ~~►-~::~_ :. developed in the basement and .fault rocks were subse- quently filled by magma flows from within, resulting in a 'spreading' of the land. At a point some[...] |
| [...]50 million years ago a very different form ward, in direct opposition to the already subducting Pacif[...]tured. Through these Challis volcanoes in Idaho and the Elkhorn/Lowland volca- openings in the crust, superheated steam created by the noes in Montana. Accompanying the volcanic activity were subduction, forced up granite magmas. In Idaho, as well as extensive dike swarms, f[...], large masses of stretching the land and in places again extruding granite granite magma ros[...]l it even- the hills west of the "dump road" in Dillon, the hills south- tually covered most of[...]illion years of volcanic activity Montana be- In western Montana, two large masses of the Idaho ba[...]of volcanic ash from the volcanoes from the tion in their path. The peaks of the East Pioneers and the Cascade Range in Washington. Anaconda Pintlar ranges are these formations pushed up The dry[...]h as the Ruby Range totally escaped Elsewhere in Beaverhead County considerable faulting glaciation. Most high mountainous and terrace formation in activity began to raise mountain ranges. Fault bl[...]mation onto lower trenches and floodplains. In the case of the Centennial Mountains, it is belie[...]ead County is one of the most active geo- opening in the crust, today's Snake River plain.[...]ins. And who knows when the next series of larger in the valley dropped. The Tendoys are further a prime events may begin agai[...]The mail service which has heretofore been in operation sediments by the Red Rock fault. Also in the area, faulting between Shineberger's ([...]d, and the route now intervenes between deposited in the immediately preceding period into the[...] |
| [...]pounds of tobacco. In the same train was Dr. William L.[...]Adolph Graeter of Dillon. (The following events are stories that Mrs. Lenore Bishop John Bishop mined briefly in Bannack and in the spring McCollum remembers about her grandfath[...]of 1864 went to Alder Gulch to placer mine. In Bivins Gulch op, relating early-day life in Beaverhead County.) Before you learn of John F. Bishop's exploits in Beaver- head County, you should become aware of t[...]r to the Mississippi, stopping at St. Louis. From there he proceeded to Leavenworth, Kan., hir- ing out a[...]two other men spent the winter in a wickiup on the Beaver-[...]p pleased him because in 1865 he took up a ranch on the Peak.[...]ana 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 1869 he went into business with R.A. Reynolds, ho[...]ched to buy horses, some of which were for sale in The Dalles, the Snake River. Several stations of[...]team of horses and a wagon. By the time they got there the buildings with bullets, leaving the dead bodi[...]Mr. Bishop sold his gold dust and took greenbacks in John Bishop remembered that John Swing, who brought exchange, getting a dollar in paper for 75 cents in gold. Mr.[...] |
| Bishop paid $2.75 per head in greenbacks for 1100 sheep. Wisconsin and graduated in 1904, majoring in literature, In early August they started back to Montana trailin[...]he National Soci- sheep. Eighty days later, after many trials, tribulations, and ety of Scholarship P[...]attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Bos- ing 800 miles.[...]Jean was a lifelong resident of Dillon, residing in the In the spring, the sheep were sheared and the wool s[...]y extensive scale and he prospered. It is unknown how many were entertained at state-level receptio[...]graduated from Beaverhead County High School in 1920. Mr. Bishop made many trips back to his childhood home 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 Mathemetics. She taught 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 retiring in 1965. In 1930, she married Mr. There Mr. Bishop purchased a team of horses and a one-[...]abeth seated top buggy. Mrs. Bishop's first night in Montana was and John. at the Shineberger ([...]Reynolds B. Thompson attended schools in Twin Bridges Mr. and Mrs. Bishop had three dau[...]graduated from College of Physicians and Surgeons in beth, born in 1876, Mary in 1878, and Jennie (Jean) in 1881. California. He practiced dermatology in Long Beach, Calif., Mary died in 1882. The other two girls attended school for many years. He has now retired and lives in Sun City, across the road from their ranch home. In 1886 the family Calif., with his wife Bet[...]