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 | A 'Book Is 'Born ••• One of the most challenging projects in this area's annals During the second year of the pre-publication efforts, |
| A gem of rare brilliance ••• The heritage of an area is formulated by visionary citizens who b[...]ional and enduring. Such has been the role of Mrs. Elfreda Woodside, to whom this volume is res[...]loyalty, And that was but a beginning for this determined "Lady of the Hats," who would serve 25 years as curator for the museum's ac- |
| [...]man-Mrs. Elfreda Woodside Board of Directors: P[...] |
| [...]Estelle Blomquist and Area 5, City of Dillon Jane Johnson Leone T[...] |
| [...]Locations of places in close[...] |
| [...]ed a mile east of present day Lima, this was a relay station[...]kept by Dan Allerdice. That land became part of the George[...]moved a mile north where it (INTRODUCTION:) Many of the early day residents of was known as the Allerdice station[...]er. temporary reader. This series identifies most of the settle- The name was changed to Spring Hi[...]d located on Horse Prairie about three miles west of names, such as Elk/Elkhorn (near Helena, near Pol[...]oon. It had a post office from 1884-97, northwest of Helena). The creeks and mountains are worse.[...]map opened two years later. shows many of the towns and stage stations. Resources used[...]larly from Cheney, Roberta; "Names on the Face of Montana." 1886-1929 and first postma[...]ARGENTA-Located 13 miles northwest of Dillon and Dillon Tribune, 1880-1887.[...]ly called Montana. Chartered in 1865 at the mouth of Dillon Tribune, 1898 Holiday Edition.[...]clined quickly when the bottom fell out of the national silver Through Southwestern Montana.[...]It is still home to a few dozen families and some of Johnson, Everett; Stage station map and descri[...]one of the handsomest coves I ever saw." Now beneath the[...]ice from 1907-1962 Oregon Short Line, 1923 map of Montana and owes its exist[...]Pittsburg Rail- Petite, Wm. Stibal; "Memories of Market Lake Vol. II." road. Carl Decker wa[...]81 time table Ogden-Mon- northwest corner of the Scott and Decker Ranch. Armstead tana.[...]ndard gauge line running to Salm- oral interviews of long-time Beaverhead people, and on-site on[...]1902, the trips were utilized by the author. Many of the locations have 99.9 mile long line finally[...]and closure in 1941 (some say taken. (If you know of places that are not listed, contact the 1939).[...]AURORA-Located in the southern portion of the Big Hole Basin. Post office operated 1889-189[...]ostmaster. ALICE- On the road leading west out of Red Rock BANNACK-The first major[...]hird) at the junction where one stage road headed south curred near here on July 28, 1862 and the mining camp of along Medicine Lodge and the other continued west[...]was spelled Bannock, after the Bannock a quarter of a mile west of Wellborn's present house. Horace Indians who[...]d nearby, one on the hilltop and one to the north of the she had died from eating poison water[...] |
| The town was the first capital of Montana Territory in 1864 rial counties cre[...]Barrett's south of Dillon or the "Beaver's head" near the[...]Madison County line also known as Point of Rock. The only[...]town of Monida- and the Centennial Valley were taken from[...]the Beaverhead Rock/Point of Rock area.[...]head of Clarks Canyon about 15 miles south of Dillon.[...]of Dillon is a long thin valley famous for its hay s[...]but it was located at the county line and many of its resi-[...]cause of its closeness to Dillon. At Point of Rock, it had a[...]BOE'S TOLL BRIDGE-Located at the mouth of Trap-[...]BON ACCORD, BO_N ACCORD-Located at the site of[...]BOWEN-Located northwest of Wisdom off the main BARRETT'S-Orginally called S[...]ber as first postmaster. 'River was built as part of the Great Beaverhead Wagon BRENNER-Located at the junction of Horse Prairie Road, a toll project awarded by th[...]BRISTON-Located west of Wisdom, it had a post office BEAVERHEAD ROCK-also known as Point of Rock from 1899-1919. Alfred Sha[...]post office from 1869-1871 and operated as part of the stage BROWNE'S BRIDGE-Built in 1867 by General Joe A. station, later considered part of Madison County. See Point Browne. He had a grant from the territorial government of Rock Station for details. This is the place many[...]sent bridge was built to nearly meaningless name of 'Point of Rock, which carries no replace the original[...]station stop be- Rock will do; but may the gods of tradition and of history tween Lavon and Melrose, opposite Browne's Toll Bridge, forefend us from the pseudonyn of Point of Rock!"' on the Oregon Short Line Railroad. BEAVERHEAD COUNTY-One of the original territo- BR[...] |
| discovered in the spring of 1871 by George Pettingill, Ben Peabody, Jack Raft[...]ated the Pettingill at Deweys and added the names of Frank Graves and Pat Dempsey-storekeepers from Bannack, Bill Peck- saloon exchange keeper of Bannack, and Jerry Grotevent as members of the company. The following summer they went over[...]e included in the company. This was the beginning of Trapper City, Lion City and Hecla. These towns were located 15 miles west of Melrose. This section developed into the large[...]-1896. Twenty-five to thirty-five million dollars of ore was taken out. The district included the Cleo[...]d other claims. BURFIEND STATION-Located north of Dillon, this stage station was operated by Chris,[...]Centennial. It was named in 1876 in honor of the nation's had a post office from 1874-82. Dani[...]first centennial by Mrs. William C. Orr, wife of one of the part- postmaster. ners of the P&O Ranch on the Blacktail Deer Creek. The CABBAGE PATCH-An area at the north end of Dillon P&O used the Valley as summer[...]te to Franklin streets and Main (now turn of the century for hunting clubs for sportsmen who Montana) to the alley east of Idaho streets. The China Gar- traveled by tra[...]are described under that heading. Near the corner of mid 1930s, a major portion of the Valley and the Red Rock Butte and Main stood[...]he rare thriving establishment where young ladies of ill-repute of- trumpeter swans nest. There are still severa[...]county seat of Virginia City in the winter. They began peti-[...]te government in the 1890s to make them part core of Cabbage Patch, a collection of small log cabins where of Beaverhead County. This request became a reality in 1911. the down and out population of Dillon, usually single men, could live. If they b[...]say CHINA GARDENS-An area on the north edge of Dillon in it never existed and only shows on one map. the 1880-1920s where most of the Chinese, who arrived as[...] |
| [...]irst cabin in the area, the original townsite was south of the Dillon residents in the early years and were[...]ack Rafter bragging in the display advertisements of the newspaper discovered rich prospect[...]After the town changed CHINA TOWN-A community of Chinese miners who its name to[...]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 boxes on a long the 1870-80s. Because of the hatred for the Chinese, any area board t[...]Vipond Park mining areas. ticed by many of the wealthy leaders of the county. DILLON-Named for Sidney Dillon, the president of the COLD SPRINGS STATION-Stage stop between Mi[...]s wanted the town to be called Washington City in of Elkhorn Mines lived. Now a ghost town, it had a post honor of Washington Dunn, constructor of the railroad. It office from 1922-32 with Evan Woolman first postmaster. 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 u[...]the new courthouse, In its first few years of existence, stray name was changed to Kidd. The st[...]occurred with regularity. Wood CROWN-Had hopes of larger dreams when its people plank sidewalks were laid the length of Main (Montana) applied for a post office in 1898[...]unknown. Since 1893, it has been the home of Western Montana Col- DAL Y'S SPUR-Located south of Barrett's Station near lege. Dillon is[...]tah & Northern, it was named for Marcus Daly, one of bust although the dreamers have always h[...]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 bec[...]e Brenner, this was DARLING-Named for a family of pioneer settlers, it originally the[...]-26 with Cora Rand as its first postmaster. River south of present day Melrose.[...]e. Some researchers the east crossing of Blacktail Deer Creek two miles south of say William A. Clark was the first recorder, othe[...]d received $6,000 (some say $60,000) as his share of the earn- the Eliels moved to Dillon and that was the end of Edgerton. ings. From 300-400 people were in the camp at one time FARLIN- Northwest of Apex and located on Birch which lasted until the[...]orked Creek about a mile above the mouth of the canyon. William by Chinese men and became kno[...]and 0. D. Farlin located rich lodes of silver, copper and iron Baine and Morris J[...] |
| [...]mall log building still stands behind the drawer of a sewing machine in a woman's home. An official[...]Gertrude Black as and Pittsburg. Postal service ceased in 1967. Some say the postmaster.[...]itive it was named after the local was once part of Madison County and had a post office from[...]-On July 28, 1862, John FISHTRAP-In north end of Big Hole Basin, it had a White and o[...]m 1900-01 until mail was routed to bonanza of placer gold along this creek, originally known as[...]Willard Creek, and established the town of Bannack soon FOX-NamedforthefamilyofWalter Fo[...]e gold discovery, the area was used by the north of Wisdom. A post office was established in 1891 wit[...]d freight road crossed the river and built on the south side sons John and James had several hundred head of cattle and of the road between Pipe Organ Rock and Daly's Spur. Run horses. Johnny Grant sold beef to the miners of Bannack by a man named DeFreight, it consisted of a store and and established his home[...]men would ride GIBBONS-Located on the north fork of the Big Hole Riv- the southbound train to Grayling where the cooperative er, northwest of Wisdom and named for General John Gib-[...]HECLA-Located west of Melrose, it was the base for the GLEN-Origina[...]or simply close by. and closed as the mining of silver surged and receded until GLENDALE-Post[...]HENNEBERRY HILL-A hill on the road south of Dil- trict was active since 1871. Located on Tra[...]ng Com- passengers would have to get out of the wagons, buggies and pany. It once supported a population of about 4,000 resi- later automobiles and w[...]the hill. The road had been the western portion of Beaverhead County, which consisted built with pink clay that turned to muck when wet. of the mining districts where the constituency felt[...]crash brought the town to a halt and by 1890 much of the mail was sent to Amesville. Hecla M[...]es had ceased. Now fam- JACKSON-One of three communities still active in the ous for the coke kilns that still stand, it was the home of the Big Hole Basin, the town is "20 miles from[...]ere and Lewis and Clark lingered at the -the turn of the century between Lima and Dell and a ra[...] |
| 1870s. He is a man of vision. When he founded New Jerusa- dums).[...]ill at Centreville, a situated on the west side of the Grasshopper Creek about town half way between Pageville and Point of Rock, for half a mile from the stream. T[...]the curve of a high mountain, the surface of the ground JUNCTION RANCH-Probably located at[...]having a full half pitch. Some think much of the gold in the of two stage and freighting lines which served Virgi[...]renamed in between Dell and Kidd. honor of a passenger train conductor who was murdered[...]wayman who had robbed a saloon at runs south to the Idaho border, the area gets its name from[...]MEDICINE LODGE-Located one quarter of a mile east Bridge on the Oregon Short Line Railroad. of the earlier Alice, it was once a stage station fo[...]eived a post office that operated from headwaters of the Jefferson River and buffalo country. Here[...]yaz was Lewis and Clark rested, met a large party of friendly Sho- the first postmaster and Jule[...]ce opened in June 1881 with Charles the upper end of Horse Prairie Creek. S[...]Northern Railroad, and finally received the name of Lima MIDWAY-Stage station midway betwe[...]ne shop and changed teams. Located east of Gottlieb Schooners home- roundhouse for decades i[...]Snow, livery and stables that took care of 60 horses, and was with Pocatellos facilities, th[...]ed from the mid 1880s. Lion Mountain was the site of many mining Bannack and Virgina City towa[...]sters being Emma and MONIDA-Named because of its closeness to the boundary Gene William[...] |
| [...]was built there, its design copying that of the pinnacles. It ern Railroad line. has since burned. Part of Madison County until 1911, a post office operated[...]aster. The sheep sheds are standing just south of the main ranch build- office reopened again in 18[...]a 1964 when it became an independent station out of Lima. relay stage station on the Virg[...]re point for the Monida-Yel- POINT OF ROCK-Also known as Beaverhead Rock, lowstone Stag[...]nd in the Beaver- MONTANA-Located at the mouth of Rattlesnake head River about[...]Gutchough built the stage station which consisted of a long from the mine nearby, where its owner, who[...]d the hotel, post office and saloon was su~pected of shooting any who came to the area and[...]time the town had a physician and a school. Many of the Martin, then Sim Estes, and later Ben[...]e seen from Highway MORRISON-Located southwest of Argenta, it had a 41. The post o[...]Later the nearby town of Blaine became the official postal NICHOLIA-Located southwest of Lima near Rock station. Creek[...]ng country. NOLAN STATION-A stage station west of Amesville on Horse Prairie road to Idaho and Salm[...]ued and moved to the Willis ranch at the crossing of Willow Creek. O'NEILS-A stage stop for the Dee[...]Point of Rock Hotel and Stage Station, 1895. PHILOSOPHY[...]rhead POLARIS-Located north of Bannack on Grasshopper River by Lewis and Clark i[...]ing Company. Harry Armstead built 40 miles of road from PINE BUTTE STATION-Located one and a[...]mstead where the ore could be transported on west of Monida, this was a very important station because[...]fice opened in 1898 with Mary Pierson in because of the snow. Willows were used for markers on the[...]had a post office from 1893-95 with Louis miles south of Dillon that resembles the pipes of a giant Fyhrie as postmaster. or[...] |
| [...]to Red Rock declined, leaving it a st ock loading south of Dillon, now called Beaver Rock. The legal descrip- railroad stop for the ranchers in the· area. tion of the boundaries between Madison and Beaverhead REICHLE-Named for the family of first postmaster counties gives the land east of Beaver Head Rock to Madi- Margareta Reich[...]en Willis became son County, so if those in favor of the rock south of Dillon Reichle. Its name was later changed t[...]eclared the "real and true rock," Dillon and much of settlement was called Willis Station after Ozias Willis, an the ranch land east of it would be shifted to the county to early[...]and mail service was moved to Watson Station.[...]he road crossed Big Sheep Creek about a half mile south of present day Dell and about eight miles 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)-Located about 40 miles south of Dillon, this was a stage station on the Great Bea[...]oad was brought to this point early in the spring of 1880. It was given the nickname of the "Dives" for "Devil's Dives," probably due to the notorious reputation for the "Hell-on-Wheels" nature of the railroad terminuses. The post office opened i[...]cated at the Shambow ranch in the valley the name of Red Rock because of the "gurasic" (per Centennial Valley, a p[...]is considered by some to be the "true" headwaters of the (first), it was a dinner station located[...]Creek crossed the road about eight miles north of Lima. One bluffs or buttes. This town later became Dell. Some of the of the biggest hold-ups ever staged in the county to[...]other to took the name Red Rock with it, stopping south of what is Salmon. A cart trail led to Salmo[...]a- road from Ed Roe's ranch house west of present day Red tion stop for the Utah and Northe[...]Pas- SNOWLINE-Now the headquarters of the Snowline 14-Beaverhead History |
| [...]VIPOND, VIPOND PARK-A mining settlement south winter storms dump their loads on Monida Pass. of Dewey named for John Vipond who discovered a lode[...]quipped mill was in operation, but when the price of STONE'S PRECINCT-Located on the John Stone[...]ning districts in Beaverhead County. er northeast of Dillon. It was a relay station and used to[...]pened in station, this was on a branch line of the Great Beaverhead 1868 with Stone as postmaste[...]d, dinner served to passengers, and a bed for the south of Dillon. It was named for William Sturgis who was[...]e station closed in 1881, when passenger service on the railroad construction of what became known as the "Great Beaver-[...]on. Springs waterfall to the south. At one time several home- TERMINUS-This was t[...]ent steads were in the area. A few of the outbuildings at Watson day Dillon. The town w[...]o Creek about 30 miles from Dillon, site of one of the most owned a large stock ranch on the Beaverh[...]key operations in the county dec- to sell a right-of-way to the Utah and Northern Railroad, 12 ad[...]September 17, original discovery point of gold on Willard Creek. Discovery 1880. They immediately negotiated a sale of the right-of- was made July 28, 1862 by John White, Je[...]C. TEN MILE-Located about ten miles southwest of Dil- Beckwith. lon on the road to Big[...]WILLARD CREEK-The name given by Lewis and south and later for ks to Bon Accord and Bannack (via R[...]to it was changed to Grasshopper because of the abundance of Ermont Mine. At the junction of these irregular crossroads, hoppers that su[...]operated by Ben Williams, the station was built of logs and THORPE STATION-Located north of Dillon, this contained a hotel,[...]Railroad in 1880. mountains west of Melrose, this community became part of WILLIS-Near the present town of Glen at the crossing · the Hecla Mining Company's extensive operations. Its of Birch Creek near the Big Hole River, it operated[...]d to Reichle. worked the lush mountains in search of furs. Its population WILLIS STATI[...] |
| [...]County is also the largest, encompassing an area of 5,619 The Ruby Range, including the Blac[...]weetwater Basins wide at the north, and 75 at the south. It is also one of the while the Snowcrest Range rises between the[...]The interior drainage of the county, eventually to the Geographical bou[...]iver, is by the Beaverhead River and the Big Hole south, west and north. The Centennial Range on the south River, principal tributaries to the Jefferson River, main and Beaverhead Range on the west form part of the Conti- tributary of the Missouri. Red Rock Creek, headwaters of nental Divide. On the north, the Big Hole River s[...]Lodge, Silver Bow and Madison corner of the county at Upper Red Rock Lake, situated at Co[...]oundary is man-made and follows the head of Centennial Valley which is nearly 50 miles long along legal subdivisions of land instead of natural geo- and as much as 15 miles acros[...]Headwaters of the Big Hole River are near the western The interior landscape of Beaverhead County is moun- rim of the county at the south erid of the Big Hole Basin. tainous but is described more accurately as a collection of The river flows in a semicircular path, first[...]e central form the Jefferson River. part of the county across the Big Hole River well into Deer The climate of Beaverhead County ranges from semiarid[...]es while win- Willis on his ranch at the crossing of Birch Creek. The ter readings have been r[...]then until melting in May or early June of the following year. Reichle and finally Glen.[...]ed Rock (third), free for the greater part of the year. the station was run by Mrs. Al Young who sold butter and With the major portion of its land in range &.nd forest, hardtack to the tr[...]was discontinued before the railroad a density of 1.4 persons per square mile. Agriculture contin-[...]y 260 farms WISDOM-Located in the upper middle of the Big Hole and ranches having an average size of 6,800 acres and aver- Basin, this settlement was originally called Crossings, and age value of $300,000. when the post office was being consider[...]. James Gerry was postmas- estimated, amount of money to fix the direct road from ter. Later the[...]condition was speedily raised. A party of workmen have WISDOM RIVER-The original name giv[...]gone out on the road, and the work of repairing has already and Clark in 1805 to the Bi[...]WISE RIVER-Located in the extreme northern part of the Blacktail Canyon and build bridges[...]d near passes through a section of mountain country the magnifi- what would later be the G&P Montana-side switchback. cent scenery of which is unequaled on the American Conti-[...] |
| [...]Flows by the cinders Of its dramatic Glittering past[...] |
| [...]during the winter of 1862-63. BANNACK: 1862-1920 Under the leadership of Henry Plummer the badmen[...]ining his Bannack, located 25 miles southwest of Dillon, possesses fellow citizens' trust, and[...]ourt election as much historical color. The site of many "firsts" in Mon- sheriff on April 1,[...], first school, Bannack entered upon a period of violence which lasted as first territorial capit[...]de discovery- long as he was in office. Most of the crimes were committed Bannack well deserves[...]The first white men to view the area were members of the agents were said to have killed at least[...]up the Beaverhead robbed an unknown number of others. After George Ives, River. On August 14, 1805, the now-known Grasshopper one of Plummer's henchmen, was hanged by Virginia City[...]arrests and executions followed in rapid member of the expedition. On July 7, 1806, while returning[...]ng, January 10, 1864, Henry Plummer present site of Bannack. and two of his deputies were hanged in Bannack from the The area was the scene of many contacts between "Moun- gallows which Plummer had erected for the execution of a tain Men" and missionaries with the Indians in[...]e thief. Within a few weeks all the known members of following the Lewis and Clark expedition. It is possible that the gang were hanged or banished. A picture of the old Grasshopper Creek was the source of Father DeSmet's "rich "Boot Hill", then loc[...]ays to the Bitterroot. ers of the road agents have long since disappeared.[...]not to really begin until During the peak of road agent activity in March of 1863, almost 55 years after Lewis and Clark, whe[...]annack became part ofldaho Territory. The capital of this and party discovered gold, July 28, 1862. W[...]point at recognized that Lewiston, hundreds of miles away, over which Grasshopper Creek empties[...]Creek with adequate government. Activities of the Plummer Gang discovery, filed the first recorded mining claim. Unaware of proved their point. A _crowd of miners assembled in a Ban- the Creek's previous[...]nd drew up a petition to Congress Creek" because of the dense 'hopper population in the area. req[...]The newly appointed Chief Justice of Idaho Territory, As news of this fabulous strike flashed across the nation,[...]nephew, Vigilante leader Wilbur and was the topic of worldwide speculation. Fisk[...]and he declared Bannack the boasted a population of 400. By the following spring over territor[...]r the Bannock Indians, affiliated In spite of the intrusion of Civil War politics (one pro- with the Shoshoni, s[...]ecause he wouldn't Bannock were particularly fond of camus root cakes. Ban- take an oath to su[...]that the town's name received its change pede of miners to Virginia City in 1865. in spelling when[...]first lode to be worked consis- As in the case of most early gold strike communities, the tentl[...]fully, was the Dakota (Dacotah), patent- majority of the populace were honest, hard working citizens; ed in November of 1862. To serve this gold bearing quartz but along[...]s to be Montana Territory. The mill was built out of never was a mining town of the same size that contained old[...] |
| [...]the school had an average attendance of 52 children a day.[...]After the turn-of-the-century, a number of companies[...]"King alcohol, after a reign of 55 years in Bannack, has[...]nack is dry six months in advance of the time fixed by law[...]Professor of History (ret.)[...]There by a little digging, we could get a pile of gold.[...]to bring water to Bannack, And some will be of low 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.[...]enewed interest in placer mining and enabled much of the abandoned ground to be worked. Th[...]they make you feated General Gibbon at the Battle of the Big Hole and sigh were moving toward B[...]built on the high points above town on each side of or die. Hangman's Gulch, while the women an[...]assed the But at the present there's no lack of spiritual food. town. The bodies of the settlers were brought to Bannack The ki[...]'Taos'-Root, hog or die. the unusual large number of men in town to build the still existent Bannack C[...]expected county seat fight-with the usual charges of conspiracy, graft and corruption, the county seat[...]he Beaverhead. · of an old friend. "How did ole Bill die?" ask[...] |
| [...]below what is now known as Lover's Leap- versity of Iowa. He served as a professor of history at the nearest of any expedition camps to the current site of Montana State Normal College - now Western Mon-[...]e miles but found faculty ranks at the University of Southern Califor- the river almost i[...]th his men in water three- nia. He was the author of 13 publications, four of them fourths of the day. They passed the mouth of a "bold run- dealing with Montana themes. The fol[...]storians and WMC Pro- high point of limestone rocks" (Lover's Leap, just west of fessors Stanley Davison and Dale Tash.)[...]outskirts of Dillon). According to Professors Tash and Davi-[...]wis and Clark Beaverhead County were four members of the Lewis and Route where today's hi[...]tly where the explorers stood." who at that stage of the journey were in advance of the main On the 14th, they camped at the foot of Rattlesnake Cliffs band.[...]major site in the greatest exploration mouth of Grasshopper Creek. On August 16, the party of American history. It was here that the expedition virtual- passed what Clark called "Service berry vallie" which now ly attained the source of the Missouri; it was here that the entails t[...]nd travel; it was here that Canyon. the people of Sacajawea were met and horses secured for the August 17 was a day of major importance for the Lewis trip over the mountains; it was here that the ascent of the and Clark Expedition. In the morning, t[...]de was begun, bringing the party to the last half of its at Two Forks, Clark coming upstream from[...]t Sacajawea, the bird-woman, recognized the Point of Rocks (a landmark still clearly visible where Cameahwait, chief of the Shoshoni, as her brother and the State Highwa[...]were united· amid great rejoicing. The locality of Two way between Dillon and Twin Bridges). They camped that Forks (where the town of Armstead would later be sited) is night about sev[...]from the present bound- among key points of the entire expedition. Here, the main ary line be[...]ions crossed unloaded and sunk and much of the equipment cached. the river and proceeded up the east side of the river, cross- From this point, they advan[...]er Creek and followed a "plain Indian road of canoes, to carry supplies. which led toward the r[...]in entrance." Following On the morn"ing of the 18th, four horses were secured from that trail, which led them over the present site of Dillon, the the Indians and at 10 o'clock Clark[...]ate noon rations at the present men and most of the Indians-set out up the valley of Horse station of Barretts. The cliffs at that point were called[...]spent the following week directing a large cache of supplies the "Two Forks" of the Missouri-Le., the junction of Horse destined for the return trip down th[...]cache had been dug, vanced 10 miles up the valley of Horse Prairie Creek and, filled and cover[...]t northeast," which must have been near the mouth of Trail and about 50 Indian men, women and[...]On the morning of the 24th, Lewis purchased three horses[...] |
| [...]he East side through camping just below the mouth of Trail Creek. The trek Sarviss Vally and[...]fertile which we call the his companions were out of Beaverhead County and Mon- Beaverhead V[...]nd spent the Thus concludes the account of Lewis and Clark's Expedi- winter at "Fort Clatsop[...]k again by the same pass; Clark traversed portion of Missoula County. On July 3, the two captains[...]party crossed the county in six days (July 6-11). Of bons Pass on the north fork of the Big Hole River (Trail their 10 camps b[...]what is now Jackson) and continued Many of the present names derived from that expedition, d[...]h~ad rivers, Beaverhead Two Forks where the cache of supplies and canoes had been County, Beaverhead Rock, Point of Rocks, Rattlesnake left. Everything, with the exception of a single canoe, was Cliffs, Two Forks, Shosho[...]ad) to Beaverhead Rock, the Several of their designations, however, were renamed. For tr[...]e from Clark's account, we receive his impression of Hole River, Wisdom River; Ruby River, Philant[...]l Deer Creek, McNeal's Creek; Rattlesnake absence of 11 months:[...] |
| [...]salary of $65 per month. Somewhere along the way the BEAV[...]school was know~ as the Nelson School instead of the Bish- SCHOOL DISTRICTS op School. A majority of the taxpayers voted to become[...]January 5, 1960. Dates of Organization (still operating in 1989)[...]n. Miss Anna Coffin was hired in 1878 at a salary of (Grayling) - 1897 20. Medicine Lodge - 1897 21. P[...]month. Twenty pupils were enrolled. The last term of (Gras&hopper, Scudder Creek) - 1897 22. Dell - 18[...]5. Kirk School- Riverside School, built west of the Beaverhead River, be- 1899 (So. Jackson) 26.[...]ck Creek) came District 3. Pupils living east of the river attended 27. Blacktail (Lovell) - 1903[...]ns (North Fork) - 1906 Clemans, a relative of Mark Twain. Miss Clemans taught (Bowen) 33. Nicho[...]dated 1897, when M. Koepp was employed for a term of six Bannack School District 1 months with a salary of $55 a month. School terms were held[...]voted.to consolidate with Dil- The first term of school began October 1863 and lasted lon Di[...]ban- about three months. Miss Lucy Darling, niece of Sidney doned August 4, 1971. It is inter[...]e from the date it was orga- gerton home for lack of suitable quarters elsewhere. Twenty nized unt[...]to Dillon. pupils were enrolled. The second term of school was in a new building on the bank of Grasshopper Creek. This building[...]consolidation Her salary was $60 a month. Pupils of the Bannack School dissolved but were unsu[...]illpoint School in 1947-48. The two districts of the people. Once again it was designated District[...]was the earliest teacher on record with a salary of Millpoint and Bannack Schools were both operating[...]ool was declared abandoned 1950-51, the last term of the Bannack School. The Millpoint and was ann[...]was probably in the late 1860s. Two more sections of land teacher named was M. E. Potts, employe[...]onth. The district was declared aban- the efforts of W. R. Gilbert and James P~ Murray. Janie[...]iver District 11, May 22, Carter is listed as one of the earlier teachers, receiving a 1962.[...] |
| [...]Upper 1896, from the western portions of the Dewey District 6. Grant, to name a few. Distr[...]0 named Brenner but it was declared aban- of transportation was very evident at that time. The[...]nt School salary $55 a month. Parts of the Elkhorn District, all of the was discontinued in 1962 and combined with Lo[...]According to available records, the first term of school[...]to 1906. Lida Humphreys was the a salary of $80 a month, and Ida M. Clyme, $70 a month. The f[...]tain parcels of land were also added to the Lima District in[...]on as the first new school district from portions of School District 9 was teacher for the firs[...]0 a month. The district operated until June 1960. of Reichle. The Birch Creek School was declared aban[...]illian Bradeen, salary $50 per ed an entire block of land (where the St. James Episcopal month[...]n 1947 and portions was erected in 1881 at a cost of $2,500. The second story was were attached to[...]School, for primary grades, was later built, east of the Bagley School. Miss Mary L. Innes T[...]the early teachers. She taught for many of District 14. From 1897 to 1905 it operated out of District years and then became school libr[...] |
| [...]large as originally The first term of school was for a period of four months in planned and encompassed a good part of the Big Hole Ba- 1897, taught by Lillian[...]The Medicine Lodge Dis- from the northern portion of Wisdom, call Elkhorn School trict was dec[...]stead District 35, formed in 1911. The first term of school listed District in 1947. in the Teache[...]Polaris School District 21 school districts of Briston, Bowen and Gibbons were an- nexed to Wisd[...]inuous 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 been created bef[...]The first record available reports the first term of Dell School District 22 school[...]until 1937 when the Gosman School closed and all of ed with Wisdom in 1961.[...]with Lima Briston District 13 for the convenience of his children. By District on March 20, 1963.[...]district consolidated with Wise The first term of school in the Teacher's Register was for River[...]was employed as the first teacher, with a salary of $50 a month. In 1947 a portion of Jackson School District 24 R[...]edicine Lodge School was reopened in 1953 as part of the became Jackson School District 24. The[...]1948. In 1961 West Fox School District 18 tendent of Schools. The schools, Armstead and Medicin[...] |
| South Jackson School District 25 ued, the six sections of land previously removed from the[...]en the the Jackson School District and form a new South Kirk children were sent to District 10. The first term of about Jackson School District 25. The first term of school was three months in 1905 was taug[...]1928-1946 school terms averaged seven months. The South Jackson District was declared abandoned and annex[...]Wright taught the first term of school in 1905 and was paid[...]to 1923. However, it was not annexed to the Grant of the Birch Creek School District 9 was granted in[...]26. Mamie French was employed for the first term of about five Barretts Station School District 31 months in 1902, salary of $45 a month. A school was estab- lished at Rock C[...]at WMC while the new buildings take term of school was for three months, taught by Francis sh[...]Nicholas at a salary of $50 a month. Blacktail School Dis[...]5, 1905, to |
| [...]Lakeview Distri(!t. The Board of Trustees in the two dis-[...]as Lakeview District 36. from the southern part of District 21 and the northern portion of District I to create Millpoint School District 34[...]strict 1 was declared abandoned and made a part of District 34 to be known as Bannack-Mill-[...]from October 1910 to Ward taught the first term of three months and Lillian July 1911, sala[...]re- from 1910 to 1951, when three pupils of the Monida School ceived a salary of $60 a month. The Millpoint School operat- were[...]. The first Eva Williams taught the first term of six months in 1911, term was taught by Ruth R.[...]Jones School District 37 Fifteen sections of land, situated in the middle of tht |
| [...]ted the school twice a year. I graduated pictures of Washington and Lincoln on the wall. A teacher's[...]ears. All pupils that graduated desk was in front of the rows of desks for the pupils. from the Rock[...]al completed college. and overshoes. A bucket of water and a long handled dipper, On Ar[...]umbia Gardens. The near the door. It was the duty of one of the older pupils to fill merry-go-round, roller[...]signs and green lawns washed our hands in a basin of cold water. One or two pupils were especia[...]tmas program in which every pupil gave the Pledge of Allegiance.[...]hool. Some children went home for lunch, but most of us brought our lunch in a five-pound lard bucket[...]no playground equipment, so we played games. Some of our favorite games were Run Sheep Run, Pom[...] |
| [...]born January 14, 1890, in a log cabin on the site of the present cook house of the Matador ranch. She was the first child born t[...]the P & 0 ranch to a small 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 a schoolhouse (Known as the Poindexter School), w[...]t to stay here be tormented by the likes of you." She was so angry Billy Sunday. May was bapt[...]ilroad, which constituted a life to the education of children. walk of several miles. Since a high school deploma and[...]ations were all that were required for of walking from Willow View school to Dillon, from H[...]She used walking as a safety valve and a means of commun- moved to Willow View School, a little log[...]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[...]were able to succeed in their lives because of the wonderful, out of the bushes along the road, causing her horse to s[...]cated teach- and throw her. This incident, on top of frequent smaller er. ones such as dead ca[...]nds. Her teaching in the Big Hole country was one of the brought things to a head. By her own admissi[...]e." Mrs. terms. She said, "The world is too full of fine people for me Peterson continued, "May red[...]She lived in the old family home on South Washington songs. All parents and friends were in[...]Lady", as many small was the big event at the end of school, with games and races children stopped by her house and conversed with her and as part of the day's activities.[...]erved the community for nine known most of their parents and many of their grandpar- years and then closed in 1925. The building was purchased ents. They were a source of company and joy to her. by Christ Rieber and is s[...]suffered planted are still there-as are a wealth of treasured memo- much pain without a[...] |
| [...]built by Steve Kambich on a corner of his ranch near the[...]e it proved too small for all built about a mile south of the Butts place. the pupils. Steve Kambich then donated an acre of his land The first teacher was Leilia F. John[...]plant a tree on Arbor Day. Eventually a long line of Baldwin; Bessie, Elenore, and Emily Olsen; Walte[...]ees lined the fence and irrigation ditch in front of the sie Hungate.[...]ther- bad, read on, and learn about other tricks of tricks. ine Finnegan perhaps had the longest tenure. Frances Bessie said the most aggravating of all was boys who Moran of Butte married Carl Kambich and stayed at Glen. would sit all day long, chew on pieces of grain, and then spit In the late 1920s the R[...]ey could dated with the Reichle school, and bus service was provided just about hit who they wanted, wher[...]hey were also first cousins who lived right of that area of Madison County also came to the Reichle close to each other. One night they slipped out of their School. houses and took all of Arthur Butts' (Ed's dad) turkeys and Befo[...]t morn- the Reichle School was the center of many happy gatherings ing-oh! what a mess! But th[...]hool. He would tie the hook and cheese on the end of a library. This addition was later connected[...]oom, and the Reichle School boasted two teachers. of the school-grainery. He caught more than one mous[...]filled an empty buckshot even the source of a community newspaper printed by the shell up wit[...]the students are taken by bus to use vacant a lot of perseverance to be a teacher in that school![...]passed and construction of a new school is underway. -DARLENE HILDRETH From the memories of Bessie Olsen Hildreth and[...] |
| [...]OF Beaverhead County's first secondary school w[...]DILLON. MONTANA |
| [...]tion of the Women's Residence Halls in 1919 and 1937. The[...]A trio of major building projects, now the pride of cam-[...]tana College of Education in 1949, Western Montana Col-[...]1965, and to its present Western Montana College of the University of Montana following merger with the Mis-[...]with bachelor of science degrees in Elementary and Secon-[...]dary Education. Also available are associate of science de-[...]associate of arts with an emphasis in Advertising Design.[...]tana's Third Legislative As- the University of Montana's School of Business. sembly enacted laws providing for the establishment of a Wes tern's varied scope of academic offerings, its envious School of Mines at Butte, a State University at Missoula, location, and its trademark of individualized and personal- State Normal School[...]lon college and that oversight was not As of this writing (1989), the campus encompasses 34 co[...]st building (Main Hall). enrollment of 1,000. The record student body was registered[...]pril 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 FURNITURE.[...]classes on Sep- tember 7, 1897, and, by the close of that year, enrollment exceeded the 80 level. Faculty included a staff of five- President D. E. Sanders, A. W. Mell, J.E. M[...]ed from $15 to $20 per month, a matriculation fee of $5.00 was assessed for each 20-week term and part[...]hilip H. Poindexter and William C. and Rachel Orr of the famed Poindexter-Orr cattle empire. That plot was deeded for the specific "use and benefit of the State Normal College." Re- vised Montana Code[...]ol's ob- jective as "the instruction and training of teachers for the public schools of the State of Montana, inclusive of all grades and departments." The original Administration Building of 1897, still fully utilized and revered by[...] |
| [...]dentist. He had been a railroader but lost a part of his leg in an accident and the railroad helped wi[...]but he could manage that. His family consist- ed of his wife and three children, Wesley, Marvis and E[...]House Cafe and Saloon, which was on the east side of the tracks. The Opera house was used for dances,[...]stable and his wife was postmistress for a number of proud of his service to the "North." He had toured with a years. group of actors in Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky and was a The Peat Hotel Cafe and Saloon, on the west side of the very prominent figure at all Fourth of July celebrations, tracks, was operated for a tim[...]r., and later where he would serve as master of ceremonies. He bought by Charles Truax and his da[...]enjoyed his gardens. livery barn on the west end of that lot. He planted two[...]and lawns were not considered essential. affairs of Knights of Pythias. Th[...]rder- made locally from the clay found at the south end of town. ing the west side of the town, with a spring which furnished Thes[...]d the wooden structure in 1902. The brick section of modity for the steam engines and the railroad all[...]his drug store Lima residents to avail themselves of the water that was was also made of local brick. This store had the Post Office, piped into town. The Peats sold some of the lots adjoining handled gifts, candies,[...]in well as patent medicines and a supply of drugs. Later, it 1916, they donated some lots, north of the school, for re- added a gas pump. building of the Church, though they were a staunch Catholic Mrs. Aurelia McGown Smith was the first janitor of the family. They also gave lots for the High Scho[...]ter from the stand- meat market here for a number of years. Their family con- pipe over by the livery stable. She raised her two girls, May sisted of Clarence, Verena and Marvin, who are all buried i[...]e Smith by a former marriage who married a Shehan of Idaho Falls. married a forest ranger from[...]Isaac Jacques and his family were active members of the Jack and his wife Jessie had three boys, Math[...]Catholic community. Their family consisted of his wife, and the younger boy Warren, born[...] |
| A SHORT HISTORY OF MONIDA The land where Monida now stands[...]The Oregon Short Line Rail- road purchased right-of-way for their first road bed, a nar- row gauge. Prior to the purchase of the ground from the government, a man by the name of Samuel B. Burnsides built a small store to accommadate the people living in the Monida at turn of century - Centennial Valley. In 1889 the railroa[...]W. hotel to aid in housing the good-sized number of people M. Miller built the first garag[...]ling through. Pine Butte Station was the terminus of ally sold his lands to B. H. Paul, who s[...]tilda) Miller. Woods was married to one of the founders of the Woods Monida was the railhead for most of the livestock in the Livestock Corporation.[...]he buildings in Monida, or spring Hill, were made of ations of large trucks and livestock vans, Monida did a lan[...]wns, the town office business in shipping of livestock. According to old was destroyed by fire[...]rds, Monida shipping was as large as 100,000 head of all the logs left from the fire to rebuild the hotel. The termi- sheep and 48,000 head of cattle per year. Consequently, the nus at Pine Bu[...]Hill went on to the steady population of 75 to 100 souls and even sported a next terminus,[...]vans, so the town of Monida went downhill. In later years[...]livestock operation. Because of this and the lack of railroad[...]and actual Railroad documents, and old abstracts of[...] |
| [...]Wagons and Travelers Today the remains of what was once the thriving town of Red Rock lie about one mile south of Clark Canyon Reser- voir on the west side of the Red Rock River. The first settler of the area was recorded in 1864. This was a man nam[...]the canyon that bears his name a few miles north of where the town of Red Rock would later consisted of 90 head of horses, 14 Concord coaches, and 12 be located.[...]s B. Ryan passengers and 1,200,000 pounds of freight and express an- received a charter from t[...]accom- fromwhat is now known as Barrett's Station south through modations between Salt Lake City,[...]for many years, until the Railroad started service between Armstead and Salmon. railroad was constructed in 1880, long strings of wagons Around the turn of the century Red Rock was a thriving pulled by mul[...]nd general merchandise store, all oper- north and south came through Bannack. ated by J. W. and Laura T. Scott. There were a number of Joseph Shineberger was the first to build here[...]other enterprises also. Below is a partial list of people and lished a ranch at this location and ca[...]en from R. L. Polk houses were built and the town of Red Rock was founded to and Co.'s Beaverhe[...]_ serve the freight wagons and travelers of that time. Joseph Emerson Hill Store, sel[...]s, Shineberger was appointed the first postmaster of the new farm implements and vehicles; town[...]Fred Lamp her, saloon; Cook at the home of Simeon Estes. This was the first mar- J[...]and passengers. The stage ran from phone Service; Red Rock 68 miles to Salmon, Idaho, and the Thun[...]er, Western Union Telegraph; During the height of this operation they were running 4- Rev.[...]and the old blacksmith shop. The foundation of the store[...]1910 with the growth of Armstead, five miles north at the juncture of the Gilmore and Pittsburgh and Oregon Shor[...] |
| [...]Robert Boatman was appointed justice of the peace for[...]It looks like some of the women in this valley will soon be[...]arch 22, 1897: the Dillon Tribune, the Madisonian of Virginia One of our residents got a little too much oh-be-joyful[...]filed on as many sides of their land, even locating a half-mile Dillon Trib[...]ere from the Ruby valley, they saw five grey none of the sacred birds on our lakes.[...]t on wolves to $5? Why Messrs. Leeds and Stacy of Bozeman are looking up a could it not be[...]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 Centenenial has let his ranch and[...]father died. George Carner and wife take care of this beauti- Dillon Tribune - August 3, 1896:[...]d returned home yesterday from St. Mark's of Beaverhead. The Virginia people are very c[...] |
| [...]blers, to look after the peo- Miss Farley of Marysville, Montana, will teach in district p[...]Miss Janet Davis, our county superintendent of schools, Dillon Tribune - March 21, 1899:[...]an and J. saying "we" I mean a large majority of the citizens. If it were Courtney have been sen[...]pay $1,000 each. Mrs. Courtney has the sympathy of her Dillon Tribune - April 24, 1899:[...]tion. the valley and bought the beef steers of Massingell Broth- Madisonian - July 30, 19[...]d them from the cared enough about the people of this valley to put himself United States fi[...]ven the mosquito is scarce but four inches of the beautiful fell. they will make up next mo[...]A big band of Indians are camped above J. Blair's. They[...]ment to Monida and a convenience to the people of this It takes two days now to get t[...]extent, and now she is trying to marry took of the bountiful supper provided by Mrs. W. Smith.[...]tore was a grand success. There was about 50 of the valley present. The music was furnished[...]Tribune - November 2, 1899: There was 17 of our citizens that did not think enough of[...] |
| [...]on extra teams to accommodate the large number of tour- perfect satisfaction.[...]he horn country and reaching along the north side of this won the praise of all, and especially Mrs. Smith, the hostess, va[...]ismissed and another put in her band of ponies with them. place. We expect teachers to se[...]with ago. Wages are also high and lots of the hired help is incom- tracks.[...]petent. Still, those handling large bunches of beef stuff kick Madisonian - May 2, 1902:[...]another at the week end of school.[...]car of beef steers.[...]bank of Upper Red Rock lake. A beautiful place in summer.[...]a fish she did not care to give up the name of Ruegsegger. We pond.[...]ce like Montana for school teachers who are tired of house at the Narrows for H. Wetmore, where the la[...]enry Wetmore .... this year built a new log house of Mrs. Culver and Freeman Marble had a slight mi[...]e at night. owned for years. Upon being convinced of his error, Mr. Dillon Tribune - January[...]the obstruction to the The suffragettes of Centennial valley have turned out in flow of water which he had placed in the ditch.[...]ake- what is going to happen to this part of the country after the view.[...] |
| [...]lon Tribune - December 14, 1915: The residents of this particular section of the world were There are different stories[...]resulted in name. Some say it was because of a big range war between rattling dishes, shaking[...]ren so badly that neighbors went to each of this area was in those days called "open range."[...]fairly close so the fight was on- The morning of July 2nd, when the people of the upper bucking range. end of the valley looked out, after arising from their slum- It is often said that this is where the Battle of the Danes bers, they found winter had taken possession of their beau- was fought, as many of the sheepmen involved were Danish tiful valley. E[...]nts. My uncle Albert Anderson said, when the Tay- of snow on the level. The snow did not entirely disa[...]fixed the wild fruit that was in blossom and some of the Act." gardens were affected.[...]My father John H. Anderson, Sr., was one of the sheep- Dillon Tribune - April 11, 1930:[...]eepherder was shot by a cowboy several miles east of valley, has gone to Monida to begin the work.[...]known as Cayusey Springs. The Miss Mable Lane of Three Forks, Montana, has come to spring[...]stock Company. Some say this happened because of a fight Dillon Tribune - June 20, 1930:[...]ea at Mr. and Mrs. This murder was the result of an old feud between the two Blaz Lugar's at Idlew[...]ham Hotel at Lakeview fills a long needed of Battle Mountain. want and is doing a good busines[...]n I can remember when there were nine bands of sheep connection.[...]grass. It was somewhat of a game to mix sheep and keep Mr. and Mrs. Al Forsyth have gone south for the winter. them corraled so someone wo[...]r and feud over the range. ment would buy up much of the land around the lakes and It was a[...]n lodges would be torn down, leaving little trace of their exis- the lands known during this era as the days of the open tence. Larger ranches would buy up many[...]posts and fire wood and possibly decorating walls of new Brown's Lake Resort family roo[...]Not many people could afford the luxury of a summer there was a drive on to get it paved dec[...]ike having a rich father). He conceived now phone service is available only to ranches at the west the idea of a resort at Brown's Lake. Clark engaged J.B. end[...]ined by a graded trail. Brown showed he was ahead of his -SALLY GARRETT[...] |
| [...]rt Stamm and family were often invited as friends of The Phil Lovell ranch was another popular si[...]on house at Brown's Bridge where Mr. Brown south of Dillon. Lovell had been a butcher in the early da[...]is guests with a surrey. Pretty Classy! of Bannack and developed his ranch into a very beaut[...]s, along with inside and outside dining areas. of horses for a round trip in one day. Cabins were b[...]ed boats were Phil Lovell was the grandfather of Philip Lovell, former available for fishing and exploring the lake. Returning to mayor of Dillon and former County Commissioner who died Di[...]ime had several men pro- The initial discovery of silver was made in 1872 by Wil- specting in Mad[...]g their first day 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 t[...]rlu was discovered by the to Jerry Grotevant, one of the party, who in searching for Trapper Compan[...]patched immediately to have it recorded, but news of then discovered by Wash Stepleton and James Cam[...]general excitement, The strong mineral leads of Lion Mountain were next called 40-Bea[...] |
| [...]dly more than 100 typographical error made in one of the early U.S.G.S. publi- horses were used da[...]oup. The Marc Anthony and The building of a 40-ton lead smelter at Glendale, 10 Ariadne wer[...]and Pease. The shortened the distance of haul from mine to smelter and Franklin mine, situated directly back of the old Trapper assisted in the integration of southwestern Montana as a town, was founded by Fr[...]a good pro- new center stimulated the growth of a large community. At ducer. The first shipment constituted 10 tons of high-grade its peak, Glendale boasted a population of over 1,000, a large ore carrying 140 ounces of silver per ton and a high percent- skating rink, two doctors, a lawyer, two churches, ten sa- age of lead. The earliest shipments reportedly were haul[...]ad at Corrine, Utah, the race for capitalship of the state at one time. Into its thence by rail to[...]from there by water to smelter came the ores of the surrounding mining districts, smelters at Swansea, Wales. Due to the isolation of the area including those of the Highlands and Vipond as well as from ~melting facilities at that time, only the mining of Hecla. high-grade ore was commercially fea[...]ore was high in grade is evident from the records of some of the early The Hecla Consolidated Mining Co[...]properties. The first mine bought The rapidity of new discoveries and the richness of the by the company was the Cleopatra, purch[...]tracted prospectors and miners from all over of its organization, and it gradually acquired other[...]for a time activ- until it controlled most of the better properties in the dis- ity was intense[...]n entire change in time, the flamboyant character of the community life be- its management and[...]le. The came more regulated with the introduction of families, of directors, at the reorganization, tendered the position of public institutions, and of town law and order. general manager to H. Knippenberg, of Indianapolis. The Trapper City was the first c[...]in the manufacturing in single rows on both sides of Trapper Creek just below the business back ea[...]rriving there in April 1881. form the main street of the town. The old timers remaining In th[...]iron mine de- "Trapper City, Montana." A perusal of the claim records in partment, John M. Parf[...]Soap Gulch). Mr. Dillon brought to light a sketch of the old parent claim of Knippenberg brought with him from Indianapol[...]company's advent the district passed from made up of at least 100 people. Today the physical evidence[...]maturity. A mile above Lion City, immediately at of the existence of this forgotten village is found in rotten[...]Glendale Smelter testimony of its antiquity by its wood-ped construction. 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 settl[...]The Trapper mine was shut down and in the summer of 1878 the last citizen, Mose Morrison, packed up his traps and came over to Lion City. A continu- ous influx of miners and teamsters made Lion City a boom- ing community of between five and six hundred, with a school house[...]stores, two hotels, and the inevita- ble saloons of a mining town. During its early days, huge[...] |
| [...]! Severr...l cnrs of oro,[...]several tons of slag[...] |
| the base of Lion Mountain, the company built the mining[...]looked or bypassed by the company. As a community of Hecla. A warehouse, office, stable, magazine,[...]good one but as the boarding houses and a number of cabins were erected at this following paragr[...]ore shoots known as the Atlantus and True slopes of Lion Mountain among the numerous entrances of Fissure were worked by J. Henry Longmaid of Helena under the mine workings. Two men were empl[...]as brought over from the Elkhorn dis- slope clear of snow.[...]oday, In 1882, to handle the increasing output of ore and to practically dismantled. Electri[...]ought into the minimize the difficulties and cost of haulage, a concentrator basin from the Montana Power Company's Big Hole station with a capacity of 100 tons per day was built about three in[...]. A narrow-gauge railroad ran introduction of efficient modern methods. Long before his from He[...]long and erations. having a vertical fall of 200 feet. Near the concentrator was In 1920, the owners of the mining claims (Knippenberg, erected one board[...]his community was given the name Conway of Helena who induced eastern capital to have a of Greenwood by Knippenberg. thorough investigation made of the feasibility of reopening By 1885, the company was working the[...]eopatra and consulting mining engineer of New York and Philadelphia, Ariadne, True Fissure,[...]and Alexander N. Winchell, consulting geologist of the Uni- later proved to control all the important ore bodies of the versity of Wisconsin. Two reports were made to the Hecla district. Outside of the Hecla Company, the Monroe Mining Devel[...]all options had been as- Company owned the Pride of the West, Wall Street, Con- signed. The syndicate was under the trusteeship of H. A. dor, Minnie Gaffney, and Moffat and Maynard claims. Joe Stone and L. P. Stradley of Philadelphia with Mr. Conway Young & Co. owned th[...]perintendent. owned the Oneida mine in the center of the Lion Mountain As a result of the reports, which were based on extensive claims[...]underground surveying and geologic mapping of all the old which during this period appeared to be one of the impor- mine workings, the options were extended in order that tant mines of the district.[...]1, the 1923 all the important properties of the district were pur- Hecla Consolidated Mining[...]velopment Syndicate for an estimat- a gross value of $15,000,000. The published reports of the ed $230,000. Between 1921 and 1923, $152,000 was spent for Company show that it paid dividends of 6 % per annum and development work. To av[...]extra for 20 years up to 1900, with the exception of the forced to refinance the enterprise in 192[...]nt in aggregate to stock under the guise of a new name and organization, Hecla $2,250,000. The quantity of ore taken out over this period Consolidated[...]can be appreciated by the fact that over 20 miles of tunnels new company had an authorized capitalization of 1,000,000 were driven in Lion Mountain alone. Table 1gives the pro- shares of no-par stock and 1,000,000 par value of certificates duction of metals in the district from the year 1773 to 1912. of indebtedness, for the purpose of purchasing and operat-[...]ng the Hecla properties. By transfer and issuance of the Period of Decline new stock a total deficit of nearly $400,000, including mort-[...]as 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 out of ever, did not change its fortune. Money for development business, owing to the depletion of ore reserves and litiga- work was dispensed cautiously and in the attempt to make tion. The withdrawal of the company marked the end of the ends meet, lessees were encouraged int[...]ate development work which in 1924 the production of the last 40 or so years has been achieved wa[...]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. A[...] |
| [...]was al decay and inactivity. Lion City consists of a score of old discontinued and by 1926 the district had reverted again cabins; one the home of Charley Arrigoni who had mined in into a leasers' camp under the supervision and control of G. the district since 1893 and who at the age of 75 remained as B. Conway.[...]ts since 1926 to revive the mains only a few of the company cabins chosen as living district. In[...]ny did extensive development work in ter of the old district, is now a typical ghost town. Th[...]ting into production. By popular report it era of vigorous activity. appears that the withdrawal w[...]option. In 1928, Con- way obtained major control of the district by purchasing most of the principal claims including the Cleve-Avon[...]smelting town, is located five Foundation Company of Utah which planned to reopen the miles west of Melrose. The first smelter was built in 1875 by L[...]in the Canyon Creek side, apparently in the hope of tapping 1879 and a new one was erected at the cost of about $20,000. secondary enriched ores at a lower[...]general manager, G. G. Earl as superintendent of reduction extensive underground operation. Over a[...]works and James Parfet as superintendent of mines at He- he drove over 1,000 feet of drifts and crosscuts off the old cla. In 1881[...]urned to G. Earl remained superintendent of reduction works and Conway. More recently both th[...]logical Samuel Barbar was superintendent of mines. Survey and the Anaconda Copper Mining Comp[...]wn itself and within the From 1930 to the time of his death in 1945, options for surrounding[...]hotels, a livery stable, opera house, two Foreman of Dillon, who previously had been shipping Glen-[...]up-to- dale slag under lease, obtained the option of the entire dis- date medical supplies. It had[...]skating rink in the northwest. The production of the district since 1912 has been small Th[...]with Louis Schmalhausen but continuous. The bulk of production is made up of old as postmaster. There were Masonic and[...]from Glendale was shipped dur- 50,000 pounds of hops stored. ing the period of the First World War, and during the Sec-[...]or knobs made it profitable to ship the remainder of the slag dump in and some solid brass. It was[...]e smelter shut down in 1900 as the ore 5,963 tons of slag shipped contained 6.4 % lead and 7.8 %[...]ined 2.5 % lead and All that stands today of this once thriving community, 10.0 % zinc.[...]which had once been in the race for capitalship of the state The present aspect of the district is that of a grand old of Montana, are the smokestack, the office, and the school- mansion showing the mar ks of past greatness despite gener- house.[...] |
| [...]xiety in all directions. An area in the upper end of the Valley is called Alaska Basin. It is said to[...]e snow depth in the winter and, at the time, some of Burn- sides' relatives were living in Alaska. The Valley however, is the very definition of 'Cattle Country' with its abundant mountain grasses and profuse springs and creeks. The old timers tell of grass so lush you could have mowed hay on top of Monida Hill, and 'nutgrass' that was like oats fo[...]owever was more typical, revealing 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, but a wooden heads[...]erations. An excerpt from the book, "LIFE OF FATHER Due to the extreme[...]a certificates. It is said that nearly all of them stayed when better examipation of the fountains that gave birth to two courts[...]t rivers." 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 ultima[...]yet their beginnings are only four records tell of settlers collecting money for a telephone line to[...]up the Blacktail, A geological study was made of the area in 1872, but an turning east up the north side of the Valley, around Red extensive study, exploring[...]Missouri Rock Lakes and west down the south side of the Valley to headwaters, was completed by Jacob[...]Brower, known. Lillian Culver wrote news of the Centennial Valley who wrote and published a book of his endeavors. to area papers as early as 1895. Marcus Daly owned notable portions of Centennial Mail service was an integral part of the Centennial Valley ground in the late 1800s. B[...]elle unofficially car: increase the lung capacity of his horses, he aspired to own ried mail from[...]nor beast in the winter, Daly 10 miles east of Monida in 1892. When discontinued from built hors[...]y, some still in use today. He this location, service was transferred to Shambow (now La- rarely purcha[...]dividuals acting mail came from the Monida service and was delivered three as his agents. · days a week all of the way to Henry's Lake. Drivers changed The sett[...]The Centennial Valley was originally part of Madison arrived in the 1890s. Gold's lure beckone[...]o be done in Virginia ers to Montana and a number of Valley citizens had migrat- City, many inco[...]City when the early 1900s manifold numbers of Beaverhead County their claims didn't pan out. Th[...]n County a $2500 migratory that would, at the end of three years, be sold to ambitious fun[...] |
| [...]d was a very good worker. He as are an abundance of ducks and geese. The Wetmore lived at[...]d shipped them to zoos and buyers a native of Edna, Texas, where he was born September 26, all over the United States. A large yield of ducks and geese 1878. He was unmarried and no[...]s. Other since the same day, was suspected of being the murderer but valley citizens operating[...]e made reference to them as, "Here The history of this place is facinating and colorful. Names co[...]gs, Blake Slough and Hidden ranched on the south side of the Valley. Louis, Monroe, Stills are now remembe[...]r Monroe. It is nicknames are now fading memories of days gone by. unknown if it was on[...]r Louie. Henry's Lake to Monida in bullboats made of frozen ox CALNON, Bill ..... Homestead[...]elbys and time never to be experienced again. All of these people and drink homebrew with Fay. Af[...]songs from his childhood. After Bobby Allen tling of the untamed Valley, now known as the Centennial[...]of again. See Bobby Allen brief for details. "The[...]rked for B. H. Paul. He after that, when the sons of Qod came unto the daughters of had five children: Bonnie, who married James[...]adys, who married Roy Holm- mighty men which were of old, men of renown."-Genesis lund; Julia, who marr[...]ilding next to the hotel. Mr. Chantry could (Many of the following names were remembered by play any kind of horn. Mrs. Chantry played the piano, their[...] |
| [...]Monida and also had a ranch in the upper end of the Valley.[...]FRUIN, Jesse ..... A homesteader in the upper end of the[...]from the DuBois area of Idaho. There were three brothers,[...]esteaded in Alaska Basin. They was full of yarns that wereunbelievable. Some of the remem- divorced and she later married Frank J[...]"By grab, that Gum Myr is great salve. took care of the lines. He was married and had three daugh-[...]ncer on his arm. He put Gum Myr ters that we know of, Alta, Alice and Ruth. He and Bill on it[...]Forsythe's DUFF, Joe and Belle ..... She was one of the Valley mid- store in Lakeview. He work[...]d a DUNHAM, Charley ..... Was another good friend of Lillian row, they would outdo one another giving things away. She Culver. He had a ranch over south at the upper end near always asked for ev[...]operty in HERRICKS, (unknown) ..... One of the first settlers in[...] |
| [...]d Eva Walters were twin sisters. Another was west of Lakeview. He was known as a great hunter and[...]missing Monte Kent who lived on the northside of the Bob Luger and never found. His gun, a 32-40[...]on the flu epidemic within a few hours of each other and are buried Bill Hollingsworth plac[...]lon and Idlewild Hunting Lodge, this side of Lakeview a couple of known as "The Preacher." He bought his ground abo[...]mother lived in Idaho Falls and he was the oldest of eight Valley. He married Myrtle Olive Jones[...]SMITH, Billy . . . ..Another of the Centennial bachelors. MARCOTT, Bert and Carri[...]as crippled either in his legs or hip. A sidekick of Valley in the 1920s. They lived in a cabin up Jon[...]idge. He was a musician. kansas or Arkansas Slim. Of course, he came to the Centen- WHITE BEAR .[...]saw him in West Yellowstone packing pint bottles of booze in a basket. He got on the train and probab[...]crete and could make 250 gallons a day. A brother of his hauled it to California and knew all of the law officers along the way. He paid th[...] |
| [...]that other members of the vigilance corps were involved-[...]The influence of those numbers continued through later[...]usual time and place Sunday evening. As business of impor- Monroe "Roe" Severns and bride Myrtle Jone[...]d on ed secret to this day-a major oddity of Montana history. the place now known as the Breneman ranch on south side of the Valley. He sold to Jim Doyle. WRYLONS, Bert R[...]onalities Jones: and experiences, age of maturity and famiy influ- "At sup[...]were being fed at the table in the kitchen of the jail, Sheriff[...]three of the six prisoners-Horner, Conners and White-[...]who knocked one of them down. The Sheriff was overpow- Mystery and controversy surround the precise meaning of ered and his pistol taken from him quickly.[...]Conners holding the pistol at the Sheriff's head- of the Frontier's most-feared symbols for desperados[...]d the Sheriff's feet together, and finding a pair of old Some said it was the dimensions of a grave-three feet handcuffs, put them on[...]and ly certain that it represented a measurement of time-rath- Sheriff Jones was dragged into th[...]ing three hours, seven minutes and 77 bunch of keys, the worthies locked the doors of the iron seconds, the deadline to depart town or[...]even minutes and 77 seconds to leave camp, of $600 for the capture of the three, or $200 for each prison- have I[...] |
| [...]r d Nestled adjacent to the mountains of the Continental local gh heir ugh[...]d Divide perches the once thriving little hamlet of Lakeview. cow orne bucked ou a[...]who helped e Ii h and demands and pursuit of others to be engaged in businesse which look o the expan e o to fulfill the needs of the area people. Valley and[...]orking health r aniza i n and Osmer Upham was one of the last owners. Most of the time deserves great credi for he prompt[...]ott was an extremely good venting the spread of mall-pox. Mr. George tager of Glen- machinist and could fix anything or make an[...]Pike and later a Miller and Gayle the nature of his malady was a certained.-Dillon Tribune, who w[...]ore and former Forsythe home. Second row: No town of that era was complete without a saloon or[...] |
| [...]r the hot springs at today's The Big Hole Country of small resort town of Jackson. Clark must have loved the Southwestern[...]y; writings hold detailed descriptions of the surroundings. One Capt. William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition ren- of these was fur entrepreneur Alexander Ross, for wh[...]s named. Ross went through the Big Hole the "land of 10,000 haystacks" is the Big Hole Valley.[...]ewis 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 and prime c[...]t town in the valley retains the name The name of the Big Hole Valley probably was given it[...]"big hole." those of a Mexican freighter called Emmanuel Martin[...] |
| [...]1853. • In the spring of 1863, eleven men including A. Graham, Joe Ketc[...]with the Creek and the southeastern tributary of the stream was Fisk Expedition in 1866. The first[...]rian, brothers, the Valley was Hattie Noyes, wife of Al Noyes who wrote the were mining Colorado Gulch with hydraulics in August book, "The Story of Ajax-Life in the Big Hole Basin." 1867[...]overed Jeff Davis Gulch. The ditch had a capacity of 1,000 into the valley for fattening, on Christmas Day, 1883. Others inches and was built at a cost of $15,000. Ordinarily the had driven cattle through[...]rated five hydraulics. James and Granville Stuart of Deer Lodge, who bought The placers[...]rt Hall in 1860 and drove them through the of the ground to some Chinese who often followed whi[...]"China Diggings" and the settlement took the name of to pioneers heading for Oregon.[...]hinamen worked hydraulics along the gulch. wealth of the Big Hole Valley grasses, other men began There were two companies of them, one headed by Boise moving in stock. Today,[...]g W au Tau. It was reported they West as the land of 10,000 haystacks. Its cattle command took[...]hey washed the grav- top prices in the stockyards of the West and Midwest. els of the gulch until about 1882. The Big Hole Valle[...]1877, when Chief Joseph's tribe wandered through of the Big Hole was fought here in the year 1877, wh[...]General Gibbon attacked the sleeping Indian camp of and burned some of their homes as many of their guns were Chief Joseph, Too-hul-hul-sote, W[...]from The Yearians mined the balance of their claims until 1895 battle engagements in Ida[...]operated the continuing their incredible journey of almost 2,000 miles placers by hydraulic me[...]hed to float for Gen. William 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 e[...]perated and elevator buckets held five cubic feet of materi- the Big Hole Battleground, a site today v[...]perated successfully until 1904 when it thousands of tourists. closed down because of its worn condition. Another illustrious visitor to the Big Hole Valley was The fame of the diggings did not rest upon the recovered Tedd[...]wealth, but rather upon the activities of W. A. Clark, who Creek, named for Charlie Pintlar[...]ly Teidt's, located on the creek called barrel of whiskey, a tent, some grub and a few boxes of cigars Pintlar. Teidt told Al about Teddy's appearance after a long for a man by the name of Baugh, to the new "diggins"'. day's hunt. Clothed[...]t think, I am one Gulch using the rear hounds of their wagon and a yoke to of the 400 of New York, if I want to be." It amused all the[...]ole Valley. Clark returned in the spring of 1864, having bought out There was no rustling, no[...]before, and teamed with Harrison about violation of the "customary range." Perhaps the Bro[...]Old-timers tell of Clark becoming ill with pneumonia and During ha[...]ly carrying him on his other. Their strong spirit of loyalty boasts a past when their back to Bannac[...]ez Perce. coom of Montana.[...] |
| [...]to Fred was Jim Barrett. an historical place all of its own, and probably received its The Barret[...]now. Next name from the Tendoy Indians. The top of the beautiful was Al Morrison, followed by Dad Sommers. There was also range of mountains on the west side is the border between[...]ch and played the Montana and Idaho, and is part of the Continental Divide. violin. Range after range of mountains can be viewed from these H[...]Hildreth homestead that later became part of the Hildreth along the Medicine Lodge canyon.[...]ing up to the Idaho Divide that connects and into South Medicine Lodge, (which is in Idaho), and[...]home- Barrett place, where there once was a pile of ox shoes, al- steaders, miners. Gradually[...]then on to Medicine Lodge and not all of them make their home on Dead Man Creek and to Pio[...]hen the railroad came into existence in this part of them. the country. The first lumber on the Ho[...]se sold The North Medicine Lodge has a variety of metals such as for $50 and a good milk cow[...]. ly mined at one time or another. There are beds of oil shale The people on Medicine Lodge o[...]the mail station was moved to Arm- To the best of Bob's memory (as of August, 1980) the stead. When Armstead[...]ers. was once again delivered at the mouth of the Lodge with Starting at the mouth of Medicine Lodge and going south each family having its own mail box. S[...]us a saloon, and this was a stopping One of Bob's special memories was as a young boy watch-[...]reight being hauled from Armstead to Salmon. part of the Welborn Ranch. Wagons were pulled by six or eight teams of horses, depend- Next on the Lodge were Mr. and[...]king place was and that's Bell Waddam. Then going south up the Lodge were the all the furt[...]dream as a small boy was to be a driver of such an outfit. Johnson, Antone Swartz, Jim Alway[...]led his first deer in 1909 he made under the name of Hansen Livestock Co.[...] |
| [...]rs like The two-story home on the corner of Pacific and Dillon the wolves and coyotes under control, young fawns had a Streets is the largest of stone dwellings in Dillon. Built for chance to su[...]stock the Lovell family, it is massive and of excellent proportions. and could in one bite brea[...]and the wolf would have a great expanse of the walls and also serve to frame the win- delici[...]on coyotes and The home at the corner of Pacific and Cornell Streets was wolves. From abou[...]was across the road The home at 425 South Washington Street was built for from where the Pa[...]A charming little building in the middle of the zero block Gulch. Because of the school being so far away and bad road on South Idaho Street is overshadowed by the Andrus Hotel[...]s had to first teach their own chil- on the south. It was built for Dr. Bond's medical office. Dr.[...]physician whose career was cut short when he died of As was the custom of the time, people who had commod- influe[...]stead, or Dillon. They first block west of the courthouse was the office of Pearl I. would usually just exchange them for oth[...]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 backp[...]trim of stone around the base of the walls framing the base-[...]~ent windows. The south entry to the building was an ap- -As related to D[...]same fashion, as a trim around the base of the walls. The Frying Pan Basin lying northwest of Dillon was the Perhaps our finest example of stone masonry is the City scene of much volcanic activity in milleniums past. A deep Library at the corner of Idaho and Glendale Streets. Not layer of volcanic froth was laid down andcompressed suffi-[...]well to saw or chisel, being light in weight and of all angles. a spongy texture.[...]was "The Stone John S. Forrester, grandfather of Roy Forrester Jr., to- House" at the crossing of Rattlesnake Creek about ten miles gether with a partner, John Cusick, opened a quarry there west of Dillon on the old Dillon-Argenta Road. It seems before the turn of the century. John Forrester was a stone logical that this landmark be built of stone as it was just a mason and cut blocks to si[...]jump over the hills northward to the Frying some of the stone buildings in Dillon.[...]quarry. Despite its quaint charm and the look of permanency, the The same volcanic uphea[...]d, Frying Pan left a tremendous amount of granite, now evi- shelters were built of whatever material was available. In dent in the Birch Creek-Willow Creek area. After eons of the case of Dillon, timber was plentiful and near at hand.[...]ng, and churning, much The first homes were built of logs. Very soon saw mills were of the granite is fractured or decomposed. It is not[...]nal lumber was available for ered to be of a quality suitable for building stone. There may[...]in early years. distinctive styling and the look of old-world durability.[...] |
| [...]He acquired bottom land just south of the Guyaz proper-[...]96, lured here by Ford. After 11 years of living with dreams, he and Miss Cora kindred, being a nephew of Mrs. Dave (Venora Bridwell) got togethe[...]were married on Christ- Metlen, and a grandnephew of Mrs. Eliza Harrison Mason mas Eve, 1919[...]tled down on Duke's little ranch. Cora, a genteel of working on the Mason ranch, he attended Montana S[...]wing religious owned an impressive library of inspirational books, includ- organization, setting up a bible school and print shop. Duke ing a copy of Duke's own publication, "Flashlights from learned[...]Mountain and Plain," published by The Pillar of Fire of the chine was installed, he was promoted to the editorial de- Pentecostal Union of New Jersey in 1911. His writings were partment, where he did typing, proofreading and writing for of everyday life and experiences of cowboys and ranch "The Gospel Weekly".[...]just west of the Davis ranch, organized an outdoor Sunday[...]and persuasiveness which held the attention of children and adults alike. The service included the usual reciting of pray-[...]choose the hymns, so, of course, they chose the more spirited of the old familiar gospel songs. Being outdoors, th[...]mountains. The reverberations of "the little brown church[...]head of Medicine Lodge.[...]sens with three children. Following the service, a picnic[...]orse Prairie Creek, the kids went swimming in one of the[...]they were born." saturated with the strict tenets of this new religion - as he The Givens and Davises left lasting memories of good said, "They worked at it all the time."[...]the peculiar ideas the founder and superintendent of the Bible sturdy log home caught fire and b[...]se, they rebuilt, this time National Headquarters of the Pentecostal Union in New a smaller[...]nged for the wide domestic life. open spaces of Montana. He felt smothered by the intensity[...]when Cora developed can- and dictatorial policies of the "Holy Rollers." In 1914, lead- cer and passed on. Duke stayed on at his little cabin until his ers of the church sent him by ship down the coast[...] |
| [...]nd we took the colts with them and Blair, one of the earliest white men to come to the[...]most of his and they lost nearly all their horses on Elk[...]w you were both well. I will try and give you all of the where the wind blew the snow off was gra[...]on the dates so you had better verify the date of the hard spot. Finally hay gave out and the[...]but I think it was 1890 and could save part of their cattle was on the hills around Elk- '91[...]en creek to try few settlers in the upper end of the Valley. Freeman Marble and find the cabi[...]came close to my face which gave me the position of 1 is, and a little deaf man on Elk or Shitepoke, and some the cabin. 1 relation of the Mattox's where the O'Conner Ranch now is Most of the cattle that got on the hills around Elk Lake[...]lived. The winter of 1890-91 set in pretty tough in December. I cannot remember the amount of stock that died as some Frank Watson and I we[...]o the Valley and A man by the name of Cooly from the lower Madison lost walked back[...]below Henry's Lake at the meadows. He ran out of hay and Valley, and from that time on it was[...]t got a few head to Elk Lake and only one lived of the ones he get out of the cabin and those who had stock could not feed[...]with a wooden leg came to the Valley in the fall of Milt Bean can give you information. 1890 a[...]l this brought their stock in to winter, none of them had time to month. Today it is spittin[...]on and I wintered in his cabin. We had a few head of horses I had a letter from the Forsythes i[...]ys and one did not dare go out in them on account of skin that sold for $11,000.00? They had two of the skins here getting lost. The people who p[...]t could hardly find their hay stacks, instead of pitching hay and took a look at them. I did not think much of them, the off the stack they would have to di[...]tails were very small and very light, on the side of the neck find the stack and sometimes the hol[...]white, too. The backs looked like a poor quality of the wind and when it cleared up you could follow where the coyote. I have seen lots of coyote fur that I thought was cattle went by[...]en all winter while. and there was lots of moss in it. We watered our horses at the Wit[...]The snow was four or five feet deep on the banks of[...] |
| [...]white canvas tents of the mountain logging camps, so that Hole Ran[...]cook for a crew 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 labor to that of the implementation of gasoline- ger trains and riding on the loco[...]Ollie was fond which inevitably comes up is that of John Krause, who is of her position at the hospital, as the earnings allowed her closely associated with the mechanization of Big Hole certain indulgences enjoyed[...]Model "T" car. Brother Burl had to convince Ollie of and storage of hay in the Big Hole country. Because John the urgency of the situation at the Hairpin Ranch before she and his wife, Ollie, were so well known to the citizens of would agree to follow him over the treache[...]s to meet her future woven into the social fabric of the valley, it may be surpris- husband and remain for the rest of her life. ing for some to learn that neither were[...]ear, John Krause came to settle there by a series of events that so often play a proposed to Ollie a[...]ia. John was Springs. John's knowledge of mechanical things was always the second oldest of nine sons. In 1914, the family relocated in d[...]7, the same year their from the farming community of Artis, N.D., to Black Eagle, only son, Joh[...]ter. Young John joined his on the south end of Jackson. There was a dance hall on the brother, E[...]opportunity to make money by team of horses moved the building into town where, with s[...]o a trapper for the Government. At the time, pair of wooden skis for himself and set out alone to cros[...]t to Big Hole ranch- / Centennial Valley. Because of the sun's brilliant reflection ers. In those[...]he stayed in a room at the Metlen think of ways to build a motorized snow sled. Hotel until[...]ed. The idea of a propeller driven snow sled was not original[...]torcycle engine and propeller ed about the merits of his sister's cooking. As fate would on a s[...]ine on a bobsled. A more successful haying season of 1924 imminent, so Burl was sent to bring[...]a motorcycle handlebar to steer with, and looked of the summer.[...]a pipe rack with skis. Unfortunately, the weight of the Ollie and her identical twin sister, Olive[...]n and Alice Flansburg. turned to the idea of using airplane engines, which have one- The twins[...]ly third the weight per horsepower. The body of the first plane relocated to High River, British[...]soon bagging 10 to 15 came loggers, and this line of work took them to Bonner's coyotes per da[...]nd wind. From this prototype the sleek snowplanes of the Milltown, Montana, and finally to Clin[...] |
| [...]John Krause of snowplanes as a means of transportation for isolated through the ye[...]to have snowplanes custom- For a number of years John was a Standard Oil dealer and built we[...]fts were powered by a helicopter engine, but most of the cars. He was also the first fire chief of the Jackson Volunteer snowplanes had either Lycom[...]liked to compete in rodeos plane bodies were made of fiberglass airplane cloth and trapshoo[...]for his generosity in stretched over a framework of welded steel tubing. The skis, helping people d[...]elfish steamed and bent in the Jackson shop, were of oak or his- and unassuming person which was evidenced by his many kory, and had a running surface of sheet steel. friends and acquainta[...]little Ollie Krause was a cook for a period of time at the Dia- as three weeks, and by 1959, they had built about 75 of them mond Bar Inn and was a charter member of the original for ranchers in Montana, Idaho, Wyom[...]used a 220 also active in the Royal Neighbors of America. Ollie was HP engine to transport up to 10 guests of the Diamond Bar well-known in the community for her seemingly endless Inn to and from the ski lift south of Jackson. Snowplane reservoir of cosmetic, creative and culinary skills. A lifelon[...]event, and the "snow bowl" as it was friend of hers recently stated "Ollie Krause could do any-[...]g and do it well. Once someone brought an armload of ers from all over the northwest. There was a Big[...]the plane Association, which entertained members of the Butte midst of shingling the roof, thought nothing of climbing Town Club annually. The volunteer fire d[...]ck- her own work before dark. This was typical of Ollie's willing- ing a snowplane up to the burnin[...]ed their 50th wedding anniversary on No- 800 head of cattle in just a few hours, where previously it[...]. Both are buried in Mountain View Cemetery. part of the Big Hole landscape as the famous woode[...] |
| [...]about in 1901, largely through the aggressiveness of Alma Bridwell White, who had developed her own style of worship and was bent on enveloping the whole worl[...]are a fallen people." In her opinion, the "powers of evil" had was reclaimed." taken over the church[...]ora Bridwell Metlen, was so over- holiness in any of the old line denominations." whe[...], 20, Blk. her to Dillon, where they had a number of "unsaved' rela- 3, original townsite of Dillon, June 23, 1905, Beaverhead tives.[...]County record of Deeds.) There was much ado in the Metlen Alma[...]as a teacher in 1882, drawn to the area by of certain city officials Dave Metlen managed to res[...]enerally known how this was accom- leased because of her persistence in giving too much time to pl[...]ence hindered the school three and one-half miles south of Dillon, and one course of law, and property was confiscated and held from term at the Nelson School, eight miles north of Dillon, its rightful owner as it was in the da of the Inquisition. where she boarded at the John Bi[...]e. The records in the county seat of Beaverhead County will It was in Bannack that she first met Kent White, a mis- show one of the mo t devilish schemes that was ever con- sion[...]in a doorway, and it was ceived in the minds of so-called civilized men to defeat at that moment[...]ustice. It stands as a black deed on t he records of those who would marry Kent White. Amazing Grace![...]the guilty will quake under the zig-zag lightning of Colo., where they were taking classes at the Univ[...]Alma and Charles, along with a growing number of con- Alma left two children in the care of her husband and her verts "kept the revival f[...]and her treatment. Alma wrote in one of her books, ' We notice that brother, the Reverend[...]people who have good religious ancestory back of them expected to make use of the Methodist Church to spread the make good shouters and prayers." Wave after wave of glory doctrine of holiness and deliver the Dillon souls "from the deluged her soul when she told of a man who was converted bondage of their sins." Her oratory was profound. Her deliv-[...]ollowing Tues- erning board into refusing her use of the church. She also day. was rejected by t[...]d against us." because of their custom of praying. Following Bible reading, Not to be pu[...]nd other emotional "We put it up in the center of town," she related. "The expressions of entreaty. Fist pounding, rolling, bodily gyra- people of Dillon had never seen anything like it before, and tions, and shouting amplified to the point of frenzy, resulted naturally it attracted a great deal of attention. Attendance in a cacophony that was[...]to the uninitiated. was good from the very first service ...... my sister was After two y[...] |
| [...]-EDITH PALMER evening when a group of the more undisciplined young fel- lows of the community, some of them coming out of burrows Sources: "Looking Back from Beulah[...]olled in the leaves on the The recent death of Mrs. Lota Wilson Tyvand brings to banks of Beaverhead River." memory happenings of the era in which she was born. She The Rocky M[...]a ranch at Birch Creek. The ranch was north of the creek and member of Pentacostal Union of Denver, went to Dillon, east of the railroad and contained the tract Mr. Wilson Mont., for the purpose of establishing a branch of the work donated for a community cemetery. t[...]Jennie Wilson. All three "The peculiar methods of the Pentacostal sect did not women were g[...]in need. ings and singing and shouting the ferver of its religious joy, I was at the Hopp ranch in[...]to the Wilson ranch to usher, or help bring, mob of some 15 or 20 young men appeared at the hall one[...]baby for a day or two. Those kindly deeds one him of his clothing and applied a coat of tar roofing paint." cannot forget. Alma Whi[...]fe received in story in an area newspaper. In one of her later books, she March, 1891, was a batch of eight speckled laying hens-all wrote an account of the incident, " .... when the holiness were[...]people were engaged in their services at the home of Rev. thought it was a wonderful gift and immediately set two of C.W. Bridwell, a mob comprised of about 20 young men the hens and they each hatched a brood of chicks. Some- gathered and began to bombard the p[...]67 The Wilson children I remember-six of them-The- years of age, and striking a man on the head with a club w[...]ured the leader, and taking him nearly a mile out of town, happy family if there ever was one. We used to exchange gave him a coat of roofing paint." wor[...]missionaries, harmonious arrangement. some of the more responsible citizens urged them to go[...]home and lock their doors, and suggested the out-of-town ans of the Civil War and many times I heard it being fou[...]ts should consider leaving Dillon. After the heat of over again. the night had cooled, the Reverend was left to the mercy of I used to visit the Wilsons when they liv[...]account in the Dillon Exami:ne:r recmtiy about up of the pores of the flesh would cause his immediate my[...]e tent, located on an empty lot immediately north of Frying Pan Basin for Billy Philb.ps. The lr[...]er, was and used to build the first section of tl}~ Dillon I ,P,lement struck. Personal[...] |
| [...]made good moon, as attested to by several people of Centennial Valley[...]ave The early Centennial Valley was a location of resourceful chase. He ran off with very few clothes on and had to go to personalities who made use of available sources to survive. the neighbors w[...]r, like he was looking for unwanted company all of the time he giving the constructor a spring fenci[...]omrades ran a still under Sheep Mountain. An sion of distilling a common practice and with prohibition, it interesting note here was the use of the mash to fatten hogs. was somewhat profitable.[...]a drunk hog has very little reason to be mobile, of a way of life than just making enough for personal use.[...]made good. A gentleman from prewarn the residents of an intruder in the Valley well Henry's Lake was a supplier and Henry Wetmore recalls ahead of his arrival. Could have been called tell-an-inhab[...], which he tant. Often the sheriff would go ahead of the revenuers and and his brother would drink[...]nida at one time would detection by one of the local midwives. At one time he rival the modern supply side of economics. Monida was the employed Bill Mil[...]which hit his still a few times sell $1,000 worth of whiskey before breakfast, or three car- before[...]used prohibition and who interesting note of this area is that it was called horse heav- used[...]fork, where the cabin remains. This was a family of several ·, '·\°t"'t:-- l boys and[...]n fell into disfavor with the law. The one sister of the family was an interesting charac- ter in her[...]d fit herself with a body bagand walk the streets of Dillon, selling moon on demand, a resourceful way[...]wever, not as much is known ab'out the management of their manufacturing. Movhng up the south side of the Valley, in the Price Creek area t here was a Dutchman, but little is known about him. The next place of action was a husband and wife team who could make so:rp.e of the' best beer in the Valley that they marketed t[...]y at Bean Creek, moon was fabricated at the mouth of the creek. 62-Beaverhead History |
| [...]rain with a car, which required keeping the light of the his still was for personal use, which one cou[...]in in sight and generally costing the owner a set of tires. ranch and drank the profits. Another fello[...]pass in deep Wolverines, probably as an associate of Ora Roselle. snow. It pulled a toboggan carrying a keg or two of bootleg. Most of the early saloons in Monida at one time or an- A local barber was one of the teamsters. One of the local other were owned by Ora Roselle, my fat[...]he bottle was kept in a trap cellar, just outside of the ... for problems at the Canadian border. do[...]re able to get a drink from a Some tell of taking a keg to Spencer to a dance and filling lo[...]raw on the boys. The revenuers hit him along side of had a ring across their noses from getting the last drop out of the head and carted him off to jail. By the time they got him the jar. One fellow tells of attending a dance in Humphrey to jail, Ora had ma[...]rn train back and they had a problem with one of the local residents to his post behind the bar. A[...]g scrape with drinking their moon. The use 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 n[...]ty sheriff would try to catch these locals bottle of whiskey which they threw out the window to a[...]and a little Ora Roselle ran a still just out of Monida. His helper dangerous with half-b[...]spark a young lady at your pockets full of cash it helped even if you got burned. the hotel.[...]Ora before the revenuers. deliver a load of 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[...]s which was on the island in the middle of the Snake River. hauled the still out on a pole. This operation was one of the The boys were caught. Clay had been on h[...]ed it and Clay got a term in the federal pen. One of the Roselle's moon classed with the best. When it[...]olesale are now forgotten. The makers of the stills were notable would supply sugar, yeast[...]ation to be the The ingredients for 10 gallons of moon were: 25 pounds of exact truth, but after interviewing several residents who rye, 75 pounds of sugar, one pound of yeast, and one gallon were born and raise<;i. in the area and knew of the bootlegging of molasses. Put it in a barrel and fill with water,[...]iness, it appears that theirs was a different way of life. for nine days, strain the grain off and fee[...]ple worked together even if they weren't the best of liquid went to the still and made ten gallons of 100-proof friends. They also talk of the past as if this generation has whiskey. It's[...]ner would distill help in the understanding of the resourcefulness of our fore- snow water for Clay, which would be use[...]bathtub in their Many thanks to all of the people who have told me of the apartment of the old dance hall in Monida.[...]ith Monida being right on the Idaho border, a lot of view and perspective is somewhat correc[...]and in many forms. Several that I have heard tell of are the use of a tire, with whiskey placed where the tube goes a[...]Argenta was chartered January 6, 1865 as the Town of young lads of Monida to roll it over the state line to w[...] |
| [...]He pecks the eyes out of lambs and newborn calves and can[...]In the early Twenties, a group of ranchers and sportsmen[...]office of Dillon's power company, which operated two wa-[...]ter-powered turbines. One was three miles south of town and the other ten miles south at Lovell's Lake, producing[...]city. Hugh Bates, bookkeeper for the Line drawing of Mary J. Hamilton's brick residence[...]town kids as well as late 1860s at the upper end of Horse Prairie and it became the country k[...]The magpie nest is a remarkable structure, built of tan- on a business trip, his helpers broke the ho[...]ish-black body and white wing patches. It is one of the few new brick residence was built. The house[...]animal lovers and after long buggy Some of the more enterprising youngsters in the Beaver- r[...]y often talked head Valley devised a system of leaving a "nest egg." They about the lack of a public watering spot for animals. Mrs.[...]ouse, a common practice with farm 1907, in memory of her husband who had died in 1905, and f[...]upkeep during the Nest eggs were made of milk glass, the size and shape of a years. The fountain included a horse trough, a[...]chicken egg. The stratagem took advantage of the hen's fountain for the public, and a small wa[...]by visitors hatch a family. This was deception, of course, as the real and residents of Dillon, rather than thirsty horses, and is[...]ay, but it kept the hens laying. located in front of the Beaverhead County Museum on The same principle worked on the magpies and they contin- South Montana Street.[...]y could get to town frequently, but it was stress of living in Butte. They employed Marcus Rand as[...]n the brick house. In later years, she was a of dead baby birds can get pretty ripe after a few h[...]ch" on many maps. In defense of this controversial bird, and recognizing the[...]states, disposing of carrion on the highways and country-[...] |
| [...]ilies have since moved out of 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 w[...]choolhouse built about one and a half miles north of friends, and since the early 1960's a schoo[...]ch. The Wisdom to Dillon (a distance of over 60 miles one way) has school house was a one[...]de, and the door facing east. There were two rows of teachers moved into a new school built alongsi[...]s the original schoolhouse until 1914, miles south of Wisdom to the Idaho Line. The same teacher when a[...]The old schoolroom with taught three months of the year at Fox, and taught the next the stage is[...]students in each seat. Rock and brick for side south of the present site of Jackson on what is now part the new school, built in 1914, came from Steel Creek and the of the Hairpin Ranch. The Jackson families moved bac[...]rick to the site. High school was advantage of six months of school a year. They boarded the[...] |
| [...]nsen Lane, 1894 Fox, at that time, was the center of activity for the area. It was located eight miles north of Jackson on the road to It is not kno[...]but Ida Hirschy Olsen school section a half mile south of Jackson, which is now told of the four older Hirschys attending school east of the owned by Dale Strodtman. Those early day teachers got $35 Big Hole River the summer of 1894 after the family arrived a month and had to[...]the early 1900s by B. B. Lawrence, with the help of neigh- Fox, 1893[...]southeast of the Lawrence Ranch buildings, which are now Fa[...]Bawyon, Olga Sandstrom and Mary eight miles north of Jackson. About 1897 the district was Ferr[...]me building built on School was a niece of Mrs. Bender, who rode eight miles government land at the junction of Burma Road and Peter- every day from the[...]th the Gibbons district and this nice distinction of being a winter school of nine months instead building was torn down and the lumber salvaged. of the usual three or six. After the district was cl[...]Briston, 1890 The remains of the first school in the Briston District still |
| [...]when many families lived in that Knutson was one of the first teachers. The district was dist[...]l- closed for a while, and reopened in the spring of 1915 age chilren were there. It was eventually abandoned and through the efforts of Weldon Else, again becoming a sum- annexed to Jackson District 24 in 1948. mer school. In the summer of 1918 a new schoolhouse was built at a new locatio[...]n teams with sleighs. It still stands in the yard of the Lester Lapham's field for the children of Jack and Rose Pender- Else Ranch after having bee[...]y schools played an important role in the history of[...]and elections, an occasional church service if the Circuit[...]ething wonderful is gone Creek, eight miles north of Wisdom was held from 1884 for a from the way of life in the Big Hole, but the colorful history few years. The children of the Herman and Antone Jackson of these districts lives in the hearts and memories of many. families, Callens, McVeys, Wratons and Paddocks and oth- With the consolidation of all the country schools into either ers attended[...]which have become the hub of community involvement.[...] |
| [...]Bannack. He was reported to have been a member of the[...]more than oneoccasion of a hanging. ing A fellow member of the Vigilantes, William Rowe, came[...]later became a brother-in-law to Joseph The first of these, The First National (presently Norwest),[...]m Philadelphia, was organized in 1884 by the trio of Sebree, Ferris, and came to Bannack in 18[...]rmed the business in the Valley before the coming of the railroad. On Cross Ranch in Horse Prairie[...]ed partners until January 14, 1884, Howard Sebree of Salt Lake City, Eddy F. they dissolved their partnership in 1871.Shineberger then Ferris of Bozeman, Benjamin F. White, Leonard Eliel, and[...]wn land near the Red Rock area. Martin Otto Klemm of Dillon signed the organization certificate. Barrett, a native of Ireland, came with Shineberger to the The capital stock of the association was $50,000 and the area[...]fiend were the bank's first di- The last of the original founders was by far the youngest rec[...]rst officers were: Sebree, President; Burfiend, of the group. In 1899 A. L. Stone was only 36 while most of Vice President; White, Cashier; and Klemm, assist[...]that office until his death in 1920. It was said of Bank was organized in 1899. The original fou[...]emocrats. In ods, White loaned money on character of which he must contrast, the First Nati[...]r a brief conversation with White, was handed of its original building location at the corner of Idaho and a checkbook, advised to go ahead and wh[...]The era of 1880-1920 was the last to witness the old bank- In January of 1910 Howard Sebree disposed of his inter- ing methods when money was loane[...]ker was bound only by his own judgment. With June of 1911 the building was enlarged. On December 4,[...]nation. bank in southwest Montana, with a footing of over $4 mil- LIZA NICHOLAS lion. President of the Daly Bank and Trust Company of Anaconda, E. J. Bowman, was elected president of the First Natioal on January 11, 1921, and J. H.[...]l Bank. This unfortunate institution was a victim of SPEECH" the Panic of 1893 and closed its doors that same year.[...]essive words were chosen to de- The third bank of Dillon's first 40 years was the State scrib[...]or ranch, or to escape a revolver. tial citizens of Beaverhead County are establishing a bank[...]pocketknife, even a wife, a will take rank as one of the most solid banks in Montana." horse, a[...]prairie dog. Anything that has been was a veteran of the Confederate Army and after whom the t[...]r placer mining color" expressed the saddest of failures. "Gum hooters" for a number of years, constructed the first gold dredge[...]Graeter also ranched in Horse Prairie, southeast of gold. 68-Beaverhead Hist ory |