-Jennie and John Bishop in 1884 and with men from the ranch dug the foundati[...]fenced the lot. He had by this time developed many other interests, one of which was real 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.[...]esidences were used as rentals. He sold his ranch in 1899. His interest in good government never wavered. He was the first justice of the peace in Beaverhead County and SHEEPHERDER'[...]board. His social activities included membership in the Masonic Lodge 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 Beave[...]No teats to pull, no hay to pitch- op died in 1928. Jes punch a hole in the sonofabitch! Mr. and Mrs. Bishop's daughters, Mildred and Jean, lived in Dillon until their departure for college. In 1896 Mildred went to Mills College in Alameda, Calif. On June 29, 1899, Mildred married[...]re they lived until his death. Their two 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 an[...] |
| [...]bought the log store building in Wisdom from Emil Zorn.[...]1898. It burned in 1902 and he rebuilt and was in business[...].P. Lossl, who all this time. came from Pioneer in the Deer lodge Valley. He arrived in He was also instrumental in building a new Wisdom the Big Hole in the spring of 1896, looking for a new loca- Sc[...]ge Line Hotel and the old store then young, and in spite of life's many adversities that came his owned by Emil Zorn. Abo[...]on and Mr. Lossl erect- ple and a good joke. In his last years he went to live with his ed the first building in the new town, which was a stage daughter, Loretta Corwin in Ellensburg, Wash., where he station. He then purc[...]ol and -ANN HIRSCHY and BERTHA FRANCIS, many were the notes he went on to help someone over a[...]or the needed haying supplies. His stage line was in competition with C. E. Miller for several years u[...]in- Besides his stage line he owned two stores in Wisdom; one ing gold. The ox was placed in a frame of stocks and the split had groceries, cl[...]r ox and a good smith could shoe eight oxen store in Jackson managed by his brother George Loss[...] |
| [...]on had some domiciles of discontent that remained in existence from pioneer times to the mid-1960s. O[...]every other one and sometimes four-hell no, five in the Club Bar block alone-had a whorehouse. And th[...]or testing the town trollops buzzed at every op- in town: two stories and a turret tower affectionate[...]all pillow" by patrons. "The Big Brick" had music in Some old timers say "The Island" was a w[...]hicken Ranch." The Idaho Apartments violin player in the parlor of "The Big Brick". Later, when w[...]e Valley Motors now stands. Downstairs was a ment in the Centennial Valley, was once refused a loan fr[...]rlie is said to have remarked, the owners. In 1917, Herb Anderson, one of the Centennial's "Why[...]ere just a proprietors was found dead in his quarters. Though Mr. fiddle player in the whorehouse!" B. F. White calmly 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!" gating attorney ruled it a suicide. In the 1890's, "The Girls", although not respected o[...]e were certainly tolerated and sometimes accepted in Dillon's interesting copy pertaining to prostitution in the city. social circles. They were always present and in the best and For some reason a fine of $25[...]s and community functions. madams who were in violation of section one of ordinance These second-story sultanas dressed in the latest styles with eighty-two. Working gir[...]of a house of ill business and took great delight in driving "The Ladies" to fame" and later "in[...]equality McCaleb, "The Girls" were certainly not in hiding. to its limits. Of course[...]ble bounded accounts of the offenses in longhand in the giant court around the Beaverhead. Tal[...] |
| A TRAGEDY IN THE CEN-[...]n part way down she heard the shot. When she came in This community was shocked by receipt of news[...]nent pillowing the head of her husband in her lap and weeping. stockman of the Centennial v[...]band. wife for the part she had played in the tragedy. The inquest was held Saturday and the jury brought in a Mrs. Metzel was placed on the stand an[...]el was day which led to the tragedy. shot in the back, and that a .25-36 rifle was the weapon[...]hich showed she had When the fatal shot was fired there was only one other been handled roughly[...]ervous strain, almost hysterical and always which are said to have prevailed for many months past, in tears. She fainted several times. showing that Metzel was occasinally addicted to violent No one in the Centennial valley