| [...]e was active in fraternal affairs, ranking as one of the oldest members of Apollo Lodge No. 15, IOOF, and a past noble grand of that order. His wife Josephine died October 27, 1918, the first victim of the flu epidemic in Dillon. Both Mr. and Mrs. A[...]d gone to Birch Creek for a Wisc. and was the son of Col. John Madison Adams (of the picnic one Sunday. When they ret[...]ry was on Sebree George, and a sister, Effie, all of whom had to work as soon as Street. Many th[...]e educated, had saved all his life. Some of the things were found in Butte in a grade school[...]l was always served white was a member of the Elks.Lodge, Rotary, and all of the Masonic bread and the children brown, which t[...]Lodge organizations. He was the Potentate of the Bagdad Tem- Louis went to Omaha, Neb., and[...]nterest, as did the other stockholder, Mr. Turner of California, Bluffs, Wisc., on Nov. 10, 1870. She was one of four daughters to the Montana Power Co. Now free, he spent winters in Tus- and three sons of John and Lucy Knox. John did not have a[...]a correspondence school connected with the Univ. of Wiscon- sin; he recieved his degree in Electrical[...]Donnell T. Albee ager of the power company.[...]ee. He was their third child where he was manager of the power company for three years. and came to Montana in a covered wagon in 1882, riding most of They moved to Rexburg, Ida., in 1904 where he aga[...]box, with his parents, an older brother, manager of the power company. They moved in 1905 to Dillon.[...]in the Deer Lodge Valley manager and stockholder of the Union Electric Co. The plant while the remainder of the wagon train went on to Eastern had two waterw[...]ot interested in school but was a worker. In Part of the plant building still stands on the Bar[...] |
| [...]Albers place from William A. James 12 miles North of Wisdom on Howell Creek. Don filed on a homestead joining the first place. One of the wealthiest and most highly respected citizens[...]In 1917 the Big attracted west by the stories of the great opportunities that this Hole property w[...]attlemen and in 1932 Don drawn by two yoke of oxen, via the Oregon Trail. The trip took the pro[...]ndians and outlaws. saw and knew and on the night of the housewarming 419 guests Upon arriving in this valley, Mr. Albers secured the job of signed the guest book on a wet rainy night in Sep[...]went to Kansas and bought 30 head of good grade Durham cattle and a team of horses and brought them to this valley. He[...]located 12 miles north of Dillon along the Beaverhead River.[...]doned in favor of the First National Bank, in which Mr. Albers danc[...]erhard married Christine Louisa After the sale of the Big Hole ranch in 191 7, Don purchased M[...]helmina the historic 72 Secvtion P.N. Ranch North of Winifred, Mon- Fricke at Schulenburg, Ge[...]only 17. Don was a good cowboy, took good care of his livestock, Gerhard and Christina[...]The Albers children at- "have a good banker ahead of time so if you found a bargain you tended sc[...]on one trip, prompted by his frienship with some of the Chinamen who lived inButte at the time. He ha[...]An old bachelor living down river helped him out of the river and nursed him several days until well[...]. He had many friends among the business families of Butte, spend- ing many nights in the city[...] |
| [...]Gulch near Anaconda, Mont. He attended became one of the largest stockmen of the Beaverhead, running schools in Deer Lodge County, graduated from the Helena 9,000 sheep, 500 head of cattle and 150 fine horses. These peak Busin[...]ar- operations were reached in 1887, and the year of greatest profit vard University. was 1889, ac[...]Richard, Jr. Gerhard Albers as owning 5,297 acres of ground, valued at Allen was employe[...]he Mr. Albers was a tall, well conditioned man of the hardy resigned to take over his father's mining interests at French pioneer type. Of unquestioned integrity, he never indulged in[...]g property there and formed the the popular sport of "long looping," with the possible exception Allen Gold Mining Company. About 40 men mined the Spain of the customary practice of eating nothing but the neighbor's and McKin[...]rray Hospital In 1900, he installed one of the first large dredges to be used in Butte, Mon[...]s Daly's Anaconda Company needed large quantities of Rattlesnake Creek on a Tuesday and received a sm[...]rcoal at his smelter and for stulls in the Butte of the fingers of his left hand. Not thinking it would prove[...]In son John take him to his home 12 miles north of Dillon. He grew 1907, he was Speaker ProTem,[...]nd selling his timber business, affliction a case of blood poisoning and ordered him taken to a A[...]the San Francisco Fire ducted by Rev. F. E. Dodds of the Methodist Church. The large and Marine[...]ut 1932, when she moved to a house in town at 115 South Pacific. September 27, 1937, she married Jean B.[...]illon. Christine's obitu- ary told she had a host of friends throughout the country who were deeply gr[...]She had considerable city real estate at the time of her death. After Gerhard's death in 1909, his[...]h. Leona Montana, only nine years old at the time of her father's death, lived with her mother at the[...]ory," dated March 28, 1940, and from the obituary of Gerhard Albers in the Dillon Tribune, Frid[...] |
| With the price of silver rising, he began buying claims in 1911,[...]The stage line vanished with the completion of the G & P $1,500,000, was completed in November 1[...]ow moved by rail. This two gas cars. This was one of the last narrow-gauge railroads to brought about the 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 m[...]e after President Coolidge. Allen was a supporter of Annie C. Nugent, from Butte. They were m[...]arie would be a thriving town with a large number of single miners and 20 to stillborn. On June[...]mes passed away at age 38. Just one Completion of the railroad led to construction of a mill for year later (1921), Rozella Mapes[...]ith built a house was completed in 1922 at a cost of $900,000. It was operated by after Francis ([...]The financial depression in 1920-21 and decline of metal On July 5, 1928, Florence Smith[...]hip in 1923. W. The family has no knowledge of the whereabouts of Richard G. R. Allen resumed mining operations on[...]Albert C. and Pedersine Anderson The advent of the railroads to the west and the great curiosity Albert C. Anderson was born in Denmark on August 11, of the unknown stirred Edwin M. Ames Sr., his wife,[...]Dillon by 1880. operations. Still in quest of adventure and a more secure life, they heard[...]on government land was ing; to homestead a parcel of land and to build what was to be free for t[...]drivers, tack, feed and fresh horses for the end of three months' visit with relatives. While on v[...]de, Pedersine (Sine) Rassmusen. With the birth of Edwin M. Jr., May 19, 1883, the overbur- In the spring of 1911 Albert, Sine, and a number of young dened Florence brought her mother, Rozella Mapes Smith Danes, several of whom later worked for Albert, came to the[...] |
| [...]her said as a boy he read They reared a family of three children: Cora (Mrs. Arnold about the Indians and the exciting life in the West and Benson) of Dillon, Ejner Anderson of Wendell, Idaho, and Ebba determined he woul[...]soon as he was able. When (Mrs. Chester Gilbert) of Bozeman, Montana. he was[...]ith the Beaverhead. financial assistance of B.F. White, president of the First Na- He needed a job and went t[...]ur-horse team and he could, so he got the job. ed of about 12,000 sheep, and other holdings consisting of Life was as exciting as he had anticipated. On one of his Spring Creek, Galiger Foot Hills, Grasshopper[...]in the wagon and he felt shearing and sorting out of lambs in the fall. They had a large it jiggle[...]une 10. Some years it became quite a task because of rain. The loud he frightened not only that be[...]0-14 days. The Park. usual crew consisted of twelve shearers, three or four wranglers, S[...]several trips back to Ohio and in 1893 he member of the Evergreen Masonic Lodge of Lima, the Bagdad married my mother, Harriet Johnson. She taught in Mar- Temple of the Shrine and the Danish Brotherhood in America. ion, Ohio, when Warren G. Harding was president of the Albert C. Anderson passed away in 1961 at the age of 80. local school board. Alvan and Harriet[...]dren, Mrs. Anderson died July 7, 1981, at the age of 92. Hugh born in 1894, and Julia[...]miles north of Dillon. Uncle Clark and Aunt Ella lived on[...] |
| [...]Clarence and Laura Andersen One of the interesting things about the ranch Mr. Bishop[...]came to America and the Dillon area in the spring of 1905. of a white man's camp. No other white man had been Four of his five brothers (Chris, Andrew, John and Hans)[...]or near Lewis and Clark Expedition. We know now, of course, they Beaverhead County. were throu[...]ns were always "Lincoln Republicans." My of young Danish emigrants found employmer.t. father[...]ed in politics and was a County In April of 1914 Laura Hansen who was also from Denmark, Comm[...]o vote in Montana. She was also a lifelong member of ly 30 of those years they operated a sheep ranch. In the m[...]atory surgery. She died December 5, One of their daughters, Laura LaBuff, makes her home in[...]Denmark, the fourth son of Johan and Johanna Andersen, and On Thanksgivin[...]ttended school in Denmark for the required number of war was over because we had celebrated Armistice[...]wn when to expect Hugh to come home. We of 10 brothers and two sisters: Andrew, Claus, John,[...]ed up from the table and rushed to him with cries of Albert, Matt, Marie, Thomas, Peter, Kristine,[...]retentive mind, fortitude in the face of harsh adversity, and[...] |
| [...]for the ship's passage he worked in a manager of the ranch where they ran 10,000 sheep for 10 years. brick yard at Odense. It required a lot of physical labor and The children had to t[...]He was 18 when he arrived in Dillon in the fall of 1893. weather. This was one of the reasons he decided to sell the Ames Rasmus He[...]purchased the Grasshopper Creek, acquired a band of sheep and moved there. William J. Hollings[...]ily stayed there and finished out the two south of Dillon on Carrigan Lane). He bought for taxes, th[...]B. F. White, president of First National Bank, the mining town After becoming established in business Hans felt the need for of Bon Accord. The buildings were torn down and John[...], garages, and a chicken house. He musen, in June of 1902. They returned to Dillon. There was not[...]uses until their home was completed on the corner of Wash- He was fortunate in achieving every one of his goals, blessed ington and Normal Street.[...], or money. His word was his bond. In the fall of 1911 Kristine, with her children, went to Den-[...]o hours after business and mankind. the birth of her fifth child, Kristine Hansine on May 15, 1912[...]. Hans went to Denmark in 1914 and brought all of the chil-[...]Later that year Hans married Anna Marie of Areo in Denmark. His father was a custom butcher[...], Harry Erick, was born December 6, family of eight sons and two daughters. When John was 16 he[...]e to visit her sister and brother Ras spring of 1889. He worked on his uncle's farm for three yea[...]forming the Ames In the early spring of 1892, he arrived in Dillon and went to Sheep Company, situated six miles west of Bannack, with his work for Mr. Selway on[...]leased the Billy Gilbert Ranch north of Dillon for two years. Hans, and Kristine; front r[...]Then John and a Danish friend of his, as partners, operated a tine.[...], like all ambitious young men, he tried the life of[...]of life. He was the sheep foreman for Mr. Morse from[...]bought their first two bands of sheep in 1905. John homesteaded[...]rter Creek in Beaverhead County, seven miles east of[...] |
| Mr. Morse sold the operation of which John was in charge to the migrated to[...]ided to return to Sweden, proximately 28,000 head of sheep. In 1925, John and Pete dis- selling their share of the partnership to John N. Anderson. solved the p[...]ded 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 e[...]where John and Egidia lived in Alder is the home of with his father. He remained there until h[...]versity Anderson died January 6, 1950, at the age of 76. His wife, in 1927, Phi Beta Kappa,[...].P .A. in Califor- Egidia, passed away in October of 1954. nia, and pract[...]tired 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 b[...]tana and graduated from the University of Idaho in 1930. Two children were born in the Big[...]in Sweden on August 17, the City of San Francisco, where she continues to live[...] |
| [...]utiful from Denmark and both came from the island of Aero, Mads diamond ring that she had ever seen! Harry J. at the age of 10 from the district of Ll, Rise and Marie from Trappeskov.[...]re. Mads, born in 1885, emigrated around the turn of the cen- Margaret promised the ring[...], and Marie, born in 1890, came during the summer of promise was kept and he enjoyed it[...]their ranching interests through the mined waters of the North Sea. and invested the fruits of their labor into construction of the Following relatives to Montana, they engaged in ranching Andrus Hotel, said to be one of the four leading hotels in Mon- during the follow[...]survive: continued to be the manager of this fine hotel until his death in Major James B. Hawkins of Ft. Benning, Georgia; Jane 1941. The hotel remained under the management of the Andrus Marie Hawkins of San Francisco; John Hawkins of Dillon; family until it was sold in 1969. In 1979 it was sold again and and Russell Jones of Bozeman.[...]Andrus was born in Lafayette, Ind., in 1862, one of[...]tana, in 1866, one of nine children. Her father Antone Rosen- Harry[...]ontana gold rush camps, ter Fern with only a team of horses, a wagon and five dollars, buildin[...]arried in spread to the buildings, destroying all of the horses in the barn. Boulder, Colo., in 18[...]r two small sons, who Willie, who died of diphtheria; Fern 1896, who married Farnum died within 20 minutes of each other. Leaving families behind, Schu[...]rom the Army-Navy Military Academy traveling much of the way through the canyon in the Sheep[...]another came to take her place. In the course of a few years the Andrus' had acquired 1200 acres of land, some of which they cultivated and some used as pasture ground for sheep. Eventually through leasing of land, other than that they controlled, the ranch[...]square. At one time Harry Andrus owned 7,000 head of sheep and had one of the best herds of Hereford cattle in the country. He also raised a number of high-grade horses. Growing prosperity prompted[...]would be inside to unwrap, each contained a piece of coal, a chicken bone, a pig's tail or what[...] |
| [...]or his three favorite exclamations: "Dad- January of 1888, son of Clinton Ellsworth Anson and Icy Dora Burn-[...]worth came from his hardly the language of that region in the early 1920's. Grandfather Clin[...]Colonel Ells- Don died in 1971 at the age of 83 years, followed by wife worth of Virginia. Grace, who died in 1981 at the age of 92 years. Don was reared in Norwood, Ill., (suburb of Chicago) and[...]BERT ANSON went to Hamilton, Montana, at 20 years of age in 1908 to work outdoors for his health as a[...]riga- tion ditch project. He married Grace Bowron of Irving Park, Ill.,[...]1934, as Ida Seymer, wife of George Seymer, in Butte, Mon-[...]ages of $2000 plus $8.70 cost of suit.[...]in Lions Club International and served a number of terms as an elected legislator for Beaverh[...] |
| [...]l held various jobs in the Butte-Helena area, one of which[...]ul girl in William Albert Armitage, the oldest of six sons and one Butte City. She was the sister of A. J . Noyes (Ajax) who wrote daughter, was born[...]y moved to Silver Star. were greeted by the sight of three men hanging. Joshua engaged Maud's moth[...]bove Dewey's Flat. It was located about a quarter of a mile west of Wisdom. Although it was a toll bridge, it didn't[...]grubbed by hand and thousands of rocks to be gathered and[...]piled. The result was one of the most productive ranches in the[...]home a quarter of a mile away.[...]of years later they moved to the Port Orchard-Bremer[...]shared happily at all kinds of functions. Agnes and Herb were[...] |
| [...]IJ. where they lived a couple of years; then they returned to the home ranch on Su[...]Dillon Maud was the first president of the Wisdom Women's Club, a member of the Library Association, and active in other comm[...]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 Di[...]June 21 , 1935. 1965, at the age of 96 years and is buried in Georgia. In 1945 Her[...]ght a paint strainer factory which, with the help of Phyllis and her husband, they improved and operat[...]s deducted on the second floor. On the front peak of the roof was a darling from the $3.00. sm[...]s in America, then went thought the greatest part of the tragedy was the loss of the small back to Italy to marry his childh[...]continued to operate the garage until the winter of 1943-44 returned to America seven ye[...]he Briston cemetery. Hecla at the age of 13 months and was buried at the nearby[...]-HALLIE STEPHENS mining town of Glendale.[...]Terri- small farm, three miles north of Dillon which is known as tory as a young man .[...]r Annie Josephine Seybold was the second child of John Vinson Joseph went to work for the[...]Their sons were all in the United States service. Raymond and lived in Lima until they move[...] |
| [...]the Army in Alaska and France. John was a member of the place. The old Poindexter school n[...]ranary United States Marine Corps, serving in the South Pacific. and the road, south, became Carrigan Lane. Two daughters, The daugh[...]. They homesteaded on a small acreage three miles south of Dillon. Their house had been an old store in Arge[...]h best-dressed woman in Dillon. Her costumes were of the finest fabric and unusual design, many of which Beaverhead County Museum treasures among th[...]rth In 1900, Vica married a well known rancher of the valley, Owen Carrigan. They lived at the Ashb[...]gings, Wisc., on August 27 , 1859, the son of James Edmund and Tragedy struck June 9, 1902,[...]much work on the mining machinery of the area . Samuel Ashbaugh died the next year[...]Elizabeth Ashbaugh died in 1924 at her home on South Ted's mother, Jessie Anne Clare, was born June 17, 1826, in Washington Street at the age of 91. She was born in Yonkers, England[...] |
| [...]but not as hard as some of the others.[...]13, 1877, daughter of Charles E. Retallack, born March 21,[...]and Bannack, and was justice of the peace for Bannack. Eliza-[...]al activites there. Ted at one time was a partner of Frank Lucas Bacon was born on a farm in Raci[...]in the Bloody Grimshaw Bacon - the oldest of three, the others being Dick District with Geroge[...]. The mine was high in copper with a good showing of At the age of 14, he began working his way west with the gold a[...]est was born Helena Water Co. were some of the entries listed. A daily June 14, 1896, and di[...]d knocked her flat, so she was always frightened of horses. She started to school in Bannack[...] |
| [...]nd seeing the Big Hole boys the meaning of hard work and its benefits. Five of the Valley. Here, the present day ranch, 14 miles north 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-working men e[...]After Mable's death, Frank began showing signs of arthri- chasing items for the ranch. The first he[...]orking on the ranch until well into his 80s. head of sheep with four lambs for $31. He also had chicke[...]gal- right leg. While there, he died of pancreatic cancer just three lons of coal oil at $3.60, a sack of sugar for $2 or one of flour days before his 87th birthday in 1954. He[...]rthday in '32 he wrote, "Looking for- buying some of the small homest eads on either side of him, ward that far is a long time. Looking back, it's not so long one of which was his sister Cora M. McCaffrey's. She had[...]y. He would hire a Iowa. He was the son of Humphrey and Philena (Davis) man to look after th[...]nd Jason as a painter. Lawrence became the mother of six sons over the next 15 They sav[...]Dell - 1909, Ray - 1912, Ed - 1916, side of Sheep Mountain near Lake Hattie in Wyoming. In Be[...]ennial Valley, Wyo. loving, kind person. When one of the boys would ask her to Eugene and[...]ith pernicious anemia and 14 Baily died of diptheria as a youngster and is buried at Lima. b[...]his remaining son was picking up family in times of need. He even trapped wolves in the area[...]September 3, 1937, and Joshua passed away 60 head of horses. He sold some t o t he army, keeping 20 to September 23, 1944, at the age of 87. Both are buried at Oak 30 head to use in hayi[...]in Central City, Iowa. time, he had over 100 head of sheep which he and the older Two of his daughters, Philena Zebudah and Clara Edith boys sheared themselves. He had over 200 head of st ock Baily, married brothers[...] |
| [...]county officer in point of service in the state of Montana.[...]3-1974) Born in Montpelier, Idaho, Southeast side of Lima in 1912. Buildings include d[...]obably would have had more children!! At the time of her Byron Cosgrove, D.D.S. (1919- ). death[...]Married Fern Hunsaker July 3, 1914. He was Some of the facts contained in this writing came[...]to Portland Septem- from Louisa Mapes Baily, wife of Jason Baily, Josh- ber, 1919. Child[...], born in Portland. -RAYL. FULLER, great grandson of Joshua Bai- Anna Baker (1[...]m at one time. daughter of Joshua Baily Children all born in[...]danha and Julius were death in Dillon. At the age of 12 he left his birthplace in born in Minnes[...]g, 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[...]areer 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 L[...]nion Pacific agent in Lima, he ran for the office of County Clerk and Recorder. He was defeat-[...] |
| [...]was well known in Dillon having lived there most of his life. He was a writer, editor of the Dillon Examiner, historian and worked for the Dillon Chamber of Commerce. Neil worked as a telephone operator and[...]ima, died in Port- 950 acres for a price of $500 per year. Their first three land; married Wi[...]Norma Garland (Kandra) (1923- ). After the death of Willis, the Peterson family. Charlie was born[...]lowed by Raymond, born in November of 1902, and Sarah, Albert Baker (1903-1985) born[...]lls where he worked as son Place. The rest of the children were born here - a girl, an accounta[...]farming and raising their children. All of the kids went to[...]now the home of Erwin M. (Bud) Marchesseau.[...]County, West boys climbed into the loft of the schoolhouse barn to sneak a Virginia, on Octo[...]. They were able to Sarah E. Lee Banks, the third of seven boys. While the boys get one horse out[...]boy, their son, Andrew (Andy), always screams of their dying pets. wanted to be a farmer. At the age of 28 or 29, after reading On December 23, 1909[...]39 the many famous railroad company ads about all of the· years old. Andy was devastated; it[...]until August 10, 1920, when enlisted in Company E of the First Regiment of Montana the family was hit by another tr[...]with a team when lightning struck, killing period of two years or until the war was over. One year later Andy and one of the horses. Eleven years after their mother the w[...]and animals were sold. Under the supervision of their Uncle sas and on November 29, 1900, married[...]s (Sarah, 17, Marie, 12,) and one brother, leased south of Dillon, which is now the Robert Peterson[...] |
| [...]extensively the next few years, spending some of the time in[...]t. of 1889. Forest was born on the homestead. Charle[...]moved the family to the silver mining camp of Hecla, Mont. ber on November 2, 1926, and they ha[...]Mrs. Banning remembered the trip. "In the spring of Frances in 1988. They had spent their entire live[...]ader. Sis and Joe, the mules, bore the heavy part of the jured badly in World War II and had one stiff[...]had one daughter. spring we had lots of rain and mud to put up with." His last home was a[...]a few years. In Sarah Banks fell down a flight of stairs when she was 1893 a snow slide crashed through part of the settlement, young, resulting in a bad curvature of the spine, causing her sweeping away the woo[...]tage, and burying a nearby family of seven-only the moth- they raised their two girls[...]were rescued alive. The same remembers her as one of the nicest ladies he has ever known. year t[...]urgus R. Banning came to and five girls. The last of their children was a set of twins, a Hecla. He had been recruited from the University of Ne- boy and a girl. Leo ran a sawmill on Birch Cr[...]before. They remained close the rest of their lives. nursing home near Portland, Oregon.[...]t eight miles from Dillon on Rattles- ranches all of his life and died at the (Jack Brenner) James[...]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 or four years[...]in the winter Andrew Banks came from a family of six boys. We do stopped all work except the blasting of rock used for fill in know that one of them died very young and that two broth- the reservoir. Crops also had to be taken care of so the work ers came to Dillon. John L. Banks was[...]ack the water from the and married Dorothea Meine of Dillon on April 2, 1901. Argenta Lake[...]snake George Banks married Sophie Marie Burfiend of Dillon on Creek, giving much needed irrigation water to the ranches January 15, 1902. Of the six children, five, at one time or[...] |
| and had only boys, heard of a lovely girl named Pearl at the Home in Twin Bri[...]anning fell in love with Pearl and she became one of the Banning children. Mrs. Banning, once commenti[...]rse and buggy to deliver and sold about 35 pounds of butter a week. The Metlen Hotel was her largest c[...]ed to put in the oven. She smiled when she talked of the boys doing the milking, a chore they weren't overly fond of. They tried to get their father to sell the cows.[...]wn infancy. in 1908. She was the daughter of William Charley Brown, Margaret Sutton[...]and four daughters: uppermost in the minds of her family. She encouraged her Della May, Pearl,[...]brothers. Forest Banning married Martha Berens of Kau Kuna, 1876 was a banner year fo[...]to Mary C. Coon. Webster and Mary became parents of four sin, where they raised their family of three daughters: children: Clara, Maude,[...]ed Bessie Lavine in 1917. Bessie was a parents of five children·: Edmund, May, Ethel, Roy, and sis[...]married Alice Cline in 1882. They became parents of James Ashton Barbour was born in 1820, and liv[...]ildren: Mable, Floy, twins Alta and Atha, Claude, of his young life in Vermont. Later he moved to Camb[...]th her brothers as mentors. She became in the War of 1812. One of the most severe engagements for known for her beautiful calligraphy. When most of the boys which he was honored was Lunday's Lane n[...]nd man" Falls, N. Y. Her mother Helen, a resident of Massachusetts, by taking care of the livestock. She made friends with the c[...] |
| [...]Willis. They were the par- ary 2, 1840, son of Thomas and Nancy (McDonald) Barrett. ents of three children: Pearl, Maude, and Lee.[...]- emigrated to Canada with her nine children, of whom Mar- 1 ents of two children, Raymond and Laura. Walter served in[...]re he became a brought him to such a degree of success in later years. He prominent attorney[...]Hence at In 1898 Emma, the youngest member of the family, mar- the age of 15 years he entered upon an apprenticeship at the[...]iter and they moved to Boise, Idaho. trade of tanner and currier, assisting in the support of his Margaret was their only child.[...]widowed mother and her younger children, a youth of ambi- In 1901 William married Ollie Malloy[...]later years the partnership was dissolved one of her grandchildren.[...]s if he had lived a few produced 500 tons of wild hay on 1,160 acres. Martin ran months lo[...]modern in The Barbours had the distinction of being pioneers in two its appointments, and sho[...]states, Illinois and Kansas, and early residents of Montana. evidences of refinement and culture of those who there They endured many hardships but they were determined to make their home: the best of literature and fine specimens make a home in the West and by their devotion to principal of art production showing that Mr. and Mrs. Barrett thor- they made it possible for thousands of followers to walk in oughly appreciate the ideal phases of life, while the hospi- their footsteps and to build up the great state of Montana. tality of the home is unequivocal and most gracious."[...]Martin married Alice E. Cook of Omaha, whom he met -G[...]ght in the Revolution, her grandfather in the War of 1884, son of Nancy Williams Barrett and Thomas Barrett.[...]itorial legislature in 1879. He served on the of Annie Kelley Desmond and Patrick Desmond, on Dece[...]father's ranch for several years and, fol- Bank of Dillon and served as a member of the board and vice lowing the death of Mrs. Annie Desmond, moved to the presid[...]Robert, their only child, served as president of the State entire lives on Horse Prairie. They were communicants of Bank from 1930 until his death in 1960.[...]born June 12, 1920, and James G. edented sum of $350,000, which Mr. Barrett deposited in Barr[...]Barrett home of Jim and Norma Day. Mrs. Barrett died in 1926 and[...]r. Barrett in 1927. Both were communicant members of[...] |
| [...]tter or practiced it more. He was always generous of him- berger and his sister Margaret Roe, endowed[...]by dark heavy eyebrows. His clothes were of good quality from the Shine berger family and a land grant of seven acres and he wore them well with pride[...]y from the State Bank, made possible the building of the old and traditions were important to Ch[...]of pinochle, rides in his car, and food which he alw[...]He was a charter member of the Danish Brotherhood Thomas F. Barrett Lodge, a member of the Farmer's Union Local, and the Order of Elks. He was always a good booster for the organi- Thomas Barrett was a native of the province of Ontario, zation and faithful member and gave of his means generous- Canada, having been born in the County of Waterloo, on ly to all the civic needs of the community. September 23, 1854. He was the son of Irish immigrants. Mr. The stories told by his countless number of friends were Barrett was educated in the public schools of Canada and legion, regarding sales, busin[...]n who lived Beaverhead County. He took up a tract 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 c[...]t his whole adult life was an honorable supporter of the Democratic Party and was elected a county[...]in a great circle grieving for their miles north of the ranch. He was a communicant of the friend, their neighbor, and the on[...]. Mr. Barrett was twice married. In the spring of 1880 he Petra Jensen and Laura Larsen were cousins. They left wedded Nancy Williams, a native of Kansas. They became their parents in Denmark and traveled together crossing the parents of four children: Elmer A., Chester M., Nancy E.,[...]in infancy. sisters of Laura's awaited them. They had a taxi cab take[...]girl, took Barrett married MariaPoirier, a native of France. Mrs. Bar- care of them until Laura's sister, Marie, came for them.[...]aving come here was May 1907. when a child of three years. They had one daughter, Con-[...]eterson and sold to him in 1934. It is today part of the their attendants. Cross Ranch.[...]ntures in meat markets he went into the wholesale of meat and buying-selling of livestock. He did well as a buyer because of his keen interest in people, his vigorous[...] |
| [...], 1913, in the Grace Methodist parsonage the home of a school teacher. There were six children to care[...]r himself. He purchased some Petra was a woman of many dimensions--endurance, very fine ground south of Dillon. Many of the same original generosity, patience, forbearan[...]t and some years worked hard caring for the needs of her family. She rented purchased young catt[...]ater rights. He was active in organizing the deal of work related to her husband's business of selling Lutheran Church and the Danish Bro[...]served food. She greatly enjoyed the hospitality of others, too, and delighted in every activity and[...]ca Lodge, Farmers Union, Elks, Danish Brotherhood of Amer- ica, and the First Lutheran Church that she[...]old, old amarillys that bloomed to the happiness of everyone for years. Flowers in the yard and cut f[...]Jerome and Allie Baxter, early pioneers of Beaverhead lowed his brother Chris to Beaverhead[...]Anson and 1909. He often related the experiences of the boat trip and Jessie May, in 1900. They[...]ed Chris to meet him. Chris had arranged der of their lives in Dillon. for big Chris Neilsen to d[...]am to his Their daughter, Jessie May, died of diptheria when she home. It was a very fast ride[...]ogether to lege for one year and in August of 1914 was married to trade horses to ride o[...] |
| [...]nying picture was taken in the fall of 1920 when he and his[...]Jack lived the life of a cowboy from the very first. He told of "ridin' poison, roundups, branding, roping, ridin[...]and his father, Milton, played for many of the dances. Mil-[...]knew he was out of a job. They moved to Monida, but[...]arts After quitting the P & 0 in the spring of 1923, Jack and of Beaverhead County playing dances. Anson worked as[...]a homestead in Blind Canyon, a side canyon clerk of the court and eventually as manager of the Montana of Clover Creek. They got out all the logs for their[...]for over 30 years. Allie Baxter died in October of 1935 at the age of 80. She had been active in the Presbyterian Churc[...]Anson Baxter died February 22, 1936, at the age of 40. Hayesl made her home in Dillon until her deat[...]hat summer. They were still living the fourth son of Henrietta Sprague and Milton Henry in[...]the Centennial Valley. He went to work at the age of 13 for Continuing to live up Blind Canyon and running a trap Joe Buck at the upper end of the valley. In 1916 he went to line in the wi[...]he, with his brothers Sunny and On the 25th of December, 1927, their second child, an- Ellis, we[...]P & 0 (Poindexter & Orr), In the fall of 1930, they moved to Monida to send Helen t[...] |
| [...]standing the fact that the day was one of the worst we[...]Russ Bean was 20 years old at the time of her death[...]Russ and Rosa Bean of a child for the Bean family.[...]Milton Bean and Levi Shambow were the best of[...]Valley. After Levi moved to Florida, Milt leased his[...]and friendship were found in Emmy's trunk. ter of Milton and Henrietta Bean. She was born in Custer[...]ey with her parents in December, 1886, at the age of four Ellis Jordan Bean was born September 30,[...]Centennial Valley, eighth child of Milton and Henrietta Dr. Coulthard of Idaho Falls was summoned, but as |
| [...]he unions in the timber industry. He was a member of the International Woodworkers of America. Aunt Ethel tells of one cold winter day she asked Ellis to watch the[...]when she awoke she could hear the noisy laughter of the children. Vernadine had decided to scrub the[...]Henrietta and Emma Bean (1902) She tells of another time when Ellis arrived late one night wh[...]. Farmer, On May 19, 1909, at the age of 25, she hemorrhaged to fearing smallpox, called t[...]he take water and grub to Ellis until he was out of isolation. sold the ranch, wherever he went.[...]illed with memorabilia from the Bean At the age of 43, Ellis was killed on November 11, 1941, at f[...]ayable to B.H. Paul, August 7, 1900 in the amount of sawlog rolled on top of him, killing him instantly. Farmer, $50 and signed by Milton Bean. One of the latter checks if Sunny and Milt went to Washi[...]April 11, 1939, to Roe and Fegan for 68 head of yearlings at to the Valley. Ellis is buried in th[...]Bean license of Milton and Henrietta, handwritten with pen and[...]ink on plain ruled paper, signed by Justice of the Peace, Bean in Custer County, Montana on the[...]age in Custer moved to the Centennial Valley. All of Emma's life was County on April 11, 1883[...]ast 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 second tle Emmy" to all of her brothers and sisters. They were marri[...]. Grace and Maude, her showing purchases of food, clothing, supplies and equip- sisters, had[...]. Paul, Monida, Janu- 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 purchases. By the time they were Mac McDow[...]trunk is going to all their families telling of weather, family deaths, illness hell." R.O. would[...]ards they were issued). A Confederate States of America note 94-Beaverhead History |
| dated 1864 in the amount of $20 that had been folded and carried in Milt's bi[...]Farmer Bean and Raymond Bray Buck. On the back of the envelope were a lot of numbers Milt had made, evidently to figure hay to[...]- attorneys, Milt's brothers and sisters, telling of the prob- ning the Grand Hotel. The next spr[...]s. Letters from the lawyers Goldmine out of Ivers, Idaho. Vernadine, their oldest child, stat[...]etime to attempt to settle the months ahead of schedule. estate. Nine years after he died, check[...]and stayed with the Beans at Ziegler Hot Springs. of $3237.25 as payment in full for share of estate, R.0. Bean, Farmer worked for W. D. San[...]and Nettie for the Halligan ranch out of Lima the next summer. S. Crawshaw, sisters and brothers of Milts. In 1928 Far~er, Et[...]d in Washington for 10 checks, etc. to decendants of the family. Contact me, I years. Ethel[...]ernald on August 8, 1929, at the Sunny Bean books of Aunt Grace Judy, Uncle Jack and Aunt An- Ranch. nis Bean, plus the indredible memory of my cousin While in Washington,[...]brother Dean McDowell have preserved a great part of our heritage. -LORETTA MCDOWELL CASH[...]Henrietta Bean in Salt Lake City, Utah, the last of 12 children. The family Bible shows his given nam[...]shows excellent grades and an outstanding record of attendance, very good when you consider the distances and conditions of the times. As a young man Farmer drove an[...] |
| dustry, road construction, and for the Reclamation Service about 3,000 head of horses and mules here. at Katcheese Lake. They li[...]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 19[...]e federal gov- thrown yet. There are eight of us here to ride-Granny, ernment building Airway B[...]n Feb. 21, 1888, to Milton and the first of next month. Col. Wells told Mark next time we Hen[...]hey gave us $150 Ranch, the first son in a family of 11 children. He was a to be split between 14 of us. typical young man of this era-hunter, trapper, cowboy, Se[...]have anything to do. There is talk of making Cpls and Sgts Mark and his brother Sunny, who was eight years youn- out of us and keeping us here to train men-I hope not. W[...]nd worked together all the time. got out of quarantine last night. Tent city is full again an[...]rses tothe govern- they have to ship some of us out. ment. They were about the same height and[...]hink with the 19th was always the boss. They tell of the time they were working Division. Sunny is[...]t. 1-We are in quarantine for 72 days, on account of off to the dance - both with black eyes.[...]the hospital this morning, don't the family, tell of the army life and the flu epidemic. The know[...]sup- pose they are fat and sassy; wish I had one of them here as it would beat this walking al[...] |
| [...]t told me she didn't think he would be. He is out of his head half of the time. I helped pack out four dead ones out fr[...]fright. Am dead on my feet, have been taking care of them for five days. Letter to Sunny from Mark,[...]. She moved to Kansas with her parents at the age of Mark 0. Bean is buried in the Jones Cemetery.[...]d a respected rancher." Rangers replied the third of five children-Emma Jane, Nov. 7, 1856; Jordan,[...]rrived at the ranch Elizabeth Ann The spelling of the family name BEENE was changed by knew[...]their outfits. She told them R.O. mutual consent of the family to BEAN in the year 1890, was[...]ay, supplies were hauled 250 miles. In the spring of 1876 the Gentlemen" and immediately turned his horse into the family moved to Los Pinos River, by way of Pagosa Springs, brush and escaped. Meantime[...]G.H. Scheid owns his in the store by the Justice of Peace. Eleven children were property now and[...]nry family and they arrived in December of 1886. Brother (1896), Ellis Jordan (1898),[...] |
| [...]fe. His recreation was the same as most gentlemen of this era - playing poker and drinking booze. One[...]Mercantile Store and lost the business on a turn of the card. Back to the valley again, came the f[...]unny Bean ranch. Henrietta would not allow a deck of cards in her home. This time he homesteaded on Cl[...]3, 1899, the second child and first daughter of J.E. Blake cabins, barn and corrals, back in the cattle and horse busi- and Mary Shambow. Both of these important events were ness.[...]m. Milt told him he would go if he would deed one of the When she was two and he was five an[...]meeting. Mark died from flu during World War I service. His Since their families were friends and neighbors, they played mother, beneficiary of a government insurance policy, re- togeth[...]ot 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, October 17, 1935. the old catt[...]hide rope, and packing her .22 pistol. at the age of 75. On April 5, 1941, at the age of 80, Milt sold Sunny was the favorite son of the Centennial Valley, a the ranch to J.E. Hughes of the Horse Prairie country. Milt typical fro[...]ivate until his death on May 25, 1943, at the age of 82. Both hunting and fishing grounds. H[...](Granddaughter) of his hands from the pitch fork and the saddle horn[...]light touch of the fiddle bow has never been easy. As he grew[...]ke Bean, son there was always one of his broncs that seemed to need extra I of Sunny and Thelma for their Golden Wedding Anni- riding, particularly in the direction of the Blake Ranch versary in 1968.)[...], 1896, the seventh child, second son in a family of horse had become. But the local ranchers soon[...]ean and Henrietta Sprauge in a sod- the bit of merchandising, it still took a top hand to follow[...]Courtship was strenuous in those days. One Fourth of Ranch, my grandmother, Thelma Catherine, w[...] |
| [...]owstone, and then back to Clover Creek. For those of you wo haven't made the trip in a surry or on hor[...]t was approximately 250 miles. More excursions of this nature made it obvious to even this hardy co[...]n Butte, Montana, June 18, 1918. Probably because of World War I and the imminence of the draft, as it is today, both families criti- s[...]ardslee on wedding day, Novem- ny was called into service and Thelma went to Butte to live[...]924, and Elfreda in Shelby in the mid 1930's, out of the chute" in cities and towns across the midwest[...]r Bond drive to the Veterinary ranch north of Monida at Snowline on December 13, 1905. Corps wh[...]ey returned to the ranch, and Arby sold his share of ny was discharged in time to be home for the holi[...]ma sold patent medicine; they even tried a stint of wheat gaged in the real estate business. T[...]hat both Sunny and Thelma, spent their last years of life hobbled in town. All three are buried in Mou[...]s, Rose and Elda, who were also born in Mich. All of them came to Montana after the turn of the century. Ralph Beardslee married Be[...] |
| Charles, a newphew and youngest of Ralph and Bessie Beardslee after Bessie died in 1[...]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 w[...]wagons and gave service to the traffic going and coming den, in 1878 and[...]stud in with his mare, have originated the custom of paying the cook a quarter if[...]as forced to start all over again. In the fall of 1922, he moved his family to Gibbonsville,[...] |
| [...]moved to Dell and worked in the cafe to help make of his life. He died September 21, 1954, and is buri[...]Both Frank Bell and Dan Peterson related stories of ry of John Bell's grandchildren Frank Bell, Dan Pe- John's being a good friend of Abe Lincoln. They split ties on terson and Mary L[...]the railroad, played some sort of ball game and Indian wres- County History Book."[...]Bell led a colorful pioneer life. He was born of his famous cases in Springfield and win it. Needl[...]rved 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 wa[...]after working at the Meade Hotel ton, the second of five children. Her mother passed away[...] |
| [...]thers and sisters were very musical, as were some of his children. Many played the fiddle at dances, and, of course, singing was a must. "Ole Dan Tucker" was[...]with her two journeys are truly represen- tative of American Pioneers.[...]arch 27, 1876, at Oakdale, Mo., ninth in a family of 11 children. At 21 years of age, he Anna was married to James A. Patrick[...]James David Berry was born in 1870 on the farm of his[...]even at an early age dreamed of going there.[...]ing to enlist. His father had served in Co. 3 of the 7th Cavalry, a tenderfoot on the job, there w[...].A. from 1861 until 1865 and told Jim to stay out of it. toughen him up to the ways of the wild west. The Craver Naturally, he went to enlist and was rejected because of Ranch was his next st op-and also where he met my[...]Al De Witt near Armstead In a year he had a band of sheep and lived on the Hoffman and t[...] |
| [...]everal years, and I remem- ber the grinding noise of the wheels of those big wagons full of wheat on the snowy roads, and it was cold. But[...]weeds took over and the home- steaders left, many of them on the night train, leaving homes full of furniture. The bank on the corner of Glendale and idaho went broke and Dad was a heavy loser too. Dillon was once the largest shipper of wool in the state, Amede and Alzire Bessette with son Adolph and I remember those big loads of wool coming up Kentucky Avenue from clear over on[...]Born March 1, 1838, at Beauharnois, Province of Quebec, job for Blinky Thompson at Red Rock before going out to Canada, Amede was the fourth of five children born to Fran- spend the summer hayi[...]When the news of discovery of gold at Virginia City[...]via the South Platte River route and the Bridger Cutoff. He[...]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.[...]Prairie Valleys. In 1900 he sold his entire band of Of course threshing continued down in the valley whe[...]Active in many things, he was an acquaintance of Gover- When they ran short of room in the Bagley school, the nor Edgerton, and a member of the Vigilante group who fourth and fifth graders[...]had a cafeteria, but the college didn't. sion of Plummer's shotgun for 35 years. The old double- W[...]escapades, saloon brawls and holdups was the envy of all the would be a horse drawn snow plow f[...] |
| [...]day Plummer was Best and several of his student friends saved eight lives. hanged. Go[...]a heavy plank out the window and across the short of cash, he sold it to Fred Pack. Pack carried it for a narrow alley onto the window sill of the theatre. The eight time but sold it in 1869 t[...]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 bach[...]rced arrived on the scene. A graduate of Iowa State University, June 26, 1891, and she lef[...]did not live to was called up by the chancellor of the University of Wyo- maturity and Alzire died rather young.[...]ied. ways predicted that Bannack would become one of the most Their first child was Helen[...]e wrote for the papers was an interesting account of a trip Normal College (now Western Montana[...]horn Hot Springs to soak in University of Chicago, and Northwestern University, being the h[...]ad John Lenkersdorfer, he gave them a "fine span" of horses been born to the Dr. Bests in Di[...]ed magna cum laude. February 28, 1918. He was one of the few men who had cast The Rockefel[...]d in the ulation studies at the University of Chicago, but soon he town which he thought would[...]id to rest in the old Bannack Ceme- tary of Planned Parenthood in New York City, where he ter[...]TH study group at the University of North Carolina and set up[...]tions-also, a number of public TV shows on the same sub- Best[...]Donald Richey Poor, an Illinoi- The first child of Mr. and Mrs. 0. M. Best was Herbert san[...]rn Universi- in the first Best home at the corner of West Morse and ty, where he published[...]retired public relations executive from a number of the original Vigilantes, and later witness[...] |
| [...]ear, it was decided that she Bruce 0. Baumgartner of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, (three daugh- should g[...]Railroad as head agent and telegrapher. His place of busi- ployment. She had a young friend named Mike[...]Dillon. He and his wife were ecstatic, both being of help. Before long, he was instrumental in having[...]re was a significant increase in pointed director of the CCC camps for the entire state of salary. Montana. This, even though she was[...]o to move back to the community there for upwards of 25 years, until his death Montana and bring h[...]87, 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 medi[...]s, dudes and million- the Madison County side of the Gravelly Range. aire visitors from Indianapol[...]wife, Hughie. She became a famous author of western sto- Margaret Best died at age 96 in L[...]As Oly prospered, he began to use the initials of his given[...]7. He (to go with the moniker) at the corner of West Morse Street ran away from home shortly afte[...]In 1932, 0. M. Best was elected assessor of Beaverhead His best girlfriend was a tall, lov[...]in 1904, he wedding was the biggest social event of the season, with was chairman of the building committee. For 20 years, he upwards of 200 guests in the mansion and connected sta- was trustee of the Methodist Church. bles. Just after the weddin[...]on the party, . 0. M. was a lifelong member of the Masonic Order, Dillon and dozens of the guests had to be put up for the night.[...]Union Pacific plar, and Bagdad Temple Shrine of Butte.[...] |
| [...]y, Evanston, Ill., and was graduated in the class of 1898 with the degree of Doctor of Dental[...]pril 27, 1895, Dr. Bimrose married Marie Duffield of Church where Dr. Bimrose was a faithful choir member. Mattamora, Ill. She was the daughter of Milton and Martha Dr. Bimrose died at age[...]his wife preceded (Whittlesey) Duffield, natives of Connecticut. The Whittle- him in death. seys were an old colonial family, several representatives of -GEORGIANA ANDERSEN w[...]youngest of eleven children, he married Margaret Deatsch[...]winter of 1914-1915, settling on a homestead three miles[...]south of Dell, where he formed a partnership with his brot[...]The original owner of the homestead was Henderson Sey- Frances o[...]ointed by Abraham Lincoln as Territorial Marshall of Arizona. He was an interesting and controversial[...]ast Bench. Their daughter Frances still owns part of this farm. The house built on this farm was the f[...]areas. Mrs. Bimrose was active in the Daughters of the Ameri- Margaret and Henry Birre[...] |
| [...]p Dr. Charles Robert Blake, a native of Iowa, graduated in in May, 1918 when Henry became[...]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 w[...]same year he married Elizabeth Groenvelt of Butte and they Between 1922 and 1929 five more children were born: resided on South Pacific Street. Rachel, Emmett, Ruby, Herschel, a[...]by Spanish influenza at age 33. Tending scores of patients terns were used. The weekly chore was fi[...]overwork and lack telephone on a party line, but service was never restored of sleep, pneumonia set in and he died in a week's t[...]ditorial tribute which appeared in the only means of transportation. A favorite team of horses, The Dillon Tribune and reads in pa[...]community so profoundly shocked, seldom the sense of in- ily, the family was at K.P. Picnic at the ran[...]dual personal loss so keenly felt as in the death of Dr. Sheep Creek. There were many crop failures in[...]Charles Robert Blake. He was the embodiment of all that and livestock died during severe winters[...]of the wedding party were unable to leave. The storm[...]In the "Story of the Ajax" by Al Noyes, the widow Blake[...]Ed Blake was in the cattle business most of his life. He[...] |
| [...]couple of summers (1915 and 1916). In the fall of 1916, the family moved to Butte, due to Mr.[...]and selling a health traveled and worked in most of the Montana territory be- product for th[...]ffer and sent Sprague on his way. Ironically, two of Ed Blake's daughters married two of Sprague's grandsons years later. When Ed Blake an[...]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[...]chael are buried in the cemetery in the upper end of the Valley. The Blakes raised cattle and horse[...]team or tend Ed died November 22, 1928, of a heart attack and is them when she came home. Th[...]d In 1943 Mayme married James Palmer of Salmon, Idaho, Christmas were times for celebrati[...]e second World War they friends. Dances were lots of fun, even if it was a long trip to worked at th[...]e 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, mostly where California. a p[...]g the James Frederick Blair was a native of Beaverhead county, meadows, the family would load[...]ving been born at Bannack September 12, 1878, son of supplies, food, clothes, soap and bedding and go[...]o- In 1917 he moved to Dillon and was one of the partners 108-Beaverhead History |
| [...]ranched on Horse Prairie. He was a charter member of the Bannack now part of the Red Rock Lakes Refuge. Masons and a member of Masonic lodges for 50 years. A lifelong bachelor, he died in the late 40s at the home of He died January 20, 1953.[...]am Brenneman Wellsville, Utah. She was the fourth of eight children born to Timothy F. Parkinson and J[...]nlisted on October 10, 1861. He They were members of the LDS Church. She died October served[...]to Kentucky and two years later, in the spring of 1867, he -LOWELL PARK[...]found employment on the Simeon Estes A native of Ohio, James (Jim) Blair came to Montana at[...]o California in 1916. the mouth of Beaverhead Canyon) to Argenta and Bannack. He[...]tune in gold, he found work in the with operation of a fish hatchery and was believed to be the Graeter placer diggings south of Bannack first person to hatch grayling from spawn. Some of his pro- Mr. Blair married Emma Jane Ferst[...]Bannack with her parents at the age of five years. While A sportsman and conservation[...]Lake Lillian. the time of the great Indian scare of 1877 when Chief Joseph Following sale of his ranch to Mamie and Joe Buck in and his Nez Perce Indians, in retreat following the Battle of 1916, Jim moved to California but continue[...] |
| [...]number of years before moving to Helena. Mr. Siller's death[...]came some time prior to the death of Mrs. Sillers in July of[...]as born January 23, 1911, in After the founding of Dillon in 1880, Mr. Blair operated a Boise, Idaho. He married Helen M. Meade of Butte August stage line between Dillon and Virgin[...]stead on Trail Creek was the daughter of Peter Cockrell, a revolutionary soldier. where th[...]ant Green, Missouri, where he married Ella Pattee of Fort Lemhi, Idaho, on February 14, lived un[...]just com- because his parents were victims of the cholera epidemic pleted a handsome and commod[...]was the and both died within a short time of each other when he was Blair Hotel. To them was b[...]ght) he was conscripted into the Confederate Army of saloon in Grant until they retired and moved to C[...]In 1865, at about the close of the war, he and his wife and James Frederick Bl[...]ouri in Bannack. He married Edith Greer Parkinson of Wellsville, Utah, March 30, 1903. They set[...] |
| [...]OF J3EAVER_HEAD, qv1. r named for the shape of the roof with the chimney in the very[...]staunch Democrat and an active member of the Methodist Jf/l! .JlRE HEREBY SUM.M:O.>, ED to be and appear in the Distric t Coiirt of,1 the~LJu,dicial District of the Ten·itory of Jlfonta,na, in and f or the CoztnhJ of Episcopal Church. Welcome visitors at th[...].J Cou11,ty, o"Jfoe_<, day of2 . . ~ _A . D. 188):. atLC!_ __o'r:loclc_RM., _to[...]H erein fctil not, imder the penalty of the law.[...]-HARRIET BOATMAN WATKINS City in August of 1865, Montana had become a territory. Harriet Boa[...](References from "Pioneer Trails and Trials" of Virginia City as he had come west in 1864. There[...]Madison County and from "Autobiography of Mary place available in Virginia City, they went[...]in the Montana ing 160 acres six miles southwest of Sheridan. Henry John-[...]out as a cattle driver and helped drive a herd of cattle to Boatman built a two room cabin with[...]ground a mile from the first cabin. All the rest of the freighting co[...]approximation to military service. At McLeod in 1885, in Jr., Harriet Lenhart and R[...]charge of a freighting outfit, the teams were commandeered Boatman and Johnson invested in a small herd of dairy by th[...]e Indi- still standing, some five miles southwest of Sheridan. Being[...]tle nervous and won- large vegetable garden; some of which he used to furnish[...]1880, while enroute to Virginia City with a load of fresh from this service at Fort Pitt which had been burned to the vegetab[...]an settled on an 1810 acre ranch five miles north of Dillon on what was later known as the Bea- verhea[...]n improved the land by irrigation and made it one of the most valuable farms in that section. He built[...]ouse" was Florida, 190'6.[...] |
| [...]the south end would take down their receivers to listen in[...]the rest of his property on the north side of the valley to the[...]was a staunch Republican, a member of the Masonic Lodge In 1888 R.T. Boatman returne[...]1 in Virginia City and also a charter member of the Elks for cattle outfits for a time. In 1892 h[...]nd 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 Cem[...]ter for four years under McKinley; was J us- tice of the Peace in the Centennial Valley in 1894-95. In[...]ere he had acquired large land biography of Mary Boatman Townsend.) holdings. Owned 2700acres[...]acres. He also had a homestead on the north side of the Valley. He brought the first long horned catt[...]nida to the Ruby Boatman, the youngest of the George T. Boatman ranch in the Valley. The wi[...]hat, chaps, cowboy put up hay on his large fields of wild hay. it was during one boots and spurs. of these haying operations with a crew of over 25 men that He homesteaded in the Ce[...]s for housekeeper at the time. He looked out of place in his bor- the money they had coming. The[...]didn't have any In 1919 Ruby disposed of his valuable land holdings to the transportation.[...]as buying up They all walked the 25 miles as none of the ranchers would much land in the area. gi[...]ad to see a Ruby and Pearl had no children of their own but adopted little old town in my life[...]Boatman Ranch. Mrs. lis, Ind. A nephew of Henry Knippenberg, he came to Glen- Hinkley was the operator. The company was made up of dale, Montana, in 1888 with his[...] |
| [...]hool here. Otto married Ella Bateman, daughter of Henry Bateman, In 1894 she married Carl Bond, founder of the Bond Gro- who owned a ranch near Glendale and[...]cla cery Company in Dillon and the brother of Dr. Harry Bond, Consolidated Mining Company until the silver depression prominent Dillon physician of that era. Both brothers died when the mine and sm[...]ry 23, 1964. Survivors included a ed and a number of the family still reside. son,[...]ed 10 children and operated a grocery store. Some of the dentistry from the University of Iowa. He left his practice to Boetticher children[...]ad County resi- take over the management of the Bond Grocery after his dents included:[...]Phillip, took over the management of the Dillon Implement Paul G. Boetticher, D[...]ELEN ANDRUS Mrs. Frank (Mabel) Little, now of Bigfork, Montana. Mrs. Gladys Matthews, now of Monterey, Calif., a graduate of Montana Normal College.[...]Mrs. Burl (Eleanor) Stephens, former owners of Ste- Benjamin Bond was the first of the Bonds to reside in the phens Greenhouse in Di[...]wyer for the National Labor Relations many of the campaigns. After peace was declared, he took Board, a graduate of Western Montana College. up civ[...]-PAUL G. BOETTICHER dren. Three of his children lived their lives out in Dillon and[...]LA BOETTICHER in turn had families of their own, also living their lives in the[...]Dr. Harry Bond was the oldest child of the Benjamin Anna Wilson Bond[...]he Beaverhead Valley and he Anna was the fourth of five children in the family of Mr. practiced medicine for 31 years here. Dur[...]Wilson, Bannack pioneers who came to the of practice, he brought more than 1,000 babies into[...]ing up a homestead on Blacktail Creek, four miles south- 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[...]921. This was seven years prior to the founding of Dillon and Carl Bond, a son of Benjamin Bond, lived his life in Dil- the young g[...]nna Wilson and they had one son E. W. three miles south of what is now Dillon. (Gene)[...]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[...]Anna Wilson came from the pioneer family of Peter Wilson[...]and at the time of her death in 1964 was Beaverhead Coun-[...]Doctor of Dentistry Degree. He practiced in Dillon for thre[...]ment of the Bond Grocery. In 1945 he sold the grocery[...]iness and with his son Phillip assumed management of[...]The last child of Benjamin Bond to live in Dillon was[...] |
| for their beautiful home located four miles north of Dillon. quently resided in Dillon: Douglas Wa[...]married Alberta McLain (born 8/6/05) from center of gracious hospitality for the Beaverhead Valley.[...]The Bond family has contributed to the welfare of the 1, 1922, and was a homemaker in Salm[...]Wilson (6/1/03- 6/15/32) who married Howard dant of Benjamin Bond being Phillip C. Bond, who was the[...]1955) from Waterloo in 1927 and later farmed son of Dr. E.W. Bond.[...]pentered in the Missoula and Arlee Mon- caretaker of Mountain View Cemetery. He planted the ave- tana, areas. nue of evergreens and many other other trees throughout[...]boarding house at 719 South Washington Street. He served Bott's home was located on ground from the bank of the on the Dillon Police Force and was an active member of the Blacktail River to about half the land on whi[...]all heating stove. Bott always kept a few bottles of stout ary 17, 1949. or beer under the stove a[...]ed produce for their own needs. Mr. Bour- Much of their land was used for a huge garden. They used[...]ith strong moral character a pump to irrigate out of the Blacktail River. They also had and great[...]d a beautiful voice and loved to climb to the top of the mountains and sing just to hear the echo. He[...]in exchange for care for his wife during the rest of her life. The two women sold the Bott property and bought a home at 913 South Washington St., which became the first rest home[...]a farm Minn., on March 7, 1872, 11th in a family of 12 born to John near Mexico, Mo. (shortly aft[...]atment. The doctors there told him he stead north of Dillon. Six children of this marriage subse- only had a few y[...] |
| [...]that he and his friend Happy Hubbard, proprietor of[...]50, Jay took over the Standard Station just north of[...]ey Bray was the third son born to William and one of the doctors. After turning the girls over to the[...]They took up homesteads in the upper end of the valley, . Jay worked briefly for a rancher named Frott. Jay would about 10 miles east of Lakeview. John worked at several jobs often be required to go into Livingston where the magic of and was a driver for the Monida to West Yel[...], 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, working at one time for Harvey and Treglow near Miles City, part of the well known Hatchet Outfit. He met Margaret Mu[...]in Lima, he was approached by the superintendent of the Oregon Short Line and after a few minutes of conversation, Jay decided to go to work for that[...]es Van Housen, purchased a ranch on the west side of the tracks where they Bray Ranc[...]ing bar, when their first in 1919 and the drought of that year made the winter of son, Charles Burnell was born, October 1[...]ral years. They wintered cattle in Sheridan, most of his cattle into Idaho to save the cost of shipping Montana, and drove them over the d[...]eed. Jay never did quite recover from the setback of that in the Centennial. Their daughter, Car[...]hey raised Black ship and purchased the Lightning Service Station at the Angus cattle and rented the upper ranch from a brother and south end of town. The two old-time railroaders continu[...] |
| [...]from Philadelphia, Pa., to (a) start a branch of the family[...]and Winters. In 1878, after the Battle of the Big Hole, Chief bordered the Upper Lake. The[...]by hiding in a beaver dam). Mr. Montaque was one of William Bray Sr. Family[...]Phil Shenon took over the ranch as administrator of Mr. Devonshire, England on November 17, 1845. Eli[...]enowned geologist. The Mulkey The young family of three came by immigrant train from family m[...]tled in the Silver Star vicini- 1845, the fifth of nine children. His father was a prominent ty wher[...]: Albert Earnest, businessman, on the boards of directors of the Pennsylvania January 24, 1877; John Harvey, D[...]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 Pennsylvania family. They had three chi[...]r for the Monida to West Yellow- director of the First National Bank (now Norwest Bank stone S[...]er death in 1935. She is buried in Lima. rest of his life, Charlie had a dent in his forehe[...] |
| [...]eek. Mary was soon hired to tutor Tom Pierce, son of a Horse Prairie rancher, then went on to teach sc[...]shes. Later, the ashes were panned to recover any of[...]homestead on the Beaverhead River near Point of Rocks, should decide to visit from Philadelphia)[...]ried Beth Yearian Savage, In the spring of 1920, Frank and Anna sold their home- who had bee[...]ded for one Russel Yearian, was the "Sheep Queen" of Idaho.Beth's year. Their next move was[...]their Following Frank's death in October of 1928, Anna and her stakes mining placer gold, and[...](Rudolph, John, George and Sam) continued to work of Idaho. Beth married Ben Savage, had one child, To[...]and Charlie were married, passed away in May of 1963. Isabel was born in 1921.[...]ards, he ran a infancy and William at the age of 11 in Glen. sliver into his hand and caught black[...]were di- 1905, the 13th and 14th children of Samuel Brothers and vorced in 1925; their son, Ja[...]y Ada Belle Huff. Twin Alta died within 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. Lives[...]RENNER express railroad delivery service of its day. He married He-[...] |
| [...]lls. After a divorce, he married Mary Burt Paul of Lima, who now lives in Townsend. Alvin Brothers d[...]ed to the Dell and Lima area. After my first year of high -MARGARET HAGENBARTH[...]ed in Arch L. Brothers was the 10th child of Samuel Brothers 1976 and am enjoying my later yea[...]most of her life in the Lima and Dillon areas.[...]terson and Lois Ada Riggs Patterson. At the age of 10, she moved with her parents to Montana, walking many a mile, driving a herd of Texas Longhorns, and settling in the Dell[...] |
| [...]ocatello, Idaho; Willis Arch (Bill) was March of 1931. born December 6, 1924, in Dillon and lives[...]May. Mr. May died in 1968. Irene died at the age of 91 in They were married for 38 years until Vil[...]Idaho Falls. pneumonia. Arch Brothers lived most of his life in Beaver- -S[...]Ernest Brothers was the sixth of 14 children born to Sam-[...]braska and moved with his family to the Lima area of[...]as a young boy. Charles Brothers was the second of 14 children born to He got his early edu[...]gh County, Ill., and moved Garrett Transfer of Pocatello. with his family to the Lima area of Montana Territory as a He married Rosemond[...]married Wavie Branch. They had no er at the turn of the century. For several years, he was a chi[...]Wavie. the train depot at Monida to the entrance of Yellowstone In his later years, Ernest moved to South Gate, Calif., Park. He also carried the mail betw[...]Memorial Park in South Gate. He married Annie McNinch and they had a d[...]n August 14, 1884 at Ennis, Montana, the daughter of J. F. and Martha Finley Oliver. She grew up in En[...]Fred Brothers was the ninth child of Samuel Brothers[...] |
| [...]er Company, drove an intercity bus, and of her relatives, lived in Chula Vista, Calif., unti[...]he managing A spirited lady, in spite of a lifelong problem with asthma director until he[...]Ralph Brothers was the third of fourteen children born to Fred's work in the pu[...]and Ada Belle Huff. He was born October a legacy of which the county of his birth can be proud. 8, 1882 in Blandi[...]moved with his family to the Lima area of Montana Terri- -SALLY GARRE[...]over 21 and Minnie Brothers was the 12th child of Samuel Brothers and Ada Belle Huff. She was born April 1, 1902, in Lima, Montana. She experienced the loss of her older sister, Maud, and her younger sister, Alta, from scarlet fever and diphtheria within days of each other in 1908 and it had a profound effect o[...]ie married Ed Bonneru in February 1921 at the age of 19. They were married 10 years and lived i[...] |
| [...]return, family pressure resulted in an annulment of the marriage. Nellie went to school out of town and later moved to Southern California. He[...]daughter of Charles craftsman for many years.[...]Brothers Samuel Brothers was born in August of 1852 in Ohio and lived is still occupied.[...]armed. If Ada had another set of twins between her sons Ralph Ada Belle Huff was the ninth child of William Hamilton and Ernest, as some famil[...]7, 1863 in Quin- children. The presence of twins is supported by her com- cy, Ill., as her f[...]having 11 between Illinois and Missouri in search of a better life. children and eight still al[...]s for She died on September 5, 1933, at the age of 70, and is several years where their first severa[...]buried in the Lima Cemetery. William in September of 1879, Charles on March 8, 1881,[...]Walter and Louise Ann County where many of their relatives had settled. A son,[...]t Walter Brothers was the seventh child of Samuel Broth- the warm springs waterfall south of Dillon. The rest of the ers and Ada Belle Huff. He was born on M[...]894, Maud L. in the Dillon and Lima areas of Montana and ranched most of November 1898, and Minnie April 1, 1902. Twins Al[...]erry In 1900, Sam was working as a drayman out of Lima, and Creek, Utah, to Joseph Chambers[...]am, Charles and Ralph were laborers, and the rest of McKay. the children were in school. Ethel died on January 8, 1891, at 3 months. Maud and Alta died of either scarlet fever or diphtheria in March, 1908, within days of each other. Ethel, Maud and Alta are buried in th[...]North Washington for several years. She took care of her aging parents, William and Sarah Huff, the last few years of their lives. Later she returned to Lima[...] |
| [...]e and bulldogging contests. He won a pair of silver-mounted Jones from the Centennial Valley.[...]nd also lived in the on the East Bench out of Dillon, and later that fall became Centennial Val[...]ho married Albert A. good friends. Jones of the Centennial Valley. Later she married Mr. John[...]Kenison to the Dillon area in the spring of 1898. Here they Their youngest child is Kathy M.,[...]the Sheep Creek Basin, just north of Dillon on a ranch, and Walt Brothers died in 19[...]married Jesse Brown in the winter of 1915.[...]ready. It was a small two-room cabin made out of rough- Jesse Jerome Brown was born in Lathrop,[...]nd they signed on to work on the The winter of 1915.:16 was very cold, and they found railroad i[...]esse took the team and wagon to Dillon for a load of grocer- son Hole, Wyo., and tried their hand at t[...]hree days Round-Up" in Idaho Falls, in the summer of 1914. and nights, making travel impossible and forcing him to After hearing of the "Dillon Pow-Wow," they came to the stay in Dillon. Boards had been put across one corner of the small Montana town of Dillon that fall, especially to partici- unfini[...]she could find them, the snow was blowing glimpse of Jesse as he came out of the chute on a wild steer. so hard thatshe cou[...]ty of rain and the wheat had grown as high as Jesse's w[...]come, for they were the only source of water for the crops.[...] |
| [...]years. He acquired about 3,000 acres of land in the area of ed Molar Barber College and received his barberin[...]buque, Iowa. Agnes Murray was born in Pittsburgh, south of Dillon called Armstead. Anna talked to Elmer Gor-[...]ur was by train chair in exchange for taking care of the pool tables. As soon from Dubuque to Salt L[...]Ellen After a year there they purchased a home of their own, Browne Hagenbarth, Fannie Browne[...]years later everything was paid for and they of Montana government. In 1869 and 1872, he was elec[...]n and raised In 1881 he was elected a member of the Montana Council. there.[...]together again. Jesse passed away at sage of a bill moving the county seat from Bannack to Dil[...]wn and In 1884, he was elected a member of the Territorial Con- forced evacuation of Armstead. Ironically some of the water vention and with Honorable J. K. To[...]only they had S. J. Hauser, as governor of the Territory, chose Joseph had the water.[...]Browne as a member of his staff. Governor Leslie commis-[...]sioned him inspector general of the National Guard of Mon- -(Written by Ruth Ann Brown (Hildreth) (Patt[...]lexander, Virginia, on August 1, 1831. At the age of 18 he entered St. Francis College in Cambria Coun[...]West, traveling overland by ox team with a party of 50 people. Their desti- nation was Pike's[...] |
| [...]ame known as General Browne. In the early days of the Territory, he was a member of the Vigilante Committee. In later years, Joseph[...]gs and kept boats. As earl a 1893 he built cabins of hewn logs that were whitewa hed. Each had a boat[...]mmer vacations. The brought taurant. Mo t of the building a ha time were made of their own provisions and cook. In addition to the[...]id on a relative of her dau h r fir hu band John H. Guests travele[...]ral and Mrs. Browne were highly re pected pioneer of Beaverhead County and had a wide range of friend o er the entire West.[...]r youngest son, Frank, Januar 30, 1900 a 18 years of age. He came in contact with a high voltage wire[...]Mead named Libbie Da id n he e ecut r of hi will in[...]Elizabeth "Libbie" Mead was the younger daughter of[...]born January William Charle Brown on of amuel and Anna Jane 12, 1855, in Kingston. Thomas[...]inceton. oldest of seven children. On Jul 4 1884 he and usan[...] |
| [...]Dillon to Bannack. passed away at the age of 52. Susan, his wife, was the cook. She fed the me[...]a while. He later went to stage stop at the Point of Rocks. Sometime later he and his work for t[...]he track and he was thrown off. located six miles south on the East Bench, on what is now Charl[...]mestead, getting his home built, and a barn. Most of the Ethel Sandland. Ethel moved to California. Lee joined the houses in the area were built of logs which they got from army, fought in[...]eighbors helped each other with this job and many of the Creek. During the fall or winter of 1915, Ansle went to work wells were 150 to 170 fe[...]y were married August 31, 1916, By the spring of 1908, they managed to get the necessary and[...]-FRED W. BROWN of the crops. With all the huge grain crops, it was[...]popular because 1838. When only 12 years of age he came West, stopping at it saved handling so much straw. A header cuts the head of 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,[...]Burrows. They made the trip to Denver by way of Fort At threshing time, Charles' son Lee was[...]Denver was a small place consisting of two villages, one Charles' wife Susan was a l[...]dren. She was always willing to help the children of the Returning to Iowa, Mr. Brubaker retur[...]he school in the area He then became one of a party in which were John Bielen- started. It wa[...]and former U.S. Senator J. H. Millard, president of the church and social events.[...] |
| [...]ubaker went to mining four miles below the summit of Alder Gulch. He remained in and around Virgin- ia City until the spring of 1868 and witnessed some of the stirring scenes in that section when the law-[...]nest people. Leaving Virginia City in the fall of 1868, Mr. Brubaker went to Diamond City in Confed[...]er- head County. He made his home at the junction of Wise River and Big Hole River, taking up mining c[...]known or better liked man among the trailblazers of Mon- Santa Barbara, Calif. Of the sons remaining here, John tana. He attended all meetings of the Montana Pioneers, ranched in the Cent[...]Hi- helped he died from exposure. He was 77 years of age when ram, Justin, Dorothy and Thomas. D[...]aylor (1912-1986). They had three learned the art of telegraphy in Pennsylvania and that led to chil[...]hn Holiday Brundage, born September 24, 1865, son of He married Elizabeth Holliday in Pennsylvania[...]ust 23, 1868, on what is married Mary Jane Temple of Twin Bridges in 1873. They now the Chris Anderson Ranch, west of Sheridan. She was had two children. Two of his sons, Everett Hiram Brundage the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Boatman, Montana and John[...]Foote in 1886 and moved to vicinity a number of years. 126-Beaverhead History |
| [...]John Holiday Brundage was also a son of Montana pio-[...]l her playmates John Brundage home ... north side of Centennial[...]me Beaverhead County). A bridge still afraid of losing her. She then thought of her two brothers in standing in the Red Rock area[...]d for "Brundage Bridge." The Brundages ran a herd of cattle and Quebec. Three days before the ship reached port, her grand- a number of horses on their ranch. In the later years they mother died of ship fever and was buried at sea. owned a small band of sheep, too. Soon a[...]attended school. At Reta Claire, only daughter of the Brundages, received a 15 years of age, she graduated and taught in the flat for tea[...]s. At this point, she decided to get married to a of teaching, married Charles Franklin Moore. Charles[...]ere to go to the altar, she met a home at the age of 14 and came to Montana. He worked as a young man named William Bryan. He was a native of that cowboy and broke many saddle horses for the[...]to Montana when 17 years old to was, for a number of years, employed by P & 0 Company, seek his[...]and afterwards (in 1867) they established a part of Madison County.[...]had 12 children. They William Bryan instead of Mr. Smith. They started West[...]beth a lovely set of coral earrings. When on the train headed[...]hundreds of miles, she suddenly missed the earrings. She[...]ing. She wasn't aware of the log cabin where they were to[...]task since the road was a pile of dust. When the Bryans[...] |
| [...]est thing she had on the trip was a wonderful cup of coffee at Corrine. Life in a mining camp was h[...]. table and everything they had in the way of furniture. She Elizabeth always wanted to go back[...]stored their things in cardboard boxes in lieu of cupboards her folks. She was too busy rearing her brood of eight to and closets. She had no trouble k[...]ards and closets. She always maintained, in spite of their lack of material wealth, those were the happiest days of Alan and Jane Buck their lives. Promise of homestead land in Montana induced Alan and In 1918, Alan's brother Herbert died of the flu and his Jane to leave Iowa and come west[...]ne and small son, Charles Alan, moved to 18 years of age and Alan 21.[...]rs Joseph (Joe) and Herbert Buck and their of Omaha, Nebraska. They rented for many years and f[...]ased the plac~ which lies within the eastern area of area. Alan's father had purchased land there for[...]l Refuge. had homesteaded in the upper north side of the Centennial Later they filed on an a[...]Alan and Jane filed for 320 acres on foot of the hill. He got the logs from the mountains and the north side of the Valley, not far from Joe Buck's ranch. he[...]e. Tom Creek emerges from the mountains (east end of the Two children were born while th[...]Sheridan, Montana, at the time of his death in 1976. Kath- The next summer Alan b[...]al store, grocery store/hotel and, of course, a bar or two.[...]tually they'd catch up with the rest of the world and have[...]what they wanted to do for the rest of their lives. But in[...]1935, the Government bought most of the land around the[...]tion. Many of Alan and Jane's neighbors sold out and mov[...] |
| [...]obably Iowa for Annie's birth so all three of their children were weren't anything more than the vitals and a span of mules, born in Iowa. Jack and Jenny. Friends[...]hey weren't quite alone in neighbors, was one of the Valley midwives. During the 1918 this new wor[...]nto a two- were sick. She was probably more of an angel to the neigh- room log cabin with a sod[...]s was a help those who were sick. world of make-it-do, make- it-over or do without. I'm sure[...]ould drive a car, 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 heard either of them say something like "Lets take off for g[...]h courage. Atti- into the Valley and had one of the state's finest herds. tude is a big part of our lives and through their determina- Afte[...]ranching in the Sheridan area. Joe they made a go of life in this new world through times that Buc[...]for a number of years at Eliel's. He was married to Ola[...]Cornell, daughter of C. C. Cornell, pioneer rancher; she[...]was wideiy known in the county with his_duties of contact-[...]the birthplace of former president Herbert Hoover, and the[...]He was survived by a brother Edgar of Iowa Falls, Iowa,[...]an~ two sisters, Mrs. George Pemberton of Iowa Falls and Mrs. Steed of San Diego, Calif. Harold Murray of Dillon was Brothers Babe and Alden Buck with Uncle Riley Tib- a nephew and Mrs. Stella Murray of Dillon a sister-in-law. bles (seated)[...] |
| ing Warren Murray of Vancouver. Emma[...], 1885; died October 18, 1968), He was a member of the Masonic Lodge. Berth[...]Ceme- Emma Rebecca Burfiend, daughter of John Henry and tery in Dillon.[...]d 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[...]she died School; where she was president of the Senior class. In the September 3, 1931, at Dillon. fall of 1904 she went to Salt Lake City, Utah, where she[...]took the surname Burfiend. Katharine was a member of they 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 active member of the Methodist Church. T[...]nry Burfiend arrived at military age in of the Dillon Shakespeare Club. She was an active me[...]w a num~er exempting him from military of the Methodist Church. service and left his home country for the United States,[...]1915. become Dillon in 1864 as the sole survivor of the party, the -WM. H. BATES, M.D. rest of whom were killed by hostile Indians en route.[...]Walter S. Burnett ranch five miles north of Dillon and engaged in the sheep Walter[...]is brother, had the American Dream like so many of his contemporar- Christopher, built a store and o[...]a cry, "Go west, young man, go west" for the lure of gold, On September 14, 1880, a discerning group of business- homesteading of fertile land and a new life. So one day, man, inc[...]wife, Nancy S. (Ellis) and nine children left for of ranchland from Richard Deacon. The following mont[...]in for the "West" which they 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 opened its doors shortly o[...]rairie (Beaverhead County) they de- National Bank of Dillon and John Henry Burfiend was c[...]ench trappers to precede them but now the history of the He also owned stores at Dewey's Flat and G[...]age 64. each other. He was a Mason and a member of the Methodist Church. Homestead claims were made and livestock was acquired. Children of John and Katharine Burfiend included:[...] |
| [...]met by a number of carriages to accommodate all. The body[...]"The deceased was one of the most highly respected citi- zens of Beaverhead County. Pallbearers were Abe Rife, of the Homestead Certificates were awarded in 1890 b[...]rrison. The Burnett home was a Decker of Red Rock, and James Mansfield of Horse Prai- large log structure and became the Sa[...]1901) on the Lewis and Clark Trail. With the help of her three Walter S. Burnett, Nancy S. ([...]rnight when her family Sam Burnside was one of the earliest settlers in Centen- made their trips[...]He had a saloon in Monida and also the west side of Bloody Dick Creek. had a ranch at Modoc, three miles out of Monida on the Walter enjoyed an enviable degree of prosperity as a Idaho side. He closed the[...]le branded on right ribs; horses business of taking hunters to Red Rock Lake after they same b[...]rived in Monida. bert byJoseph J. Mansfield. Most of the research on Walter He also had the co[...]iew and his wi~e ran it for a time. in the summer of 1976. Upon his return in 1977, he found, Af[...]He sold the ranch at Modoc Lane to the residence of James N. Mansfield. Delbert to Woods Livestock. knocked and announced he was the great-grandson of Wal-[...]right hand drawer and brought forth a collection of Burnett family photos which Delbert had never see[...]und the location, the foundation, remaining ruins of the home and the remains of the only fence pole drilling machine in early Horse Prairie. Mansfield took Delbert to the rear of his home and showed him the part that was constru[...]Mrs. Anna Burnside . .. one offirst settlers of Monida[...] |
| [...]Ohio. Estelle E. Ham, a handsome woman of French de-[...]which time several of their children were born. Their first[...]for Charles Scott operating with the construction of the Oregon Short Line Railroad. a dray. He continued there for a number of years, even after John Burt homesteaded the family farm on the east side of Estelle's death. Moving back to Roberts in 1917, he worked Lima. The Lima Cemetery is a portion of the original farm for Charles Harwood on hi[...]ith her step-sister, Clara Hart- at the home of his daughter, Muriel, in April, 1944. man, whose[...]to the timber where they ranched for a number of years and and had a contract to harvest ice for t[...]or, Montana. They Burt homestead on the east side of town for many years and had a girl af[...] |
| [...]ngs have long ago been torn down or dead of an apparent heart attack at 80 years of age. John moved away but it is still referred to[...]in. A lonely horseradish plant Katie Bublich of Roundup, Montana, and they had two sons would com[...]selling the cream in Butte. The couple farmed south of Dillon for many years. Seven A niece, Cla[...]dent. His leg was so badly injured it custom of doing the "Quadrille" on horseback at those cele-[...]to get around pretty well with To the south of the ranch buildings they planted little crutches[...]brake Bert's wife, Clara, served as clerk of the school for a num- pedals. ber of years while they were in the North Fork area. The Their marriage became unhappy for both of them and on Canfields left the ranch about[...]ft the Big Hole where they had stored a truckload of youngest child, Katie, was only 16 years old then[...]ongings in the Armitage garage. That night the dy of her was awarded to Margaret. She was allowed $60[...]be quite an old man, he still rode a horse sides of the street about a block apart. (After their deat[...]ret's house and George Bu- The last news of Joe was that he had collapsed and died tala lived[...]e.) after coming out of a mine. While living on Barnett Avenue, they d[...]2, 1947, a Sunday afternoon, George South Carolina, on December 31, 1883. His father[...] |
| [...]otton fields on the family Earl was proud of his heritage and of his name. He often farm with two brothers and six[...]t the "rich Cantrell blood" he had At the age of 21, Earl journeyed West to find his fortune. r[...]istine. elements and the hardships of ranching in Montana. Earl and Tom settled in[...]n, where she lived until her Scotsman by the name of Charlie Henderson. Later Earl death i[...]other Tom. Earl, who was a bachelor until the age of 45, married May Martinell, daughter of Elmer and Addie Martinell. She was born November[...]Carlson family ranch until she married at the age of 32. May was Walter Carlson was born V[...]rimand Carlsen. He had a younger ranch just north of Dell along the Red Rock River. Earl and bro[...]The boys Earl was loyal to his family back in South Carolina and were raised by the Laurits, maternal grandparents of Louie the Cantrell ranch always seemed to have re[...]ork Walter came to Am~rica at the age of 21, his name change on the ranch, earning enough money to return to South apparently occurring in immigrations. Making his way west, Carolina and buy a small parcel of land. He went back to he arrived in Dillon in 1899 and found work as a ranchhand South Carolina twice, once before his marriage and agai[...]alone for a short hauling a cooler full of meat to Farlin, a booming mining time, not wantin[...]Marie was born Anna 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 sm[...]uld set Earl's feet to tapping or bring Island of Aero, Denmark. Her parents were Elizabeth Jor- a[...]was only 15. Marie used to tell the story of being asked by[...]and she came up with an armful of wood. She quickly[...]Marie had a brother who died of an appendicitis attack[...]bring him in with a team of horses and he died before he[...] |
| name of Osterman and moved back to Denmark where Wal-[...]son Tom came west, driving his own ox team, one of a train helped pursuade him or not, he decided he didn't like fish- of gold seekers. He first stopped at Bannack in 1863[...]ere he mined He leased a ranch (recently the home of George MacDon- until 1865. ald). When it[...]hes but moved to town and Place, five miles north of Dillon on the Butte-Dillon High- built a large[...]chased the ranch following Walter's One of the sons was Francis (Frank) M. Carr, born April[...]., for two and a half years. Mr. Carr was manager of a broke out during her visit. German troops sunk the luxury ranch for the late Thomas Cruse, owner of the Cruse Bank liner so Marie was forced to retur[...]. They left the Cruse ranch for Chinook where out of food and water. Frank was associated with the management of the Davidson Marie lived on the ranch with Hol[...]as buying and selling sheep. He also owned sever- of cookies on hand for company. Marie remained there until al thousand head of sheep and was a very prosperous ranch- her death[...]n (the late Mrs. J.C. Peters), had a vivid memory of a far[...]brother, John William, without the aid of a doctor. John's The Carr Family[...]America with his school through all sorts of weather. Once the shaft broke[...] |
| [...]hopes of curing John's infection. The boys departed Detroi[...]were made for John to ride in one of the wagons when he was[...]After a time in Fort Benton, Frank was drawn to south- and they went tumbling out over the dashboard of the bug- western Montana by the lure of gold. He worked his way to gy. Those were the win[...]itter, danced too until they couldn't in April of 1886 and Mary in September of 1887. In 1888 stay awake any longer. They were be[...]ie persuaded Frank to leave Butte and the hazards of beside the orchestra until the folks were ready t[...]Grass- In 1918, Mr. Carr decided he had enough of ranch life, hopper Valley where they homest[...]k his family to Portland, Ore., present site of Polaris. It was while they were living here where he had charge of a branch railroad for two years. In that the[...]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 families and single women were allowed to Dillon[...]ntil he make a homestead entry, with a maximum of 160 acres of sold to his youngest son, John William in September of land allowed per entry. The avera[...] |
| [...]War no cash bonus was paid. the care of Lula's widowed sister Mayme Madden Purdy Instead,[...]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 because of this that the best Joe ranched with his brother Bill for a number of years range land used by the Carrolls was lost an[...]ontana Normal roll family's move was the building of a ten-stamp mill, 11/2 College in Dillon at the time of her sudden death from miles up Billings Creek, fo[...]4. cyanide process. Billings Creek was the source of water for Charles graduated from BCHS in[...]between Jackson and Wisdom, and later to the base of Carroll Hill on Bull Creek in 1903. For the first[...]ll Carroll, Frank and Annie Carroll's fifth child of eight, as a stage, freighter, and cattle stop.[...]moved to the GH Ranch on Bull Creek at the base of what miles from the nearest school.[...]ation in As the children became older, several of them also home- Dillon, graduating from Be[...]chool in steaded land. Emmet, John, Mary, and two of Annie's 1911. His summers and holi[...]being maintained in Dillon on "Dutch became part of the Carroll Place. Bill and Joe homesteaded[...]August 19, Beaverhead River just north of Dillon with his younger 1926. Both are buried at[...]etired to his Joe, who was then put in the care of Lula's widowed sister, home at the "Banning Ranch[...]ooling. He which time the family consisted of Bill, Mayme, his son Joe, was a hard worker from[...]l and Mayme Mary lived at home until the death of her parents in 1926 had a daughter, Ann, in[...]ined the old Carroll family served with the Order of Religious Hospitallers of St. Jo- home on "Dutch Flat" during the s[...]'s eldest brother Emmett and third eldest brother Service in several states until retiring in the 1940s. He[...]had two sons. Annie. After the deaths of Frank and Annie in 1926, all the Francis died at[...]"silent" partner, living out of state, with Bill running the Bill marri[...] |
| [...]They went to work for Colonel Woods, one of the well known[...]outfit, which consisted of two wagons, four horses, one sad-[...]brought a load of provisions back to Virginia City, arriving[...]built for a camp one-half mile ·from the mouth of Carter then formed Carroll Livestock Company with[...]eturned home and Carter took up Bill was the last of the immediate Frank Carroll family to ranch[...]became de- Bill Carroll passed away at the age of 57 a highly respect- voted to ranching and acquired one of the most valuable ed and popular man. He was know[...]g properties in the state. He was regarded as one of people who needed help, especially the young trying to get the financially responsible men of the city and county. He going on their own. Attes[...]attle and horses on the 1600-acre ranch. Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Club in Jackson, Mon-[...]was born in Wisconsin in 1847, the youngest of nine children tle caring ways. After selling the[...]View Ceme- prominent early-day settlers of the valley, who, with their tery in Dillon.[...]ntil Cleveland, on April 23, 1839 and was the son of J. H. Carter failing health slowed her down.[...]rter, both Vermont fied with the social life of the community and was a member natives. The father died in Ohio at 75 years of age and his of Mizpah Chapter of the Eastern Star. mother died at 87. Carter was s[...]sen Avenue and it was occupied by various members of the[...]sor, and was responsible for many of the early-day bridges William B. Carter[...] |
| [...]e little ceme- nior Warden for life because of his dedicated work. He tery overlooking Dillon and the beautiful valley of the Bea- served on the local and state Counci[...]so much. member of the school board, he helped in the planning of -BILL MITCHELL and PERRY BACKUS[...]Alfred kept up his musical career as a member of the City[...]1875, to Isaiah A. and Amelia Royal Cashmore, one of engagements. four children. Their mother died in 1882 of pneumonia in Alfred Cashmore died Dece[...]Hotel and Grace M. Cashmore, daughter of Ruby and L. K. Adams, became a house painter with[...]cello Alfred joined the Militia First Regiment of Montana In- in the college orchestra and ga[...]horn. He was badly wounded when his enca_m pment of tents was overrun by natives. He was discharged O[...]ashmore (l908) ing salesmanship in 1908, an honor of which he was very proud. He was also a salesman for the Montana Mercantile. Alfred became manager of the Montana Mercantile. The Elks Lodge bought the[...]oods and produce grown by Chinese gardeners north of town and The Adams' first Dillon home[...]and lift it through Alf was a lifelong member of the Elks Lodge at Virginia with block and t[...]to play piano at the big Red Brick House north of town for[...] |
| [...], a cake was baking in the coal stove at the back of the house. When the cake started on fire, the lan[...]lph McFadden's first teacher; he became professor of music at WMC where he later gave her daughter, Le[...]ngineer to bring a train into Dillon. development of the metal rolling machine. This machine[...]immediately, and, within 10 took over the making of gold leaf which was used for window days, th[...]hed cabi- up and in business. The building of the railroad was a must net maker. While studying[...]ce was wrapped and num- In the spring of 1881 the rails were laid for the track into bered[...]as the first engineer to take the train were made of English walnut. Two of the pieces are in the into Silver Bow. He[...]il and set the standard gauge rail on the outside of the old Railroad as a construction engineer until[...]es on the line time, he changed to freighting out of Evanston, Wyo., where so the tracks could no[...]red, and Edith-were The superintendent of the railroad set July 4, 1887, as the born betwee[...]to be made. The 262 miles were Isaiah was one of the employees laid off as a result of the divided into 40 sections of approximately six miles each; 10 Depression of 1873 and the railroad strike of 1877.He and a men were assigned to each section. The change was accom- group of workers walked with packs on their backs from[...]ly joined him in Corrine, and they lived of the cars so they could go on either size r[...] |
| [...]as sexton at the cemetery, which was then located south of Dillon at the intersection of the old highway and Benjamin Franklin C[...]uren County, Iowa, and lived in Overton, and some of the graves were not recorded so there are some[...]where he worked iah's first wife who died in 1882 of pneumonia. for the Utah Norther[...]oved to Lima, Mon- Isaiah married Ava J. Davis of Lexington, Ken., in 1883. tana, about 1897[...]ndchildren Alden Cashmore and fam- name of "Cheney Bros." So the brothers took up the hobby[...]Lelia when they returned West in 1900. Most of the portrait[...]married Nanci Kidd of Burley, Idaho. There were two chil- Willi[...]st Coast with the two other boys. They located at South[...]t studio which William F. Cashmore was a son of Isaiah and Amelia they operated for man[...]n Oct. 1880 as the railroad terminus raising of the two grandchildren moving them to Washing- wa[...]In 1927, John married Susie Patt Shambow of Dubois. bookkeeper for several businesses including the D. I. He The only child of this marriage, Frankie, died in Portland worked[...]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 field of work where he was very successful. He owned nu-[...]s born in 1914, lived and worked in Dillon most of his life as an auto me- chanic; and the younges[...]ved to California and worked as a meat inspector. Of the six boys, only Pete and Howard are l[...] |
| [...]ollowing in 1942. Both are buried in tion of the studies there, Will established his own farm[...]raphy and took many pictures of the country and the devel- In 1873, B. T. Cheney sold his farm and moved his family opment of the railroad as the "Cheney Bros." to Overton, Ne[...]companied by several cous- At the end of two years, Will and Lelia returned to Ne- ins and[...]d In 1900, the family, with the addition of a baby girl, Dottie furnishings, which made for a[...]r and wheelright in summers. His old ledger tells of working on houses, caskets, wagons, and wheels for which he received a "peck of potatoes," a "basket of apples," and a bushel of grain or perhaps 25 cents in cash. The Wilcox fam[...]nd frame house and gave my grandfather Wilcox one of his cows with the understanding that Grandfather[...]affairs. Will was the Clerk of the school board for many[...]the repair of the Church and parsonage. Lelia was Record-[...]a source of income for both school and church.[...]Dottie Lima. He was secretary of the Lima Cemetery Association Cheney; seat[...] |
| [...]ied in February, 1926. He married Margaret Lawson of Pocatello in January, 1934. There were three children born to this union: Paul of Sanger, Calif.; Arline (Cheney) Arrive of Monterey, Calif.; and Ben of Meridian, Idaho. Sylvan died at the Veterans Hosp[...]orn Glen C., Sonova, Calif.; Betty (Cooper) Brown of San Diego; Shirley, who married Howard Edgely of Pocatello; Ray of Florence, Ore.; and Richard of Salt Lake City, Utah. William Cooper died in July[...]hes- ter Merrell. To this union were born Max Dee of Pocatello, Idaho; Don Gene of Lima; Carol (Merrell) Har ball of White- hall; Edith (Merrell) Reed of Pocatello, Idaho; Anita (Mer- Berg and Christine Christensen rell) Brown of Dillon; Joyce Merrell of Missoula; and Lila with children Ejner and Alma (Merrell) Harper of Missoula.[...]hood in Dillon of which Berg was a charter member Chris[...]small village of Lille Rise on the island of Aero. They were When Berg Christensen came to[...]tively Children were an important part of their lives. Christine well educated and might ha[...]e child did not survive. for a pernicious remnant of European history that caused Two othe[...]rosperity forget. Many were refused entry because of disease or other returning to America, B[...]se who were denied faced an un- Ranch south of Dillon. There the family resided until 1942 certain future as few had any means of returning to Europe. when they moved to South Washington Street in Dillon. It Once admitted, Be[...]anch adulthood. The ranch was the scene of many social affairs that hired some of the newcomers. After a short while Berg and family get-togethers as many of Berg and Christine's was confident enough to homestead a place of his own. He brothers were then[...] |
| [...]ways a first love of Matt's. They took a contract to put up[...]zerland, one of nine children. Her father Bertrand and[...]service in the army. She said that she had been in love w[...]one of her brot her Emile s French Foreign Legion friend[...]anch on Rattlesnake Creek, about seven miles west of Dil- she didn't even know why. lon. The place[...]ther, James Tis ot, had come to Montana in center of his ranching operations. About that time he ac-[...]hat he lesnake ranches would make him, by the end of World War should seek a drier climate. He had been part of the Frederic II, a large landowner and one of the largest sheep producers Hirschy household f[...]red for their community, but it had a homestead of his own, next to hi Aunt Cecile's, where was Berg who participated fully in all of its affairs while he stayed occasionally. Chri[...]g. Emil s For several years, Berg was a member of the City Council wife had died, leaving him wi[...]ived 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 the Rotary Club and he and Christine were long- time members of the Lutheran Church. Berg died at his home in[...]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 M[...]Holstein, Ger- many, on June 17, 1870. At the age of 17, he made his way to 144-Beaverhead History |
| [...]to Wallace and Ann Christiansen. After the death of watch for Matt, and one small ladies watch for El[...]their names and "Fish Trap, Montana" on the face of each vina and Lawrence Christiansen until[...]n to Montana, they settled in to start the south of and adjoining the Gorris, known as the Hen- their[...]After the sale of the Squaw Creek Ranch, Lawrence and Elvina was[...]was hereditary, he must have instilled it in all of his Nelson.[...]mother bought a ranch on the west side of the Big Hole near[...]married February so far away that in the winters of 1918-19 and 1919-20, Matt 25, 1900, in Bates[...]awrence could start Joanna was the youngest of three daughters of Mr. and to school. In the winter of 1920, Rita and Leslie became ill, Mrs. William[...]h flourished near their home. Joanna led the went south for the winter again. choir and her father was a "pillar of the church." Now there The Squaw Creek Ranch, as the holdings of Matt and remains only the old Sharon C[...]spot Elvina Christiansen were known, was made up of numerous where the church stood. homeste[...]rt Walter was the only son in a family of seven. His father Land entries. These were acquir[...]the adjoining Gorris After three years of "hired hand" wages and when Horace Ranch from the heirs of Mary Gorris. In 1940, this ranch was Greely's call of '_'Go West, young man, go West" was ringin[...] |
| [...]rrison, high on the mountain For a number of years my parents had been in failing ove:r;lookin[...]way and My poor mother had lost her "Rock of Gibralter," rented another job was necessary. Wa[...]foreman for the "Upper unhappy. She died of a sudden heart attack in April of 1940. S-Six" ranch in Big Hole, and was hired. Th[...]tery. ranches were owned by Beilenberg and Walker of Anaconda and the one where the Clapps worked is n[...]-JEWELL ANDERSON Clayton Huntley. By April of 1903 Joanna rented one room in a two-roomed cabin[...]arrived and kept right on for a for a number of years. He also had a homestead near the old year.[...]ce. He was first married to Bertha Judy, a sister of much sleep.[...]rence, Betty, Mary and and settled on forty acres of clay and rocks. The buildings Margie. The f[...]ed well-tobacco, corn, grain, peanuts, and melons of all kinds. Mother plant- ed a huge garden and whi[...]earing more land and cultivating corn with a team of Hiram Thomas Clark (Tom) was born in Cha[...]ato worms, Illinois, in 1849. He was one of seven brothers, four of whom potato bugs and every other insect that deci[...]changes and a cousin, Lizzie Benjamin, all of their lives. were made. There were two teachers instead of one and Tom was disappointed that[...]r. He was school was held for nine months instead of six. too young, so he came west to seek his fortune. He found a After four years of drudgery our place was sold and we job dr[...]City, Montana. They used four or six head of oxen. The parents and we lived where Ann and Dust[...]border were rugged and snow-covered a good part of the back to Big Hole and this time to stay. year. They were the home of all kinds of wild game-elk, We went to work for Jones and O[...]two Red Rock Lakes provided plenty of water. My folks bought the ranches formerly ow[...]nd He chose a spot about 10 miles west of Lakeview and Jim Paddock and went into the dairy[...]spot. secured a job as secretary to the president of the State Tom moved his cattle up the[...]on at the store, years he owned a large herd of white-faced cattle. He was a 146-Beav[...] |
| [...]had taken a full train load of them to market in Omaha. One of the farms near Roberts, Idaho, is still in the fa[...]1900 to homestead north of the Upper Red Rock Lake. They Flora Montana Mi[...]lliam she being the lady who delivered most of the babies near and Fitch. They had a large ranch just a mile or two northeast of far in the Valley, and as far away as Virginia City. Lakeview. Flora was pretty, lively, and full of fun and My folks bought the Henry Hack[...]nd it was here that my mother said she spent some of with her and decided that he wanted her for life. They were the happiest times of her life. They then sold this ranch and boating a[...]me "popped the question." He offered her one-half of his cattle back to the Centennial. set up. Her[...]etting along. His report was that "Herb Buck died of the Their honeymoon was a month-long trip out of the Cen- flu and was buried yesterday." The 1918 flu epidemic took tennial along the edge of the lava beds and up to look over many people quickly, and it was in the middle of winter. the Medicine Lodge country some 30 miles west of Dubois, Another memory is of two riders coming by our place who Idaho. They we[...]ce. like the Long Valley area over by Boise. None of it looked as Back of us on the south side of the road and a little west good as the Centennial[...]Jessie and Ike Marble. Ike gave me my first pair of skis, Tom loved to read and always kept a number of good probably about 1921. Ben and Mayme Holt lived nearby books and magazines around. One of them was a large and and my folks had the[...]ers, Christmas and beautifully illustrated volume of Milton's "Paradise Lost." other times. Flora[...]ing certificate in it. Another was a large volume of "History of the Civil War." It contains hun- dreds of photographs actually taken in Civil War times. He also loved music and owned one of the first old Edison phonographs and a large collection of records. Old Irish ballads and John Phillip Sousa[...]Falls. They bought a 10-acre place on the corner of Ninth Street and Holmes. Tom in- vested in[...] |
| [...]miles to school. England, on May 7, 1874, one of 10 children of Mr. and Mrs. Sometimes I skied or walked, but mos[...]lic education did not exist in Queen or Buck. All of us in school together had school Englan[...]education by the Masonic Fraternity. Part of his education around the May Pole.[...]ed became the background for his life work of raising cattle. brand was called Lazy HC.[...]two-year- up on their homestead on the north side of Upper Red Rock old steers in the fall and[...]rketed 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 by the Department of Interior for a refuge carload of Hereford bulls purchased by Mr. Fox from the for[...]out at an agreed price Stanton Breeding Farm of Madison, Nebr. The farm was or be condemned." Thi[...]as Mortimer, the older brother of Elizabeth Ann. One of the happy days in the Valley was the annual get-[...]he bulls, the first carload sold in Mon- together of people for food, horseshoes, and baseball on the[...]nd herded them on foot until he got to the Fourth of July. At other times of the year, there were also Grasshopper Valley[...]re killed. In January 1940 I became a resident of Alaska. My first trips out after World War II to[...]away. My father passed away in 1944, but because of the War, I could not get to his funeral.[...]Jardine, Mrs. Joe George Montague Clemow, one of the early settlers in the[...] |
| [...]d told us that his mother often related the story of that family, so he went to work in the Butte unde[...]t. She said when the alarm was for a short period of time. given,[...]Meade Hotel for their protection. There was a lot of confu- beth Ann Mortimer on April 12, 1904. Eliza[...]with women shouting and children crying. daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Mortimer, was born in[...]very month later they purchased their first piece of land, a 1,400- real as the Indians were reporte[...]nd Elizabeth bought land and devel- Most of the information I have is taken from the historic[...]o from George and Elizabeth became the parents of four chil- court house records and newspa[...]born at Jackson, February 25, 1907; of the Montana Pioneers and their records state that[...]y them. unsurveyed claim of 160 acres and 100 head of horses." Elizabeth would tell of the long rides by horse and buggy He moved[...]in sacks brand are listed in reproductions of James Mansfield's tally with hot rocks to keep th[...]ook which are shown in the 1963 sourvenir program of the Throughout their lifetimes, George and Elizabeth were annual meeting of Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers active in county and state organ[...]cow foreman on the Big Hole range George died of pneumonia in Tucson, Ariz., on April 13, fo[...]M. Colson and his 1890s by Hansen Packing Co. of Butte as a cattle buyer. He wife Thaire, 32, children: Walter 9, William 5, Ella 4, and told us of running several hundred head of Hansen Packing Andrew 2. My father was adopted by[...]brother Walter. Very little is known by my family of good friend Sam Freeman, lifetime Beaverh[...]the site of the log cabin which they used for their cow camp,[...]son 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[...]by 1876, possible before, he Sarah M. Fayle of Small, Idaho, on January 28, 1899. The and[...] |
| was 30 miles northeast of Dubois, within eight miles of good and wildlife abounded. As the later[...]t through Farlin, a prosper- Basin. It was on one of the old immigrant wagon roads used ous mini[...]Some of the young men in the vicinity loved to play pranks After the death of my father the ranch was sold to a man and en[...]sometimes becoming a little rough. named Garrett of the Garrett Truck Lines of Pocatello, They found the Chinaman who[...]water commissioner (or ditch walker) for a number of years. in 1891, just a wide place in the road at[...]upper end of Mussigbrod Creek. It was indeed a pretty[...] |
| [...]ople and came west, arriving in Oregon in October of 1853. John I was one of five boys and five girls born to William and Tama[...]r and Mr. Orr who owned the large ranch southeast of Dillon on Blacktail Creek. He was hired by them to trail a large num- ber of horses to the P & 0 Ranch in the 1870s. This was[...]live. They homesteaded some land about two miles south of the P & 0 Ranch at the mouth of beautiful[...]private chauffeur, driving one of the first motorized vehicles 1898, and a baby tha[...]his was hauled in a dead axle many years of dedicated sheep ranching oti the Blacktail, he wagon with a team of horses. passed[...]ong with four er land buyer came to see them from Florida. He stayed children - John, William, Mar[...]ntil he talked John and Harriet into trading some of their cropland for a beautiful place in Flor-[...]LADYS A. CONOVER, ida. When the family arrived in Florida, they found the land[...] |
| [...]r descendant of a family of Huguenots, who were among the first settlers of New Jersey. His great-grandfather, Rueben[...]Valley, New York, being there at the time of the massacre of[...]seven children and spent their whole lives in the service of[...]ry as captain, then was appointed to take charge of a battal- lion of cavalry which he had recruited and which were des[...]nated the First District of Columbia Cavalry. Soon after, Emil Conger was[...]was placed on duty in New York in charge of a force of 1901, at Argenta to James Melvyn and Martha Louis[...]was chosen to hunt down the experiencing a flurry of mining! Emil and Mabel attended criminal. A detailed 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[...]h Balloon Company~ He resumed the study of law. He was admitted to practice in survived the[...]n returning, he went to Roun- district judge of the territory under the appointment of dup, Mont., where his brother Arthur lived and secured a Secrertary of War Stanton. He was reappointed by Presi- job in[...]pted their he was elected prosecuting attorney of Beaverhead County, daily deposit one afternoon an[...]the position which he held until the admission of Montana never reopened! The Congers were out of business and Emil to statehood in 1889. He w[...], Everton Conger married Emma K. Boren of Freemont, 1923, in Laurel. It was a traumatic tim[...]h B. Mabel gave birth at home with the attendance of a nurse Poindexter, federal judge of the Hawaiian Islands and later who had to stay for two weeks because of the quarantine. the governor of that state. In 1929 the family moved back to D[...]Conger. Priscilla Dafoe's brother was the father of Dr. Dafoe Everton J. Conger was born in[...] |
| [...]The·y have related many experiences t here of wolves chas-[...]Ora in 1948. Four of their children are still living. Margue-[...]-PAT BEER James followed in the footsteps of his forebears who were |
| [...]wn five miles from Melrose, until 1900. All eight of their 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[...]George was a mining operator and an active member of the Baptist Church. Five of the children-Helen, Ruth, Ora, Alice and Walter-a[...]the Stefonic Ranch. John became a "jack of all trades." He Ruth married Gustav Bohstedt a[...]where Walter taught and later was superintendent of schools. Thoma now lives with their daughter Barb[...]ed in Washing- ton, D.C. Eunice died at the birth of her daughter Mary Jo, who was adopted by Eunice's[...]Having no children of their own, John and Marie adopted[...]Charles Smith was a well-known horse trader in South- -DO[...]arke Craig Cornell is regarded as one of Beaverhead County's Scott and Archie Henneberry, where they did all phases of sterling pioneer citizens. He was born i[...]County, Ind., January 8, 1839, the tenth child of Isaac and and Pat Flynn.[...]l. Both his parents traced their an- At the age of 19, John went to California where he met[...]914 and made Dillon their pant in the War of 1812. His grandfather, Joseph Cornell, home. They homesteaded a piece of land on the hill behind was born in Scotland in 1760 and did yeoman service as a 154-Beaverhead History |
| [...]daughter of John Keller, a native of Maryland until 1846.[...]Norman horses. He was one of the first to engage in sheep[...]ranching and owned one of the largest flocks in the territory.[...]He bought part of his land holdings (160 acres-which inl-[...]land south to the Cornell Ranch buildings; and the west half[...]of the County Fairgrounds south to the Interstate 15 inter-[...]government in payment for his services in the War of[...]additional tracts of land. 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 i[...]est Service document his use of the West Fork of Blacktail on is signed "C. Cornell, Pioneer Dairy[...]tments have remained a soldier in the Continental Service during the Revolutionary part of this ranch even to this day. War. Craig's mother,[...]coe Virginia and her father was a pioneer settler of Ohio, set- (1873), Estella (1876), Mary Viol[...](1885). Myron Craig died in 1893 at seven years of age. 1818. Her family's founders came from Wales.[...]rge Murray in Dillon on August 24, At 25 years of age, Craig left the family farm on April 17, 18[...]4 and headed west to Grinnell, Iowa, the terminus of the Warren Craig (1905-1981). Mary Viola mar[...]r 24, from Chicago and left Grinnell near the end of April with 1926 at the age of 47 years and Estella passed away in 1963. four wagons drawn by teams of four mules each, with seven- Isaac Rosco[...]company separat-ed, one portion traveling by way of Boze- graduate from the Michigan School of Mines at Houghton, man Pass while Mr. Cornell's p[...]Gillaspie, was born Beaverhead Valley, a portion of which was later to become in Houston on June 8, 1909. The family then came to Dillon the townsite of Dillon.[...]21, 1920 at 74 years of age; his father, Craig Cornell, was 89[...]as the Mayor of Dillon from 1921 through 1931. His wife,[...]Elizabeth, died at the age of 59 on October 13, 1934 in[...]ead County High School, studied at the University of[...]University of Washington in Seattle. He returned to the[...]- pital on May 31, 1942 at the age of 69 years. coe Cornell, Estella Murray, Geo[...] |
| [...]Headquarters was the old Selway Ranch (north of Dillon about 15 years. They had seven children: H[...]r pasture, they took up homesteads in homes, some of which are still standing. It has been said that[...]hter Doris out the back door and have a nice mess of fish for dinner in a on June 3, 1919, and on M[...]ril 16, 1911, was a special day at the ranch home of the Mae bought out their partners' interests[...]health deteriorated, they spent part of each summer living Al Covey was one of the group that built the first school- there.[...]the Coveys had a nice garden. Stories were heard of the garden being raided, since it was quite easy[...]with children Bill, Doris State of New Jersey, February 9, 1847. In 1852 his[...] |
| [...]service at Newtonia, Missouri, in 1864. Henry and Alex-[...]ter to supply a much needed requirement of hard working[...]Since he, of necessity, frequented the central part of Ban-[...]Plummer. An immediate distrust of Plummer took place,[...]revealed that he (Plummer) was the head of the gang of County, Iowa, April 10, 1852.[...]ld stand up marriage August 31, 1874. At the time of their marriage he to Plummer. Plummer decided he must get rid of Crawford; was a druggist in Iowa. Eight children[...]- born April 15, 1888; and Crawford knew of his position in the gang! Thomas Arthur - born Ap[...]many confrontations best told in "The Vigilantes of In 1879 they moved to Montana, locating at Nob[...]with where he ran a quartz mill during the winter of 1879-80. In a rifle (this verified to me later by both my father and uncle, June of 1880 the family moved to the city of Butte and themselves both crack-shots)[...]in lumbering and grocery clerking. In the spring of ing him in the right arm. It would have bee[...]82 they came to Beaverhead County, leasing a band of him but this was not Crawford's intent[...]he swore now he would kill Crawford as soon as he of the progressive ranch men of this section. The family recovered. Now[...]to kill Crawford in cold stood high in the esteem of the community and were promi- blood. nent[...]Crawford nor anyone else, outside the gang, knew of Mr. Craver is written up in "Progressive Men of Plummer's unlawful activities. This was pointed up by the the State of Montana." Most of the above informa- fact that the[...]ation. sheriff, not only of Bannack but of Virginia City. Crawford[...]wford had been receiving mail from First Sheriff of Bannack, |
| [...]d Frank was a pioneer newspaperman in Fort Meade, Florida. He has many descendants in the Chicago area. Bot[...]Crouse Farm, 1915 (Fred on 3-horse binder) men of the fourth estate. Frank had four sons, three of house. Their oldest son, Fred, was born O[...]t by wagon to Fort Benton and down the Vigilantes of Montana and peace finally came to the coun-[...]a City. to the new town of Dillon and went east by train. When they It is for this reason that the tortured souls 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 Dillon and it[...]t was a very cold trip home. We drove only in end of time. Rather than allowing simple men who came the middle of the day so we did not get very far. We bundled west to gain some measure of wealth, they stole not only up in the bottom of the covered wagon to keep warm." their gold but t[...]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 Virgi[...]ruary 17, 1880, started their family. the arrival of a wagon train from "the States" in the boom- ing mining camp of Bannack on Grasshopper Creek. One of the adventurous young men .with that train was Henry Crouse, late of Illinois. He sought gold unsuccessfully at the[...]and in 1865 he returned to Illinois. But the lure of the frontier was strong and in 1866 he headed wes[...]way on an ox train, but he recalled walking most of the way. Freighting, an essential frontier busi[...]and he wanted to homestead in the Springhill area of Gallatin County, some 14 miles north of the new town of Bozeman. Henry returned to Illinois in 1[...] |
| [...]and bought the Jack McLaren farm four miles east of town. For two years (1914 and 1915)[...]and prospective pur- suth, Iowa, daughter of William George Hackett and Axa chasers came from[...]ind some- not been strong since the birth of her son, Henry, in 1859, thing besides wheat to h[...]en cents each. Trees were cut in the the home of his grandfather, George Hanson. mountains and bro[...]live with her brother, Henry. He was taking care of The Crouses had three children; Frederi[...] |
| [...]were married and took up land at the upper end of Centen- nial Valley. Two large springs of clear water flow out of the base of a mountain there. It is a lovely spot and Lillian[...]ay business in Dillon, which he operated the rest of had some beautiful fish and many eastern fisherme[...]to fish there. She charged by the pound and lots of large fish His wife, Ivy, born July 12, 1878[...]s. by train in a few months with their family of seven children; Everyone called her "Granny Culve[...]nd the children for the "Granny's Pond," but some of the fishermen called it "The three-day tri[...]Dillon and commuted to Lillian wrote the news of Centennial for the "Madison- and from Fryi[...]. and lived there until away, and Fred spent most of his time in Dillon, but her their family[...]went had several small strokes during the summer of 1935 but on, and continued in the dray b[...]in the First Baptist Church, also winter because of the open water. Granny loved to watch a faithful member of the Dillon Fire Department as long as them[...] |
| [...]ardent and willing worker and member of the First Baptist[...]desire to live with the passing of her husband. She passed Arthur A. a[...]er in Dillon family in Dillon that he was aware of. Mrs. Curnutt also firms until her mar[...]nnett. They had two supplemented that with some of her home baked goodies. children. Mi[...]on, Mo., Anyone felt privileged to receive some of her delicious home worked as a telephone o[...]was famous in this area. T. Scott of Armstead. Mildred lives in Dillon. Myrl, born in[...]ns, Colo., July 21, 1906, left Dillon at 17 years of age, cember, 1935. His death was mourned by all[...]she lived. During his life they raised a family of five children. he ably provided for education of his family of nine children. Amber, born in Clinton, Mo[...]ol teacher prior to her marriage, was Hunt of Waterloo and they raised a family of three children. an A-Number-One housekeeper, wi[...]ne 18, 1910, was a grocery She was known as one of the best cooks in Dillon and truly a clerk[...]married Jean Meeke and they mother to be proud of in every way. When Laura T. Scott of moved to Billings. They had one daughter[...]to her. She replied, "Only one thing I can think of, if I then worked in the Beaverhead County Treasurer's Office. could just have a slice of Mrs. Curnutt's homemade bread." She marr[...]Deer Lodge. and the next day a loaf of fresh homemade bread was deliv- Elsie[...]raised a family of four children. He lives in Everett, Wash.[...]office of Dillon Public Schools until her marriage to James[...]had a large family, 14 children, some of whom, already ber C[...] |
| Dillon and if you 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 Cus[...]tana and located in Butte, Mont., until the close of the lived in a yellow brick house on Railroad Ave[...]r who died in her teens. He made a specialty of mining law and also had extensive I believe bo[...]eaverhead Mining Association and he was a veteran of first couple in Dillon to have twins-two little g[...]making $10 an evening. eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Conway. The Ralph was a we[...]own, a son Henry in the summer session of Montana State Normal College. Dur- Washington, D.[...]ng World War I, Mrs. Cushing served as supervisor of Bea- My Grandfather, William J. Cushing, was a[...]is training in recognized for her community service. Denver. On returning to Dillon after graduation, some of his In later years the Cushings lived at 71[...]and had one The Cushings were the parents of one daughter, Jose- daughter, Josephine. Will and[...]The Dansie Family to be the home of the Conways, Helen's family. Will con- T[...]decided that the Dillon lived there until the end of their days. area was where[...]t to selling operations, after some years of successful sheep Judith Gap to teach. There she m[...]SCOTT N. Dansie, Jr., while the rest of the family remained in Utah.[...], came the Dansie Home Ranch. were children of early residents of Beaverhead County. Margaret Dansie joined Robert in February of 1912, William J. Cushing was born in Salt Lake[...]ie), Allen, Lyston, and October 25, 1876, the son of Henry and Sarah Ann Cushing. two-month-old[...]ily one from the Armstead hotel, and a blast of Montana's all lived many years in Utah where Henr[...]tin tub supplied by Mary Gordon, became residents of Dillon in 1880. the p[...]eat in the rooms! The next morning Robert schools of Dillon and graduated from high school as a mem-[...]from the Clark Canyon ranch and took them to ber of the class of 1894. He entered business college and their[...]pered at buying and selling sheep, acquiring ment of the University of Denver. He graduated in 1898 and several per[...]WWI, he acquired several we.s admitted to the bar of Colorado. more r[...] |
| [...]h, just above the DeWitt ranch on the east side of the river. In the Bannack area he acquired the[...]ndy characteristic that you could bend one side of a tin can straight, and use it for a brand, in[...]stayed overnight. I often helped her clean back of the high school football team as well as being an[...]om Rattlesnake would each take an end of a broom handle and go over them Creek, and had[...]no smoke coming from his chimney, Idaho, with all of their possessions loaded on a railroad car.[...]was called "Green Meadow Ranch," in the upper end of the Valley. Art's house was across the road from where the rest of the family lived. We lived in a log house, had a[...]remember Miss Sims and Ma Buck as teachers. Some of my classmates were Frank O'Conner, Annie Buck an[...]to pull that I drove to school. I could get all of the little Fairbanks kids in it-about six[...] |
| [...]s. I also remember riding on the running board of the car to[...]r, friendly and nice to talk me buy my first pair of glasses with the money from those to and n[...]ending our years in ber 18, 1896, the seventh of nine sons of Henry Clay and the Centennial Valley.[...]Bourquin in 1922. Six children were born of this union: Alice Alice Davis with her young s[...]he worked for him until 1910 (born 2/25/20) of Dillon in 1946 and was a homemaker and when he so[...]garite, Helen Marie Collins (born 10/3/28) of Hamilton, Mont., in lived at Blair's for some yea[...]nches and later bought land on the southeast side of the NAPA Parts Store owner in Elko, Nev., a[...]laska Basin. They Harkens (born 3/29/33) of Butte in 1952 and became an had a lovely cabin at the mouth of Big Hollow. They had the automotive salesman[...]ls. Francis Ryan (born 1/11/32) of Dillon in 1951 and became Frank became severel[...]fuge, in a one-car accident one mile north of Armstead, Mont.; they sold out and moved to Eugen[...]-ALTA HANSON South (born 7/3/36) of Dillon in 1956 and became a math-[...]of Chinook, Mont., in 1955 and became university pro[...]of music in Spokane, Wash., Vancouver, Canada, Dillo[...]south of Dillon. He then became an automotive mechinic .[...]Conoco Service Station and, in 1939, the Davis Motor Com-[...]pany at the corner of South Montana and East Glendale[...]biles. Mr. Davis was a tireless worker in support of 164-Beaverhead History |
| [...]nd community. He never forgot the basic prem- ise of courteous service. Throughout his years in business one could frequ[...]ng the oil and, finally, giving a gentlemanly tip of his hat to the ladies and a "thank you" for the o[...]issouri. The Davises were longtime supporters of extra-curricular and recreational activities at Beaverhead County High Superintendent of Schools. Daughter Dorothy Elizabeth School and We[...]ly issue. Elizabeth was the daughter The game of baseball was Ben's favorite sport. He was of John W. and Idonia Raining Sutherland. active as[...]was fifty-nine Elizabeth was a 1909 graduate of Beaverhead County years old.[...]was born in North the highest grades of the class in the four year course. She Branch, Mi[...]tern Montana College (then University of Wisconsin in 1916. She taught elementary Montana[...]eceiving her diplo- She was a lifelong member of the Dillon Grace United ma, and two more[...]r university Methodist Church, the Mizpah Chapter of the order of the degree. She served two terms as county superintendent of ~astern Star, the American Legion Auxiliary and the Order schools, 1919 - 1923. of The Nile. An accomplished musician, Mazie was als[...]irst Presbyterian 3.ctive as a potter, a grower· of beautiful flowers and, along Church in Dillon[...]pit during the with her husband, was an organizer of the first B.C.H.S. absence of a minister, delivering an inspiring talk. He was Beaver Lodge Recreation Center, a project of the American chairman of the board of trustees from 1936 to 1951. Eliza- Legion Auxilia[...]for many years, and Ben H. Davis was a member of Grace United Methodist was a member of the Ellen May Guild and later of the ~hurch, the Dillon Elks, the American Legion,[...]er, being particularly ;er Virginia City Council 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 ad[...]Dr. Davis was a fifty-year member of the Masonic order.[...]Though not a charter member, he was a member of the Sheldon E. Davis[...]. Sheldon Emmor Davis came to Dillon as president of produced a twenty-page booklet, "Sketch of Rotary in Dil- Montana State Normal College in Se[...](Montana) during Missouri where he had been head of the teacher training the 1949 - 1950 pe[...]ville. Elizabeth Davis was a member of the Dillon Shakespeare rhough born in Zanesville, Ohio, he had lived most of his Club, Panhellenic, Alpha Gamma Delta[...]g profes- founding member, in January 1931, of the Dillon branch of iion. the American Association of University Women. She later Dr. Davis received[...]from the Uni- served as state president of AA UW, and was made an honor- rersity of Missouri, did graduate work at the universities of ary life member of the national organization on September :hicago, L[...]ee in Sheldon Davis was a life member of the Montana Educa- .917. He was married to Mary O[...]souri in tion Association, and a member of the National Education )ecember 1911; she died in[...]avis (Carpen- Association. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the na- er) was born of this union. In December 1922, Dr. Davis[...]Beaverhead County and high standards of work at the university level. He was[...] |
| [...]health. A victim of tuberculosis, he had the only known[...]road every day so there was plenty of work for Carl to do.[...]er 1909. problems. He was well known as an author of textbooks on Miss Nellie Nugent, a shy y[...]hing and government, and co-authored a "Geography of finished her summer teaching term of school up Horse Prai- Montana" with Professor J. Ford McBain of the Normal rie and was asked to make ap[...]llion ry was $50 per month. John Gelhaus, one of the saloon copies.[...]and various associations. He occasion- and ends of desks, a good supply of books and 25 pupils. A ally spoke at national edu[...]d contributed pot-bellied stove in the middle of the room, a pile of coal to professional journals. The physical plant at Wes tern College was much enlarged during the years of 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 Western Mon- tana College of Education on September 1, 1946, Sheldon Davis was appointed President Emeritus by the State Board of Education, an honor conferred for his many years of distinguished service. Shortly thereafter he was appoint- ed chairman of the Montana Health Planning Council, which[...] |
| [...]e train to the post office. He invested in a herd of milking Shorthorn cattle which were a good breed[...]rhead County, Peterson ranch at climate of Lake Michigan environment. His doctors recom- She[...]ranching with Walter Scott in the Red at the age of 85.[...]lingly beautiful scenery, the charm and challenge of Glenn A. Decker was born August 5, 1878, to Alb[...]oping West, and they became lifelong residents of Beaver- drought and returned to Indiana, then Mic[...]enn and Blanche were among the earliest residents of Glenn, as a young man in Ludington, Mich., samp[...]first agent for the Oregon Short Line, many kinds of employment-telegrapher, farmer, postal[...]ttle more than a railroad construction camp, much of during the Spanish-American War from 1898 to 1899[...]rs, and kept in contain numerous tales of the period, and sketches of the touch with his Army buddies all his life. extraordinary characters of the day. Upon his return to Ludington,[...] |
| [...]William and Katye Dennis homesteaded this piece of called the G. & P . for Gilmore Pittsburg. A. J.[...]s when the government offered that Lumber Company of Dillon opened a lumberyard and store op[...]ranch on Bean Creek, about 16 miles east of Monida. the groceries and the few housewares. At[...]loved the ranch but she and husband William lived of Indians from the Lemhi summered in the meadow acr[...]Katye, however, was the road from the store. One of Chief Tendoy's granddaugh- originally from the farm country of Oregon and she longed ters was born there and nam[...]s at the ranch while William who gave them a bolt of red flannel for the baby. The Indian and fami[...]My mother used to tell wonderful stories of the fun she casins, which they sold or traded abo[...]he property was inherit- Blanche homesteaded west of Armstead. Just as Glenn's ed by their[...]Then, as an accountant in the general offices of the Gil- more Pittsburg Railroad, Glenn moved the[...]Deputy During World War I, the community of Armstead cer- tainly did its part in the war effo[...], including the John Richard Deputy, the son of Charles Henry and Deckers, used coarse flour so t[...]it by the influ- horse and buggy and when one of the horses started to act enza epidemic. Mrs. Dec[...]she recovered, he aided other strick- on ahead of the others and was thrown from the horse. His en[...]with a broken neck. Paul Alpheus, third child of the family, was born Septem- Jack a[...] |
| [...]e evening train from Butte. and two other members of the senior class enlisted in the Fath[...]and were sent to France during World War I. Many of today. Each child carried a suitcase[...]the court- Meat Company as a bookkeeper. Because of the war, many house where we cut across a large grassy lot to the Burfiend of the seniors were unable to attend the graduation[...]ldren 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.[...]came Father was superintendent of the training school con- acquainted with Georgia. Because both had nicknames of nected at that time with the college. Some of the critic "Jack", they were known to family and[...], born on December sale to buy a gift of a Paxson painting for their classroom. 8, 1922, a[...]eland, days. March 17, 1852, son of Hannah Reardon Desmond (father's No history of Beaverhead County would be complete name unknown). He came to America when a youth of 19 without mention of Laura Tolman Scott of Armstead 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[...]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[...]in County Donegol, Ireland, in 1851, the daughter of Someone must know what became of the tiny round stained Mary Dougherty (father's n[...]one daughter, Mary, born corner of the same hall; is she resting in the dump west of February 8, 1887. Mr. Desmond died February 28, 1[...]Time has gone by. Our Fred, the envy of neighborhood -EV[...]as he drove down Thomsen Avenue in a smart buggy of[...]black leather with yellow wheels behind one of the ponies,[...]and went on to a position in the Department of English in It is difficult to feel one is an o[...]Montana playwright Robert Finch, youngest of the fam- and recalls sitting in the living room a[...]ther and Miss Jean Bishop as they ment of Playwriting at the University of North Carolina at visited with her parents the Jo[...]y forties he returned to live in Dillon the verge of that distinction. and to write the volume of western one-act plays which was My father, Grant E. Finch, of Marion, Iowa, accepted a published in[...]tate were based on his boyhood memories of Montana, in the Normal School, in the summer of 1909. He made the long place he lov[...], came out by train with former teacher of violin. She now resides in Helena.) the four of us children who considered this trip to Montana a[...]venture. We watched for hours for our first sight of the mountains after an early life in the prairie[...]Judson and Gundel Dickson try of Iowa. Judson Dickson, the fifth child of Douglas Albert Dickson[...] |
| [...]y and the family returned to Idaho the first part of Sep-[...]tember. Transportation for the trip consisted of a wagon drawn by a team of horses, driven by Jud, and a buggy[...]the summer was usually a group of tents. This little tent .::, ...[...]them and took care of the family. They usually had ten or and Nancy Shi[...]her Bill (William) eventually By the end of 1928, the three older daughters were mar- started[...]del was a great 1883 at Hyrum, Utah, the daughter of Rasmus Peter Lyman cook and always roaste[...]Lyman. She was the seventh often center of a large feast. Part of the fun for the grandchildren children. Her fathe[...]and had an outstand- Hansens. Gundel spent a lot of time as a child and young ing button colle[...]round bought a small farm, three miles north of Dillon. Driggs, Idaho. In those days, many of the sheep herds were His health soon fail[...]months after the death of their oldest daughter, Stella, who It was there[...]died on August 7, 1940. sheepman by the name of Jud Dickson. They were married Gundel stayed on the farm for a couple of years and then on October 6, 1902 in Richville, U[...]ntain View They bought a farm about two miles out of town. They Cemetery near Dillon. never[...]-FAY WALDEMAR McCRACKEN AND Thornton. All seven of their daughters and one son, who[...] |
| [...]Elizabeth and when he was elected Chairman of the Board, Sidney Dillon Emmett were born in Mary[...]hen returned to Dewey track department of the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad (now where he had a print shop, egg business, sawmill, and fire- part of the New York Central Lines). In 1840, at the age of wood sales. In 1927 their house was washed away w[...]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 whe[...]able capital. At one time he 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 H[...]aught at Travis a subscriber for 500 shares of the stock of the Credit Mobi- Creek School near Helena and at Twin Bridges, Dell, Jack- lier of America, in March, 1865. son, Dewey and Wise Rive[...]In July, 1865, Dillon was elected a member of the execu- Dillon in 1927. Elizabeth died in 1987. tive committee of the Credit Mobilier. He first became a John W.[...]n in Hendricks, W.Va., in 1887, son director of the Union Pacific Railroad Company in October, of Charles E. Long and Virginia Teeter Long. When he was 1866, and was elected president of the Credit Mobilier in 12, his family, along with[...]ame West director, or trustee, in the affairs of the trustees, and of the to northern Idaho, where they homesteaded on[...]t mobilier, until the liquidation and dissolution of that near Weippe. John became a forest ranger wit[...], to June, 1892. When Jay Gould came into control of was Ranger at Grant, Melrose, Sheridan, and Wisdo[...]1890. In early May, 1892, he was elected Chairman of the Leonard Erickson and they had two sons. Lorna[...]wo children. Lorna died in 1985 The city of Dillon was named in his honor. and Dorothy in 198[...]d Jean Dingley After John retired from the Forest Service in 1934, they William Post Dingley was b[...]uring World War II, 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 mar[...]1954. Dan is in 1877 with his family. the son of Lucile Langdorf Hoyrup McPherson and Fred[...]tte City where the 1880 census shows Hoyrup, both of whom were longtime Beaverhead County hi[...]benefited from the inherited small after 35 years service with 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 d[...]ane, her the Dillon area, when he was one of the jockeys who worked husband Alan Haviland and[...]with an inside track. Spokane, as a 3- President of Union Pacific Railroad Company from[...]wns, the March 11, 1874, to January 25, 1880, and of The Union American Derby at Washi[...] |
| [...]Downs. These three races made up the Triple Crown of that era. The round barn is still standing on the Bayers Cattle Ranch north of Twin Bridges. Spokane was the only Mon- tana bred[...]e died in Bozeman while transporting a wagon load of grain. He fell during the accident and was run ov[...]Holmes, the great-great-granddaughter of William Brew- ster, Sr., the elder leader of the Pilgrims, who came to Amer- David Addison Dingley, the oldest son of John Tabor ica on the Mayflower. Dingl[...]Butte City practicing law in Basin, he became one of Dillon's first and in 1877 and the seeds of-destiny were planted. most highly respected lawye[...]ther Charles Franklin Dingley remained in justice of the peace for many years in Beaverhead County. If[...]arcerated 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 traveled over the newly laid wide-gauge track of David was one of the co-founders of the Baptist Church in the Utah Northern Rail[...]e in Idaho, he was seriously hurt about the south of the Beaver Rock. He took up a small homestead hea[...]teens. Water to the places ady labeled "softening of the brain" and this brilliant young was piped[...]unday, April 16, 1899, at the hospital at the age of 41. He never married and had no children. He was[...]Olson Dingley Fred Olson Dingley was the first of five children of Wil- liam Jackson Dingley and Rachel Eliza Estes.[...]The Fred Dingley farm at Barrett's, five miles south Plymouth Colony became too crowded. John's descendants, of Dillon 172-Beaverhead History |
| [...]the livestock. When the Graeter ranch became part of Lov- ell Livestock, he traded his property for an[...]ms family. In his later years, he lived in one of Fred Hanson's cabins in what is now known as Trit[...]ds. 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 h[...]ewis- ton, Androscoggin County, Maine, the oldest of four chil- dren born to Levi Dingley and Mary G.[...]s was born May 14, 1837 in Lewiston, the of Dingley Building on Montana Street in 1889. fifth of 10 children born to David Estes and Mary Ann Grant, also natives of Maine. The Estes and Dingley fam- nizational meeting of the First Baptist Church in Dillon. ilies were cl[...]The meeting was held in their home at the corner of Glen- In 1853, under appointment of President Franklin Pierce, dale and Montana[...]came the Collector in Customs officer at the port of for the promotion of the Redeemer's kingdom in this place," Mobile, Al[...]eon called it "The Regular Baptist Church of Dillon." Their son, Estes, he became inter~sted i[...]Dingley, a practicing attorney in Dillon, was one of amassed a fortune of several million dollars from this ven- the f[...]R. Holden, and H. R. Melton, signed as trustees of the then returned to Mobile. Their first child, David Addison, articles of incorporation filed in 1886. was born October 29,[...]gley Building in 1889. The At the commencement of the Civil War, believing that the building still stands on south Montana Street in Dillon and Confederacy would be[...]ch cancer for several years and Army as a Colonel of the 10th Alabama regiment. He was was i[...]ed to Lewiston, Maine, where wounded at the Siege of Vicksburg and received 11 bullets, he died on November 16, 1892. He was buried there. nine of which remained in his body until his death.[...]s and lived with her children. Her obituary tells of Railroad. William Post (Billy) was born in 1867 a[...]liam, who lived in Clark's Canyon, about 20 miles south 1870, both in Mobile. of Dillon. On Sunday, November 30, 1902, she sewed a[...]her mouth. Soon after- lived in their birth town of Lewiston, Maine. Their youngest ward, she wen[...]night, Territory in 1877, living in Butte City on South Montana her son called a doctor to the ra[...]family relocated to Dillon, probably in died of blood poisoning and peritonitis at the home of her 1881 or 1882. They operated the Dillon Hotel,[...]e was buried in the Mary Ann was the proprietress of a millinery and dressmak- McCune plo[...] |
| [...]n County, Maine, on September 7, 1867, the second of five children. His parents were William Jackson D[...]ine (Hattie) Huff was the 14th and youngest child of Wil- liam Hamilton Huff and Sarah Ann Graham. She[...]and his bride, Harriet lon by the local Justice of the Peace, Simeon Estes, Roy's[...]Sep- tie's sister Angeline Taylor's ranch south of Dillon. Roy tember 22, 1905, Estella Alice on Jul[...]Dingley and the older children, with the help of their cousin, ine Berniece on August 24, 1908, al[...]re permitted to live in the house but had the use of portant belongings and headed for Middle Creek, I[...]blood poisoning and erysipelas, an acute disease of the older children drove the stock. The rest of their belongings skin also called St A[...] |
| ered, she lost the use of her arm. They moved to Dillon and lived on Thompson Avenue where Hattie died of breast cancer March 5, 1925. Roy rented the Pr[...]rried Sarah Silverthorne April 12, 1926. She died of a heart attack on May 1, 1933, at the Prophet pla[...]st heard that the place was for sale. They spirit of the strong New Englander that he was.[...]from the first day with help from (Biographies of the eleven Dingley children will be pre- nei[...]ket rack and onto the stack. They put up 140 tons of[...]ing their son's land. Silas bought out several of his neigh- work, took logging contracts and freighted ore and supplies. bor's parcels of 320 acres each. As soon as the boys were old I[...]year, brought the Fournier, near the present town of Jackson, had a 120-acre acreage close to 40[...]Silas and one of his sons would ride to Red Rock, leave[...]Partly because of Melinda's failing health, Silas sold the[...]Melinda's death he spent much of his time visiting his chil- Four-hors[...] |
| [...]rn in Red Oak, Iowa, July 24, 1873. He spent most of his youth in Colorado with his parents, two broth[...]t Desert Hot Springs, Calif. Jimmy was a resident of Beaverhead and Silver Bow Counties since 1890. Wh[...]o sons, James "Buster" Dodd and Jack Dodd. One of his main interests was ranching and the cattle in[...]me involved in cattle buying and was probably one of the best in this area. He had[...]houses in Dillon, one on South Washington Street that Les[...]James M. (Jimmy) Dodd died of pneumonia at his home[...]Territory of Montana and settled in the area of the Big Hole Beaverhead County. While buying catt[...]in Lakeview this reside in this part of the Big Hole Valley. side of the Ranger Station.[...]nd to become a millwright. He worked at his trade of and fed them until fall when he would sell them. In those millwrighting in many of the gold and silver strikes in Mon- days there we[...]ansactions were done over the telephone. of the richest silver deposits in Montana. A remanant of his Young boys, along with Jimmy's own two, Buste[...]e on the ranch in the Centennial, Jimmy built one of Issac Dodgson's brother, Charles Lutwige Dodgson, was the first jack fences, parts of which are still standing today. an English math[...]s a buyer for written the children's books of "Alice's Adventures in Won- Hansen Packing Company of Butte. Although he was a very derland" and others, under the pen name of Lewis Carroll. busy man he always found ti[...] |
| [...]d in Melrose, Montana, where he raised his family of three boys and one daughter: Sherman, Issac, Wil-[...]to Polson, Montana. Mary Dean was the daughter of Clara Truman and Abra- ham Lincoln Dean. Her mother, Clara Truman, was the daughter of Caroline Shaw Truman and John B. Truman.[...]years of schooling, he divided his time farming with his[...]man on his ranch in the In the spring of 1915 Emmett and Dresdin Shields pur- Centennial V[...]ranch until selling out in lantern in the window of the house so they could find their August, 1917, to James R. Baird of Heber City, Utah, for way back after being out to[...]. During their years in John had the reputation of being able to catch fish when Whitehall, Emm[...]daho, where he died in 1950. south to Brawly, Calif., for the winter months. To be c[...]In the spring of 1975 Emmett passed away at the age of 86 Emmett Douglass was born September 30, 1889, to Al and and Mary passed away in 1983 at the age of 91. Bot h are Margaret Douglass at Bryan,[...] |
| [...](then Springhill) in the fall of 1878.[...]orked briefly for the Union Pacific Rail- One of the best ranch deals ever made in the Big Hole |
| [...]-FERN GOODMAN Texas, when one of Ulysses' brothers married one of Lizzie's nieces. Elizabeth, known most of her life to her friends as "Lizzie", never forg[...]re we left, our sod shanty caught fire and tion of the Doyle family in Centennial Valley. burned up the first pair of shoes I'd ever owned and I had to In 1902,[...]g young 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 "green grass of Montana" and a new life. The long born on Jun[...]to Henry's Lake, Lizzie's father had lost most of his cattle to starvation or Idaho, where she[...]the dashing young foreman freezing, as had most of the others. Thus ended her father's of the Sherman Ranch. Selling the most subscriptions[...]m). Both Jo and who by now had become a Justice of the Peace, relented long Jim were civic mind[...]ugh to marry them on October 7, 1890, at the home of education. They always "boarded t[...] |
| [...]the University of Montana then worked for the Montana[...]taking loving care of their daughter, Jo K., and keeping[...]A family by the name of Dries lived on upper Thompson[...]ed in an accident with a horse in 1908 at the age of[...]s moved to the Winslow Ranch, about 20 miles east of 1882, the seventh child of George Wesley Drown and Eliza- Monida. Their son,[...]youngest children of John Vinson Seybold and his wife Mar- Mr. Doyl[...]as built by Marcus Daly in the 1800s. Some of their children were born near Lima: Edward Ray in[...]ennial Valley areas. cards, were their main forms of entert ainment. For a brief per[...]ted from Montana State young children. Of Alma and Ed's 11 children, eight lived Normal Col[...]e and Power and to serve as County Superintendent of ownership of a horse, possibly augmented by a long-stand- Scho[...]argaret graduated from the Great Falls part of Bogus. Bogus left Dubois and sought out Ed[...] |
| [...]In 1916, they leased a farm about ten miles south. Here bois, Idaho.[...]mile or so northwest of the Gleed property. Here they lived Of the Drown children, most lived their adult lives[...]bound lane of the overpass goes over the lane to Palmer's The[...]n in 1923 where he leased land from 750 acres of grain and never pulled out a binder-some he Woods[...]ned. Marion always had a big garden At the time of her death on July 10, 1957 in Terreton, whe[...]children. Two of them are still in the valley and two are in[...]eir oldest son is in Oregon, one daughter in Wyo- of Dillon on what was known as Anderson Lane, before[...]The Drummeys had eight boys and eight girls. One of the tucky Avenue was always a show place in t[...]ER BRUNDAGE England. In the fall of 1914 they had the opportunity to go[...] |
| back to visit, but Marion refused because of the war. With a awhile. family of four and numerous other problems, they couldn't[...]fford to go until World War II. By this time most of their Monida. They lived at Eugene until Ji[...]was 19 years old at $120 monthly. the time of the accident. He drove stage in Yellowstone Park[...]hich Idaho side, above Henry's Lake, for a number of years and George bought in 1900 after the[...]grain for the neighbors in the area. He owned one of of 1936. They then bought a ranch in the Alaska Basi[...]chines and steam engines in the valley (upper end of the Centennial) where they lived until 1956.[...]War Bert moved to Antioch, California, near some of his family. Bonds during World War I for wh[...]George Eighorn, Sr., died in 1919 with two of his sons[...], 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 up hay while Will George "Jim" Eighorn, grandson of George Eighorn, Sr., also worked for other ranchers to support his family. They resides north of Melrose at Maidenrock with his wife, Glo- had 13[...]- ria. nial. Later the family moved to the south side of the Valley[...] |
| [...]took on more a:nd more of the responsibility for the store. By[...]less and less active, the management of the store became his[...]e late 1920s he mar- They came north, the four of them, along the cottonwood- ried Eirene Holli[...]the men, shivering in winter and at 830 South Washington in 1936. sweating in summer, who laid[...]n, who owned Lambert was the Grand Marshal of the Centennial Parade. the ranch that lay across[...]r $10,500, and promptly gave the railroad a right-of-way. Mr. Leonard, the merchant, who also labor[...]candy into children's Eight members of the William Henrick and Amelia Aehle pockets; Lam[...]three brothers Beaverhead county near the turn of the century, though not when, in 1888, he went to[...]he same time. The first was probably Minnie, wife of Lizzie; Adolph, "Doc", the pharmacist with a passion for Bill Kenison, who came in 1898. Because of their enthusi- health; and Frank, omnivorous reader, member of the State asm for the area, others followed. In the order of their ages, Legislature, and one of the men dedicated to the founding not the date of their arrival here because that is not avail- and continued existence of what is now Western Montana able for all of them, they were: College. Their cousin, Milton Da[...]Lambert and Milton didn't stay long. By the turn of the Elizabeth "Lizzie" (187 4) was marrie[...]re in 1899 and went fessor at Stanford; Leon, one of the founders and the long- to work at the Craver Ranch as a cook where she met Louis time president of Fairchild Aerial Surveys; and Lambert, Jr. Bell. They were married in January of 1900. The three boys were raised by Lizzie's family, primarily by Katherine "Kate" (1877). Date of her arrival here is not their adored Aunt Ada. All of them visited Dillon often and available. She[...]years. She married Harry Foust family store. One of Milton's children, John, lives in Laguna and in[...]children. They settled on a dry farm east of Dillon and[...]moved to the state of Washington in 1922.[...]operated a ranch of his own on the East Bench near Dillon.[...] |
| [...]e Method- later married a man by the name of Kennison sometime ist Church. She told stories of Christmases in Bannack between 1847 and[...]and arriving at Bannack in Mother talked a lot of the people and happenings in Ban- 1863. Afte[...]hung and had a boarding house at that time. A lot of 1876. Cordelia Rosemary Romain came across th[...]ed. Tom freighted by oxen to Pioche, Nevada, fall of 1912. After moving to Idaho, she remarked that sh[...]that area, a love that was I am the daughter of Ted Ellis, their youngest child, and[...] |
| [...]a small cabin with a dirt floor. A happy memories of my grandparents and Grandpa's obitu- short time later, he built a number of log buildings, a frame ary must have been written[...]ed located about two miles away on the other side of the nine years were spent in darkness. He was a p[...]Big Hole for a number of years and was married to Estelle Smyth of Anaconda.[...]ckland, New Brunswick, November 12, 1873, the son of George E. and Rebecca Siggins Else. He came to Mo[...]895, Weldon located a homestead on the North Fork of the Big Hole River, about 12 miles from Wisdom. L[...]Weldon and Annie Else he bought out some of his neighbors and extended his acre-[...] |
| [...]mes was born in 1921. He married Tina Carpen- ter of Walkerville. They live on the Else Ranch. The r[...]a wonderful swimming hole behind the barn, plenty of horses to ride and a stream to fish in.[...]Esterwold Ranch In January, 1925, some of the children came down with whooping cough. Annie[...]neu- monia. She died leaving Weldon with a number of small children. He managed to keep them all toget[...]At this writing there are 140 living descendants of this couple.[...]fixture and burned with an open flame. This type of Frank Esterwold[...]us and eventually gave way to Frank Esterwold, of Dutch-German descent, homestead- home ge[...]ricity, a small generator with storage ed a tract of 320 acres on upper Coyote Creek in 1905. He[...]Simeon Estes owners of this ranch include Denton Hughes, George[...]Maine, the third of 10 children born to David and Mary Ann Frank m[...]re spent doing ranch work. He also chase of damaged cotton, which was resorted, rebaled and worked for the city of Dillon in the Street and Alley Depart- sold. m[...]When war seemed inevitable, Simeon left the south and Cemetery.[...]a, where he worked as a An interesting feature of his log cabin on Coyote Creek painter until[...]tes opened a feed stable in Bannack. On the night of January 10, 1864, he was one of several members of the local[...]years, he was haunted by the possibility of having been involved with the hanging of innocent boys and men.[...]er and farmed and raised livestock. In the spring of 1866, 186-Beaverhead History |
| [...]March 31, 1881. One of the witnesses to the ceremony was[...]returning in the wee hours of the morning.[...]ved to Dillon. He operated a Simeon Estes, member of the Montana Territorial[...]d to house the prisoners sentenced by · House of Representatives in 1868-69.[...]the local court, a possible conflict of interest since he was Simeon married Mrs. Rebecca Jackson, nee Billings, who the local Justice of the Peace and the jail was located in the was als[...]tive. They arranged to meet in Council rear of his own saloon. He ran a livery stable in Dillon[...]rtner, Robert W. Bammer. Montana Territory by way of Lander's cutoff and Soda "Uncle Sim[...]ngley came to Beaverhead County While a member of the Territorial House of Representa- in 1881. The sons of his sister Rachel Eliza Dingley, Fred tives in 18[...]y, came to Dillon in the 1880s. His sister member of the Public Lands Committee, he helped pass an[...]hter, Lillian Hackett Hanson (later appropriation of $25,000 for the purpose of laying out and Culver), came to the Watson S[...]r awhile before moving to Dillon to open a summit of the Rocky Mountains on Medicine Lodge Creek[...]hilip Lovell and operated the stage station, post of- tain View Cemetery. fice, hotel and general[...]e line between Although he had no children of his own, he left a heritage Salt Lake City and Fo[...]relatives, friends and neighbors, and as Justice of verhead Wagon Road." the 1870 census identifies t[...]ed a place for changing horses, firm supporter of Beaverhead Valley all his life. dinner for the pa[...]-SALLY GARRETT DINGLEY was Tendoy, chief of the Lemhi. Rebecca Estes died in 1880 and is b[...]and the stage station soon after, partly put out of business by the coming of the Utah North- Born in Anamoose, North Da[...]e 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 mother taught school, Wes stayed with a German one of a dozen men who formed a land company to purchase[...]vestment tana. was $87 5. The actual signing of the deed took place on a hot Teachers lived at the various homes of the students and, sunny day (September 16,[...] |
| [...]of a pair of shoes, tied one end to the telephone and the[...]milking one of the cows.[...]was one of 13 children. When he reached school age he was Fa[...]Minnesota. He married Hattie Amelia Hunt in fond of kids because she used to knock Wes out of the buggy Anamoose, North Dakota, where th[...]as At recess the teenagers had their own form of recreation: well as maintenance w9rk on the[...]un! 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 e[...]m to put on over their shirt sleeves for the rest of the day. fear. He lived about two miles from th[...]started shaking. I ran out- threshing crew. Part of the time he was feeding the straw side and climbed up on a pile of fence posts, they fell down into the steam engine[...]ust and an electrical storm came up. They had one of the old too damn close to my eye[...] |
| [...]back east on the train with a setting of duck eggs on her lap.[...]ts in watercolor painting and oils. She sold many of her[...]Thornville, Ohio, November 28, 1888, the eldest of eight Ruth, David, Edith and Hattie holding Do[...]ther encouraged by the exciting tales of Montana from his[...]first job was in a law office and was of short duration. His[...]positions with the County, the most intriguing of which was just 20 miles from where they lived. Sh[...]he Treasurer and Assessor. As an assessor and tax of this and the coinciding fears in her early childh[...]averhead County on horseback, ap- About 1903, all of her family moved back to Virginia, so she pra[...]ence and personal, and poor. At the outbreak of World War I, Joe was Gilbert.[...]kota, and in ed and led a local contingent of volunteers to Fort George 1906 she married "Tom"[...]. In 1908 Corps and trained at Camp Johnston, Florida. As a top they came to the Centennial Valley and[...]eam, he served with the AEF stead in the east end of the Valley. in France[...]Armistice he returned to Montana, where on by one of the two mid-wives: Mamie "Ma" Buck or "Aunt"[...]aster, then managed the Em- Fannie was somewhat of a curiosity. "Ma" Buck made the ployment office, headed the Selective Service during World delivery and being the dead of winter, February 22, this was War II, owned a[...]the Credit Bureau in connec- something in the way of news. It spread via the "grapevine" tion with being the local agent for State Farm Insurance and one of the neighbor women made a call to see the newest[...]nd. The oldest girl said, "Well what do you think of her, Jesse?" After a few in a family of nine children, she was christened Anna Maria. seconds of deliberation she growled, "Guess she's alright -[...]ridges but cats look pretty damn good to me." End of discussion. area where she attended[...] |
| [...]Anna and Joe reared five daughters, all of whom married[...]a small group of customers in the neighborhood, raised rab-[...]source of countless jokes, particularly puns.[...]David and Florence to a ranch south of Butte.[...]d a three-year High School course with a Bachelor of 13, 1870, in Hardin County, Ken., to Jared[...]ked on the school lasted six months with a salary of $65 a month. She dredges in Alder Gulch. He w[...]asin Creek. Her youngest brother, John, pair of overshoes. When he came out to run over to the was one of her students at Basin Creek.[...]ded valuable assistance to Joe, when as Commander of did a lot of fur trapping. One day when riding a trap line, hi[...]throughout the state. horse fell and one of Tan's legs was broken badly. It was 20 Joe was[...]ans' affairs. He was a charter member and founder of Beaverhead Post 20 of the American Legion. Later he became State Commander of the Veterans of World War I. An active member of the Masonic Lodge, he held every Lodge office. He was a founder and active mem- ber of the Loyal Order of Moose. He was a member and treasurer of the Grace Methodist Church. Joe was an[...] |
| or 30 degrees below zero. He knew if he let go of old Shorty, he would freeze to death so he hung[...]fight Indians and too old to fly airplanes. One of his uncles was with Custer.[...]fornia in about 1923, where he worked acres of land. He ranched on that place for 20 years raisi[...]small. He used these horses as he had the job of carrying the sheep. He then worked for Sweeney[...]buried in About 1915, with the help of a neighbor by the name of ' Mountain View Cemetery, Dillon.[...]wo older brothers Alois, always had a lot of those old time tobacco cans on hand. No called[...]own as "Frank," to Mon- one sees those kind of tins any more. One had "Union Lead- tana in the[...]Frank, born Aug. 7, 1885, arrived in December of 1908. He sen) said .had he known that was al[...]herding sheep at The last that was heard of Dick Faten, he was living at Monida Pass.[...]e returned to Germany in about 1918 with the idea of[...]rly came west with their par- was one mile west of Melrose on Trapper Creek.[...] |
| [...]in the family until 1946. James Mauldin, brother of William, owned the Diamond 0 Ranch. He brought th[...]iver·. George Featherly married Louise Ehrick of Butte and the young couple went to the ranch of the parents. George was active in community affai[...]z- ing agriculture committees for the improvement of the in- dustry. He brought in such mechanical aid[...]xtension. In 1916 James Febes was one of the early pioneers who came to George was elected to the Senate of the State Legislature Beaverhead County, lured by the discovery of gold. Mr. and served in the sessions of 1918 and 1919. George and Febes was born[...]in Butte in many battles with the Company T of the 11th Illinois Vol- 1916. He worked on the ran[...]Febes and a partner found $3,000 worth of gold in one where he started the Beaverhead Bar S[...]he ness and had their corrals at the forks of the Blacktail. Mr. ranch. He also worked for Grae[...]ing in There is a story about his nickname of "Pickhandle Jim". 1915. He worked for the county[...]aundry for many years. wheel on the promise of it being returned shortly. The man Albert had a g[...]Mr. Febes was a Nancy married Emyrs White, son of B. F. White, presi- small man so he grabbed a pickhandle and beat up the dent of the First National Bank and a prominent Dillon[...]Joe C. Faller was a grand-nephew of Mr. Febes, who was Cecil, born in 1897, homest[...]many years before moving to a bachelor all of his life. He died in Dillon June 10, 1912 and Cal[...]one late 1880s with the railroad. A native of England, he was Kenith Featherly, living in Dillo[...]rn to this couple. Commander of the Guard in 1896. Louise Featherly die[...] |
| [...]ed in a bustle of steam, clanking side-rods, ringing bells and,[...]was coke for Editor's Note: The following account of the history of the Anaconda Co. When ACM converted to[...]partitioned and eight stalls removed from ployee of Union Pacific, now living in Idaho. service. This action was ratified some years later when p[...]of the roundhouse was torn down, a new wall erected[...]locomotive maintenance facilities in Mon- in service, was removed. tana were erected at Lima that year. After loss by fire of the When World War II came on the heels of this, the round- first wooden roundhouse in 1902,[...]for its signment at Lima rose to a total of 11 Mikado and 2-10-2 time and in it all necessary[...]uld be made to the class locomotives most of the time. Many engines were nev- largest power in[...]e an engine's spections and for repairs of more than the running variety. boiler could be ta[...]s places in the Lima railyard. driving thunder of 3500 class 2-8-8-0 Malletts and marveled It also[...]for at the flashing speed and brute power of the Challengers. roundhouse, depot and yard light[...]. This engine was equally at home on the head end of engines could be housed, a huge black coal chute[...]llations like a young mountain. sist of No. 35, the Butte Special, casually behind it. The lead and service tracks at the roundhouse and coal But[...]were a considerable complex. On them the business of house was closed. Lima never recove[...] |
| [...]change of operation to Dillon. It is a fact that movers and[...]ade the Union vice and two more fell. Then a loss of two jobs at the depot in Pacific to move its sh[...]appurtenances to fairly recent times. That change of operation, long talked of, Dillon. completed 24 years of agony for this tiny high-mountain Th[...]elegraph station call is "RD," house was stripped of machines and burned in 1957. The taken[...]ars metallic Morse standpipes were taken down and service tracks removed. code sang down the wir[...]ockyard But there are memories for some of us. There is the sound, track and the "wye" on wh[...]is a huffing, grunting counterpoint of exhausts exploding as turned, remain.[...]two huge Malletts wrestle a southbound train out of town, A three-story ice house, 20 by 40 feet,[...]nting The water tank was sold in the early 1960s. Of 15 houses tension of an impending arrival of the work needed to get once owned by the Union Pacific and occupied by employ- the train out of town. ees, only three remain. The depot will go a[...]air- railroad obtains permission from the Public Service Com- driven grease gun drives lubricatio[...]torn down ings in quick, explosive exhalations of compressed air. Hot by railroad crews and the last vestige of the operation will be cinders, glowing with fir[...]t into an empty tender and water by the thousands of ago. The last move completed gutting of the town. Aside gallons gushes into a d[...]a twinkling, other effects just as serious. Three of four members of the flamboyant "high ball" and the Hogger w[...]rot- town council and the mayor had to leave. One of the town's tle. And Morse will clatter in[...], calling dozen schoolchildren, church, lodge and service organiza- Alerdyce, calling Spring Hill,[...]many people now in Lima victim to it. The advent of bigger, better steam engines was never had t[...]n the rampaging thun- instrumental in the closing of helper stations at Dillon, der of the magnificent Challengers. They never heard the[...]Lima exhaust, the hesitant, poetic rhythm of the one-lung gas for many years.[...] |
| THE CITY OF DILLON[...]then suggested building 130 miles of track in the territory in AND[...]return for fifteen years of exemption from taxation. This[...]urned down and the line was eventually THE COMING OF THE[...]the residents of Montana were estimated to be paying ap-[...]eight charges per year and it was From the time of the Stevens survey in 1853-55, Montan-[...]ce that amount by one- ans had lived in the hopes of a railroad. With a population half. growt[...]the region. or quartz, an actual demand for rail service developed. The Both the Northern Pacific a[...]anies proposed volved, as they were producing ore of such quality and in building to the heart of the silver mining country at Butte such amounts b[...]is situation led to plans for a railroad from the south. ienced difficulty when they approached the[...]ters as well as a an Reservation north of Pocatello because they could not connection with[...]ntal Union Pacific that obtain a right of way. Many different proposals were !!lade had completed its line at Promontory Summit north of the and rejected until one official hit upon the idea of giving the Great Salt Lake in 1869. However, peop[...]The Northern Pacific had reached the end of the reservation, ride to the other end, and then[...]3. Be- for another train and so on. cause of the depression and financial panic, the railhead[...]Falls) and proceeded north. The southern border of Mon- began to revive with federal land grants, an[...]tana Territory was aproached in the fall of 1879, and the time construction was starting in U[...]. Railroad This railroad, originated by members of the Brigham officials had predicted[...]l, Mt.) before winter, but the severe weather and south of the Union Pacific Lines. By 1878 the line had[...]ers stopped at Beaver and Northern. In the spring of 1878, the railroad construct- Canyon, so did the movable town of Terminus. Terminus ed forty miles of a track north of the Utah-Idaho border and was an instant to[...]established wherever it was asked the legislature of Montana to subsidize them in the conveni[...]o. Terminus was located at different times amount of $5,000 for every mile of track laid. The legislature at the present site of Spencer, Idaho; Red Rock (Dell), Dil- approved th[...]Traveling along with Terminus was a group of enterpris- ing businessmen. One of them was a forty-two year old man never walked by[...]named Benjamin Franklin White. White, a man of many of hot steel, hot steam and hot oil.[...]e principal agent for railroad artist Howard Fogg of Boulder, Colo., to do the the Utah and Northern. For a commission, his company of pictures. He photographed the Lima Peaks, under which Sebree, Ferris, White received shipments of merchandise, Lima nestles, and did a water color[...]ailroad published in its Centennial year. He says of it, points in Montana. "One of the most beautiful spots on the entire UP system." Other residents of Terminus were carpenters and tent So, another t[...]lacksmiths, hotel and restaurant or sa- the snarl of 20,000 diesel horses and shake the earth with the[...]dry goods clerks and other merchants kept hammer of steel wheels on steel rails.[...]s in this, the first railroad town residents of Terminus. The town usually consisted of about ever in Montana Territory.[...] |
| [...]lumber dealer, kept busy unloading many carloads of Rattlesnake Cliffs. Included in the group w[...]tes. Washington Dunn decided to renew the laying of rails. It They went to Deacon's place and[...]tist, led the crowd in a few songs and Several of the group objected and wanted to end the discus- a Miss Rilla Lingo opened bottles of champagne. Telegraph sion then and there.[...]con aside, messages were received from the mayors of Butte and He- offered him $100 cash on t[...]s were attached to the first silver spike noon of September 13. Deacon accepted, Morse gave him and[...]2-2-1-2-1-1. Children from Termi- on a scrap of paper. nus drove the second spike and Montana cel[...]urveyed and layed out in lots. Helena and arrival of railroad transportation.[...]ake. Businessmen from Butte and tion of lots was planned for the following Monday. In hon[...]promote their cities to the railroad by of the construction superintendent, the group agreed to call arguing the advantages of their cities. Utah and Northern the new co[...]ton Dunn was happy about the removal of Deacon from the By May of 1880, the Utah and Northern had decided they[...]July they had gested Sidney Dillon, President of the Union Pacific Rail- made the decision to buil[...]at Glendale. This camp would have been at of money on a table. Lambert Eliel, acting as trustee, col- the present location of Melrose. Before the track-laying lected t[...]nnack on September 16, 1880. Listed as purchasers of the As the building crews proceeded down the B[...]ver, they found their way blocked at the junction of the uel Holt, Simeon Estes, Louis C. Fyhrie[...]White, E.M. Ratcliff, Wilden Pinkham, by the name of Richard Deacon owned a 480 acre ranch that[...]name does not appear on the deed because he side of the valley. The railroad had to cross his propert[...]n- could have had the land condemned by the right of eminent ning of Dillon had sprouted on Deacon's ranch. Eager mer-[...]out of their tent. Dunn knew the railroad would not g[...]:30. Mrs. John H. chase, so he approached several of the businessmen of Ter- Kupfer paid $400 in gold for the first Dillon lot at the south- minus with a deal. If they would buy the land and provide a east corner of Montana and Helena streets. James Kirkpat- right of way, he guaranteed to establish the winter camp a[...]rd Eliel and E.N. Ratcliff pur- that spot instead of further north along the Big Hole River. chase[...]businessmen knew the offer was an attrac- of the prime locations had been sold and the town co[...]ted into a town- quickly sold $14,000 worth of lots and made a profit of site and lots could be sold at a good profit. The[...]nd passenger traffic in The instant town of Dillon took shape in ten days. The Montana[...] |
| [...]Gulch mining district, and even the 347.6 miles of three-foot gauge track was the longest narrow[...]d Northern crews operated In the spring of 1881, the railroad continued north to twenty-thr[...]lon over the next several years. In September of 1883 the northbound arrived at 6:40 P.M. Schedul[...]ne reported there was nearly a continuous stretch of also traveled north and south. Three stage lines, one owned wood sidewalk[...]rous fires wiped by a Charley Reeder, fanned out of Dillon to provide passen- out many of the early wooden buildings. When they burned, ger service to the rest of Montana. Dillon was full of horse, they were usually replaced with well bu[...]ughout Mon- The Corinne Hotel was a victim of fire and was replaced on tana. By December of 1880, B.F. White reported over thirty- the s[...]l in 1897. The block donat- three million pounds of freight had arrived by rail and near- ed by th[...]ly con- During the months following September of 1880, the structed two story school wa[...]ces and the second was used nus through a series of temporary towns made decisions for the[...]that became known as the Bagley Building. April of 1881 when Terminus was moved to Melrose. On[...]High School was built on the site of the present building in In January of 1881, Beaverhead County Representative 1902. William B. Davis had gone to the 12th session of the Mon- Several prominent homes were c[...]islature and introduced a bill calling for that of William C. Orr at the end of Idaho Street. Mr. Orr an election to move the co[...]1883 and finished it in 1884 or 1885. Residents of Dillon quickly acted to get the bill through the[...]ature and the election held before the resumption of families of his five sons. Phil Poindexter had built a similar railroad construction deprived the town of much of its pop- house called the Cottonwoods three miles south of town but -ulation. The decision of Hiram Brundage, editor of the it was destroyed by fire. Many bric[...]llon be- per called the Tribune, helped. A group of twenty-two men, came an incorporated city and B.F. White became the first a combination of townsite officials and ranchers and farm- mayor. White remained the recognized leader of the town ers who were in the valley when the rai[...]last territorial pledged $20,000 to pay the cost of moving county records to governor of Montana. Several other Dillon men have served Di[...]r lieutenant governors. Among them are R.B. free of cost to the taxpayers for five years. The electio[...]Gosman, and J.B. Poindexter who was the governor of the the county seat by a vote of 665-495. The almost new, Territory of Hawaii. $14,000 courthouse in Bannack became the[...]stop construction for the winter had worth of lots, some of them bringing as much as $3,000. guaranteed only several months of profitable business. Sev- Dillon's population climbed rapidly and the group of far- eral things worked in Dillon's favor[...] |
| [...]back end of the stage on the running gears of his wagon and Line, Early 1900s[...]th head- Dillon, which is the county seat of Beaverhead County, quarters in Wisdom, Mont., and[...]raised, lived, and had a ranch a few miles north of remember any other passengers but they chang[...]. He said that Wisdom was the main the side of the road. In those days horses were afraid of headquarters; there they had a blacksmith shop fo[...]the equipment and harness, and kept the many head of was a curved-dash Oldsmobile, probably a[...]Wisdom, and it caused many a runaway of horse rigs. I think In the morning when the st[...], seven miles from Di- regular touring car of that era. vide. At Dewey they changed the four-ho[...]ssengers seat and got up and rode alongside of me on the way to the ate their noon meal. At Rals[...]articular- It must have required 25 to 32 head of horses to keep the ly liked was very young. I[...]e driver was quite a fellow to kid the front axle of the stage looking like a runaway chariot ar[...]that experience as plain as if it was yesterday. of the stage through the ditch but the rear wheels w[...]l the king pin on the field place just out of Wise River, was rather late in the front axle bro[...]bring the body from Wisdom driver with a handful of lines. that day.[...]the neighbor, John Lawrence, about three-quarters of a mile spring wagon showed up fro[...] |
| [...]Monida, which lies 70 miles west of Yellowstone Park, is F. Jay Haynes, the officia[...]near the Continental Divide at the boundary line of Mon- photographer, recognized that there was no tourist service tana and Idaho. Monida was the site where the first railroad, to the west entrance of the park. At this time the Huntley the Utah and Northern (a branch line of the Union Pacific) Stage Line operated into the p[...]from another gateway. The outfit first consisted of was taken to the graveyard, I remember a grown la[...]o me that this lady larger before the end of its operations. was the boy's mother and it was a[...]e same story about the posse that couple of saloons at which they could stay and entertain fo[...]themselves until the stage left. patch of buck brush as he fled, and before they could cap-[...]been true, fast pace. Thirty miles out of Monida the stage went but many people doubted it.[...]el, general store, post In my memories I think of Divide, the town where the office and[...]used steam power for pumping the water to the top of Then it was on to Dwelle's for the overn[...]old Divide railroad station was moved to the top of sional and knew their trade well. They wo[...]hind him and then houses along with the long line of warehouses that stood by snap it forward.[...]off the ear of a horse with his whip and never touch the The[...]durable coaches made. They had a suspension of leaf-type summer months. When the old warehouses disappeared so springs made out of thick leather taken from the thick part did the old Divide general store. Just above the railroad of the hide along the back. This suspension resulted[...]stage having a ride similar to the rocking of a boat on the where us kids liked to go with our[...]bright red and were kept as clean always assured of a piece of Pat's hard candy. as possible[...]like raincoats. and stage station. North of town was the railroad stockyards The sta[...]tlers in the valley, such as In 1916 a carload of Yellowstone Park elk was shipped to J .L. Blake, who owned matched teams of horses (usually Divide where they were released o[...]rses and themselves as drivers to was the starter of the elk herd in that area.[...] |
| Cost of the round-trip between Monida and the west en-[...]was a large section house on the right side west of One time, between the Continental Divide and Henr[...]which brought ore from Polar- ger was thrown out of the stage, hit a tree, broke her neck, is. The[...]and died at the scene. From then on that stretch of road was side of the track near the Donovan-Morse Ranch. At first[...]there was also a water tank on the north side of the Brenner The season for the Monida to West[...]h, with water pumped from the first stream on the of the M-Y would last three to four months, usually[...]ilroad was supposed to have been around the first of June into September. built[...]ic run through the Centennial Valley was ter- of the Barrett Hospital in Dillon. However, distance and minated because of the advent of faster and more efficient insufficient custo[...]ony, Idaho, to West Yellowstone and North of Brenner's was an ore dock where ore hauled the fi[...]Yellowstone Mines were on the west side of Bloody Dick Creek near the portion of the M-Y was shut down. The M-Y Stage Line[...]to continued to operate in the Park until the end of the 1916 handle Medicine Lodge coal but ther[...]e M-Y Line added immense- ly to the economic base of the Valley, although sheep and cattle ranching was by far the mainstay of settlers who lived there. Gilmore & Pittsb[...]h railroad began building in |
| The building of the G & P railroad cost about six million DILL[...]Harbor occurred before it left port. The tion of material on my part, here is the product railroad[...]thanks to the skillful pen of Fielding H. Graves, past- Some of the railway right-of-way became part of Highway secretary of Dillon Lodge 16, AF&AM. 324 through the Horse Pra[...]Grand Historian, Masons of Montana -RUBY P[...]County was Meriwether Lewis, co-captain of the Lewis and[...]record of Masons in the county is noted until gold was[...]rasshopper Creek near Bannack on July 28, "Father of Masonry in Mon-[...]The first arrivals came with no idea of remaining; their tana"[...]go on to other fields. They did not think of themselves as Born at Westmoreland, N.Y., on A[...]n., in 1854 and curity and all the other marks of civilization were absent was one of that city's first bankers and Masonic leaders. from their minds. It was almost 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 conduct[...]rce with his own others) the first informal Lodge of Masons on the Continen- two fists and his gun.[...]ere for their growth, and first Worshipful Master of Bannack Lodge. Following Mon- they were quick to take full advantage of the state of things. tana's designation as a territory in 1864[...]Secretly and powerfully they organized into one of the most pointed territorial collector of internal revenue. efficient and deadl[...]t them; and the honest miner, not the Grand Lodge of Montana during its organizational knowi[...]he land, and jor honors: Election as Grand Master of Montana Masons robbery, murder and lawles[...]allowed to run almost and appointment as governor of Montana Territory by unrestrained. Pre[...]uses in the camp came on Langford was a member of the Washburn-Langford- November 12, 1862. William H. Bell, a miner, lay dying of Doane Expedition which discovered the Yellowstone[...]unt~in fever," and he requested marvels in August of 1870. He was appointed the first super- that N.[...]sent to his bedside. Langford gives us intendent of Yellowstone Park and remained in that post[...]During that same period he was meeting of these two men must have been filled with drama. n[...]as thrust out from the covers, and his at the age of 79.[...]hear the weak voice intone the various words of identifica-[...]with Langford his promise to try MASONIC HISTORY OF to fu[...]solemn rites of the craft. By FIELDING H. GRAVES and F. LEE GRA[...]lity When I was asked to do the Masonic history of Bea- to carry out Brother Bell's request. He had no way of know- verhead County, I initially began to collect all the ing how many members of the fraternity were in the camp; papers and facts[...]raves had written years ago called of Brother C.J. Miller on the evening of the day of Brother "BEGINNINGS OF MONTANA MASONRY AND[...] |
| [...]appointed place. They The Grand Lodge of Nebraska in due time granted the then moved to la[...]ir 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 declared the Bannack applicants to be a "Lodge of express office."[...], First Langford gives a very moving portrayal of Brother Bell's Master; Brother James Dyke,[...]al application for a charter from the Grand Lodge of at Alder Gulch on May 26th, 1863, and B[...]r. It remained in the possession cious attentions of Plummer and his road agents who felt of Brother Langford for several years, and he later[...]chives. It, along with many other guarded secrecy of tyled lodge. Plummer himself requested v[...]or so, lodges had been formed at Virginia leader of the banditry was not known at that time and he[...]oned the Montana Grand There is definite proof of the fear in which the road agents Lodge for a[...]nted the charter which without equivocation, that of the 102 murders which are thereby form[...]P .J. Kelly, Senior Warden, George M. Brown, one of those 102 was a Mason! There is also the definite[...]ter, Treasurer, and A.F. statement made that none of the road agents was a member Graeter, Secretary. of the Masonic order. This also is probably true.[...]e 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 rea[...]nced almost simultaneously to take the initiative of lower floor. This building stands today.[...]tains of the northwestern part of the Beaverhead. Billy To me there is too much[...]ed the rich galena out- rect, against this matter of coincidence. The first Vigilante croppings of an ore deposit 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 Vigilante oath was swo[...]rich ore in quantity on a high limestone mountain of Bannack were too soon aware of these happenings, and at the head of Trapper Gulch. Other claims were taken up, their[...]ed and were acting in harmony as an integral part of the came into being. new organization.[...]At first the high grade ore, much of it worth a thousand I feel that this rules out[...]er towns and secured the coopera- crossing of the main stage road over Trapper Creek. The tion of the Bannack brothers. The road agent's spy system name of the town was decided by a flip of a coin, "Clinton" was so efficient that he could[...]mes proposed. Glendale won. ing or even a meeting of a very few trusted men without By 1[...]a bustling, booming, community Plummer's knowing of it; but as Langford had written, the[...] |
| [...]ood school house with accommodations for of 1888, a committee was appointed to procure a corn[...]e. Then on July 27, 1888, a Special Communication of a Mason, incidentally, and later a charter member of Dillon Grand Lodge was called to lay the cornerstone of this pre- Lodge) and in future years to become st[...]ilding. M.W. Brother Cornelius Hedges presided at of public instruction.[...]ee dry goods stores, seven or The fortunes of the mining camp of Glendale began to eight grocery stores, and 13 sa[...]onfectionaries, a brewery, a photo- nication of Dillon Lodge 30 on February 22, 1908, with graph[...]Grand Master S.C. Kenyon present and in charge of the dale also boasted a fine brass band. The camp[...]the Masons of Dillon and Glendale worked together as Dil- The Masons of Glendale early found each other, repeat- l[...]bone was the first master; Wm. C. ing the pattern of all such mining camps, and were shortly Orr[...]e on May 12, 1921, a Special Communication of Dillon Lodge charter granted September 16, 1880,[...]ming Glen- 23 was called for the purpose of consolidation with Ban- dale Lodge 23. The first[...]dw. Thom- 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 charge of the craft. He 21 Mast.e r Masons, one Fellowcraft[...]charters of Dillon 23 and Bannack 16, and informed the In[...]Hathaway mines with the Union Pacific rail points of Idaho and Utah, then stated that the first order of business was the election came into the Beaverhead, and where the rail terminus of officers of the consolidated lodges for the remainder of stopped for the winter, there came into being our present the current Masonic Year. day city of Dillon. The town grew rapidly, and it soon be- By unanimous vote, all officers of the Dillon Lodge were came evident that Dillon wo[...]Thus were the fortunes and earliest days of Dillon Mason- the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Montana, AF&AM. ry. We see that in its three-quarters of a century the lodge Christian Mead, First Master of Bannack 16, became the has worked under three different numbers: a situation First Master of Dillon 30; William C. Orr, S.W.; W.R. Gil-[...]; W.H. Dorchester, secre- through our brethren of Glendale and Bannack, are the tary; George W. Dar[...]act In addition to Bro. Mead, I note the names of Gilbert, Orr, that, through our ancient brethre[...]er who had all been charter mem- history of Montana and the early history of Masonry were bers of Bannack Lodge. A few other names among Dillon's one and the same. charter members which might be of interest can be listed; In 1893 Masonic[...]raeter, and had the hearty endorsement of the Dillon Lodge. On Alexander Garvin, Fidel Hube[...]Evergreen Lodge No. 45 at Lima. The officers name of Richard Deacon. It was he from whom the townsite[...]1893, Evergreen Lodge No. 45 at there was thought of acquiring larger quarters, and in June Lima has grown to 42 as of the latest census.[...] |
| [...]c census. The founding officers were: The roots of our fraternity are deep in the past, and from the[...]traveling upon the Level of Time and that our eye mu t It is fitting now an[...]c at the Poindexter House, five mile outh of Dillon, about 1916.[...] |
| [...]Lodge No. 273 - Dillon, Montana At the turn of the century and shortly after Montana became a st[...]so it happened that to _this southwestern corner of Montana came many Danish people, seeking their fo[...]would soon follow. Thus did the first generation of Danish families develop in this area. To prese[...]moved toward organization. Permis- sion was asked of the Danish Brotherhood in America to begin a lodg[...]turalization and citi- zenship in this huge state of Montana. A charter granting the founding of Lodge No. 273 was[...]Baseball - Sagebrush Style received in December of 1908, with 31 members enrolled. On During[...]picnicked, their children, met at the ranch home of Peder C. Peterson visited, and probably cour[...]Precinct to celebrate the New Year, the new of such a group with Bald Mountain in the background[...]reminiscent of those "good old days." Jackson, Polaris and[...]This photo of the Bannack Team was taken in 1914: Front[...]KAJIN Brotherhood charter, and this new sense of ethnic commu- |
| [...]uted. At a signal from their coach, The Fourth-of-July celebrations in our town ranked with[...]begin using the sledge. A many miles around, most of them riding in wagons or bug- good team could make the change without breaking the gies of all descriptions, with the horses' harnesses made rhythm of the sledge-beat, and could drill a hole at a rate of brilliant by ribbons and multi-colored celluloid[...]ess children About noon, the governor of the state or perhaps a United could sneak out of their homes without being caught, spoil- S[...]. By mount the bandstand for the oration of the day. And it was eight o'clock, the crowd was[...]lorid oratory. There would be a lull in the crash of explo- the celebration would be held. The street[...]could not compete with gunpowder. At that time of day, all attention was centered on the[...]eople would eventually crawl into ed with members of the Butte militia in their blue uniforms, b[...]home, canvas leggings, and campaign hats. Throngs of Butte peo- had ceased to revolve. ple got off the trains, among them the members of the Bos- ton and Montana Band, said to be one of the two best bands in the nation at that time. Wh[...]a. There would be our Before the turn of the century, oil was known to be pre- own militia[...]rn and one from the Red Mens' Lodge, and a couple of hundred portion of Beaverhead County. The vast amount of high- actual Indians, in full regalia, from the L[...]eet, stop the beds would be great pools of the black gold, and so the its team with a flouri[...]me Smallhorn Canyon shale beds, 10 miles south of Dillon. one or two teams of horses would have run away, adding to They drilled to a depth of 500 feet, where they encountered the general exci[...]igneous rock formations instead of the oil-bearing sands for People crowded the sidewalk on the business side of the which they had hoped. With dreams of success all but gone, street until it was almost[...]gs supporting 12-inch planks lined the outer edge of abandoned, and the company disbanded. Thus[...]sidewalk, placed there for people who were tired of subsided ...... .. walking or standing[...]terrific and sustained. The interest of oil development resurfaced between the Every smal[...]y Basin pellets were exploded by pounding the end of the cane on shale beds west of Dell. Two wells were drilled to a depth of the sidewalk. Firecrackers were exploding everywh[...]ker through the bung hole into a beer keg. Pieces of that keg blew half a block away. There were 14 sa[...]s championship in rock drilling. A team consisted of two men, one to hold a drill and the other to hit the drill with Proud owners of the Company taking delivery of ma- a sledge hammer, or double-jack. The holes we[...]chinery for their plant in 1917. Note north end of an enormous block of granite. After each sledge blow, the[...] |
| with sufficient depth to prove or disprove the presence of oil However, a strong flow of gas was encountered in one of the wells at 100 feet; although a hopeful indicator, it was of no known value during that period of time. During 1916, the Beaverhead-Alberta Oil[...]and around the shale bed in Smallhorn Canyon, two of which were drilled to depths of 2,500 feet without striking a producing sand. Dis[...]nited 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- tion opened a new door to the possibilities of the oil develop- ment, and again the fever began[...]y. Early in 1917 C. W. Robnett and Alex Walker of Butte, Anna J. Perrault and Alex Hansen of Anaconda, and James H. McKay of Dillon incorporated the Dillon Oil Company for the purpose of mining, refining and marketing oil from the shale[...]r Robnett with twenty-five thousand dollars (most of which was his own money) moved to Dillon to establish the plant and encourage the support of Edgar Kenison beside refinery of the Dillon Oil Co. Dillon people to buy shares of stock in the company. It was[...]kholders and Following are the names of the trustees and major share- actively participat[...]r considered to be an experimental primitive form of distilla- Kenison, H. A. MacMillan, and C. W. Robison. Some of the tion but little more was known of the actual workings of the local small shareholders (of which there were over 200) process as its secrecy[...]C. and R. M. Gilbert, Grant and John Kenison, J. of Edgar Kenison standing beside the process has bee[...]ony and Matt Zugel. is the way we get the oil out of the rock ... we cook it out!") Using a new method of distillation, they managed to The first two ye[...]showed development over a long period of time. Disappointed, they they were growing with assets of over $84,000. However, disbanded the co[...]beginning to have a cash flow problem. By the end of 1919 it wasn't meant to succeed at this time[...]trans- fortune was realized in the sale of liquor to Indians. One of ferred all the shares of the previous shareowners from the the stan[...]venture or simply rotgut-called for one part of whisky or alcohol, would not make "oil barons" of them, their motives were to 10 parts of water, and equal parts of tobacco and cayenne develop a stable industry tha[...]color and potency. Price for the growing numbers of young men who wished to re- of a horse was four gallons of that stuff. main in the area, and economic[...] |
| [...]inches. Eventually the pond was a grid of squares. Then ice- saws cut one row of blocks free to provide a "floating chan- IC[...]nel" -a long row of open space into which rows of ice blocks[...]four-pronged. Spudding broke whole sections of the plowed[...]ice loose. These sections consisting of eight to 12 blocks were[...]e! one-pronged bar, could be delegated to persons of[...]as a rope and pulley assembly, powered by a team of[...]load of ice to be shoved up. Repeating this round all day[...]mpting to sup- demanded physical endurance of the better kind, for which ply Dillon with ice fr[...]se in a more pay was received. swamp northwest of the city. An old ox-bow in the Beaver- As the blocks went over the top of the chute, men head River, two miles southwest of town, near where the equipped with prod-[...]ly thirties. The ice depending on the thickness of the ice. Dry sawdust was then pond was the essential portion of Sam Patterson's Ranch. packed around the[...]ce-houses, a frame residence (still the top of the ice for insulation. occupied in '80), barns a[...]With summer's warmth came the appearance of the Ice few hundred acres were largely pasture fo[...]Patterson in smaller type below. Of course orders were also Even though grass grew[...]y phone and the "regulars" relied on the ice-man, of the empty pond during the summer, some debris and[...]d in John Holm was the last and best liked of the "ice-age- the fall. All this was floated over[...]times was a sparkling clear stream with a minimum of pollution. emptying the forgotten melted w[...]occasional nippy canine-passing a Issac Waltons, of which Nellie Paige Patterson was one. An fe[...]opper baited hook chips from the back of the truck to thirsty kids. caught many finny beau[...]les The pond water, frozen to an optimum depth of 18 inches from the ranch to a small town sh[...]followed by the initial ice-plow cut, the length of the pond. But, man, it was a cool business[...]lades cut a one-half inch wide channel to a depth of about one foot. A series of three plows -H[...]extent, but all should avail themselves of the necessary pre- groove-slide attached a[...] |
| [...]incursions of the Blackfoot Indians, banding together for[...]a trading post. found on Lawrence Creek, a branch of the Blacktail; a fine The Indians found by[...]were modified from their forebears because of their recent acqui- found in conjunction with a camp of primitive man on the sition of the horse, which had drastically changed their way headwaters of Horse Prairie, and there is a Medicine ring, of life, allowing them to travel great distances, an[...]been found, and the roofs Arrow points typical of 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 her[...]r area. Sho- ty.They also used wickiups made of brush, old poles, cov- shone pottery was found in[...]covered An~ient men, probably the forerunners of the Indians with pine needles or whatever[...]and keep out the cold air. We have had a number of these ly, Lewis and Clark met the Shoshone Indian[...]owever, some are still Sacajawea Park at the head of Trail Creek commemorates standing. this m[...]pees. We also are able to find artifacts not only of arrow- The Flathead Indians summered in the Bi[...]ne bowls, grinding bowls, and named it the valley of the ground squirrels. The Indians knives, scrap[...]bone meat chippers. The artifacts are those of the recent hunt would return to the mountains where they would pre-history Indians and of their more ancient forebears. break up into small[...]them. Later, due to the depre- country. Many of the early trappers joined Indian tribes, dation of the Blackfoot, they would travel on the old India[...]bri- trail (which was from Black Butte where all of the trails gades brought Indians from other tribes, such as the Dela- joined), then down the other side of the Gravelly, crossing wares, Iroquois and eve[...]feet deep. source of sweetening was the inner bark of cottonwood and On the North Fork of the Big Hole, General Gibbons certain pi[...]d the tools used caught Chief Joseph and his band of Nez Perce Indians and can still be found in certain groves of trees. was whipped by them August 9, 1877. A gran[...]country became popu- was brought to mark the site of this battle, one of the two lated, fur was already gone, and the I[...]isplaced, 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[...]n- game was gone, the fur was gone, their way of life had been ty.[...]hort time before they were Father DeSmet tells of traveling slowly up the Centennial rendered pow[...]bits, fishing in The Beaverhead Valley was one of the favorite wintering the river, doing the best that they could. As Chief Tendoy grounds of the Bannock, Shoshone, Nez Perce, and Flath-[...]ly remarked, "Life was hard." ead Indians because of its comparatively mild and open Chief[...]a poker game with the P & 0 Chinese cook and some of[...] |
| [...]ound Dillon. Both Chief Tendoy and gardener of the Indian profile, the natural vegetation re- th[...]waterfall south of Barrett's station. Other photographers[...]lon around the turn of the century. The doctor left instruc-[...]hat the negative should never fall into the hands of[...]after Elmo Winn's death. Elmo was a relative of Dr. Walker.[...]Indians of Medicine Lodge[...]tion near Blackfoot, Idaho. But the group of Lemhis that Indian profile at warm springs waterfall south of Dil-[...]ver- part of Chief Tendoy's tribe. They lived on the Lemhi Val[...]es. Beaverhead Valley has been the unique site of two unusu- If they came in by way of Pass Creek, they would always al natural phenomen[...]y fall when the pine An Indian head silhouette of a chief in full ceremonial nut seeds were re[...]. They gathered the headdress has been the object of much curiosity from the seeds and carried them back in buckskin bags to their win- time of the first white explorers and fur trappers until[...]uette 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 of Camp Fortu- standing. nate where the Lewis[...]n. In fact, the huge image has The group of Indians that Bob knew well were Jim and caused so[...]le groups. There were about 20 have been the work of an Indian artist or group. The region adults[...]one year and Roy's the a crossroads in the route of tribal migrations. In reality, a next. T[...] |
| [...]or for >ath, for colds or fevers. The root juice of sage was used for ore eyes. Some of the berries were juniper berries, wild aspberri[...]icine Lodge The Indians never wasted any part of a killed animal. Gvery portion was used includin[...]in it. If you wanted yellow leather, they amrod of some sort and held over hot ashes until cooked would dry the skins over smoldering fire of dry willows. If hrough. They usually ate the war[...]willows, and if you wanted a white skin, the hair of the ery much like a raw oyster.[...]and burn little holes in They liked all types of strenuous games, loved to run the teepee[...]of the night by squealing, yelping, howling and chan[...]the change of the moon.[...]The Hildreths have many stories of their lives around the[...]last time any of the Indians came to Medicine Lodge.[...]They were my friends." Remains of teepee at Pass Creek[...] |
| [...]logical Survey made a study of the cave and its contents. Quring the winter of 1857-58, Beaverhead Valley became Carl M. Davis Jr., a member of the crew, wrote a scientific the refuge for the Stuart brothers and their party. They report of their findings. chose to depart from California,[...]Their study revealed the occupants were probably of the States, about the time of the Mormon uprising in the terri- Tukadika Shoshone Tribe, and inhabited the cave between tory of Utah, then known as Deseret. The United States[...]on foot, as contrasted with other sub-tribes of the Shoshone The Mormon troops were patrolling[...]uld neither return facts found in the floor of the cave as deep as 16 inches to California nor p[...]suggest the cave was the winter home for a family of pedes- crossing the continental divide at Monida,[...]lacktail Creek Davis also made a study of the wickiups on Pass Creek at to its confluence with the Beaverhead River where Dillon the head of Medicine Lodge. These lodges were still in use no[...]ayer would take a polished bone in north of the present two plunges. A small wickiup five or[...]t tall was in place in the trees a few yards west of the he had sufficiently bewildered his opponent,[...]t every- ties, along with the dense stand of lodgepole pine trees, to thing they owned on this[...]make room for the parking area now west of the two swim- This encampment was spread betwe[...]the Beaverhead River, probably to the confluence of the These small lodges differ from tepees, in that they are two streams, between the townsite of Dillon and Lover's smaller, the framew[...]was found by John David at 511 peak of the tepee has two adjustable flaps to control the South Rife Street.[...]e village. They particularly liked the confluence of two streams. Another favorite place was the mouth of a canyon[...]rovided protection from the rear and a broad view of the valley below. A prom- The Pishkin[...]y was desirable as an observation point. Evidence of Pishkin is the Indian name for a "buf[...]pishkin was a cliff over which buffalo were areas of Beaverhead County. driven to kill large numbers at one time. On top of the cliff, Campsites can be located from remains of stone chipping two wings were erected ext[...]and fine flakes. Workable material available of the cliff to form a V. The wings consisted of piles of rocks, in this area include: obsidian, basalt, fl[...]were forced over the cliff. roots. Only in areas of soil erosion are they presently visible. At the bottom of the drop, several Indians were stationed,[...]nts, hafting tools facing north, in a narrow part of the canyon. Early settlers in and secur[...] |
| Armstead, south west of lake, near old Barina ~k-R e d R~ ck roa d[...] |