believes for a minute that[...]es south of the ance and turned on her husband in a moment of anger. ranch. A quarrel started for s[...]ers will go her bonds in any sum. They are her staunch THE LADIES (Continued from previous page) supporters and are helping her bear her grief in every possi- In 1894 madams paid only $10 fines, but by 1903 they[...]The body of Metzel was taken to his old home in Madison cend with the whims of 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 received a fine of $8 in the same court transaction. Madams had to sometim[...]Dillon in 1880- Brick, Frame House. Six madams responded in July of 1909 N ot After, Not Before and 20 girls are listed. Troublemakers, male and female alike, were "floated"-that is, given twenty-four hours to be In 1880, not after, not before When the people told[...]bles onto Butte. Often the order was re- So there the train stopped Down the track from versed, and[...]e wheels gave a roar The whistle gave a "network" in operation, it is highly possible that one exist-[...]ortense, dent of the train-And that's how Dillon got its name. Millie et al. Girls were Alt[...]eason the most popular prostitute name was Grace. There Thousands of sheep and cattle Were brought over the was one Cecil. Madams who paid $10 in 1894 were paying trail. Most 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[...]e things tough, But "good girl" could get 25 days in bed for $5. they tried[...] |
| [...]tinued from page 27 J. Fred Woodside was born in Maryville, Nodaway Coun- Joint Sch[...]the ranch and moved to a house on Thomsen Avenue in this Joint District in 1897. The school house was situated in |
| LAKEVIEW SCHOOL, 1909 Pictured are William Miller, driving car; back seat-May[...] |
| [...]OLD ... as depicted in vintage photographs, provided by the Beave[...] |
| FIRST WATER SUIT IN BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, 1894, Judge Frank Showe[...] |
| [...]•• FIRST SUCCESSFUL ~ 0) GOLD DREDGE IN THE WORLD, t ANNACK, MONTANA[...] |
| [...]~ FIRST BOY SCOUT TROOP OF DILLON, 1887. Standing are Mark Poindexter, Rev. S.D. Hooker, Earl Conger, Herb Selway and Dan Adams; sitting are Mr. Cl) Hooker's father, George Burfi[...] |
| GENE POINDEXTER IN REO COUPE, one of first cars in Dillon 648-Beaverhead History |
| [...]hanks ... Assembling the many vintage photos on preceding pages[...]was made to assure accuracy but, in some cases, names and d[...]imply unavailable. Offering invaluable assistance in this preparation were J[...]Williams, John Barrows and Jerry Hawkins. We are appreciative![...] |
| [...]the law of the lawless. Morely's claim that there was no need for law until the lawyers came,[...]of the blade! Only those who treasure life are uneasy. The word was out. c- The runaway[...]arton, Williston, law codes; this would pull in the reins. Fear under the guise of pride caused the red brick to be placed. I rose in '76. And I was beautiful! Who would expect to find a fine spiral ascendence in this pit of mud? Yet many mounted the stairs to chambers of social order.[...]do we serve the purpose of our origin. Lucky are those who rise above intent. I know![...] |
| [...]Boot Hill You know how sands sift down. Upper t[...]cement would find solace in man's solidity. Larger[...]and friends passed word. |
| [...]ons, courthouses, and jails Are built out of damn fear ... fea[...]They could have made me famous in the territory. Instead 'I put my b[...] |
| [...]tion . Like an ice pick in your leg |
| [...]) FRED HANSON AND MOTHER (Lillian Hackett Hanson) in front of Lodging House and Millinery Store[...] |
| [...]~ HELL ROARING CANYON IN UPPER CENTENNIAL, BELIEVED TO BE TRUE HEAD[...] |
| [...]179 • Jack 184 Fire in Dillon 1884 576 Johanna Noonan 179 Nancy s. 130 First Sheep in Dramatic 6.0-Year Susan[...]188-189 . Annie Murphy 229 . Fourths in Dillon 206 . Townsend c. 188[...] |
| [...]ose E. 345 subjects appeared in more than one article Woodward,Leslie 570[...]ey, Woodworth,Carri~ 272 Dillon MT, in writing. Woody,Bob 571 Jim[...]ke,Annie 163 places contained in Volume One will be Wraton,David 235[...]" All Wyman,Henry 389 rights are reserved by author Brian D. · Wyscaver,Ro[...] |
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| A history of early families and communities in Beaverhead County, Montana, 1800-1920. Fir[...] |
Beaverhead County History Book Association, The History of Beaverhead County, Volume 1 (1990). Montana History Portal, accessed 21/03/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/5611