| [...]in the mid 1880s over a wood fire. Another method of preserving meat was by and Dillon was no ex[...]vative, the berries would extend the keeping time of November 27, 1884. Supporters boasted, "Rol[...]mincemeat. possesses the same pleasures of the waltz, and the 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 handsome companion, whose light and lithe- pref[...]is a sheer cliff on own to the measured time of a dreamy waltz, is not to be the west side of the Beaverhead River just a mile or two compared with ordinary pleasure." south of Dillon. This row of cliffs can be seen to the west This promi[...]on Another pishkin is located on the east fork of Blacktail provided lessons. The Pavilion als[...]De- thority asserts there is no danger of producing a concussion partment of Fish and Game. of the brain." Other methods of entrapment were used as well as the A[...]- peded into swamps to bog down, or into a pocket of deep sic by the Dillon brass band, boys'[...]men's three-mile race, then a free-for-all layer of bones and stone tools which remain.[...]nd that lasted late into the The Antiquity Law of the United States forbids the exca- night. F[...]guests attended the festivities that first vation of these historic sites on public land, other than b[...]As winter progressed, the popularity of the Pavilion contin- Twenty miles north of Dillon and a few miles west of Glen ued to grow. Concerned citizens began to worry when their are remains of a primitive game trap, apparently built to[...]in the adults also began to skip worship service, voices began to the timber and consists of winged runways, a ramp, and a cry out fro[...]nto the run- nipped in the bud and the youth of Dillon were warned to ways, up the ramp, and into[...]s. By then local talented skaters had es- Some of the logs still show blackened ends. One method[...]en and boys in such trunk was wrapped with a band of mud a few inches from categories as mid[...]ould skating rinks, calling them cesspools of immorality. Catho- fell the tree. Most. of the logs used in the structure average lic and Methodist clergy accused the rinks of promoting six inches. Much of the trap had deteriorated by the late elopements, clandestine marriages and social evils of the 1940's, but enough remained to determine how[...]By the end 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 guided to the site by[...]d to control the problems. Trouble James LaMarche of Melrose, who first saw it in 1903 while co[...]e working in the Lost Creek area. James D. Keyser of the down on them. "Owing to the promiscuous character of the University group wrote a detailed report of its construction crowds that are permitted to[...]suggests the trap was construct- are breeders of seduction, elopement and divorces." Legis-[...] |
| [...]ered one of the best rink structures in the territory. A sec-[...]tion of the newly installed 12-foot wide wooden sidewalk[...]leaders probably gave a unanimous prayer of thankfulness[...]By the end of April, the people who were temporarily[...].~ Dillon. After years of fire losses, many that destroyed entire t:"-4[...]t:-4 blocks of businesses and residences, some men organized[...]tion in Dillon. The foundation of the Dillon Brewery had[...]n laid and the brick walls, under the supervision of Mi- ~[...]". . . . . the son of a b-- did not get action on his gun[...]evening of August 12, 1894; for that afternoon he had fired[...]two leaden bullets into the head of Frank G. Hunter, bar-[...]George Metlen, 23-year-old son of Dave and Eliza Metlen, ~ve:ryl;:,[...]ral freight wagons stopped; for rest, every night of the week, but by February, 1886, pressure[...]conversation, or perhaps a change of horses. Teamsters who from the clergy on the town[...]were in the yard at the time of the shooting were Noah the Pavilion was open only[...](Parris), and Abner Leacock (grandfather of Dillon Post- of Dillon's worst ongoing problems took care of the matter ma[...]ion and spectators said it melted away in a sheet of hot floor,[...]Frank Hunter lay dead at the end of the bar near the south attempt to stop the fire's progress down South Main. The[...] |
| [...]being willfully, feloniously,and of his deliberate, premedi- Noah Faubert, in his[...]there willfully, feloniously, and of his deliberate, premedi- Dave and Jules Guyaz[...]l Metcalf, with the leaden bullets aforesaid, out of Abner Leacock reported that Irish Jack was si[...]the pistol aforesaid, then and there, by force of the gunpow- ground outside the saloon "in a drunk[...]f discharged and shot did not seem to take notice of anything." off as aforesaid, then and there, willfully, feloniously, and of Metcalf and Harness had fled on horseback, bu[...]adeep cut and had upon the left side of the head of him, the said Frank G. been bleeding intermittent[...]Hunter's blood was charged and shot out of the pistol aforesaid, by the said Paul confined i[...]Metcalf, in and upon the left side of the head of him, the Paul was in an emotional state. He felt the pressure of said Frank G. Hunter, two mortal wounds of which said having to make a decision. " .... I th[...]charge, friends here to stand trial ..... the son of a b-- never got that the said Paul Metcalf,[...]aul and Alden rode out into the darkness of his deliberate, premeditated malice aforethought[...]tcalf and murder. Contrary to the form of the statute in such case was located in Missouri,[...]e and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the murder and returned to Montana for trial. He would sit in state of Montana." the county jail five months as the tria[...]on the stand because " ... he was times for want of witnesses. The teamsters at the scene of stupidly drunk, and is with a familiarity[...]Brown Paul Metcalf was found guilty of murder in the second County, Kansas. Beaverhead w[...]s, total defense appealed on several counts of illegal procedure and $13.60.[...]trial got underway with quarters at the rear of the courthouse but within a few days[...]County Attorney Everton J. In January of 1898, the Beaverhead County sheriff was[...]Conger stated: "That Paul result of bullet wounds received when resisting arrest, by Metcalf, late of the county the hand of the Oklahoma sheriff. of Beaverhead, on or about the In 1898, a new c[...]" .. twelfth day of August, .. asks this honorable court to[...]osed. the county of Beaverhead, in[...]PALMER the state of Montana, in[...] |
| [...]spire almost 75 feet high. Seating capacity of the church was[...]er double that amount. On June 17, 1886, Articles of[...]end C. C. Front of Butte preached the dedication sermon.[...]available. Under the direction of Reverend Henry C. Cope,[...]it was determined to finance the building of a parsonage. To[...]help in this project, certificates of $1.00 shares were sold to[...]received from citizens of Dillon, who by now had confidence[...]moral and religious growth of the city. Reverend Cope was one of the leading citizens who real- ized the need of Dillon for a suitable library building, and he[...]been lacking in many of the necessary furnishings. Soon the First Ba[...]eral Among the people who came to the new town of Dillon years, the Ladies Aid Society had[...]ard, 1890-92; James On March 31, 1883, a group of about 13 people met at John H. Spencer, 1892-93[...]J. C. Jordan, Tabor Dingley's home, on the corner of Glendale and Main 1896-98; Henry C. Cope, 1[...]den, 1905-07; A. F Colver, 1908-11; Thomas Church of Dillon, Montana." The church afterwards be-[...]-16; Wal- came known as the "First Baptist Church of Dillon." Philip Poindexter and John Dingley we[...]They reported there were five lots on the corner of Idaho and Sebree Streets which could be had for $800. The determined group of Bap- tists voted to buy and pay cash for the prop[...]r the school house, which was located on the site of the present guild hall, with pastors from[...] |
| [...]-DORIS THUMMA St. Rose of Lima Catholic |
| [...]In 1901 the church was enlarged by the addition of the[...]of 1911, the consecration took place and, after 30 y[...]Guild Hall was built, one of the few in the Diocese at that[...]wooden pipes which ranged from 1/4" construction of what would be St. James. Bishop Daniel S.[...]re and metal pipes were round. traced the history of the church in Beaverhead County in a Metal[...]etter dated July 31, 1899, written to Rev. Hooker of Dillon. organist and a tuner three 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 of Benjamin F. White. noon I baptized five French ch[...]1960. thereafter 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 hous[...]paint into the glass. This Augusta Selway and two of her children in the home of process shaded the figures and made th[...]ntana to succeed Bishop Tuttle and held his first service Andrew Price by his wife Mary. The others by[...]Elizabeth French by her children, and for center of the block in which the church is now located.[...]window Work began on the church in the summer of 1882 on lots in the back of the church was given for Sara and Philip given by the Dillon Townsite Company, now the site of Thorpe and the Baptismal window for Re[...]per month, the janitor $8 per 1882, and the first service was held November 19, 1882, by month, water[...]as $1.50 per month; the first furnace E. G. Prout of Virginia City. He was in charge of St. James was purchased from bazaar money in[...]as a mission in 1881. Since the $206.80. costs of building exceeded the subscriptions, the church[...]in Beaverhead and Madison counties. He had charge of pastoral work in Dillon, Glendale and Silver Star[...]ible for the day to be appointed for consecration of St. James by Bishop Brewer. In June 188[...] |
| [...]-six years after Dillon was founded, a few people of Old World backgrounds, using their native languag[...]ermanent congrega- tion. These married parents of young children needed a church[...]First Presbyterian Church with Pastor H. 0. Svare of Ana- conda presiding and acting as recording secretary. A consti- tution of 23 articles was drafted, a name for the congrega- tion was chosen and a slate of officers was elected. Following[...]: ~-=---;~- . <b i "Article 8. The duties of a member are: a) By the grace of[...]First Evangelical Lutheran Church God to beware of all sin and scandal and to conduct himself in a C[...]vices continued to be held in rented build- means of grace that faith may be quickened and increased ings, private homes, and churches of other denominations. and conferred, strengthened[...]and support to its sister church. Without benefit of From confirmation on, to contribute according to[...]wasn't until 1932 at a business meeting extension of God's Kingdom, as the Lord has taught us to[...]home Article 15 of the 1906 constitution stated men aged 21 and over had voting privileges. The minutes of the 1915 annual -Taken from history pr[...]ful vote was taken to ry by members of the history committee: amend Article 15 giving women voting privileges. Church records of First Evangelical Lutheran Church in[...]Theo E. Bay, Chair Dillon include minutes of five annual meetings held in the[...]y years 1908, 1914, 1915, 1916 and 1919. Election of trustees, trea-[...](From Dillon Tribune, 1980) church home of their own. Young people were going with their fri[...]Dillon while important Early history of Mormons in Beaverhead County date to events such as weddings, baptisms and burials of loved ones 1880 when employees of the Utah Northern Railroad estab- had to be in the churches of other Protestant faiths. These lished a[...]onaries often met hostility in Dillon. They vices of their adopted country. The women who called[...]resent American Legion Hall for a chapel. Leaders of the Records of this infant, floundering congregation are a big group included: Jack Reis, V.P. of First National Bank; black hole from the years 19[...]Oral stories reveal Harold Warner, owner of Warner's Food Store; Jay Jepp- there was a strugg[...]alties to one synod over son, manager of J. C. Penney; Leslie Smith, owner 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 mayor. of the Old West, a law suit was filed to recover $5,217.84. The courts settled the case in favor of the congregation.[...] |
| [...]Methodists in Beaverhead County In autumn of 1866, several Christian families arrived in Beave[...]odist 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 prominent mover of the Sunday School and was elected superintendent,[...]his religious enterprise followed the usual order of de- Grace Methodist Church, Dil[...]es Aid Parlor, and Sunday School room. The belfry of the class, and the building of the church building. tower was moved[...]onary appointed from 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[...], 1869. From here he went to Ban- memory of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Selway, Mrs. Eunice N. nack[...]mbership was once again looking forward to expan- south. The original building was torn down and a new on[...]arly years were Poindexter School. The first term of school in the new loca- Stayton, Elder, No[...]Tait until 1895. With the expansion of 1895, Edward Catter- School moved with the school[...]ering in the valley and was at- licenses of both churched and non-churched couples during ten[...]inters 1906-07, Edward Dodds 1908-09, Jessie part of a circuit that included Virginia City and Bannack[...]years and in 1880 Rev. Shippen came. In the fall of The Methodist church and its people have played an im- that year the townsite of Dillon was bought and surveyed. portant part in the developnment of Beaverhead Valley for The corner lots upon which[...]ore than 124 years and will surely be involved in service to were donated by the owners of the original townsite for the the entire community. purpose of building a church thereon. Rev. Shippen[...] |
| [...]same time He was also superintendent of the Dillon school. The Sab- the Pentecostal Union[...]iritualist movement was also being preached. Many of its During the winter and spring of 1888-89, Dr. McMillan followers would go to their[...]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[...]church or chapel, but there was no mention of financial gone mad over it, and where the only talk is of seances and status until the minutes of the January 6, 1892 meeting, mediums." The movement resurfaced again at the turn of when a resolution was passed " . .[...]empowered to borrow from the Ladies Aid Society of the Metlen Hotel and at such distant places as the upper end of church, money with whi~h to pay the rent due on Dart's the Centennial Valley. Some of the Ouija boards and tables Hall." are still in the families of those past believers. The move- ment waned in the[...]RETT DING LEY First Presbyterian Church |
| [...]e Promi- who helps." The record books are a story of dedication, nent to Montana filled[...]ars "the faithful few" pioneered the women's work of the church. Through (From Montana Stan[...]financier and mining investor is enhance the work of Christ as carried out by the church. A sig[...]sionary society was organized in 1906 at the home of Mrs. the history and development of Montana. Frank McFadden (nee Nellie Black). The organization "Nick" Bielenberg was one of the early pioneers of Mon- evolved into the Manse Society.[...]tana, arriving in Fort Benton the early part of June, 1865. The minutes record various Manse m[...]oss." There were 86 present, includ- part of June 1865. All brothers became residents of Deer ing children and eight men. Eighty-three wom[...]y trade. meeting at Mrs. Ewing's home, nine miles south of town. Nick located in Blackfoot City[...]"Edger Meat Business" from Henry Edger, one of the dis- home and a New England supper was held at the Herbert coverers of Alder Gulch, the site of the first gold strike in Selway home. Manse Socie[...]ad Kohrs and John Featherly and Owens homes north of town and by Madames Bielenberg "staked[...]attlesnake. In March of 1873, Nick sold his "Blackfoot City" butcher T[...]and Company and purchased the Prowse tist Society of Women who returned the hospitality. On[...]eptions for college and high which became one of the foremost businesses of its kind in school students and faculty.[...]ers absent without Nick became one of the first members of the Montana sufficient reason were fined with the[...]In 1883, the era of the Montana cattle barons, Mr. Bielen-[...]Hole Valley. Of the buried treasures reportedly stashed in Montan[...]re varied none was believed to have exceeded that of the Henry Plum- and extensive. He not only[...]a take her mer gang. According to legend, a cache of more than $30,000 place among the great wes[...]trib- remains secreted somewhere along the shores of Romey ute to the transformation. Nic[...]all Lake near Virginia City. Despite the efforts of many search and fear no one." parties, it r[...]oke the truth and I spent several agents' hangout south of Sheridan in Madison County. weeks ea[...]e William Owsley, a Montana pioneer and member of the gold was never found." Vigilantes,[...]d been hidden there, A small portion of Plummer's loot was recovered. Four near one of the corners of the corral. Owsley narrated the bags of dust and nuggets, thought to have been stolen from a following sequence of events: train[...]g led to the Bannack scaffold on floor of a cabin on the Sun River. January 10, 1864, he threw his arms around me and said, The remainder of that road agent booty is shrouded in 'Owsl[...] |
| [...]amp equipment. Two hogs were killed and a portion of Melrose in 1891. A daughter, Beatrice Fellows, wa[...]utte, Helena and Idaho. ter at the mouth of the Big Horn River, where it empties A son, Bruce[...]into the Big Horn, near what is now the town of Hardin, Watters was killed in a mine cave-in at M[...]They passed through the towns of Billings, Big Timber, Clara Anderson Fellows i[...]arried Abner C. Livingston, and the town of Gardiner at the northern en- Leacock who was a fr[...]They left the park at what is now the town of West Yel- Abner C. Leacock was a witness to a m[...]l de- visited a ranch where several species of wild game had been scription of the tragedy.[...]to a mining claim and into the upper end of the Centennial Valley at Red located at the junction of Napias and Panther Creeks near Rock Lake.[...]to the Flathead Clara Leacock died at the home of Bruce Watters in 1954 Valley, and after vi[...]tery. proceeded by way of Missoula into the Bitterroot Valley as[...]In the summer of 1897, the family decided to move on to Wi[...]was ready to enter the Academy of Idaho at Pocatello. After My grandmother, Grace[...]rm in Salmon and was working as She, the youngest of five siblings, lived with her parents on a post[...]e met and married homestead eight miles northwest of Norton, Kansas until my grandfather William Irving Ferguson. the spring of 1896.[...]nd after two straight crop failures due to a lack of rain and March 16, 1886. He was the son of Jefferson Davis Ferguson too much hail, a decisio[...]died of pneumonia the same year. · All through the winter of 1895 and 1896, the family made H[...] |
| [...]became the parents of a son, Edgar Francis and a daughter, In 1910,[...]Idaho, and was work- Margaret Louise, both of whom were born in Dillon, at the ing as a teamster when he met his wife-to-be, Grace Ger- home of Mrs. Strite, 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[...]Frederick Schuler ranch nine miles north of town. From -ROBERT W.[...]an unusual honor was bestowed in the naming of the "Clara Missouri. He was the eldest of 10 children. When he was 14 Ferris Circle".[...]iscing about the early days in Dillon, Clara told of a wagon train which followed the Oregon Trail to[...]back door, brother at her side as members of the first class. Clayton Edgar's folks thought th[...]T FERRIS PYEATT Idaho. There he became a roommate of the young man who later was the greatly respected Senator Borah of Idaho. James S. Ferster In time, the rest of Edgar's family moved to La Grande, James[...], 1852. Two children were (Jessie became the wife of Robert M. Barrett, the respected born to them[...]for the was found dead in bed at the age of 34 years on January 14, next 10 years. They were[...]. It was deter- Addie and Jessie, after the death of their parents in Oregon. mined that deat[...] |
| [...]hile 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 smell of mountain air. He was afraid three children, Nelli[...]ranched a large place about a mile north and west of Lake- -AUTH[...]oven and This history book contains names of courageous, take it to the hayfield in a spring w[...]he would hear a bull plete without the story of a woman, I Kate Fitzhar- begin to roar down on th[...]ing a new gate. started a business of limestone, sand and gravel from his Summer was a busy time of preparing for the long and quarry in the[...]re hauled by bitter winters. A wood pile the size of a small hill had to be horses and wagons into D[...]et, Judith, and everybody joined in a fun evening of singing the old songs. Elizabeth. Kate knew[...]In November of 1918, the devastating flu epidemic hit[...]days apart in November of 1918.[...]story of how, at the age of 16, he helped his father Everett[...] |
| [...], did not want to offend Mr. 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. As Kate pass[...]Leonard and Hazel 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 of ten children; their sixth child, born August 9, -[...]thought of by all who knew him. In his late teens he left Wa[...]ranch where he helped break eight teams of oxen (or steers) and was also a general practiti[...]fields. From there he went to the much is known of the couple during this time, except that[...]r Route from Lakeview to Henry's Lake, a distance of were divorced, and he remarried in Long Beach, Ca[...]les. Dagmar and Cato lived in California the rest of their lives. Hazel, second daughter of George and Ellen Shambow, Dr. Holmsen also moved[...]grade, completing her education in Florida where her grand- 24, 1909, at the Baptist Church[...]ping tasks and became an excel- Wisdom at the age of 46 on July 27, 1924, and was buried in l[...]ano, and horseback riding. Visiting relatives out of town Carl Huntley in September of 1928 and now lives with her and state[...]for Idaho Falls where they bought their first set of dishes On April 29, 1898, Warren enlisted and ser[...]and some cooking utensils. They spent the rest of their two _ in Co. D 1st Colorado Volunteer Infan[...]filed on a homestead east of Red Rock Lakes. They built It is not known whe[...]From this union were born: Warren, Jr., of Centennial Valley. Their second 30n, Leo Carlton, was Forrest, Carl William (Bill), and Gladys. Bill Flager of Al- born April 8, 1920. A few years later[...]w. The family's big interest was their large herd of Warren died in Tacoma, Wash., and Forrest in Ontario, Black Angus cattle and their big herd of horses that were Calif.[...]d for riding and for the haying season. The month of Mr. Flager operated the Ajax Saloon, Billiards[...]isdom. Mr. Flager's Pool tired to 317 South Washington, Dillon, their final earthly Ha[...] |
| [...]early 1880's. They homesteaded at the mouth of Big Sheep Leonard, Hazel, Donald, and Leo all d[...]k, where Percy died in 1889. place in the history of Beaverhead county, for their roots Title[...]were Annie Flynn received a Certificate of Title in October 1908. among the best.[...]sons and daughters married and lived in the area of[...]Their son, Clay Jr., married Gladys Birch of Dillon; both State of New York. James Percy Flynn and Annie Murphy[...]also known as one of the progressive farmers of Beaaver-[...]county. His valuable ranch being located 8 miles south of Dillon. Mr. Flynn was a native son of the Emerald Isle, born in[...]assist in the work of the family farm for a number of years.[...]of New Haven, Conn., where he worked at the plumbing[...]In February of that year he came West locating in Salt[...]March of the following year he became a member of a party of 54 men who chartered a sailing vessel to French G[...]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[...]calp him. He had a scar across his went to south Mountain, Idaho, where he had charge of the forehead. erection of the first smelter in the locality. The Flynns c[...]chased a portion of his ranch, located on Blacktail Creek,[...]comprising of 800 acres of exceedingly fertile land well irri-[...]tion to farming, raising large fields of wheat, oats, and al-[...]Flynn, the families being of the same name but of no con-[...]Barrett, brother of Martin Barrett. The Flynns spent most of their lives at the ranch. Pat and Hubert never ma[...]ttle-Sheep Creek P. & 0. Part of the Flynn ranch is now owned by Jim Blake[...] |
| [...]July 4, 1852. He Mr Thomas Flynn was a native of County Leitrim, Ire- spent his early yout[...], where he was born February 14, 1854, the eighth of the on August 16, 1878, at Sonora, Ill. He became a M.D. and twelve children of Patrick and Katherine McTiermon prac[...]uvoo, Ill. until 1884. One son, Lew- Flynn, bot h of whom passed their entire lives in the Emer- i[...]is medical practice until moving to Lima, schools of his native country. There he assisted in the work[...]in 1889. Two daughters were born to the family in of the parental farmstead until the time of his emigration to Monte Vista: Lucie Miller For[...]nited States. His father died when he was 14. Two of Adda Susan Ford on March 22, 1886. his brot[...]r- the P. & 0. Five years later he bought a tract of land on forming his duties for the railroad, he developed a private Blacktail Creek, with property of 2600 acres and leased 1700 practice serving the entire sounthern part of Beaverhead acres from the state.[...]a hardware In addition to raising large crops of wheat, oats, and al- store in Lima at various t[...]d in a number falfa, he engaged in the production of shorthorn cattle. of pieces of real estate and expanded his property to include During the severe winter of 1889 Mr. Flynn met with a wonderful workshop, a number of storage sheds, a barn heavy financial losses when a large portion of his stock per- and a fumigation house. ished. H[...]sion with great vigor. He owned a stable of horses in the He was constantly making improve[...]o peoples' feed for his stock. It was in the city of Butte, November 22, illnesses and delivering ba[...]came to the U.S. when she and several Buicks of the day, sometimes painted fire-en- was 17 with h[...]o died in Butte gine red. The recklessness of his driving was legendary in in 1883. Her parents[...]tion to his work, Dr. Ford was a sterling example of their entire lives at the Blacktail ranch, which[...]manner of things in and near Lima, He owned a gypsum[...]-HELEN BROWN mine on the North Fork of Little Sheep Creek and had a[...]first-hand view of the discovery.[...]was Past Master of Evergreen Lodge 45-A.F.A.M. in Lima,[...]Past Patron of the Elva Boardman Chapter-Order of East- ern Star in Lima, member of St. Elmo Chapter 7-Knight Templars of Dillon, Dillon Chapter 8-Royal Arch Ma-[...]sons, member of Zabud Council 2 of Butte and a Shriner at[...]of 85. His wife, Lucie, survived until 1942. Dr. For[...]lifetime resident of Beaverhead County. He attended grade[...] |
| [...]George Wilson of Butte and they lived there until divoced in[...]n is survived by two sons, Lewis E. "Doc" O'Brien of Winters, Calif: and Mike O'Brien of Davis, California.[...]homestead. He was a strict "loner" at least half of his stage line between Monida and Yellowstone Par[...]n the Lima yards and was friendly with all of them. He loved to play with kids for some time.[...]a word to anyone, he'd pack homesteaded southwest of Snowline, Mont. and ranched up his t[...]Lima. he was in one of his good moods. Also, he was an excellent Mr.[...]r at parties and dances. He was well like by tice-of-peace in Lima for many years despite a handicap of everyone who knew him. almost total blindn[...]he had his homestead, he always ran a small band of sheep. being a past master of Evergreen Lodge 45 and a past Part of the time he'd spend several months at the hotel in patron of Elva Boardman Chapter-O.E.S. and Mrs. Ford[...]is sheep on the feed grounds at was a past matron of Elva Boardman Chapter.- some[...]since lived in Schenectady, N. Y., Part of the time he ran his sheep on the summer ranges in[...]Idaho or Wyoming. It was in Wyoming (June of 1970) where his wife, the former Mary Sweeney of Big Sheep Creek he met a very questi[...]lives in but never proved. The cause of death was drowning since his Oregon.[...]a pine tree, with Lucie Miller Ford, daughter of Dr. & Mrs. Ford, lived her his rifle laying[...]one his family by wagon train (summer of 1899) to Idaho, set-[...] |
| 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 various ranches.[...]r I began, Percy tried to enlist in all branches of the service but was rejected in every case be- cause he was[...]r, carrying messages back and forth between units of the army. His comment was, "I spent the whole dam[...]was no way I could let the enemy take possession of the messages I would be carrying was worse." When the war was over he Forrester residences on South Atlantic Street, Dillon came back to the Valley t[...]s bustling with building ac- rum-running down out of Canada during Prohibition. His tivity. John brought with him the skill of plastering which brother, Rell Harley Fordyce, li[...]association with tent stretches and he did a lot of illegal liquor hauling down John Cusick, helpe[...]He was a natural houses and blocks. Some of the attractive stone buildings "hell-raiser" by c[...]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 B[...]d 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[...]e rods on a freight a leader in the managing of school and social entertainments train. He was a[...]he engaged in the great zest for living and love of life. He . liked people and contracting business. They built a home at 535 South Pacif- everyone liked him in spite of the fact that everyone knew ic Street on lots which had originally been part of the Axe he was a "bounder" of the first class. famil[...]e truck, completely demolishing it, pillar of the Methodist Church." and killing himself, still[...]train for drinks of water, as it was so much better than the[...]As a boy of 16-17 he rode line fence for the P. & 0. in the[...]ng line wrapped John S. Forrester, grandfather of Roy Forrester, Jr., came around his ha[...] |
| ing time of the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francis-[...]sleds and a good co, celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal. Roy came team of horses. The mail left Monida early in the morning[...]y residents. His outfit able first impression of Dillon, arranged for the train to be wasn't ver[...]ed the them into town, past the gothic spires of the Normal College sled. In the warmer weather, it done was with wagons. The and down South Atlantic Street to their new home.[...]was so heavy that he had to run selves at 833 South Atlantic, across from the college, and a more[...]r son and his wife. After John Al hired lots of men to drive for him. He also had a barn Forr[...]and Roy and Irene enjoyed the social life of the town, and the moved to Butte. Al died in Bu[...]-ETHEL MILLER BRAY at 835 South Atlantic. Their family history from this t[...]e Foster Family close-knit family became part of the growing Dillon commu- With the spirit of hope and adventure, Rodney Eugene nity. Roy,[...]died in 1955 in Mexico where he had spring of 1908. People in Montana mistakenly assumed that[...]ontana for Ethel Mary married Alan Bradley of Armstead. Their the rest of his life. children were: Kay Sheridan, Alan,[...]nd Jennifer Tolton. halt! Regardless of blame or no blame, all the employees[...]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,[...]lon. A second son, Walter T. Foster, was fall of 1900 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. They moved to Lakevie[...]Two houses on Pacific Street were the first homes of the tress. They also worked on a ranch near D[...](Lakeview) ters built a new home at 906 South Washington Street where they managed a store[...]owstone McDaniel Churchill, upon the death of her husband, C.W. Stage to haul tourists to Y[...]ontract to deliver the 1880. He was the fifth of six children born to Mr. and Mrs. mail[...] |
| [...]erts, Idaho, and they lived at the Foster home on South[...]Foster became manager of the Selway Sheep Company and[...]On November 8, 1948, Bob Foster died of a massive brain[...]store and her uncles were schoolmates and friends of Mark Twain. The McDaniels Candy Store is mentioned in several of Mark Twain's books and in biogra- phies of Twain. It was written that whenever Mark Twain re[...]t, the McDaniels Candy Store was high on his list of priorities. Hannibal may seem far from Dillon but the candy-making McDaniel family of Han- nibal spread their talent and influence to Dillon. Two of the brothers, Henry and Dana, came to Dillon and[...]s and. Gifts. The Sugar Bowl thrived for a number of years and was a favorite R & R gathering place fo[...]to pool their talents and formed the partnership of Foster and Melton. George was a graduate lawyer,[...]and Mrs. W.W. Francis came to the Big Hole Valley of years but their friendship lasted even though the[...]the first sawmill in the valley and young people of the community who had found the Foster[...] |
| [...]everyone loved her) never refused to go when any of the neighbors or strangers called for help. In th[...], Fred Francis, married Dora on acres of the home ranch when the Clark Canyon Dam was Octo[...]Hole with her tana, November 9, 1867, son of George D. and Elizabeth two half-brothers, Tom an[...]nt. Their children are Melba and Della, town of Argenta in 1870. Tony grew up in Argenta but also[...], and like his Dad Fred, Don the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Conway, her father liked t[...]Government trapper. a well known official of the mining company which operated[...]hen Mr. French died on March 29, 1963, he was one of neer family of Theophilus B. and Mary D. Craver. the eight remaining members of the Society of Montana James R. Freeman and Oleta Eda Craver w[...]Alva's brother Milton spent the winter of 1888 in Mon- on Horse Prairie. James died July 30[...]wa and persuaded Alva, his wife and The Bureau of Reclamation bought approximately 262[...] |
| [...]finished grade school and two years of high school, and[...]many Montana boys volunteered for service, among them[...]sew the gold star on one of the three stars of her service flag. In the fall of 1918, Nettie started teaching at the Hoffman[...]School, south of Melrose. The 1918-19 epidemic of Spanish[...]was seven years old 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- a[...]early in outhouses and a barn, for some of the pupils came by horse. the 1900s. The Garr chi[...]elementary edu- During that record cold year of 1919-20 Nettie stayed at cation in Dell. Gladys a[...]several years and Wash., during the summer of 1921, then returned to Dillon was Beaverhead Coun[...]e. She built a house The only surviving members of the Garr family are Grace Martinell and Montana Garr of Lima. -LOIS[...]ie Mae Hand, born November 19, 1899, the daughter of Horace and Maggie Hand, pioneer ranchers at Wise[...]to visit school and was accommodated with a desk of apple boxes- one to sit upon and one uprig[...] |
| at 420South Dakota in 1933, four rooms and a basement, for[...]born February 1907. In 1949 J. B. Garrison died of a heart attack. Nettie He married Be[...]y family in the East, who Ernest bought a team of horses and a wagon and drove raised[...]ve out, reaching what is now the Iverson of every college east of the Mississippi. There was no doubt ranch. They h[...]e until he had been exposed to a life of culture and all the advan- their deaths. They were the parents of two girls, Ernestine tages available to[...]rs. During prohibition days, the Gordons of Armstead oper- Geary baked bread they came and st[...]ange and breaking horses. Their home was any type of Munday place. (The house where they lived was mov[...]heir Mayfield's homestead, near the mouth of Garfield Canyon, son, Cliff, had a very close call when he fell in the river and if a couple miles south of the Metlen ranch. Garry called this it wasn't for[...]a special breed of fighting chickens. Garry was a promoter . When w[...]their cabin home, Garry served a was never a drop of water went through this as the surveyor Poverty Flat Cocktail: a glass of goat's milk with a fighting erred and the head of the canal was too low for the rest of the chicken egg whipped into it. They[...] |
| they rode the Rocky Hills on the north edge of the valley to was magnetic and with a subtle sense of humor. They knew round up horses. The ranchers paid them to bring in work all the rules of good manners and never said an unkind word horses[...]visited, they always managed to mooch a handful of stick ranch-style rodeos. Spectators sat on the c[...]r Metlen's Selway Place on the north edge of Horse Prairie. of fifty-gallon barrels and rough-sawed 2x4's in the[...]e athletic club. Grace had been to onto the teeth of the rake. The handle caught him squarely A[...]y while Garry demon- in the rural area east of San Francisco. strated his brief fist-fight with[...]attered Garry's ashes over horses to lead. On top of a four-foot post was a loosely bolted Indian He[...]l living on Horse Prairie. by a halter to the end of the pole and the merry-go-round Garry and Gladys leave no descendants to tell of the went round and round.[...]ought a wild horse for Garry to break. The of the most lovable people I've ever known and two of the horse was in a vicious mood and Gladys helped[...]limp body for a minute or in Iowa. Eleven of the thirteen had red hair. My father, John two, G[...]ny again After reading glowing reports of Montana from his two older returned to the Geiger[...]l and came to Glendale in 1888. drive a car. Most of those years on Horse Prairie, Gladys did He f[...]Glendale in those days was a thriving mining town of walk the two miles to the Metlen's. The Model T F[...]he worked his way up to foreman. At the age of 30, he returned couldn't remember which pedal was[...]olen-so they embarked able and within their realm of skills. They rode the grub-line for Mon[...] |
| [...]preserved in a bottle of alcohol. Each time company came to[...]visit, Albert made a point of showing everyone the bottle[...]ontaining his little finger. Mother finally tired of these[...]stone house at the entrance of town (which was owned by John an[...]the DeCelles), only the foundations-and the walls of the and sisters Helen and Dorothy were born. Knip[...]m the original Glendale. The the owner or manager of the mine in Hecla, and he had built K[...]or calla Dad took over management of the hotel in Melrose after lilies to decorate the[...]a sister school in him/her to Glendale. A number of the boys at school were Iowa, so the people of Melrose breathed easily for nine unruly and mean,[...]he miners with his the University of Arizona and at Adams State College in weight-lift[...]Colorado, where her outstanding work as President of stopping in Butte, heard of Dad's prowess and came to South[...]Later, Dorothy served as regis- clay pigeons out of 50 with a rifle-a feat never before ac-[...]d I cannot be chasing around the country." On one of our later annual vacations to Browns Lake I remem[...]es in My brother Albert proved to be a source of head-shaking 1860." He was a miner an[...]usement to the neighbors but was the exasperation of his mines in Massachusetts, Michigan[...]on Order to have been the secretary of Virginia City Lodge No. his best behavior, as she[...]In Montana he was superintendent of mines located at away. Soon a series of loud explosions was heard, and little[...]nd charred, his hair and eye- dent of the Alta Mine in Wickes and operated the H[...] |
| [...]uch the six smaller children with the help of Mrs. Beardsley, counties, as well as properties[...]e area. South Pacific Street, (built by Roy Forrester, Jr.'s grandfa- After the closure of the Wickes mines and the smelter, the ther, an[...]ed a Gilbert in 1902 was superintendent of the King of Arizona gold dredge at Bannack for several years[...]z., (near Yuma) which was owned by Wil- uty State of Montana mine inspector and then operated liam A. Clark of Butte. He died there in March, 1902, at the mines in the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora. age of 56. John R. Gilbert married Jane Ann Buµiby a[...]Montana, in February, 1877. She was the daughter of Wil- in the ranching business, in additio[...]ar William R. Gilbert, an older brother of John R. Gilbert, Silver Star), Montana, in 1873,[...]near Silver Star in 1864 and later was in charge of a by boat to San Francisco, thence by rail to Cor[...]rea. Apparently John R. Gilbert Creek to join two of their sons, one of whom had come to the and William R. Gilbert h[...]est in ranching Virginia City mines in 1864 after service in the Civil War properties in the Beaverhe[...]years later. There were After the death of John R. Gilbert, his children incorpo- eight Bumb[...]nied by her husband, several step- a part of their Beaverhead County properties, purchasing ch[...]efferson Valley, Madison County; State Bank of Dillon, and later becoming president of the Frederick A. Gilbert and Norman S. Gilbert were born in First National Bank of Dillon. Fred A. Gilbert worked at Butte, Montana;[...]n) were War I, he imported train loads of Mexican cattle into Ari- born in Dillon. Wilbur ([...]) to Pancho Villa, the Mexican revo- sonal friend of John R. Gilbert. lutionary, by detaching the last two cars of livestock on each In November, 1897, the entir[...]married Roy LaKander, a construction engineer, of Chica- this calamity was the chief impetus to the establishment of go, Ill., and Zetta C. Gilbert married George M. Gosman, a the City of Dillon water system in about the year 1902.[...]. Harry Gilbert, the eldest son, then 19 years of age, raised[...]Like many other Englishmen in the second half of the[...]least. The economic transformation of Europe at that time and the rising concept of personal liberty were major factors[...]in the greatest period of immigration in history.[...] |
| [...]sister in hotel management. Spencer died in 1919 of[...]College of Education and became a teacher. She later at-[...]City and later at Silver Star. The surface mining of vatory of Music. During her teaching career, she taught at[...]-RODNEY C. GILBERT By the end of the 1860's, prospectors were leaving Mon-[...]ANDERSON GILBERT tana and more expensive methods of mining using heavy equipment were used. William Gilbert stayed in mining for a while as foreman of the principle mine in Radersburg.[...]Mary. They had two sons, 28, 1874, the son of James T. and Ann Giles. He came to Thomas, in abo[...]1882. and Reed Ranch south of Dillon. He later purchased land in In 1883, Em[...]ffered a stroke in 1938 and was forced to dispose of his (1855-1899). Soon after arriving in Dillon, s[...]bru- R. Gilbert. and they were married by the end of the year. ary 1945. They lived and worked on their ranch north of Dillon (later Katie Bulla was born in Alban[...]er mother died. in 1896. He was a founding member of the Masonic Lodges Katie was always proud of the fact that she was a direct in Beaverhead and Madison Counties. descendant of the founder of Yale University. Billy and Emma had two childr[...]ther 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. 1908, but were floo[...]ft his family a fairly large estate. It consisted of the Home Ranch and another 520 acres on the Rattl[...]rom the Beaverhead, 6000 sheep, 4 original shares of the Beaverhead Canal Co., as well as many other i[...]2 from a skull fracture he received from the kick of a horse while working at the Elza Smith ranch, south of Dillon. After William's death, Emma and her ch[...]r 25, 1945. Emma was a lifelong and active member of the Methodist Church. Both Chester and Mon[...] |
| [...]er great-grandchildren. Katie died after a series of ence produced rodeos in Wise River, Wisdom, De[...]various shows. Eleanor married David Moffet of Colorado and they lived Fred died of a heart attack in Wise River, September 1, in Bil[...]and Carrie Gilliam were ranchers on a small place of[...]Gill. After Joseph died, Ellen field the summer of 1914. Ferd later married and started Isbell marri[...]from Wise that time there were quite a number of folks getting mail at River. Fred rode horseback[...]arriage lasted 50 recipe, just used a dash of this and a pinch of that, but she years. Following their elopement, F[...]Gilliams came from, but they spoke often of Council Bluffs, To this union two daughters we[...]d ran the hotel for a while. to Leonard Ritzschke of Great Falls. June married Dave Ferd built[...]acqui~ing his education in the public schools of McFall.[...]spread of 1,520 acres in the Big Hole Basin, which he sold[...]the spring of 1916. He married Clara Sharkey, daughter of Neil and Mary McGraw Sharkey, in July of 1904 at Dillon. Duke was elect-[...]ed to three consecutive terms as sheriff of Beaverhead[...] |
| Fellow Lodges. They were parents of one daughter, Mary, who was born August 11, 1905,[...]he county jail." Mrs. Gist succumbed in October of 1926 and Mr. Gist died in April of 1927. -MARY GIST SIL[...]born April 3, 1860, in the southern Swiss Canton of Ticino, Switzerland. His father as the r[...]Nev., and the 1880's found him working of the Ferris Ranch. They had one daughter, Madeline[...]ed in Beaverhead County and his first Of the two older daughters, Carrie, now Mrs. W.F. wo[...]the chil- head County Sheriff for a number of years, and raised two dren. (Mr. White was president of The First National Bank sons: Warren who is deceased and Jack who lives in Seattle. of Dillon and was also the last Territorial Governor of Mon- The Temples are now both buried in Moun[...]in the Methodist Other children of Isidoro and Amanda, all born on the Church in But[...]s (now the Carl from the University of Washington and served a lifetime Meine Ranch) whi[...]n Seattle. She has two <laughers - Martha of Portland and this first home. In 1895 they purchased 480 acres of land four miles north of Dillon from Harvey Sullivan and worked at develop[...]cattle, hay and grain ranch. Isidoro, because of a lifetime interest in horses, became associated with Marcus Daly of Butte, boarding and exercis- ing some of his horses. The story is told that one of these horses loved to race. Races were held in Dillon and this horse was often entered as a way of training. One race day Isidoro took his wi[...] |
| Carol of Seattle - with whom she now divides her time and[...]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, now Mrs.[...]e Freight Line, James H. Phillips. George married of Helena, is also a graduate of Montana State Normal Phillips' 20-year[...]ontana Territory near Springhill, a set- daughter of another early Beaverhead County family - tlement about one mile north of 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 where his fathe[...]and his father-in-law had a place just spent most of their years in Butte and Dillon areas and are[...]ome and the furniture he had worked so hard to ty of Giornico. Philip Henry Schnell, a grandson of Isidoro make. and son of Carrie Giudici Schnell and his wife of Carmel, In the years that followed, fou[...]baskets of eggs, cheese and butter to sell to her customers.[...]h the loser was smeared with stove- wagon for one of the large Butte stores. p[...]to Wisdom in June 1915. They imme- rate of one-half ton of hay for two head of cattle. He was diately started a store and restau[...]hen able to trade the cattle for one hundred head of sheep next to the hotel. These businesses were wi[...]they thought to be magic), they offered her gifts of[...] |
| [...]spent most of her married life in Butte where Mr. Barbour[...]pany, 13th Infantry Division of the American Expedition-[...]during the battle of Argonne Forest.[...]e girls and, as they played ranched north of Lima and had two children: Gordon of with their dolls, he would sit crosslegged at the toy table and Dillon and Emily (Stansell) of Billings. Their ranch is now eat the food from th[...]after, remembering how Emily's Fagan of Anaconda in 1918. Three children were bor11-to mo[...]nd Ed formed the Gleed Brothers Upon the death of Mr. Allerdice, George was able to pur- Livestock partnership which established itself as one of chase the homestead of that family and move his family into Montan[...]r- in the Centennial Valley, and from Snowline south to the al years, a two-story home was built on the site and was old Gallagher Ranch north of Dell. Bill and Mae are buried equipped with indoo[...]ily. Dean Dixon of Idaho Falls. All five Gleed children attended[...]George Gleed died January 2, 1914, in Butte of a ruptured went on to Utah State College at Logan and worked out of appendix at the age of 53. Emily remained on the ranch Missoula surveyin[...]he Lima Cemetery. he married Iris Candice Peeples of Paris, Idaho, and they -VELERIA EMILY PIERCE and GEORGE had three children: Veleria Emily (Pierce) of Mesa, Arizona; GLEED FR[...]ra (Carpita), who died in 1960; and George Edward of Las Vegas. Ed served several terms as Mayor of Lima and was instrumental in procuring electricit[...]Albert and Emily Gordon telephone service for Beaverhead County and the Town of Albert G. Gordon was born August 13, 1909, in Chicago, Lima. Ed and Iris are interred at Shrine of Memories in Salt Ill. He moved to Armstead,[...]ber 23, 1905, at Anna married Lew Barbour, son of a Dillon attorney, and Fox, Montana[...] |
| [...]ennessee, to John and Mary Jane Correy, the fifth of Francis Albert, December 21, 1935. Donald died at the age five boys and two girls. of one year and is buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Dil- In the fall of 1910, Dellar left Tennessee for Montana, lon.[...]he drove the dray from the McMenomey Ranch, north of Armstead for a time, rid- that depot to the depot of the Gilmore and Pittsburg, better ing back[...] |
| [...]Lee Mantel, owner of the Mantel Ranch near Glen. The[...]Gosmans were parents of two sons: George M., who married[...]dad Temple of the Shrine in Butte.[...]member of Elva Boardman Chapter O.E.S., Lima, and a[...]charter member of the American Legion Auxiliary unit in[...]tus F. Graeter was prominent in the early history of his brother Dellar hauled passengers and freight[...]ic Railroad Depots. ward the up building of business and commerce in the area. After the hote[...], was educated at Liepsig and Stutt- The Bureau of Reclamation purchased their property[...]Hoffman and young Augustus was the second of eight chil- ber 24, 1965, and Mary on July 24, 19[...]roading, Pike's Peak, Colo. working out of Chicago. He became a conductor, working[...]there, they found the camp excited with news of gold strikes the Oregon Short Line until he retir[...]ines during the fall and sent to Salt Lake career of public service in Beaverhead County. City, U[...]n in the construc- in 1910. He retired at the end of his second term but within a tion of the Bannack Ditch which furnished the first ade-[...]. He was serving in that ca- quate supply of water brought to the placer mines. The pacity und[...]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[...]was a member of the famous Vigilante Committee and was[...] |
| [...]ber 6, 1889. 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,[...]anch. partnership with A. J. Smith under the name of Smith and Fay and Beaulah were marrie[...]ranch on Horse Prairie and gave rest of their lives, ranching on several places near Glen[...]In later years he was involved with operation of dredge er for the irrigation canal that ran north of Dillon. Beaulah boats near Bannack which proved l[...]ulah died November 22, 1971. married Birdie Miner of Arcata, Calif., and Blanche A., who[...]-JIM GRANSBERY married Charles Falk of Eureka, Calif. Mr. Graeter's first wife died in 1[...]dale, New Brunswick, September 26, 1849, daughter of David and Eleanor Sinton Taylor. She came to Bann[...]lon where Mr. Graeter was connected with a number of local business enterprises up to the time of his death. These included the Graeter Park and Re[...]ery Co. and he helped organize and was a mem- ber of the board of directors of the State Bank of Dillon. He also organized the Graeter Electric Co., which he later dis- posed of and it became the Union Electric Co~ Mr. Graet[...]sed all the official chairs and was a past master of the lodge. Augustus F. and Mary J. Graeter had[...]4, 1884, in Seward, John traveled from South Carolina to find work in Montana Nebr. As a young[...]cago with on a sheep ranch in the summer of 1912. They stayed and his sister and at age 19 jo[...]worked until late fall and then returned to South Carolina. came to Glen, then known as Reic[...] |
| [...]cooking for the family and a couple of hired men. Bess[...]thought about it for a couple of days and decided to try it.[...]She enjoyed it until August when one of the ladies at the[...]eece, stead. He knew he could get some kind of work at the G & P and was married in September of 1915. They stayed in Railroad, otherwise known as the"Get Out and Push Rail- South Carolina until after their first child was born i[...]his was mostly night work but he didn't complain. of 1916. Jim convinced Bess to go west to Montana, t[...]oth very busy, Times were difficult in January of 1917 when they packed yet their social life came alive with card parties and dances. up and left South Carolina by train. They never realized[...]he two-room school- that they wouldn't see either of their parents alive again. It house. People w[...]and put them to took a week by train to get from South Carolina to Arm- bed in one room while[...]a snooze. Jim one night in particular, the porter of the train came and could really jig and looked forward to the dances held each asked if he could be of any help. One of the little fellow's month. These dances were always a good time for both of parents asked if there was a chance that they could get some them. At one of the last parties, Bess was chosen Queen and butte[...]assed away in porter came back with a large glass of buttermilk. After R.C. his dream home in Dil[...]was never able to obtain his had drunk about half of the glass, he settled down and went fortun[...]passed away nine years later in 1979. Today four of the from here?" and Jim told her, "Be patient, we[...]l living, as well as 11 grandchildren and the end of our traveling, someone will be here to pick us up[...]ame to Beaverhead lanterns were their only source of light. They were, however, County from Picke[...]ittle cabin tended to get Lodge. He returned to South Carolina in 1912 to marry Ara extremely crowded for a family of eight, yet Bess never Price (1885-1953[...]the hill from their homestead. His job consisted of being a years. In 1929 they purchased Mrs. Gravely's late brother's camp tender, chore boy and a handyman seven days a week. (E. F. "Digge[...] |
| [...]Oscar J. Gravelys five children were born, three of whom died in infancy. The surviving children were[...]il 18, 1860, in Clark County, Mo., the eldest son of Robert and Susan Gray. He arrived in longer[...]ng guests and their relating many wonderful tales of his early life, most of which families to enjoy the fine hospitality a[...]went to the grave with him. One that 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 had built. Elec[...]upplied by a Delco plant. sympathy for the plight of the Indians. He and his family Millpoint was also the site of community social functions. were lifelong friends of Chief Tendoy and his tribe. The Many bas[...]nd was only removed in take advantage of any new invention that would make life order to w[...]h bum lambs to buy a new Buick; not the first One of the many babies that she delivered was Evelyn Llo[...]ued to operate the ranch area for the first years of their marriage. George mined and and hotel with the help of his son, Guy, and daughter and Mary boarded the m[...]ches or Meade Hotel for several years at the turn of the century. to market. Bannack was a bus[...]clined, George and Mary established a ranch north of Ban- tery and a Masonic service was held following his burial. nack. The ranch ho[...]nt. George had been an active member of first the Bannack George was well known for th[...]kson and Dillon and continued so until the advent of cars and better road conditions made a two[...] |
| [...]Guy E. Gray was born January 29, 1888, the son of Mr. tains or fishing in Grasshopper Cre[...]is early life in the was elected mayor of Dillon, a position he held until the Grasshopper[...]ed grade school in Bannack and pressure of his work took him out of town so often that it was graduated from Beaverhe[...]iences.She had always lived in town, and she told of her struggles learning to churn butter: the[...]ie. The young couple decided to go West in search of new bride, Ruth felt a bit intimidated by her mot[...]nty, Mo., and crossed the plains became more sure of her own abilities. The Ed Lloyds were by wagon train. Stories related by their family tell of the the young couple's nearest neighbors, living[...]found time to join in the social functions of the community. surer in 1916 and the family moved[...]everal years. Mrs. the Bell Ranch before his term of County Treasurer. They Gray took ill wh[...]Bob Gray continued ranching with the help of his chil- Living conditions were much more comfor[...]two daughters, Susan (Mrs. George from the Winter of 1919. In the settling of his father's estate, Tash) and Artie (Mrs. L.C. Chandler). he lost some of his land. That,and other factors, caused him[...]y. Several years ago, the country was in the grip of the great depression. The family Shaffners tore down the old two-story log house built of was separated and there were several years when t[...]Floyd Skelton recognized Guy's superior knowledge of livestock and hired him as a[...]James G. Greer buyer; first of horses and then cattle. Guy was most success-[...]ck Greer and Jane Gaven ranchmen he had known all of his life. He was respected for were promin[...]appy tory. When employees received word of their conversion to[...] |
| [...]s Army Colt .44 cap and ball pistol from the time of James' father was disinherited by his family a[...]e and subsequent hanging on January 10, 1864, out of Johnstone. The Greer family left Scotland and sai[...]uck Stinson, another gang leiutenant. At the time of Sear's St. Louis, James' mother and two younger s[...]n water so on the Idaho territory line. In spring of 1872, he commenced he could safely unload the[...]d a flair for writing. He was the final secretary of the[...]father was Fielding building to the corner of Hangman's Gulch and Main Street Louis Graves, a prominent merchant and businessman of on the southwest corner. The store also[...]th Lou serving as postmaster, a position daughter of Andrew Jackson Nay, a prominent pioneer of he held for many years. On March 31, 192[...]. Lou's abiding faith in the the explosion of a gasoline lamp is the probable cause. The future of Bannack kept him steadily engaged as a merchant[...]stores gave up until he was Graves, mother of the victim, who immediately notified the last mer[...]other residents of the town. By this time, however, the Lou and F[...]stake" quite a few miners building was a mass of flames and nothing could be done to in the area, many of whom became good personal friends.[...] |
| [...]many years. A. L. Trask bought Murphy's share of the store, safes as his body, almost entirely con[...]on. In the early 1880s Graves bought Office. Both of the safes were open and the contents were[...]head of Hangman's Gulch and just west of the site of the -F. LE[...]which ington, Kent., on July 19, 1833, the second of seven children. worked Grasshopper Creek until[...]perous farmer on dredge has the distinction of being the first electric gold the Iron Works Road[...]F.L.'s great-grandfather was Thomas tor of the State Bank of Dillon and held that position for Graves, a Revol[...]from 1871 until 1879 held the position of Treasurer of Bea- In 1853 F .L. graduated from Georgetown C[...]L. was a delegate from Beaverhead County to ation of the homestead farm until the outbreak of the Civil the State's first Constitutional Convention which was held War. In 1861 he volunteered for service in the Confederate in Helena. He was a charter member of Bannack Masonic Army along with his brother, Colo[...]in Montana. He served the Ban- Under the command of General Sterling Price and his nack[...]ther, Colonel Graves, F.L. engaged in the battles of Lex- record in Montana Masonry and probably i[...]were especially commended by his com- 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.[...]k where he served as secretary Army at the Battle of Pea Ridge and was remanded to the for ma[...]ebruary 18, 1877, he married Leotie Nay, daughter of him was his cousin, John Robinson, son of James F. Robin- Andrew Jackson Nay, one of the "sturdy pioneers of Wyo- son, war governor of Kentucky. Through intervention of ming and Montana" who ranched at Mill P[...]e his and later married Dr. R. H. Ryburn of Bannack; Fielding parole and spent the war fighti[...]born February 23, 1882, and married A. R. Jacobs of Mis- Mo., on the long, overland trek. He joined a wagon train soula who was president of the First National Bank; Harry being made up at L[...]1965; and, Lelah who was born March 6, 1890, ing of approximately 50 men, arrived at Virginia City, Mon- and married Chandler W. Stallings of Bannack. tana Territory, on June 22, 1864. Gold a[...]4, 1864, and F.L. decided to nack at the age of 80. On December 22, he suffered a paralyt- move t[...]hich he sank rapidly. His son-in-law, Dr. R. June of 1869 he decided to move to Bannack to seek his H. Ryburn, was the attending physician at the time of his fortune, where this time in partnership with[...]ves was merly known as Skinner's Saloon. Skinner, of Plummer's later reburied at the Mountai[...]ip when the family plot was moved there. of the building in 1864 at the end of a Vigilante rope. This One interesting not[...]raves and F. building still stands today. In July of 1871 Graves and Mur- Lee Graves by Wal[...] |
| [...]or mummifying capabilities be- cause the remains of F .L. looked as natural as the day he was buried.[...]wn about Henry Clay Graves, the youn- ger brother of Fielding L. Graves, Sr. He was born in Fayette Co[...]1880, lists Clay as a resident and an occupation of ferryman. The "Grimes" from "Grymes" until a[...]865. He had spent his childhood newspaper article of Sept. 18, 1898, relating the details of "carrying hod" for his father who was a brick[...]ying "Henry Clay Graves, prominent businessman of Ban- brick to the bricklayers on a de[...]clock this afternoon by shoulders. The result of this labor was a large hump on his the accidental discharge of a shotgun, which he was carry- back and when I think of him I recall that hump, the laugh ing. Mr. Graves[...]F. Graeter, was coming lines at the corners of his dark brown eyes, and his glorious, from Banna[...]was a short double-barrelled away at the age of 78 in Dillon. gun, slipped out of the buggy and presumably the wheel W[...]ose, Montana, and Dad grew up in the mining camps of side, just above the hip. Mr. Graves pitched forward out of Glendale and Hecla. He had a younger brother[...]before Mr. Graeter could stop the the age of 18 months drowned in a small creek at Hecla. Dad[...]used to tell stories of the mines and the miners and I enjoyed ... was a member of the Pioneer Society of Montana, them. But, as most of us do, I listened, did not write them coming to H[...]company with his brother, the story told of moving her remains in a wooden box that Hon. Fiel[...]tty, state and county politics, being at the time of his death on the hills were very steep, and t[...]agination dictates the final scene. The reactions of -F. LEE GRAVES the local gentry and especially those of that 11-year-old boy[...]now that served as postmaster and at the end of that term he 344 years later his arrival w[...] |
| [...]ss in Arm- corporate and private tax returns. He, of course, never di- stead from 1920 to 1956 an[...]ncher (unnamed) who had porated town of Grant. Up until a short time before his checks wr[...]ng bone. During the 1920s and 30s he was a member of the pole. Baxter-Tonrey Orchestra, a d[...]anced a lot in those days and Dilmont Park (north of Henry Francis Hackett Dillon) was one of the favorite spots. Dad also shared his musical t[...]he Dillon Military Band. Walter served as clerk of School District 10 for many years. T~e clerk then[...]ng from door to door to record the names and ages of Henry Ha[...]952 he married Lillian Ulm Henneberry. Dad died of cancer on my birthday, September 23, 1983.[...]City, Neb., the youngest child of William George Hackett Jules and Anna Guyaz[...]and Henry) to Red Rock, Montana, in 1870, by way of Boulder, Colorado. visit relatives in Mai[...]ere scattered among During the following 18 years of bachelorhood, Jules proved the relatives unt[...]ette Estes. They took Henry and quired a few head of cattle, and enjoyed living off the land - Mary[...]ranch buildings were located at the intersection of the passed through Centennial in 1875, perhaps[...]y's Lake. He was at Dillon when Lillian ar- route of the freight wagons and stage coaches running be-[...]is location was ideal as a rest stop and a change of horses and keep house, so she took her son Fre[...]many. They had three children, Henry, of building for themas he was a good carpenter. Abou[...]over at Teepee Creek and tress. In 1914, the mail service was moved to Armstead. helped bui[...] |
| [...]g on his ranch at Gibbonsville, Idaho. He was one of the last surviving early-day settlers of the Big Hole Pass stretch of Montana's Continental Divide. Pos- sessed of a wiry frame and a keen 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 Ho[...]teep Flyspeck Ridge Trail, which was a mile or so south of[...]Hole to Wisdom and then over the head of Rock Creek, Moosehorn and other Big Hole tribu- Pass. Before a group of Valley ranchers built the present taries t[...]Ridge to the top. get a dollar out of. We had to trap all winter long or else we'd In 1912, Leo married Pansy Willey of Wisdom, the daugh- starve." His favorite fur-bearer was the pine marten, which ter of area ranchers Thomas Henry Willey and Sophia B.[...]d Pansy homestead- species. ed just east of the Divide near Isaac (Izatt) Meadows where[...]eam from Pioneer is a bench containing the graves of two Pioneer citizens. One of those buried is a Mr. Benson, who owned mining cl[...]rgument, the miner grabbed his gun and killed one of the hapless would- be campers. The other got away[...]ome pay in there now." In 1919 he took $750 worth of Pioneer gold (999 ¼ pure) to the San Fran[...] |
| [...]s," he explained. in March of 1890~ Toward the end of Prohibition, Montana was "wet" when[...]OROTHY DAVIS FIELD Idaho remained "dry." Leo knew of five stills along the Continental Divide. A moonshiner by the name of Jack Lech bought legal liquor at Wisdom for about[...]th Henry Halbert, better known to early residents of product for a profitable $20 a gallon. He often s[...]16, 1857, the third child and only with a bottle of whiskey for his hospitality. Lech was crafty, son of Enos and Susan Halbert, who named him for his nev[...]driving one of the covered wagons, learning from his father Leo Hagel was among the last of a vanishing breed, a man who had gone overla[...]the gold rush and later had served as captain of a supply vide-mining, ranching, logging and trapp[...]toes. The same reason was behind the settlement of Oregon, Leo and Pansy had no children. Pansy d[...]were delayed by stopping to help a family of emigrants when[...]th some ant but uneventful. members of their large family, came from Woodstock, New[...]Kansas; he moved on to Brunswick, Canada, in June of 1880. They came by railroad Colorado where he packed ore out of the mountains on to Spring Hill (now Lima) which[...]e from Hecla to the smelter at railroad flag stop of Apex. George and Rosanna lived on the Glendale. It was here he met Horace Hand of Maine, his ranch for over 25 years, both spending[...]for varying periods. lem in the new town of Glendale was solved by turning hogs James Raining[...]er snakes a delicacy! years he followed the trade of carpenter and lived on Bar- With the decline of mining activities in Hecla, Al and nett Avenue. A[...]n on July 3, ice that would Anaconda for a number of years. hold the weight of a man formed overnight on their water Samantha[...]nia Rosanna Raining was a pupil in the first term of ing supplies to the Eliel Brothers' Store i[...]g town the first Birch Creek School in the winter of 1882-1883. over the Continental Divide fr[...]gether, Al and Horace also delivered some of the biggest[...] |
| [...]River south of Melrose, to county roads, some gravelled, to[...]Three kinds of roads in a man's lifetime.[...]the later years of 1800. They were probably attracted to the mining[...]ed 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- and tied tip-fi[...]e road levelled off. proved to be fine tracts of land for raising cattle. During Big Al drove the[...]h~ir land This stage only used two horses because of the short route. possessions and their cattle increased. ntil the time of Big Al used mules, Horace preferred horses. Together John's death, he was considered one of the wealthiest cattle they did some road work for[...]mu cular crippling di - Beebee Hay and Grain, of Butte, bought up good wild hay ease and ha[...]dtrip. Another niece of the Halligan family, a third relative of In 1918 when the Montana Southern, a narrow-ga[...]ove Wise River, Al was ready to sell and move out of the lie by relatives at the Halligan home[...]ied George Richardson, a railroad station master, of When Big Al bought a Ford car about 1920, Wall[...]This man from Northern Ireland in the year of 1913 to Canada, where who had driven ten-mule, je[...]ed his genial disposition to the end. At the time of his wife Nellie assisted Maggie Halliga[...] |
| [...]Big Hole in the spring of 1884, near the present site of[...]he verdant valley and nearby Bitterroot Mountains of-[...]in 1936 and married George Ed Fults, a gra- duate of the Montana State School of Mines at Butte. To this couple three children wer[...]and He- len Fults, all three to become graduates of the University of California. George Ed Fults was employed for many years with the United States Bureau of Reclamation. George Ed and Mar- garet Fults retir[...]ie died in 1944 and It was toward the end of haying season on the morning of was buried in the Lima Cemetery Halligan plot) mo[...]ay back to Ireland in 1946 to spend the remainder of their was breaking when a large grizzly b[...]lowed the bear into the willows. When The Saga of Ben Hamby[...]mountain man, one-quarter Chero- a mile south, her progress was slowed by her approaching kee, lineage of the Vikings, a fearless rugged man of 39 motherhood (in 7 weeks my father Parker[...]orn mmmers, lies somewhere in the secret recesses of the willow making 6 children). thickets in th[...]lake, the home- the Quigley and found a couple of trappers who came to ,tead, the rail fence[...] |
| [...]bune. Ben's widow Orlena died at the home of their en-man posse on horseback trailed the grizz[...]issouri hills where, after he had sliced open one of the horses, nar- in her 85th year; she had fou[...]Hamby was born November 1853 to grant of land in Canada for his service in the British Navy William and Louisa P. Nix Hamby who had migrated from during the War of 1812. After the family moved to Maine, Kentucky w[...]n days by emigrant train, to Ben was the youngest of 11 children, orphaned by age five, work in[...]deline Potter, wagon to the silver mines of Hecla, and the smelter town of born 11/9/1861 to James T. and Mary Jane Dunaway[...]ib- July 18, 1879 after an eventful journey of 370 miles in two able beauty, with its fringe of mountains, 100 native grasses, weeks, making ab[...]les a day. Near Ross's Fort, big snows, profusion of wild flowers, willow thickets and the Idaho, I[...]ys until a settler befriended them with a quarter of and sad, never to return to the "Land of the Shining Moun- veal and some staples. They passed through a herd of 10,000 tains" that had lured Ben Hamby and kept h[...]by 30 cowboys Third, fourth and fifth generations of Ben and Orlena using 300 saddle horses. They saw great freight outfits of 30 Hamby's have stood beside Ole Hamby's trapper[...]not the only hazards. At Mountains, and are proud of our heritage, the beautiful land Eagles's Rock, now Idaho Falls, then terminus of the narrow and it's people, from whence our roots[...]-WYONA HAMBY SMITH had two pairs of mules shod for $5.00 and sold a dog for (I have i[...]Transportation Co. He also worked for John Duffy of Mar-[...]They worked for W. A. Clark, Eliel Bros. of Dillon, hauled[...]ver Springs Mill south of Sheridan. Riding the wheel horse of a jerkline team, it was neces-[...]sary, because of the wagon tongue, to use a short right stir-[...]rup and after miles and years of this Horace continued to[...]Contrary to the popular notion concerning men of the Elzy' 1882-1959, Mayme 1885-1916, Orlena 1861[...]never hunted. In the fall of 1892, soon after the Utah and 260-Bea[...] |
| [...]Ranch, one half mile north of Melrose, where their sixth[...]In the spring of 1917 they sold out and bought the Earl[...]Highway; five days of hard travel. They remained on the[...]Children of Horace and Maggie Hand were John Hand,[...]0; Roscoe K. Hand (Rock), 1904; and Thelma sister of Big Al, a graduate of the Beloit, Kansas high school Hand Kalsta, 190[...]. Indiana, March 17, 1869, was the youngest child of Enos -SUSAN HAND Halbert and Susan Shirley Halbert of pioneer Indiana fam- ilies which traced back to 1[...]ad partici- pated in the American Revolution, War of 1812, and the Civil John and Ida Ha[...]father and uncle, Zeth Halbert. In 1910 the cause of a railroad strike. On their return friends were r[...]rose, Montana, in De- they lived until the spring of 1910 when they sold out and cember, 1910. T[...]the band of sheep killing a nunber of them and then some-[...]bought a ranch at Lavon, a railroad station south of Mel-[...] |
| [...]ber of the Danish Royal Cavalry, in 1908, Carl Hansen[...]g young fellow aboard a steamer bound for a ranch of their own across the Big Hole River. This was only "Amerika." The last they 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 mine[...]ter problems forced him Their first place of employment was at the Dave Metlen back to Butte a[...]Rocker, Mont., just out ranch five miles west of Armstead. Carl worked as a ranch- of Butte where he worked in what he called the "slav[...]y, back to the ranch at on the construction of the Gilmore and Pittsburgh railroad Reichle and t[...]th. owned the ranch immediately west of the Metlen home Ida Barbara Hartwig Hand was b[...]eter, Bannack pioneer, in the 1860s and consisted of Pfeifer Hartwig. She grew up at the family home near Willis, wild hay meadows and bench land on the south, with early going to school at the Reichle school[...]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 dresses they made for themselves and yards and yards of material required, the corsets that were so tight[...]friends, and boarders. She was noted for her pies of which she made many. No one came at mealtime and[...]her bean in the pot". John and Ida had a family of seven children: John who died shortly after birth[...]fer, William Hand, Earl Hand who died at age 31/2 of spinal meningitis, Shirley Hand Hunt Groff, and Horace Hand. Ida died December 27, 1967 in Dillon of cancer. John died Carl Christian Han[...] |
| [...]cancer of the pancreas. By this time there were babi[...]wins, Thomas Carl and William Crosby IV ahead of schedule, and was born in the tiny log cabin. Mrs[...]on and Thomas Carl Orr: head County Directory of 1912 lists Carl Hansen as "Fore- William[...]ine, Christina. America was, indeed, the land of opportunity.[...]anch buildings on the bench just a mile north of the old Medicine Lodge stage stop. In 1917, e[...]th the Ejner (Amos) and Anna purchase of a tract known as the "Carlson Place," between[...]Hansen claim of 440 acres was added on the north perimeter.[...]4, and Chris (Kesse) in 1917. Overgaard, the name of Hansen Hansen (1895-1966) were both born[...]school house to accommodate the Hansen name of Ejner (A-ner) so they called him "Amos." He later[...]ar. This, ap- officially acquired the name of Amos E. Hansen. parently, was a temporary location of the Medicine Lodge World War I began a[...]he Ander- United States. While on an adventure of working on a tin sons moved away and the the[...]th not Kearney, Calif. Again, the excitement of the cowboy life on enough floor space for tha[...]o get out and push. In 1919, on the eve of her arrival to Dillon and destination After one year of this grind the family moved to Dillon for in[...]attended a "Return Home Party" the remainder of their schooling. at the Country Inn which was being held in honor of those The long-range goal of these two persevering parents was Danish so[...]risti did not live to realize her dream. She died of an Anna then worked on the Horse Prairie for[...]ly who were later to become her in-laws. help of the eldest daughter Alice, held the family togeth[...]each was on his own. Carl died in 1945 at age 60 of in Deer Lodge and for a short time[...] |
| They decided to return to their homeland of I?enmark, only with Joe Metlen in his Cadill[...]t their lives in "America - the Bearcat. land of opportunity" and to settle in Beaverhead County.[...]jner, who lived their childhoods in the Dell area of Beaver- In the twenties they operated a ranch west of Glen. They head County.[...]received his schooling in to Mrs. Wilhelm Jensen of Dillon. They were married and Dillon and[...]h owned by the Metlens, located on the north edge of the Horse Prairie meadow. This ranch had been pur[...]Fred Hanson Selway Ranch was by way of the Templin Lane, later known as the Stocker Lane[...]aily apportion the water into each ditch by means of a weir according to each decreed right. On one oc[...]nched in the same vicinity as his mother and both of the incident, but it demonstrated the desperation[...]gh water was available. and became a part of the Red Rock Lakes Game Refuge. Water was their l[...]ventually taught. He had mastered the intricacies of the internal com- shipping them to zoos[...] |
| [...]Little is ·known of the destiny of the many Hardisty men,[...]assumed that they are part of the Huff, Seybold, Hardesty, living in Indiana, O[...]part of the western migration. Many of them ended in Mon- Sweetwater Road. Seven chil[...]a Huff was born in Wilcox, Mo., the 10th child of William good price, Samuel and his family went ba[...]She came to Glendale in the fall of 1879 with her parents,[...]mance blossomed and on March 25, 1881, at the age of Territory was probably Mary "Polly" Hardisty, the wife of 16, Sivilla Huff married General Hardisty,[...]n Seybold, who came to Glendale in the late 1860s of dale by the local Justice of the Peace. Witnesses were Sivil- early 1870s.[...]earby boarding house. Walter Hardisty, son of General Ray and Si villa Har- Four doors away liv[...]other or cousin, Mark, and disty of Glendale, MT (1883) his wife Eva. Pendleton G. Ha[...]in a boarding Sivilla Huff Hardisty, wife of General Ray Hardisty house several houses[...] |
| [...]The license was recorded at the first team of horses with which he got wood out the first Beave[...]asin. In February, A year later a son was born of this union and they named 1908, Ned's father shipped him a trainload of cattle from him Walter Hardisty. A diphtheria epi[...]ed them into the Basin. young son Walter were two of the many casualties. Five more children were born, three boys and one set of When the mining activity began to play out in[...]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[...]employed a young woman Indians, under one of the many Chief Tendoys, were coming from Idaho, w[...]There were also lots of outlaws in the Big Sheep Creek Ernest Isaac (Ned) Harkness was one of a large family of Basin at that time. No law officer was allowed[...]rim 10 children while Arabina (Tine) Ham was one of a family of of the basin. Tine said the outlaws always treated h[...]n November 9, 1876, at White- the front of the house before coming in. field Corners, Ill.[...]n ranch. Ned worked for Henry Thomp- agement of descendants of the original owners. son (now the Briggs R[...] |
| [...]the death of their eldest son, Ralph, November 24, 1969.[...]and breaking horses. He was one of a group of men that was George was one of twin boys born to James Cooper and instr[...]-LUCILLE NOVICH at the age of nine.[...]James Thomas Cooper Harrison was the last of 12 chil-[...]Bordwine, one of his former students. A few months prior to[...]Nine children were born of Cooper and Olive. Two were Hazel was one of seven children born to Stephen Calvin born[...]She later married C. D. McKown. At the age of 11, before child labor laws existed, Hazel[...]two children, Harrison and Martha Jane. advice of the family doctor, traveled west with an older[...]employment at the Saunders-LaDue tor of the Dillon telephone exchange for several[...] |
| [...]of a descendant of Cooper Harrison since 1887.[...]verhead County the summer of 1909, moving to Montana[...]descendant of William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Har-[...]rrison was born May 8, 1892, in Bates, Several of Cooper's brothers and sisters were also in this[...]ried Dillon Mason. Her ranch is Some of her lasting memories include those of the Hark- now part of the Harrison ranch. Cooper and Olive's home wa[...]l where Cooper was clerk. Cooper developed one of the best ranches in the county. His home is now part of the house of Ruth and Dwight Harrison. He prided himself on ha[...]cows. Cooper is said to have been a great student of the Bible, unassuming and law abiding. While vacationing in California he died of paralysis, January 22, 1920. Olive lived[...]nential out her life at the ranch, where she died of cancer on October[...]ty given in honor of Kenison's 18-year-old son, Floyd. After[...]a courtship of a few months, they were married on February[...]a trip of 25 miles. The train was three hours late, snowbou[...]Dillon. Bill and Alice were married in the office of the Clerk of the District Court by Frank Hazelbaker who was th[...]Clerk of the Court.[...] |
| [...]iver while Alice helped different jobs, one of which was driving the stage coach from cook for t[...]e 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 and a couple of other fellows when all of the cattle They built a log cabin and a barn th[...]standing up. rounded them and the big one to the south is still called He filed on a homestead[...]nd Julia Jones were married. In cabin at the head of Nicholia Creek among the sheepherders 1919[...]Harrisons were able to her father's part of the ranch. They spent the next eight locate on a good homestead of 640 acres between the Keni- years there th[...]ves in Butte, On this property, there were lots of native grasses. The and Ben is married to O[...]lon. getting the land ready to plant a crop of timothy hay. Bill Ben always told of coming to Monida on a freight train began buying[...]d took him out to work. Nicholia Creek was full of rainbow trout and sage chick- ens and ducks were[...]sed school children and other parents as all part of a big family. by relatives. In 1882 he came to[...]Wonderful times were had at late a ranch of his own, building a two-room log cabin for[...] |
| [...]Pauline died August 7, 1935, in Dillon of complications of[...]ates when she was a young girl. She married north of Glen.[...]d Wealth Ann Cooper. Three in his meadow), paving of U. S. Hwy. 91, the town of Willis children were born to this union: Ed[...]Charles A. and Mayme Harvey. what is now the town of Glen. The Wise River flood brought Edwa[...]settling in Hecla where Ed was in charge of the Hecla Min- Fredrick Julius Hartwig was ver[...]Glendale until 1902, when when that camp boasted of three buildings on Main Street. they move[...]r the Com- From Highland City the family moved to South Boulder, pany, in the store and at one time was in charge of the Jefferson County, where they imported from Ge[...]y in Deer William was drafted into service April 27, 1918, and dis- Lodge. While living at Nissler the 1877 Battle of the Big charged August 1, 1919. December[...]rked in the Melrose Store. In eryone spoke highly of "Aunt Polly" as she was affectionate- 1943,[...]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, Julius and Pauline Hartwig had a family of four: Ida 1919. He was with the "Army of Occupation" in Germany Hartwig Hand, Louise Hartw[...]4, at Fort Harrison Hospital. 6, 1909, at the age of nine from diphtheria. Her[...]rt They raised a large garden, kept several hives of bees, raised died July 16, 1952, in But[...] |
| [...]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 a horse branded with the since 1922, wh[...]Hecla) for the Hecla Consolidated Min- some of the first Angus cattle in the area. ing and Smelt[...]etticher (both area where the majority of their descendants still live at nieces of Henry Knippenberg) in a very impressive marriage ranching and various occupations. ceremony of that time. When the mine and smelter closed dow[...]Louise, married Leslie Jones, promi- nent rancher of that area.[...]Kansas, on February 18, 1878, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney J.[...]ard his home. mined near Silver Star. In 1875 two of his sons, Archibald At the time he was just[...]al College at Dillon and, the year following, end of the railroad. There they purchased a pack horse a[...]soon followed by the rapid expansion of his interests. Archibald (Archie) soon decided that mining was not for Outside of public life, Mr. Hazelbaker was best known as him[...]der soon enough without owner and operator of the C Bar D Ranch in the Big Hole spending my lif[...]y through the Archie then freighted with teams of horses from Corinne, years, became one of the most important in the state's live- Utah, to[...]ilroad was stock industry. Its fine herd of Hereford cattle was famous, built further toward[...]ead County and for many years secretary of the Beaverhead-Madison was from Monida down the R[...]Farm Loan Association and was also secretary of the Water location of the Clark Canyon Reservoir, then up the Horse U_sers Irrigation Company, owners of the Lima Dam.[...] |
| [...]won more awards than that of any other State or foreign[...]of all kinds. These received not only his financial[...]many other business holdings. He was the owner of the[...]ous business enterprises of a varied character in other parts of the state. He was a director of the Dillon Chamber of[...]worth, daughter of George Woodworth, pioneer rancher of[...]Brown Brantly, daughter of Theodore Brantly, chief justice of the Montana Supreme Court. They were the parents of[...]After his death, his widow continued many of his business[...]r passed away January 17, He was elected clerk of the district court of Beaverhead 1974. County in 1904, an office in which he served until the close of the year 1912. At the Republican State Convention of 1904, he was designated secretary and in every su[...]Anaconda, then made his way to tion for Secretary of State and from that time onward was the Bi[...]d 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 State Committee three times[...]surveying work and built irrigation irrespective of partisan considerations, strongly influenced[...]he purchased the Fox Ranch and opened the conduct of State affairs. In 1928 he was nominated for[...]s party and was elected with the Fox. rest of the ticket, serving one term.[...]ar John married Carrie In 1932 the Republicans of Montana selected him as their Emrick from Da[...]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 ma[...]h was the first same year. It was largely because of his skill and judgment in auto garage in[...] |
| [...]ication Association, Harry was on the first board of directors of the organization. He was also county commissioner[...], called "Dutchie" by her family and friends, was of his life in Wisdom. He died in 1975. a niece of Mary Justus Kenison of Dillon. Harry married Mary Jane Woody and had[...]Her son, Floyd McComb, married Viola Martin of Salt After her death he married Floy Burrel from[...]e was a brother Michael and Midge of Mrs. Earl Rogers of Sweeney and Rogers in Sheep Creek Basin.[...]The Henneberry family was one of the very early pioneer He and Resoltha Sholl McComb were married September families of Beaverhead County. Michael Angelo Henne- 4, 1912. She was the mother of two children from her mar- riage with John A. McC[...]dersons had a two-room log cabin on the 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 ran[...]on the railroad. Henderson Gulch on the east side of Sheep Creek still bears their name. Roll worked on the section at Dell the winter of 1920. They moved to Lima the next year where he w[...]filled various sections until they located north of Armstead in 1923 at the Grayling Section.[...] |
| [...]Arlo, Ingeborg and Joe Hermann berry was one of 11 children born to Michael B. Henneberry ably a brother of William who was born in Baden, Germany and his wi[...]1866, Michael B. established his ranch and one of the largest brick manufacturers in the Northwest.[...]William later married Elizabeth Doering of St. Joseph, opened to the public.[...]ph Killian, born July 25, 1880, and William ranch south of Dillon. He married Midge Nelson and they[...]and May. After Michael on a ranch north of town. At the same time he established a Angelo's[...]ath in 1954. nished brick for many of Dillon's early businesses, including Archie mar[...]s Hall and the Conger for many years. At the time of his death in 1947, he was a house. Also, n[...]mann in San Francisco after structed of Hermann brick. serving in World War I. They had t[...]nd was noted for the horse he drove for a quarter of a Paul Jr. was a pilot in World War II and was ki[...]ides in San clipboard sign on each side of his spring buggy reading, Francisco and still owns part of the original ranch. "Here Since 1882[...]Joseph K. (Joe) and William N. (Bill) exceptions of some winters in California, lived all her life in[...]stories cowboy in the true form for much of his adult life. From ~he about the early days on the ranch. The ranch was at Grayl- back of a horse he tended a herd of Hereford cattle, which ing railroad siding and th[...]for to town to shop. May died in 1984 at the age of 87. Rocky Hillers (wild horses) and[...]Joe and Bill, part of a famous Dillon team, enjoyed play- The He[...]ing baseball and were close friends of the Quackenbush William Hermann, a native of Germany, was born Octo- family. ber 11[...]n, presum- Ingeborg Syrstad, the third of nine children, was born 27 4-Beaver h[...] |
| [...]"read" each old Highway 91. He operated a team of horses and fresno. others' mind via E.S.P. One of them would pick a word at The gravel pit is still visible at the site of the Club Royal. random from a dictionary while th[...]r brother became so good at it that it flock of chickens and turkeys to supplement the farm in- f[...]nd their father finally put an ab- come. Much of this produce was traded at Bond Grocery for solut[...]needed supplies. Ingeborg was a long time member of At 17, Ingeborg and her cousin came to America[...]in Sheridan. cerning the iceberg but the officers of the Titanic ignored She remained there until[...]ttled in Washington. He was the only other member of Ingeborg's family to come to this country. Ingebo[...]ht. Ingeborg, barely 30, married Joseph in August of Scott convinced her that she should be sharing[...]ing activities and promising future of the Scott & Decker To this union three childre[...]reek area. After night and day through weeks of typhoid fever, ended the several moves Joe bought[...]terms. He was one of the "Young Turks" in the Legislature,[...] |
| [...]the rest of their lives. Edith worked at the Normal College.[...]1928 campaign, and served as Deputy Clerk of Court until "Colonel" Decker E[...]rts. She helped with the hotel work. She was part of the Colonel Decker died in 1929, Roy[...], and Scott & Decker family and had a wide circle of friends in Edith Scott Decker Herndo[...]Cemetery in Dillon in the Scott & Decker pattern of her life.[...]he had a wonder- This is the story of the years Pauline Reichle Herzog and fully exciti[...]participating fully, too, in the pomp and gaiety of Helena's Montana. elegant social season[...]rs for the legislative staff (theater, daughter of Adolph William Reichle and Elizabeth Well- opera,[...]lost the bid for months. She returned at the end of June to the busy life of some important project, he also lost h[...]o the Scotts and Deckers in the now thriving town of Arm- pay off his men and his obligations. The stress of all this was stead.[...], a Salmon lawyer she had One of his sons, William Reichle, had already come to do[...]reed. Soon she was a full partici- Germany of such glowing reports of fortunes to be made in pant in the business and social life of this growing mining ranching and minin[...]augher ranches. There was a great deal of activity going on ho State Legislature from 1904-[...]tion at Willis was assessor, he became postmaster of Salmon. being rebuilt to the present site of Glen in order to give the Roy and Edith led a b[...]r- was born dead, and Edith was not well for most of the year. ers were employed and needed[...]oise and Reichle's wife take care of all the cooking and other house- brought back Eth[...]born into the com- the prosperous ranching center of the Pahsimari Valley, munit[...] |
| [...]enjoy rural life and sold his homestead to one of the Birrer brothers who had been their neighbo[...]izabeth planted trees along the ditch for each of her children, and they were there for many yea[...]in Montana. August felt there was more · chance of making money in the city and soon joined his b[...]rzog. A small brother Joseph had died a couple of years before Clara's birth and was buried in t[...]lizabeth Reichle. This cemetery holds the remains of sev- eral who died in the community, mostly yo[...]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[...]another girl, Ann. John Herzog was a fine painter of brother Will Dingley and her cousin Nell[...]1900; Alice Mary born March 4, 1906; Ruth ing of the St. Patrick Church in Butte. 1:fis name is no[...]n July 24, 1913. listed as a primitive painter of religious themes at the On the 1900 c[...]of California. Little is known of the family after that move John and Alice Hildebrand out of Montana.[...]Alice Rebecca Dingley, the youngest daughter of John ry Olsen and Ida Hirschy Olsen at[...]September 3, Montana. She was the oldest of six girls and attended school 1875, in[...] |
| [...]took off for the sheepherder's camp, opened a can of milk[...]there was a year ling bear in the middle of the circle feeling leader. They used to take bamboo poles and put them in the trapped by a bunch of curious cows. •ditches and brace themselves and[...]this and coyotes were killed the population of wild game in- for hours at a time. The girls also spent a lot of time playing creased. One memorable event in h[...]l talks about that great ad- Bessie to take care of things. The girls were about 14 and 16 ventu[...]arried November 7, 1924. They raised their family of upon the family's return. They tried chopping th[...]p on the chickens' heads make their home on South Atlantic. and pull them off; that didn't work ei[...]nd with kinked-up necks. The Hildreths of Medicine girls didn't tell until several years l[...]eth and Harriet Jane Phillips Hildreth, the third of eight Hildreth. Harriet Jane Phillips was b[...]ttie were childhood sweethearts and up, had most of his schooling and lived until he retired to[...]ove, best childhood anyone could ever want. Many of his adven- hopes and dreams were high, b[...]s he helped on the ranch. in the principals of Christianity. One day as a young boy Bob found a[...]in a sheep wagon and later a small took off. Out of the trees came the big mother bear bearing[...]l 4, 1896. During this time Henry skiddaddle out of there fast.[...] |
| [...]The Weenik him as required by the "Homestead Act" of May 20, 1862. In Studio in Dillon was used for family protraits, preserving August, 1897, the family of four moved to their beloved Hildreth History of those early days. Henry had his first homestead and Henry purchased a band of 750 Hampshire ride in an automobile i[...]Thomas, March 16, 1900; Jonathan sion of the 20s, losing much of the ranch and range. Henry Daulton, February 16,[...]ivered by their father aided by a the age of 52. Hattie and the younger children moved to neig[...]her grandchildren and other young people of the area. Hat- land, raising sheep, cattle, milk[...]ick- tie died on September 25, 1948, at the age of 75. ens. Gardening, berrying, fishing and hunting[...]trapping coyotes and wolves. University of Washington, and at the time of her death, July Work was exchanged between friend[...]. Trad- 2, 1944, was Assistant Director of Research in the Sociology ing with the Lemhi Indians that came through the Valley Department of the University. and the Chinese in Bannack proved[...]vember 7, 1924. They even- There were a number of sheep camps to attend which tually ow[...]The shearing Daisy met Clarence Koenig of Loveland, Colo., when he crew arrived the first week of July. A sheep sheared around came to work f[...]d they married June 1, seven pounds with the cost of shearing around one pound, 1921 at Rock[...]rst Kodak, purchased in 1910, many pictures of Dillon which became their home until Clare[...] |
| [...]larence Koenig purchased the Superior Dairy north of Dillon in 1927. John sold his interest in 1930 to[...]north of Wisdom, where their daughter Helen was born in[...]December 1930s in the winter, when teams of horses carried the mail 27, 1888, the sixth of 12 children born to Fred and Cecile and fr[...]ole in 1894, Wisdom. Also trail herds of cattle en route to market where they took up a ho[...]extraordinary strength matched by an appetite of prodi- famous midget. Dave was eight, the horse w[...]ould catch a father had paid the magnificient sum of $8.00 for him. He wild horse in the open[...]the surround- his cowdogs wouldn't do a lick of work unless he was horse- ing area buying cattle.[...]drove stage; "Coyote" Jack Gish, brother of Lillian Gish Once each year in the fall a trip[...]on entertained her with amazing tales of the west. vegetables and fruit for the winter. Th[...]. These from the Big Hole Pass down to the bottom of Ross's Hole. hay derricks were invented a[...]d 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 by others who did the same thing. He[...]attle 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 teaching when she was 16 years old and taught first dren, all of whom (at this writing) still live in the v[...] |
| [...]lora Hirschy died on October 12, 1958, at the age of 64. Frederick Louis Hirschy, born of Swiss parents on April[...]13, 1884, in Vera Cruz, Ind., was the third of 12 children. His[...]as born on December 26, 1892 in deal of respect from those who knew him ... in his own qu[...]ificate, and after cattle. Fred bought one of the milk cows, then gave it back 1 passing the State Board of Education examinations, Flora so the chil[...]Fred. a very few words, e g: "There is a lot of truth in that man ... Flora was a dynamic person ... energetic, intelligent, fun- because none of it ever came out." loving, and strong in charac[...]in people, sioner and was also on the Board of Directors of the Mon- was always "there" if anyone needed he[...]tional Livestock Hall of Fame for "those who have made She had a wonderful sense of humor and enjoyed nothing outstanding and[...]griculture." Fred died June 21 1 1975, at the age of 91. about an incident that happened at a politi[...]Cecile ment and then with a sudden look of recognition said, "Oh Hirschy ..[...]enacity, so when she It was the tenth of May, 1894, that the family of Frederick decided she wanted to learn how to fl[...]ve home from that trip excited because the Shah of Iran was are the fifth generation of this ranching family to live in the there and h[...]moved. Big Hole. In 1945 she was Worthy Matron of Eastern Star, Frederick and his cousin[...]ca on a cattle Wisdom Chapter 67, and a member of the Daughters of the boat, working in the galley for their[...]had Nile, Tirzah Temple, Butte. Also a member of the State and journeyed to Ohio to visit her[...]tle in Montana. He later urged first president of Cowbelles in 1955. For many years she was[...] |
| [...]of spring road conditions, and the next day was the[...]ning of a new life and a very busy time for the families.[...]later herd of almost 100. The building had a small room[...]partitioned off for the sleeping quarters of Walchli, who[...]He homesteaded on a piece of land on the Big Hole River,[...]rest post office to his aging and storing of the cheese and butter, a big corral and homestead[...]her-in- Fred Hirschy, Sr., took wagonloads of cheese and butter law's home found good land on a[...]returned to Indiana for his family in the spring of several times a year, bringing the wagons back filled with 1894, and they began the task of moving to the Big Hole ranch supplies an[...]g the trip in an was evident that the future of the family would be better emigrant car, which he[...]old goods, livestock, served in the raising of cattle and putting up the wild hay and the family[...]ing confined to the needs of the family. When they arrived in Dillon, Gus W[...]of their grandsons still living in the Big Hole.[...]ters. Estella became the wife of Jack Husted, who ranched close by, and two of their sons are still operating the family[...]ranched north of Wisdom for a time, later becoming a[...]skilled builder of the Beaver Slide Derricks which are used[...]to eastern Oregon to raise their family of two boys and two[...] |
| [...]alls. 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,[...]buried at Rose Hill Cemetery ley, the third child of William Bailey and Lucy Ann (Nave) in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Tinsley of Willow Creek, Mont. Lillie was born September[...]ed. Harry Hopkins, a long time resident.of the Big Hole coun- Returning to the Centennial Valley, Ben Holt met and try, was the son of William and Esther H.Qpkins. He was married schoo[...]His par- started a small place on the north side of the Valley and ents, five brothers, two si[...]ears old. The trip took about raised a fine bunch of bum lambs every year and carded her three months during the summer of 1887. They traveled by own wool.[...]r cattle outfit and moved to walked a good deal of the way. The family lived at Glendale Idaho Falls[...]was a busy little town where, at that time, a lot of stead and start another small ranch near the town of Lake- Chinese lived. One morning Harry and some of the boys view. The Holts sold this place when the federal government were hiking up a canyon east of there and came upon a came into the Valley and be[...]happened to the man. they settled in the far end of the Valley in an area called By 1898, Harry had moved to the North Fork of the Big Alaska Basin. The ranch was built close t[...]nd built a cabin on it. near the hills and is one of the last places you see before After a short[...]aho. Part which was then owned by Major Smith of Butte. of the ranch still stands today and is owned by Huntsman Kathryn Knudsen, called Katie, daughter of Jens and Ranches.[...] |
| [...]For much of their journey, they backtracked along the Or-[...]bound immigrants. The final third of the journey followed[...]Pass; 6,800 feet high. The road skirted the flank of the[...]beautiful high range country of Vipond Park where Wil- February 16, 1882. After t[...]thers. During these years two a combination of woodworking and hand blacksmithing. daughters wer[...]ington Territory, on July 10, 1876, the third son of William J. and Esther Bassford Hopkins. Most of his early life was spent in Beaverhead Cou[...] |
| [...]In 1903, Wilford Hopkins married Myra Anderson of Gib- bonsville, Idaho. She was the youngest daughter of George David and Mary Wallace Anderson.[...]orn in 1915. The latter three survive. At the age of four, Rose became ill with appendicitis and was h[...]ra took up a homestead on the benchland northeast of Wisdom. In the early spring of 1912, they moved to a ranch on the North w[...]Glendale. Both men were ships's carpenters. Fork of the Salmon River near Gibbonsville. This ranch[...]agon drawn by a mule team. Wilford was foreman of the Ajax Ranch in the Big Hole The baby,[...]ho, some 450 miles from his birth- where she died of tuberculosis in late June, 1917. Myra's pla[...]ns until other substances began to replace letter of unlimited credit from The State Bank of Wisdom. charcoal in the smelting of silver ore. In 1919, Wilford married Aura Ande[...]heir generous hospital- up land on the banks of the North Fork of the Big Hole ity, sharing their home with many re[...]y could. my grandfather, built a nice set of buildings where he and Myra, Wilford and Aura are all buried in the Wisdom Esther spent most of their remaining years. Cemetery.[...]health began to fail. Their sons built a Most of the foregoing was gleaned from the writings of small house for them on the Weldon Else Ranch so they George Works, a nephew of Myra and Aura Hopkins. could be ne[...]Esther, of Scottish descent, was an accomplished knitter[...]and seamstress. She spent the rest of her life in her little William and Esther Hopkins[...]la, William was employed in the construe- · tion of Dr. Dorsey Baker's "Strap Iron Railroad," the fam[...]d County. They arrived in Vipond Park in the fall of 1887. William's brother, Fred (1838-1908)[...] |
| [...]at smithy with an inventive mind. One native area of Montana. Wherever he was working, he made it a of Wisdom reports that the first motorized vehicle s[...]rking for a surveyor in saw was a brainchild of Jack's. He had hooked a motor up to Lewistown when he became ill and died. a cart of some kind and drove the streets of Wisdom. Need- Joseph (Joe) spent most of his life in Beaverhead County. less to say, i[...]E 0. DAVIS Mark (1878-1966) married Hazel Bane of Butte. She died soon after their marriage in 1908[...]se in Dewey's Flat where he retired and took care of his brother, Arthur, who had lost a leg because of a Howard runaway with a team of horses and a mowing machine. Sara[...]enson County, years in the Big Hole. He did a lot of paper hanging and Ill. The family came we[...]sided. She and her brother Dick walked almost all of the their young family when they were young peopl[...]ons. When they got to the ily, with the exception of Esther and her baby brother, are Beaverhead Valley, they heard of the gold strike at Bannack buried in the Wisdom C[...]so went there instead of to Deer Lodge. In an interview in There are over 200 living descendants of this couple. 1941, Sarah said her trip re[...]nd make good listening. Perhaps this was the case of captain helped him return to America as a[...]ps not. ship. George went to the home of a friend, they bought He was a mountain of a man, about 6'3". No one seems to horses a[...]ee children born at origin) right around the turn of the century. Legend has it Bannack. They wer[...]He built a cabin in the timber on the west slope of the Big home of Capt. Jefferson Hunt at Oxford, Idaho, where they[...]1912, at he came down from the hills with a poke of gold dust, which Downey, Idaho. he sold for[...]d moved Those who knew him, especially children of that era, re- to Saginaw, Mich., in[...] |
| [...]ied May 5, 1881, April 9, 1925, at the age of 51. She was laid to rest in Silver and is buried[...]re he en- We stayed on for a couple of years to care for Dad while he gaged in farming a[...]at Moun- moved to Idaho to spend the rest of her life near her daugh- tain View Cemetery at Di[...]e electric The store was located on the corner of Montana and Helena ore trains from Butte to the A[...]clock is driven by a were unable to have children of their own they adopted me 16-pound weight a[...]to care for me, so I, Rhea Leona, was then a part of the under favorable conditions, it ran wit[...]month. In 1904, having read of a small ranch for sale in Beaver- The Huber family (cousins of Mrs. Kupfer) acquired the head County on lower Bl[...]se Prairie, clock and put it in the window of the Huber Jewelry, Op- Samuel Howell went to look[...]rist and Watch Repair Store located on the corner of the spring he drove the wagon and horses to Red R[...]her tied a shawl around my head jewelry part of the store as I remember it. There were three and[...]anyon above the ranch on Bloody teacup full of diamonds as a wedding gift. Lena married a Dick,[...]because mother would __give them corner of South Washington and Reeder Streets. They homemade brea[...]r things. Then they would go raised lots of flowers and one small room off the south side to the upper meadows of the Big Hole Basin, then to Salmon of the house included many windows and served as a c[...]r who taught in the Bagley Butte with a young man of 14 years to work as chore boy. His name was Sylve[...]nd built a two room cabin on the northeast corner of the land. Shortly after we[...] |
| [...]1901. School. I was in one of her classes. She helped organize the annual May D[...]ear Priest River, dinsville, Ill., the 11th child of William and Sarah Huff. Idaho. After spendin[...]od 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 sisters to this remote area of northern Idaho. He built a cabin out of Eagle Rock (now Idaho Falls) on an immigrant trai[...]ter, Myrtle Prater, remembers him telling stories of Cal and Sarah pledged their vows to each[...]tock and trapping all his life. issue of National Geographic Magazine in a muck-rak[...] |
| [...]ue nature as "cruel and unsportsmanlike destroyer of game and a disgrace to civilization." The author, W. H. Wright, wanted the moun- tains of Montana and Idaho declared a wilderness area, off[...]Hattie Dingley and Ada Brothers. His beloved wife of 44 years, Sarah, died Decem- ber 30, 1944, of a heart ailment at the age of 64. Cal died on July 4, 1950, in Seattle after wa[...]st daughter Margaret married John Vinson ervation of the town and its buildings.[...]ily was part of an immigrant train that reached Eagle Rock[...](now Idaho Falls) the first part of September, 1879. From William and Sarah Huff[...]ontana Territory, on October 10, 1879. The driver of the William Hamilton Huff was born August 31, 1[...]ended family moved near Barrett's Station south of Dillon and in the Red Rock to western Illinois wh[...]farming on the upper Grasshopper north of Polaris. In their They farmed in McDonough Coun[...]n in 1845, Margaret Elizabeth in 1847, Of their children, Dora, Missouri, Richard and Theod[...]1872 and their last child, presentative of many of the early settlers of Beaverhead Harriet Catherine, in 1874. -[...]arth, first mining and later farm- Farmers most of their lives, they continued to look west in i[...]cceeding, occasionally failing, but always search of a better life. Their children began to mar[...] |
| [...]by Creek. gion all their lives, probably a legacy of their Pennsylvania At the beginning of this century this quiet little man was a German heritage. Their style of dress was always somber familiar charac[...]every creek on the west side of the valley. There are two William died a few mo[...]one into the Bitterroot They lived the last years of their lives with their daughter, Valley in Mo[...]uneral services were conducted by Captain Brugman of the J.P. Lossel, a Big Hole merchant, told of buying gold from local Salvation Army. They are b[...]y. From a letter written by Allis B. Stuart, wife of Cemetery in Dillon.[...]Butte in August, 1907, "My memory of Barney Hughes, of[...]t delightful soft Irish brogue. I do not remember of Barney Hughes was born in Ireland in 1827 and[...]daho before coming to The last years of his life were spent with his good friend the Mont[...]Fred Else, who lived in the Gibbons District east of the Big He came to Bannack in August, 1862, an[...]h- Hole Battlefield. He died at the age of 82, and there is a little ing gold from Grasshopp[...]y Edgar, Bill Sweeney and Harry Society of Montana Pioneers. It bears the words, "Barney Rog[...]the bottom, scarcely visible are the words, "One of the with Crow Indians and never caught up with the Stuart Discoverers of Gold at Alder Gulch." party.[...]den Gulch by Dick Pace "After reaching the divide of the Madison and Gallatin·we The Helena I[...]tana Historical Society, Helena the east side of the Madison Valley, about twenty miles east "The Last Days of Barney Hughes", by Mrs. Granville Stu- of Alder Gulch. We crossed the river and followed Squaw art Gulch down to the divide of Alder Gulch and went into camp about a mile above[...]at age 24 rode a bicycle from Centerville, a pan of dirt from a bar a short distance from their camp.[...]rich strike. On their way to Bannack ways of the West. One successful venture was a Dillon ret[...]mile below the the first business block north of Bannack Street. He and a current site of Dillon, and reached Bannack on June 1. This partner, Hugh McCaleb of Salmon, Idaho, maintained a started a gold rush t[...]ch. large inventory of quality merchandise: sporting goods, After selling his claims he buried $24,000 on the banks of guns, fishing tackle, office supplies, china,[...]George married Lillie May Oliver, daughter of Wason While in British Columbia, at an earlier[...]west corner of Horse Praire Valley on the southern slopes of When Barney Hughes arrived in the Big H[...] |
| [...]r, mainly in Silver Bow and Madison Counties, of native hay with a constant supply of irrigation water from Mont. Searches in vario[...]lied wa- happened to Minerva Hulsizer, wife of Ed 0. Hulsizer, were ter for placer mining on the hills south of Bannack, 10 miles ofno avail and to date I ha[...]. distant. The water flowed by aquaduct built of logs and Edward 0. Hulsizer lived wit[...]", and traffic tently, and the last bit of information on him consisted of a passed under it enroute from Horse Prairie[...]at the John Hulsizer married Etta Rhodes of Butte and resided Grant school.[...]tomobile accident in April 27, 1908, at the age of nearly 14 years. 1942. Preston now resides in[...]On June 24, 1889, Anna Florence Hulsizer of Glendale, Dorothy and George retired in 194[...]to Montana, married Albert F. Cline, also of Glendale. They Emerson, son of George and Lilly May.[...]become Emerson was married to LaVyrne Brown of Dillon. They Wise River. Albert F. Cline was the maternal grandfather of had two children: the first, James Emerson Hu[...]later moved were well respected ranchers of the Big Hole Basin. Two to Australia.[...]ber 3, 1917, at the home of her uncle, John Hulsizer in Butte.[...]m Lincoln Ryan and 1833, was the eighth child of 11 children born to Joel and resided in Gl[...]chee, Wash., area about 1907. Minerva Brugler of Hainsburgh, on November 22, 1859.[...]Hungate Old school records from the County of Warren, State of Adonijah Piatt Hungate, born April 28,[...]I have examined Edward 0. Hulsizer and find him of good James Short died when she was seve[...]later married a widower, William Hungate, father of Adoni- teach common schools in the Township of Hope, New Jer- jah Piatt Hungate. Eliz[...]doctor's bill for jah was absolutely unaware of the Indian's presence until he $75 pai[...] |
| [...]Basin to a ranch twelve miles out of Wisdom and ranched[...]Although the historical home of the Hungates is in Eng-[...]Revolutionary, Civil, Indian and all of the United States'[...]July 19, 1868, died April 2, ing for the safety of camp with the Indian stalking along by 1934, ma[...]s for about Edward Theodore's (eldest son of Adonijah) issue: Iva, three years, then back to G[...]first married Adonijah had a rollicking sense of humor and a ready wit. Andrew Jackson "Pete" D[...]Mont., for over 30 years. Ollie was the daughter of Martha Lee and Sylvester Shepherd. After my gr[...]ears and the ranch had grown to be a whole string of ranches and summer ranges before he left.[...] |
| (Most of these genealogical and historical records were taken from five volumes of the Hungate Family, established by Carroll Paul[...]ication, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., U.S.A. Library of Congress.) -FERN[...]nt and Hattie Amelia Hunt Fair- he was too much of an extrovert to do so. By nature he was[...]th Dick Rock (a friend and associate of Buffalo Bill) and his shop and plied his trade[...]ry's Lake. He kept buffalo for the entertainment of his always trying to work in the saddle horses for individuals. guests. He'd take pictures of his wife sitting upon the head They were essent[...]a little jab with the pitchfork, for the benefit of the He went back to Minnesota to get his brother Gilbert, photographers. Of course this made the buffalo angry and ' after he[...]is bear. He was brash and didn't know the meaning of fear. He used to trap live animals for circuses[...]Gilbert Oliver Hunt source of extra income. When he got an order for a Canadian[...]nd filed on his homestead, after snow, the tips of his skis went under the snow, and he and li[...]ith a flume running straight out whole seat out of his handspun, all-wool pants. This was a[...] |
| Clarence cut off three of his fingers, the index in two pieces. McKevit[...]hat time, Ralph (1902- ) and Clark boiled a spool of black thread and a darning needle. Cla-[...]ingers while he sewed them University of Washington. They came to run the ranch until back[...]n. Carl returned, bought the Ruby the first joint of the index finger turned off to the side, with[...]untley built the original home on what is now the of them even if they were all crooked. Remarkable, t[...]IGHT you can't do that!" This was always a source of uneasiness for Gilbert but he was much too gentle[...]Murray, Iowa, and came to Montana. With a sense of adven- William Huntley[...]1900s. They took up a Will Huntley (1858-1941) of Spokane came to the Big homestead o[...]Livestock Hole Basin in 1912 to assess the value of what is now the Ranch. Huntley Home Ra[...]onal Joseph Schindler, father of the late Emil Schindler and Bank, had loaned Bob Jones money to buy the ranch and he grandfather of Francis who now owns the original home- was unabl[...]Truman Husted "Jack," the name by took possession of one-half of the ranch and Jones kept the which he wa[...]l other brothers. mian Brewery and large holdings of wheat and barley land Jack journeyed to South America for several years. He in the Palouse coun[...]Many of the photographs taken in this era of people and[...]spirited, young Estella Cecilia Hirschy, daughter of pio-[...], 1906, in Dillon by Reverend A.B. Martin, pastor of the[...]member of a pioneer family in Beaverhead County. Jack[...]Quinn Place four miles down the road. It is part of the[...]present ranch owned and operated by two sons of Jack and[...] |
| [...]living there at the time of his death.[...]Harry Hopkins and, with the help of Weldon Else, built a[...]together the following children were name of Keith (Cooney) Boetticher. born to Jack and Esta[...]25; Judith "Judy" Husted ing at a job of some kind. (Knudsen) 1926.[...]In the summers they trailed them to the other end of the Big passed away here, as they were gettin[...]l thing to do, since Jack was an active member of the Masonic Lodge in Wis- that was all the[...]h his children. Esta often told her grandchildren of making mit- tens from worn out socks, using the t[...]ake it over, make it do, do without", was the way of life Joseph Hutchens and Louisa Vincent were married and for many folks of that day. ca[...]eph hauled lime Oscar Truman "Jack" Husted was of the fourth genera- from the hills east of Glendale for use at the smelter. They tion that h[...]rs were farmers who lived about one mile east of Glendale on Trapper Creek lived in Cumberland Cou[...]a and probably via Salt Lake City. Some of Louisa's family were in Iowa and were also farmers. Jack was the seventh of 12 the area for awhile. Two sisters wen[...]died March 13, 1904. They died two days apart, of pneumo-[...] |
| [...]ranch was very hard. Their main means of travel was by[...]irrigating at a ranch on the outskirts of town. It was a valu-[...]hired by Harry Davis to feed cattle southeast of Jackson.[...]lifelong dislike of oatmeal mush. From len: Harry, James and W. G. Gr[...]of Jackson along the Big Hole River near Fox. Fox wa[...]he yard. It dances. The music consisted mostly of fiddles and mouth- was still there when they died[...]25, 1937, married Orren Beall on had been one of the first Big Hole homesteaders. A widowed Dec. 1[...]s T. Grose, and Bertha Schlunegger, also of Grindelwald, married John in Nellie who married W[...]All the Beall children were 1916 at the home of his sister, Margaret Nelson, in Wisdom. born at G[...]dn't last long in the county after 1920. White of Wisdom. With the death of Orren in 1928 and his wife, Emily, in 1937,[...]ice was born. She was a small, hard-working woman of scarcely 100 Mr. and Mrs. Christ D[...]so had a ranch along Bloody Dick Creek four miles south hauled to a stackyard and stacked. She would stack the hay of Jackson. They decided to move to Long Beach and p[...]ighbor rattlesnake would come aboard with a shock of hay. When bought the Fox ranch so the mov[...]d. after Christmas, as it "made a mess". A friend of hers told Due to delinquent payments, howe[...]a train to Dil- two-room Jackson school. Most of the students rode horse- lon, using horse and bug[...]uring the most severe winter months Alice was one of the many stops between Butte and Dillon.[...] |
| [...]Bertha and John Inabnit with daughter Alice tub, of course, got its water from a naturally heated spr[...]1962. The Inabnits spent most of their ranching days in the privy was the norm on most ranches. Most of the valley had[...]small mining town which was located east of Melrose and the Jackson Mercantile, operated by M[...]started school in Glendale, a small town west of Melrose In the 1920s young couples attending wint[...]in Armstead for several months. She attended part of one day. Other than the difficulty of turning around all went her high school year at St. Mary's of the Wasatch, a college well, but one late afterno[...]a, going half a year before school closed because of an does not record theLr: punishment.[...]ur children were born to them: Tom, Adele, to out-of-state markets, believing that process to be more[...]Tom became ill and died at the young age of 30 in 1928. that included irrigating and repairin[...]Agnes, with the help of Tom's uncle, Fero Marchessault, chinery before ha[...]came foreman until the boys, Tom and Dick, became of cooked for large crews until the winter supply of hay was[...] |
| [...]trate, Beaverhead County Justice of the Peace and custodi- an of the Beaverhead Museum.[...]She was a native of What Cheer, Iowa, born on May 28,[...]ada, in 1836 and was educated there in the field of mining Agnes Pierce Ingersoll[...]S. Innes was born in Argenta in Agnes took care of her mother, Minnie Kau, until Mrs. 1873,[...]mia in 1878. John was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Agnes still resides in Dil[...]Dillon. Carlton Innes was one of the early-day ranchmen of Bea- Martin Innes was born in Goderich, On[...]on May 8, 1868. He spent his ada, he was the son of John C. and Catherine Young Innes. He came to Ban[...]870s and later located with them on a ranch north of Dillon. Mr. Innes attended local schools, becam[...]r acquired a ranch on the Rattlesnake Creek, west of Dillon. He was also interested in mining ventures[...]G. Innes was born March 16, 1875, at Bannack, son of John C. and Catherine Young Innes. 29[...] |
| [...]ildren: Ruth (1900) and James (1907). Martin died of a heart condition in 1925 and is buried in Dillon[...]as born in Bannack on Au- gust 10, 1878, daughter of John Innes and Catherine Young. She· was raised[...]r there. In 1903, she was appointed as one of the acting librar- family in Virginia City and la[...]an, Montana. ians. She assumed the post of librarian in 1909, a post she Euphemia died in 19[...]he early 1900's. Mary Lyle Innes, the daughter of John C. and Catherine She continued her ed[...]2, 1869 in Ontario, Can- the University of Chicago, the University of California at ada of Scottish and Canadian descent. She moved to Bea-[...]FFNER as a country school teacher before the turn of the century, then joined the Bagley School staff[...]rion On January 17, 1939 a plaque honoring her service was My father Ray Irion was the 11th child in a family of 12, dedicated in the Primary building. Hundreds of former pu- son of John Irion Sr. and Susan Osborn Irion. He was bor[...]ebraska, was this simple message: "In recognition of the exceptional where the family lived in a[...]ing." third of seven children born to Charles A. Coon and Etta[...]s Coon. The Coon family lived in Eastern Montana, of Dillon and in 1962 she was honored by the City Co[...]t also lived in Phoenix, Ariz., for short periods of time, and named Librarian Emeritus. In August, 19[...]d much about Arizona, the event was the unveiling of an oil portrait of "Miss including their narrow escape from[...]ence in assisting. young people through the gift of knowledge 1915 and I was born there Jul[...] |
| [...]rapper. dishes. In the fall of 1920 we moved to Beaverhead County and[...]The roofs were sod. A fireplace, the main source of that Loren and I could attend school. Previously my mother heat and cooking, was made of rocks, clay and sand. Its had taught us the 3 R's[...]ant with iron kettles, long-handled with children of our ages. fr[...]onto Eda's bed. Antone was midwife for the birth of[...]The family moved to the southern end of the valley after[...] |
| [...]The first record we find in America of the Jacksons was in[...]on ground about seven miles north of Wisdom. In 1936 a Antone and Eda J[...]eaverhead ranchers, Martin, eldest son of Herman, remembered well the cov- were frantically driven to bare spots and high places, fed cut ered wagon of that trip to Wisdom and that his mother's willows[...]in the wagon. It is still a prized possession of the Jackson avail. Both of the Jackson's homestead cabins still stand. family. Following the death of their cattle, they moved to the Hot In 1886[...]shed a boarding house and post office. end of the Big Hole and located on Bloody Dick creek on[...]ranch now known as the Hairpin. The winter of 1886 was 1896, and the location was then named Ja[...]s. 1890 the school was moved to the corner of the lane one-half The family moved to the ranch west of Jackson in June, mile south of Jackson. 1899. They lived there until 1913 when s[...]t moved to Dillon, purchasing the McCaleb home on South this location for 24 years, acquired o[...]two bathrooms, one of the first modern homes in the valley. Antone a[...]erd, is the There were six children born of this marriage, three sons present postmaster in J[...]. Jackson, a great-grandson, is the present owner of one who settled in the Big Hole. the ranch west of Jackson, which has been passed down[...]. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dishno, who were also The[...]ne H. (1852-1926) and early day pioneers of Idaho and Montana and who with Eda Hansen (1857-1[...]seven their son Silas ranched on part of the late Frederick children-Hannah (1880-1931), m[...]Hirschy's ranch. Emma was also granddaughter of William[...] |
| L. Farlin, co-founder of Butte, about whom it is written in took the[...]Montana" 5 (Volume 1, page 70, Historical Society of George had preceded them. George had f[...]in Bannack-another couple occupied the back half of the owe its period of prosperity". ho[...]ould see how the In 1903 Herman sold 480 acres of his land west of the Big horse reacted to a side saddle and the long riding skirt the Hole river and south of the Miner Creek Lane to his son women al[...]Gradually, her strength their home is still part of the present residence although not returned and[...]l over the area on horseback. discernible because of the many additions made throughout A companion on some of her rides was Doctor Mary the years. They also ad[...]rs, Mildred and Lucille, and a son Noel were born of the first in Montana! Doctor Atwater trained[...]ed with them in their beautiful mansion. She told of the that time freight teams were busy in the early fall, hauling ugliness of early Butte; the smelter fumes had killed all the[...]n later years at Virginia City by Bovey. Bo- born of this marriage - Yvonne Paddock, Thyral Sevalstad[...]was born March 27, 1866, in Clark rear of the store. One night Cora smelled smoke, as she had County, Iowa, one of eight children and the eldest daughter had that "habit" many times before, Harvey didn't get up of Lewis Tash and Mary Elizabeth Weeter. She used to[...]ately. When he opened the door, the structure was of her duty to make all the clothes the family of 10 people on fire and they could not save th[...]on Cora was extremely well educated for a lady of her time. house was, I believe, the house th[...]to teach at Pleasant, Iowa, for the princely sum of Cora used to tell of her brother George driving a stage- $22.50 per mo[...]M. coach and freight line. She would tell of her pride watching Jackson, who was to bec[...] |
| [...]hip in November of 1955 and died at Cut Bank, June 26,[...]age of 20, who had her children at the ages of 37 and 41, lived[...]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[...]Sam Jaggers, appointed the official photographer of the first electric who mined and ranched[...]dredge in the United States. To see the pictures of that large spent much of his life mining in the Bannack area except for dr[...], an unusu- The December 9, 1899, issue of "The Butte Standard" ally independent female.[...]the Twin James K. Jaggers, convicted of carrying counterfeit money Bridges area. He joine[...]ot been himself for 10 years because ble outbreak of flu at that time. Cora accompanied him. of excessive drinking, still the court thought he pa[...]purious money at Bannack last March with the view of gical patients were moved to the basement of the hospital. getting rid of a lot of it, and stood ready to literally flood the Cora p[...]e jury had recommended him to the mercy took care of the whole floor. They were in Butte at the of the court, just why, the court would not say. The[...]tal never sent mum punishment was a sentence of 10 years and a fine of them a bill. During the time that Cora and Harvey[...]half years and fine Butte, Grandma Tash took care of Don and Dorothy. Both him $100. Jagger[...]An interesting incident was related by one of the old- Harvey was never well following that[...]was "hot on his tail," threw the sack of counterfeit dollars Harvey died March 19, 1925. C[...]sing skills A witness saw the fateful plunge of the sacks and notified to work again. She became[...]recovered the counterfeit lead plugs. One of the counterfeit great demand as she had a reputation of being able to bring Morgan dollars is now in possession of Donna Landa, James people back to health.[...]Jaggers' great-granddaughter. At the age of 70, she came to live in Cut Bank with daug[...] |
| [...]r school there. Born August 4, 1886, the son of James and on each side of his lap. Jeff was about age six at that time[...]n ed in the family home by the Rev. H. B. Rickets of the December 27, 1913. Methodist Church[...]ly in late 1916 when the flu epi- Mrs. E. D. Reed of Pocatello, Idaho, and Mrs. Myrle Ender- demic swept Beaverhead County, killing Roy and Hazel a ly of California.[...]by the name of Jeff Mathews and Hope Mathews (Lucas). Samuel[...]- lah, England, on March 21, 1832, and at the age of 16 emi- gratd to the United States, arriving in N[...]hildren born to Galena. He also served as justice of the peace for eight years them: Paul, John, Aug[...]and Lydia. He married Jane Moore, a native of Ireland, and they had The Jahnkes took up land about a quarter of a mile south four children: James, Mary Anne, Joseph and Robert. In of where Fred Rutledge's lower ranch is now. Mr. Jah[...]a few years and lived in Salmon, In the spring of 1866 he came to Montana, arriving first in Idah[...]field Mine, and at one time 1926. was owner of the Davis Mine.[...]her husband added to as years went by. He was one of the extensive and moved back to the ranch with her brothers until she stockmen of the prairie. His ranch was a stopping place for[...]between Salmon, Idaho and Red September of 1936 and is buried in the Wisdom Cemetery. Rock, Montana. He was also justice of the peace for Horse While the Jahnkes w[...]ranching. He married Eleanor W andlass, a native of England. They raised three children in Bannack: E[...]itory as a Roy Jaggers was the third generation of his family to live young man, probably in the[...]end Eliza Jane Huff was the third child of William Hamilton 304-Beaverhead History |
| [...]the same year and they later sent for the rest of 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 Hardin. Sever- route led south from Butte, crossed the river at Brown's - al yea[...]en went on a trip, possibly a cattle drive. Norie of the men and up into the Big Hole Valley south to north. This was were ever seen again. Liza r[...]September 17, 1898, in Dillon at the par- sonage of Reverend E. G. Cattermole, known as "the m[...] |
| [...]on a small ranch near the river about three miles south 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[...]Stephens; back row: Charlie Lewis, Mose Jar- ing of May 12, 1901 by "Minister of the Gospel" R. P. Smith dine, Jim Ja[...]Bertha Francis, C. W. Francis, Fred the rest of the buildings by hallway or porch. Anyone who Woo[...]r built a very large barn which still bridal gown of white china silk, with ruffles, tucks and pearl[...]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 sire doctor was summoned f[...]y, who grew up in the Basin, was an two of them were registered Thoroughbreds. excellent rid[...]good roads, travelers stayed over at road- means of transportation, she ususally rode horseback with[...]Point, and side saddle and long skirts. She told of seeing large herds of the Ten Miles between Jackson and Dillon. In th[...]sh school. er always brought me a little piece of cake wrapped in a They thought she would go to hi[...]4 at his sister Molly she was older than the rest of the class. Big Hole schooling Tovey's home. H[...]age 6, Helen was 4. The ranch house was a cluster of buildings, part log, part wood siding[...] |
| [...]member of Dillon Elks. Anne and Wendell had one son[...]died there in childbirth, May of 1879.[...],age 5 war in the city of Buffalo, New York, where he met Jane. conda, Mon[...]orgenson. She was |
| [...]ached and to arrive from Bannock. After the death of his wife and child, William returned to Hespeler to rear two older children, one of whom was Effie Jardine. -Effie Jardine Christma[...]to Dillon with four children, following the death of her husband. She became a seamstress and then buy[...]marrying Jack Barrett, a cattle-buy- er. Both of her daughters married sons of early pioneers: Isabell married Justin Brundage a[...]nsen Wilhelm Jensen and Christina Hansen, both of Copenha- gen, Denmark, emigrated to this country[...]he 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- Fred and May[...]nd B.F. Whites. The setting for this bit of history is the land under the They married in 191[...]rch Creek irrigation system and the dry land just south of Webster Lane. It is now known as the Emory "Moose" the Hog Back, north of Dillon. Rouse place. Two years later, they bought[...]n coming back to the States, Wilhelm took the job of He first came to Beaverhead County in 19[...]Spur Ranch which was located along the east side of the MT, and Christina cooked for the family and h[...]railroad from about seven to ten miles north of Dillon. He 1924 they moved to Alder and bought th[...]ead and move and it included land that is now all of lbeyville, the Royal to Beaverhead County to[...]in stream old river bridge. They sold off parcels of development land, and should have known that it probably was not a good idea and in 1941 disposed of the balance of the ranch. to try to farm a drylan[...]a job at Western Montana College in the south end of the Hog Back. Nevertheless, that is where he custodial department and retired after four years of this staked out his 160 acres. work.[...]Late in the summer of 1915 Fred completed the required Wilhelm died a[...]d by son Harry, his wife Mary and three team of horses, a few items of farm implements he already children, Josep[...] |
| [...]s heavily he would have to get in the good graces of her parents to mortgaged and in a shambles[...]Fred and May survived the Great Depression of the 30s, the second child, was born in May, 1898, into a family of 15. raised their family and lived out their li[...]omestead in time to get settled and plant a field of flax the following spring. As soon as the flax[...]oining and undertook to look after the homesteads of May sive and colorful character, shrouded[...]t 6, May gave birth to Sigfred with only of his mine and looked like copper-so gold would sur[...]irth out in a bucket. But, alas, at a distance of about 25 feet, the and Fred came home to see his[...]e long pole was slipped through the top of the ensnarement had moved from the homestead. The[...]sationalism to the history of the Big Hole.[...]married in the fall of 1909. She was born in Virestad, Swe-[...]rom Sweden Fred Johnson's "prove-up shack", north of Dillon to join him in busi[...] |
| [...]ra Christina was born to Swan and Jennie. In June of 1912, Swan and Jennie purchased the Chauncey Brow[...]Albreen F. and Martha Russell Jones and family of six Albert Jones Family[...]ska, also in married by Mr. Levi Shambow, Justice of the Peace, Octo- the Dillon area before per[...]bow; Phillip J. (Jeff), who married Rachel Jones (of south Pond, above the Upper Red Rock Lake. They had two[...]found rather than the winter as we do now because of the severe in the Centennial. winters. She s[...]l with Alan Buck's kids The story I remember of how my grandfather got the and they usually didn't have a full, nine month school term. nickname of Woodtick was that he went to Dillon telling She a[...]bered him, but I have many fond memories of Grandmother Leona met Earl Huggins at a dance a[...]Clara Adams Davis was a sister of Eva Belle Adams who 310-Beaverhead History |
| [...]es. Tuck and Frank Jones were brothers, being two of the six children belonging to John A. (Pap) and M[...]Long Creek. After their father's death in January of 1913, the two brothers[...]ful where adult life, was the oldest child of Alverene Franklin "Frank" needed and a very speci[...]nieces and nephews. Jones and Martha Russell of Nebraska. He was born July He died October 22, 19[...]es M. operated the ranch on Long Creek. Both sons of He married Rachel Catherine "Kate" Jones, daughter of Albreen and Martha Jones, they operated together from John Allen "Pap" Jones of the south side of the Valley. With 1913 to the early thirties when Frank and his family left the the help of Monroe "Roe" Severns, they built a large two- ran[...]Burwell August 12, 1912. There north side of the Valley today. The property is currentl[...] |
| [...]one other. An influx of dryland farmers during the teens[...]intendent of schools was kept busy meeting the needs of the[...]l born in the Valley. Kate Jones was aided by one of several midwives who practiced there. Their ol[...]t their father as well. Centennial Valley was one of the hardest hit areas in Beaverhead County[...] |
| Lima was built years later. They remember the heyday of the hunting lodges that surrounded the Red Rock Lakes. As boys, they watched the coming and going of the rich men from Butte and other cities and a f[...]rty, and unwind in the rustic atmosphere. One of the brightest memories of living in the Centennial Valley was the dances th[...]sleet stop them from their rounds, the young men of the valley took great steps to get to the dances.[...]the crowds were rowdier and with the availability of the saloon, one could usually expect at least one fight. Such prospects were not a mother's idea of entertainment but provided a strong magnet for yo[...]r facilities. The Jones brothers took their share of prizes. As boys, they trapped and hunted coyot[...], selling the pelts to Frank Bassett and most of the summmer on Frank's ranch. All who were big To[...]nce and worked in the hay field. The best part of living in Centennial Valley, as far as a Marth[...]om that went along up a homestead on the south side of the Valley, hence the with it. south side Joneses and north side Joneses, about twenty The downside would be the lack of medical help, the miles east ofMonida. T[...]girlstook up home- unpaved roads, the remoteness of the area, and the winter steads also making[...]Brother Frank had weather. But even the harshness of winter could be turned given them a team, saddle horse and milk cow to help them to the advantage of a determined young man. When the Red get s[...]ock River would freeze over in the twenties, some of the Jones and daughters Julia and Jane cut[...]oneses were not affected by the coming lots of deer meat. of the bird refuge and they continued to live there[...]LY GARRETT ranch in July of 1900. John set aside a piece of his property[...]rn in Inclain, Virginia. His wife, owned most of the land there. This land he leased to Joh[...] |
| [...]Sweden on April 11, 1882. She was the daughter of Christian[...]sister Ingrid Peterson Nelson (wife of Nels Nelson) and her[...]esses. They made their home at Hans's ranch, west of ried Belle Adams and they had two children: Leon[...]d. 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[...]n near Co- penhagen, Denmark on May 15, 1876, son of Jorgen and Anna Jorgenson. He attended schools in[...]rking for his brother he took up a homestead west of Wisdom (the present John Nelson ranch). His frien[...]much labor. The day always began with a breakfast of pancakes with plenty made to use for sandw[...] |
| [...], Mont. on March 18, 1906. Early in the summer of 1906 while the family was visiting at the John Pe[...]lle road in the Big Hole and offered to take care of the J orgen- son_ranch so they could make the jou[...]School trustee for many years and the instigator of a two year high school in Wisdom so the children[...]she served a rice pudding for desert, one serving of which contained an almond. The person who got the[...]ive in Eastern Star, Masons, Shrine and Daughters of The Nile. One of the yearly social high-[...]ackson. A few years smelled the aroma of the stew, they couldn't wait to "dig in". later,[...]d north to Montana at this time, so they actually of back breaking drudgery, Bob and his buddy, Jim, joined "hoofed" it most of the way. By the time they reached gold pro[...] |
| [...]ll about gold mining and settled down to thoughts of Lee Joy served in the United States Army at[...]County, November 4, 1922. They became parents of a son, began courting Cora Barbour. She discover[...]Judy Cora and Bob became parents of three children: Pearl Grace Leora Bean was born October 22, 1893, daughter of born June 5, 1891: Maude born September 28, 1892:[...]ttlers in the Centennial born April 17, 1896. All of them were born at home near Valley. She was the seventh child of a family of 12. Willis.[...]family of 13. The family moved to the Centennial in 1907[...]d engi- and took up a place in the lower end of the Valley on the neer, in Dillon, on June 16, 19[...]ed his schooling in the Valley and in the parents of two children: Genevieve born March 22, 1914[...]and Orr (P&O). Two chil- 1915. They were parents of one son, Earl, born May 24, 1917. dren were b[...]care of them until they were able to do so for themselves[...]duhar Place part of the time and part of the time she lived at[...]of time had to be spent living on the propert[...] |
| [...]Joseph and Lucy Judy, the third child in a family of[...]as always welcome. The cowboys stopped for a meal of Grace's excellent cooking and perhaps to s[...] |
| [...]of Matt's brother Joe from Lima, harvested the crops[...]ing children are Mary Kajin (Pilgrim) of Los Altos, Califor-[...]nia, Bill Kajin and Kathryn Kajin (Franks) of Dillon, Dan Bok a of Las Vegas, Nevada and Dorothianne Boka Kajin Fami[...]lbert, William, Matt Jr., (McDowell) of Lind, Washington. Mary, Katie and Kathryn[...]ides and drawn by horses. The ranch is now a part of the Steve Hess Land and Live- It was ve[...]r"ing the land as wild rye grass had to stock Co. of Lima. When Matt Jr. became of age he also be dug out by the roots. Dit[...]hard to make ditches through the rocky mile north of Lima on the old highway.[...]On January 23, 1912, Matt Jr. and Katie Pershe of Dillon tall rye grass. Most of 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 w[...]g, such as over a large gully. here, a flume made of born January 23, 1890, in Kuti, Yugoslavia, and a[...]igrated to the United States, arriving in January of or crevasse. 1911. From New York, Katie traveled alone by train across The towns of Glendale and Hecla, a mining town 12 miles the U.[...]At this time, Glendale had a population of around 5,000 Calvert, Lloyd Munday, and at present by Richard Gosman people. of Lima), and moved to Dillon where they purchased a[...]Co. and then became Yard The panic of 1893 touched off a decline in the district Forema[...]mber Co. He then pur- when the price of gold and silver hit rock bottom and mining chased a ranch north of Dillon from Jens Petersen on what in[...] |
| was raised up on a derick made of two large poles and cross poles at the top. When[...]the stack, the rope was pulled releasing the rack of hay. Grain was difficult to harvest. It was cu[...]men would go into the field and stack the bundles of grain with the heads of grain up so the sun would dry it for the job of separating grain from straw. OSHULA KAMBI[...]ca as a bride. She came by boat and was sick |
| [...]o deteriorate. As their ranch was cleared of willows and became a truly Stephen Kambich was[...]y ate location for his family, and when news came of land in 1923, after a heavy rain, the boy[...]tle wife, Anna, could not survive after the death of these kind people could bear. Steve's health began to fail, her beloved baby Anna. After a severe illness of pneumonia and his spirit was broken. He lived and few more years after and the birth of two sons, she, too, died. Her heart-broken Jo[...]ying that a Mary Kambich died in 1944. All of Stephen Kambich's former neighbor from Austria, M[...]ef in education. He built After a short period of correspondence, Mary agreed to the first sc[...], and she tree. In 1912, he donated one acre of his ranch to what was the mother of Carl, Mamie, Frank and Joe Kambich. became the Reichle School. He was one of the first trustees But again tragedy struck Steph[...]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.[...]ambich Fifield, and They became the benefactor of all families in need. Indi- Carl Donald Kambich, all of Glen. Margaret Clinchand ans and all travelers in[...]e to Tom and Frank Kambich are the children of Frank and Dillon passed their ranch) . Many a new[...]while getting used Fifield are the children of Carl and Frances Moran Kam- to America and the En[...]north of town where the Baptist Church is now locat[...] |
| [...]ande Railroad. and came to Montana around the age of 13. He settled first He designed and supervised the building of the large D&RG near Gold Creek and Drummond, Mont[...]hinn, who motive machinist. We have no record of all the places Les was a native of Glendale, and who was working as a waitress w[...]he place to his son, Ewing Montgomery, a resident of Anaconda, Mont. Ewing eventually sold this ranch to John Peterson of Horse Prairie and Matt moved to a ranch at Armste[...]nd neph- ews. During his lifetime he was a member of the Masonic Lodge. He was buried in Mountain View[...]her remaining years in Dillon, becoming a member of the Catholic Church. She died in 1970 and[...] |
| [...]st World War it was critical to keep this traffic of troop and freight trains moving, and Les and his crew managed very well. No train was delayed going out of Lima. For their efforts they were presented an Am[...]se and retired from the rail- road after 36 years of service. During World War II, he worked as shop superinte[...]s 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 search of adventure. The Oregon Short Line freight stopped[...]nately, Dutch to take on water at the little town of Dell, Mont., on a and Rolla Henderson, w[...]freight train for home at the end She died of pneumonia in December, 1917, and an account of the haying season. of the attempt to get her to a doctor appeared in th[...]the area so well that ary-February, 1988 issue of "Montana Magazine". he returned the following sum[...]ned homesteads and some deeded acreage spent most of his remaining life in Beaverhead County. could not produce enough hay to carry the small band of Again he played baseball for the Dell team and worked in sheep, a few head of cattle and saddle and work horses the hay fields,[...]in the early spring. Montana in 1899, at the age of four, from Prescott, Kan., As a needed[...]he Kenisons time worked for the Forest Service but never felt comfort- were one of the first families to homestead in Sheep C[...] |
| [...]which ran from Armstead, across the Conti- of a judge in all except criminal cases which had to[...]town. He was described by a grand- total trackage of approximately 100 miles. That is the rail- dau[...]ll, thin, distinguised looking gentleman who road of which its president, who lived in Armstead, boast[...]make it". That contrasts with the cur- years of her life in a wheelchair. She was able to cook and do rent price of wool at over $2.00 a pound and $.85 or so a some housekeeping tasks in spite of her handicap. She pound for lambs. In any event,[...]the second ranch in the area. Several members of the Alonzo Kenison family moved Floyd was an undersized boy but had to do the work of a from Kansas and Missouri to Dillon about the turn of the man from the early years in the Basin. One example of that century. As near as we can tell, the eldest son, William, his work was the clearing of sagebrush from the land. They had wife Minnie and[...]zo and Mary Justus Kenison had five children, all of team and Floyd the other. He was small and[...]n by the time they came here. There were of the day he would sometimes lag behind a little. T[...]Alonzo and Mary settled on a dry farm southeast of Dillon on the old Blacktail Road. After many years there, he had a new home built on an acreage north of Dillon on what is now North Pacific 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_erformed the duties "rHE K[...] |
| with a snap of the line on his legs and buttocks. Floyd[...]surveying and surveyed the ground for were a band of horse thieves. All of them, except the two a city park and race[...]ry or He spent four years at the College of Montana and then were killed resisting arrest. In[...]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 En[...]t was an ex- canyon going to what is now the town of Dell, Mont. They panded auto mechanics course. After completion of this watched for the "law" to come in but none di[...]Floyd went back to the ranch where he worked with of the band offered the "wanted men " sanctuary for[...]In October, 1917, he married Mabelle Sanders of Rex- and were kind to Floyd. They taught him to r[...]ntil the ranch was sold in 1918. One son was ters of one of the leaders. born of this union, Floyd Sanders Kenison, on August 1,[...]as a four day trip each 1918. way, going by way of Medicine Lodge. In later years, a road Floyd's father, Ed Kenison, became affiliated with an oil of sorts was laid out down Sheep Creek Canyon to Del[...]ent to work there but the enterprise was and some of those fords continued to be used during the[...]ought a garage in Armstead. He operat- early days of the automobile.[...]s father had taken the ranch back for non-payment of he went on to school. This was at the Presbyteria[...]ciated with his father here on sy,onsored College of Montana at Deer Lodge. the ranch most of the time until 1929 when his father died.[...]s liquidated in 1938. At that time, he bought one of the auxiliary ranches of the estate located near Dell. He ran[...]ee children came to Dillon by train in the spring of 1898.[...]Anna, age two and one-half. Bill had heard of the gold[...]s at Bannack and Virginia City and hoped that all of it hadn't been found. Instead of gold he found golden oppor-[...]learner and a bumper crop of alfalfa at the end of the sum-[...] |
| [...]one of drought - no crops, no fruit, nothing. Bill sold[...]ranch in the valley five miles north of Dillon on the Twin[...]of whom enjoyed the love and hospitality of these fine peo-[...]ar Kenison and Belle Stark Kenison came to north of Dillon. The Kenisons moved into the big, two-stor[...]money and few belongings except for a chest of drawers Creek. Their first house up there was an[...]ng for Jones and Davidson tail Creek south of Dillon. Rattlesnakes were so numerous Sheep Comp[...]to pitch the hay until the owners thousand head of sheep on the Upper Blacktail, some 40-45[...]in with a sod roof. Minnie bought yards and yards of Edgar and Belle took up adjoining hom[...]tcher time. It was occupied by a band of horse thieves, but despite ~ump, a long homemade table with benches along the sides, their means of livelihood, they were good neighbors al- ~upboar[...]s the family with these few conve- on one of Kenison's colts. To make amends they gave him 1i[...]the pick of their horse herd. He picked six fillies which[...]to Dillon with a big wagon became the nucleus of a herd of approximately 200 head of md brought back supplies enough to last for six months. horses. Many of these were sold to the United States Gov- rhey p[...]s. ping trip, Edgar brought home a barrel of apple seeds-the After a few years Bil[...] |
| [...]d B.J. Smith and they shale in the Blacktail area south of Dillon, but it proved to reside in Dillon. Kenn[...]Kenneth died in 1963. the same time the purchaser of the ranch, after selling off The youngest d[...]Edythe had both worked in the Oregon Department of Edu- to take the ranch back but had to borrow hea[...]s. oldest son, Floyd, took over the operation. Of the two children who accompanied the parents to[...]mings. She died in Renton, Wash., in 1971. Six of eight Kenison children were born in Montana: Car-[...]wheel buggy and horse, and the constant adornment of coyote hides hanging outside the walls of his cabin.[...]Doc died September 13, 1926, at the age of 36, and with[...]He was the second of six children and the oldest son. When[...]16 years old, he helped drive a herd of cattle from Texas to with chi[...] |
| [...]Julian F. Kent (1857-1919) was the son of George Wash-[...]John and Rosella Kent of Enoch Randolph Nye (1863-1907) and Diademia Lucin[...]Nye was born in Richland, Rosella Wyscaver was of German descent and her family N.Y., migrated to Illinois and was a veteran of the Civil War, from Des Moines, Iowa. She was bor[...]having served in the 44th Division of the Illinois Infantry They married in Boise Ci[...]War as did the Kent family ing constructor. Many of the jobs he did still stand in both and in I[...]to Montana and took up a home- River at the Point of Rocks, used until the paved highway stead[...]l He built the Grand Hotel in Dillon (now part of the State Creek. When the Kent family came t[...]Tash Short Line Railroad for a few years out of Lima and in 1894 Ranch at Polaris; the Morris Ran[...]also built the Selway Sheep Ranch on the of midwife Mrs. Jim Phillips on August 22. Blacktail[...]n the store for several years. The children of this marriage re- mill. ceived most of their education in Lima and stayed on in the T[...]for some time. As the boys grew old enough, they of 1911 while crawling through a fence on a hunting[...]nt to work for the Oregon Short Line Railroad out of tion with a friend. The bullet severed the artery[...]oldest son, grew up in The children of the Julian Kent family are as follows: Dillon and[...]S, and on January 28, 1923, married E.B. Harkness of ing: Infant daughter died in the Centen[...]seriously ill for several years from the effects of married Mary Jane Hart, Kenneth VanAntwe[...] |
| [...]- other daughter living in California by the name of Betty Jam[...]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 have some information.)[...]Fred was Fred would help get his Dad out of the well, which was 90- of Scotch, Irish, and English descent.[...]and was hired to drive a team an ap- side of the well as he fell. proximate distance of twenty miles through the foothills, Fred[...]rden For twenty years, Fred was in charge of the farm machin- and Al Gruwell) and became prominent and successful ery department of the Olmstead Stevenson Company. He there. Fred su[...]as it was called then, Four children were born of this union: Survantes Martin held in the fall of the year around Labor Day. Fred had to Kerr, Floy[...]family ranched on the West Bench. This was of lines-three in each hand. a dry land farm-very li[...]he Brundage Funeral Chapel with Reverend Kinlaw of the Kerrs moved to the Thorpe Homestead, a better[...]of the Masonic Lodge. The Masonic Ritual was[...] |
| [...]oir. Water from County, was born March 9, 1848 in South Boston, Massa- these reservoirs was used[...]ms on the lakes washed out causing a great amount of Fifeshire, Scotland, and came to New England when[...]eek. Mud, silt and sand from this seventeen years of age. He was a mechanical engineer and wash[...]am. 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[...]ied Alma Coffin on February 1, After the death of her husband, Mary Abigail Kirkpatrick 1881. S[...]children Robert, and was the daughter of Edwin and Mary Polson Coffin, James, Cordelia Ann and Clarinda. A son Jacob died as a both natives of Indiana. She was two years of age when the small child. In Wisconsin, Mrs. Kirk[...]at Point Bluff, Wisconsin, and was fifteen years of later was a student in Northwestern University[...]overland by stage. She became a teacher in one of the first escaped a band of hostile Indians. sch[...]them back by wagon, and sold them in the valleys of[...]in 1879 at Edgerton, vember 18, 1846, the son of James Kirkpatrick, born Octo- about three miles south of Dillon. They sold everything ber 1822 in[...]bi- from flour to threshing machines. In the fall of 1880 they gail Martin, born September 24, 18[...]aria while working on a sugar plan- at the corner of Helena and Washington Streets. ta[...]00, at the in 1857 with his mother and the rest of his family. There his corner of Montana and Helena Streets. The Kirkpatricks[...]mes Monroe Mann and the fam- extended a good deal of credit to their customers and began ily worke[...]ncounter business problems. In 1883 they were one of Montana. the highest taxpayers in Beaverhe[...]ians. They then fol- James Kirkpatrick was one of the early postmasters of lowed the Oregon Trail to Fort Hall in Ida[...]and his step-father and mother, he produced some of the finest horses in the area. In 1903 he when[...]anch Co., Robert placer mined for a period of time, then traveled to owned by the Innes[...] |
| [...]irst and was success- ful, but by the latter part of 1883, they had fallen on hard times and lost thei[...]East and married Kather- ine Dodge May, a cousin of Louisa May Alcott, on May 12, 1879 in Lynn, Massa[...]d James Douglas was born May 25, 1884. Because of economic conditions, Robert Kirkpatrick's family[...]Robert worked ranch that joined Art on the south side. About 1923 or 1924, with a foundry and a ha[...]Wisdom. Art married his second wife, Mary Callen of Butte, Arthur went by the name of Wilke until he made a trip to in May of 1964. She died some 13 months after she married v[...]-JOAN WILKE 50,000 board feet of lumber. This mill was operated until 1914,[...] |
| [...]December 27, 1843, in and he could not take care of the children. She was left Hamm Hesse Darm[...]nent and active in the German student rebellion of 1849. the help of a lady, Addie Webb, nursed her back to health.[...]in $50 and board the second year. At the end of two years he 1881. One child, Ernest Knapp, was b[...]wood for the coal kiln on Rattlesnake charge of a business employing 500 men, at a ·salary of $75 Creek. He died July 15, 1931 at his home in A[...]under the name of E. C. Atkins & Co., which remained[...]1879, when E. C. Atkins, the founder of the Atkins Saw[...]plete change of management.[...]. Rockwood offered Henry Knippenberg the position of General Manager of the Hecla Consolidated Mining Co. at[...]Glendale, Beaverhead County, Montana, at a salary of[...] |
| [...]L. Knoll, John F. Knoll, Blanche (Mrs. dividends of $2,250,000, besides paying some $300,000 for[...]Emma Beal Shaw and above Lion City, at the base of the mountain. Another of Knippenberg's improvements was the erec-[...]Edward Newton Knox tion, in 1882, of a 100-ton concentrator between Glendale[...]When they traveled from Dillon to one of the Poindexter Glendale, seven miles below, and w[...]Place for seven years. Beaverhead County, one of the 75 men of the Territory, at In 1918, Emma starte[...]War I ended- In 1896, Knippenberg was made one of the three McKin- a cowboy rode past the school and stopped to tell of the good ley Electors, a tough proposition in a 1[...]news. The pupils stood up and recited The Pledge of Alle- withstanding he was a large silver producer[...]gold standard. He steadily declined all political of- In 1919, a new log school house was built[...]rt was another teacher. She had three chil- price of 45 cents an ounce. This closed all silver mines in the West. Henry Knippenberg was a citizen of Montana from 1881 to 1914. He had two children, W[...]enberg's arrival at Glendale marked the beginning of a successful, 20- year cycle for the Hecla Compan[...]ck and prospecting on Dyers Creek and at the base of Bald Mountain (Old Baldy) until he was ove[...] |
| [...]t the Selway Sheep Co. As a young boy of eleven, William traveled from Oklaho- Ranch in 1[...]at the age of sixteen to make his way by train to Montana to[...]lace. summer of 1909, William was hired as water commissioner[...]is nick-name was "Skeeter." He had his own string of horses which he broke himself. During the Worl[...]World War I, Ed was entrusted to bring 5,000 head of cattle from Henry's Lake to the P & 0 Home Ranch,[...]ox Ed and Emma moved to Dillon after the birth of their in 1917. He continued meeting exp[...]ly called "Grandpap" by every- daughter of Elmer and Addie Martinell, prominent Dell one. Ed was a member of the Dillon Volunteer Firemen from area ranchers. With her dowry of a milk cow and a kitchen 1917 to his death.[...]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 Auxi[...]upervised the annual until 1930 with five of their six children. Children born to rummage sale[...]Flint, affairs over the years. Both were members of the Methodist Thompson, Flemming),[...] |
| [...]en Holt, and the Yost family. At the lower end of Sage Creek, near Basin Creek, lived Andrew Smelky[...]homestead and built a home just a few miles west of Barretts. He pursued dry farming and was also emp[...]nd expanding town at that time and there daughter of Sherman and Martha Sapp. She was born in[...]for the younger family. Bernard died in 1935 of flu and pneumonia. During World War I, the high cost of living and drought Will was an avid outd[...]dge in the Jorgenson Lane when struck on the back of the ued ranching on a smaller scale. In 1933, the[...]perated what was known as the Gilbert Ranch north of town. Dad died July 4, 1938. Mother, with the help of her son Harry and son-in-law George Willis[...] |
| [...]saloon in Jackson at that time. 1949, as a result of that accident. His wife Maude died They w[...]on the J.E. Morse Ranch. They homesteaded west of Jack- with her son "Bud."[...]en miles south of Deer Lodge and operated it until Joe Joe and[...]and lived in Wisdom. Oline married Jake Barnosky of She did a good job as Joe could get up and talk o[...]k- 1910. Margaret and Adolf had 10 children. Of these, two son's (the old Lapham Hotel) wa[...] |
| died at birth. The Kruljac family farmed on the Blacktail south of Dillon, where the children were raised and sent to Blacktail School. Margaret died at the age of 45 after giving birth to their youngest, Bernice.[...]tirement years. He passed away in 1977 at the age of 87 and both he and Margaret are buried in Dillon.[...]e Oliver worked the grader blade or scraper. Much of -BERNICE HOLCOMB[...]d respected by the stu- represented. Three of the Kurtz boys attended while they dents, teacher[...]he homestead. father, practical joker, and friend of everybody. Oliver persuaded his mother and some of his sisters to His life before the high school[...]e Park. They arrived in August 1913 and the party of 16 March 26, 1877. His father was a blacksmith wh[...]o 30 days despite many difficulties. Two of the couples who work for the Poindextor and Orr l[...]iver's brother James It was the unpleasantness of his early life in Pennsylvania married Mabel Ph[...]when he was about 16 years old. He had a variety of ily moved to Sheridan, Montana, where Oliver worked for jobs in the mid-, south-, and far-western parts of the coun- Rhodes Livestock Company, raising purebred shorthorn try. He used various methods of travel from one place to cattle and Hamps[...]Hotel when he met janitor work, took care of the grounds and fired the furnace. and married Bertha Fjelsted on April 30, 1902. She was from Each of the boys helped during the time they were in high[...]uarters at the Jake place. He soon 1944. Four of Oliver's six sons served in the armed forces- bec[...]k were in the Navy the hired hands. He spent most of his time breaking horses, serving in the Pac[...]in 1910 and moved to the East At the foot of Oliver's grave is a marker reading: bench in 1911[...]Crops In Memory of were poor due to the low rainfall so he worked as[...]Oliver B. Kurtz road supervisor on a section of the Blacktail road. He grad-[...]877-1944 ed, installed culverts and graveled much of the road into the By his friends, the alumni and faculty Centennial Valley. One of his older sons drove the teams of Beaverhead County High School 336-Bea[...] |
| [...]r his birth certificate, nor acquire land. that of his brother, John, could be found since therehad[...]few weeks later on March 9, water. Some of the passengers fared better than others since[...]d with the two children. While in Butte, the area south of Dillon.[...]ins Joe Pat purchased his own ranch five miles south of Dillon on and John Jr. were born. April 6, 1900, from the estate of Barney Maron (this spelling The mines were[...]e in Moun- and John was anxious to get out of them before he devel- tain View is Marron). Pat a[...]oped miners con (consumption). Although most of the farm of"BM". This is the property where he and Agnes live[...]steading or other means, he bought 120 acres of undeve- was born on November 11, 1911, and lived on this same loped land, four miles north of Dillon from John A. Nyhart. property until he die[...]if John built it. ber 23, 1916. They moved north of Dillon in 1936 to the A well was dug and the land cleared of sagebrush. A walk- Keenan place where Charles and[...]ife Elsie still ing plow drawn by a team of horses was used to prepare land reside. Francis p[...]n 1988. for planting of wheat, oats, some potatoes, and alfalfa. A[...]-RON LADEN _g_arden furnished much of the food for the family, and they[...] |
| [...]il, 1919, John became ill with the flu, which was of[...]dowed mother, with the help of her son Frank, battled the[...]farm. All shared in the work to the best of their ability.[...]a Andrew LaMarche came to the United States of America dozen. Extra potatoes and vegetables were[...]dson's Bay to Double walled sheds, constructed of poles, boards, and trap fur for one year. At the end of that time, he could renew woven wire, were built[...]nstructed. A granary and machine sheds were built of But when the first year was up and the t[...]river and lakes began to coming from the windows of the board shack. When they freeze, they[...]ey would find their furs gone and a year's supply of pow- John and his son Frank hauled logs for a[...]and trap for another year. The during the winter of 1910-11. On November 8, 1911, Agnes third[...]hen they arrived In 1916 John bought 160 acres of state land on the west that summer at the de[...]spend a few days. Kate's nephew Mike Spehar, also of Butte, came most any time. Kate had one ot[...] |
| [...]se Camp to survive yet another year, they walked south and reached Stock Association for many years. He spent most of his North Dakota before winter had set in.[...]te were known for their writing ability. :mtside of Denver. Here his son Olezem was born. LaMarche[...]ers. He came to Montana when Bannack tories of Montana. She also spent a lot of time helping was booming as a gold camp. He late[...]Frank Landon was born in the providence of Ontario, and fished for a living. Olezem married[...]le. ed to the States with his parents. Learning of the great Later he worked as a teamster hauling o[...]everal Hazel and Margarite, were born later. None of the children miles above the P. & 0. and was one of the first ranchmen -in married.[...]g Hole River. steadily increased to one of the better ranches in the county They lived on Ro[...]ey walked through a big Indian camp in the fields of ation. Woods Livestock. As they walked through the camp, an old His land consisted of about 6,000 acres of patented land Indian jumped up and grabbed Jim's grandfather, Andrew. and 12,000 acres of leased land, enclosed by 54 miles of wire He began swinging Grandfather LaMarche around and ki- fencing. He also had over 7,000 head of sheep at one time. yi-ing the whole time, scaring young Jim to death. The old He made a study of the sheep business with the results being Indian[...]in the Great Slave Lake He was a man of singular character, well respected by all, area s[...]e was glad to go institution. In the spring of 1880 she arrived in Montana, home. coming by way of the Old Utah Northern Railroad which Jim worked for the Forest Service and was a ranger at the was then near Dell, a[...]. Army July 16, 1917. He was few miles north of Dillon. stationed at Fort George Wright, Washingt[...]ember 14, 1880, she was married in Virginia City, of Company F of the Tenth Engineers. He served in France[...]on. At He came back to Montana and drove a lot of steers out of this time the Landons built a home in Dillon[...]king lived and Zetta attended school. Co. of Butte. He worked for the ACM in Butte in 1935. He[...]never held a public office. His special employee of the Anaconda Copper Mining Com- influence was often solicited in matters of the county and pany, and you are requested to pas[...]tever assistance he may desire. interest of his ranch, but also found time to fish in the creek Signed, William B. Daly, General Manager of Mines." He on his property. This stream today is still one of the most[...] |
| [...]on continued his ranching business for a num- ber of years before his extensive holdings were sold to the Orr Brothers. He retired in the spring of 1926 and on August 19, 1927, he passed away. Survivors include his daughter Zetta, Mrs. Fred W. Carter of Seattle, Wash., who died January 2, 1929, only tw[...]lle's twin Luc3 six girls. Bernard and Simon died of diphtheria and were[...]his time to Dillon, Montam Ohio between the years of 1881 and 1903. Their names are: where he ho[...]le living in Butte, her hus- Simon and several of his children worked for the Fire- band left[...]Her father, mother and brothers would development of the pneumatic tire. He worked out a formu-[...]as out fencing. She hit a staple on an angle made of hard rubber.[...]age Path Golf Course. Simon and his and one of the older boys drove her to the doctor. The sight[...]milies had good crops for several years. Then the of how a golf course was constructed got them jobs b[...]he bought a small house in Dillon. She registered of the remaining children settled at Homestake, Mont[...]e. The two homes were directly mon and one or two of the boys helped build the golf course.[...] |
| [...]ile working sheep for Mr. Morse during the spring of 1930, Fred was bitten by a tick and died of Rocky Mountain[...]He processed photographs with equipment Nine of the Langdorf children came to Dillon, May Lang-[...]ed miniature airplanes and built equip- ·he rest of her life in Butte. They had twelve or thirteen[...]1894, also spent his life in in 1943. The last of their children died in 1986. Butte. He married Lu[...]n September 15, 1891, was wound- Teton Basin of Idaho. id in Europe during World War I. He was t[...]he was just forty eight years old, In June of 1888 the family moved from the Centennial )ella[...]Valley, by way of Monida, into the Horse Prairie, over the[...] |
| [...]the That fall there was a fire that burned part 'of their hay crop. original Majors homestead, the current residence of Max The winter was extra hard, and they lost all but 16 of their and Debbie Lapham just north of Jackson. George Webber 60 head of cattle. This homestead was located near what is[...]uildings still stand along the highway just north of the end of Briston Lane, which was built by Dan Tovey,[...]eir when they moved to Dillon. Rose died of a heart attack on cabin on Sunny Slope.[...]lon at 616 In 1891 they moved to the upper end of the Valley. They S. California, until his[...]death in 1958. their homestead and the homestead of Antone and Herman Jackson (on what is now the Hai[...]tion (now owned by Dale Strodtman), one-half mile south of the town of Soren and Serine Larsen Jackson. I[...]Dec. that the United States was a land of great opportunity, 1988) living in Dillon, Montana at the age of 94). Sadie died particularly for their chil[...]2, in a snowstorm at the Dil- - the current sight of the Jackson Hot Springs Lodge - for lon, Montana, depot, then a village of about 2,000 souls. many years before it burned. They are parents of a son Their lives remained unsettl[...]Harry & a daughter Sadie, Mrs. Gordon Smith, both of Temporarily they were "farmed out"[...]relatives. In that period of time, they lived in five different In 1904 Hir[...]ng year. phoid fever. Finally, in the fall of 1917, through an $11,000 Hiram went to Washington[...]m died in had electricity. The five of them worked hard to make the 1942.[...]small farm a place to be proud of. In 1906, Charles Berry and Harry Lapham start[...]orking cash. Their finished in 1907 with the help of many of the townspeople. It field crops were soy bea[...]nstairs. The build- livestock consisted of a few hogs and seven milk cows. Yet, ing still st[...]a few years, Soren and Serine knew that, because of In 1909 Claud and Harry took the stage contrac[...]mail and freight from Jackson to Bannack, by way of the 1920s, they could never pay even t[...]ne at the time. the loan. One hundred pounds of potatoes sold for $1; a 200- In 1912 Claud mar[...]a heart condition and ing hand in time of need. The Jens Bays, the Hans Ander- died in 1943[...]~nd Jack Selways and the Will Deputys were a few of their 342-Beaverhead History |
| [...]tern Montana College at Dillon and the University of Minnesota. Hans stayed on the farm as Soren's eff[...]asich mented by a monthly Beaverhead County grant of $30 to payment on the mortgage-no mon[...]prominent rancher living near Glen heard of her plight. He George Lasich Family[...]nd later operated a The first couple of years after the father's death were very saloon.[...]tle little or no English and she came across part of Europe and wheat, milk, and a few cattle. H[...]but her next year so George took a load of wheat to a flour mill about ticket to show who sh[...]tinued to live in This was with horses, of course. He traded some of the Butte and four children were born there: Geor[...]W., July 31, 1896. was a lot of flour for the mother to bake bread for the family[...]They had school on the ranch in a cabin for some of the near Dillon, and when a ranch adjoining his b[...]he family then moved to the ranch, 11 miles north of younger children went, along with some nei[...]August 13, 1898; Anna R., January 1, some of the family with her. On cold mornings she put roc[...]. He passed away on fried chicken and lots of good food. Always during the October 24, 1905. Th[...]ng and those gatherings were fun. There was a lot of remi- Produce was very cheap and there was not much of it to niscing, like the time they[...] |
| [...]ed Isabel Costle in September, 1926; they ranched south of Twin Bridges and had two children, Marion Ann and[...]children, Marjean and Jack, Jr. Jack also ranched south of Twin Bridges. Frank married Verl Morrison in June[...]Adolph Lauterbach on Bannack Street in front of the Street in Dillon for 25 years. Anne married F[...]who had a ranch near the Point of Rocks. They often took[...]Adolph and his friends on fishing outings of a week or more. Steve and Margaret Lasich[...]o the ranch where he lived until sen, daughter of Jens and Anna Petersen. They were mar- his death[...]ried by the Justice of the Peace, Frank Nelson. Ella Peter- Margaret L[...]ich was born November 25, sen, sister of the bride, and Michael Lauterbach, father of 1855. Her father was a wealthy hardware and impor[...]their home owner from New York. He didn't approve of Steve Lasich, on the family ranch until 19[...]he Lasich family owned 397 acres nine miles north of[...]Lawrence brothers of Butte. She then moved to Tacoma to live with a[...]After buying a few head of cattle, they filed on a claim in Laute[...]d spend the summers Dillon. He was the only child of Michael "Mike" Lauter- there. So with thei[...]ery week to see that she was all right. miles out of Dillon, just north of Lover's Leap. As a young Neighbors were[...] |
| [...]er and taught for several years. Edith Seeing one of her neighbors at a distance on horseback, she[...]ar- much building was taking place. With the help of neighbors, ried and raised families of their own and several acquired "B.B.," as he was[...]there on February 7, 1929. Nettie passed away job of weatherman for many years, keeping track of the at the ranch 10 years later, June 2[...]autiful setting in the North Big Hole with a view of the On March 29, 1907, Frank married Rose Ell[...]daughter of Miranda and Dave Woodside of Melrose. Rose Nettie Lawrence was an expert qu[...]ild, he and his family went to Kansas Many a pair of mittens she made, along with knitted caps, and later to Nebraska, where he was orphaned at the age of sweaters and socks. Yards of lovely crochet work was sewn 13. He was th[...]n as well as spending some time over the breaking of both work and saddle horses. worki[...]1889. From Lima her parents moved to a farm west of Mel- "B.B." and Nettie adopted a little girl and[...]home. Lind. This brought their family to a total of nine daughters Frank Lawyer moved his famil[...]25, 1893. Millie was sixth in line, born Point of Rocks he took it. June 20, 1895, and then[...] |
| [...]ack Lasich place, and the A.R. Smith Ranch on the south. Times were rough for several years. Good stap[...]l, was awful, but we ate it! We always had plenty of food because Dad worked very hard; so did we all.[...]ed us. Things really looked great in the spring of 1922! Potatoes would bring a good price in the fa[...]around quickly. Everyone planted acres and acres of pota- toes. That fall the bottom fell out! Dad bu[...]es were born until 1924. Lois L. was born June 26 of that year. Dad said we needed another boy to help[...]ard A., and Maude Leake milking lots of cows and selling cream. Mom raised chickens lived on one of the Wm. Gleed ranches south of Lima, where and turkeys so we had eggs and fowl t[...]on November 15, in the hospital. None of them were happy in Missouri, so 1971.[...]Johnny Peterson in the Big Hole. Later the three of them[...]known as the "cow camp". This was near Snowline, south of cousins. He later homesteaded in Alaska Basin. He[...]Henrietta Maude Bean who was the daughter and one of Maude passed away August 5th, 1962, at her home in eleven children of the Milton Bean, Sr., family, who were[...]Leonard married Margaret Patterson of Lima on August this marriage two sons were born,[...]inmaster in Salt Lake City, May stead at the time of the 1918 flu epidemic, then later moved 19[...]ayed the violin, pro- serving 22 years of distinguished service that spanned three vided music for many da[...] |
| Oak Harbor, Washington, at the 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.[...]t the Flathead Reservation and Ralph was one of the lucky had no family.[...]e better come to Andover and meet the family dian of the County Yard in Dillon. He was a kind, person-[...]n. 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, 1968, at the age of 86. words, Ralph probably would not have passed muster. He and Archie Brothers of Dillon were enroute to visit the Ralph came back and started to work up the land he had Craters of the Moon when the mishap occurred. won just out of Arlee, Montana. After completing a log[...]with a brother They had several years of hard work, growing potatoes who is two years olde[...]came visiting day or night. aunts and uncles, and of course, plenty of cousins in and They did not comprehend ra[...]old enough to Montana. Their background consists of Samuel Burton travel by rail, Mothe[...]ily had moved turned in the 300 acres of reservation land for a full home- from Butte to t[...]om the Burt Howell Way Station. The survey stakes of the would make it worthwhile.[...]home (Andover), and returned the section of ground in early 1917. to Monument where she remai[...]ry 20, 1920, Mary was born in Mrs. Drummey's team of light draft horses, as he began his travels west. Nursing Home for Expectant Mothers at South Atlantic When Minnie and Ralph met, he was a t[...]es F. Lloyd was born January 15, 1869, the oldest of any miners hired in Butte for the Dark Horse Mine[...]nie went back home to Bannack was in need of a meat market and had one in Andover, Mass[...] |
| [...]coursed through her veins and, with the blessings of five brothers and what funds they could provide,[...]way. Bannack was her destination. The last lap of Dillon to Bannack by stage coach was handled by Charles (Skinny) Nelson as driver. He was ap- pointed Chief of Police of Dillon a few years later and served as Chief for[...]Estella Hill arrived in Bannack in the summer of 1897. She married Charles Lloyd in 1898. The firs[...]hyllis bought Frank's share and became sole owner of the Lloyd Lloyd became his namesake. and Dunbar Saloon in the fall of 1910. Early in 1918,[...]ess and become Federal was enlarged with addition of five rooms. Another addition Law. Prohibiti[...]in gift for Phyllis and also to grace the parlor of the newly October before housing was found[...]ist and The boys missed the first semester of school and were not several years later pl[...] |
| [...]Bishop Building adjoining Red Star Garage on the south side. D.A. Galt was manager. Dr Ryburn was called[...]t Gold Creek, Granite, Montana. Ed was the second of four sons born to[...]- December 28, 1898 cessful miner and businessman of Gold Creek, until lady lu:ck ran out. Charles and[...]In 1916, when their three children were of high school age, carried the name Lloyd.[...]alo Creek in the Grasshopper Valley and purchased of his parents. Ed became an orphan at the age of 11. Ed's property in Dillon. The Lloyds mo[...]partnership hitched a ride on a stage coach going south and headed for was dissolved in 1939 and E[...]ome at 536 East Glendale. Ed was a charter member of ble boys at a race track.[...]back to Montana, settling at Lima. He men of the World and the Republican Party. was hired as[...]and logs for the dredges, and hauled the logs out of Granite December 10, 1878, at Wellsville, Ut[...]d as a companion for an elderly woman by the name of his sweetheart, Elizabeth Jane Parkinson.[...]mpany her to Mar- Ed purchased his first ranch of 160 acres on April 11, ysville. They trav[...]win Lloyd. They purchased a ranch five miles out of Ban- stead in the spring. They would be loaded on[...]hauling wood As the children became of school age, Elizabeth and Ed from the fore[...] |
| [...]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- James Samuel Freeman, Sr., sold hi[...]ood the Sage Creek Ranch about 20 miles north of Dell, Mon- 10 feet tall. She died peacefully in h[...]tana, and engaged in stock raising. The children of James 1963, at her home in Dillon. She was 85 yea[...]No history of Beaverhead County would be complete[...]without the story of Sam Freeman and his sister, Cora Free- Martha[...]n Nankin, man Anderson. Sam, coming out of the chutes on a bronc at Ohio. She was the third child born of John McClellan Free- the age of 72, Cora leading the Labor Day Parade in Dillon m[...]best to the early youth in the rural surroundings of their Orange Town- history of a great state, Montana! ship (now Nankin), Ohio f[...]-YVONNE FREEMAN ROSE py day in the company of her grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins who l[...]plains. Theirs was a long, trying and tice of the Peace at the County Court House in Dillon for[...]to 18 miles a day. When they were within 20 miles of during the Civil War. their destination, Mr.[...]al camp. Martha drove the oxen the final 20 miles of the and one sister, Eva Daisy Wilson, who oper[...]son were married merged with the life and history of the far, Great West. Mr. near Prescott, Kansa[...]n on May 11, 1920. In 1879, the Freeman family of James Samuel and Rebec- ca were stranded in Texas[...]er to Martha Ann Roe. Quoting Sam, "With the rest of our money, we sent my oldest brother, Reese, on t[...]Meadow Creek, from Dillon); this was in the fall of 1879."[...] |
| [...]expected. They were overtaken by a band of Sioux, who cut[...]but Phil Lovell came to Bannack, then the capital of[...]igilance committees. Phil Lovell belonged to some of these[...]h fur escapes in the early days of Bannack. He was present at the ca[...]d died twelve days after River, 10 miles south of Dillon. He mainly raised shorthorn birth. He was[...]e and hay. This ranch comprised about 3,0Q0 acres of on the Lounsbury homestead.[...]Mr. Lovell served two terms as president of the Beaver- Alonzo William, Dan, Ruth, Mary, and[...]ch was locat- Dillon which still stands at 626 South Pacific Street. Phillip ed east of the Ras Hansen ranch in Sheep Creek Basin.[...]tus Kenison and Phillip Lovell was one of the prominent men of Beaver- their family as well as Andrew J. and Ida[...]to Montana and met Phillip Lovell was a native of Yorkshire, England, born in Dillon; both wer[...]s. This pair from Ohio April 12, 1840, the oldest of five children of Jonathan and and Illinois was Thomas Luebben[...]er died and the Toledo, Ohio, the second son of Gerhardt E. Luebben, a lad then went to live with an uncle. native of Germany, and Mary Spilker Luebben, a native of In 1860 he came to America, first to Toronto, Canada, Ohio. They had a family of six children. Thomas grew up in then to Wisconsin[...]e. Ill health influ- In 1861 he got the spirit of adventure and decided to go enced his trek we[...]later to Montana. West. Phillip joined a company of emigrants who made the At the age of eighteen, he was a sugar beet foreman in trip acr[...]rling, Colo. Later, he became a guide in the Cave of the This train of settlers was made up of bull teams and Mr. 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 of Montana. Tehuantepec, Yucatan, and was one of the first two white As the train passed through Minnesota they were urged men to enter the Pyramid of the Sun. He ascended the by their Indian scouts to hurry as an outbreak of Sioux was volcano, Mt. Ajusco, in the record time of sixteen hours. He[...] |
| [...]t central O.E.S., and culminated her many years of service by being heating plant in Mexico City, in the Ho[...]elected Worthy Grand Matron to the State of Montana, in Tom went to Whitefish for his fir[...]1935. She later assumed leadership in Daughters of the Nile, tana, and was involved with a hunting[...]rzah 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 for Girls, among numerous other respon- to Great Falls and operated one of the first advertising sibilities. agenci[...]One of her special interests was genealogy, and she pur-[...]r he;rself and others. This interest as President of the Federated Labor Council and Secretary- led to membership and leadership in the Daughters of the Treasurer of the Local Plumbers' Union.[...]lity for membership. She served as Re- department of the Olmstead-Stevenson Company, and in gent of the Beaverhead Chapter and State Regent of the 1917 he bought this department, and went into[...]bben Com- were the Women Descendants of the Ancient and Honor- pany. His brother, Ernest[...]Colonial Society of Americans of Royal Descent. Tom was one of the organizers of the Montana Master She was a charter member of the Dillon Panhellenic Club, Plumbers Association, and was its President and later Sec- Dillon branch of the American Association of University retary-Treasurer until 1952, when he w[...]omen, Chapter AD P.E.O., and the Huguenot Society of watch for his long-time service. Montana. He[...]Both Tom and Elizabeth were avid supporters of the com- F. & A. M., in 1905 in Toledo, and later transferred to Dillon munity of Dillon, and the state of Montana, throughout Lodge No. 16, A. F. & A. M. H[...]organizations in later years as Past High Priest of Dillon Elizabeth on November 15, 1953, and[...]Chapter No. 8, Royal Arch Masons, Past Commander of St. reached her ninetieth birthday when[...], 1976. They left a special and continuing legacy of member of Bagdad Shrine, Butte, and a 32nd Degree, Scot-[...]Luebben tish Rite Mason, and a Past Worthy Patron of Mizpah descendants. Chapter No. 13, Order of the Eastern Star.[...]1886, in Ridgefarm, Illinois, to Quaker (Society of Friends) par- ents, Dougan Clark Hinshaw, M.D. an[...]Lugar, Sr. Hinshaw. Her parents were descendants of early pioneer A native of Austria, Blaz was born December 31, 1882. He fami[...]ireman on steamships and also worked in the steel of Illinois with a Bachelor of Arts in Home Economics in mills. The fam[...]in Butte where Mrs. Lugar 1914. She was a member of Delta Gamma Sorority. She passed aw[...]ately moved to Dillon in September to be Director of moved to Beaverhead County, living north of Dillon for a the Department of Home 'Economics at the Montana State s[...]l., Sep- tember 27, 1916. They became the parents of two sons, both born in Dillon: Thomas E. L[...] |
| [...]itals 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[...]were inspired by 1947. He passed away at the age of 84 in Dillon on July 22, gratitude for heali[...]-SHERRIE LUGAR HARRISON wife of Dillon Schools music teacher, Lynn Gregory. They[...]spoke of the children they had watched grow up to become[...]... United States from Maxville, Canada by means of the I don't think so ... I never hav[...]Madden France in World War I. By a special Act of Congress, passed July 19, 1919, "Any Frank Madden came to the Polaris area of Grasshopper alien serving in the military or naval service of the United Creek from his home in Manchester,[...]this country is engaged in the present the age of 21 years. He came to Montana to visit a friend fo[...]od included assaying at the Polaris King George V of England and filed her petition. On Janu- M[...]uring the time ary 26, 1920, she recited the oath of allegiance and became a of horses and cobblestone streets. During this time he also citizen of the United States. worked for the State of Montana Veterinary Department in She was emplo[...]lved in With a soft, soothing voice and an air of efficiency and various stages of mining, a key interest, for the remainder of compassion, she endeared herself to all the commu[...], followed him to after 9 o'clock she found lists of children absent from school the Beaverhead area[...]ffice" by many businessmen child; to the far ends of Thomsen and Kentucky Avenues; to and ranche[...]Quld not have raised my children without the help of encourage patrons to sit and drink too mu[...]She was credited with instilling lifelong habits of good for gentlemen to play cards or meet wit[...]ully tournament and smorgasbord as a means of thanking his comply " ... if Miss MacGregor says[...]any patron friends. This event became a highlight of the For many years following World War I, Kath[...]on in his name. Gregor was the only female member of the local American Frank Madden, who[...]ervances many as a true philanthropist. Much of his generosity was and marched with the Legionair[...]as always, wearing her beautifully tailored suits of Hospital of all profits from slot machines, which were legal[...]Fountain. He was called "Uncle an essential part of proper 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 to the Fountain for ice cream of marriage she and other army nurses received from treats after school. This term of endearment was also used[...] |
| [...]doing the threshing for some. Mena took care of the children[...]Vera Ann Bourassa, the oldest of seven children was the daughter of Fred and Pearl Bourassa. She was born in Wy-[...]is area in 1916. Vera was eight years old at that south of Dillon and in his horses' lineage.[...]homesteaded 600 Frank died in 1965 at the age of 83. He is buried in Moun- acres on the Sweetwat[...]taking care of his own land. Three more children were born -[...]Vera remembers living in a tent that first year of 1916 and[...]om. Later he added a kitch- Hans C. Madsen, son of Hans R. and Anna Marie Hansen en. The lo[...]settled in Dillon, Montana. The next year of quakies near by for wood. All washing was done by hand Miss Mena Rasmussen, daughter of Rasmus and Anna on a washboard wit[...]art. at night. The winter of 1916 the children didn't attend On October 29,[...]veling was done in a wagon with house at the head of Carrigan Lane. On August 13, 1906, a a team[...]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 delight of mother and father, twins were born November 12,[...]or a get together. Madsen.Shortly after the birth of the twins they moved out Later Vera worke[...]ld. Her parents were Madsen (born in 1948) of Dillon, and Linda Madsen Reichle Rasmus Rasmussen[...]Nelsen Rasmussen. (born in 1949), also of Dillon. Marius died in 1971. She is buried[...] |
| [...]the Beaverhead Valley northernmost part of Yugoslavia. Once established, they during the 14[...]. sent for the rest of their families. Born in Austria, George Malesi[...]e: They bought the Staudahar Ranch 12 miles north of er shop. It was located at 1800 South Montana Street, and Dillon in 1903. George moved[...]n and daugh- their home was located at 1804 South Montana Street. ter-in-law to help with the ranch[...]o-bottom plow, and the work went very slowly. All of the haying equipment was pulled by the huge draft[...]n avid horseman. He handled the huge horses, some of which weighed 1200 to 1500 pounds, with great ski[...]sudden death. George was active up to the time of his death, at age 67, always working and very muc[...]came to Butte in 1892 when he was about 18 years of age. John applied for citizenship in Sil[...] |
| [...]John. They were Maude, Addye and Tom. purchase of the Staudahar Ranch came a Negro by the name[...]en's early childhood his family moved to Colora- of George Hale. He was believed to be the only Negro[...]n what happened to him, but In 1917, a parcel of ground on the east side of the Beaver- some people believed he may have be[...]Estella and her children moved to the town of Elk Horn, brother William, was purchased by John[...]s as in this field which was the foundation area of the original a flunky to the cook. He also w[...]quipment from One inventory sheet listed 39 head of draft horses. The a mine above the timbe[...]e Sam and Rudy Broksle). The Broksles lived east of the children, Bill, Jim and Stella. While living in Wisdom, Ben Beaverhead River near the Point of Rocks. The old barn hauled freight and sometimes hauled gold out of Gibbons- and farmhouse were built in 1883 or 1884 out of hand-hewn ville. logs, a craft learned in[...]khouse and added on a kitchen and a Dodgson of Wise River. Millie, as she was known by her dinin[...]mining camp of Hecla, Montana. Her parents were Big Hole Whil[...]odgson, was Elizabeth, born October 17, 1902. All of the rest of the said to be the first white woman to[...]in the Wise River area. Millie May 1, 1918. Most of the Malesich children attended the atte[...]and the Meadow Creek school at Drummy School just south of the ranch three miles. Wise River.[...]lso raised a huge vegetable garden and sold a lot of her vegetables to the Bond Grocery Store in Dillon. John Malesich died July 1, 1934, of "Chronic Brights Disease", which is an obsolete term for kidney disease, and "Disseminated Sclerosis of Cord" or Multiple Sclerosis. After John's deat[...]la T. Miller Malesich died on September 27, 1965, of a stroke due to arteriosclerosis. -JULIE M[...] |
| time she boarded with the family of Judge Lindsey. She also attended school in Bozema[...]Vera stayed on the ranch and ran it with the help of a hired hand. After a while they sold the store t[...]920 they sold the ranch to Babe Dodgson, a cousin of Mil- lie's. Ben, Millie and Vera went to Californ[...]Mallon Ranch. Ben and Millie lived there the rest of their lives. Lowell took over running the ranch w[...]his a young man in his early twenties. He was one of four hunt- evening. I haven't made any garde[...]ir son Frederic John Mallory seven spools of thread; I get a dollar a spool. was born back in[...]im and Henry has a great time, they think so much of Orlena from Carroll on April 11, 1902:[...] |
| [...]letter as soon as in Bannack in the Fall of 1863, concluding a tedious seven- you can. Tell m[...]on this homestead throughout the remainder of his lifetime. Henry's son Fred grew to be a fi[...]an, fought James and Mary's home is still in service to this day. James in WWI at Argonne Forest and w[...]y, beside Mary who preceded him in death daughter of Tom and Emma McCallister, in 1916. Three[...]esse Spencer and Many descendants of this early Beaverhead pioneer fam- they had seven[...]r.She died in Sep- buried here. tember of 1988 at age 66. Laverne married Shirley Campbell[...]aron and Diana Mal- lory. Laverne died in January of 1970 at age 42. Freddy Wayne was killed in a car[...]AMBY SMITH on April 18, 1844, son of Michael and Mary (Morrissey)[...]the Potato Famine of the 1840s and at the age of three James and Mary Mann[...]On their arrival in the United States at the port of New was 12 years old, when they moved to Illinois[...]the sister, for reasons unknown, was temporarily of Elgin, Kane County. James Mann's father was Aaron[...]is sister. He recalled seeing slaves sold College of Chicago for two years and studied two years with[...]ck 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[...]a. They moved Springs, and later spent the winter of 1850-51 at Mormon southwest into New Mex[...]returned to his homeland with a sizable quantity of They reported no great difficulty with[...]any dust in his poke. This journey he made by way of Panama. part of the trip. He also recalled Denver had only seven[...]when they passed through that area. acquaintance of Mrs. Mary Abigail Kirkpatrick, whom he In 1862 they again headed for California but heard of the married March 1, 1858. She was the widow of James Kirk- gold strike in Bannack, Mon[...]rived there November 1, 1862. He traded two yoke of oxen Clarinda. James and Mary Mann had one son, M[...]out. The next owner took out a large amount of gold when family, this time by ox train. Upon rea[...]d later become the Bozeman Cu- up one of the first claims. It, too, was unproductive for h[...]returning to the Emigrant cant amounts of gold. Trail near Laramie, at the expense of many more miles and He returned to Ban[...]rney west. They finally arrived the hanging of Henry Plummer, Ned Ray and Buck Stinson[...] |
| [...]one of eight children, born in Iowa. The story of Jesse and Ike's romance is rather interesting:[...]Some of the old cowboys who could read thought it would[...]n January 10, 1864, and also witnessed the firing of a can- the door that they wanted. They evidently gave her a good non into the cabin of Joe Pizantha and his subsequent cre- sales p[...]up in their marriage that lasted to the end of their lives. than mining and took three teams and[...]k in a pint tin cup. Someone asked why she number of years. On one of his trips from Corinne his drover milked after[...]sister to Laura Jones who lived with her some of the time counts with gold coin. Brigham then took[...]usin to Mamie Buck, Judd Tibbles, and Maude Clay- of the freight house and handed him a glass of whiskey ton. tapped from a large oak bar[...]1870 he took up a government claim near the head of to Idaho for a time and then moved to Dillo[...]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 of the cabin.[...]tracted by John Walde- mar, another early settler of this region. Several years later he bought school land about four miles Freeman Marble west of Grant and later enlarged his holdings through home- Freeman was Ike Marble's brother and spent much of his stead purchases and land trades with the Burn[...]t water right was dated place on the east end of the Centennial Valley. His house 1877.[...]washed, bed made, and floor Blacktail ranch home of Miss Flynn's sister, Mrs. Terence brushed u[...]es his place and his place had quite a bit of boggy, wet swampy managed the family ranch and Co[...]ones would slip past his No Mr. Mansfield died of medical complications while on a Hun[...] |
| [...]rite words were By Gonny' In the spring of 1885, Ed returned to New York with hope this or By Gonny' that, he never swore. of persuading Elizabeth to return west with him. Not[...]Perry was born August 10, 1887. In the spring of 1883, Edmond and Elizabeth Legge In[...]the Indian women who constantly were Marchesseau of Kingston, New York, made a decision which begging for "bread and cake," Elizabeth kept up a frenzy of changed their lives. Ed, ordered to a dry climate[...]do the Thomas Pierce in the West, the great land of opportunity laundry. and adventure. Thomas[...]Montana Territory. time to take advantage of free lands or squatter's rights. Elizabeth, be[...]dele had two sons, child, they awaited the return of husband and father which Clarence and Maxie. Francis died at age 31 of pneumonia on was two years forthcoming.[...]November 19, 1887. Diphtheria took the lives of the two After a six-day journey by train, the[...]ry. their father having been an owner and breeder of race Elizabeth's role of nurse for the sick and dying of two horses.[...]ull their fourth child, Josephine, in March of 1889, a beautiful gray blanket of mosquitoes in buffalo grass belly-deep. but delicate child who suffered most of her short life from They decided to move on to Montana without delay. Ed epilepsy and died of i~fluenza in the 1917 epidemic. After pursued goo[...]amily and others, at one time purchasing 100 head of Spanish- moved to another site. They foun[...]brand which is one of the earliest brands recorded in Mon-[...]mics, however, and in the spring of 1892 all four children[...]fever which took the life of their first born son, William[...]Perry, at the age of five and one-half years.[...]Elizabeth returned-to Montana in the fall of 1892, leaving[...]Ed Marchesseau's main source of livelihood was freight- from lefi: Elizabeth, Bes[...]l (early-day teacher at Po- all kinds of merchandise and supplies for long trips, a[...] |
| [...]-MARJORIE MARCHESSEAU FINCH With the arrival of Rose Olive on September 30, 1894, and Bessie in[...]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: Fran[...]ris. As a young man he was highly after the turn of the century. Twelve children born to this reg[...]player in southwestern Mon- union covered a span of a quarter of a century. tana. Frank was consid[...]The small schoolroom was bustling with children of all ages, Army. After his discharge he returne[...]ried Matilda Jane Martin. tion under the tutelage of Josephine McConnell, Elizabeth's Matilda was the youngest child of William and Jane Per- youngest sister.[...]il 25, 1901 at Racetrack, Mon- Around the turn of the century, land was rapidly taken up tana,[...]t at Elkhorn Hot Springs. On March 22, 1923 their of jail to take up land for them in return. This bro[...]to trouble into this peaceful valley. In the dead of night, Ed records, was the only child ever born at Elkhorn Hot Marchesseau's herd of fine draft horses was driven off and Spring[...]prison. This inci- Dillon. He was in charge of Mr. Best's rabbit farm, north of dent ended Ed's career as a freighter. To supplem[...]ll when Matilda went to Anaconda, the home of her mother, to ranches up the Valley, the Jack Wi[...]and Nagle places and later holdings at the mouth of Polaris now working for Western Wholesal[...]yon for his son Edward, dashing the latter's hope of only son, Erwin Martin (Bud), was born o[...]s, ranchers. The flu epidemic had taken the lives of two, Jose- Frank and Dewey purchased the ranc[...]had become a dedicated rancher with a great love of the Williams Ranch and the Cooney Ranch. h[...]de by side with Ranch and died in 1934 at the age of 80. Elizabeth died in her husband, along with raising a family. Tilly was known 1942 at the age of 80. Their marriage had weathered the for her love of the outdoors, her family and mankind. Few storms of 62 years. Elizabeth was 17 when she married; Ed, passed the ranch without stopping for one of her famous 22. meals. She was considered one of the most outstanding In Montana's centennial year of 1989, three of their 12 cooks in Beaverhead County, learni[...]a hospital during their on June 17, 1967. All of their children reside in Dillon. lifetimes[...] |
| [...]1888, in Fero Marchesseau was a native of Canada, being born at Mountain View, Wyo., and sp[...]o Montana which was then the "Montana A veteran of World War I, he ranched in Beaverhead[...]loyment was as stage driver from County. A cousin of Thomas R. Pierce, he worked on the Red R[...]e relocating to the Grass- entered the employ of Tom Pierce, a rancher on Horse Prai- hopper Valle[...]session in 1970, he was His were the days of the "Old West" when everything was accorded speci[...]cluttered up the scenery and reflected the spirit of Boys State, which he served as a flag friends a[...]He married Sara McMenomey Lavery of Armstead, Mon- ever been, or will ever be, more deserving of this honor." tana. Sara had two children by[...]by nephews Ed, Dewey, Frank and Bob Marchesseau of[...]Mrs. Marjorie Finch, all of Dillon, Mrs. A. W. Field of No- gales, Arizona, Mrs. Marian Frink of Plains and Mrs. Flor- ence Dailey of Missoula.[...]She was a member of St. Rose Altar Society and St. Rose[...]Church. She also belonged to Neighbors of Woodcraft for 37[...]his Legion career, Bob was also a 57-year member of the Dillon Elks Lodge and a life member of Veterans of World War I. He was a 61-year charter member of Beaverhead Post No. 20. Following his death on Ma[...]tain View Cemetery in Dillon. The grand old man of Beaverhead Post No. 20 bridged generation gaps to earn the respect of countless Montanans. He is survived by n[...] |
| [...]ons and daughter-in-law Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lavery of Casper, Wyoming, and Hugh N. Lavery of Redding, California; brothers-in-law and sis- ters Mr. and Mrs. D. F. McCarthy of Butte, Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Malloy and Mrs. J. Long, all of San Francisco; brothers and sisters-in-law Mr. and Mrs. B. J. McMenomey of Malta and Mr. and Mrs. Martin McMenomy of Monrovia, Califor- nia; a granddaughter in Billin[...]Barney Maron, a well-to-do farmer and cattleman of this county, came to an untimely death Sunday mor[...]husband John. Laura and Ruby were children result of a kick by a horse. Mr. Maron had been to town of George and Harriet Boatman who came to Montana in[...]gate at the entrance to his field, he struck one of the mother. They settled in Virginia City where[...]a. the blow, kicked Mr. Maron in the stomach. Two of Ter- Harry hayed on the Robert Boat[...]Flynn's boys were near and saw the accident. One of in the summer of 1910. There he met my mother, Bertha them started[...]911; Laura Grace, born March 26, unconscious part of the night, but in the morning appeared 191[...]l hotel in Lakeview. Blacktail creek. At the time of his death he was considered Harry Martin ca[...]rook Harry Martin came to the Centennial Valley of Montana Village in the Phoenix area. Th[...]an jewelry, rugs, pots, and baskets. north side of the valley next to his uncle Ruby Boatman'[...] |
| [...]rved in the Army Military Police. All of their children helped with the ranch work and the[...]Paso and he was on the ranch for the rest of their working lives. May (Can- supervisory progra[...]11, 1882, to Orlando P. I understand that none of the seven buildings on the Mast and Ma[...]born on the old Anderson Ranch just north of Dillon on Elmer and Addie Martinell[...]nderson Lane. He was the eighth child in a family of 16[...]ily moved to a Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Anthony Mitchell Mar- homestead on Birch Creek, 16 miles north of Dillon. Here he tinell and Annie Hall of Canada. They were of French Cana- spent most of his childhood. He attended a one-room school dia[...]ch a mining camp-until fourth grade. He was taand South Dakota.[...]or a sandpile, accurately estimating the tons of hay or yards Al Young on property which later became part of the Briggs of sand. ranch. Managing the horse herd was his main duty while During the summer of 1906 he met Clara Emma Short working for Young. H[...]Here, Emma also obtained work. After a year of courtship on January 19,1893. She was born Septem[...]were blessed with a boy to Montana she resided in South Dakota where her parents name Carl Alden[...]Eighteen months after took up homesteads. She was of English ancestry and her the birth of this son, Carl T. had the misfortune of slipping father was a descendant of Lord Baltimore, the Colonial and getting his foot caught during a rain storm while board- Governor of Maryland.[...]cattle business in 1895 when they leased 10 head of milk cows and range stock from Arlia A. Froman for five years. Martinells were to receive half of the offspring in return for caring for the cattle[...]ld also winter cattle for people. Elmer was a bit of a trader - buying and selling livestock as[...] |
| [...]o bless this union. Emma was active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and was secretary of the Relief Society Organization for a number of years. Emma loved to travel and took several trips to Salt Lake City, Utah, South- ern Utah, also to California and in later years[...]Carl was a contractor by trade. He had a number of teams and wagons and it was quite a sight to see[...]were later adopted Carl passed away at the age of 72 on August 21, 1953, in by Berry. Dillon[...]ntana College) as business manager and later Dean of Mathews[...]rgia belonged to Rufe Mathews was born the son of Rufus and Mary Eliza- the Episcopal Churc[...](Berry) Mathews at Palmyra, Missouri, in February of organizations. 1851. He attended high sch[...]erms. She worked for Mockel Hardware for a period of for Montana and arrived in Bannack in 1864. On Au[...]h near Elkhorn where they started member of the Episcopal Church, Eastern Star and P.E.O. wit[...]nts were John and Sophia Simpers Mauldin, natives of Masons and served as secretary of Bannack Lodge for many Maryland. His fat[...]the years. The Mathews family were active members of the mercantile business. Episcopal C[...]ighteen he went to neer family being the daughter of Andrew and Helen Nay. Baltimore and ser[...]was the second white girl born in Bannack and one of ness making. He then went to Virginia, t[...]lumbus, Ohio, where he ered wagon drawn by a team of oxen. opened a shoe[...]of merchandise to Virginia City by way of the Platte River. Berry worked in the mines at[...]a. He died in 1946. whom he left in charge of the stock of goods in Virginia City[...] |
| [...]brother On starting for the east in the fall of 1865, he walked from left for Montana, arriving[...]enough to 1865. They had several loads of merchandise, which they build a boat sixteen feet[...]ut the boat on his wagon and fields of the Salmon River country and spent two years tran[...]and Missouri Rivers to Sioux City, Iowa. Because of head. In 1870 he returned to the east an[...]tail 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 t[...]ounty and purchased a and purchased another stock of general merchandise, which ranch two miles east of Dillon. In partnership with his he loaded on wagons in the spring of 1866. He started again brother James he platted an addition to the City of Dillon, for Montana, had trouble with the Indians[...]inia City on September 1, 1866. He sold a portion of property for the Court House on December 17,[...]erving from 1894 to 1898. Benton. After disposing of these goods he went to Utah On Feb[...]. Mauldin was born at Valley where he had a tract of land. Kittanying, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Henry Roley, a The next spring he went to Cali[...]ilroad and canal contractor. She married her head of horses which he drove through to his ranch in the[...]on, Montana, Percheron horses that ever came west of the Missouri River. until her death Septem[...]Butte. Mr. Mauldin contributed to the improvement of Mr. Mauldin died August 21, 1907 and both of them are the ranching industry and was closely id[...]tain View Cemetery, Dillon. 1898 when he disposed of his ranch property. His ranch was the Diamond O Ranch and was located near the Point of -HE[...]veral years there platted an addition to the city of Dillon known as Mauldin working in the mi[...]In 1907, Joseph homesteaded a tract of land adjoining the little town of Apex which at that time had a depot, railroad[...]rn in Cecil County, Maryland, On one of his many visits to Butte he met Annie Plute, an on September 3, 1843 and was the son of John and Sophia attractive young woman who also immigrated from Austria. Simpers Mauldin, natives of Maryland. His father was for They were married in January of 1911 and made their home many years a prosperous[...]oseph then purchased the Mast ranch located along of Maryland and at Tuscarora Academy in Penns[...] |
| [...]a strange custom of wearing heavy socks and boots even in[...]time but was on hand in the fall of 1937 to help with a "log[...]raising" at the home of Fred Else.[...]ahead of us. We all came from Ohio City, Colo.[...]shop in Dillon on the NW corner of Helena and Idaho[...]built the building on the SE corner of Helena and Washing- In 1917, he crushed his leg[...]urchased a farm in the Bar- in the back half of the building. retts area from Robert Quick. They[...]ughter Dorothy was born there in 1923. Dur- of 1910. Mr. Finch was the principal. We were taught[...]to read. Penmanship was taught board for a number of years. those days and we did full pages of exercises over and over to In 1937, Joseph and[...]know if printing is taught or caught. The beauty of the Annie passed away in 1955. Joseph then divi[...]l he also passed away in 1971 at the age One of the first automobiles to come to Dillon was soon of almost 92 years old.[...]front and a single seat in the middle back of the front seat.[...] |
| homestead three miles west of Dillon on the Ten Mile road. When the First World[...]gardens or raise livestock or work for the cause of Peace. All eligible senior boys enlisted in the service and we girls wrote to them. Living on a ranch (homestead of my parents) I decided to raise lambs. A rancher w[...]alifor- luggage, leather goods, and a variety of quality household nia.[...]on, Calif., ing on Idaho Street just north of the Andrus Hotel. Their where he attended and gra[...]and her best chum, Zeta Landon, an only daughter of Frank My mother moved to California for several y[...]ancher, 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[...]ed in 1960. All are buried in merry-go-round of Dillon's elite. Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon.[...]e young I was married to Loran D. Spencer, son of Vern and Nettie Hugh McCaleb. They were married in Dillon. Their honey- Spencer, of the Big Hole basin on December 31, 1921 in[...]y 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 Washington Street. at the age of 90.[...]scarded items to restore and put back to use. One of the raised two children, Sharon Graham of Dillon, and Danny treasures she restored was a square piano which came from Spencer of Yucaipa, Calif. Sharon married Otha Graham of the old Poindexter ranch home, three miles south of Dillon. Dillon.[...]hen the Jack Barretts remodeled their home at 733 South -STELLA MAYFIELD SPENCER[...]She followed every pick-up load of trash to the city dump Hugh and Ethel McCaleb[...]l in the Civil War, erate waste. In all of her life she could have everything she came west[...]ty t o Salmon, Idaho. He was driving a wagon load of flour took meticulous care of all possessions. when the train was attack[...] |
| affluent housewives of that time, who employed uniformed Ethel e[...]e continued to read and do craftwork for the rest of her days.[...]ac sold the store to Elmo Colo. At the age of two years, he and his mother. Iola Mc- Winn, who[...]ng at Carthy moved to Montana in search of better times and a the corner of Bannack and Idaho Streets. The McCalebs[...];fil)ved to the big Murray house five miles north of Dillon on Jay spent the next 10 years of his life experiencing the Highway 91. (Ethel was kin to the Murrays.) She filled the intricacies of early day Butte; roaming the city at will, many r[...]elmier raised goats for a milk supply and of bed bugs. The balance of the night was spent sleeping in also helped with[...]employed Lloyd Barnette (Barney) as a of the present day Ron Benson dry farm. Logs were ob[...]illac tained from the dry gulch north of Art Christensen's ranch (Pinky) and took them on[...]McCaleb. Wishing to spend her winters in the warm South- west, Ethel bought five acres of land with a stucco house near St. George, Utah. S[...]nd in the desert. Together they made jewelry. All of Ethel's fine jewelry, diamond rings, bracelets, n[...]lver- ware, glassware, ceramics, Toby jugs, cases of books, her favorite pieces of furniture and Chinese rugs. The sale of her -property in St. George had been a rather unusual type of contract. She asked only for annual pay- m[...] |
| for the construction of a four room log house and a barn. Water was 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 leased. Jay and his mothe[...]Japan, China, and the Philippine Islands. March of 1920, discharged from service to his country, Jay returned to Dillon where he w[...]own with a horse drawn cart. Jay caught the eye of a beautiful young girl, Marguerite Sharp, and the[...], 1923. Jay worked for the United States Postal Service from 1925 until he retired as Assistant Postmaste[...]Alice and Mamie McCune, daughters of Michael At the time of this printing, Jay, 91 years of age, and his McCune and Lilly Maybelle Dingley bride of 66 years, Marguerite 86, reside at their home in[...]local Justice of the Peace, presided at the ceremony. Michael[...]Michael's obituary gives a birth year of 1850, but in order[...], also known as William and "Mike", honor of the newlyweds. came from a strict Catholic family[...]Works was under construction at the time of his death. For One day in Butte, Mike McCune a[...]oved to Dillon short- but medical knowledge of the day precluded treatment. ly thereafter. Meanw[...]ne became wealthy During construction of this last project, he began to have and well known in the Butte City and Anaconda areas of labor troubles and this greatly preyed u[...]own and courted Mamie. When not courting the love of his life, life with a gunshot wound t[...] |
| [...]pied as follows he had his family well taken care of financially, but "lawyers from Service papers: Purple Heart wound received at Can- got j[...]Creek, that he didn't prove up on because of his service John Oscar Tretsven, and moved to Bozeman. She fo[...]ith that the McDowell estate and is one of the few original home- organization for years as[...]me a and shot the bear. He was so proud of his accomplishment missionary for many years befo[...]part of Salt Lake City). Henrietta went to stay with her Walter Lee McDowell, the seventh of eight children born daughter, Mamie, to hav[...]ends as they never left the store without a piece of candy. He enlisted July 12, 1917 at Fort Wm. Ha[...]shipped overseas where he was in- volved in a lot of action in World War I. His profession on t[...] |
| [...]and cared for her grandchildren. She was a member of[...]died of cancer June 8, 1979. Both she and Mac are buried[...]by the name of McFadden in the little country school he[...]nded, so he decided to leave. He asked the advice of the[...]crippled in the right foot. Because of this, he had to give up[...]cakes of the finest quality made this a popular spot for[...]School and graduated from and treasurer of the City of Dillon, positions he held until the eighth grade[...]Frank McFadden was an honorary member of the Dillon country.[...]on the homestead and Conventions, member of Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen of he continued working for Paul Mercantile. America, Secretary of the Republican Central Committee of Dean Walter McDowell was born April 3, 1923 in Idaho Beaverhead County, and a life-long member of the Presby- Falls. After Dean was born, they moved to Butte, there Mac terian Church. He was one of Dillon's most respected citi- worked for Safeway[...]ployed by Pop Warner who at that time was manager of came to join her husband who was emplo[...]ht Macmarr Grocery Store. Mac was offered Manager of a agent for the railroad. Safeway sto[...]oved to Superior, Nebr. where he was agin Manager of the in 1899, as valedictorian. The next fou[...]ghout the County and very much liked. At the time of Cabin at Monida.[...]public admin- Mac died June 20, 1958 at the age of 70, of a massive heart istrator and treasurer, holding these positions until her attack. McDowell was a member of the Veterans of Foreign death on June 13, 1955. War[...] |
| [...]family was reunited in August, 19i3, at the home of[...]At the young age of 50, Charles G. became ill and died[...]Dillon and located on the west side of the railroad tracks.[...]he was a long-time Jean, Lisa and John. member of the Shakespeare Club and the Presbyterian Church.[...]d by one son, Ralph McFadden, long-time professor of music at Western Mon- tana College.[...]han Charles was born in May, 1873 in the County of Antrim, Ireland. He was given the middle name of George for St. George. Charles G. was rather shor[...]home, two miles west of Dillon (1913). They were married June 22, 1904, a[...]rovided lovingly for her second After the birth of three boys, the young father made a big[...] |
| [...]-Theo Bay (The materials used in my account of Charles George McGahan and Agnes Nancy McCorry ar[...]n (Harry) and Urshula Wright Hud- son, the fourth of seven children. Because the family was homesteadi[...]Sarah bought the old Dillon Hotel, later the site of Montana sister Molly Powers and family via covere[...]ivery barn, located where Terry's IGA is composed of 160 wagons. She was thrown from a horse and[...]Christian train was attacked by Indians. A troop of soldiers rescued Hansen on June 18, 1905.[...]Col- R.I. He had been a law student, but the lure of the gold fields lege. Even with her bad hip, sh[...]The grew, Sarah was unable to take care of the girls. She sent for young couple moved to Cab[...]here their three her friend, Anna Osley of Whitehall, who came to Dillon and children, Lilli[...]anked Sarah liked to do all kinds of sewing and was always busy among Montana's leading gold fields. The supply of gold, knitting for the cause during Worl[...], music lessons. Sarah was an early member of the Methodist Henry Randall died. Sarah ran the f[...]Church in Dillon. She spent the last few years of her life with December 15, 1882, her oldest daugh[...], where Horace McIntyre was a resident of the Grant area be- Sarah taught her children and[...]ffice (1895 to 1899), located a few hundred yards south of for chalk. She lived next door to Mrs. Plummer, a[...]he Dale Metlen ranch home, about seven miles west of she was a very nice lady to have for a neighbor. Armstead on the south side of the old Horse Prairie road. Her daughter Alice[...]erkins, Hammer and under the pen name of Jerry Hopper. Firey, in the Dillon Mine on[...] |
| [...]ed in a log cabin located in the southeast corner of the John Peterson ranch (The Cross Ranch) at the intersection of the Templin Lane and the old Horse Prairie road.[...]iven by Russell Churchill, who picked up children of three families residing east of Grant. After 1920, the Mcintyres moved to Armst[...]McMannis Family William Henry McMannis, son of a coal miner, was born July 14, 1856, at Braddock[...]r and elk. Then he and -a partner bought a string of pack burros and went prospecting. They eventually[...]889. The following winter was so severe that most of the burros froze to death. Out of his pack train, William moved to the Argenta area[...]o die running a boarding house and, with the help of her brother- of scarlet fever January 20, 1903. in-law, Amede Bes[...]st child, Henry Simeon, was born De- juncture of Bachelor Road and Mansfield Lane. The house cembe[...]"Harry," he was a person cleared the land of sagebrush and raised oats, barley, wheat w[...] |
| [...]Cecil McNinch was one of nine children. As a young man,[...]started for Montana with a big herd of Longhorn cattle. It[...]a few hundred head of cattle left.[...]Cecil homesteaded at the mouth of Big Sheep Creek near[...]ars for southwest Montana. He also ran a dragline service going to get her chicks if she could help it. for a number of years. He married and had two children, The tw[...]arried Annie C. Peterson in ary 4, 1918 until May of 1919. March, 1920[...]in the and lives in Stevensville, Montana. service, Josie, along with Winnie and Verne, worked in th[...]plished fisher- man, hunter and trapper. In March of 1920, Winnie went to work for the Bell Tel[...] |
| [...]nnie is still living in Lima, Montana, at the age of 85. Nellie married Roy McNinch (a cousin) and[...]occupied by the county officers. While the object of the Judge Christian and Anna[...]Over the next several years, he heard many of the famous who remained in Wisconsin, and Elizabe[...]Ban- on the Horse 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,[...]Mason for 50 years and was the first Master alent of district judge after statehood) for several terms. Mason of the first Lodge organized in Montana, which was[...]at Bannack, and was also the first Master Mason of the in 1881, he was probate judge for the distric[...]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, between the hours of 10 and 11 at hat he had worn. night the new[...]eble. While supervising work on his or 50 buckets of water were being passed by many citizens[...]yond control, was rendered then died of apoplexy on Sunday, June 8, 1890, surrounded harm[...]d no fire- Shine berger and Emerson Hill of Red Rock, Martin Barrett fighting equipment even as minor as hoses and buckets to and Dave Metlen of Horse Prairie, A. F. Graeter of Ban- carry water from Blacktail Creek which wande[...]more. He was buried in Dillon with services edge of town. Only the determination to protect their own[...]d the and rainy day, with many members of the Society of Mon- men to act quickly. After the fire was douse[...]most estimable citizen, a just and doubt the work of an incendiary. One of the offices in the upright man." lower story contained a large pile of finishing lumber at one Little is known about his wife Anna but it is assumed that end of which the fire had been kindled. A trail of scattered she preceded him in death since sh[...]shavings leading to the fire gave added evidence of arson. his will. He left half of his mining claims to his daughter, Feelings we[...]shift Katie Paul, in Wisconsin. The other half of the mining in location of the county seat. A volunteer armed guard claims, plus his 320-acre ranch located on the south side of stayed at the building the remainder of the night and it was the road leading[...] |
| [...]away ecuted and delivered immediately. In honor of the memory January 5, 1921. of Judge Christian Mead, the building was remodeled[...]ral decades, Dillon. She died in February of 1919. especially during the dredging years, fina[...]861 he enlisted name Beaute throughout the rest of his life. in the Union Army and, having graduat[...]hore boy and college in Canada, was assigned to service as an assistant after a year he was brought to Beaverhead County and surgeon. He fought in the battle of Apache Canyon near Horse Prairie in 1907[...]his mother in Butte to help her support the rest of his Doctor Meade and Louisa P. Bonham, a nurs[...]the beginning of World War II.[...] |
| [...]February 24, 1904. Two months before the birth of Paul, clerk in a store, then as a dispatcher for[...]ntil was a severe fall that caused a concussion of the brain, from his death January 1, 1986.[...]paper read: "Wife of prominent rancher died last night at[...]-RHEA MEADE her home north of Dillon." It also stated "Mrs. Meine was[...]September 13, 1905, Charlie purchased the N 1/2 of Sec- ley with his parents in 1882, when he was 12[...]6, T6S, R8W, containing 320 acres, from the State of was born March 22, 1870, at Hannover, Germany. Son of Montana. November 22, 1906, Charlie mar[...]nch. Charlie was clerk when he purchased the W ½ of Section 9, T6S, R8W, from of the Nelson School District No. 2 from 1906 to 191[...]Pauline Marie Mueller, 1914 to 1916. daughter of Wilhelm Mueller and Pauline Hauff. Pauline[...]any. Pauline, who was often referred to as of Section 16, T6S, R8W, from the State Bank and Tru[...]Columbus, Nebraska, and assembled two carloads of regis- Thomas Mulany had built along the slough.[...]Dillon. Charlie Charlie built a new home just south of the Mulany build- Meine was an avid horseman[...]was horses. He also maintained a large herd of cattle.[...] |
| Charlie acquired many acres of range on "Dutchman 1875, a daughter, Do[...]many. Chil- Charlie was manager and supervisor of the Beaverhead dren born in Germany during this era had so many given Milling Company of Dillon, as well as part owner. A 1925 names because they were named after all of their baptism article in .the Dillon Examiner Chr[...]family came to the U.S. when he was 36 just west of the main house at the ranch. This was Charlie's[...]s body was brought back to Conrad took one of the last homesteads to be had in the Dillon for t[...]Mountain View Cemetery. Charlie's north of Dillon on the stage road, being the NE ¼ of Section obituary told that, "For many years he was an influential 21, T6S, R8W, of the Montana Territory. They built a very citizen of the Dillon community, and word of his death was nice set of buildings for the time, including houses, stable,[...]barn, corrals and other outbuildings. One of Charlie's grandsons remembers him as an ambi-[...]ool, District tious, knowledgeable, outspoken man of stern German na- No. 2, of which Conrad was a trustee. The school was about[...]al District in Beaverhead County. His Certificate of[...]eine to arrive in Beaverhead County was Con- of five. Conrad and Wilhelmina's son Friedric[...] |
| [...]a dryland farm southwest of Dillon, then moved north of Dillon, and then to the Ben Taylor Place south of Dillon. Conrad Meine Homestead Ap[...]d bought the adjoining 160 acres, being the NW ¼ of Section 21, T6S, R8W, from Benjamin Bond. The 190[...]Lillie and Robert Melton of the property.[...]son parents. Charlie's ranch north of Dillon. He had been in poor health My parents had four childern: Alice Sundell of Boise, for some time, suffering from stomach cancer. Conrad had Idaho; Estella Shaffner Thomas of Idaho Falls, Idaho; Regi- been heard to remark that he would not suffer as some na Given of Silver Star; and one son, Robert Taylor Melton pe[...]ng sickness. He said he knew a cure that of California. They also raised a nephew, Jim. They have 12 was quicker than the doctor's. He was 67 years of age when grandchildren and 12 great gran[...]surviving are his wife, a son Charles and of English ancestry. two daughters. The funeral was[...]ery. in June of 1962. Daddy was an avid fisherman, belonged to[...]Mother the Meine family for over 110 years. Many of the homestead was active in Home Demonstration and a member of the buildings were moved to Charlie Meine's ranch[...]7, 1962, in the I, like many others, am guilty of not being particularly Butte hospi[...] |
| [...]ed by Schen~ The Merrells have been in and out of Beaverhead County del, A. A. Waldorf, and A. L. Stone of Dillon. Frank Merrell since 1862. The first was F[...]nack for Virginia City. There he took Loomis of Los Angeles. up some claims that did not pan out.[...]ney in 1926. They had He married Mary Marvin, one of St. George, Utah's first seven children:[...]Henry, Idaho. He married Hattie Chester, daughter of a the Montana House of Representatives for three terms, pioneer family,[...]cart from 1896 to 1902. He was co-sponsor of the bill to authorize brigade in 1856. the building of the State Capitol, and his portrait was hung F[...]r, he herded sheep for the fourth child of Robert and Elizabeth Custer Metlen. Mr. Bond, north of Dillon. The[...]The store in Henry, Idaho, burned in the winter of 1913 folks died, he lived with his older bro[...]January, 1914. team of two mules. At Corrine, Utah, he heard of the gold This was a good choice and the busine[...]ve on Horse seven carloads were shipped out. Much of this prosperity Prairie Creek, and located[...]ing both rail- the CL Ranch. He had a set of freight wagons and teams and road workers and far[...]wife mortgaged it to Albert D. Young. Faces of 34. Three years later on February 10, 1887, David[...]did return to live in Mon- Brothers were members of the OK Paul Company. tan[...] |
| [...]youngest daughter of a pioneer family in Decatur. After[...]wedding to Mae Williamson in September of that year. He[...]bor, who explained that Chief Tendoy was a friend of her[...]family moved to Helena during the tenure of Governor[...]maps of his surveys of the county are still used in the court-[...]J. Kirkman of Madera, Calif. The second son, Fred Arthur,[...]Bruce Joseph Metlen served in the Montana House of 18, 1941, to George P. Palmer and live[...]t school and married George Mar- ran a small herd of thoroughbred cattle on a small property tin J[...]oyed by Boeing Airplane Company at Vandenburg Air service to doctors and to analyze milk and water.[...]west as far as Denver George Robert Metlen, son of Eliza and David Evans and Anna stayed[...]nfant son, Frank to December 17, 1871. At the age of 17 he left the CL Ranch to Montana. Th[...] |
| [...]way of life in Butte.[...]She had come from Ireland at the age of 16 with her brother,[...]steads of 160 acres, but he used several family members,[...]who was born in Alexander married Amy Vanderbeck of Virginia City, MT. Pomeroy, Ohio, and wa[...]alifor- five or six years old. I believe one of Charles brothers nia where the family still lives[...]ed in 1976 he sold the eye, so Ed spent a lot of his childhood years at the Bushong ranch. He is b[...]lace with his Uncle, Patrick O'Sullivan. the rest of the Metzels are buried except Will Metzel and his[...]acteristics. Charlie and Ed had their differences of opinion Will sold the York Ranch on the Upper R[...]ood and summers in the Big Hole with Charlie. out of Montana. This was in 1919.[...]load of horses that were sent to the Belgian Army during[...], Charles W. Francis and Wil- Pomeroy, Ohio. Both of his parents were born in Germany. liam Hol[...]to the bank were W. G. Conrad, He was the oldest of 12 children born to John Miller and Jacob[...]way, Dan Boyle, Paris B. Barclay, Sherman S. Cook of several of his brothers. He worked for a cattleman na[...] |
| [...]rebuilt. Charles bought or traded many parcels of land. He bought the Robert Jones place which beca[...]rve as a deputy sheriff at times. He was a member of the posse that captured Albert Yiek who killed th[...]e linen napkins. C. E. had an autographed picture 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. -SU[...]the Big Hole to Divide John and Mary Miller, one of 12 children. Georgia was born for Sam Robins[...]were often the crew. Badge's Edith Lawrence, one of 10 children. Dana and Georgia feet got[...]s and later freighted to Wisdom where C. one of the most noteworthy things which occured. There E[...]nd the flood came early Tuesday They spent most of their married years on the Pintlar mornin[...]re Dana was ranch man- and boarders out of bed and out of danger. It was devastat- ager for C. E. Miller. T[...]Fred said, "I got Tommy Flynn's horse out of the barn." He[...]Georgia was Post- Wise River Flood of 1927 mistress for[...] |
| [...]spent time with her children. The last nine years of her life she lived with her sister in Utah. She d[...]usiness and a home. Hart Palmer Miller was one of the nine children born to Mrs. Miller, t[...]s education in the Deer Lodge schools. north side of the Valley below the lower Red Rock Lake. He left home at the age of 16, and fared for himself working The father had[...]dings in Deer Lodge and came large cattle company of Dillon. It was the "P and O"- to Cente[...]er quarters were in Lake- the north side of the yalley along the Red Rock River. They view, b[...]ried January 10, Idaho Falls. Hart bought a piece of property along the 1905, at Lakeview, in Madison County by Justice of the Snake River and started a small gravel pit. H[...]Shambow. They lived on the ranch until 1913, one of the early bridges over the Snake River. For sever[...]s he hauled gravel with teams and wagons for many of some land from Bert Paul in Monida. He bu[...]now facing the Butte-Salt Lake Highway. one of the largest industries in town, Monroe Gravel and[...]rden, so started a place there to raise all kinds of berries and fruits and many kinds of nuts. Hart and Edith both lived to within a few months of being 100 years old. William M. Miller 386-Beaverhead History |
| William owned one of, or maybe the first automobile in their own[...]surveyed, graded and knocked the rough spots off of is used He was on the train going back to U[...]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 Monid[...]you could buy anything from early hours of the morning. It was snowing and dark. She needles[...]on. William Miller owned the garage and of the hotel. automobile repair shop. If he couldn't[...]rated his business until he had to retire because of bad health. He passed away April 6, 1954. He was[...]r sisters and four brothers. All were resi- dents of the Centennial Valley at one time. Virginia lived[...]my mother telling of the long sled ride from the upper end of[...] |
| [...]ater the Bucy scarywith those big horses out of control. Fortunately he Place on the river. He r[...]frozen and stopping at our place on the last leg of the cattle drive to gorged over, the horses w[...]The Miller boys were the fashion plates of the 30s. Lin- they could be ready to load by 8 a[...]heard a radio for the first time in the back room of the came every summer for 15 or 16 years. One of their camps Monida Mercantile sometime in[...]r, a 1923 or 24 Chevrolet touring Several of the Jones Brothers went by nicknames. There car.[...]ght, we all got was Woodtick, the father of Jeff and Charlie. Petrified out of bed and sat in the car in our nightclothes. Jones and his wife, Lena, were the parents of Kate, Matilda, Bert Paul owned the Monida Merc[...]ohnson, Guy Nix, Homer Cutler, and Johnny Hudson. of candy. If we found a gallon jug, a quart or pint[...]l Forsythe and John Bray were all charter members of the Virginia City Elks Lodge.[...]my sister, Among the early settlers of the Big Hole Valley were Bobie, had gone duck hun[...]he gun through the fence. born in the north of Ireland in 1862, the fourth of seven Bobie raced toward the house to get help. Her horse tripped children of George and Margaret (Gibson) Montgomery. in a bad[...]r horses, Tom- steads in about the middle of the valley. They hired men to my and Big Enough, to the school which was just west of the help with ranch work and had the hired[...]se to theirs, and in this way increasing the size of .1nd Bobie and I.[...]family moved to the Price Place and lived in half of the house and moved from St. Joseph, Mo., t[...]a terrible a brick kiln operation. Some of the bricks made were later arrangement.[...]used in the construction of the Wisdom School. His oldest The next winter[...]ly in the school district. These are just some of the happenings or people that I[...] |
| gomery at Dillon on October 24, 1896. They lived at one of Butte. Lucy was born in 1892 in Fish Creek,[...]now known as the Dudley Ranch daughter of Mathew and Anne Williams Morris. Lucy's fa- (ow[...]lliam and Cecilia Montgomery. They were (in order of had five sisters, Fanny, Mary, Rose, Fl[...]Dan became Sheriff in 1920 upon the death of Sheriff accumulating more than 11,000 acres in[...]ding Town ranches. They maintained a large herd of stock cattle out there. Sheriff Dan Mooney[...]lected a and always bought several hundred head of feeder steers crew and swore them in as[...]in several herds as they became ready. Each drive of Monida. There they cornered Yeik in a bar[...]d there. Thereafter Dan was coast markets. Many of his trainloads of steers fed on Big elected to four consecuti[...]od 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.[...]na- conda but not in time to save her. She died of a ruptured appendix at age 13. Cecilia had to g[...]a 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 1917-1918 was a bad one for snow and cold weath[...]had influenza except for mother. She took care of us all and it was a long winter. William ha[...]ying steers to feed during the winter and on one of these trips caught cold that turned into pneumon[...]and difficult time for Cecilia but with the help of Bill, Jack Phillips, and other trusted hired men, she was able to carry on the operation of the ranches during the years following William's[...]iel and Lucy Mooney Daniel F. Mooney (Dan), son of Montana pioneers Ed- ward and Catherine Mooney, c[...]egan his law enforcement career as Deputy Sheriff of Beaverhead County. Dan Mooney and Lucy M[...] |
| [...]n 1916. At that time the ranching operation Chief of Police and held that position until 1954. After h[...]r the College ment years sitting on the banks of the Beaverhead River Motor Co. until his death in[...]hter, Katherine E., born in 1920. The Two of their children, Mary Elizabeth and Daniel F. (Dan[...]daughter of John Holiday and Laura Isabelle Boatman[...]Brundage, pioneers of Madison County. Reta's maternal[...]When their first son Franklin was of school age they held[...] |
| children, including a set of twins, headed for Sheridan with the upper part of the place. They had approximately 600 a team and wagon. They arrived in October of 1927. head of cattle at one time, which meant long trailings in[...]r them after a short illness. Reta, with the help of her children, to haul them to market. There w[...]She sold the vegetables and berries and did lots of All the farm work was done with horses until[...]Frank and Addie raised a lot of turkeys each year and of course it was the hard duty of Addie to care for them and -Taken from[...]on was remembered as a hard-work- the age of two years old traveled by covered wagon with her[...]engaged in var- ious work in Batavia where three of their children, Elwood, Bert, and Verl were born.[...]on October 24, 1910. It was here that Addie told of how she would watch the Indians riding past her h[...]d later bought the Gilbert place. The hard winter of 1918 showed much loss of stock and personal illnesses and Frank ended up i[...]place. They bought the place on Highway 91 north of Dillon, where they all worked very hard. Their el[...]holding Zelma Nelson, and they ran the lower part of the farm by the James), Verl-Alleta, an[...] |
| [...]ound and brought their children. There were piles of sacked grain, stacked around the walls. When the[...]tion was performed the evening before in the hope of relieving a pressure on the brain caused by an ab[...]y known his condition was critical, however, word of his passing came as a great shock to scores of friends throughout the community, where he[...]of those who came into Dillon to celebrate.[...], J.E. began Birchdale Justin E. Morse was one of the original founders of Dillon Stock Farm by buying all of the ranches on Birch Creek with in 1880. He and n[...]ased and platted the town the water rights of Birch Creek. There were five large reser- of Dillon in 1880 and sold lots at auction. He founded the voirs located at the head of Birch Creek and he had dams Dillon Implement Company and became one of the leading built to store water durin[...]county planted hay and grain on the best of his property, while chairman. He was also a member of the Montana State running cattle and sheep in the Sweetwater Creek area east Board of Education, a member of the Montana State Live- of Dillon. stock Commission, president of Montana Woolgrowers As- In 1908, Morse incorporated all of his holdings into the sociation, Mayor of Dillon, and played an important role in Bea[...]Normal College at Dillon. Louis Penwell of Helena. Next J.E. incorporated the Ames Justin[...]Bannack area. Junction, Illinois, the sixth child of Elijah Russel Morse and He was a partner of Al Noyes in the Ajax Ranch located in his wife, A[...]ss college, Company and became sole owner of the Ajax Ranch about taught school and entered th[...]ches, leased land from the J.E. Morse was manager of the George A. Lowe Company, a State of Montana, and had U.S. Forest permits, so that by[...]rom Corrine, in Beaverhead County with herds of sheep totaling 16,000. Utah. Each merchant had a[...]transported to the railheads as the daughter of pioneer ranchers Phillip and Sarah Selway railroa[...]with no flooring. He paid the owner $1.00 for use of radiologist Dr. Hollis E. Potter and resid[...]Snow came in under the in Dillon. edges of the board walls, so J.E. pulled his bed tarp over[...]cto- In 1885, J.E. Morse became the sole owner of the Dillon ber 15, 1928, J.E. Morse became[...]n Howard M. Morse,·san railroad tracks and north of the Union Pacific Depot. At Rafael, Cali[...].E. had a room behind the store office with sacks of -MI[...] |
| [...]er hus- Oscar E. Morse married Mary Margaret Fyle of Rockford, band and three of her sons. Ill.[...]am Raymond born in 1914; and Wesley born in 1917. of Dillon founder Justin E. Morse. O.E. Morse die[...]OLA HELMING married Alfred Waldorf. Two grandsons of O.E. Morse are Morse Waldorf, born in 1905, and L[...]England. They were two of nine children born to William Fielding A. and Tul[...]and Sara Munckton. All of the boys came to America but the[...]- hotel in Grant. She was a native of Luxembourg, Germany, souri. His wife, Tullia, was[...]in Minnesota before coming to freighting ore out of the Hecla Mines to Melrose. Mrs. Mo-[...]lia's mother, Mary Ann Jennings, died in the fall of who homesteaded near Grant. The[...]enberg Fred and Mary disposed of their interests on Horse Prai- Mansion was locate[...]man for the A. C. M. Co. on a number of sheep ranches. He Wisdom.[...]Wise River from Fred James. This land is now part of the- marrying. Donald Jones Ran[...]Hon. James P. Murray, the subject of this sketch, was a[...]Legislature, and one in whom the best interests of the state[...]and its people safely reposed. He was one of the leading Fielding and Tullia Moseley (Glendale[...]farmers and stockgrowers of Beaverhead County, having an[...] |
| [...]cratic ticket to represent Beaverhead Coun- north of Dillon, and was closely identified with the affairs of ty in the State Senate. He was Chairman of the Committee the territory and state until his d[...]n Agriculture and Manufacturing, and was a member of plishments and his standing as a prominent and in[...]allegiance to the Democratic Party and was an men of Montana.[...]rominent factor in the Mr. Murray was a native of Ohio, having been born on a party council[...]away at his ranch home Febru- He was the youngest of five children of Hugh and Elizabeth ary 16, 1919, at the age of 70 years. His death was due to a (Nazor) Murray.[...]eral breakdown as he had been ailing for a number of in 1816, the son of Patrick Murray, one of the pioneer set- years. He left surviving his wife, one brother Elza in Califor- tlers of Ashland County, Ohio. Patrick Murray was born[...]cted the following Sunday or where he did valiant service as a soldier in the War of 1812. Monday by the Masonic Fraternity, of which Mr. Murray He lived to be 99 years of age. was a memb[...]Hugh Murray married Elizabeth Nazor, a native of Penn- -AGNES MUGAAS and DOROTHY 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 "Progressive Men of the State of Mon- leaving his widow and five children, at which time James tana," "Illustrated History of Montana, Miller," and Murray, the youngest, was o[...]farm through hard times and lived to be 71 years of age. She died in June of 1892.[...]ast week by the announce- schools in the vicinity of his home. At the age of 11 he was ment that Fred Myers was dead. He[...]r leaving school, at brief time, and few knew of his illness. He himself did not the age of 17, he began an apprenticeship as a carpenter,[...]atured quarrel with the doctor did he take a part of for the next ten years.[...]at walked around the yard,unconscious of his real condition. Bannack. There he formed a pa[...]ess 70 years old on the first Tuesday of this 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 served two years, during[...]Montana in 1871 and met Christian Wilke, His term of office was during the railroad construction days,[...]ried, Mr. Meyers regarded construction gangs. One of them was sentenced to be hung, Mr. Wilke'[...]City, Montana, in 1876. In 1877 they tried their of the best sheriffs the county ever had.[...]eriff, Mr. Murray became interest- Mine east of Wisdom, which would be a wealth-producer ed in ra[...]81 they settled on the purchased five miles north of Dillon, where he was very land where Mr. Meyers died, four miles southeast of town, successful and amassed a fortune. He built[...]so doing. The ranch was devoted to the production of oats, hay and Although a German by bi[...]December adopted country and had he been of soldierly age would 20, 1891, he married M. Adell Bond, daughter of Benjamin have been in the recent trouble with a gun on his shoulder- and Martha (Burt) Bond of Dillon. Their home was a center if not with sword in hand, leading his men to victory. Quiet of gracious and refined hospitality and was a favori[...], never shirking a dezvous for their large circle of friends. No children were duty to his count[...]great community heart of which any man night well be In the Nove[...] |
| Wisdom Lodge No. 61 A.F. & A.M., of which he was an home in Sheridan, MT, nea[...]John passed away suddenly in his home at the age of mains were interred in Wisdom Cemetery, the beaut[...]For the last eight years of her life, she lived on her daughter John W. and M[...]Nattrass was born April 9, 1864 in Bow- age of 94, she broke her hip, but was very active up to[...]n Mankato, Minn. They were wed at the age of 95. the home of the bride in Minneapolis, Minn., by the bride's[...]so in St. Paul. The Nay family consisted of: Martin VanBuren Nay, John, Mary, and their gi[...]ackson and Helen Gleason Nay, and brother the age of 18, and was buried in the Dillon Cemetery. Mir-[...]ent places before marrying Walter Braach in March of consion, a son, Milton Jackson, was born No[...]ohn and Mary left Dillon to make their summer of 1862. Here Martin Byron was born December 7,[...]California destination in favor of Bannack after hearing of[...]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[...]until the sale of that ranch, in part, to Mrs. Thomas Pierce[...]1918. ,The brothers ranched there until the death of Mil-[...]Another son of Martin V. and Maggie Nay, Ross, was born[...] |
| [...]til retiring. They had no children. Ross team of horses which he used to set up a local delivery passed away in 1957. service. He delivered trunks baggage, furniture, produce,[...]tana College) at the beginning and end of each school term Naysich[...]arrived in the United located in the 200 block of North Idaho Street from Ben States from Yugoslavi[...]the second floor, and Rebich on a farm northeast of Dillon for a time and then two small apartmen[...]the mines. George and Mary lived in one of the apartments and rented George received his nat[...]r 12, the other one to Mr. and Mrs. Edwards of North Carolina. 1912. He married Mary Laknar in B[...]His mother, Mary Walker Johnson Neal, one of 11 children,[...]work for the ·pioneer firm of Eliel Bros. Mercantile and[...]of Center and Montana Streets on down to where Lakna[...]clothing, shoes of all kinds, household furnishings and gro-[...]of travel was by bicycle and he always wore a clip o[...]grain grew shoulder high. on their ranch north of Dillon. Later they moved to Dillon In 1919 t[...]ue while George worked at the about sources of water for irrigation. Wedum Lumber Yard. He acquired a dray wagon and a After seven years of drought, 74 homesteaders who had 396-[...] |
| [...]as sought him out and .asked fifth child of John Allen and Delila Jones. She moved to the · him to do a study on the feasibility of an irrigation project. Centennial Valley in 1894 as a girl of 14 with her family. She Money was raised to[...]a dam in the Beaverhead John was a native of France and was born November 24, Canyon to supp[...]pond. more bands most of the time. In 1961 the initial work on the $2[...]Jones and Unit was begun in the fall with many of the original Neal moved to Dillon to live[...]East Shore of Flathead Lake. They owned a small cherry Dur[...]resort for several years. Emma and satisfaction of detonating the first blast for the excava- passed away on October 19, 1954 at Polson. John passed tion of the dam.[...]all. to John. He turned them over to the Bureau of Reclamation -SHERRIE[...]odist church for many years. He owned quite a bit of born August 25, 1872, in Muncie, Ind., daughter of John real estate around town also. He lived to[...]rn March 23, 1896, at Alamosa, Colorado, and died of Emma was born January 28, 1880 at Hayesville, Iowa the scarlet fever in Big Hole in July of 1901. My brother Jake[...] |
| [...]"Little Joe" in the was elected chairman of the meeting, E. J. Fox acted as Wisdom Cemetery.[...]clerk. The location of the school was set on Bob Hanby's Mother and D[...]ol clerk and Miss Minnie on Swamp Creek northwest of Jackson. In 1913 they bought Reiferwrath[...]he school adults set up the teepees and took care of the horses while from this location to a mile north of the Hirschy Ranch and I the children went along t[...]ox. firewood. Soon there would be a fire in front of every teepee.[...]doors. George Martin N eimeier and some of his good neighbors. Roberts grabbed me under the[...]menus. It was her custom to order 100 pound bags of dried I remember a man named Martin Ennis who[...]clothing, etc. He drove a surrey with a nice team of cots, raisins and prunes. horses and sold f[...]others in Dillon. She told of going to get the mail in 1917 and seeing on the[...]ars old I went with Dad to Dillon front page of her hometown newspaper that her father had to get a load of groceries. We used a high-wheeled freight[...]to school in the Cen- morning and got to the foot of the hill at noon. Two men tennial. Herma[...]n. We got to Mill Point in the evening, took care of the horses and were greasing the wagon when a man[...]working with picks and shovels clearing rocks out of the way to make the road a little easier. We left[...]Someone drove it up through the field in the fall of the year. The next car I saw was a Chandler that[...]Niemeier Homestead, 1918 father of the Hirschy family. Our first car was a Ma[...] |
| [...]by the age hard with his mother in Montana. Much of the time Martin of the automobile and when the stagecoach stopped, S[...]d 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- eve[...]ompassion as well as toughness. One demonstration of easy for a young boy and his mother who also had two other this was his climbing to the top of a windmill to save a man small children to take care of. They did not have a well so threatening to j[...]ful man, his protection of "his town" was legendary with[...]John and Marie Nelson of Dillon in 1879. His mother, Betty Thompson, died[...]n from Svealand, Sweden, in1906 at the age of 27. Crossing settled in the new town of Dillon. the continent to the home of his sister, Mrs. Sam Peterson, Skinny first st[...]into the Big Hole, feeding them the intersection of East Glendale and Nelson Streets. They[...] |
| [...]Parley Nelson in 1911 at the age of 21, coming to Dillon, Medicine Lodge, and Horse P[...]ge which she couldn't understand was like a bunch of magpies. It all made her so confused she wanted t[...]the Big Hole to the home called the Middle Ranch of the Company. Three sons were born: Ejnar, Har-[...]d Mae Jackson in June, 1935, in the Lima of men who started the Black and White Show, pattern[...]sh Shows. Marie and John were life long members of the Eastern Nephi told his children about tubs of trout and grayling Star and Masonic Lodges of Wisdom. caught in t[...]told about one stream Marie was considered one of the many fabulous cooks of going into the Pacific Ocean and the othe[...]y. Her rye bread and light white are still spoken of Ocean. with mouth-watering enthusiasm. She sai[...]g 16 cows, three times a day, so she knew nothing of[...](Son of Nephi) John Nelson passed away in October, 1935, at the age of 57, and Marie in July, 1966, at age 76. Son Harol[...]1892 at the age of 22 years from Ringkobing, Denmark. He Nephi,[...]secured employment with "Billy" Malden, owner of the Diamond Ranch northeast of Dillon, near Point-oF-Rocks. Nelson[...]hi and Parley Nelson, brothers from Rich- of his team horses to and from the wild hay fields.[...]They, with a horses. friend, Roe Harris of Richmond, Utah purchased a ranch in Mr.[...]elling should have The ranch was 40 miles east of Monida on the Lakeview remained the same,[...]make? All I need is a handle." comes out of Hell Roaring Canyon. We know it was across[...]was employment nearer the bustling new town of Dillon. He on the ranch overseeing the work in June of 1922 when he found work at the "Rob" Selway place just north of town became seriously ill. "Babe"Buck, a Centenni[...]Twin Bridges roads. There he met a with the help of others, took him to the train in Monida. T[...] |
| [...]In 1910, he moved our house east and south to the lane, Caldwell Pearce, who had ten childre[...]AKEL NELSON were married June 4, 1897 in the home of banker Alvin L. Stone, better known as "A. L.," w[...]and homesteaded in the Big Hole about 17 miles south of Featherly farm, about four miles northeast of Dillon on the Wisdom. Soren left home in[...]U.S. at the age of seventeen. He had to stop in Ohio to find For[...]rosperous it's mine. I later put the "e" in front of the "l" to keep people then, he bought out his[...]orn on March 9, 1905 but died on April acres east of railroad) from Mr. Thompson. It was called the 4, 1905. lower Bond place because it had been the home of Dr. Harry They lived on their homeste[...]ared it with the Oregon Short Line Railroad right-of- steads several miles south of there. They moved to the new way. Originally, the[...]jamin found a small lake on Willow help of a doctor, just a midwife. Creek watershed and obt[...]ent by, Fred and Estella went to school at outlet of the lake to secure more water. That lake is now[...]r six months, then had to residence, several head of horses and cattle and some ma- g[...] |
| [...]N W. NELSON, (GRANDSON) see if he could make a go of it. He had lots of hard work and very little money, but by 1920 thin[...]nd after batching for a couple years he got tired of his own[...]ays on the ranch, they had McCracken, aunt of T. Lee McCracken. She was the youn- butchered a b[...]or the ranch and had it hanging gest member of Joseph Carroll McCracken's family of whom on a tripod out in a corral cooling out, when a band of T. P. McCracken (T. Lee's father) was the fifth of nine Indians traveling through the valley stopped[...]head, hide, entrails and was first located on South Idaho Street where the west half Indians were gone. The meat would have disappeared too if of the present Coast To Coast Store is now. The stor[...]ey Store build- The Indians usually spent part of the summer each year ing at the corner of Montana and Glendale Streets. He ran a hunting on the west side of the valley and traded the ranch- ers gloves and m[...]born in Buvarps Traundum, Norway in the vicinity of Stenjar, Norway. He emigrated to the United State[...]spending some time in the Chicago area. In March of 1881, he arrived in Dillon and shortly thereafter[...]Streets, Dillon ( 1928) located seven miles north of Dillon. The length of the part- nership is unknown.[...]n 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 wa[...]re in Seattle after United States citizen in June of 1891. his discharge fro[...]is 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 Dillon starting around 1906, the line was later k[...]e Company. Theodor was interested in the building of the Lima Reser- vior and was a partner with sever[...]ctive in Democratic cir- cles and served a number of years on the County Democratic Central Committee.[...]by Rev. E.G. Cattermole in the Guidici home north of Dillon. They made their home north of Dillon where Theodor originally partnered[...] |
| [...]tucky on August 15, 1865, the son of W.W. Norris and Mar- The Niblacks continued to[...]ntil 1937 when they sold out to Vaughn & Ragsdale of Lancaster County, Virginia to Kentucky[...]the sale, the Niblacks retired and moved to of his family had supported the cause of the colonies during California where they enjoyed[...]is early education in the public which is a group of ex-Montanans who have situated in schools of Kentucky. He graduated from Western Kentucky Cali[...]e continued his legal studies under the direction of former Nis and Laura Nissen[...]1889 and opened a law office in Dillon. He island of Aero, Denmark, on February 8, 1892. About 1910 became one of the leading members of the bar in Beaver- he came to the United States and went to Iowa where sever- head County. al of his relatives had located. Nis spent several years work- He served five years as city attorney of Dillon, was a ing on farms and finally in 1916 moved to Beaverhead Coun- member of the Beaverhead County High School board and ty, M[...]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 managers of the Montana State Normal Col- rally with the war[...]Beaverhead County. He served the last two years of his term to Beaverhead County and engaged in ranc[...]920 he married Laura Elisabeth Hansen. Nis of the State from January 14, 1899 until March 10, 1[...]ood majority. In 1908, just before the expiration of young couple had saved enough money to buy a ranc[...]oole resigned and Lt. Governor Norris miles north of Dillon where they spent their lives farming succeeded him. That fall Norris was elected Governor of the and ranching. They had three children, all gi[...]until 1913. _ (Mrs. William) Seeger of Pomona, California; Viola Kristine At the expiration of his term, he went to Great Falls where (Mrs. Fielding H.) Graves of Dillon; and Mildred Laura he formed a l[...]ith George E. Hurd. He made (Mrs. Lloyd E.) Davis of Livermore, California. Nis was Great Fal[...]still retained his law affiliated with Lodge 273 of the Danish Brotherhood, Dil- practice in Dillon. For a number of years he was associated lon Elks Lodge 1554, the Lutheran Church of Dillon, and with Judge Joseph C. Smith and later with John Collins. was one of the earliest members of the American Legion He was recognized as one of the foremost lawyers of the Unit of Dillon. State and enjoyed the confidence and respect of all who On March 3, 1956 about 9 a.m. he was o[...]im. He was well known for his ability with a team of horses which were hitched to a hay wagon.[...]ing presence combined to make him one of the State's lead- passed through the area. The team ran over an irrigation ing public speakers of his time. ditch throwing off Nis and the hay rack[...]At his death, Chief Justice L. L. Callaway of the Montan- return to the house at his usual time[...]aSupreme Court said: "Edwin L. Norris was a man of the bor George McDonald who checked and found Nis[...]character. Truly he was a gentleman in every walk of hurt, lying where he had been thrown. The Dillon ambu- life. Of his nation and state, he was a patriotic citizen,[...]alike. As governor, he rendered distinguished service to the -F[...]prove, of great benefit to the people of the state. His fellow Edwin L. and Betty[...] |
| [...]orn in Bowl- ranch and began the business of raising stock. They had ing Green, Kentucky, on A[...]utte: Mary Edna on February 7, Falls for a number of years after his death, then moved to 1883,[...]-HELEN SHAFFNER Assessor of Beaverhead County and assumed office January[...]Nicholas and Reverend at the upper end of Swamp Creek and above the lake then James Noyes,[...]ng but Massachusetts Colony in 1634. Al Noyes was of the Nicholas because of the short season at this altitude of nearly 10,000 Noyes branch of the family and his father was George R.,[...]roved to be a losing business. A mill Stanchfield of that town, were married in 1854.[...]to Idaho where he was a Noyes almost all of their property. In 1903, Al and friend blacksmith[...]ke the mine pay and in May 1907, he sold the rest of their when they moved to Silver Star. Al's mother became ill property. That was the end of 25 years in the Big Hole. The during the winter of 1866 and as she needed help, she sent fami[...]In 1909, Al worked for the Montana Department of Charles, came from Minnesota by steamboat up the[...]ed in Silver homesteading and settled north of Harlem, Mt. near the Star. Shortly, Grandmother S[...]Canadian line. In early 1910, he hired a team of horses and Maud back to Minnesota where they went[...]1874, Al stopped his schooling at the University of Minneso- James J. Hill were interesting people of the Middle Eastern ta and took the train to Corin[...]and, homesteaded near Turner, Mt. They wagon load of supplies, started for Montana. They had rain[...]and planting crops and and snow almost every day of the 40 days of their trip. there followed some good ye[...]rrived, son Raymond and family were the only ones of woman, Mrs. George Hubbard,had a daughter Jennie[...]en years, mostly Al Noyes was the author of two books of Montana history; in the vicinity of Butte and Silver Star. He prospected, The Story of Ajax, which was the first autobiography pub- work[...]op, lished in the state, and In the Land of Chinook, or The Story milked cows, taught school, and helped start a Sunday of Blaine County. School.[...]Rosa Belle Bean Noyes including one girl, name of Hattie, age 13. In 1881, Al started keeping compa[...]on and parents. The next spring her father talked of moving to Henrietta Bean in Livingston,[...]as she was called, was born in Livingston instead of soon and with a Justice of Peace and a few friends to wit- the Valley[...]before a judge in Deer Lodge, when given a choice of going the same house. They always referred[...]e chose her husband. In the babies." month of June of that year, they moved to a log cabin, with[...] |
| [...]nnie Rosalie Nye Kent, and her Raymond Noyes, son of Ajax Noyes, while he was project husba[...]York state where she was a graduate of Oneonta, New York Rosie and Raymond were marri[...]e State Normal School at Dillon, Montana. She was of Turner, MT. During this time two sons, Carl and B[...]em to give up the homestead. In 1920, styles of fancywork in the line of crocheting and needlew.9rk. they moved to Chinook[...]ial Valley and leased the Richie then reared four of her grandchildren: Judy and Gary pla[...]on Corral Creek, just six miles out of Monida. They stayed Raymond was involved in the restoration of the Bear Paw on this place until 1942 when they sold out to Emmett Jones Battle Ground, 11 miles south of Chinook. A plaque honor- and Sons. They t[...]. James M. Nye died in 1930s, Rosie had survivors of Chief Joseph and his war Portland in 1[...]Mr. Nye's demise and returned She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, to Dillon where she lived with her son, James W. Nye, until Daughter of the Nile since 1923. Rosie enjoyed cooking,[...]mily. The following are the children of James M. Nye and their Raymond passed away in[...]ey (1903-1988) and from this mar- 1986 at the age of 96. She was the fourth and the last living riage are the following children: Betty Nye Rasmussen child of the Bean family. Carl Noyes of Billings is her only (1924) married Hans Ras[...]d E. James M. Nye (1866-1948) was the third son of Enoch Nye (1942) married Georgia Davi[...]en (1937); Dorothy L. served in the 44th Division of the Illinois Infantry Volun- Nye (1933-1936[...]was 16 years old. He worked for the other members of the family as a "Jerk Line" teamster hauling freight to various parts of the state. Their base of operations was in the Sheridan, Montana, area. After a few years of this he married Ada Katherine Comfort from the Tw[...]Valley in 1896 and ventured into a ranching style of life. Their homestead was located near the upper[...]. As was the custom in those days, many members of a family generally homesteaded close to on[...] |
| [...]ar Victor, His next move was to lease a part of the James E. Murray Montana. property, located south of the large white house known as Max Comfort Nye[...]daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Rogan of Dubuque, Iowa.[...]home to Iowa and raised them. ranch north of Dillon, located on the Anderson Lane near[...]n the Maurice then lived on and operated a part of the P&O Jack Keenan place for one year[...]ed north of Dillon past the Dilmont Park, the Kajin place[...]owned by John Anderson of Alder.[...]Centennial Valley to the North side of the Valley on Tom[...] |
| [...]r son, Frank. cows. They went out of the dairy business before long, keep- Maud pas[...]Creek School 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[...]ed away July 10, 1870, the fourth child of Jens and Christina Olsen. Henry 1966. He retired[...]brick mason by trade in Denmark, and the only one of 1968.[...]s daughter of Frederick and Cecilia Hirschy. Their first three[...]e husband John was a corrals for his herd of cattle. It was customary to buy steers, publisher[...]nmark. They left home October 10, Robert Jones of Iowa married Miriam Crawford and six 19[...]er landed in San Their arrival was an event of great importance to Henry's Francisco, but he did[...]th, Customs were different in Denmark, of course, some selling stereoscope viewers.[...] |
| [...]ranch at a great loss and moved back to Dillon. of 2 pounds! Every morning they were awakened by huck- They purchased the Blacktail Ranch, south of Dillon. sters in the streets calling their wares[...]ar I was soon declared and they experienced food of fresh fish.[...]Lutheran Church in Arhauss. Each child had a set of God- Olsens. The first teacher was Marga[...]it was time for them to the youngest daughter of Henry and Ida Olsen, by leave for home. After many good-byes and lots of gift ex- Ida Olsen upon her 90th birthday[...]important entertainer was the 102 years of age.) famous Sir Harry Lauder, who was most outs[...]"Be it remembered that Poindexter and Orr of Beaver- home in the Big Hole Basin.[...]uitcase, while Signed, LR. Alden, Clerk of Supreme Court." Ida carried Helen, and Emily walk[...]for simple entry was the first recording of a cattle brand in what the six of them cost under $1,000 for transportation. In New[...]t, Earnest, Charles, Will Jr., Bert and John. All of them of them clean.[...]cept Matt were born at the Home Ranch, nine miles south After they arrived home in April 1911, they resumed of Dillon on the Blacktail. John the youngest was bo[...]rying and was instrumental in the Orr gift of land on which In 1912, Henry sold the ranch an[...]4. They times". He went to the School of Mines in Butte for a short soon moved to the ranc[...]fic knowledge first few years they had fine crops of wheat and oats. To this necessary to build fi[...]became plentiful. He made and used one of the first radios They don't remember his last nam[...]lains,MT. They had three children, two sons, fond of the children, helped take care of them and each time Matt (1924-1973) and Jac[...]ghter he went to town he would bring back cartons of candy and Frances, born in 1930 who die[...]Iva 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 b[...] |
| [...]cattle on a summer ranch at the head of Sage Creek. (sister of Iva Lea Orr)[...]any. He June 5, 1870. Mr. Owen was one of the first homesteaders in[...]ouis Hansen ranch, where they lived the remainder of their[...]st the Germans, and the Argonne Forest, the scene of the decisive Franco-American offensive in 1918. H[...]ed a site near timberline in the northwest corner of the county between Coyote and Painter Creeks. Aft[...]The Owens were regarded as one of the most successful[...]minster, Alberta, Canada, and Clifford Quitman of Dillon[...]were Mrs. Versie Clark of Milwaukie, Ore., who is 92, and[...]Mrs. Mary A. Green of Seattle, Wash., who is 77. The Owens[...] |
| [...]Mary Abigail was the third of six children born to William[...]1882. Before arriving in Butte, two of their seven children[...]Francis, November 2, 1880. The rest of the children were[...]. Their home place was located four or five miles south of Wisdom. Wisdom was known at that time as "The Cro[...]ears later they moved to the Big Hole and settled south of Wisdom on what was then the Wraton Place. They ha[...]cattle and horses, including 18-20 milk cows. One of the main sources of in- come was the sale of butter. This was made, packaged and put down into[...]tte, Dillon or to Gibbonsville, Idaho. Each pound of butter had the initials J.P. on it. Mary's bro[...]John in July, 1916. John Charles Paddock, son of Robert and Mary Paddock[...]Jim and Madge Paddock of Dillon, is their great-great grandson.[...]George Woodworth and bought the Wraton place of 600 The four brothers all ranched for a time in t[...]while she Alice Paddock O'Connell was the last of her family and underwent surgery. John then[...]James Francis Paddock, the second child of John and[...]nd Ann McClaughay Pad- In the fall of 1906, James and Hank Simmons bought the dock. Jam[...]Mifflin place at Briston (12 miles from Wisdom) of 800 or May 14, 1829 and together they moved to La[...]ardine on February 14, on their farm for the rest of their lives. 1907. Margery J[...]annah Dudley Jardine had seven children and three of in LaPorte. After moving to Austin, Nevada, he married the Jardine girls married three of the Paddock boys. Mary (Mame) Abigail Fran[...] |
| [...]It was found 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 merc[...]Mary Margaret Bessette was the daughter of Olivia and for Beaverhead County hauling freight out of Wisdom. Margaret McGowen Bessette. She[...]wagons between somewhere in Wisdom in the spring of 1908. After two years on this place, Idaho and[...]ent to Seattle for about a year and In the fall of 1911, they came to Fishtrap and bought 160 the[...]a mining camp near Argenta, where In the summer of 1917, James and his brother Jack Henry[...]s bought their father's ranch along with the land of their May, was born on May 1, 1890 in Parad[...]95 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 Fish[...]eft off in 1917. It took them 26 years to get out of debt. James and Margery retired from ranching l[...]ld and Florence Su- sannah Paddock Ritschel, both of Anaconda.) -MARY ANN MALESICH PADDO[...], Randall Brownie; rancher and miner, was the son of Henry Clay and Ludicy[...]ir first son, Bannack, July 28, 1863, and was one of the earliest pioneers Walter Henry "Smoke," was[...]large herd of cattle and moved the family to Dell. He su[...] |
| [...]overnight and returned home the next day. of the United States and followed various occupations, Henry bought 1,000 pounds of flour, 100 pounds of sugar, 25 among them farming. When the Civil War broke out, he pound boxes of dried fruit, beans, rice, macaroni, spaghetti joined the Union Army in which he rose to the rank of and many other staples while Mary shopped for yar[...]time he came to own 7,700 acres, and ran hundreds of Martin Innes, who came to the ranch with merchandise head of cattle. The ranch bordered on Grasshopper Creek.[...]to ued operating the ranch with the help of an uncle, Anton Dillon would be much easier and faster. He brought three of Pahnish. He in turn died in 1904. Mrs. Fre[...]enrolled then assumed the responsibilities of managing the ranch. in high school and Gladys, wh[...]is part in developing the Henry spent the rest of his life on the family ranch with natural resources of this area. While prospecting for gold, the exception of a few winter months in California. He died he, in partnership with a man by the name of Michael Steel, of spotted fever on July 4, 1932. Mary lived on the[...]t Springs and enjoyed many summers there. Several of her grandchildren were always eager to spend the[...]Pahnish In the territorial days, the town of Bannack in Beaver- head County and the surroundin[...]and pioneers were laying the groundwork for some of the great ranches of today. The population growth and developments wer[...]s wife was the former Pauline· Krueger, a native of the Province of Posen, Germany. P[...] |
| [...]ish, the second son, was born in Salt Children of Fredrick and Pauline Pahnish were William,[...]married Fannie L. Knoll. They became the parents of four children, Phoebe Thompson. He and his[...]alt Lake City, Utah 1973 and Ronald died in 1975. Of these seven children, only and from our las[...]nnack in a frame schoolhouse and name of Hablit. She died in 1941. traveled to and fro in[...]1837, at Tottington, England, the youngest son of Timothy Richmond, California and was 93 at the time of this writing. Parkinson, Sr., and Ann Fieldi[...]ed on the Neoman or Nelson place in the upper end of the valley. There they ran the outfit for Jimmy D[...]to Babe Buck and left the valley. The children of this family follow. Frank Parish was born in S[...]n his being secluded from the public for a period of one year. After this time we can find no further contact of him.[...] |
| [...]SE territory. Whiskey would later be the downfall of Timothy F. Parkinson. One late October, 1898,[...]mily turned from an evening on the town with five of his friends The first Pattersons came fro[...]William C. and James were born to his to the side of the house, sat down in a sleigh and passed out.[...]April 9, 1854, at Salt Lake City, Utah, the first of nine Charles was born. Then they migrated to Mc[...]n Cache Valley, Utah, where Jane would spend most of they raised their children and lived for the rest of their lives. her life. Jane's maternal grandmothe[...]ied a practicing license in America, Most of the children married and settled in the Dell and[...]Red Rock Valleys. young women the practice of midwifery. Two of her stu- Charles homesteaded a place[...]le in love with the people and the big sky beauty of Montana. Basin where they operated a ranch.[...]-MARGARET HAGENBARTH during the years of 1899 to 1916. She accompanied Dr. Ry- burn of Bannack on house calls and assisted him in delive[...]tana with his parents William C. ville at the age of 85. Patt[...]covered wagon, a team of horses and a herd of longhorn Mr. and Mrs. George Parsons ranched in the North Fork cattle. James often told of the many experiences and hard- area, settling pos[...]rail such as burning cow and she was a tiny woman of probably no more than 90 chips for a[...]ep Creek. His mother was not well and since forks of the road and was quite a landmark. She took pride he was the youngest of the family, he was privileged to ride in her hous[...]11, 1886, at the mouth of Big Sheep Creek near Dell. Wil- Besides[...] |
| [...]m S. Patterson was born in 1862 near Altoona, PA. of[...]debts. They each went their way. winter of 1886, referred to by C.M. Russell as the "last of the Sam worked on the Henneberry Ranch, carried hod for ten thousand" because of so many cattle that were frozen. construc[...]is 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. which he eventually own[...]in 1939, he willed this build- into a cafe. Some of the old school records have his name listed. A newspaper picture of his brother H. Clay Patterson is also displayed a[...]n February 23, 1886, near Bar- rett Station, just south of Dillon. Her father's name was John Poultney Lough[...]ved to Jim's homestead which was four miles north of a wholesale dealer for Val Blatz Brewi[...]their family was kee Beer under his name of S.S. Patterson. born and raised. Fred Poultney wa[...]suggested Sam speak to B.F. White, president of the First then returned to Lima in 1944, where th[...]B.F. asked, "How much?" He loaned Sam more years of wedded bliss. They celebrated 68 years of $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 t[...]e in community affairs In the course of his business life, Sam harvested ice on his and organizations such as the Knights of Pythias and Pyth- 200 acre ranch, one mile west of Dillon. Earl continued to do ian Sisters.[...]the same until the electric ice box put them out of business. James died at the age of 93 on May 7, 1971, at the Dillon They just d[...]rigeration busi- hospital. Maggie died at the age of 90 on August 17, 1976, at ness. One year, in[...]side at had to be stored and dug out of the ice-house as needed, Bountiful, Utah, as of September, 1988. The Pattersons had they l[...]The plant was housed on the second floor of a warehouse -MRS. MARGARET PATTER[...] |
| [...]t er) owned the Warm Spring Ranch, one mile north of Jack- son, Montana (Big Hole Valley). Albert live[...]swellest thing of its kind to have occurred in Monida, with Most[...]e ball and meet Mrs. Paul. The Williams 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 manager. of Dillon.[...]Mr. and in October, 1877. In 1887, with a family of three children, Mrs. Paul many long and happy years of wedded bliss. they left Texas for Montana, by wag[...]ther to G. T. Paul, a Dillon furniture ing a herd of Texas Longhorn cattle. They first settled at[...]gave piano acquired land in Big Sheep Canyon out of Dell and went lessons to the young peop[...]Bert Paul had a big warehouse with all sorts of machinery area to live with her daughter Annie Br[...]and Mary Paul Bert Paul was an early resident of Monida and the Cen- Goodwin Taylor Paul, an early businessman of Dillon, tennial Valley. He was born February 10,[...]aches ran from Monida to father was a native of Pennsylvania and his mother was a the west entrance of Yellowstone Park, he owned the entire native of North Carolina who had moved with her parents, town of Monida and operated a general merchandise store[...]or to Iowa as early as 1836. there up to the time of his retirement. Goodw[...]ked at When Bert married Mary Leonard in July, of 1906, a 'big the pioneer firm of Eliel Brothers for three years, then orga-[...] |
| [...]beautiful as the Beaverhead landscape. The union of man and horse was never more evident to me[...] |
| [...]for the window sills came from Sheep Canyon, south of The Orr Mansion[...]on. The ceilings are 12-feet high with medallions of fruit (From Dillon Tribune)[...]tiful. The door hinges are made of bronze - shaped like butter- Equally unique, bric[...]wrought iron. Door transoms in the house are of ruby glass. So the Orr mansion, started in 1882[...]Behind the mansion was a large barn - the size of a city· 1885, ranks as a true "landmark of Montana." block. Still[...]a smaller barn where Mrs. Orr kept The history of the mansion begins with the P & 0 Com- her personal horses and carriage. Another feature of the pany (Poindexter and Orr). The firm was organ[...]ith the water used to fornia, but, with discovery of gold at Bannack in 1862, they irrigate[...]iginally 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 The P[...]were shelter, they decided to hole up at the site of the P & 0 sold to the Canadian Moun[...]a showplace in the valley. The all of which contributes to the Orr Mansion's designatio[...]usta and the sandstone a "landmark of Montana". 418-Beaverhead History |
| [...]The home ranch was located 10 miles south of Dillon went to Wheeling, Va., where he worked in[...]burg, Miss., to work in a protection of the women and children. The Orrs puchased wagon[...]After two years employment he 40 acres of land adjacent to the new town of Dillon in 1883. purchased the business. In 1853,[...]mansion, completed in early 1885. chased a herd of cattle and horses, and joined a wagon train[...]ation 1880s for plans for his home and that of his partner. Regret- in October.[...]tably, the fine home of Philip Poindexter was later de- Mr. Orr purch[...]rginia Bar on the Klamath River example of a splendid family home of that period. Life in for a short time. In 1856,[...]ns had to live in Philip Poindexter. In the fall of 1861, a great flood struck Virginia City, s[...]ol. the area, washing out the mines. At the time of the flood, the Time changed the original layout of the Orr estate as the P. & 0. Cattle Company was engaged in butchering and town of Dillon grew up around the main house. Originally[...]heast company suffered great losses. In the fall of 1863, Orr drove and a smaller carriage barn was located to the southwest. a herd of cattle to the miners at Canon City. Poindexter[...]. A large water wheel was employed to Hearing of the prosperous strike at Bannack, in Montana[...]d ·Territory, he started out in 1864 with a herd of cattle. On his the house. William's wife, Rach[...]house site. suitable for watering the herd of cattle so he took them over The house is[...]rhead Valley where feed and water panse of lawn that makes the building stand out. It is thr[...]lns in Dillon and later secured large quantities of choice land in the val- while others believe they came from Argenta, a small mining ley southeast of Dillon and begain raising livestock on the town west of Dillon. The mansard roof had four large brick Bl[...]ished by stoves in the main-floor rooms. Cunnard of Newcomerstown, the girl he met when he first[...]ebruary 27, 1869, they were earthquake of 1959 badly cracked one of the lofty chimneys married in Birmingham, Ohio,[...]John (1881). With six sons, Orr built an empire of cattle, sheep, and horses, which all carried the[...]California. This time they drove some 2,700 head of sheep and 375 horses to Dillon and then entered[...]n the area, they began raising fine horses; some of them being Percheron, Clydesdale, Norman,[...] |
| [...]prominent 3) and, after 30-plus years of amateur photography, role in this area 's[...] |
| [...]estroyed by fire. The Slough, long a favor- miles south of Dillon, with Blacktail Mountain Range ite of trout fishermen, is fed by fresh, cold spring in the background. This area was once part of the w.aters. Former President Jimmy C[...] |
| [...]nown kets," indicating the extravagance of the occasion. All was Butte architect, announced completion of plans and the served for $2.50 per plate. signing of a contract to build a new hotel in Dillon, erecte[...]over by Harry E. Andrus who had recently disposed of his ranch- the world. Traveling salesmen h[...]hing, groceries, etc., in the The new building of pressed brick and cement was fire- sample[...]ric elevator. The two upper floors were comprised of 65 hotel in the evening. Doctors treated their patients at the sleeping rooms, 46 of which had private baths. The first hotel[...]was monitored to preserve the high standards of the place. The building site was an ideal location on the corner of Much of the business done in Beaverhead and Madison Glend[...]from the city water pump. A bar and, instead of going to the bank or a lawyer's office, tin shop,[...]erms at the Andrus Bar. corner. The grand opening of this fine new hotel was cele- Myrle Erwin[...]n the right place to draw up a contract or a bill of sale the guests his sincere welcome by stating, "[...]0 years. dedicate this new hotel to the good city of Dillon." The Andrus Hotel boasted of having the most unusual The dining room tables[...]tates. He was a Great Dane named china and silver service, all sparkling from the light of cry- King Pharoah, who would carry bags[...] |
| [...]hen commenced and continued until the early hours of the len Hotel was opened to the public last Frida[...]morning. was a memorable one and is the beginning of a new epoch in Over two hundred guests were present and the lovely the history of Dillon. gowns worn by the ladies lent much to the enchantment of At the public reception given in the afternoon[...]the ceremonies Among the prominent out-of-town people who were present with the well-known[...]Walker, Hon. T. W. Collins, of Helena, H. J. Wilson of The reception rooms and parlors were artistica[...]ooms, receiving by her daughter, Mrs. John Howard of Butte, and and tonsorial parlors. On the f[...]The third floor consists keeping with the beauty of all that surrounded them. The entirely of bedrooms. The hotel is beautifully furnished hote[...]and possesses all the modern conveniences, notice of none.[...]is an B. Smith, who paid high tribute to the city of Dillon and the experienced hotel man, and understands the wants of the enterprising gentlemen who had constructed such a fine traveling public. The people of this v_icinity have long felt institution as The Metlen in our midst. Chief Justice Pem- the need of a first-class hotel, and should now do their part[...]ntaining the same. Mr. Metlen has the best wishes of[...]his friends throughout the state for the success of his new ·[...]as amused. Between jobs Pharoah would sit in one of the big green leather chairs in the lobby, with h[...]riters, "Golden Fleece" by Hughie Call and "Power of the Dog" by Tom Savage. The hotel remained in[...]t 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 Wilma Andrus Hyssop and became sole owner. Farnum[...]aza. Quoting from Donna Andrus Jones, "I am proud of my heritage and so pleased the building will cont[...]name which will not be passed on since the death of my only brother," At this printing, the[...] |
| [...]AND ''These buildings harbor some of the most dramatic recollections SKINNER'S SALOON of this area's history: miners and desperados[...] |
| [...]By Jim Corr ''During many years of driving to Birch Creek for my attention and I stopped to capture it. Because of Western Montana College's summer workshops, I the quickness of its passing, I had to use a style that bec[...] |
| [...]tracted to haul 10,000 bushels of wheat from the Bench to A diverse group of people from many localities settled on Dillon[...]l. Each had a six- the Bench. There was an influx of people from the fertile horse team and had[...]nch from Butte with his dock's, and back south to Dillon. stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Bl[...]Wind Blew and Tumble Stanley Sisterson was one of the bachelors in the commu- Weeds Flew[...]most often associated with the Montana by stories of the Big Hole Basin. He settled on the Midwest, was a real fact of life on the East Bench, too. Good Bench to farm-a[...]t in the Harry Bostwick place and put in 50 acres of wheat with a 1919 the drought began. three-ho[...]n, he met Dr. rolling down the streets. Of course, there was no paving or Bimrose, a Dillon[...]plowed fields on the Bench to get a picture of the struggle to Billy Thomas was another bache[...]ut there. The wind blew the tumble brought a love of mules, he farmed and teamed with them. we[...]es. Davis family raised. Their farm is now a part of the Ron Wind was a mixed blessing for[...]the energy force on which most of the East Bench families The Harry Brown family[...]rines and went to work for Fred Woodside, husband of 426-Beaverhead History |
| [...]for the lamp clear to the East Coast, newspapers of that day said. posts in town. They wen[...]ved in road mechanization. The bait was a mixture of bran and strych- building. First it was co[...]ometimes spread with scoop shovels from the backs of wag- Dillon to Butte. It was a way of converting two resources, ons. Some people acquir[...]mewhat like a Whirly Bird spreader but Of course, the squeeze for money was also partially[...]ream, pigs, steers, turkeys, and chickens. One of the hopeful notes of the early 20s was the survey Eggs were usual[...]s across the landscape. They told marvelous tales of Brothers Flour Mill which still stands on[...]River and send it After taking a wagon load of wheat in, the customer went over the dry hills an[...]back about a week later to take back sacks of wheat and the crops and alfalfa, just like in the[...]screenings-that dream, but some 30-35 years ahead of its time. It's remark- didn't make flour. able that those stakes marking the way of the canal were One of the many sad stories of the struggles on the East only about 50 feet from the present East Bench Canal. Bench was of the family who raised several hundred turkeys[...]sactions were made with bank notes. With the lack of killed most of the flock. Turkeys are a delicate fowl to start.[...]and farmers had to sell They were fed pounds of cottage cheese with green onion their livestock f[...]farmers tops when they were young. After one of the sons in the who kept any livestock had to pay $100 per ton for cotton- family took care of the turkeys and fed all the cottage cheese seed c[...]Although life on the East Bench was full of hardships and ment. Most simply ran out of money and were unable to disappointments in those drought-stricken years, many of adapt and continue. The banks took over the farms[...]hed and treasured. became empty shells, reminders of dinners or parties that had been enjoyed there.[...]Dillon. The Jack McFadyen house is now at the top of Cornell's Hill where David and The original description of Beaverhead County, decreed Leslie Cottom later re[...]by the Organic Act of the 1865 Montana Legislature, stated One obser[...].. commencing at a point where the 112th meridian of and love of farming goes for naught, if climate, adverse longitude intersects the Big Hole River, thence south along conditions, and old Mother Nature combine to thwart one's said meridian to the boundary of Montana Territory, efforts." The few who remained[...]ve ways to thence to the southern boundary of Missoula County; hang on to their land, pay their[...]ort their thence to the southern boundary of Deer Lodge County to families. One resource which the few remaining farmers had the place of beginning; and the county seat of said Beaver- was horsepower. One of these jobs was hauling wool from head Co[...]llon and hauling salt back to most important of which was an addition of a portion of the the Ruby for the sheepmen.[...] |
| [...]cameraman, whose works have appeared in a number of national publi- (I)[...]with Montana Boys State. His striking photo of the once-famed mining camp at Coolidge[...] |
| [...]by KATHLEEN TAYNE ''The Evening Primrose is one of the first flowers to sides near Dillon.[...] |
| [...]first, known as the Russian Flu, bloodstream of humans, they contracted a light case of the swept the country in 1889 and 1890. The secon[...]ty. Flu, in 1918 and 1919, is still in the memory of our older Doctors usually placed the vacc[...]atory tract, was arm. An area about the size of a dime was crosshatched with highly infectious, a[...]mely high body a needle until a slight ooze of blood appeared. A drop of the temperatures. There was no treatment or cure.[...]eise Brundage at the Brundage three weeks of misery followed; a profuse eruption, painful Funeral Home on South Montana Street could not keep up swellin[...]k up the dead. Country scab formed at the site of the innoculation. When the scab people often brought their deceased in the back seat of their sloughed away a scar was left ranging in[...]e souvenir. country road driving in the direction of Dillon, where he Dr. Stephan usually sug[...]em ale patients be would turn into the alley west of the Andrus Hotel, to the vaccinated on the leg. "The girls will one day want to wear back door of the mortuary. A hasty burial was recommend-[...]w." Almost everyone on the streets wore layers of cloth across Sleeveless evening gowns were c[...]he nose and mouth. The elusive flu bugs legs of swim suits, under the overskirt, were shortening[...]hat wouldn't show. about 12 to 15 inches in size, of heavy tagboard with bold The early day ce[...]ontrasting colors, were nailed to the dence of the high rate of infant deaths. Diphtheria was the house beside th[...]en involving several different TINE' and the name of the disease, and could be read from microbe[...]on spread the street. Families suffering from one of these hideous via the bloodstream to vital[...]lted from diseases also suffered a certain amount of embarrassment strangulation or heart failu[...]ir adversity. children up to 10 years of age was almost always fatal. After the disease[...]ur candles, which, when burned, pro- moval of tonsils and adenoids was the panacea for all dis-[...]tent vapors escaping. Warning signs were of Anaconda, specializing in tonsillectomies, came t[...]d, with Dr. Stephan as assistant, spent many days of open doors.and windows were necessary to rid[...]ng tonsils and adenoids. This went on for a house of this suffocating smell.[...]s for throat diseases have been Another method of isolating victims was known as "The develo[...]ned under quar- Throughout the decades of the 19th century, deaths oc- antine with 24-hour[...]. This myste- was the old Dart home at the corner of Pacific and Center rious malady was frighte[...]rom the high school. Patients isolated the case of loners, they were often left to die in their cabi[...]students residing at the dormitory, for fear of transmission of the disease. It later became loners, and patients[...]discovered to be the bite of our common woodtick. Preven- Smallpox is characterized by scores of eruptions like tive measures have c[...] |
| [...]impression on the state of Montana. In time the placer Tommy Haw, Chinese Waif, mines of Yereka were worked out, the white miners depart-[...]tlers and driving off their cattle. Following one of these[...]Yereka diggings. He discov- Here is the story of Tommy Haw, the "white Chinaman" ered that the entire Chinese colony, with the exception of a of Beaverhead County. He was found, a waif in the welter of little child who had been carefully hidden, had been massa- a camp of Chinese placer miners who had been killed by cred. Indians, and had no knowledge of his parents. He grew up The child was Tommy Haw. He was taken to the Orr among people of the white race, who were his employers and[...]friends among the Yellow men was his way of pronouncing "Tommy Orr." He was of pleas- and did not speak a word of the Chinese language. Due to his ing disposition and readily adapted himself to the ways of ability to earn and save, and to the generosity of his employ- the white people around him. In tim[...]im in his last illness. tally the coming of Poindexter and Orr to Montana was the In the[...]ration 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,[...]was taught to read and write by Mrs. Poindexter of Virginia and William C. Orr of Ohio. They Orr, and was given an opportu[...]attle business for himself through the generosity of his[...]disposing of his cattle to Joseph Shine berger for $9,000. His[...]brand was known to every stockman in that section of the sulting in pallor and the gradual wasting away of the body. county. It was "O.C." and stood f[...], and the only safe years and, when he disposed of his sheep, had accumulated a course was to destro[...]association with Harry and T.E. Poin- the source of the infection.[...]that these infections be tolerated in time of his death, in 1913, his fortunes were at a low eb[...]queathed his possessions to Mrs. George Gray of Dillon, who the early settlers was complicated by[...]from dawn to dark ed that in the event of a sale, Mrs. Gray was to pay $5,000 to provide es[...]young·mother went to an early grave as a result of old Poindexter Cemetery, near the graves of his former em- hardship, overexertion, stress, an[...]sons bore him to his last resting place. survival of her babies. It is recorded of Tommy Haw that he many times sought The dissemination of knowledge concerning microbes, to become a citizen of the 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 ou[...]was all contributed to the control or elimination of the killer dead. There are many peop[...] |
| [...]watercolor was inspired by the hills to the east of Dillon. The tallest[...]by Cathy draw depicted in the lower left corner of this painting. Border images of the ...,0[...]ights re- symbols of everyday life in Beaverhead County."[...],... (From the collection of Gerta[...] |
| [...]re Co. In 1892 he bought out the entire interests of the company, which he actively managed. In later[...]0s 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, serving until the close of the succeeding year. He was also a member 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. Pa[...]nch, Nebraska, on September 8, 1870, the daughter of Joseph James and Selma[...]ile still a In the year 1911 at the age of 26 she came to Horse Prairie, child, her parents[...]Mon- sponsored by John and Tilda Peterson of Grant. treal, Canada. Her ancestors held an early[...]For the next 19 years they lived on a portion of the Nels Mrs. Paul had been educated at the Ca[...]after the city was farm land on the north side of the valley. founded in 1880. Her father, a saddle maker and leather The family of Hans and Selma included four children: carver, op[...]In 1920 the house burned to the ground and most of the 1896, married Franklin J. Bradley; and Frank,[...]nic bodies and stead close by. was a member of Dillon Lodge A.F. & A.M., Dillon Chapter[...]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 founders. became[...]rn 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 Prairie, sponso[...]born March 15, 1885, in Skane, Sweden, the second of six children born to Nels and Bengta Olson[...] |
| [...]t and 2 infant grandsons. Second son William died of cancer of this marriage. William Sr. married Laura Ames Nov[...]er in 1925 where he was a licensed the north side of Horse Prairie and the electric dredge at en[...]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 electri[...]r. and his wife, Hazel, live in on the north side of Horse :Prairie. Needless to say, water Pineh[...]- Tom and Dan married the Jackson sisters of a pioneer Big 1 tion rights were lost. The H[...]of Quebec and Ida December 14, 1885, in Wisdom. Tom[...]ght the John Tessier Ranch. 1 The coming of the Pendergast family to Montana began T[...]niel, born December 1, 1910. In with the marriage of John Pendergast and Roseann Iby in 1919[...]une 19, 1881, where he was a miner. They south of Wisdom. Tom had an interest in the Dillon-Jack- s[...]h John was born May 2, 1852 in Ireland, the place of and Melrose, where he lived with son Dan a[...]Ida's death July 8, 1948. He was a 45-year member of the County Cork and came to America on the "Buggy[...]in Iron Mountain, New York, burn, in the Province of Quebec, in 1857 and died in Bal- and Minni[...]o active in the Odd Fellows and Rebecca Lodge of Jackson. the Graeter steam dredge and whittled sh[...]born August 18, 1890, in Rockburn, Canada, tember of 1908 at Argenta. She was born in Bannack J[...] |
| [...]was an electrician. Marguerite died in the summer of 1980, in Tucson and Jim November 24, 1985, in For[...]ure to report there are four After a couple of years, Frank, Tom Low, Lew Beal and fourth-genera[...]n and Jim Montgomery each took up 160 acres of land in the Big boys to carry on the Pendergast n[...]They milked 35 head of cows and made butter which they -ALBERT[...]Frank told his partners he wanted out of the partnership FAMILY[...]Frank was born on January 23, 1857 in ple of years, then sold and bought Mary Ann's brother's[...]years old, leaving 1887, they put up 300 tons of hay. Frank bought cattle to nine children to be c[...]his young years. 2,200 acres. Some of this property was on Briston Lane. At the age of 13, Frank left home to seek his own fortune. F[...]on. They made some One thousand head of cattle were bought in Malad, Idaho money having for a couple of years. Frank bought 50 head of and trailed to the ranch. This was quite a tr[...]n, Oregon. He though they were shipped part of the way in freight cars. and his partner herded t[...]ne to Salt Lake. They divorced. Mary Ann kept the of snow and that it would be better to go over the m[...]d Frank took Frank Jr. He gave his wife 700 acres of to the Lemhi Indian Reservation and then trail them to land, three miles south of their home. This was on Briston Horse Prairie. Th[...]ying and tending 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[...] |
| [...]other. About 1913, Frank Jr. bought a 1,000 acres of land from Joe Shaw and his mother on Briston Lane[...]cattle from the mid-west, due to the fine quality of the Big Hole hay. Some cattle were shipped to the gold mining camps of Alaska. They were trailed to a rail head at either Children of Jens and Anna Petersen (from le~): Ella Divide, A[...]ansportation, feeding cattle, haying and a myriad of other 15, 1869. She was the daughter of Peter and Mettemaria chores. The Pendleton ranch[...]evere at times in the Big Hole Valley. the home of Dr. Lamhoffer. Perhaps it can be assumed she It w[...]ed cattle with very deep came to Dillon because of the large number of Danish immi- snow and the very cold temperatures.[...]s and wagon. The Dairy which was located west of the Metlen Hotel. They round trip took about a we[...]yed at stage stops were married in the home of their employers, Mr. & Mrs. during the night. Some of these stage stops were Mill Point, Abraham Rif[...]hed on Briston Lane and is still Walter Hays of the Presbyterian Church performed the being used.[...]hind the Rife home buried there including members of the Pendleton family. and that was where[...]ter 1897. Because their home was almost out of town, wander- of Wisdom Lodge 61 in 1917. Frank was very active in both ing groups of Indians frequently came by. The squaws organizati[...]for themselves they prob- admirably, taking care of the children, pumping and carry- ably wouldn[...]in June 1901 on the White Star Line. For the sum of 779 season cooking for a haying crew. Kroner, the family of five traveled steerage class on the Frank's si[...]eventually railroad from New York by way of Chicago back to Mon- married and moved away.[...]north of Dillon in the area now known as Beaverhead Acres.[...]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 the son of Peter C. which was the popular IXL Restau[...]t an Pedersen and Ellen M. Simpson Pedersen. Most of the fam- exhibit of alfalfa to the St. Louis Universal Exposit[...] |
| [...]August 17, 1902, and Annie's certificate of title, October,[...]The sons and daughters of this family married and lived[...]Mary E. Flynn married H. C. Patterson of Dell. They[...]Irene was the daughter of pioneer settlers of Little Sheep[...]silver medal and certificate for the best display of All of the children went to school at the Lima School. I[...]eep From 1920 to 1924, they leased a farm just south of Dillon wagon, driven by the youngest Thompson[...]and Adolph cords are dated 1908. Some of these records bear the names Lauterbach who had a Ford coupe, they drove across the of Hans Peterson, Peter H. Peterson, H. C. Patterson Sr., country to Tampa, Florida, to investigate the wonderful and Charl[...]mers, Irvine & He raised another family, most of them now deceased. Cottom, Luther Smith and Alber[...]of these children married and have children in the a[...]Annie had a boy William, who was about two years of age and Percy had a daughter, Sadie, the same age[...]n 1873 and nized in the early 1900s as one of the "best stock ranches in 1874. the State of Montana" (H. F. Sanders, "History of Mon- The family traveled west to Nebraska,wher[...]as "Montana Cattle Baron", "Cattle King of the Beaver- A family story is told that about[...]death October 6, 1939, is part of Beaverhead County's west- The Flynns came to t[...]ricana. early 1880's and homesteaded at the mouth of Big Sheep Mr. Peterson was bo[...] |
| [...]his coming to America in Helena, secretary of the Montana Stockgrowers Associ- 1889. He settle[...]00 acres. Over 40,000 acres were chased a section of land from which he would expand to deed[...]zing rights which normally supported 6-8,000 head of Ranch near Wisdom. In 1895 John became a naturali[...]cattle. At one point, Mr. Peterson had a herd of 10,000. His citizen.[...]In 1907 John married Thilda Svensson, a native of Mjo- Today much of his legacy is within the Beaverhead Partner- bygg[...]r much needed feed during the depression of 1921-22. Part of native homeland. Upon returning in 1911, they pur[...]o 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 y[...]he named it the estimate tonnage/number of stacks, known as "bents", and Cross Ranch after i[...]brand-the Cross. estimate number of cattle in a field or in counting them by "John[...]ght children-Alfred, Elvera, Elvin, Melvin, chase of the Straddle Bug ranch south of Jackson was a large Ralph, Mildred, Oran Kenn[...]chimney alorig with the Montana Nels. None of Thilda's family settled in America. "M" in the Be[...]ic organi- fireplace was donated in loving memory of their parents by zations. He was a member of Wisdom Lodge No. 61, A.F. & Herman Peterson and A[...]Council No. 2, Royal and Select Masters, of Butte; St. Elmo By the later 1930s John Peters[...]operator in Montana, according to E. A. Phillips of Scottish Rite, and Bagdad Temple of the Shrine. He was a member of Dillon Lodge No. 1554, B.P.O.E. Thilda was a[...]member of Mizpah Chapter No. 13, Order of Eastern Star,[...]and Tirzah Temple No. 3, Daughters of the Nile at Butte.[...]Mr. and Mrs. Peterson were members of the Lutheran[...]611 South Pacific Street in Dillon. Previous to 1916, it wa[...]result of shots fired by a young, befriended employe[...] |
| [...]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[...]Petersen in or near Dillon. The correct spelling of their surname is Peder- sen but they all changed[...]th Jenny and Ellen. rented land for farming north of Dillon where the eldest[...]Pennsylvania and Carl in California in the summer of 1961. road. Sometimes she walked home from school[...]Ellen visited her childhood home north of Dillon again in afraid of cows fenced in on either side of the road. Ellen also 1971. It had been altered[...]house. removed, but the lane of cottonwood trees and the old barn . On February[...]n struck gen, Denmark. with three years of tragedy. On May 12, 1910 little Jenny[...]Wash., to await the birth of their second child, Christian,[...]the call of Montana too great, so back to Dillon they came.[...]er, now Don Peter Petersen atop a bountiful crop of oats (1908) Shaffner's Ranch, and they then moved north of Dillon, on[...] |
| [...]get rid of the little lean-to kitchen and build a new modern[...]during the depression with the help of Dad and the rest of[...]ried Phoebe Paul, daughter of the William Pauls of Butte,[...]married Matthew (Matt) Telin of Twin Bridges, stepson to[...]of Bert and Ada Selway. They have two sons, William[...]rsen, Elmer We children had to help with a lot of the work. I remem-[...]up at four o'clock in the morning the Point of Rocks until Mother passed away in May 1959 to see[...]buy tickets for the circus, lightning struck one of the large elephants. They buried him at the Dillo[...]ld and worked for an uncle in Kansas for a couple of Spanish influenza hit her. She was too wea[...] |
| [...]wearing a long raccoon coat because of the bitter cold. He[...]of 1908, Sam, Tilda, and their children Alfred, Elve[...]from the Cook Sheep Co., became part of his holdings. Ida Hirschy Olson tells of her mother, Cecile, being called Tilda and Sam Peterson |
| [...]ntended 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 t[...]was walking along the swamp by the edge of Upper Red[...]Rock Lake. He saw a shoe sticking out of the water, so just Fannie Belle Fairbanks[...]much less ever solved the murder. One of the many myster- Fannie Belle Fairbanks was born Feb. 22, 1908, on a fam- ies of the Centennnial. ily homestead in Lakeview, MT. S[...]ork in the sum- James E. Phillips, one of the stalwart pioneers of Beaver- mertime.[...]delivered her Beaverhead County. Several of his brothers came west at youngest brother, Donal[...]. Stanch- about the same time in 1865. One of them, Lindley Patrick field as his nurse.[...]ntractor. You can still see his handiwork in most of the together, milking cows and all the rest of ranch life from the older additions of Dillon. time they were six years old. One day she[...]James E. came west at the early age of 14 when he and his hauling wood. Well, at this in[...]'s army and had many adven- pile. Wes got a piece of wire, made a hook on the end of it tures and met some of the nation's most infamous charac- and was trying[...]ust about the time Big Horn River at the time of Custer's defeat. Crook was Wes hooked the woodchu[...]l grabbed Fannie's fingers. They had a great tug- of-war, with Fannie on the losing end, until her scr[...]Reservation in Arizona. Jack Dunnigan was one of Fannie's favorite characters. He came to the vall[...]and his first 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 time. His good horsemanship didn't help him a[...]through the trees, threw him out and cut off one of his ears. He took out a lot of gates before he mastered it. He knew everybody[...]ck, notifying any neighbors if they were into any of the poisonous plants. People said he was a[...] |
| [...], he married Laura eral years, being one of the pioneer goldseekers in that state. A. Carter[...]ips was born there. Later, took up a tract of land, to which he subsequently added James bought[...]home and ranch on the until the area of his ranch aggregated 1,200 acres. Rattlesnake Creek. One of the log cabins standing on the He be[...]was successful in his efforts, being known as one of old goose who challenged the horses and stage whenever he the representative men of this section. He was an active had an opportunity[...]icipant in the Nez Perce Indian War, the warriors of Mary, two Indians who always stopped and were fed[...]es up against politics, he was a supporter of the Democratic Party, and his the windown and wai[...]religious faith was that of the Catholic Church. The white clapboard house[...]iano and a rocking chair. They didn't one of eight children born to Frank and Florence Marches[...]om the fire. Someone saved seault, natives of Canada. Rose was born at St. Cyprien, the rocker,[...]nd is approximately 100 years old. some of her sisters and brothers continued west to the[...]for her until Rose's death on November 7, 1890. of two sons, Donald and Ralph. Ervie built some of the On January 18, 1897, Mr. Pierc[...]d Ralph lived Adele Marchesseault Sarault. Of this marriage one son was in Florida and California respectively. Claude, who passed[...]Pearl gone to California for the benefit of his health, and there he Burwell and had three ch[...]on March 14, 1899. He died in the beautiful city of Los John married Kathleen May Ehrick of Argenta in 1911. Angeles, and his re[...]Adele Marchesseault Sarault Pierce, of pure French lin- In 1919, James sold his proper[...]ent and Florence Marchesseault, natives of Canada. She was office in town until about 1940. When the ranch on the one of eight children, three girls and five boys. The fa[...]r, Shirley May Phillips, was intention of mining but because Mr. Sarault had bad lungs, bor[...]died November 19, 1887, at the age of 31. -MAY PHILLIPS HEBERLING[...]sixteen months, died May Thomas Pierce was one of those brave men who came to 25, 1888.[...]dren are Montana when it was on the very frontier of civilization. He buried in a family plot in[...]her was a worthy pioneer and a prominent citizen of Beaver- sister Rose died, Adele stayed on as housekeeper and even- head County at the time of his death. tually mar[...]uary 18, 1897. One son, Mr. Pierce was a native of the Emerald Isle, born in Thomas Richa[...]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 ent[...]is son, Thomas, was a mere child, the youn- of the ranch. gest in the family. The maiden name of Thomas' mother was In addition[...] |
| [...]s. She also had about 2,000 acres in the vicinity of Red Rock and raised cattle upon an extensive scale, usually running about 2,000 head. Excellent crops of hay were also secured and the estate was one of the valuable ones of the county. The TP brand for horses and cattle or[...]e enterprises inaugurated by her husband. Some of the property she acquired was the ranch owned by[...]acobs. The clay for this house was obtained north of the site and kilned on the site. him to build[...]se, just be- and integrity and made a success of ranching. In 1919 he hind the one which had burned. This was to be a temporary married Marjorie Sass of Helena whom he had met during dwelling because sh[...]and died. His mother Adele passed away soon west of the ranch. Before this plan developed, the Nay ra[...]boring ranchers. height. She was a devoted member of the Catholic Church, a They were married in[...]as Matthew, Oc- great faith in the healing waters of Gregson Springs and was tober 21, 1922; Adele,[...]March 24, taken there, where she died in the fall of 1921. Her body was 1925; and Dick, September 5,[...]were conducted by Fa- ality. He was fond of playing practical jokes. One involved a ther Foley of Dillon, Father Clifford of Lima, and Father Chinese cook who had one wooden leg and who, one morn- McCormick of Butte. Many residents of Horse Prairie and ing, awakened to find t[...]He was fond of good cars and owned many, including a Adele le[...]as Pierce and Adele M. Pierce, prominent ranchers of Horse Prairie. He was their only child. His father died when Thomas was a year old. He spent almost all of his life in Beaverhead County. As a child he was tutored at home on the ranch. One of his teach- ers was Mary Sconing, who married Hal Brenner of Horse Prairie and who became the mother of Jack Brenner. Tom attended Mt. St. Charles Coll[...]golf, handball and track, and continued his love of sports and athletics throughout his lifetime. His love of handball led Tom Pierce ... was fond of good cars 444-Beaverhead History |
| 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 Harry Gilbert,[...]his family would often come to Dillon for periods of time and stay at the Metlen Hotel where he had a suite of rooms reserved. His love of music led him to play many instruments in- cludin[...]echner. 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 from Dillon to attend the world championshi[...]ich was held at Shelby, Montana. In the spring of 1928 Tom became ill with what was diag-[...]cKinney, Homer nosed as appendicitis, a condition of which, at that time, the[...]inney 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 h[...]several years later. The parents moved to Argenta of the longest ever seen in Dillon and hundreds were[...]sed Barrett, Charles Brenner and Marcus Rand, all of Horse it from him in 1901. This structu[...]ption, Prairie, and R. M. Barrett and George Main of Dillon. The since it was probably typical of hotels in Montana mining honorary pallbearers wer[...]balcony overhang- W. Thibadeau and W.W. Hawkins, of Dillon, Pat Desmond ing the board sidewalk. It had a door into the ladies parlour, of Grant and P. M. Sullivan of Butte. which in turn o[...]oom was large survived by uncles, Fero Marchessau of Grant; Ted enough to contain a double bed, a commode and a chair and Marchessau of Polaris and Archie Marchessau of Karto, had one window. There was an outside stairway on the west Washington, an aunt, Mrs. Kampa, of Mattewone, N. B., end of the balcony which led to the backyard and the "nec- and his parents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Kau of Grant, as essary houses." An inside stair at the end of the hall led to well as several cousins in this c[...]The first floor consisted of the lobby, quite a large room -ADELE ROUSE[...]one level. The cellar, common to houses of the period, was mothee Church, Valley Field, Queb[...]te thick walls and double doors into the kitchen, of Twin Bridges on the lower Big Hole River,[...] |
| [...]tored in crock jars and vegetables stored in bins of sand. A woodshed and meathouse were tacked on[...]to Alex and Alphonsine Cemetery. Because of Martha's grief at this loss and her Pilon, on a h[...]ily. In December of that year Homer suffered the loss of his[...]from Guy Gray which was located on the corner of Sebree[...] |
| Homer became very adept with his left hand and the stub of his right arm. He boasted he could do anything a[...]ood, use a single-jack or pitch hay with the best of them. In fact he always stacked all of his own hay as long as he ranched because no one[...]a., about 1831 and died in 1892. He was a partner of William C. Orr on the P & 0 Ranch. Thomas[...]son, Thomas Jr., who died young. 'epitome of a southern gentleman' tall, handsome and[...]ello. They courtly. He oversaw the administration of the partnership. were both concert musician[...]typical westerner, managed the practical aspects of Dorothy (1900-1984) married Merrell Edson[...]Both Jesse and Dorothy were prominent citizens of Har- Conger, who died in 1918. They had two child[...]Montana. and Helen. Joseph was the first governor of the Territory of The original large red barn of the P & 0 Ranch is well kept Hawaii. He was a wid[...]k Poindexter (1875-1948), called "Dr. son of Joseph B. Poindexter married Eleanor (Ella) Flutt[...]-FRANCES STAMM childbirth. As a result of the tragedy, he never took on a maternity case. H[...]wife, Fortunata Ta- had no children. Penny ran a service station for Ed Roe. The devich, were both residents of the village of "MrKopolj" in station was located where the State[...]20, 1875. Mathias and Aggie first immigrated to South[...](a 42-day trip), arriving to a climate of intense heat, quite[...]different from the climate of their homeland. Aggie, in par-[...]area of Butte, Montana. It was then Mathias decided to[...]drop the letter "C" from his last name of Polisch, therefore J. B. Poindexter (right) with President Franklin D. the present spelling of Polish. Roosevelt in Hawaii during Wo[...] |
| [...]first child, a daughter Mary, was born in August of on September 8, 1910. Agnes married Joseph Nample of 1898. On September 20, 1918, Mary married George[...]orn on October 29, 1919, and George born on age of 78. May 17, 1921. Mary presently resides in Three[...]orn at the ranch near Reichle on tana, at the age of 90. April[...]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 driving stagecoaches during the the ranch on October 17, 1937. It was Beaverhead County's late years of the gold mining era, Mathias turned to farming[...]gship Pennsylvania. He suffered an appen- the age of 17 Frank was thrown from a wagon, after his dicitis attack and died of complications at the time of sur- horses were spooked and sustained a head inj[...]n on succumbed to on October 3, 1921. At the time of his death August 21, 1933. his parents ranch[...]936. Rudy mick who passed away about 1948 of a heart attack. They married Evelyn Nellie Arbour of Reichle, daughter of Jo- had an adopted daughter named Maureen.[...]daughter, residing in Detroit, Mich., died of cancer on November 23, Alyce Sondre, on March 20,[...]Mathias died July 3, 1947, at the age of 77 and his wife On February 23, 1941, Rudy rem[...]Aggie 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.[...]n Deer Lodge Family until the time of Rudy's death due to a heart attack on June 15, 19[...]lizabeth Staley were Lena, the second daughter of Mathias and Fortunata, was married in 1902 at Butte. Maude was the daughter of Mary born in Willis, Montana, on October 4, 1908.[...]Staley was born March 7, 1844, and Mary Elizabeth of valvular heart disease.[...]a Justice of the Peace and Maude opened up a dressmaking[...]North Fork of the Big Hole River, six miles from Wisdom,[...]months old. After a number of years they came overland by[...] |
| [...]se River in 1911. There for many years he ran one of the stopping places for cowboys and their droves of cattle to stay the night on their way back and fo[...]out in the Big Hole River which ran within a mile of the ranch. In 1916 he bought a Buick touring car and retired a monstrosity of a high-wheeled buggy to the wagon shed and sold t[...]arrived at Bannack in time to start the New Year of a summer school, and then regulations forced it i[...]as a regular nine month winter school term. Some of the children carpenter at an opportune time[...]-MARY MARTIN of Bannack. Then on January 21, 1866 he married Cord[...]Kirkpatrick, a sister of the Kirkpatrick brothers, James and[...]Robert, early pioneers of the Beaverhead. Cordelia was the Henry S. Pond daughter of Mary Mann and step daughter of James Mann, Henry Pond was born on August 16,[...], Missouri, Henry booked became the parents of Ethel, Roy and Percie. Marcia mar- passage aboard[...]ssengers Sept. 27, 187 5, just 23 years of age. Subsequent to Cordelia's destined for the Gold Mines of Idaho. The cost to Henry was death, Henry co[...]hundred nack. passengers and 200 tons of freight. After a grueling boat ride At about this time, many of Montana Territories' earliest aboard the "Shrevep[...]7, 1862. tory of this floundering new country. Henry was among On the 5th of July, Henry arrived at Gold Creek where he t[...]im busy putting up the store among a handful of the earliest settlers in Montana Terri- for Worde[...]d to a clerking tory to become charter members of the Society of Montana job at the store. By the end of 1862 the exodus to the Beaver- Pioneers. He later served as recording secretary of the Bea-[...] |
| [...]nry and Ethelia ranch several miles north of Roberts called the Blue Stem, were blessed with two sets of twins. The first twins died in which is now M[...]Charlie and Maude moved to Dillon. Maude went set of twins, were born in 1880. Ernest also died in inf[...]found spare time to pursue his lifelong dream of fishing and appointed postmaster at Melrose, the[...]ister their policies of enforcement, preservation and propa- Henry S. Pond was a 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 of Butte and great esteem. The funeral for Henry S. Pond was reported to Roy's admiration of Charlie and his outdoor ideals, Charlie be among[...]st Montana's first game warden. At the time three of their four children.[...]many other areas. With the cooperation of Beaverhead and[...]son Meadows, ·north of the Elkhorn Mine above Elkhorn. One of Charlie's greatest attributes was his even dispos[...]. .. men began discovering the ample rewards of game. He per-[...] |
| [...]James P. (Jim) Purdy was a third generation son of immi-[...]orn in 1886, and was a second generation daughter of Irish[...]er his retirement he continued his lifelong dream of cut short. A freight team runaway caused Ji[...]a nurse in Dillon. She sportsmen enjoy the fruits of his labor. He and Maude had served Drs. Ryburn and Poindexter, especially during the no children of their own, but managed to find happiness and[...]r,s family, where fulfullment in helping children of all ages throughout their servants helped, to[...]fill empty rooms in their large house. The number of boys they housed over the years are too[...]aho Falls ty, Illinois. 'The oldest son of Octavius and Sephronia being the closest and no s[...]uated from BCHS in 1918 and went to work in of James J. and Nancy (Wheeler) McClure. Marcellus a[...]Andrew B. Pyle and Honora L. (Carl) Knoll, all of whom Stem Ranch and moved to Dillon in 1919. They[...]leaving, Ruth Ann,s grandmother took up the study of Maude Price continued her many organization af[...]d tending to all the folks in the long train of covered wagons. passed away in 1955.[...] |
| [...]until their passing. Marcellus died at the age of 84 on June ienced many hardships but also many ha[...]e place was a large two story home about one mile south In 1854, he moved with his parents to North Missouri where of Polaris. they rented land for $1.25 an acre. Few[...]wagon trains came bringing relatives and friends of the Pyle Children of Marcellus and family. The prairie grass was waist[...]nn Pyle loam that produced great crops. All kinds of fruits and nuts could be and were gathered.[...]tockton, England and died Febru- 1861. At the end of six months he was commissioned a a[...]d marriage was to Laura Profit, June 20, 1924 ble of Missouri. The records show he served in the 41st[...]at Butte, Montana. Marcellus was elected Justice of the Peace. He held that George Alvi[...]. For scholar and brought truck loads of books with her to Mon- 13 years, Mr. Pyle operate[...]y resided in Kelseyville, California, at the time of ber of 1897, the couple moved to Beaverhead County and[...]r Pyle was born July 16, 1884, at Allendale, side of the Grasshopper valley. For two years they lived[...]cember 22, 1884, the youngest of six children of Hart and Lucy Quick. He spent most of his childhood in Missouri and[...] |
| [...]nything from him. Every fall he hitched four head of horses Governor Creek, now part of the Hairpin Ranch. Boyd at- to the freigh[...]and the business in 1935 and resumed his old love of mining. The Post Office was at Dewey's Fla[...]ake 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 Franc[...]ioneer where was killed in a car crash in January of 1966. Boyd passed their two elder sons were born-Charles Samuel ('7 4) and away at the age of 78, in December of 1988. Alexander Gilbert ('76)[...]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 a[...]ne to draw on and offered to give Chauncy several of them, It is at this location that the present[...]e U. P. from a boyfriend that they didn't approve of. Chauncey and Railroad. Passenger stages and[...]then homesteaded on Miner Creek, on the west side of Big commodations for the cowboys trailing herds of cattle into Hole, about eight miles from Jackson.[...]cabin on Miner Creek and built several bear traps of logs to catch the bears alive. He also hun[...] |
| [...]e. Mrs. Ralston was at the intersection of highways 43 and 27 4 became a well well known for[...]returned to the ranch in 1909, assumed management of the ranch. Randall The R[...]rom the Univer- Hudson. She was the fourth of seven children. Because the sity of Pennsylvania hospital in Philadelphia in nursing.[...]s safe so he moved his later served as Supervisor of Nursing at U. C. in Berkeley, family to Mis[...]also a silversmith. graduated from the University of Utah as a mining engineer. In 1863, Sara[...]sister Molly Powers and family as part of a famous covered northern California until his retirement. wagon train composed of 160 wagons. She was thrown from On November 11[...]was attacked by Indians. A purchased the holdings of the elder Bryants in 1890. troop of soldiers rescued them and escorted the wagon trai[...]de Island. He had been a law student but the lure of the Robert Hughes. They ran a boarding house, gav[...]Montana's best gold field, but the supply of gold did not last there and Divide carrying passe[...]ary 10, 1878, Dickey's Bridge, homesteaded by one of the Bryant sons. Henry Randall died. Sa[...]h them Valley. following the break-up of his family. He stayed with them Sarah[...]erhead River that was later to be called the most of his life. As well as running the ranch, Charlie w[...]e, Montana for a Road Supervisor for this section of the county from 1912, few years. T[...] |
| [...]in the Steel Creek area, east of town. After four years of hard[...]In the fall of 1918, the Rasmussen family moved to Wis-[...]student body grew, Sarah was unable to take care of the ty roads. He held this position for ma[...]aroline, the first Sarah liked to do all kinds of sewing and was always busy born, died short[...]2, Ellen music lessons. Sarah was an early member of the Methodist died May 29, 1943, and Joh[...]edding anniversa- She spent the last few years of her life living with her son- ry June 14, 1958. Chris died the following May just short of in-law and daughter Chris and Lottie Hansen. Sarah passed 92 years of age. Mary died Oct. 1, 1964, just missing her 89t[...]rn June 2, 1867 in Langeland, All of the Rebiches and Rebishes in the Beaverhead Val- Denmark. He came to the United States at the age of 20. He ley can be traced back to this one[...]le Valley working on ranches. He homesteaded west of BIC). Wisdom just directly west of the George Stewart property, G[...] |
| [...]Butte, all of them spent a great deal of time at the Rebich[...]Back again to the original eight children of George Rebich[...]and a daughter Mary. Margaret and Joe had Wedding of Matt Rebich & Johanna Borich in 1903 a ranch on the east end of Kentucky Avenue and also a Back row, second from right: Joseph RebishBack row ranch north of Dillon where the Dillon City Lagoon was far right[...]ted in knowing more about chael and Margaret, all of whom were born in Austria. Of this first generation and their descenda[...]E Catherine married a Swedish in Austria and some of thier childern came to Beaverhead County. George was one of the first to come to Dillon at age 19. He[...]Rebich was born February 9, 1866, in Austria, son of known as the Rebich home place. A complete story of George Rebic and Catherine Stephana[...]ch, is contained in changed the spelling of his last name from Rebic to Rebich the book.[...]sters. about 19 years old. The complete histories of Joseph and his George came to this countr[...]came to work on the George Staudahar ranch north of Dil- Matt was among the oldest of the nine children of George lon, where he met his bride-to-be,[...]He was Mary Butala was born in December of 1860 to Joseph married to Margaret Muffich. Matt[...]as a son whom they also named Matt, born in April of 1883, then four girls, Mary, Margaret, Kate & Edn[...]and Johanna had one daughter, Ann, born in August of 1904. After Johanna's death, Matt married Kate Ka[...]~ k:~~:=.~~zi,~i:~;t~::¥s~·: : 1918. Though all of these six boys lived most of their lives in Rebich Ranch, south of Dillon 456-Beaverhead History |
| [...]640 acres valued at $12,585. plex 30 miles north of Dillon, and 17 miles west of Melrose at George and Mary also had a house in Dillon at 120 South a place called Lions City, about one mile below H[...]lantic Street. For a time during the school years of the George Rebich married Mary Butala on August 7[...]children, they lived in Dillon, where some of the children Lions City. St. Patrick's Catholic C[...]ed school. Their teacher was Mary Innes. But most of record of a Catholic validation of this marriage on April 24, the time, they live[...]iam, was born in Hecla on June 15, hospital of complications arising from sugar diabetes. 1890,.[...]George and Mary helped each of their children get a start For about two years[...]they sustained a sizeable loss of their cattle herd to severe After that, the first of their many land purchases was cold. This f[...]decision to move made when they bought 160 acres south of Dillon from to California. Heinrich and Meta Schlottman. It was the NE¼ of Section On December 27, 1920, George[...]hased a 30- 9, T8S, R9W, located on the east side of the Beaverhead acre vineyard at 830 Fult[...], 1893; Michael Wil- them from the time of his mother's death when he was about liam, May 24[...]ous to all the children and grandchil- consisting of 320 acres from Harlan J. and Mabel W. dren. Thompson, the S½ of Section 15, T8S, R9W. Three hun- This being the time of prohibition, there wasn't a market dred acres of this was on the west side of the Beaverhead for the wine grapes. So they raised prunes, pears, peaches River and was the start of what came to be known as the and cherrie[...]and lived with them and helped landmark. In April of 1899, they sold their first place to in the[...]Mary's youngest child, Jo- train carload of grapes home to their family to make wine. seph, w[...]lived in the house where he Thus the start of the famous "Rebich wine". Surplus grapes was born[...]s. On October 30, 1902, George bought the NE¼ of Section In 1933 with the repeal of the 18th Amendment (prohibi- 16, T8S, R9W, compri[...]s. On July 7, 1908, they bought another 150 acres of m~mufacturing his own wine, brandy and schnapps. land from S. Frederick Schular, being the SE¼ of Section George and Mary lived together[...]George William, the son of Mary Butala Rebich and Mary[...] |
| [...]mother was the midwife and delivered the a ranch, south of Dillon. bab[...]home. and one sister, Lucy. Frank died at the age of 15. The broth- George managed the ranch for h[...]at time. That year was the only time he lived out of homemakers. They got busy and started a correspon[...]45 and bought a home at 530 ladies liked the idea of coming to America and to their Thomsen Avenue, he spent most of his time on the ranch future husbands. Arrangemen[...]1893, in ed near Barretts Station and at the time of the purchase, Brod Morvace, Yugoslavia, to[...]y moved into their died at the very young age of 33. Her father remarried and[...]Drugaca and Barbara. At the age of 10 she completed the[...]Phillip, born 1929. Phillip later died at the age of 2 from[...]Verona died at her home in Dillon in November of 1972.[...]illon, Montana. He was the third born in a family of six[...]Rebich, both of whom were immigrants from Yugoslavia.[...]He was raised on his family's ranch, south of Dillon near[...] |
| [...]others, Pat and Hube, were ally consisted of about 4,300 acres of fee land and about two of his best teachers. They lived on one of the neighbor- 7,000 acres leased land. ing ran[...]and respected. to his ranch, south of Dillon, to work and supervise the At the age of 20, on May 3, 1914, John married Sophia running of the ranch. Lorentz and they lived on the Rebich's[...]entlement and had an easy died from complications of child birth. The baby girl, little going way. H[...]ly a few months. way of tipping his hat. On April 21, 1918, John married Mary Veronica Gorsh of John H. died June 8, 1953, at the St. Ja[...]ad five children. Mary Elizabeth was Out of respect for John the businesses in Dillon closed[...]He was born February 19, 1921 him as, "Leader of the Local Austrian Colony". and died on March 6,[...]s. John H. Re- On March 17, 1928, John's dream of having his own ranch bich had become a successful businessman and one of Bea- was realized. With the help of his parents he acquired a verhead County's[...]-ELSIE ANN REBICH NELSON south of Dillon in Section 4 and 5, T8S;R9W. Death bese[...]gust 5, 1877 in Rodanitz, Yugos- With the help of his family, John's ranch became a very lavia, to George and Katie Rebich. He was the eighth of nine successful and thriving operation. Although[...]looked for a better way Lucy Rebich Mehilich of Great Falls, Kate Rebich Spear to expand and improve it. He was one of the few who had a and Ann Rebich Swetish of Yugoslavia, Mary Rebich Krul- threshing machine i[...]fter doing jak and Margaret Rebich Butula of St. Helena, California, his own threshing, he wou[...]ng for other and George Rebich and Joe Rebich of Dillon. farmers. He did the same with cutting and[...]s on March 15, 1937, lavia. She was one of four children: John, Joseph, and Kath-[...] |
| [...]on the inside. They moved an addition consisting of[...]harness shop out of an old log bunkhouse. He would buy[...]1919. Mike, Jr. and Olga did most of the driving. Mike, Sr. had a tendency of yelling "Whoa" instead of putting on the[...]starting as early as June 15th due to the number of Hren, and Margaret Elizabeth Rebich Aspesi. Mid-[...]cy Rebich Mayerle, Mary Rebich, of how he was the first to start haying. Mike Rebich[...]Bottom row: The highlight of the year was receiving a carload of grapes James Jacob Rebich, Rose Ann Rebich Metull[...]on the train at Barrett's Station for the people of the town cis Emma Rebich Perusich, William Elmer[...]e Rebich signed a lease with Hoover Develop- half of the Bill Rebich place) and in 1919 the Ewing Ranc[...]January 10, 1969; Mi- oil, 1/s gas. Tract of land - 320 acres near Barrett's. Lessee to chael[...]before June 1919. May cancel upon payment of $1.00. failure, Peter died January 20, 1905 due t[...]n Montana. He worked for $15 a Two boys, a set of twins, died shortly after birth. The month[...]ed on the Rebich ranch. All Joseph told of a time when he went from Virginia City to attended school at the Riverside. Ten of the children went Alder in the wint[...] |
| [...]ete Stefonic George Staudaher on his ranch, north of Dillon. He left and then by Selkirk. Whil[...]ve 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 worki[...]north of Dillon, to a ranch later owned by George McDonald[...]atholic Church in Meaderville. The process of buying the land on contract when he died of a couple had eight children. Katie was born Novem[...]family and land in Austria, they did a the age of 52. Katie was left to iraise the family, but they[...]All eight of Joseph and Katie's children were married and of those children there were 22 children. Katie Rebi[...]Adolph Reichle was in the service of the King of Wurtten-[...]permission, Charles I remained as King of Wurttenberg.[...]Adolph served as Equerry-an officer of princes or nobles Joseph and Katheri[...]charged with the care of their horses, etc. He also served as lot of traveling back and forth to Europe. Mary, their t[...]g, who in her younger then moved back to a ranch, south of Dillon, where their days served as governess to the children of the Comte de next three children were born. Marga[...]ber 16, 1909. France. Traveling under a flag of truce, she was passed Frank, their last child, wa[...]ail School District ly reached her home city of Stuttgart. She entered the ser- 27. It was while going to school the spelling of their name vice of the King of Wurttenberg and resided at the Palace in was chan[...]rs provided for servants. It was during this time of Joseph and Katie ranched in the Beaverhead Valley for service that she met Adolph Reichle. Upon his release fro[...]is now known as the Spor- the German Army of Chancellor Otto Von Bismark, he re- ich place, seven miles south of Dillon, and then later on a ceived a Bronze Medal for service during the Franco-Prus- ranch on Carrigan Lane. I[...]doing some sian War. Adolph resumed his service with the King. In 1873 logging in the Sage Creek[...]lph and Theresia were married in the Royal Chapel of out with a team of horses and wagon. On one of the trips Alte Schloss, the church of the King and his retainers. down with a full load of logs, the logs broke loose and a log In 1883 the family was persuaded by former friends and struck one of the horses causing him to spook. Joseph wa[...] |
| [...]ana, where they took the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He married Elizabeth up homesteads.[...]occurance pro- the silver mining camps of eastern Nevada and western vided them with many f[...], also known as "The Stuttgarter House," the site of ick on January 23, 1884 and William Henry o[...]moved to the booming copper camps of Butte and Anaconda Plagued by ill health in 190[...]elected a justice of the peace. Charles died July 9, 1933.[...]Montreal, Quebec. She was the oldest of four children by Matthew and Herman Reis were b[...]·buried beside Charles in Dillon's the break-up of their family. Matt eventually came to live[...], John Baptiste Rhino, Jr., was the son of John B. Rhino, an Addie May Jones, on March 3, 19[...]rote the name as it sounded to them. Some members of Gladys married and lived in Beaverhead County a[...]tennial Valley until 1930 lowing the opening of mines and smelters. Except for birth when they mo[...], it is not known when John Jr. Hughes place west of Dillon at the top of Water Works Hill. moved to Nevada, but he mar[...]ght Sam Freeman's place on Carrigan Lane of an English sea captain, who was born in New York City south of Dillon. After ranching for a number of years, they and had an uncle, John Howard, wh[...]going both east and west and north and south. Their second[...]family to Bannack sometime before Sep- able part of Bannack. tember of 1885, and they lived there until 1890. Since John[...]vidently the milling operation had was the oldest of William Retallack and Mary Pierce's four[...] |
| [...]om the 1901 on the ranch near Jackson, the result of an accident. steam. He tried to ride a horse his father had acquired in a trade In the spring of 1896, the family moved to a ranch adja- with an o[...]back- cent to the Dishnos. (The French spelling of this name is D- ward pinning Howard under him. Th[...]the Dishno family ried Bert Kerlee and lived all of her adult life at Darby, where he died in 190[...]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 bo[...]veral homes, the ried in 1900 to Homer Pilon of Argenta, Grace to Ed Haines family moved to Glend[...]. Annie lived with Shortly thereafter, because of failing health due to lead Martha for a while b[...]George and two of his brothers moved to Ennis, Montana,[...]Monida. George was manager of the store as well as the Postmaster of Monida. George was also the government[...]know most of the people of Monida and the Valley.[...] |
| [...]need for a school became apparent, as the One of Beaverhead's early ranchers was Christian[...]hle School about five miles away. (Christ) Rieber of Glen. He was born March 31, 1877, in Thadd[...]879. In November they came to America. The Statue of use in the summer. Liberty and the Niagara F[...]Changes in the methods of farming took place. Machinery[...]mes, disasters and the Depression by various ways of mak-[...]raised and the next spring brought the unheard of price of[...]100 tons of hay burned. Several years cows were milked[...] |
| [...]ranch on Rock Creek, ried Mary Jardene, also of Hespler. He started west the which his son now op[...]n 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[...]LEN took up another ranch, part of which later took in the city[...]number of years and built one of the most handsome resi- Isaac and Catherine Rif[...]orn in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania posed of his property and a few years later became associa[...]h his son, Jardine, in the ranching business west of Rife. His son Sam (1788-1856) and his wife with their small town. family lived in Adams County, of which Gettysburg was the Mr. Rife was mayor of Dillon from 1893 to 1895. It was county seat. The[...]Canada in 1825, proceeding during his term of office the Dillon Waterworks was built. with hors[...]He was a lifelong Democrat and a member of Bagdad Tem- ridges and entering at Niagara. Their quest was cheap fer- ple of the Shrine and the Presbyterian Church. tile land[...]ettled in Guelph Township. David Rife was the son of ried Ernest Orr in 1902, died 1918; Maidie[...]- Sam and at maturity married and raised a family of seven. ried Lee Van Ettan in 1909, died 1960; Katheryne born Isaac was born the fourth son of David and Mary Rife on 1879, married Albertu[...]about two years before. to Bannack. In the spring of 1881 he trailed cattle from[...]Esther and Frank Ritschel 1862, and at the age of six went with her parents to Kansas. Frank[...]ie) were married at the ranch there. home of Catherine's uncle Martin Barrett at Horse Prairie[...]George Roberts Abram was the second son of David and Mary Rife, born George[...] |
| [...]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 Be[...]Illinois, for a was a Mason, also a member of Mizpah Chapter, Order of year, and got an education in accounting that hel[...]Charley Rody was born in Illinois at the end of the Civil He continued this practice until he was[...]blacksmithing trade. Shortly after that he heard of the of years. He also served as City Attorney for Dillon[...]1983. Henry married a Port- had for part of his outfit are in the Beaverhead County land girl[...]a few times. Next, he started Leila, were members of the Order of Eastern Star in Port- working for ranches[...]He married my mother, a school teacher, the fall of 1904 Hiram W. is a Mason. He became a member in 1938. and they lived the rest of their lives on the ranch. Charley Henry G. Rodgers' wife, Tiny, died in September 1930 of Rody was 69 years old when he passed[...] |
| along the Mississippi River at the end of the Civil War. That Minnesota. He worked at Belgrade before coming to Mon- part of Wisconsin was covered with standing timber. As a ida in the fall of 1904. He stayed at the Rody ranch. In the child s[...]d Karl had tuberculosis. He died three the spring of 1903, she came to the Centennial Valley to[...]-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 summer school at[...]His view come to school in the cold and deep snow of winter. father was a member of the Pioneer Society of Beaverhead When school was over she married Ch[...]y both lived there until Mother passed native of Lincolnshire, England, came to the United States[...]born in Dillon. ing news of gold discoveries. He met and married Margaret Otilly Hallas was the divorced mother of John, Irwin and Shineberger, a sister of Joseph Shineberger, Beaverhead Karl Hallas.[...]nent rancher at Redrock. She was In the spring of 1905, Otilly Hallas, Minnie Rody's moth- a native of Philadelphia, Penn. er, came out west to Belgrade[...]. tor and an officer in the State Bank of Dillon, young Roe The first summer they built[...]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 Hamiltons, on Hor[...]a train trip to Indiana and on to Niagara Falls. of the car while the family and dog stayed in the other end of Thereafter they began their married life on the[...]amily home the land for his homestead at the foot of the hill a few miles was built on the ranch to house a family that was to grow to out of Monida. He built a house and barn and fenced the five children over a span of 10 years. land. His house is that log cabin which[...]. Lowell Smith, formed a partnership of "Smith & Roe" to He worked at Kellogg, Idaho,[...]in. George grew up in Idaho. John died at the age of 82 Smith's interest and he and his son, Joe[...]roper- Irwin Hallas came to Montana the summer of 1904 from ties and livestock were[...] |
| [...]Roe was a past Worthy Matron of Mizpah Chapter of the Eastern Star, a member of the Daughters of the Nile and a member of the St. James Episcopal Church. The Roes cele-[...]ary of 1954, with all members of their family present.[...]was in frail health for a number of years and died in Seattle[...]Survivors at the time of Effie Roe's death in 1966 includ-[...]Roe of Armstead; sons-in-law and daughters, Andy and[...]June (Roe) Forsythe of Monida; Moore and Muriel (Roe)[...](Roe) Moore, all of Seattle; nine grandchildren and eight[...]mmunity. Annie was six the increase in the number of head of livestock his ranch years old at this time[...]l property became known as the an abundance of buffalo. Beaverhead County was wild and "7L Ranch[...]land Land & Livestock Co. The 7L Ranch was of civilization as hardy pioneers followed her fathe[...]in Butte schools and the three girls western South Dakota and eastern Montana, a territory at attended a girls' school, St. Mary's of the Wasatch, in Salt that time. He met and bec[...]l, Lake City. George Tong died in 1902 at the age of 56. His who also was trying his luck at cow[...]cond time, The Roes had a ranch east of Lima, now known as the Julia Tong Hayden lived in[...]iving family are a granddaughter, Jean lived most of the rest of the year in Seattle where three of Gleed Nelson, and great-grandchildren, Bill an[...]erce and Kelle Nelson. Edward Roe was a member of Bagdad Temple of the Shrine, the Royal Order of Jesters and the B.P.O.E. Effie[...] |
| [...]incolnshire, cerned about the terrorization of the community by outlaws England, one of eight children born to Abraham and Mary and road agents. As a vigilante, he helped capture three of (Boss) Roe. Leaving school at age 11, William far[...]the most desperate characters in the history of Montana his father until 1858 when he and his old[...]innell, also played a part in the capture of Sheriff Henry Plummer Iowa. With the outbreak of gold excitement, they started for and the third member of the notorious trio, Ned Ray. These Pike's Peak, Colo., with one yoke of oxen and three yoke of men were said to have killed at least 110 in[...]cows pulling their prairie schooner. Their report of the trip robbed an unknown number more. They were executed in by way of Laramie and the Platte River told of plentiful 1864. game but the sighting of only four buffalo. The year was For a[...]rginia City. William After less than two years of work in a quartz mine near Roe, aged 28, at[...]se in the Territory. The River country in a train of 33 wagons. The rivers were high house still stands and is a part of the historical restoration and the travelers were[...]ook four days to complete the ferry with the loss of one 1899 when they moved to Dillon. They live[...]operation. on South Washington Street during the remainder of their When the party arrived at Salmon City, i[...]born to this gold was 300 miles away. While some of the pioneers aban- union: Arthur and Edith[...]n January 10, 1881. William Roe organized a train of 15 wagons and oxen to William Roe became one of the incorporators of the State head for Deer Lodge. Travelers 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 a[...]. Claims 1913, stated: "That by the death of Mr. Roe, we have suf- were immediately staked out and in the first day's oper- fered the loss of one whose place it will be difficult to fill. He ations on Grasshopper Creek; Roe rocked out $40 worth of was one of the incorporators of our bank and its vice-presi- gold. Most of his minings, however, were prior to the rich[...]rs could not and we have learned In the winter of 1863 Roe was one of 13 volunteers to to admire and love him f[...]Upon heart. By his decease we are deprived of a wise counselor, a their return, Roe, now joined[...]licensed He was a Democrat and a member of the Pioneer Society of Beaverhead County.[...]ve in the family home. She was Past Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star and a member of the Episcopal Church.[...]and daughter-in-law, Edward B. and Effie Roe of Redrock[...] |
| [...]The winter of 1919-20 was a severe one. Earl was called to[...]Michigan by the illness of his father and was gone several[...]o taught at Jackson and the Bob Hildreth children of[...]pon graduation, she worked in the business office of Ora and Earl Rogers with William and Lillian[...]Their happiness was brief as Charles died of pneumonia on Washington County, Iowa. In the spring of 1908, she decid- January 1, 1937. Helen and H[...]in Montana she met Earl Rogers In June of 1938, the Sweeney and Rogers families cele- and n[...]Ora, Helan and Harold spend a portion of the summer of On July 29, 1918, a horse fell with Earl causi[...]regained con- and purposes ended the history of the Rogers family in sciousness. In October he we[...]sisters joined Harold to make a family of six. The girls were[...]The Rogers family: Ora nia, Florida, Hawaii, Guam, and Virginia. When Henry re-[...]tired from the navy they settled in Lynn Haven, Florida. Helen (middle),[...]Billie died of cancer on June 12, 1974. Joe has since re-[...] |
| Ora lived with or near Doris or Billie most of her remian- ing years. On January 20, 1980, her s[...]Nellie Grant Jones of Clinton, Mo., in 1905. She had a son[...]ard and room. Ed The Romain Family, consisting of Ed, George, John died at the age of 66 and is buried in Dillon. Jewell married (Jack)[...]and they live in St. George, Utah. Jackson area of the Big Hole very early in the settlement of Jack Romain ran the Hot Springs Saloon and[...]on. During George Romain homesteaded just east of Jackson and the the devastating flu epidemic of the 1918-1919s, he made his first post office cal[...]saloon into a makeshift hospital to take care of the local was the first postmistress and she late[...]e Edward Albert Romain homesteaded in the area of the The Roselles came to the area sometime after 1912, from present Hairpin Ranch, southeast of Jackson. He married the Tensleep, Wyo.,[...]camp in the morning. He also told of coming down Sheep -[...]place at the foot of the hill in Monida. Luanna took up with[...] |
| [...]Clay was killed by an employee over a difference of[...]and took care of Clay's business interests until 1945 when[...], Margaret, became an early county superintendent of Photo taken in mid-1920s.[...]schools, while their older son, Will, was one of the first 300 but the love of young hearts is something that cannot be U[...]Luanna developed bookkeeper and the wife of a rancher in Idaho and J. T. was her cooking abil[...]public accountant in Seattle. Their fifth child, Of this union, Iola, their daughter was born. Luanna[...]ame one good cook. Clay married Florance Miller of Monida and lived in the local area for some time. Ora married Genevieve Clark of the Mennan area January 17, 1923. They moved to T[...]ies. His endeavors led him to a wider prospective of the Seattle area where his professional abilities[...]oteworthy employees included Pat Brown, teamster, handyman and barber; Bill Rush, handyman .and productionist; Coyote Bill Gray, bartender, handyman and productionist; Dan Cooper, barber; Mar[...] |
| [...]n 1924 in Argenta; Catherine lived to be 94 years of age. -ISABEL ROSS HARVEY[...]us A. Rounds Lizetta J. Rounds, widow of Julius A. Rounds, died from injuries sustained when she fell down the basement steps at the home of her brother, William Cashmore, October 17, 1928.[...]y in a week. She had just returned from a funeral service in Idaho for a cousin and was helping prepare a f[...]as survived by two brothers, Wili- lam and Alfred of Dillon, and a sister, Edith, in Lewistown. Lizzie loved outdoor life and spent a great deal of her time at Elkhorn Hot Springs. She was born Mar[...]ounds on Sept. 16, 1900, in Dillon by R. P. Smith of the Methodist Episcopal Church.[...]name "Rounds", have become collectors' items. One of his saddles remains on display at Johnson Saddler[...]r. Robert and Georgia He was a very active member of the Masonic Lodge.[...]set up his medical practice and soon was one of the best school in Butte and later in Wisdom. Whe[...]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 stage from Wisdom to Gi[...]0, 1927 says it well: "Dr. Ryburn was a physician of the old ho.[...]y formed the in Wisdom. Lela had moved from Mouth of Wilson, Virgin- principal means of transportation, no obstacles of weather, ia, to Blackfoot, Idaho, when she was ei[...]broth- 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 his way on horseback church and babysat for most of the children in Wisdom and or by buggy through drifting snows for a distance of any- was known by one and all as "Granny."[...]at Wisdom. Besides caring for To people of the Bannack and Big Hole districts, Dr. Ry- Kenne[...]r. Ryburn married Georgia (Puss) Graves, daughter of[...] |
| [...]. They had four chil- dren, Frank G. and Joe both of Dillon, Mrs. Willard (Marga- ret) Nelson of Anaconda, and Mrs. William (Ruth) Berge- son of Helena. In 1901 he joined Bannack Masonic Lodge N[...]. Ryburn's health and eysight began failing three of four years prior to his death. His health and eye[...]tion worried him greatly. The remaining material of this article was taken from The Butte Daily Post of August 6, 1927. " Despondent because of continued ill health, Dr. R.H. Ryburn, well-known[...]th a .38 special revolver. He died at his home on South Pacific Street last night at 10:30. The tragedy i[...]on for being fastidious- ed it to the blowing out of a tire on an automobile. This ly clean; those who knew her commented, "She was the discovery of the tragedy was made by Mrs. Ryburn when she[...]e early shindigs. People praised Sam as one of the gentlest, the wound must prove fatal."[...]and Wes had the first ranch at the head of Horse Prairie. The Sarah Ann Hudson Randall. Cabl[...]to Bozeman where by Deer Lodge. The mine had one of the largest gold strikes they worked as frei[...]erything. their home at Red Rock, Mont. Here four of their children One thing I remember so[...]ary Edna, Myrtle (Dolly), and Sam Jr. end of the boardwalk. It was fenced in her yard, where a[...]small irrigation creek ran. The outhouse was made of lap youngest son Earl was born. In 1902 Alice's t[...]with covers on them. Here, along with taking care of the wagon and animal needs, Art and his team of horses pulled many stranded motor- 47[...] |
| ists out of the ditch, or over the hill, both going and comin[...]In the fall of 1937 Andrew purchased a dairy ranch in[...]CARL SALOMONSEN number of years. He drifted back and forth between Dillon a[...]December 7, 1888. At the age of 18 he came to America to[...]which was taking over Italy at the turn of the century. He[...]1915, Nick became a citizen of the United States of America.[...]returned to Dillon and his former position of railroad fore- (Back row from le~) Phyllis[...] |
| [...]their wedding day (1916) and wi-th favorite team of horses on Apex Ranch[...]9 and continued his cowboy, then as 'cowboss' of a large outfit and later as ranching and business interests of buying and selling prop- ranchman. erty and li[...]all the regalia of a working cowpoke. There are pictures too,[...]from the East around the turn of the century, and later Ella and W.D. Sandy were friends of my parents, and when he became a 'top han[...]and gentled exact but these are my recollections of their history in the many a wild horse to the s[...]in Dillon as a 'tenderfoot easterner' he took one of iel, as his obituary states. He was always called[...]rked at the home place near He was one of the early Madison County members of the Dillon and brought the cattle to the Centenni[...]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[...]ve part in filed on a homestead on the north side of the Centennial several stockmen's organizat[...]Sassman died in June of 1967 Vast areas of the western territories remained relatively[...]Free, fertile land was the catalyst of westward migration The fast thinning ranks of Montana's old time cowmen to develop farm[...]D. Sandy, widely permanent settlement of Beaverhead County. known Beaverhead and Madison C[...]and one- Jefferson Davis became part of that movement when he time cow-foreman at the old[...]May 10, 1880, with teams and As he prepared to go south this winter he bequeathed a wagons, and arrived at the site of Dillon July 28, 1880. number of cherished belongings to the Beaverhead Muse- Most of the emigrants knew the Utah Northern Railroad um. Among those was a large panel-photograph of cattle on was rapidly building toward[...] |
| [...]marriage, Minnie worked as a pastry and des- most of his family he returned to Missouri in September[...]ncy. and Sunday School. The Women's Society of Christian Ser- They married September, 1881, and[...]ouri, and passed away August 12, 1987, at the age of 103 Street. The family again returned to Missouri[...]earned a B. E. degree at Western Montana College of Edu- February 28, 1870. When 18 years old, he mig[...]uly 7, 1909, the City Council appointed him Chief of Police for $75 monthly. B. F. White was mayor. Ch[...]e Post Office. The large gulch which crossed part of the ranch was named Sassman Gulch by the U. S. Forest Service. After a devastating cloudburst, followed by a catastrophic storm of hailstones the size of walnuts, the Sassmans gave up and moved to Dillon[...]cation. He acquired a Master of Arts Degree at the Universi- ty of Montana in 1940. He did further graduate work at[...]University of California, Berkeley, University of Minnesota, and the University of Colorado. He also was delegated to[...]Oren held various positions as an educator, one of which[...]of the Army Air Corps at the University of Montana during[...] |
| [...]wards, from Springhill, in the early winter of 1886 with his wife and March 10, 1929. Rydel Glen[...]hospital. necessitated their purchase of a sleigh.[...]generously allowed them to use a team of his horses, which[...]a dam is now located. When the most to the degree of taciturnity. He evidently was very self Bean family reached their destination, a trip of three days, sustaining and must have been physically strong and of Sawtelle went on to Henry's Lake. This[...]beginning of a lasting friendship and Gilman in later years[...]d country, to do as he well pleased like many men of It was on one of these trips and visits that Gilman had his type and time. The great open country of the west held a spent the night and started o[...]the edges. The decided upon the beautiful country of Henry's Lake to build horses jumped, jerking the front runners of the sleigh into his home and raise his family.[...]lle Mountain was threw Gilman forward, out of the sleigh onto the tongue and named for your rel[...]When Mr. Bean saw the condition of Gilman's arm he Weather was perhaps one of man's greatest enemies, high rode a horse 1[...]winters, A doctor or nurse was entirely out of the question. Accord- and blizzards that might la[...]very wide table and sat Gilman on one side of it in a chair, tying fine species of cuthroat trout. They would weigh from 3 to 12 his feet to the middle leg of the table. They had him reach pounds, their flavo[...]ite side who pulled the arm until the bone points south were then most anxious to obtain the delicacy[...]ck into place. They then put splints and bandages of these fish. Gilman must have spent long ardous days and on the arm. Gilman drank a cup of hot coffee, walked back perhaps-nights, fishing t[...]w and freezing north winds. When the rumor of a useless arm. desired amount of fish were taken he then hauled his frozen[...]a 1960 letter written to an ancestor by distance of around 70 miles, then later to Monida. Most of SONNY and THELMA[...] |
| [...]to live in the Big Hole so in the spring of 1891, Joseph[...]stead and completed the terms of the claim. In 1905, he[...]There was 20 years compulsory military service, so Joe dis-[...]guised himself and made a hasty retreat out of the country. Schindler Homestead, six miles southwest of Jackson Coming home he visited a f[...]blished perma- United States in the spring of 1879. Emma, the youngest of nent residence in Enid, Okla. His younger brother[...]ere married January 2, 1902, and returned to Mon- of Czechoslovakia by the Russians, he and his family[...]. Joe arrived in the United States in the fall of 1879. His first employment was in the woolen mill[...]d his first concern Kirk field. It consisted of two summers, six months each. was: "Where is my p[...]seback to the Jackson school. They mouth and most of the time upside down. It was a trade- wer[...]other ranch work, so at least two months of schooling were During the winter of 1890, Joe became the caretaker of lost each year. After school there was always work to do, the Andy Nelson homestead, after the death of the former feeding 15 colts, 40 to 60 calves, and helping to get a load of caretaker, Ben Hamby. Ben and his family were get[...]e 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[...] |
| [...]the couple then moved to Newark, Ohio, where nine of their 10 children were born. Two of those children died very young: Margaret Theresa[...]ctured in Frederick traveled west with several of his German-born[...]r, Frederick Schuler, Margaret his home. In April of 1884 he was joined by his wife and[...]ate the original ranch,·about nine miles north of Dillon. The[...]of the citizenry of Dillon and Beaverhead Valley. The oldest[...]of complications from eating dried apples.[...]Harry Schuler family. Elmer was a victin of chemical war-[...]respected member of another pioneer family. Fredericka[...]was a charter member of the Baptist Church.[...]were parents of Mildred, Harriet, Harry, Jr., Lee, and John.[...]They were the parents of Edgar F. and Margaret Louise.[...]brother of Clara. He married Sarah E. Moreau in 1919.[...]Clayton Deane and Ruth were children of this marriage.[...]Emma Schuler (1886-1961) was the youngest child of the 480-Beaverhead History |
| [...]cott graduated in 1872 from Lagrange (Indi- All of the Schuler children had close ties with the home[...]ura M. Tolman Scott was pioneer Schulers, and six of the seven children who arrived born August 6,[...]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 of her family and a direct descendant of a soldier of the ern Montana, the lure of a meandering trout stream in a Revolution[...]eaverhead Valley sunset. in the annals of American history since its earliest settle-[...]and they founded the city of Dorchester, Mass. Frank Alton Scott[...]onel Decker, was working on the the seventh child of a woolen mill operator. Alton, as he was bridge[...]then to Calwell and Decker became the best of friends. As the rail- Armstead to visit an uncle[...]ed the CD brand in August Hotel in the later part of 1916. They had one daughter, Vera 1883. Scott[...]r their only child, the mines, and for the Forest Service. Later he moved to Edith, was born. Colone[...]y injured in a timber accident telling Scott of the area where he was working and of the on January 8, 1933.[...]she remained until the end of the school term. She saved James Rollie Scott[...]ved his education. James and his gun. Both of these items are still in the family. younger brot[...]In 1884, J. W. Scott purchased the holdings of Mr. Calwell Rock and then at Armstead to visit an[...]rmed the Scott and Decker partnership, consisting of T. and J. Walter, in 1916.[...]g and farming. They were the first to raise crops of Shortly, they migrated to Dillon and homestead[...]serving in the army he ily to the town of Red Rock, four miles to the south, where worked at the Spokane Army Air Depot. He f[...]time, Decker man- November 19, 1854, the seventh of eight children of James aged the C.D. Ranch. and Sara[...] |
| [...]Parke Scott was the third child of J. Walter and Laura T.[...]east side of Clark Canyon Reservoir. The family moved to[...]Parke joined the service during World War I. He served in[...]ld get there, egon Short Line a few miles north of Red Rock. AT Scott's |
| [...]miles northwest of Grant. They first ran sheep on this small[...], selling their beloved Rawhide Ranch for the sum of[...]set of buildings and the capability of raising 80 to 100 tons of Parke and Mildred Scott[...]r a time. He also as well as the history of Montana. It was Frank Sears who served for many y[...]Road Agent lieutenant, Board and the museum Board of Directors. Mildred was Ned Ray, and[...]e in home demonstration. She was a charter member of Where Sears was born, where he came fro[...]he was "one of the oldest settlers here coming to Bannack in P[...]the strikes in the gold camps along with scores of other men Dillon. of his profession. He had instilled in his inner bei[...]for justice and goodness for he was one of the original Vigi- lantes of Bannack. He was an active member in the Bannack[...]Vigilantes and was one of the men who captured Henry Tom and Margaret Sco[...]l 2, 1861, Glasgow, Scot- 1864. The result of his capture was that Ned Ray was land, Died: Dece[...]king 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- early member of Bannack Masonic Lodge 16 joining May ville, Colo.[...]rado, Tom married prospected over much of the Bannack and surrounding area Martha Porter wh[...]ay Porter Scott, in 1898. Shortly after the birth of Walter, 24, 1896, and was buried on May 2[...]t a small HE LIVED IN A HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ranch. They literally "st8:fved o_u t"[...] |
| [...]d 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 unt[...]Tom Creek and perma- spent the first eight years of his life there. His sister, Lydia, nently moved[...]Lake Resort. They built a road from the lower end of Elk in at the beautiful inlaid wood portrait of Daly's favorite Lake to the campsite. The[...]ehorse, Tamany, which occupied a full square yard of the when they retired. They spent their s[...]Pride and joy twinkled in his eyes when he told of picking up John L. Sullivan in his horse-drawn ca[...]depot and sneaking him through the rear entrance of the hotel before the boxing match. But after the[...]ay, Sr. Family John L. Sullivan to the front door of the hotel complete with James Selway, Sr,[...]when James sold the ley and homesteaded a section of land northwest of the farm and returned to England wit[...]estate. While there James died and is North Fork of the Big Hole River. He raised sheep and[...]tle on this place which was his home for the rest of his her father's death and married Tom Po[...]. He was a hired drover on the side; told stories of sons, Henry and Tom Porch, who came to Montana to pushing cattle out of Big Hole, through Divide and over ranch, one just north of Dillon and the other in Madison Beef Trail into B[...]eve's friends and neighbors remember him as judge of James Selway, Jr., born in England De[...]er Lodge Coun- started West in the spring of 1863, joining a wagon train as a ty, a duty which[...]ely found work in Mining until cold weather, then of the community. He declared that biscuits and grav[...]squatter's right on the visitors through the door of Cleve's log cabin, where a jolly original Selway ranch, one mile north of Dillon, where he time was had by all.[...]Robert H. took up homesteads in other parts of Beaverhead that "Everybody's in such a hurry now;[...]his passing in 1967 trailed home a band of sheep. His mother was raising pota- at age 85 - a[...]Selway died in Dillon, June 18, 1870 at the age of 63 years.[...] |
| [...]The other children of Thomas and Alice were Mark and[...]miles north of Dillon. Their children were Alma, who mar-[...]the upper Blacktail Creek east of Dillon and they had a[...]married William B. Carter. Their ranch was north of Dillon[...]Wisconsin and married a man by the name of Buffin. in Salmon.[...]July 31, 1933. He filed on a homestead north of Dillon across three children: Berthana, who marri[...]r 25, 1857. In 1866 they moved record of marriage or children; Earl Charles, born August f[...]1923, had a daughter Eleanor who miles southeast of Dillon. They had seven children: Charles, mar[...]lle Fourche, Robert and Julia Selway South Dakota August, 1939; married Josephine Reynolds in Robert H. Selway was the son of James Sr. and Eliza 1901; had a daughter,[...] |
| [...]ranch of his own and married Lillis Chapman. They had a[...]elen and a son Robert. Julia married Edward Corn, of[...]y didn't have any children. Roy married Mary Ries of Robert and Julia Selway[...]n. Roy stayed on the ranch that is now just north of Dillon where he built the first log and ran it with the help of his sons for his mother until she house in this part of the valley. He returned to Wisconsin to sold it[...]and Archie Seybold w·as the youngest son of Henderson the rest of the children came out in 1864 to settle the land[...]Lima. white women in the valley. The first church service was held He married Iona Adkins March 12, 1[...]tha was for Eliza when she passed away at the age of 63. Leona on January 28, 1919: Agnes F[...]heodore 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 Unit[...]health. settled in Kenosha, Wisc.; at the age of 18 he came west with his mother Eliza and his bro[...]is brother James Jr., which is now the north side of Dillon. Robert married Julia Black of Bannack. The house that he built was considered one of the finest homes in the area. It had hot and cold[...]ed to raising horses and cattle. Robert sold many of the horses to the U. S. Cavalry. Robert was ki[...]rsen were returning from a lower field with loads of hay. A car driven by B. F. Vogler approached the[...]ention was paid. When the automobile came abreast of the wagons, the horses became frightened. The wagon hit a bank of dirt, turning the wagon over and threw Rob[...] |
| Archie homesteaded on the middle fork of Little Sheep the next morning to go to sch[...]year at a time and was only The summer of 1923 the family went to Emmett, Idaho, to around[...]visit Iona Seybold's parents. They went with two of her The summer of 1919 was a real dry summer and a tough[...]out three nights to make the 500 mile trip, all of it on dirt or of Little Sheep creek and his brother Floyd and Myrt[...]Henderson Seybold played the violin for some of the local They had about 60 cows and 200 sheep[...]em. dances in the early days. All three of his sons played the Floyd herded the sheep and Ar[...]four horses and a sled all winter. The hay was of the local dances in the 1930s and early 1940s. Cl[...]ranching again and bought 1043 acres at the mouth of so his place four miles from Lima was left vacant[...]Theodore Vernon drove truck quite a number of years[...]les has built a new house on his own acreage west of[...]comb, Ill., the ninth child of Dotson Seybold and Mary[...]Montana Trail north to the gold fields of Montana Terri-[...]etween Lima and Dell. They raised cattle Children of Arch and Iona Seybold:(L-R) Leona,[...] |
| [...]was married for a short while but little is known of his wife. Joseph, Marion and Charles never marrie[...]t Lima. Joseph loved to have photographs taken of himself and his brothers and other friends and re[...]ng as a prize-fighter and he left behind a legacy of tintypes of his image. He died at age 65 on April 3, 1919, po[...]and Charlie (Glendale, Mt.) acres of land belonging to the heirs of Marion H. Seybold as free and clear as of July 8, 1895, and signed by President Known[...]d by President T. Roosevelt for another 160 acres of -Sally Gar[...]78. County, Ky., the third of four children born to Jesse and[...]Mary "Polly" Hardisty was the second of 12 children born Charles Wesley "Uncle[...]children were ough County, Ill., the first child of John Vinson M. Seybold born. and Marga[...] |
| [...]uther Bush born October 5, 1859. The destinies of Elizabeth, William and Lucetta are un- known. Nan[...]urn to Montana where they lived on land that five of their sons had homesteaded between Dell and Lima.[...]Frank C. Seybold was the first of four children born to -CHARLES SEYBOLD and SALLY[...]grew up in the area and homesteaded at the mouth of Floyd Seybold was born 1892, the third child of Hender- Little Water about 1910. He married[...]They moved to Medicine Lodge, Idaho, west of Dubois stead for a few years, then divorced.[...]- Floyd homesteaded about 1916 on the west fork of Little do, where he died December 8, 1971. L[...]rande Rail- Lima and bought 80 acres at the mouth of Little Sheep road until he retire[...] |
| [...]1872, the third of eight children born to George W. Drown[...]and got 80 acres at the mouth of Little Sheep Creek and also[...]worked for the Union Pacific Railroad taking care of the water tanks and coal chutes. They moved to Di[...]ed Gilbert in McDonough County, Ill., the seventh of twelve children McNinch. Hans never remarr[...]played for some of the local dances at Dell and Lima in the[...]John Vinson M. Seybold was the fourth of 12 children 490-Beaverhead History |
| [...]nes. Margaret Elizabeth "Mag" Huff, the second of 14 chil- Margaret probably stayed in Missouri where she gave dren in the family of William Hamilton Huff and Sarah Ann birth to[...]i. 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 their acreage. It's. possible that[...]population of 950 residents. On the 1880 census, John is[...]to a ranch at the mouth of Grasshopper Creek about ten miles south of Dillon. In a personal letter dated Dillon,[...]we are safe. We have about seventy head of cattle .... and forty tons of hay and a few acres of oats and wheat."[...]the Gueysers the first of September and we will all go and we[...]tell more about it. I quit the smelter the first of May and[...]the Camas Valley of eastern Idaho again and again, thinking[...]of 70 in Dillon and is buried in the Lima Cemetery.[...]of 1909. His son William Marion "Bill" Seybold died[...]vember 25, 1909 at the age of 37, and is also buried in the[...]old holding son Indian Creek west of Dubois, Idaho, from about 1910 to the Charles Wes[...]18, 1892 on a homestead between Dell and Lima, of Hender- ers traveled by wagon train on the[...] |
| [...]of John Vinson Seybold and Margaret Elizabeth Huff.[...]some and the family had many photographs taken of him.[...]ing to New York at the age of 12 with his brothers, John, She grew up[...] |
| [...]d May 24, 1894. Just six months later Jessie died of appendicitis. After her death, John left Argenta[...]a home and settling there. He worked at a number of jobs that included stage driver, freighter, owner of a butcher shop and a miner. He died October 27, 1946 of a stroke and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery[...]ho and then back to Argenta to raise their family of 12 children. The children born to this marriage w[...]er Rickey Christensen. Bertha made bread, lots of bread, 12 loaves at a time for her family. She lo[...]tana, on September 13, 1913, and were the parents of staying there in the summers while improv[...]her died when he was 12. His father One of the favorite family stories is when John drove hi[...]on their homestead. He graduated as salutatorian of her class and worked at always made th[...]to go west so he went en to Dillon by way of Twin Bridges, which would have back to work for t[...]elegrapher on any division between St. thought of the days he wasted on the trail because he did no[...]oast. They chose Sims, North Dakota, know of this road. for him. In the fall of 1917, Shaffner went to work as a telegraph[...] |
| [...]do, Ohio to take out a homestead southeast of Dillon next to time, he asked for a leave of absence, since three of his four Willard's brother, John Shaffner. boys were in the service and he needed to be at the ranch. Will[...]muting from the homestead by horse and buggy. the South Pacific, and sons Don and Dean were still with th[...]il World War II. They moved to Layton, Utah north of Dillon in 1921 and lived there until about 1932[...]Willard was a life member and Patron of Mizpah Chapter and George had to meet the train in Dillon at daylight to O.E.S., Master of Dillon Lodge A.F. and A.M. and High trail the pai[...]ngry and thirsty and Priest and life member of Dillon Chapter of Royal Arch had not seen grass for a long time. They trailed the cattle out Masons, and member of the Grand Cross of Colors for his the River Road and had a lot of angry housewives out in work with Rain[...]robes and slippers trying to chase the cattle out of their Cora was a member of the Methodist Church and of Miz- yards![...]nd the Florence Hotel. He was Executive Secretary of In 1967 John married Frances Harper in Texas. They the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied enjoyed four years together b[...]ary 27, 1968 and Willard on Della was a member of the Riverside Social Club, the January[...]Lorin Greisinger's first wife was Lucille Sanner of Dillon. helped start one of the first 4-H Clubs in Beaverhead Coun- They had four children, two of whom died shortly after ty and was a leader for f[...]ter moved to New Albany, Indiana, where he member of the Dillon Elks.[...]and Lida Shaffner married Morris Homme of Outlook, Mon- friends from all over the United St[...]-LIDA AND HELEN HOMME Islands in the South Pacific in October 1944. Shaffner has six[...] |
| [...]to Florida to be with his mother and administered the es-[...]ried and died in 1963 in St. Cloud, Florida.[...]stands at the site of so many happy times. The pond which[...]was a fisherman's paradise is now the habitat of the Trum-[...]rooms, dining room and large barns for the teams of horses to transport passengers and the mail. They[...]43. At age 15, he cream and acquired a large herd of beef cattle that fattened came to the United S[...]s a drummer boy and then George took advantage of all the spring water and raised as a foot sol[...]wedding they traveled by ox team to the frontier of After Hazel was married, they sent the oth[...] |
| [...]ing mountains to the south. There were few people who[...]ground of brush and trees. Next spring, while the snow was[...]day that place is one of the best producing hay fields in the[...]and moved to a ranch on the Red Rock River, east of Mon-[...]man train to St. Cloud, Florida, where the city first started[...]and climate. Levi became President of the Peoples Bank in[...]St. Cloud and later was elected Mayor of the city. They lived[...]buried in St. Cloud, Florida.[...]ld build rain- and water-proof shelters. In spite of the days of rain and meager food supply, all survived. Spring[...]my mother, was born August 8, 1879. Levi heard of the great boom in mining and railroad buil[...] |
| [...]Oakdale, Nebraska, on April 3, 1871, on the farm of Levi and Mary Shambow, near Alcon River. When six[...]Lakes Refuge, He was a skilled "Jack of all Trades" and kept busy here formerly the Shamb[...]He had surgery on his eye in February of 1970, but he He and his brother ·George carri[...]mail sacks on their He was the oldest of a family of six. His wife and two sons backs.[...]any friends and enjoyed their visits to his home. of Monida, and on Jan. 9, 1893 married Eva Lou Jones[...]dren were born, Billie, Josephine and tired of riding in a car. Bill lived among pioneers: Culve[...]d farmed for a few years near Corvallis. days of the Centennial Valley. After selling the f[...] |
| [...]h Young and Sybil Burgon live in Utah In March of 1891, he and his parents, J. A. and Martha[...]e born, two girls moved to Dillon in June of 1944. Ben was born in the Cen- and twin boys. In[...]ts and skunks in the winter. In the summers of promise. he built log cabins and fences for other[...]from a well, heated it on a Wanting a place of their own, they traveled several days wood stove,[...]in a Number 3 washtub. We had with a team of horses to find the right place. They finally a well packed trail through two feet of snow to a three-seater decided to take up "squa[...]gpie Springs. It outhouse. But it sure took a lot of courage to go out there was necessary to sta[...]m- drilled a well and after untold number of feet, finally struck mings. Dad chewed horseshoe[...]r household use was would cut out bells and stars of cardboard.We kids wrapped hauled in barrels[...]r, Dad took hay contract, putting up hay for some of the ranchers. And of course Dad had his own crew. In later years, we milked a lot of cows and sold the cream. The cream was hauled to[...]ar Sharp scratch. There was only one child out of nine who saw a doctor until we were grown men and[...]sage for worm. YUCK! Sassafras tea in the spring of the year to thin your blood and for a chest cold[...]t you got wrong with you, there was always a dose of castor oil. Mother passed away at her h[...] |
| [...]He was born in Ohio June 2, 1861, the son of Samuel and Hand place. Oscar put up the hay on th[...]y returned to Dillon where they raised a few head of foundation of the Orr Mansion. His brother, Virge, helped livestock on the Cornell place, west of the city. lay the bricks. Virge was also one of the first janitors at the Retirement years wer[...]ertrude died in 1953 and Oscar in 1955 at the age of 81. Harry and Lula were married August 19, 1[...]rr Ranch for years and also worked for the Forest Service and Roscoe Cornell. He married twice, his firs[...]e passed away December 20, 1956, after an illness of several months, and was buried in the Mountain Vi[...]Mr. Shaw was foreman and superintendent of one of the P[...]Mr. Shaw died suddenly on October 15 of that year. Mrs.[...]member of the Methodist Church for over 60 years and took[...]part in the local activities of that church. She passed away[...] |
| [...]r, activist Establishing herself as one of Montana's early "Liberated in valley affairs and[...]o, on January 22, 1871, Mary Ann was the daughter of Joe Shaw was a prominent leader in the construction of Moses and Helenor Stephens Thomas Dudley. It is thought Big Hole roads, the securing of a site, chutes and a grand- that Moses Dudley had[...]hday Mary Ann married Frank Horace tion of Wisdom's Masonic Temple. 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- Known for their[...], Nellie, Beth, and rodeos. It was said many of his fine animals came from the Rula.[...]bsen and later assumed op- trading. eration of the family ranch at Briston. He became well[...]'s enthusiasm for progress. known among cattlemen of the west as a breeder of fine She became particularly identified[...]ed Hereford cattle. Beth married Don Francis, son of difficult struggle to improve the Big Hole r[...]r Big Hole family, highly regarded as a of Mary Ann, and other ranch wives such as Flora Hir[...]Rula married Carvell Hole roads capable of supporting year round automobile Campbell and ope[...]ives in Longview, Wash., the only surviving child of Three sons were born to Joe and Mary Ann[...]After graduation from the University of Utah, Warren Joe Shaw was born in Muncie, Ind., on August 25, 1872, married Esther Christensen of Dillon and joined the family and probably arrived[...]ing, born in 1931, now living in became Secretary of Agriculture in the cabinet of Presiding Billings. Harding.[...]I van married Kathryn Finnerty of Deer Lodge and they The marriage of Mary Ann and Joe Shaw brought togeth- had[...]d Carolyn er in a single operation the properties of several homesteads who was killed by an automob[...]ddenly at age 19, in 1929. what was to become one of the most prominent Big Hole Injured[...]sinking cattle market forced the loss of a major portion of[...]the family plot of the Briston Cemetery beside her family[...]Davenport, Iowa. He was the eldest of nine children; Wil- Mary Ann Shaw[...] |
| [...]Five members of the group preferred to tramp back down[...]the trail to the Sheser ranch in hopes of getting a lodging[...]tions of the west; traditions that were being killed by th[...]coming of wire fences and railroads. Those five pilgrims[...]of Aunt Nellie and Uncle John Sheser. They retired f[...]Ralph Edward and Samuel B. Sheser. At the age of 18, Jno came west locating first at Pocatello, Id[...]r 6, 1891 he married Nellie May Blair at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. William G. Blair of Horse Prairie. Rev. Crawford united them in mar-[...]County before it into the gulch below, a distance of three hundred feet, moving to Hayden Idaho[...]the mines for a number of years. When the war with Spain After th[...] |
| [...]ho, where he starved, clothed in a pair of overalls made of a wagon sheet lived until his death November 18,[...]d a fractured skull. Death In the spring of 1863 Shine berger again headed west from came Oct[...]iladelphia, Penn., on January 5, 1836, the fourth of a family of eight children born to Nicholas and Mariane (McCu[...]young man and made his living as a manufactur- er of soap and candles in Philadelphia. Young Joseph[...]was educated in the common schools until the age of 12 when he became an errand boy for a hardware co[...]a shovel factory. In 1859 the gold excitement of Pike's Peak drew Shine- berger west. Leaving from[...]our other prairie schoo- ners, drawn by five yoke of oxen each, until they reached Boulder, Colo., in July. There they sold their stock of goods and wagons. Briggs went on to Denver while Shineberger remained to work at a variety of jobs including haying, placer mining, whip-sawing[...]the center of activity was Bannack, so they shifted their[...]pieced together parcels of land acquired by purchase and[...] |
| site of Redrock, a shipping point between Salt Lake City,[...]ineberger would successfully devote the remainder of his life to farming and stock raising on an exten[...]A near disaster occurred in the severe winter of 1886-87. For miles in every direction on his seve[...]ds on the Shine- berger ranch symbolized one more of its operations, that of the production and marketing of baled hay sought by horse- breeders as being as n[...]e was known to have shipped as much as 1,000 tons of hay by the Utah & North- ern R.R., later known as[...]his life. His household was cared for by a series of Chinese cooks who were available as domestic help, employed out of Butte. As head of his household, this practice continued even after[...]Cattle Company. Later he recalled this as a time of year- At the time of his death the Dillon Tribune, in Shine- ro[...]idn't feel well, had frequent nose bleeds and was of patented ground and had many thousands of acres of losing strength. A doctor said to him,[...]the leased land. He also paid taxes on 5,615 head of sheep, a hell out of here." So he and his partner, Walter Hovis from large number of horses and 1,183 head of cattle." Pennsylvania, moved north[...]le in the States, he had heard about the Big wife of William Roe of Dillon, a nephew, Edward B. Roe of Hole Basin and headed for it in 1912. The[...]tist Dr. Frank Bimrose who was Democrat, a member of the Pioneer Society of Beaverhead looking for a manager for his dry land farm on the County and a charter member of the Bannack Lodge of Free Sweetwater road. This land is still owned by the Bimrose's and Accepted Masons. His donation of $25,000 to the Bar- daughter Frances. rett Hospital fund helped make possible the construction of Stanley ran the Bimrose place for three y[...]and Hampshire, England, the youngest in a family of 11 chil- enlisted. He was assigned to the[...]sives. One of Stanley's older brothers emigrated to Canada and Armistice Day found Stanley in a hospital, victim of rain, when Stanley finished his education, he joi[...]gue and possibly French rations (which the plains of Alberta, he began his life-long vocation of farming. soldiers supplemented with loca[...] |
| [...]o saw Indians buried in their typical way, on top of a[...]Dillon. Stanley 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 see any of them. He was always sad he didn't see years of age, she left her native country. She was employe[...]. of 1200 lives. Mary and some 713 survivors were resc[...]t for a damaged hip He paid $425 for the big team of geldings. To supplement and leg. The rest of her life she walked with a distinct limp. farm in[...]y recovered and went to work in northern New York of the Ruby Dam in the early 1920s.[...]Dickson A short while later she learned of an uncle who lived in of San Francisco in Dillon. Sally was born and raise[...]receiving her teaching degree. She was a daughter of pioneer parents. Her father, George Dickson, arri[...]for 14 years for the Union Bank and Trust Company of Helena. In 1941, they moved to a ranch at the mouth of Birch Creek Canyon which they bought for $3,200.[...]during their life on Birch Creek was the cirrival of R.E.A. electricity on December 22, 1947. I[...] |
| [...]e delicacy was a fat juicy beaver tail, baked and of Dillon, known as the Fox Farm.[...]er. Oftimes Grandfather taken at their farm north of Dillon in 1919. The Skenders Clark and Hen[...]father often remarked that Mrs. Hamby was one of the Skender continued working for the Anaconda Co[...]mily home was located at 63 having a streak of bad luck, he would blame it on the fact Leatherwood, Meaderville, a suburb of Butte. Jacob (Jack) that it was because he[...]those horse shoe Skender died in 1946 at the age of 71. Mary Lawrence nails in Ben Hamby'[...]ure sign to bring Skender died in 1947 at the age of 64. Anne, their first child bad luck the rest of your life. But it was the only nails to be passed[...]buried. Butte. Daughters include Mary Ann Seidita of Butte, An- Of course Ben's widow was never allowed to see or know tonia (Toni) Moore of Vancouver, Washington, and Cather- how badly mutilated the body was and as she took to the ine Lewis of Salt Lake City, Utah.[...]Grandfather died at the ripe old age of 107 and he loved to Missouri in the early 1900s.[...]se looked as though it had been built in sections of about The above account was given to me, Wynona 15 feet each, making it a structure of over 60 feet long. They Hamby Smith, as I spent a couple of hours interrogat- lived there for a number of years. ing a backpa[...]ter from a previous marriage: She did quite a bit of practical born here in the Big Hole up toward T[...]l9l8. He is Clark Smith's women in the area. One of the Weldon Else children, grandson;[...]their big log house on June 4, 1909. set of triplets and a set of twins. Aner his wife died he They eventually m[...]ek. He traversed the Bitterroot they rented. Some of these cabins are still in use today. and S[...]. Their log house stood for many years as sort of a land- mark, but little by little it was torn do[...]tana, in 1910. The train was the fastest mode of travel at Clark Smith[...]Schnieder, to live on Rock Creek, steads of farmland merely by occupying and cultivating the north and west of the present town of Jackson. land for five years and paying a registration fee of ten dol- There were four trappers who claimed t[...]ole lars. Anyone older than 21 or the head of the household as their hunting-trapping-prospecti[...]acres. They could pay the state for use of a school section or name I can't recall. T[...] |
| [...]rest on his laurels. He still had much of the work to repeat[...]The fall of 1915 gave a bountiful harvest. His hogs brought a[...]good price. His winter wheat was showing promise of a good[...]October, 1935, with all eight of their children.[...]gift - a great amount of money in 1916 - which she never The law said the person must live on their land five months spent. of every year for three years to improve it.[...]tle plants were brother, Hubert, seven miles east of Dillon in a cabin on just for them to en[...]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- homesteads.[...]tinuing drought and Clyde was having to work part of each several rods down a steep hill from Clyde's[...]ing they were doing, hoping their dreams of homesteading them in exchange. He put up boundary[...]he timber several miles away on the running gears of a -LOUISE SMITH ANDERSON wagon hitched to teams of horses. Each year Clyde accumulated machinery:[...]Edward C. Smith was a pioneer resident of Beaverhead he gazed at the storm already raging over the valley. It County. He was born the third of six children of William and meant get imperative things done fast[...]dward's family joined the Poindexter and Orr herd of cat- zero for ten or more days. Often afterwards[...]ook winds melting snow and making raging torrents of in the Argenta area. Edward's father en[...]onths. acres of land on Rattlesnake Creek below Argenta. He con-[...]hilled a man to the bone. until he owned one of the largest ranches in the area. He broke horses,[...]U.S. Land Office were younger. Department of Interior at Helena, Montana, the State Cap[...] |
| [...]Clinton Smith, (D.C., they seven miles southwest of Dillon. Edward and Rosa had four called h[...]t 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, h[...]a in the Knights Templer, the Butte Bagdad Temple of the the early days, settled in Nels[...]- ward's wife, died on January 1, 1930 at the age of 66. Edward beth lived until 1893, dying at age 86. was ill for the last year or two of his life but lived to be 77 D.C. and Eliza l[...]rm in Graves County, where they re- The stories of their four children follow:Earl Ripley mar- mained the rest of their days. D. C. died January 11, 1899;[...]of Montana. While in office his health failed and, a[...]a and mines. He died on March 10, 1973 at the age of 76.Eliza- carpenter who built a great many h[...]llon in the ton), and J oAnn (Baer). The youngest of their children, Em- contracting business. He lived the latter part of his life in ery Keller Smith, married Dora Elizab[...], but it was some- children are Emery C. E. Smith of Twin Bridges and Donald time between 1933 and 1941. N. Smith of Dillon. Emery Keller Smith died on February[...]) came next. He, like Arthur, 22, 1950 at the age of 48. was a[...]Butte, and spent a couple of years in the contracting busi-[...]father, Eli Smith, was born April 5, 1800, of his life by an attack of appendicitis, which was much more in New York Sta[...]re The fifth child was the first daughter of D.C. and Eliza, for a number of years. He married Nancy Walker there in[...]y In 1841 Eli and his family moved to that part of the state years. Just before WWI they moved to South Bend, Wash. known as "Jackson's Purchase" and set[...]). He also tensively. This farm was near the town of Lowes, Ken. tried the west, bu[...] |
| [...]ed they would pool what money they had and one of them ried J. A. Aton.[...]him he could ride back and stay with them years of education at Transylvania College, a branch of the until he got a job. Mrs. Pinkerton had bought a new fur coat University of Kentucky, graduating with honors in June,[...]Hole was extremely 1894. He then spent a couple of years on the farm, and then cold, she made Hub[...]office Dillon in a hurry?", so he rode the rest of the way at a much in Miles City. He told me his o[...]ace. Hubert was worrying about getting his checks of a building downtown, and the window looked out on[...]r sister Jessie, who was married to the President of a bank land from Gene Bond and planted it in fl[...]1906 Dad moved to Dillon and joined the law firm of was a bumper crop but when they got them ha[...]ness prospered. After a year In the spring of 1915, Margaret Lee Williams came from or so he wa[...]time, mother remained in Miles City until the end of Hubert met and courted and that fall Hubert followed her the school term of June 1909, after which she went home to back[...]. moon they settled down in their new home at 717 South Times were hard, fighting drought in[...]21, 1942, in Dillon. Clara eral boxcar loads of horses and mules to Clarendon, Texas. R. Smith pa[...]rillo, Texas. Hubert and Charley Garland Va., one of seven children and three half-brothers and sis- took another train load of horses and mules to Texas in ters.[...] |
| [...]d, he had ap- proximately 3,500 acres. By the end of World War II he had sold the sheep and gone into[...]lived in Dillon where h_e died in 1978 at the age of 93. Pearl and Nora[...]n to Irvin and sas City home for the birth of her first child-a daughter, Celinda Buck Smith, a[...]or the Kansas. Irvin and Celinda were descendants of English im- birth of her second child-a boy, Ralph Irvin. They lived i[...]had chosen a name, Pearl. To vacant lot on South Washington Street, where he later built soften th[...]o tolerate many quips about his phys- a set of abstract books. He traced land titles and was ele[...]cond, more accessible the Smith farm and the care of the five Smith children. The camp and hired[...]ading and experience. ness, and rented part of the building to an insurance agency. Pearl I. may[...]as University, re- He served on the boards of Barrett Hospital, Beaverhead ceiving training in[...]tern Montana College, then description. No record of his early adult years exists. Some- Dillon Normal College. He was a Mason and a member of where, somehow, he became deeply interested in th[...]Beaverhead County in the Montana found a deposit of high grade graphite in the Ruby Moun- Leg[...]one term in the House, during its 19th tains east of Dillon. Pearl I. decided to settle in Montana.[...]n 1929 and 1931. became the ambition and interest of his life. Injured in[...] |
| [...]When Frank was about 14 he became the man of the died in 1949 and Ralph in 1982. Pearl I. is s[...], studious, honest and loyal take care of. citizen who always did his best for his town, hi[...]hers- wards. He lived on his father's farm until of age. He then in-law. He married their sist[...]hich proved to be a failure, pioneer settlers of the Deer Lodge Valley. losing everything he had[...]Charlie's son Dustry (Orville) tells the story of his father He married Hannah Jane Rourk on Sep[...]time he borrowed $200 bought a small bunch of cattle. He moved Cora and the baby and started westward for the goldfields of California with and were all set. However,[...]and De- cal and the snow got so deep one of the cattle wandered over lena Ann. They traveled mostly by pack mules and arrived the top of a snow drift and fell through the roof of the barn. at Yreka, California, in 1859.[...]n, spring. Edward C. and John B. At the end of the six years he By that time Cora had had all of the Centennial she cared decided to come to Montana. In the company of Mssrs. for and I guess Cal, Jeff (Le[...]oved back to Warm Springs. Charlie and ing a herd of cattle. They were three months enroute, having[...]ay what property he had accumulated for 160 acres of land on Smith Currier, born May 31, 1872.[...]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 st[...]more children born to Mr. and Mrs. both of them. Three weeks after Maybelle was born, May Sm[...]hodist 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. razed to make way for the new church, the centerpiece of Ranching was near the Yellowstone. They said that as this window was installed on the west side of the present Frank was mowing hay in the m[...]und church. However, the name and 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.[...]ou took a bath or California, Mo., the second son of James Sparrow and Eliza even change[...] |
| death of cold; so once they put on their long handled unde[...]Joseph and Lucy Spehar of Lucy. They had a daughter, Mollie.[...]Mountain mining complex 30 miles north of Dillon and 17[...]miles west of Melrose, at a place called Lion City, about one[...]cated they were married by a Justice of the Peace in Lion John A. Spehar was· born in Yugoslavia (date of birth City on August 7, 1887, George a[...]orked in the coal mines. eventually moved south of Dillon and ranched there until When the father d[...]in the cop- grow grapes for the making of wine. per mines. John met Anna Sweet in Butte an[...]the second child of George and Mary Rebich and their only[...]south of Dillon. Lucy attended Beaverhead County rural[...]She married Joseph Spehar, a native of Austria, in 1909 and[...]Elizabeth Rose on December 1, 1919. All of the children,[...]ed approximately 0ne mile north of Dillon on the highway.[...]as a couple on several ranches. John soon tired of that type ofliving so they moved to Dillon. The[...]buy fresh vegetables all season. The bal- ance of her produce was sold to the grocery stores in tow[...]a janitor at the old Bagley School for a number of years. He then started doing cement work, pour- ing foundations and sidewalks. He did a great deal of work at the college and the retaining wall arou[...]own was finished. John passed away in September of 1942 and Anna in July of 1962. There were eight children born[...] |
| [...]boarded at our home. Bessie Wall of Dell taught the first This was a far different[...]her sister Nevada Wall, the second, and the wife of mother was also different. However, she found the[...]1909, when the government that spring of 1918 including my father. Ranchers bought opened[...]ought the price would be as high as it had amount of 320 acres each. Later they took the desert claim, been because of the demand for Army beef. In the spring the adjoi[...]an the ranchers paid for the steers the fall tion of land. This ranch was four miles from the little t[...]re. The banks who backed the ranchers found them- of Jackson.[...]amed at large and live on the land six months out of the year for three on the range in the B[...]er. It later a horse barn which is still standing south at the base of was dark before I arrived and my horse was act[...]y horse We left Montana in the summer of 1919 for northern three miles to the Kirk School[...]both in their nineties. The long hard winters of Montana land, we wondered how they happened to co[...]long lives. They are buried in Rose Hills Because of the heavy snows and long winters, school w[...] |
| [...]Jones homestead after the death of Charles M. Jones. Wal-[...]son of Jonathan Sprague and Mary Jane Ferguson Miles.[...]He was the sixth of 10 children and grew to manhood in[...]gue (wife of Milton Bean), Daliah Sprague (Gallagher),[...]were off right above the ankle, he walked on July of 1911. I believe that my father came to the Centen[...]om Monida to man over six feet and, because of the extensive use of his Henry's Lake. They bought a place on the Red[...]uscles. His feet near Long Creek, from a relative of Martha Jones and start- were amputated when h[...]ke a clean operation and he adjoining on the west of the river place. cou[...] |
| [...]n 1881 and staked a Squatter's claim at the mouth of Cherry Creek on the Rosebud. He made his living t[...]arrived from Missouri. Russell, even at the age of 17, was had been drinking on May 5, 1893, at the age of 70, near drawing pictures and gave one to[...]that By 1885 Bud had worked up to foreman of the P & 0 and his head was bouncing and his neck was on the endgate of his name in that capacity appeared with that of the owners, the wagon. Three days later the herde[...]search for Henry. They found Hen- cattle of his own and was the owner of the IXL cattle brand, ry's body in the river with[...]on Grate in Dillon. To interpreter and old friend of the Indians. The Chiefs pun- this union fiv[...]6. In 1912 the Sprinkle family moved to a home on South Mary Ann Sprague died August 28, 1898, at the age of 68 and is buried at the mouth of Cherry Creek on the Rosebud. Her grave is toward[...]n the Canadian trail herds and finally to foreman of the P & 0 Livestock Company of Dillon during the 1880s and 1890s, when that company was at the height of its glory among the top stockmen of the world. In 1882 an Englishman by the name of Conklin contract- ed with the P & 0 for delivery of 7500 head of cattle to the Bow River in Canada. Bud was put in charge of the herd. He E.B. -Sprinkle and Mart[...] |
| [...]During his cowboy days, Bud suffered a variety of broken couple of years. They came to Dillon in 1904, bought land b[...]g" business and at one time owned most of the land east of about a horse's body was unknown. Bud refused to[...]ob dissolved. Louis Stahl then became Justice of the Peace and that gave him the most pride - that of running the water held that position unti[...]was highly respected by wagon to keep the boiler of the giant Reeves Steam Tractor the legal pr[...]years, Bud retired to his Dillon home where he of humor and never forgot the struggles of his early life even died after a brief illness, D[...]mfortably in later years. Judge Stahl died career of a cowboy pioneer who helped build Montana. Syr[...]lady. She was a much-respected and admired member of the Baptist Chruch, a wonderful neighbor, and a f[...]na died at the Washington Street home in February of 1945. One of her legacies was a scrap- book of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life. Mr. and Mrs. Sp[...]stwald, Germany in 1861. He married Julia Klukner of Hesse Nas- sau, a regency of Prussia, on October 4, 1884. At this time there w[...]there went to Iron Mountain, Michigan, were many of their fellow countrymen had settled. While in[...]Her best friend was a little French the name of the baby that died; Bill; Frank; Louis; and woman[...]the next child born could receive the name of the child that cate with each other and be[...] |
| [...]-ESTHER MOONEl Clark of Butte. They had two children. Carl attended schoo[...]en. He side by the way. He was a justice of peace in Wisdom. worked in a bakery in Butte and[...]Louis Schmittroth. They had three at the age of four. My grandfather, being a miner, settled in c[...]bought a ranch at Paul Stahl, Sr., oldest son of Louis and Julia Stahl, was Wise River. born in[...]ily home is now owned by Otha Gra- corner of Montana and Bannack Streets, later the site oj ha[...]October 1, 1963, at which time, without a change of name. B.C.H.S. basketball team with team members[...]Albert Stamm married Josephine Dahmen of Milwaukee Paul Henneberry. Paul was an athlete, p[...]rket for lost his young wife at the 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[...]te, the last territorial gover- After the sale of the dairy he was elected County Commis- nor of Montana, also died - just across the street from[...]years he sang each Sunday in the choirs of the St. Jame Paul died August 10, 1978,[...] |
| [...]d medical school in Minneapolis at the University of[...]ces were held at different hours. He was a member of dentist, and they reside in Florence. She te[...]yed the education in Missoula and is the mother of three girls. flute in the Dillon Band. He was a charter member of the Dean Stanchfield married Eddie Lou Dupuis of Melrose Elks Lodge at Virginia City and becam[...]n-Justin, Mat- Walter Stamm was a graduate of the University of Wis- thew and Mikal. The boys work on the r[...]Stamm Jewelers he employed by the Forest Service in Wisdom. had his own accounting business, t[...]Hiscock from Ekalaka, Montana, in 1924. They of a son, Lance. Frank operates a fishing and guidin[...]rest in Montana history and espe- cially that of Beaverhead County, led him to spend many[...]some recognition statewide for his views. One of his last family moved to Buffalo, Kans., whe[...]May (Dot) was born on April 30, 1883. At the age of son, W.A. Stanchfield, took up a homestead in t[...]rtin then purchased a homestead which is now part of seph Stevens; they later divorce[...] |
| [...]They ranched in the north end of the Beaverhead Valley, near the Point of Rocks. They had five children: Catherine,[...]Two of the children remained in Beaverhead County.[...]atherine married Everett H. Brundage, the founder of the[...]George Staudahar was responsible for many of the people of Austrian descent moving to this valley. In fact,[...]with his children. Addy married a man by the name of Enders. They wicker suitcase and gun, off[...]Ray married Cora Thelma Hails. Roy worked on some of the Butte and on to Dillon. ranches in the[...]before returning to Wisconsin. The flu epidemic of 1918 was sleigh; in the summer it was a motorized[...]Paris, France. In 1919 he was discharged from the service. On Dec. 2, 1897, Emma's last child, Mable Mar[...]1895 and 1898 Emma bought land on the north side of Dillon from the Dillon Implement Co. and P[...] |
| [...]rked and Les says he owes his life to the 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[...]south of Dillon. They raised vegetables, grain, hay, and[...]he Staudenmeyers and is still Hawaii after service in the Army during World War II and owned and ope[...]railed to the Navy in the early months of World War II and who was Centennial ranch some 30 miles. The cost of a boxcar was killed in a car/train accid[...]ry in Dillon, as are Chester and Wil- Speaking of winter in Beaverhead County, Les tells of the liam. winter of 1924-25, when the temperature fell from 43 de- gr[...]d packed in saw- avice, Austria, now part of Northern Yugoslovia. He mar- dust in the icehouse[...]in 1898 while still in the summer. Many freezers of homemade ice cream were Austria, an[...]ph Stefanie was born in 1888 in Croatia (now part of Yugoslavia) and came to the United States around the turn of the century to live with his sister, Mary, and he[...]Sr., on their farm near Barretts, about six miles south of Dillon. A brother, John, lived nearby. Mary Th[...]ied in 1915 and lived on a dryland homestead west of Barretts for a year and then[...] |
| [...]04, John bought a ranch in Section 10, Township 8 South; range 9 West, South of Dillon, from Jens T. Christensen and his wife, Ha[...]hay, and had a large garden. This was where seven of their children were born. John Jr. was born June[...]The Beaver Slide Stacker Township 8 South; 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 Schul[...]sold his ranch, but in a few years had to take it of the clothes for the children. She did the cooking[...]continued living with us and leased his took care of the chickens and the garden, and also helped in[...]He loved the raising her, as well as taking care of the household duties. His daughter, Mary, decided[...]The Stephens Family In 1866 at the age of 16, Grandpa (David Evan) Stephens embarked on the greatest adventure of his life - six weeks on a sailing vessel across t[...]ox team to Salt Lake City. Grandpa held a variety of jobs in Utah and Idaho, finally buying his own place in Malad, Idaho. In April of 1889 he moved to the Big Hole wit~ his wife, son[...]bought a scythe and cut enough grass from the top of the beaver dams to see him through the win[...] |
| Big Hole and often said it was the "Garden of Eden." and worked on the railroad i[...]egan well educated man, performed beyond the call of duty by to work for my uncle, S.S. Pat[...]coat and slept on Skiing was a favorite sport of the boys. In spite of their a table. My father worked in the Olmst[...]or excitement. ance in the latter years of his life. Dade worked at home and also for var[...]l, and my moth- they moved into a house a quarter of a mile from the Armi- er was active in th[...]this union, but a baby we were in and out of the "Manse" regularly. boy died at three months, so the family really consisted of My mother's sister, Anna A. Patterson,[...]outside the dining room window where she did most of Haying was the big project of the year. Dad was always her sewing. She spent a great deal of time on the "river trying to think of ways to streamline it for greater efficiency. r[...]ue herons. Her bird In 1909 he conceived the idea of the stacker now known as books were full of notes. One, especially, took my eye. She the Beav[...]ng to the sheep rancher as the Stock Market crash of 1929 to the financiers. Times were tough and there was the added burden of sending three girls (Ilma had died in 1923) to hi[...]up the ranch and worked for J.E. Morse as foreman of the Ajax Ranch until 1931 when he bought t[...] |
| [...]939, and my aunt died on May the purpose of educating their children during their high 22, 19[...]returned to the Big Hole upon completion of his tour of duty. He was a charter member of the Ted Harper Post 90, George and Mae Stewart[...]American Legion, in Wisdom and a member of the Wisdom George Henry Stewart was born on a[...]as a telephone lineman, and a young man but tired of that and, upon reading about operated[...]r. This job was short-lived after spilling a tray of January 18, 1930 and Duncan, born December[...]es. Following that, he took a job working for one of the -AN[...]anchers in the area, where he stayed for a period of about three years. While there he heard about[...]art came to Beaver- While in Wisdom, he built one of the first log cabins, and head County from[...]hey moved to the Dell there are still the remains of both an old-time, house-drawn area and worked[...]sed the Peat Ranch above Lima. They also break-in of his cabin by a bear, he decided to move closer to owned and operated a ranch north of Dell known as the town and homesteaded on a ranch a mile west of Wisdom. Long Place. They lived at the P[...]in 1929. They owned and oper- still lived in. All of the materials were hauled in from Salm- ated th[...]one time the post office Scott Place north of Dell. In 1946 they sold the store and was also lo[...]moved to their ranch south of Lima, which was Edna's par- To George and Mari[...]early 1900s. All the brothers with the exception of Utah State College in Logan. As a young man he re[...]ell and Sage Creek areas. tober 6, 1894, daughter of Jake and Rosa Neidt, in Peru, Iowa), on Fe[...] |
| [...]too scarce to raise crops, and the talk of an irrigation system[...]quiring an eighth grade and adding a set of sled runners. The family also went to education i[...]church at the school house as Rev. Humphrey of the Meth- of horses - especially fast ones and is supposed to[...]and team to race. He In the summer of 1918, after having left the dry farm and thorough[...]ed in 1902, which left him, as the oldest miles south of Dillon) the family was thrilled to drive into son[...]completely enthralling new event had become aware of a pretty, spirited redhead on a nearby - a[...]ater. At that farm. She was Mabel Logan, daughter of Eugene and Clara time it was possibly a[...]the farm growing and school and business college of Winona. harvesting their crops of hay and grain. With hogs and a About that time[...]ree miles, unless lucky acquired several sections of prairie land and a couple of big enough to get a ride with a considerate pa[...]Mr. Logan through the ripening teakettle of boiling water, plenty of elbow grease on the friendship with his daughter,[...]ually some strong cuss words for good measure one of the engines, leaving a younger brother to aid his[...]e 24, 1909, in Beach. They later acquired a piece of land, moved to Dillon to find other work. Walt[...]ke operated for several years with the help of the older chil- a change. They had heard of the great state of Montana, and dren. the many acres of land open for homesteading. After an[...]w built on that block. "Fanny", a team of horses, a team of mules, machinery, etc.,[...] |
| [...]interests on homestead there. Then the cost of freighting wheat became Horse Prairie.[...]heir logic was quite simple. 'Vell, you might not of come 1987. back ... and then we'd of had it.' Charlie took it back again Twins, Roy[...]ant store and served as postmistress bushel of tomatoes cost $.10, a box of corn $.15, and a pair of when her sister moved to the ranch. She served in[...]a happy life to- Usually all you could eat of sausages, potato salad, and gether.[...]. Stoll not one of the first settlers, he was one of the chief directing[...]spirits in sculpting the commerce of Dillon. Busily engaged Charles Fredrick Stoll[...]since boyhood, he still found time to culti- one of eight children. His folks were originally from Ger- vate those interests represented outside the realm of practi- many but had immigrated to the U.S. and w[...]they were living on a 15 acre truck farm outside of Louis Stone, originally from Shawnee Co[...]ago, Illinois. Today that same 15 acres is a part of the was born not far from Topeka on the afternoon of October city. 16, 1860. As that year was one of political excitment and As Charlie grew up his[...]as then turned over to his dad.When Charlie tired of this, ever, when young Abraham Lincoln reached the age of ma- he left Illinois to work in the Kansas oil fi[...]orn at Royalton, New York at no charge regardless of whether they worked for the rail- in 1825 and[...]home in Eaton County, Michigan. He received most of his Deer Lodge Valley where he worked on the thre[...]d then for the Bitterroot and was a pioneer of Kansas. In 1863, he moved to White- Irrigation Co[...]to Kansas friend Sam Licks, was killed by a tick, of which there was an and settled on a farm in Lea[...]he Bitterroot was no in 1904 at the age of 79. He married Martha A. Hotchkiss in place for h[...]1857, daughter of Freeman Hotchkiss, a farmer, contractor[...] |
| State Bank of Dillon founders, from left: Gus[...]ent Republican in Louis became chairman of the Executive Committee of Kansas and served several terms as a member of the Kansas the Montana Bankers Association[...]o 1913. Around 1915, William Jen- From the age of six, Louis grew up on his father's farm in ning[...]s home. His unannounced arrival for dinner caught of former slaves that were not allowed to attend pub[...]a unprepared, forcing her to serve the usual bill of school. A regular hand on the farm, he earned his[...]er getting his education, The first 20 years of prosperity for the State Bank was a first grade t[...]handising. three decades. With the breakdown of agriculture in the Not enjoying the best of health in Kansas, he sold his state, the St[...]ork for the Dillon Imple- tated an assessment of the stockholders for additional funds ment Compan[...]ondition. From 1889 to 1892 he was superintendent of schools for During this period, Louis[...]oe were the Beaverhead County and became a member of the State major stockholders and with the bank failing, Louis's health Board of Education. He was a director not only of the Conti- began to fail as well. When the sto[...]rashed in nental Life Insurance Company, but also of the Lima Mer- 1929, all was lost. At the age of 69 he felt he was too old to cantile Company, the[...]t over. He died on April 16, 1930 in his house in South Dillon Green House company and president of the Beaver- Pasadena, California. head El[...]rving on the City Council, and was a keynote of A. L. Stone's entire business life. Dillon and the member of the Elks. His family were members of the Epis- country around it had no more en[...]ril 8, 1896, Louis married Albina Smith, daughter of Eden Smith of Oblong, Illinois. They -JERRY L. STONE, g[...]orn in Mt. Savage, Md., in 1856. and on the first of August established the State Bank of She was one of 13 children born to Benedict and Anna Mary[...] |
| [...]reported in the Dillon Tribune of July 28, 1911: "Shot down[...]of Melrose in arresting two men who were creating a[...]of that place died in a Butte hospital Monday mornin[...]Streb. He emi- ed about three miles south of Melrose in Madison County. grated to the United S[...]bhard Fassler in 1925. They ranched one mile west of family. The first child, Charles, was born in 188[...]made bricks for the charcoal kilns and built some of the kilns himself at Canyon Creek in 1884-85. He[...]elrose. He got the clay In 1835, as a youth of eighteen, William Sturgis left his for the bricks[...]onger man there. On the way a harness on his team of horses broke challenged the pioneer in him,[...]is eyes to the and the horses bolted, running out of control. To save him- far West, and leaving[...]ped grangrene and died joined the caravan of Capt. Robert E. Fisk at St. Paul April two weeks[...]y 22, 1901, Veronica wrote to her Hearing of the rich strike made that July at Bannack, sister[...]turned rather to the business possibilities of the rapidly loss of my dear husband is a great shock to us all, and I[...]ot be happy any His first thought was of his old business of milling, for more. Poor John met with a horrible[...]erything nice and neat, a nice nack. Part of his mill machinery was also freighted in from cof[...]Dear sister, I have one thing that I can be proud of, and that direction on Rattlesnake Creek at a[...]ng town. So great was the demand, body." Speaking of the Iowa house Veronica continues: "We th[...]e ranch, later owned by Lovells, at the mouth of Beaverhead 526-Beaverhead History |
| [...]ith 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 Station, Mrs. Kate Poindexter Lynn of Dillon, then the ten-year-old Katie Sturgis, wrot[...]d Elizabeth Sutherland (early 1900s) to Salt Lake south, and Helena and other points north, Ontario, Canada, in 1882, at the age of 18, by way of Ogden, spoke of the Sturgis Station as the best eating place on t[...]hauling where we get prime roast beef, and a cup of good coffee.' wood by horse and bobsled[...]es with expert ers during the winter of 1882-83. He prospected for gold, drivers holding[...]came rolling through the canyon gate, with of the area, demonstrated horses to government buyer[...]to the changing of the railroad tracks from narrow to stan- In 18[...]dard gauge. He was married to Idonia Raining of Birch Christian Heade, Lawyer Washburn Stapleton,[...]. by James Bryant at Hecla on Trapper Creek, west of Mel- Three smelters which had been[...]t to months these men sold to the Knippenburg Co. of Indiana- Dillon for shipment to smelter[...]lvet" that! The big old Knippenburg house Florida, Tilden, and Badger mines to Dillon, so the famil[...]ssatisfaction joined two friends in a roundup of wild horses between with the "penny business" the[...]mals which were sold to a horse-trading firm of Medicine known the roughest of them, Bob, but none that I knew were Hat,[...]pulled by horses, and co. 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[...]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.[...] |
| [...]Gun Battalion. After his original issue of boots wore out, the[...]to South Carolina to visit his family and renew his friend[...]ade several farm transactions before coming West. Of[...]arried. John Sutherland on "Don", reputedly a son of "Spo- After finding that Janie wa[...]bride-to-be. He went back to Pickens in the fall of 1927. with teams on the ranch north of Dillon long after everyone On October 13 of that year, Warren and Janie were married. else had gone over to the use of the internal combustion Their train trip b[...]horses. It was a sad policeman for the City of Dillon. He worked as a custodian day when his las[...]amiliar sight to Dillon residents as he took care of the Mr. Sutherland continued to do his ranch w[...]ired teacher, is married to dents and experiences of his own and of the people who had Julius H. Kapla, and live[...]rsued her long time was keen, he had a good sense of humor, and thoroughly 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.[...]in View Cemetery. Elizabeth Sutherland, sister of John Sutherland, born in[...]Swanstrum Mrs. Chambers spent the last 12 years of her life in Dillon where she was a faithful atten[...]in Wapello, Iowa. She was the daughter of Catherine Dar-[...] |
| [...]k, to Joseph and Stockholm. Carl Swanstrum's date of birth was September Elizabeth McN amee. 18[...]ing in the Hecla and Vipond Park In the Spring of 1871 the three Swartz children and the area i[...]ek Basin. There in Sweeney Gulch in the north end of Swanstrum child, later to be named Charles Albert[...]e a 900-foot tunnel single-handedly. He rode much of the distance seated on a round top trunk.[...]ay said there was nothing. Pat could wield Valley of the Territory of Montana in July. The baby, Al- a simple jack[...]utton for work. the Beaverhead River in the Point of Rocks area. Other Pat was a brother of William Sweeney. At Bill's insis- relatives and f[...]Pat and Eleanor's home was about three-quarters of a They developed the ranch and raised cattle a[...]from the Bill Sweeney home. In the and many acres of hay and forage crops. Many winters the summ[...]strum children had married and established homes of their Creek to live. own.[...]Pat died March 16, 1937 of pneumonia. Sarah returned to Early in the 1900s most of the family members decided to Denver where she[...]William and Lillie Sweeney After the passing of Carl Swanstrum on September 12, William[...]nd Rose's retirement years were a welcome time of relaxation William. William was two years of age when Rodger died in free from stress. During[...]r Fagan two years later. She could crochet a ball of thread a day. Rose died July 19, William wor[...]ry good in Carl are buried in the Masonic Section of Forest Lawn math. When he was 16 he was[...]in the summer and to the south in the winter.[...]They came by way of side-door Pullman to Dell and walked Pat[...] |
| [...]hey got along really well. Lillie would just sort of smile at William's use of the English language.[...]nd Earl purchased a 1917 Franklin. These the turn of the century. This land joined and they were[...]ning both sheep and cat- wouldn't run a lot of the time either. tle.[...]for Harry Andrus, the man who built the of the Dell Hotel. They couldn't agree on which was[...]t the clutch and backed right up against the door of the cream to Armstead in a buggy.[...]arried and moved to his place, Bill built a house of very fine cook and able to cope with the c[...]r. Lillie was a school teacher. She had two years of high school and one year at a teachers' college i[...]. To this union five children were born: Roger of Moses Lake, Wash.; Margaret Sweeney Hagenbarth of Dillon; John Sweeney, who died in a tractor accident on September 23, 1955; Peter Sweeney of Salem, Missouri; and Mary Sweeney Ford of Portland, Ore. Things changed when Lill[...] |
| [...]has been remodeled but still stands. The village of Klanac has been renamed Severine but the street n[...]ther left home, never to return, leaving a family of nine children to be raised by her mother, Mondalina. The family income was derived from proceeds of the farm, making homemade wines and breads, especially a rolling bread called Povaticia. In spite of these enterprises the family income was small and only frugality got them through the winters. Because of this and the distances to schools, Aman- da was o[...]age of two and a half from what was then known as sun-[...]leys of Beaverhead taking its toll. Michael was one who d[...]the reins of running the farm including the reins of a team of Since the village was small and a good distanc[...]lds, sow the seeds, and perpetuate larger centers of population, medical facilities, etc., five of the farming cycle to meet the mortgage payments[...]As time went on, the schooling and church needs of the relatives, the four found their way to Beaver[...]int- or school was three miles by way of Lovers Leap, so a solu- ances she met Michael Swe[...]oungster in Yugos- be cut in half. Because of the terrain, trees, underbrush, and lavia, was in[...]business, relatives and the beauty the lack of a right-of-way, a road to accommodate a car or and openness of Beaverhead County lured him into farming wagon was out of the question. A footpath, however, was and ranching. For the first few years of their marriage they feasible, but how to for[...]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 from swinging bridge was built. Two large posts were buried into the Brown Ranch Company of Spencer, Idaho. In May of the ground on each side of the: river. A solid bar was nailed 1920, they bou[...]and adjacent acreage from R. near the top of each pair of posts. Two long lengths of cable W. and Lena B. Boone. Here at last with a place of their were anchored solidly to the ground on one side of the river, own, they were able to raise a variety of crops and cattle. draped over the crossbar,[...]his couple. All over the crossbar at that set of posts and again anchored to except two sur[...] |
| [...]r in the middle. In similar fashion, another pair of light- er cables was anchored parallel to the low[...]rtcut to Dillon and over the years the footprints of the Swetish family wore a lasting pathway. This p[...]Swetish farm. Many to fish the cold clear waters of the Beaverhead River, some to visit, and others t[...]jumping on the bridge, causing it to sway way out"of the ordinary and many times causing much needed repairs. As the footsteps dwindled and a more modern mode of transportation became available, the old swinging bridge deteriorated and today most of the structure is gone. Although time seemed to stand still on the farm, the years marched on. Most of the Swetish children, now adults, scat- tered to[...]I be- family and moved to town. After a few years of leasing, the came Yugoslavia.) Johnsons bou[...]Swetish died at the age lives in Spokane. of 86 and was laid to rest in Mountain View Cemetery[...]some of their operating equipment in partnership. In May,[...]the Bannack-Boulder-Butte area. built of logs by the parents-Reibers, Turners, Gransberry, He died in November, 1957 at age of 84. Katherine was born Sassman, Tadevich.[...]a Miss Grant, a lovely girl who June, 1977 at age of 94. (Their villages were a part of the rode horseback to school. Her sp[...] |
| nated me. A cherished memory of mine is of Miss McGrady was the son of Isaac Tallent who came to Montana after who becam[...]e Union in the 13th Kentucky During the Christmas of 1917, we had scarlet fever and lost Cavalry,[...]n early The ranchers using irrigation water out of Rock Creek date he left Beaverhead County[...]military service married Genevieve M. Stoolfire from Penn-[...]passed away on November 18, 1971, having a service con- tocher, Scotland; Died: October 11, 1943, Di[...]S. citizen. After his marriage, Scotty shipped of his family to move to Montana. Three brothers and[...]ge's first job was a ranchhand on a ranch outside of for bravery. "Scotty" never lost the burr in his[...]he late 1870s, settling near Wisdom and later out of Jackson. Our father, Nathan Jay Tallent,[...] |
| [...]ed Tash Clark (1906), in Ruby, Leland Austin Tash of October, 1890 at Dillon. George served as a Deput[...]. Marshal at Bannack. Three of Homer's brothers and a sister, Cora Jackson, also[...]the Grasshopper Valley lived in Bannack. Some of the children and grandchildren of and he engaged in the stock business for several[...]ll. His prime interest was George died at the age of 76, May 4, 1940, in Dillon. gold dredge[...]by, Mont., where there were several dredges. Most of the frontier stage station operated in the early[...]on Number One Dredge. The hours were present site of Barretts Station. She was born a few months lo[...]were electrified. This meant revising work skirts of Bannack on what was known as the Paddock Place. schedules. Instead of two shifts of workers in 24 hours, there Susan attended scho[...]n Bannack. Susan would now be three shifts of eight hours each. As Number married George M. Tas[...]98; and saved when cars were used instead of horses and buggys. Ruth Tash Noone Peterson, Born[...]boats in the area, each Susan died at the age of 90 in Dillon, August 20, 1957. one designated[...]eral young ladies of the town had become wives and after the Homer[...]s completed, went east with their husbands to son of Lewis and Mary Tash. Lewis' parents came to Iowa[...]ld dredging would settlers in Iowa from the state of Pennsylvania. Homer A. soon be finished. He[...]ash came to Montana in 1896 from his native state of Iowa. found one near Twin Bridges, Mont. The h[...]the ranch. They had to ride in an open September of 1898, Homer met the train in Dillon and[...]matters worse, the four younger children had both of Iowa. That evening, Homer Tash and Nora Abbott[...]The ranch, two miles south of Twin Bridges, was referred Five childre[...] |
| [...]s later when she and her daughters The front part of the house was built of logs covered with traveled by jet to Alask[...]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 Mar[...]in Cemetery. the Farm Bureau and was a member of the Federal Farm -BILL TASH Committees. At the time of his death in September 1943, he was serving a second term as county commissioner of Madi- Noah Raymond and Anna son County. N[...]mily and the ranch hands. beth Weeter Tash, seven of whom later migrated to Ban- Later on t[...]r who chose not to Salt Lake City. All of the freighting was done with hand migrate as far[...]the eldest, Ira, who was loading and teams of horses. A few years were spent in the born in Cla[...]F. Jackson. 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[...]head County Fair time to judge the horse sections of the married Patrick H. Connor, to which union was[...]y, born in Bannack, January 15, picture of him without his muleskinner hat, pipe and/or a 19[...]13; and Rex Francis, April 20, 1915. Clara told of her first trip to Bannack at the age of 17. The Union Pacific train fare from Thay[...] |
| [...]d the Staudenmeyer Ranch on the Beaverhead, north of Dillon. Anna passed away on July 26, 1957 at the home of her daughter, Evelyn. Ray and Anna are both burie[...]Springs, Iowa. He was the fifth child in a family of eight children Colo., September 4, 1876, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. born to Lewis and Mary Elizabe[...]ed to Bill came to Bannack from 'his home state of Iowa in the Bannack where her father practic[...]n the "Bill" Tash, October 12, 1897. In January of 1919, she devel- days when Bannack was in the heyday of its frontier life. oped Spanish influenza.[...]unty in 1880, the year the railroad the operation of a Butcher shop in Bannack and Dillon, the re[...]. Bill served as foundation for the establishment of the ranch on Grasshop- Chairman of the Beaverhead Republican County Central per know[...]mmunity af- Bill's ranch boasted the reputation of being the best fairs. He served as an officer of the Montana Livestock Hereford breeding ranch in the state of Montana. On Octo- Association for many year[...]denly from a heart attack on October 19, daughter of Dr. J. S. Meade of Bannack. Three children 1949, at Dillon.[...]ur Sherman Tash, born May 15, 1909, at of Montana's most noble sons. Reverend Arthur[...] |
| [...]After the deaths of Frank Tate and his oldest son Hilary[...]years of operation, Ernest's health failed and he sold the[...]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 the original h[...]randma they ranched in the eastern part of the territory but were (Mina Conley Tate) passed[...]turned to Beaverhead County. ranch and took a lot of hired men to work. They ran[...]some prospect holes in the Argenta area that were of loaves of bread, pans of biscuits, three or four pies, and a questiona[...]moved to the Watson Station area, disposed of that and "I can remember my grandpa taking a trainload of fat returned to the Blacktail where he p[...]Station area where he met their steers on account of better prices. his future[...]have time Angeline Huff was the 13th child of William H. Huff and to come in for dinner. My bro[...]al and her sisters Sivilla et, and another bucket of vegetables. I carried three pies in and Harrie[...]uated from Beaver- springs waterfall stmth of Barrett's about 1888, and then[...] |
| [...]illon Tribune gave him this tribute: "Ben was one of[...]Montana in particular, the greatest part of a great country."[...]Myrtle tain View Cemetery. Charlie Sparr of Lima, native of Akron, Taylor, taken in Dillon 1904.[...]ber 6, 1919, in settled on 160 acres at the mouth of Grasshopper Creek. Lima with her sister Ha[...]s Sparr left. on Christmas Day, 1895, at the home of Herman Carson and Angie's daughter Berniece recalls, "The disappearance of his wife, the former Anna Hackett (Lilliam Hanson[...]re sister). The ceremony was performed by Justice of the yesterday. I was a small child. He s[...]left. That was the last time anyone ever saw him. of land at the mouth of the Grasshopper Creek, known as As far as[...]. I loved him so for $800. This place is now part of the property owned by much." Don and Helen Shaffner and some of the old buildings still Angie Taylor Sparr[...]about 1928 in Roberts, Idaho. Lou was the widower of resided until moving into Dillon. This place was[...]r sister, Eliza Jane Huff Jakway. Angie died side of Interstate 15 between Dillon and Barrett's and th[...]Dillon next to her first husband, Benja- and some of the outbuildings still stand.[...]Melbourne areas of Australia where they lived long enough[...]say the fall of 1863 while others say 1864. John C. became a[...]Vigilante and "performed the duties of that organization 538-Beaverhead History |
| [...]imself and to the organization," wrote the editor of the Dillon Tribune.[...]had studied law as a young man and within months of his arrival at Bannack was selected as probate ju[...]le still in Idaho Territory and upon the creation of Montana Territory on May 26, 1864, he be- came th[...]essions at the old courthouse in Bannack for most of 1864, then resigned to take up ranching on Taylor[...]ligion to carry him away. Through interpretations of dreams, he lost his place on Taylor Creek. The Ta[...]ary 2, 1897 to Benjamin and subsided. At the time of hi$.death, April 28, 1885, he owned Angeline Ta[...]ntana Mining District. streamnortheast end of Dillon that she rented to pensioners Christian Mead, the probate judge at time of John C.'s and single working men. death and a long time friend, oversaw the administration of Myrtle befriended her renters and many othe[...]d was famous for his ways gave generously of her time and money. She had a illegible handwriting and the court records support this in- terrific sense of humor and often recited poetry and sang famous cl[...]songs using different voices and parts. One of the things were worthless and sold them to their mother for $200. Two Myrtle was noted for was her love of animals, particularly years later she sold them t[...]dogs, cats, and horses. She had a great knowledge of birds was buried in the Argenta Cemetery.[...]vernment. ers appointed her County Superintendent of Schools. She She served as a Dillon Precin[...]re- In 1971 she was honored for 50 years of membership in the signed.[...]Rebekah Lodge. She was very proud of her family and its John Taylor, Jr. drowned in[...]nd Edward died sometime thereafter. Daughters of the Montana Pioneers. Little is known abou[...] |
| [...]Ivy Lee Davison, daughter of Dr. Asa Lee and Mary Olive The Taylor F[...]tab- Panama Canal to San Francisco, the Territory of Idaho and lished his practice in Optometry.[...]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 wer[...]. For many years, he was country. Over many miles of trail, they carried a gum boot of treasurer of the Methodist Church. Affiliations included the o[...]Dillon Wranglers' Club, I.O.O.F., Modern Woodmen of tales of his encounters on this and other journeys.[...]n Bridges, Mon- 1858; d. June 15, 1938), daughter of Rev. Michael Gross and tana.After finishing H[...]ive in forming Kappa Zeta Nu They were parents of three boys and one girl: Levant Tate sorority and became a charter member. She often spoke of (b. January 1, 1882; d. March 12, 1950) who marri[...]r search for a secure place to deposit the papers of orga- Hainds (d. July 15, 1951) in 1912. Their children were Helen nization, for the future: inside one of the pillars of the Old Bernice Taylor Hautala (b. September 10,[...]rried. Her School superintendent and leader of Epworth League. She twin, Carl Byron (b. March 18[...]1950) Rebekah Lodge and was a charter member of Chapter AD, on June 25, 1912. Their daughters are[...]an excursion to Newfoundland, she caught the eye of a Riley on Sept. 1, 1844, at Nauvoo, Ill., the third son of seven young mining engineer who was seated beside[...]ry. A lovely lady, Elizabeth Miller, was a member of her, being shipped from Canada "around the Horn"[...]1866. They had both been baptized in the Church of Jesus the music department at Western Montana College. Christ of Latter-Day-Saints within the previous year. Mr[...]now West- to Trapper Creek drainage west of Melrose to try their luck ern) in Dillon. He obta[...]at prospecting. Northern Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago. When Hecla[...]ent at MSNC, he met his future wife, sheriff of Glendale for a number of years and also worked in 540-Beaverhe[...] |
| [...]ome time with his Tessier grandparents while days of guiding wagon trains. He became friends with many[...]illon and operated a small farm at the north edge of Dave and Elizabeth had seven children. At least[...]met and married his wife of 69 years, Florence Paddock[...] |
| [...]12 and Irene 1913. They These were the days of prohibition and the Overall Gang. moved to Dillon[...]horseman John had been an active member of the Brotherhood of and chauffeur for Marcus Daly's daughters.[...]e blessed with another girl, Helen, who ber of the Montana Elks when it was formed in Virginia w[...]peared in the Dillon Examiner best tells the kind of man girl Lelah in 1925 and Harley in 1934.[...]his friends William also worked for the Forest Service and helped to in Dillon and the surrounding[...]n unusual ex- build the road from Sula to the top of the hill at the Idaho pression of the appreciation and loyalty of those who knew line. At this time he owned a ranc[...]they returned to the Dillon area, but having most of Cast upon his own resources early in life wit[...]g in the Bitteroot they moved back to a gift of winning the good will of all with whom he came in small place there.[...]contact, he soon gained the reputation of being a square Both passed away in Hamilton-Fl[...]s 92. They had 22 grandchildren, most men of much wealth, as it was natural for him to be 44 g[...]randchildren kind, generous and thoughtful of the needs of others."[...]nd Helena from Switzerland. John was the youngest of died in infancy while the other four have a total of seventeen three, having two older sisters, Carrie[...]-JACK L. THIEL (grandson) Ohio. Around the age of 13, John left home. He lived in Utah, Colorado an[...]) and stepfather, James P. Smith, were the owners of a saloon. In 1903 John purchased it from them.[...]by trade, Isadore was very skilled in the art of hand hewing William David West born in 1903, Matt[...]to Austria. Mary Lawrenze was the daughter of John Law- Lima, because Idaho had become a "dry"[...]came to the United States in about as the owners of the Shamrock saloon in Lima. John was 1901. They had no children of their own, but were like also a breeder and trainer of horses, both for teams and parents and gr[...]residents. They racing. His son Jack was the envy of all the other kids since were Catholic godparents to many of the Rebich, Malesich, he drove his own buggy and pony. The winter and spring of and Spehar children, as well as many other[...]was a gambler and a chance taker. After birth of many children in the Beaverhead Valley. their ret[...]bich. She is the only known relative either of them had in 542-Beaverhead History |
| [...]years of age at the time of her death. Her obituary in the[...]years old. He was a resident of the county for 45 years. His[...]of his death, but those who knew him do not remember[...]ing there as children. Mary and Isadore did a lot of Dillon. Sophia died at a young age shortly after the birth of babysitting for friends, and were always ther[...]ed way they could. Isadore and Mary part of their family. Mary came out to the[...]ith her at Stamm Jewelers when Mary of 14, he left thatcountry with his father, who died[...]took part in more than one of those battles. He helped build[...], he moved with his family to the Big Hole by way of[...]have told many interesting stories of early days, but being a man of few words, these passed with him.[...] |
| [...]a and after his mother remarried due to the death of his natural[...]rk Thompson and Mary Eliza (Sanders) Thomp- tions of an unloving and brutal step-father. Following man[...]out 1892. John Clark's father (John such episodes of this unhappy institution, the chance of Crow) was from Virginia. He was a member of the famous retribution finally came in the digging of a well, wherewith Mormon Battalion which made[...]stress- coming step-father by dumping many pounds of stones ing conditions. He was one of the founding pioneers of Og- upon him, leaving the step-father in dire str[...]worked at general labor, ranch Captain of Cavalry in the Utah Militia and served in the work, and any type of employment available at that time. Black[...]Hybsahman a log cabin at the mouth of Little Sheep Creek Canyon, and they decided on a[...]nnial located about three miles due west of Lima. It is believed at Valley. With one daughter[...]rst settled on that time that the population of Lima wasn't over 300. (In the Burgin Place in the upper end of the Centennial Valley. 1890 John A. West app[...]e Amanda West did iikewise). A large part of those 300 son was born here and Mr. Thompson enga[...]orked on the Oregon Short Line Railroad, a branch of the ranching activities and took on the job of driving the mail on Union Pacific. The railroad[...]was a division point on the 0. S. L., the trains of work or for some family affair, journeying to Neb[...]er proved very unsa- Joseph Perry was one of eleven children and if his father tisfactory and to a part of Wyoming or to Couer D'Alene, had had his[...]iam but always returning to the Valley where most of the chil- Jennings Bryan, his father's life[...]idate who was also born on March 19. Place, (just south of the Frenchy Neighbor Place), now It[...]later they could suffer the pains of childbirth without benefit or moved on into Lakeview where the last son was born, and the luxury of hospitals, anesthesia or doctors. So all were Mr.[...]fuge and Mrs. born at home; a few of the younger ones enjoyed the privi- Thompson cooked at the hotel in Lakeview. lege of having in attendance Dr. L. C. Ford, whose only[...]n, attribute seemed to be a prescription of brown pills for any guitar, and banjo and was alw[...]lop- music for the dances in the then-remote area of the Centen- ments." nial Valley. The Thompso[...]the center. Three were classrooms The children of the Thompsons are: and[...]This was a time of firsts. John Russon, the husband of one Deforest (Faud) Thompson, md. Twyla Comstock (b. 1- of the Thompson girls (Amanda) drove his red Maxwell[...]Model of 1912, from Salt Lake to Lima, which was a little[...]Hutchins (b. 8-3-24); Percy Flynn, husband of another daughter of John Clark Perry Theodore Thompson, md. Caryl[...]Thompson (Irene) acquired from somewhere a couple of 3-26);[...] |
| [...]ey utilized the barb wire fences for a great deal of the distance. After a few trials and errors they[...]"good old days!" Then came the terrible winter of 1919. It dealt a death blow to many of the ranchers in Beaverhead County, among ffANCH ~,.,,, TOWN PIWPEPTY OF PHILIP THORPE OILLON , BEAVERHEAD VALLEY MONT[...]ly. There was the additional burden trip. of the sheep. That winter he had to pay $80 for a ton of hay. In the spring of 1864, Mr. Thorpe returned to Montana By spring he[...]t Gallatin. He engaged in -From the autobiography of JOSEPH PERRY[...]fine hay ranch near town. Mr. Thorpe was one of the first ~Phillip Thorpe county commissioners of Gallatin County, appointed by[...]England, on 11, 1865. He was a member of the Territorial Council in May 8, 1829, son of William and Sarah Thorpe who were 18[...]Phillip left home at age 11 to be an apprentice of Joseph County and settled on a ranch north of Dillon. He married Anderson in Lancanshire and st[...]orn in 1867; Phillip Jr., born 1870, and Florence of 1850 in the grocery and dry goods store of Kelly and Eliza born July 14, 1[...] |
| [...]eir two children, ty, Neb. At the age of 19, Clarence married Alice Williams, a Hayesl and[...]e toButte from Pennsylvania native of Belvidere, Thayer County, Neb. She was 16. The ar[...]i" 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[...]a heart left him with stiff ankles the rest of his life. He moved his attack. In later years he[...]Tonrey orchestra. They were well- name of "Timmons." The house was still standing in 1981 k[...]d in the U.S. Navy and was a fighter pilot in the South Pacific during World War II. He married Wanda Dal[...]d his retirement. He died in San Diego at the age of 45. Wanda still lives there. May continued to[...]"Bobbi" Timmons of age in 1984. -BILLIE BA[...]Eugene Timmons was born in Clyde on of a pasture between Franklin and Kent Streets off Railroad April 2, 1885. Of Anna Huffs seven children, Clarence was A[...]from Dillon to Point of Rocks and the Diamond O Ranch.[...]In the spring of 1914, he filed his claim and built a 12 x[...] |
| [...]on. She came from Sweden when she was did in most of the state. In the late twenties, while Clarence[...]and bought the Chris- Arah has many good memories of those earlier years. When tensen Ranch on[...]y Gnose in Anaconda. Jess bought horses for World of their lives.[...]August 5, 1983 at age 95. Jess was Master of the Masonic Lodge in Wisdom two They are buried s[...]different terms. Hannah was the Worthy Matron of the Their daughter, Arah Roberta, married Tex[...]parties at different homes. Some of the neighbors were[...]and John Wharton. William Jesse Tope, one of 10 children, was born in Clin- Telephone service was from nine A.M. to six P .M. on week ton, Mo.,[...]y it was where he worked for a family by the name of Thorpe in the discontinued altogether. Wel[...]ps to Gibbonsville. They bought a car by the name of "Maytag", the first car in Wisdom, and used that[...]-RUTH GNOSE AND JESS!E POTTS for the taxi service instead of horses.[...]o Centennial Valley in December, 1886, at the age of[...]the age of 17. The Dillon Tribune reported: "As the young[...]lady is under age, the written consent of her father, Milton[...]with Clerk of Court Walker. The bride is the young lady[...]who, on the first day of last March, accompanied her father[...]working. Paterfamilias - at the point of a gun, it was alleged[...] |
| [...], and told him to leave trailing 250 head of cattle. They arrived in Big Hole April the state[...]ing home their families. a warrant for the arrest of Bean, but when the case came up Dan Tov[...]r Frank, ing the winter. In the spring of 1890, Dan and Dave dug a Sept. 21, 1903; and Zeld[...]thinly over the snow to Brammer died in November of 1907 at Bisbee, Ariz., and is make it me[...]Toveys had three children: Danny, who spent most of family in front of the Bean home in Cottonwood, Utah. h[...]homestead on Corral Creek. Four sons of the Sunny Slope ranch. were born: Clifford Leslie[...], Sept. 6, 1916; and a baby boy mile north of Wisdom. There was a little lake near the born in[...]e taught vocal music in Logan, Utah, for the city of Idaho Falls until retirement.[...]was Mary Ida Brammer Torp died Jan. 15, 1952, of cancer, chosen "Mrs. America". Their s[...]veral years. He re- Mamie was not the daughter of Milton Bean by birth. signed t[...] |
| [...]Tritt died in Dillon, April 21, 1897, at the age of 71. Martha died October 26, 1923, at the age of 91. Soon after arriving in Dillon Grandfather[...]h. He worked there until establishing a homestead south of Dillon in the locality later known as Mast Canyon[...]years of 1919 and 1920, drought followed by severe winters[...]high cost of hay and corn for the livestock dealt a severe[...]d Mabel Koontz house just north of the city. Grandmother pa~sed away at Utah; Gibbon[...]Six children were born to the Sapp union, two of whom in-law.[...]mber 3, 1871, the eldest child hall, Montana. of Orlando and Mary Mast.[...]Edwy Eldred (Mac) Underwood was the fourth of six built a house at 226 North Pacific. The house[...]for Mr. parents met in the Herford area of England and were mar- Talcott of Twin Bridges for several seasons, and after a ried March 30, 1876, in St. Catherine's of Erin Hill, an disabling injury from the machinery[...]Anglican Church. Richard's citizen's Declaration of Intent[...] |
| [...]the sale on February 24, 1913. The site of the dwelling was June 10, 1873.[...]on Horse Prairie as well as other head of Hangman's Gulch. Despite the fact that the build-[...]the logs and whitewashed, to give the appearance of hard- friends of the growing Underwood brood. When Mary Ann[...]dry area, and an ice house learning the rudiments of ranch life. He enjoyed fishing, within t[...]nd Avis. Four were born in the cabin, Bernard was of 13, she matured early.[...]in Dillon, July 10, 1923. Mac died May 30, 1923, of stomach Ellen Ashworth, were born, raised and mar[...]e was a widow at 30. Shullsburg/New Diggings area of Wisconsin. They married 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 Richard and Mar[...]ebruary 6, 1881. She was named infant son of Sadie and Mac Underwood. Montana (Montie) Violet.[...]ood memories shared by our mother about the years of her youth were told to us and each time they were[...]Verbance enjoyed more and more. One of her favorite stories involved John Verba[...]ns. on May 4, 1885. In the small parish of Lukovdol, also in Upon one occasion, a group of besotted braves stumbled Croatia, Jos[...]the sitter and in years. Croatia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire general took care of other tasks demeaning to the older until the end of World War I. siblings. One of her jobs involved taking the baby by car-[...]he family co_oler. When Sadie and Mac met, one of her older sisters, as well as one of her brothers, were already romantically involved[...]ac became a father and lost his father. A portion of his share of the estate enabled the couple to J[...] |
| [...]Michigan, tucky and died in the spring of 1862 in Illinois. where his sister and her family[...]The family went west to the mine fields of Colorado. They the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas, through the Strait of were there for a time and then left Centra[...]Another daughter was born in learned of the rich discovery of placer gold just two months 1916. After working t[...]got family moved to Dillon and began John's dream of working about the Deer Lodge Valley and[...]Basin to Bannack. Two of the wagons, driven by Jim Harby In 1919, John,[...]Glen and Melrose area. In 1927, he became foreman of Bon Accord. In a few days, they rejoined th[...]nack. At that time Bannack was a small settlement of min- leased the JoseQh A. Browne ranch and later[...]22, the Browne Ranch at Browne's Bridge the rest of their lives, 1866 (died July 12, 1937) and A[...]1950, and Josephine died The settlement of Marysville, which was a mile or so July 21, 1976.[...]ans were on the move in the area after the Battle of the Browne Ranch. John Jr. died February 15, 1969[...]Berne, Switzerland, came to Wilson Wadams, son of William and Lucy Roland Wa- Buena Vi[...]phenson County, Illinois, in the In May of 1894, he brought his family to the Big Hole, fall of 1832 and built a small "claim house." He moved hi[...]railroad, family there in 1834 and they were one of the first families to then by freight wagons in[...]w lives. dams Grove in 1843. She was the daughter of George and With the Fred Hirs[...] |
| [...]daughter Barbara's 19 year-old daughter of William and Matena Nielsen Hjort. husband, and li[...]d on December 28th, 1894 in Egin. The last line of John Walchli's obituary is worth noting J[...]cleared the body was followed to the silent city of the dead by a sage brush off the land. When fall came, John took his bride sorrowing cortege of friends and neighbors who loved the back t[...]rairie Valley his Mount Pleasant, Utah, the first of 12 children born to John home. In the fall of 1901, he moved the family to Montana. Waldemar an[...]they were old enough for school. John got tired of having his was very helpful to him throughout his[...]year, then back to Montana for the summer. couple of good teams of horses and wagons and became a These tri[...]r. After a few years, the population of Horse Prairie had In the fall of 1894, John heard William Hjort was looking[...] |
| [...]the area and soon moved his family there. because of John's work, and the school sort of moved with When Len was old enough to[...]e was taken them since they had the most children of school age. back to Mount Pleasant t[...]1903; John Axel, born Decem- two years of sending his boys away to school, John bought a be[...]an, proved his John could never get Montana out of his system and father wrong and beca[...]himself to also play it. leaving Victoria and one of the boys to do the farming. Since He enlis[...]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[...]many dances at Grant, Mill- The musical talent of their Grandfather and Father was point,[...]nd saxophone. He learned to read ho, first of eight childern of Judson Dickson and Gundel music through a mail or[...]mers with their parents who John spent the rest of his life in Grant and passed away contract[...]ay Broth- years. She died July 7, 1964, leaving 9 of her 11 children, 28 ers. grandchildren, 57 gre[...]ant, Utah on September 29, 1895. He was the first of eleven November 29, 1928; Estella Fay, born[...]ld enough for shcool, at which ing community west of St. Anthony. During these years, his[...] |
| [...]1935, Len was hired by Nay Brothers to manage one of their ranches in the Grasshopper Valley. The faam[...]parents but was loved by countless friends of all ages. Communities home, north of Dillon. She was 36 years old.[...]good will during both progress After the death of his wife, Len and the children lived and e[...]successful business man. Some ble for taking care of the house, themselves and their school of those associats were: Billy Phillips, Sam Arndts,[...]Fred married Nellie E. Morse (1876-1913), artis- of time, his last few years, in the Veterans Hospital at Fort tic and musical daughter of Mary Margaret Fyle and Oscar Harrison. He passed[...]married Sarah Rogers (1846-1943) and on South Washington Street. issues: Alfred Frederick (Fred[...]Fred left for Dillon was a charter member of Montana Life Insurance Co. of in 1896, seeking work to bring mother and Harriet[...]one Fred was employed by J. E. Morse, manager of Dillon board meeting in Helena in 37 y[...]ng in harness, saddles, grain, hay, grocer- of shaking hands with every Governor during his life[...]LDORF Harriet (state winner in Elocution) was one of three women in first graduating class from the No[...]riet continued all busin- Joseph, third of 10 children of German immigrants, esses and partnership with E.C[...]Catherine (Heiserer) Wahl, was born No- ranching south of Harlowton until her death in 1955. Jessie v[...]hany City, now Pittsburgh. His (Poindexter) Moore of Dillon bought the insurance busi-[...] |
| [...]pelling soon became Wall out west as the of that year Joe and Beesy homesteaded the Keystone[...]cattle and some Capt. Camillo Carr's Company "I" of the First Regiment of fine horses. They had three more children:[...]ted as orderly to General died young of a gunshot wound when his rifle discharged as McDo[...]om San Francisco he climbed a fence. All of the Wall family are buried at against the Arizona[...]ard to fulfill his ambition to be a in the person of Beesy Brady. w[...]a on their childrens' Clarence went to work out of eighth grade so his sisters baptismal records) wa[...]w York state as a child and in 1877 president of Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad of Armstead; went to visit her storekeeper brother,[...]ked their wedding cake, as well. After five years service, he was honorably dis- "three tier with h[...]heck clerk for the Oregon James Mansfield of Dillon and Miss Margaret "Polly" Eliz- Short Line[...]nts list him as foreman for abeth Mansfield of Bellevue, Wash. the Union Pacific Freight Depot. He and Beesy had three The baby of the family, William Penn Wall, served in the chil[...]McGwire of Spokane, Washington) and they gave the Walls[...]the ranch of a cerebral hemorrhage on 13 October 1927. He[...]William's early death of a heart attack in 1930. She then[...]grandmother making a meal of boiled potatoes and salt. Bill[...]survive; the future of the Wall name rests with Joe and[...]way, but who would think that a little lad of six who sat so[...]traveled to the New York World's Fair in April of 1964.[...] |
| [...]for chores and 'Tis that that's bothered me of late ranch work began early. For his birthday aft[...]Ind., he was given a pony. From Which one of six young ladies then on, straddling a horse was a big part of his life. Is the best that can be had.[...]stock, and often walked to keep But ain't a bit of use on Earth from freezing to death. At the age of 19 he drove a stage When it comes to pitchi[...]whichever he was driving. Showed a mighty lot of grit When Cloyd began to approach the old age of 26, his sisters thought he should get married. Th[...]wife, Maggie, separated and Cloyd lived the rest of his life alone. There's Belle Martin's mighty nice He enjoyed an interesting and varied lot of jobs. He was But still she's kind of queer elected constable for the town of Wisdom, was water com- She is the kind to[...]immed beard, And although I'm very fond of Belle prompting the younger children to call him[...]To be a bit more shy. litter on the streets of Wisdom, or in the ranch yards where he often was.[...]eyes, quick step, straight back, ready wit, love of children and stories of early Montana days So now I've called on endear[...]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[...]ite smart of R. T. Boatman and Elizabeth J. Peterson Boatman.[...]here in 1907 and died in But when he does become of age 1915. My mot[...]he Centennial Valley ranch on and off for And one of the many problems,[...] |
| [...]vicinity of South Dakota Street. Entertainment would in-[...]ecords to be sent to the army camps. She got lots of[...]sight. Often it was postponed because of bad weather.[...]o the Big Hole Valley, bringing with them a niece of big heavy Cadillac Touring car. He tried to go around a mud Barbara's by the name of Ida, whom they raised until her hole and the car[...]3, 1889. walked back to the ranch and got a span of mules to pull us "Grandpa Gus" also raised a boy by the name of Eddie out of the mud.[...]runaway when Ed was three. Eddie took the name of modern home, our next-door neighbor was Charles S[...]on Fox Creek the phone and tell him to take care of his horses. for the mill, furnishing lumber for the first town of Jackson. Charles used to keep rattlesnakes in[...]d for him. He also mined Mission there were scads of snakes. He would pay us kids 5 cents Range and all of the Big Hole Rockies. He was one of the apiece for every gopher we would snare[...] |
| [...]December,1883) ment of the old golf course. In 1934, the family moved wi[...]the golf course to the other side of Dillon till 1941. In 1942, Gus was responsible[...]They resided there till John's death in December of 1980. Jackson with his son, Jules. Gus died on Fe[...]Helena until her death in May of 1984. John and Jean are[...]1856. At the age of 16 he left his fatherland and came to On October 3, 1917, at the age of 21, John was inducted America. His first stop was Ohio, but at the age of 19 he into the U.S. Army, serving with the 362nd[...], 1918, with the Croix-de-Guerre from King Albert of Bel- Philipsburg, Nissler and Deer Lodge,[...]He was one of the few cattlemen in the Big Hole Valley[...] |
| [...]nd taking John by the hand, born there in January of 1887 and their daughter, Lydia, Marie went[...]e Hirschy's cabin to get help for the birth of her baby. On the living conditions and feared the[...]ompany and joined W. M. Montgom- birth of Ida followed on September 7, 1900. ery in 1906, r[...]Sarah Wenger died in Anaconda in 1961 at the age of In 1904, they bought the Ludvig Garlin h[...]hy, a neighbor in the Big Hole, was a pall- south of Jackson. While living there, these children were[...]itzerland. They came came to buy the steers of Big Hole ranchers. to the United States in 1897.[...]Government bought them out for part of the Bird Refuge.[...] |
| [...]John and Winnie Wharton, Fred and Flora Hirschy of hotel in Monida[...]years Henry Wet- finest and most scientific of ranching and stockgrowing more Sr. ranched along[...]did it for several more years. Henry Jr. liams of Cleator Moore, Cumberland, England. She had worke[...]Ranch raising cattle, and for a number of years they also had John and Winifred Wharton[...]tle help and Winnie always Butte, the third child of Jess R. Wharton and Elizabeth did the sta[...]everal times to England to visit Winnie's manager of the Butte Electric Railway System and Colum- family. In April of 1953, John and Winnie along with Fred bia Gardens, and a close associate of Senator W. A. Clark. and Flora Hirschy saile[...]d from Butte and attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth as guests of High School. At one time, when 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 he[...]llege at Bozeman Switzerland with relatives of Fred Hirschy. and was among it's earliest agricul[...]Charles Herbert Wheat, the eldest son of George W. and[...]tion, can be seen on Highway 41 south of Twin Bridges.[...]located near the Point of the Rocks north of Dillon. My John Wharton at first home on N[...] |
| the Iron Rod Mine, located on the west side of the Jefferson River, in the McArther Mountain Ran[...]Bridges, he would go to the saloon, buy a bottle of wine, pick up two or three "winos" to unload the ore, and pay them with the bottle of wine. In 1905 or 1906 father mov~d to Dillon a[...]father Samuel S. Patterson, who was the new owner of the Dillon Bottling Works. Dad was a big strong fell ow and became one of those who could stack a case of bourbon and roll a barrel of wine onto the rack with the best of them.[...]of Forestry. Helen went to beauty college in Salt La[...]in Butte, winning a number of awards in hair styling. She[...]Jensen, Red Rock Rodeo Champ (Brother of Edna L. Wheat)[...]1865-1938), and they lived near Paigeville, north of Dillon. she met my father and they were married i[...]ive in Dillon. George's tombstone in the location of the Masonic Hall, where my parents set up the cemetery near the Point of Rocks reads "George W. housekeeping after they we[...]sen, homesteaded 64 acres on Sage Creek, 26 miles south of our hearts that never will be filled[...] |
| [...]Ear1 could only get 50 cases of Beckers Beer from Ogden,[...]the area and franchises open to Reed Featherly of the Bea-[...]miles east of Dillon. They came west because her four sisters[...]par- ). The family owned a house on the west side of town at 224 ents) attended a dance at a smal[...]d it removed. Earl eventually became the owner of the Dillon Bottling Works, but Sam kept track of his ice business and coached Earl in the operation. When Sam died, he left the 200 acre rach west of Dillon to Earl (which included the ice business).[...]built a new home on a plateau 200 yards northwest of the old house. In 1911 Earl opened Dillon's fi[...]wig family built a new theatre and Earl bowed out of the movie house business. Sam took Earl back,[...]ghter ment to the U.S. Constitution, (Prohibition of ALL alcohol- Elma, mother Molly, and[...] |
| [...]rick to understand Mass. He held the honor of being the last territorial gover- that he, Jim, was in charge of that stove. The Crouses had an nor of Montana and the first mayor of Dillon. He was one of old and very dependable horse named "Old Racer" on which the prinicpal founders of the city. all three Crouse children, Frederick, G[...]. Bimrose and a dry goods store owner class of 1856. He became interested in sailing and on his[...]dmitted to the bar. He soon became clerk and base of a tree by a stream, and his parents went there and recorder of the U.S. District Court. He later became associ-[...]night dances. Paul 1880. He and a group of other resourceful young business Stahl established the first taxi service by hauling people out men organized a townsite[...]dances. Banker played violin (self-taught) of Richard Deacon. They laid out their plans, said t[...]piano-and Virgil been platted on a piece of brown wrapping paper. In a mat- played drums (sel[...]bors were the Fred Crouses, Harry Browns (parents of Hazel Sorenson in "Hazel's Dress Shop") plus the[...]er to work in the Butte copper mines for a couple of years. He left the wheat ranch for good in 1922,[...]ildren worked in the apple harvest 20 miles north of Wen- atchee. After the apple harvest was finished[...]in 1973 and Lucille still lives in the outskirts of Los Angeles with her husband. Margaret still live[...]Age 83- ½, May of 1988 Benjamin F. Whi[...] |
| ter of a few weeks, the lots were sold and the new town[...]usiness and sold groceries named Dillon, in honor of the Union Pacific Railroad presi- and hardw[...]aughter, Lil, who was born In the early winter of 1880 the firm of Sebree, Ferris and April 27, 1918 and a son,[...]th White acting as on July 6, 1920. head of the firm.[...]meat. council. He was nominated for governor of Montana Terri- Later Walter bought a r[...]ot want the ranch so he resulted in the admission of the territory into the union in sold it. 188[...]arch 1, 1943. He will always be re- the statehood of Montana. His post was eliminated and he[...]and young. In 1888 White was elected president of the First National Margaret White passed away on December 11, 1962. Bank of Dillon, and as head of that institution, probably did more than any other individual for the development of the -LILLIAN WHI[...]eaverhead County. He became known for his methods of unconventional banking, incorpo- Frank Wilke rating the unheard of practice of lending money on charac- Frank Wilke's[...]ick mason in Chicago during the early land to one of the most famous cattle regions in the world.[...]1883. The depression of 1919-1920 hit, resulting in the bank fail- A[...]9. 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 Ani[...]red and sold his ranch to his oldest son daughter of George Featherly.[...]r sister Bertha came to the United States in June of 1915. They had to come via Italy because World Wa[...]. Margaret had three brothers and one sister. One of her brothers is still alive and is living[...] |
| [...]or 20 cents a plate. They left for home the first of April, 1921. In 1922, Frank and his brother Geo[...]d a steam engine from Carl Huntly for 10,000 feet of lumber. The mill didn't get set up until 1923. Th[...]He was given the use of a small rural cabin to live in, so he[...]ley result of that experience, he was an expert with a broadaxe[...]The next spring the rest of the family came to Mississippi, Asa Charles Wi[...]d encouraged them to come to Big Hole, where both of whom were born in England. In his early years the[...]Asa was again the trailbreaker for the rest of the family. hardware store, farmed and was a chee[...]re- He arrived in Wisdom in the winter of 1898, when he was 18 ceived his education there,[...]ge directly years old. He used his last bit of money for a necessary pair from grammar school because there were no high schools in of overshoes, and had exactly one nickel left over. That was that part of Iowa then. His father Thomas died at an early[...]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, Pansy and Ivy.[...]his elder When Asa's father died in the winter of 1894, the eldest brother Percy and obtained[...]y 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[...]others and sisters, and did not himself marry all of the livestock intact.[...] |
| [...]born in Gibbonsville, Idaho, dropped out of school, and for the next seven years, he on Chris[...]eonard helped his mother and the rest of the family operate the and Margaret Quinn, both I[...]to Michigan, and then west. Her family consisted of a construction job where he drove a dynam[...]for a time he drove a stagecoach operating out of Dillon. beth, Catherine and Francis.[...]s reared on a ranch near Salmon, age of 21 he enrolled in high school in Dillon. Upon gra[...]sa Willey and Elizabeth Leonard met in the summer of cher, Wyoming. There, he met and marri[...]bruary 6, 1917 in Salmon. Their Welsh of Cheyenne, Wyoming. They transferred to the Sta- f[...]ed until tion in Sheridan, Wyoming. Two of their seven sons were 1922, when they purchased t[...]midwife for the birth of his third son. Also during his stay Asa and hi[...]le. The steers were sold The depression of 1921 ended the ranching partnership as two-year-o[...]he Gib hons area, serving on Leroy was proud of his family, having managed to send all the school[...]ping neighbors as the need arose. seven of his sons to college, that three of them had been in He was an avid reader (history a[...]armed services during World War II and that none of topics), a good dancer, wise cattleman and fine h[...]rful father and devoted husband. He died in Butte of devoted father when in 1968 he required[...]ion heart disease on February 23, 1944 at the age of 63, and was due to gangrene and soon died of a stroke. buried in the Briston cemetery. His date of death was fifty years, to the day, after the date of his own father's death. He was a member of the Methodist Church.[...]sconsin on stress and homemaker. She was a member of the Catholic November 3, 1878. He was the oldest of five boys and two Church, Homemakers Club and sev[...]The father Thomas Willey passed away in February of shop in Wenatchee, Washington, and later returned[...]ed a cotton farm there. While in Jackson, one of Sophia's[...]Montana in late April of 1899. Their mother and other[...]hildren came later that spring or in early summer of the Leroy D. Willey was born on April 8, 1887[...]y and Asa became partners in the ranch. If either of worth Pendleton. The family moved in 1890 to Glid[...]Montana in 1900. Wisdom, Montana. Upon completion of the eighth grade he Lydia An[...] |
| [...]llon on December 29, Sam Freeman, kept two of Henry's requests. He chiseled 1903. They then liv[...]We put a bouquet of flowers next to the pink stone each In December of 1912, Earl was born to Percy and Lydia. Me[...]TT DINGLEY and Lydia died July 1, 1966 at the age of 88. -EARL and LILLIAN WILLE[...]and daughter Joyce. (from recollections of Montrose E. Dingley) Harry was a native of Minnesota and Mary was from Michi-[...]one time he had been Champion Mill. Rider of the World. Henry trained some horses to always For a number of years, he worked for a large grain elevator face[...]t their bucked extra hard and he let out a string of foul words at the bronc. Mister Flynn said, "Tut,[...]Henry retorted, "To hell, where I'll have lots of friends." Henry was breaking some saddle horse[...]r. We were living on my Aunt Angie Taylor's ranch south of Dillon. Henry hitched a team to Angie's surrey wi[...]iced the old telephone line and it hooked the top of the surrey. It did considerable damage. Henry was[...]oved their families to the area which is now part of days. One evening it was raining. Henry had asthma very of Oilmont. This proved to be a complete washout. Mo[...]of whom worked for their board. Over the years she b[...]known as "Mom" Williams to literally hundreds of students[...] |
| [...]when possible in times of sickness or childbirth. J.W. Suth-[...]en his Charles Wilson was a life-long resident of Beaverhead oldest daughter, Mrs. Sheldon Davis, was born. Co0ty and one of the community's most prominent stock- A few of the names of the families in the area were Ozias men.[...]ig. ber 10, 1875, some five years before the town of Dillon was There was a school close by as[...]de Beaverhead County his home all his life. of going to school. The schoolhouse also served as a meeting He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wilson, Virginia place[...]le 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 Char[...]ong the trail from Texas to den in the management of a ranch on Horse Prairie. During Montana. T[...]ead, one as an infant and the other a small child of homestead east of Dillon. He had a friendly and generous about three of four years old. I am sure the loss of the two nature and was admired not only for his s[...]h their decision to donate a a rancher but as one of those vanishing types of westerners plot of their ground as a local cemetery, not far from th[...]his widow, two sisters, Mrs. Asa Keni- Most of the graves of that era had wooden markers and son of Mountain Home, Idaho and Mrs. Anna Bond of Dil- graves were encircled with small rocks. There were few lon; a brother, William Wilson of Dillon; a niece, Mrs. Earl tombstones and some of the graves were encircled by a Coffman of Gardenia, California and a nephew, E. W. Bond wrought iron fence. · of Dillon; Mrs. Fred Chapman of Dillon and Mrs. Bertha At one time it looked as though the cemetery would be Jardine of Great Falls were also nieces.[...]the last visit to the cemetery by members of our family found Reverend H. N. Tragitt officiati[...]Dillon. members of the local 4H club.[...]West by horse and wagon This history of the Winslow family begins with our grand- from Te[...]only a few father James Winslow, father of Harry Winslow, Sr. He and years in Texas before d[...]. It was in Alder Gluch that our father, the fall of the year at Twin Bridges, Montana, where they[...]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 rail road to this part of the country. Another moved near Whitehall where[...]hter was born during the winter and in the spring of the between Waterloo and Whitehall, where the[...]Virginia City. Creek. The homestead was a couple of miles northeast of the Harry Winslow, Sr., grew up there and[...]ruary 25, 1887. Our mother came across from north of Birch Creek.[...]h some people by The ranch or farm was typical of the times as they raised the name of Winegard; her mother's name was Winegard. everyth[...]that's other when a need arose by loaning a team of horses or other where father married her. Afte[...]stage, farmed and did other work for a number of years in 568-Beaverhead History |
| [...]. A son, Ivan, was born in Pleasant Valley, north of Silver Star, on Aug. 29, 1888. Finally, he bou[...]at is now known as Winslow Creek, which lies east of Lakeview, where he raised cattle - the year of 1889. He was doing quite well until the terrible hard winter in 1890 or 92. He lost most of the herd; they froze to death standing on their f[...]d sled and travel up on the Upper Madison, by way of Henry's Lake, and kill elk for the winter's meat[...]tory where he farmed and drove stage for a number of years to make a livelihood for his growing family[...]Rock, Montana, The small Fish Creek Cemetery, south of Silver Star, where he worked for the Unio[...]Upon the death of Henry, granddaughter Elva Jean George P. Wolfe[...]anch 10 miles charter member and past noble grand of Hollywood Lodge, from Junction City, Idaho, now known as Leadore, 50 miles Neighbors of Woodcraft, and a member of the Rebekah from Salmon, Idaho. Mrs.[...]ntana Survivors include a daughter, Ruth Murphy of Bothell, from DuQuion, Ill., to te[...] |
| [...]In 1917, the year of graduation, World War I broke out[...]and the boys enlisted in April which deprived us of Junior[...]of Elfreda Woodsid~, excerpted by Harriet Watkins[...]t McKinley School in I entered school the fall of 1904. My first teacher was Miss Butte. Mary In[...]ia Dor- chester, reputed to have eyes in the back of her head and she disciplined with a rap on the kn[...]. The next year we moved to a house on the corner of Atlantic and Morse Streets where my mother had a[...]be wrapped to protect them in the winter and most of the time thawed out by pouring hot water o[...] |
| [...]t money to Jim who worked the homestead. The rest of the family arrived in Dillon in 1906. Between the[...]ssed away in their late eighties within two weeks of each other. Ida Woody married George N etterfi[...]ied Roy Jackson and they lived at the 10-Mile out of Dillon. They had two children Roy and Helen. Mary[...]trong with children Ethel and provided the people of Jackson with something to talk[...]k and housekeeping 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 w[...]White of the First National Bank. The Governor asked, Can[...]im I thought I could. So I became the proud owner of 1875 --R. BRUCE H[...]ch hand. They had six children: Ethel 1910, child of T. B. and Mary D. Craver and came to Montana in[...]e and Butte 1917. The Cravers did not approve of Armstrong. "The folks they moved to Beaverhead Co[...]made a two- suitors but they did not work. Of course our marriage went week trip to Yellowstone[...]position. "Then came two ·years of drought and two terribly hard Flora was[...] |
| [...]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[...]to a house she purchased at Silver Star in rocks of financial disaster." 1936. She continued an active life of political letter writing, A depression swept M[...]did library work, and mended bales and bales of clothing for bined with hard winters and a collapse of prices for agricul- destitute people here and[...]ver Star in the 1950s and lived with various of her children Overextended banks scrambled to foreclose, the state led until she died of stroke in 1958 in Anaconda. inbankruptcies, and 50 percent of Montana farmers were[...]t me that would have sent me to jail for contempt of Charley York was born in Golden, Colo.,[...]ause one moved to the Wisdom area at the age of 12. He operated a could tell they were sorry I le[...]s ranch with his where I had put in so many years of loving toil and planning many pet cats in a b[...]otfalls, and curtain- play until the wee hours of the morning. One of his favorite less windows staring like unseeing eyes at a world of despair. tunes, and his best, was the old, ever[...]1959 up. We had not gone many miles when a swarm of flying and was missed by all who knew[...]rything. Soon after that a 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 Cemetery on the Butte-A[...]e called Pierce Place (about 1 ½ miles southwest of Arm- was assigned to the Twentieth Engi[...]outs, trenches, bridges and other to the kindness of Mr. & Mrs. Dixon Brown that we stayed str[...]Forest, by Alkali Creek. This is his own account of how he Creek north of Silver Star. In a scene that would presage the[...]il The first thing we did was buy a team of horses at an with five wagon loads, one a four-ho[...]was well we did. ing beer, he had to get rid of several head. They were big - The sale of ithelped out many times, and with my mendi[...] |
| [...]and the horses. We cut into a growth of aspen far enough to[...]trees standing that formed a square of about eight feet on a side. On the inside of the square, against two of the trees, we[...]the ends of the long logs, and filled in the inside partway[...]month. On top of the grass we spread half of my 16-foot,[...]doubled up woolen blanket (14 feet long). On top of that we[...]of the tarpaulin over.[...]other pieces of wood to make a good fire so that Fallon[...]care of the horses.[...]ay, but the trip back took two days with our load of They were going to help us haul the logs we would[...]supplies. We loaded the wagon with several bales of hay and It was evening by the time I arrive[...]fter oats for the horses. We also put in a supply of "grub" that putting the horses away and feedin[...]- The next morning, there were a couple inches of snow on wards, along with lots of snow, so hard that I had all I could the ground. We took advantage of that by making a sled for do to get th[...] |
| taken care of.[...]After that, I gave Sam and Satan their last meal of oats Editor's Note - Erick lefi Montana[...]became engaged to Gunhild took off to join a herd of wild horses a mile or so away. Gustafson.[...]20 years later as head of its detective bureau.[...]tion, near Pocatello, Idaho. 35 miles southeast of town. His[...]nna Marie Hansen, who would later become true man of the West, so while he was among the ranch-[...]ning, shortly after I started working there, five of us Peter Hansen) had ventured here the previous[...]ikkelsen were already in Dillon, overnight at one of his outlying ranches. Even though he all[...]old, almost aban- were married in October of 1910 at Dillon. Their first son, doned horse barn[...]huge trees and clearing land before the advent of power Mr Selway was very kind to me. He helped[...]elway tried to born. discourage this. On one of the picnics, he took a dry piece of During the 1930 Depression, they purchased a[...]laced his sandwich farm in the Handhills, south of Delia, and it became a high- alongside the "chip." When he decided that most of the ly-successful ranch and grain opera[...]with Alberta sandwich and placed it right on top of the chip. This broke Power Co., died in May of 1988 and his widow, Ella, resides 574[...] |
| [...]The following is an argument in favor of relocating the clude 10 grandchildren and 20 grea[...]u not long enough paid tribute to the little ring of -ELLA ZAKARIASE[...]inaccessible parts, mileage fees by the thousands of One hundred and twenty pupils attend the Dillon Public dollars, and in supporting a clique of chronic hangers-on, School daily. who by reason of their isolation are enabled to hide their The[...]ic gaze. If so, let us make a change which sisted of eight coaches full of passengers. will have the effect to bring about a thorough overhauling of J.H. 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 on Montan[...]le in price. Mr. J.M. Mann of Rattlesnake brought in a specimen of The attention of the Mayor and City Council is called to pi[...]t Thursday that he had grown on his the condition of sidewalks and street.[...]inches across. This, perhaps is the largest stalk of pie plant Hen fruit is pouring into this marke[...]in the Territory.-Dillon Tribune, 6/18/1881 hens of Southern Montana are doing their duty now. The[...]o $21 per head, where buyers are purchasing bands of Dillon alleys will need a thorough overhauling[...]old steers. The sickness is to be prevented. Some of the streets are piled full time is approaching to commence the branding of the mav- of stuff that should be removed.-Dillon Tribune,[...]with the use of a branding iron, can, in a few years, raise a[...]respectably-sized band of cattle by slapping his brand on to[...]be cheaper for the company to fence Not one of our troubles, as we never keep 'em long enough the greater portion of their road in Montana than to pay for to fi[...]just take them as the smashing up and derailment of trains and for stock they can get them. But for the benefit of those more fortu- killed.-Dillon Tribune, 3/14/18[...]divide the last two figures of the bill by four, and if one A thirty minute r[...]will be A; if two remains it comfortable coaches of the U & N Railway brings you to will[...]and you have one remaining. According to distance of about 200 feet. The water from some of the this rule the letter will be A. If the rule fails you may rest springs has a temperature of about 90 degrees Fahr., while assured tha[...]ich it remains in contact any considerable length of time. Mr. P.T. Knowles, who owns The County Commissioners of Beaverhead County would the springs and adjoining[...]up a summer do well to purchase a block of ground at the present time for resort, embracing[...]th house, etc., for the accommo- the purpose of erecting a court house and jail on it. Both of dation of pleasure seekers or invalids who may wish to try[...]be required. Ground is cheap now com- the virtue of these healing waters. There are many natural pared to what it will be a couple of years hence, and it would wonders connected with these springs which present lack of be money saved to the county treasury to[...]good, substantial court house and secure jail of its own-a[...] |
| [...]ou going to do licked up by fire in a few minutes of time. In truth, the only with all that water?"[...]g camps, white women were preciously them the use of his little tavern, where they can lie down in few. One young man, tired of living alone, married a hand- their dizzy conditi[...]reamland some squaw. A rough old justice of the peace, upon complet- upon a soft, downy pine board for their bed and a joint of ing that ceremony, said: "Here stand a whit[...]bed and board. The girls are entitled to the use of the An early-day doctor in Beaverhead Coun[...]a woman had fainted on the street. After feeling of the house is not allowed to jaw her help but once[...]and advised the crowd, "Throw a bucket of water on her and[...]e fire on Tuesday night the defenseless condition of Dillon against fire was apparent to everyone present. The A well-educated-but eccentric-matron of Argenta at town is without a fire engine-without an organized ladder the turn of the century awoke one morning to find her company[...]his sleep. There being no telephones in apparatus of any kind for extinguishing fires. While Dillon[...]is condition the town is momentarily at the mercy of sheriff and mortician arrived. They found the[...], a longtime friend citizens the urgent necessity of organizing companies that of the family, asked the widow if she had not found it un- would be capable of doing good work at fires. The matter comf[...]t should be attended to immediately and some kind of a fire find it any different than the past[...]Purchase 1803, District of Louisiana 1804, Louisiana Terri- "[...]erritory 1854, Dakota Territory 1861, Idaho One of the earliest divorces in this region was granted by a Territory 1864, Montana Territory 1864, and State of Mon- miners court, after the couple had posted no[...]d rustle on According to Leeson's History of Montana, James Stuart, different trales; she will[...]st the Pacific slope in 1857 with a party of excursionists. above Nevada, to here our storeys[...]north while the trio of pioneers went into winter quarters six[...]head. A Bannack miner looked out of his cabin one morning and 576-Beaverh[...] |
| [...]eir own bedrolls into a bunkhouse as that was one of the supper table listening to the hay hands relat[...]ere were so many cozy hiding places in the joints of the dent in which the ranch puppy had barked and[...]od framing, and it was nigh impossible to get rid of them horse's heels, "Ah clum daown offen ma hoss[...]rned. Iron bed frames and steel cots, the was one of the few transient workers who owned a motor car: availability of disinfectants and fumigators, better cleaning a b[...]ng three meals a day is lect which required a bit of study to interpret. He was from exacting, an[...]s stead. The out those perfectly baked loaves of bread, eight at a time, ranch kids, taking advantage of the boss being gone for the plus 50 or 60 r[...]he hay derrick. Lonzo, on cookies came out of the oven just right. There was no ther- the stack[...]n' rat now! ... er a'll unclam these a stick of wood to the fire box to keep the oven temperature[...]otal der, you clam a stairs, you clam a tree. So, of course, when nutrition. you come down, you u[...]es, eggs, hot cakes and coffee. The noon sent one of the kids back to the blacksmith shop to bring a meal, called dinner on a ranch, consisted of beef roast or part and a tool. The young one came[...]ting the tool. Lonzo was disgusted. dish of macaroni or rice, bread, pie or pudding, and coff[...]dessert prepared of canned fruit or cooked, dried fruit, usu- One[...]smothered in whipped cream. Cream was turned out of borrow a few mut balls. After much questioning he ex- the separator at the rate of two or three quarts every morn- plained, "Da muts[...]akfast bell at 6:20, larvae hatched from the eggs of the clothes moth which eat the dinner bell[...]ship with the cook, and perhaps an extra piece of pie or cake. ing eggs.[...] |
| [...]haying were darned. Frugality was a way of life for ranch people. season. Arnold Christensen[...]Wear it out. Make it do, or do without!" like one of the family, enjoyed a nip of booze after each day's Dillon merchants were[...]rk. The boss gave him permission to keep a bottle of ranchers paid the grocery bill once a[...]sed the Delco electric plant. He took on the duty of ers, and calendars. No one ever put out cash[...]gift, a two-pound box of chocolates and told to "take this Due to an em[...]Dillon grocery stores also offered free delivery service in Mack went for the potatoes. She found the bott[...]EWED FOLDING BOX-THE FIRST AND ORIGI- ing several of the ranch buildings, she found Mrs. Mack[...]nged bottom folded prone and numb, lying on a bed of potatoes. That afternoon inward, the four[...]r return to the store, to be filled again for the service which was a boon to busy ranchers. Each store sen[...]THE ICE HOUSE Besty Hirschman, an employee of the Montana Mercan- Ice boxes were[...]Building at the corner better ones were made of oak and as meticulously construct- of Montana and Center Streets, was one who visited the ed as a fine piece of furniture, with durable and beautifully ranchers during the month of June; sitting at the kitchen designed har[...]1 table itemizing a six-month supply of groceries. insulated and lined with zinc sheet metal. A pipe extended About the first of July, each rancher picked up the order down the back wall of the cabinet to an enclosed space 1 wh[...]tied periodically as the ice melted. The melting of the ice |
| sarilly be agile and of great strength, as the task was exact- HOR[...]or the dark ages but this form of power was used by Beaver- The size of the blocks was determined by the size of the[...]Wood was the main source of fuel for heating homes and[...]a ranch. A circular saw with axle and pulle? ties of meat were preserved over a period of four to six[...]wheel attached was mounted on a framework of heavy tim- weeks.[...]ley wheel on the treadmill. taking half. Quarters of beef were hung in an insulated[...]The treadmill, of a width and length to accommodate two meathouse d[...]er ropes. The floor was an inclined, endless belt of heavy meals was cut. This was done after sundown.[...]canvas on which were attached heavy treads of 2 x 6 boards cats fared well around the butcher b[...]pace for hours. The movement of the tread turned an axle ered delicacies, were ge[...]The wide ratio of the two wheels, a 30-inch wheel on the[...]d that would cut through any size A by-product of beef was tallow used in candle and soap log[...]saved, cut into pieces and melted in direction of the saw blade, the belt was twisted once be- a wa[...]ite odor- The butchering and preparation of pork products was an less mixture. The process re[...]lasted several days. It was said that every part of cut into desired sizes.[...]ng were complex. All equipment Mrs. Isaac Rife of upper Medicine Lodge was the envy of was readied and each person assigned a duty. After 24 hours all the housewives of that area. She owned a giant-sized off fe[...]ron, which would easily hold five or more gallons of outdoor table and stuck with a thin blade[...]In the meantime, the pig was dipped into a vat of near- It was also a potent bleach, and[...] |
| [...]d. This required turning them inside out by means of a specially made tool: a smooth maplewood stick, The tragic winter of 1887 made it apparent that the open- 10 inches lo[...]ch in diameter. Turning 15 feet range method of raising cattle was not practical in Montana. of intestines was tedious and repugnant but accepted as a A system of storing hay for winter feed must be devised. nece[...]ed in This meant cutting the hay at its peak of growth and storing salt water and would later be[...]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. The earliest type of tritionally-rich protein product. derrick built for the specific purpose of stacking hay con- In the meantime, the pig was being taken apart. The sisted of a framework of heavy logs, sufficiently strong to shoulders and[...]isjointed, the sides were carry a boom pole of possibly 600 pounds in weight. Derricks cut away[...]ed accord- these parts were rubbed with a mixture of salt and brown ing to the builder's own d[...]be hung in the smokehouse to be- on top of the framework and, at the base, was chained loose[...]rn that permitted the load to be lifted by a team of horses plete, the liquid was strained into stonew[...]unches. The hay was brought to the stack by shell of the cloven hooves was discarded. These would be means of an awkward contrivance called a hay boat. It con-[...]a vinegar, salt, sugar, and spice brine. sisted of a floor with a rack of staves about 30 inches high. The head was scru[...]meat was removed and cut slightly forward of center. The wheels were about 30 inches into bits[...]tdoors in an over-sized The net consisted of six or eight staves laid parallel to one meat gri[...]hand- rope running lengthwise. 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 herbs and spi[...]With a full load, the boat was driven to the side of the A sausage stuffer was attached to the grinder. Several feet stack, the two ends of the net were pulled together and of casings were pushed onto the tube of the stuffing attach- fastened to a hook on the end of a cable dangling from a ment and drawn off as the sausage was forced by the auger pulley at the tip of the boom. The team of horses on the through the tube. The stuffed sausage was laid out in large opposite side of the derrick, hooked to a double-tree with coils o[...]shaped bundle of hay. As it cleared the rack, the boatman With[...]a trip rope to the center device on the underside of ing took several days to complete and ended with a feeling of the net. When the bundle swung to the desired[...]net and same procedure, but enjoyed the advantage of an assembly dumped the load. The derrick[...]ged the pig hair, Depending on the amount of hay, this procedure might used in the making of household brushes, known as bristle[...] |
| and a policy of taking Sundays off as a day of rest, seldom finished haying until autumn snow st[...]ated, as the horses were periodically given a day of rest. The only day of rest for t he men was when it rained. Today, with[...]wo or three workers in two or three days. Code of the Cow Country |
| [...]ks Kingdom of Great Britain, (1837-1901). During her reign,[...]the British fleet reached its peak of power, cruising the by Night and Day oceans of the globe, claiming more and more possessions.[...]On one of these journeys, Hector's ship put in at an Italia[...]reception was given for officers of the ship, and was attend- There has been little recognition of the role which shee- ed by Italian royalty and others of the Italian elite. During pherders played in bui[...]exception to the contribution in the development of the sheep industry in disparagement, and challenged the count to a duel. the west is worthy of note. "A matter of honor," he said. Sheepherders' duties were exa[...]was still available and was brought forth: a set of dueling for predators and many other dangers only[...]appropriate commands were recited. Hector's band of sheep to milling in panic. Lightning has the peculiar mark was the better of two shots fired and the count fell property of wanting to reach earth by the shortest route[...]ipmates whisked him out and away, and con- a bolt of lightning. Spring and autumn blizzards cause pile- cealed him aboard one of the ships. In due course, they ups. The sheep see[...]mountains of Montana would become his refuge. The herder has total responsibility for an investment of Being a Scotsman, he had a natural inclination for sheep many thousands of dollars. His wages averaged $30 a month ra[...]vacation a year. Orr, the only one of the six Orr brothers to pull away from He must[...]Nature is his mentor. miles south of Armstead on the west side of the Red Rock Perhaps he came to the mountains[...]tired, moved to Dillon, and became sheriff of Beaverhead where he came from, or why he came, and you don't ask. County. (The Code of the West).[...]ies, Carl Hansen, Horse Prairie After a period of healing, he may open up and tell his cattl[...]d in his own environ- the First National Bank of Dillon. Carl made his way ment, sitting on a wagon tongue, or on a block of stove wood. through the depression years by se[...]een years entered from Idaho to winter a band of sheep in Carl's meadow. It the service of the British Royal Navy, which he always re-[...]e intricacies ferred to as "Her Majesty's Fleet." Of course, that would be of sheep raising. Queen Victoria, longest reigning monarch of the United About 39 or 40, Bob Barrett of the State Bank put Carl[...]ck in business with a loan that bought 1,000 head of[...]home, he liked Carl Hansen, and this small band of sheep[...]twos, on the streets of Butte. As nuns approached, Hector[...] |
| [...]for ordering the meal. He was alert to the needs of the when called. A piece of chewing tobacco was the reward for guests, and he alone asked the waiter for additional service. lambs being trained as lead lambs. Gotlieb was frugal and The principle behind this bit of etiquette was that guests saved his money f[...]e days, his life slipping away. The bitter memory of as to which one could bring in the best lambs at the end of the incident which drove him forever away from hi[...]Chris Nelsen, a native of Denmark, started herding in In his youth, Stev[...]mendous amount of hard work he could deliver in a day's Happy Or[...]r his brothers, he later took part in the rituals of the order. Clarence and Andrew.[...]He worked first for Rife's, then for Hans period of time but remained active and in good spiri[...] |
| ameter and seven or eight feet high of carefully placed the early years of his sheep empire, and Paul Stein, an stones. Many[...]r four feet in height. Packing a string of horses with all the essentials for a Indian markers of the same construction were evident in the s[...]for Albert Smith, banker in The first of the larger sheep ranches in Montana was Twin Brid[...]established just north of the present site of Dillon, when Al Cramer from Illinois herded for[...]from the Dalles in Oregon in 1869. The clip of this flock, Leonard Hansen, son of an early Sheep Creek Basin 1870, may[...]. the partnership of Poindexter and Orr were tending a herd Don McLaughlin, also known as "Stovepipe," herded for of 2,467 sheep on Blacktail Deer Creek. Leonard, Cor[...]ince these two men had brought in the first herds of Norman Hamilton herded for Leonard, the Harkne[...]cattle in 1864, this developed a combination of cattle and ranch, Berg Christensen and Jim Harris[...]ss PIONEER DAYS (Continued from page 581) of his sheep business.[...]s, always Alma Christensen Whitehill, daughter of Berg Christen- ready to help. Threshing t[...]and did that work for all of us.[...]or we had company in our home. Mother raised lots of The camptender was the life line between the h[...]ns. We always had fried chicken and a big freezer of the world outside. He brought the supplies to the[...]socials to raise money, which Julius Mathias, of German descent, was camptender for were[...]Orchestra. The baskets were filled with all kinds of the Orr brothers after they bought the Landon property. goodies and auctioned off for large sums of money. I remem- When the Orrs sold out, he moved[...]-Ethel, my first girl friend, and friends for all of their years together on these ranches. After tw[...]nd place; Margurite was about Ethel's and my edge of Dillon.[...]st grader. We used the school Julius, learning of a fatal illness plaguing his body, took house[...]ery much. Her husband Millard had a farm a couple of tenders: Ras Erickson, who tended camp for[...] |
| [...]r. We aged discussion as an integral part of the work. always had a wonderful time hiking and[...]As early as 1905 members discussed the idea of devoting The Fourth of July was a big day on the dry farm. All the time to modern drama. In the spring of 1906, Dr. Carrie neighbors took picnic lunches,[...]as Harold's and my job to prepare a large freezer of ice mittee to recommend the study of Greek drama. cream, and Mom fried chicken. We ha[...]ou The 1907-08 year marked the first year of Miss Lucy H. could think of and always ate twice before going home. They Carson's leadership of the Club. She led the Club into the put on races for the kids and gave prizes. We also had study of the techniques of the drama. With Dickinson's fireworks and fire c[...]n my mother became very ill so Dad volume of contemporary drama, but the Shakespeare Club gav[...]The Club Annual was always the chief social event of the crop failures.[...]tly early Their only son, Jimmy, was born in May of 1931. established, was the most important event of the calendar, marking the close of the club year." History of Shakespeare[...]fund for worthy students of the Montana State Normal Club[...]members began agitating the question of building a small (This history of Dillon's Shakespeare Club, compiled c[...]s excerpt- its first and only issue of stock. The sum realized from the ed from contemporary histories written over the sale of stock was put on interest as the nucleus of a building years by various club historians. The following ac- fund. Many of the members enthusiastic in pushing the count is[...]en the plan Miss Genevieve Albertson, a professor of English at was later given up, and t[...]The outside activities of the club merit particular praise. In 1891, a group of Dillon women enjoying a picnic in The cl[...]loans Sheep Creek Canyon listened to the reading of a letter have been made. Each year the[...]the suggestion, the picnic, too, per- cation service at the training school auditorium. At this time h[...]he the Club presented an oil portrait of Mary Russell Perkins Shakespeare Club, which held[...]to the City Library. Mrs. Hooker was the founder of of Mrs. Norris, 407 South Pacific Street: the Dillon[...]In 1888 she formed a book club Charter members of the newly organized club were Flor- which[...]rown, Clara Shively Chapman, nucleus of our library. In 1896 the City voted to maintain a[...]emanEliel, library. Mrs. Hooker was one of the charter members of the Lina Hewett Emigh, Mary Fyhrie, Mary Russell[...]indexter, Minnie Axe Club was a member of the Federation of Women's Clubs. Schenck, and Anna Carter Yoe.[...]ot only studied literature The Shakespeare Club of Dillon and the Homer Club of but discussed questions such as Women's[...]e year and are among the tion, and Civil Service reform. oldest literary societies in Montana. Fro[...]ugh primarily a study group, Shakespeare Club has of the club to the spring of 1906, only Shakespearian plays also c[...] |
| [...]TB Christmas Seal sale for 31 the minutes of that meeting, "At this meeting, not only years,[...]tarted her fine new gramaphone. There was a sound of In Montana's Centennial year, 1989, Shakespe[...]as well, and all had a good time." follows most of the customs mentioned by the historians On December 14 of that year, Senator and Mrs. J. P. cited above.[...]in their home-a mansion which still , membership of 40 and always has a waiting list. It still meets[...]ana attended a Christmas dinner-the first of many such par- College endowing an annual schol[...]r a stu- On August 20, 1908, the first of many club picnics was dent majoring in English.[...]sometimes serving upwards of 80. Many of the women took sewing, knitting or crocheting[...]equally nimble tongues. In those days of no telephones, Club[...]hers were highly enjoyable occasions. Ladies of this group are most proud of the longevity of Through the years the club has lived up to its goal of their social organization-which has met regularly since its sociability and has also been of service through donations to conception in the early days of the century. In the first years wort}t1 causes,[...]The story goes that in February, 1907, a number of ladies the years: Two world wars, the invention of electricity, tele- of farm families in the area north of Dillon, having been phones, radios, telev[...]osing, we believe the real reason for the success of this and buggy to enjoy the occasion. At the suggestion of Mrs. J. club has been the true spirit of tolerance that has been P. Murray and Mrs. Will[...]adies met to exemplified. Regardless of religious creed or race, our mem- discuss ways and means of forming a club. Mrs. Theodore bers have[...]they mony, performing the many vital acts of charity and kind- outlined organizational plans[...]" as more befitting. To- country. Women of this area were responsible for raising day that[...]to Dillon. Among them were ranchers' wives, many of Mrs. Pete Jensen entertained the new club on[...]It is interesting that the founders of Dillon gave a woman, roster.[...]Mrs. John Kupfer, her choice of lots at the auction for the A constitution a[...]and the price was $400. It fines the objectives of the club as 1) to be more sociable, and[...] |
| [...]rst teacher in Montana was Lucia Darling, a niece of the first Territorial Governor of the Montana Territory,[...]tore 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 bo[...]nnack he went to County Superintendent of Schools before her marriage. She South Dakota where he made Black Hills Jewelry. It is[...]useum that he created. "Matt and Jack of the WX," written by Dillon teachers The ranch[...]oy and Elinor Hedrick, was selected as Book ships of their primitive conditions. Many felt a terrible lone- of the Month by the Junior Literary Guild. The WX st[...]on Blacktail Deer Creek. Matt and Jack were sons of women." John and Iva Orr. John took all of the ranch pictures in the It must have been pa[...]eir families and homeland and The story of the first watermelon that the six Orr boys found themselves on a ranch 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 w[...]marrying young Danish men. I wonder nus of the railroad at that time. Just as they were leaving, how many girls of today would like Metty Christensen's t[...]theri tried to eat their treat!! Another book of local interest, ask anyone how to get it out of reverse-so she took numer- written by an e[...]Friends". She was principal of the Mary Innes School. It is a Then there were[...]book about students and their pets. One of the students was about ranching. Clara Adams, editor of the Dillon Examiner Roy Forrester, Jr. and[...]r was so bad that they She is among a list of "Early Teachers of 1893" and a brass had to postpone the calving. Th[...]t she retired in paper! Some women performed acts of heroism. The women June of 1938, concluding a teaching career of 45 years. She and children were sent to the courthouse in Bannack at the was the daughter of pioneer ranchers on Rattlesnake Creek. time of the Battle of the Big Hole. Mary Jane Waddams A lovely painting of her by Clayton Schulz hangs in the rode horseback 50 miles to notify ranchers of Indian move- public library. ment after th[...]the men to the Horse Prairie to find office of "News from the States," painted by Elizabeth her[...]is. He and Dan Winters were safe, Lochrie of 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 owne[...]e served as private secretary to Education was of prime importance as was evidenced by[...] |
| [...]blighted by Dr. Martin's death and reminded them of it violently ill. Friends cleared the roads so t[...]Two ladies who helped preserve the history of this area later. The story of her love for her pony and her pony for her, through the DAR were Mrs. Laura Tolman Scott of Arm- and "Mountain Lily" (descendant of an Arabian stallion) stead and Miss Je[...]ests in the Lewis and Clark expedition of this area and were lished in Reader's Digest. Th[...]h, when the parents Mrs. Scott's book of pressed wild flowers is on display at returned t[...]the museum. Miss Bishop was a respected citizen of Dillon together standing by the gate. They had b[...]without lashing and biting cultural life of Dillon. She was a close friend of Jeanette and furiously neighing. Now they stood[...]ted against both World Wars I Alma White, sister of Mrs. D. E. Metlen was "Truth Strang- and II. She was a supporter of Womens rights, as was Miss er Than Fiction." It[...]guest in the Bishop home lishing house, "Pillar of Fire." She taught in Bannack and at 413 South Idaho Street. Verla T. Andersen is a grand opene[...]iscontinue it. She was not employed ew of Miss Bishop. there next year. She also taught in[...]Curtis Hospital in 1918 at 719 South Washington Street. Dr. She disliked Dillon ch[...]piscopal and Methodist. She expressed her dislike of Dil- North Idaho Street (where Eliels is now located). His hospi- lon in the book as a result of the treatment of her brother, tal consisted of his office and two patient rooms. Mrs.Pe- the Rev[...]lous organ at the Hartwig Theatre, the "laying on of hands" and was apparently laying them on[...]music for the action taking place in the old some of the wives in the wrong places which fired some me[...]e that is an addition to church . . . when a mob of about 20 young men came, Dillon. Wh[...]nd broke the doors and took Bridwell Florida and saw the governor's mansion, Mrs. Orr said that one mile out of town, divested him of his clothes and gave was the home she wanted. It was cut in Florida, shipped him a coat of roofing paint."[...]San Francisco, came by rail to Dillon A couple of quotes from the book are, "Butte, veritable and assembled at 521 South Washington, where Mrs. Roger Sodom, received us ... but not so with the little town of Pierce lives. Four of the Orr sons had homes adjacent to Dillon, largely made up of those who had an outward show their parents' home, known as the 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 inhabitants of Beaverhead County. Louisa Paige. She was born in New Hampshire of Puritan Churches of Dillon are no more than religious clubhouses[...]ridges area and In her book is also an account of the death of Dr. Albert B. made their living taking in boar[...]Sam Patterson, "who enjoyed good vic- the wedding of Ray Tash and Miss Anna Ellerman on Janu-[...]en Hotel. After dinner as he prepared mother of Herb Wheat, Jr. to leave for evening services at[...]he bent over to There are nine midwives of which I am aware and I know put his rubbers on an[...]etrical is "A messenger was sent and the sad news of their beloved nurse in Scotland. After he[...]d was killed, she came to Butte. He was the faces of many." Messengers were sent to all churches a foreman on the building of the Titanic and a plank that he and all we[...] |
| [...]ats!! Someone quipped that this was the beginning of "dog- meet. They were married and she became Mrs.[...]hey had a place on Rawhide Creek on Horse Prairie south- In all church histories women played an important part. west of Dillon.[...]She was Mrs. Mary Russell Perkins Hooker, wife of Rev. Mrs. Scott delivered without pay. She also kept the family Sidney Hooker, rector of the Episcopal Church. She was from starving as th[...]mother that the Beecher Perkins, daughter of Dr. Lyman Beecher and sister Irish lady was washing her diapers in the spring that was the of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. In source of their water. She and Walter, who was 13, marked[...]r family, he asked The quarter century of Mrs. Hooker's residence in Dillon the Irish lady[...]and was a formative period in the history of Dillon. Mrs. Hooker took the house with 'em."[...]a Unitarian doctor. She is the great grandmother of Tom Scott, county minister who wrote, "Man[...]t another colorful lady, mastered the art of gracious living long before she came to Mrs. Kate[...]o Dillon with her husband 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 the community through the medium of St.James as Hogan's Alley, which is now a park. H[...]er. Her only son was killed at ed by friends of Mr. and Mrs. Hooker in the East. It was age 12 wh[...]tzharris' crew dig and educated under the care of the rector and his wife. with horses and slips the basements of the Telephone Build- To Mrs. Hooker, more[...]nded. She ruled with an iron in the spring of 1888 contributed the nucleus of the present hand and the men respected her. Elfre[...]ns I heard this story: Mrs. Fitzharris chase of books. She served as librarian without pay until the studied the process of the trainmen opening the lever to the Carnegi[...]horses Mrs. Hooker was among founders of the Dillon Shake- from her crushed wagon and drov[...]y up Frying Pan Basin that From the Tribune of May 1921 is the story of the dedication supplied volcanic ash blocks for homes and buildings in of the painting of Mrs. Hooker that hangs in the library. The Dillon[...]rking up Frying Pan, being the dedication of Mary Russell Perkins Hooker's por- she lived in a[...]rs. Thomas E. (Elizabeth) Lueb- Some residents of Argenta had an unusual experience. ben p[...]by Zetta Gilbert (Mrs. George Gos- nent residents of Argenta from 1885 to 1927. One day Mr. man), godchild of Mrs. Hooker. Ross told his wife that they would have company for din- A portrait painter of distinction and a cousin of Mrs. ner-two extra. She set the table with her best linen and Hooker's of Washington, D. C., Miss Ellen Day Hale, paint- ch[...]es wore elaborate hats. One milliner was a victim of everything that was left into a dirty gunn[...] |
| [...]son long are you going to live in fear of the tomahawk and opened a millinery shop in Dillon. Zella Hanson Lugar is her scalping knife of those tax squanderers?" granddaughter.[...]that "in order to execute their fell design of destroying the o'clock August 1, 1882, when everybody was at noon meal, prestige of our ancient capital, the people of Dillon did not the town was startled by the fierce shrieking of a locomotive hesitate to practice the most hel[...]fire alarm. Smoke poured from the nuity of desperate and ambitious men could invent." millinery store of Mrs. Hanson, near the corner of Bannack Sizzling invectives were exchang[...]e was beyond zest until the whole population of the county was arrayed on control from the beginn[...]an indebtedness of not more than $25,000 for providing a[...]focused their attack. The County Seat Battle of "Why sq[...]wide spot in the road?" was the gist of their argument. B[...]tory. Stock a memory. Why spend $25,000 of tax money on a hopeless raising and agriculture w[...]new argument by nack-during the tempestuous days of the gold rush one of louder shouting, but the Bannacks had touched "Mr. Tax- the brawling, boisterous meccas of the frontier-was evolv- payer" in a tender[...]ce. Dillon Railroad, entering the county from the south, afforded im- businessmen could see a future for the town because of the petus to change. Dillon emerged as the railro[...]ep pace few short years, she had reigned as queen of the frontier and with it. as the Montana terri[...]lions in gold In desperation, a meeting of Dillon citizens was called and were being taken f[...]the scep- from that session emerged one of the strangest coalitions in ter had been snatched from her grasp by Virginia City and the annals of Montana's county governments. This group later given to Helena. Now all that remained of her former submitted to commissioners-and h[...]able to the County of B~averhead, guaranteeing to furnish In February of 1881, however, the Territorial legisla- for a period of five years good courthouse accomodations ture-in[...]calling for a spe- and offices for the use of said county, free of expense to the cial election in Beaverhead County[...]county." They further agreed to pay all costs of removing . county seat from Bannack to Dillon. The thought of this the records from Bannack to Dillon.[...]ually and collectively liable for the performance of the con- site drove Bannack into a rage. tract or forfeiture of the bonds. Dillon desired the county seat for[...]d. Many and bitter were the accusa- validity of the offer, the shower of arrows tipped with tax tions exchanged. Dillon pr[...]nack tribe retired for a house clique" at Bannack of nefarious schemes, prompted pow-w[...] |
| [...]urns from the county's 14 precincts, county seat. Of course, Bannack was not really "for" Glen-[...]lid Glendale vote would preclude Dillon's chances of victory in the election-while Precinct[...]23 2 majority of 37 for Bannack. The next year, some residents[...]9 1 early day had a total of 1,160 ballots cast in 14 precincts. Glendale[...]4 3 a large number of "Mormon bullwhackers" (Utah freight- R[...]urt headquarters were provided on the upper floor of the new school building while county offices were placed in a frame building at the corner of Glendale and Washington streets, later occupied b[...]and August 26, 1881, was set as date for transfer of records from Bannack. But, on the night of August 25, a fire alarm brought people running to[...]uckets. The blaze had been discovered in a litter of material, but, after a strenuous battle, flames w[...]. Though no proof was Memories of the ever established, suspicion was openly voiced that the fire was a last-ditch effort of a Bannack sympathizer to prevent Dillon Library moving of the county seat. Securing the new status resul[...]business began to wane, agriculture and of the new library. With the back wheels in the ditc[...]he area prosperous. Though the Dillon bed of the wagon was quite low at a very accessible leve[...]use accommodations small boy. The bed of the dray was loaded with piles of for the stipulated period of five years, it proved a profitable books. I cou[...]r served as probate judge and was the end of the job for me. Mary Innes would not stand clerk for the board of commissioners which included James for th[...]e old, wooden courthouse Comprising membership of the Dillon Town Company buil[...] |
| [...]02. I felt some pride in that I had taken in some of the very was built. I was to know much later that[...]ry Innes not only as librarian for ceived a grant of $7,500. The total cost was to be $8,600. ov[...]d another important "first" for Ban- basket of champagne donated by the Hon. F. L. Graves and na[...]the state. Between 1895 toasted the success of the new hydraulic mining enterprise, and 1904, se[...]L. Graves was presented with a gold-headed ebony of the activity centered at Bannack where five boats were cane, upon which was engraved the names of the officers of built and successfully operated. A sixth sucked u[...]Dredging Company. He was also presented with a el of Jeff Davis Creek at Horse Prairie. Since bedrock[...]per Gulch, no one was sure dial instead of the customary numerals. The "F" served as that even a dredge could reach it until H. J. Reiling of the numeral twelve. Chicago and others or[...]cessful electric bucketlift dredge in yards of gravel per day and its total cost exceeded $35,00[...]dditional expenses, it was reported to lower part of Bannack. According to the Dillon Examiner of be more economical to operate than a steam[...]boat worked about a mile of stream to bedrock, thirty feet In the presence of a large concourse of people . . . .. the below the surface. The recovery of gold exceeded the com- dredging boat ..... was su[...]$800 to May 15, 1895 at 2:45 p.m. A large number of invited guests, $7,000 per week. On two succ[...]nd boat. When the time arrived, Mrs. H.J. Reiling of Chicago, $38,000 respectively. The gold dust was run into bars and the wife of the president of the company, broke the custom- shipped east. In July 1896 the company workmen went on ary bottle of champagne and christened the boat the strike for higher wages. During the trouble, one of the ditch "FIELDING L. GRAVES' in honor of one of Bannack's well flumes was blown up and[...]racefully from its ways and floated on the waters of "F. L. Graves" operated profitably until 19[...]d- Grasshopper Creek. After navigating the waters of the river ing to M. S. Wolle's book, Montana Pay Dirt, "it ran out of for half an hour, during which time the vi[...] |
| 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 adverti[...]"In 1895 Bucyrus-Erie in- The decline of that district originated about 1901, due to stall[...]dge in the dwindling ore reserves and low price of silver brought on by United States." In its heyday the dredge was quite a conver- repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. That district sation piece as it ate its way along the banks of the Grass- produced nearly $20,000,000, prin[...]and lead. hopper. All that is left today is part of its beams and a few Beaverhead County's gr[...]ile upstream way in 1913 with the start of mining operations in the Elk- from Bannack and a few larger parts such as some of the horn District near the south of the Pioneer Mountains. The buckets and safe on di[...]F. LEE GRAVES facilities, construction of a 750-ton-per-day concentrator,[...]and building of a 37-mile railroad from the mines to Divide. BEAV[...]ever, lack of ore resulted in financial difficulties and debts[...]rcing it into a reduced development the discovery of placer gold in a small tributary of the Big program. By 1930, work was suspended altogether. Hole River, west of the town of Wisdom, by Mortimer H. Mineral resources of Beaverhead County are varied and Lott and 11 comp[...]m and nickel. White and Williams Eads. By the end of that year, their site Reliable production[...]the U.S. Bu- known as Bannack listed a population of about 400. The reau of Mines on a confidential basis, were secured on an[...]nia City and Bannack miners depart- worth of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc were produced[...]verhead County mines. In 1866, after completion of ditches to bring additional[...]g was revived at Bannack. With the in- troduction of dredges in the 1890's, it continued on a modest[...]500,000 in placer gold was taken from the gravels of Grasshopper Dramatic 60-Year Changes[...]Census figures, spanning the initial 60 years of Beaver- important placer discovery.[...]raphics. genta district, about 15 miles northeast of Bannack. That In 1870, the county's to[...]0 at Bald Moun- Charles Ream and J.A. Brown. Some of those richest ores tain, 381 Bannack, 1[...], for treatment but, Hole Valley. because of transportation difficulties and excessive ship- Origins of those pioneers were amazingly diverse. ment charg[...]issouri 28, Ohio 52, Pennsylvania along the banks of Rattlesnake Creek, near the town of 31, and Illinois 46. Argenta, but one[...]d operated but one day. Almost one-third of Beaverhead's populace at that time Ores from th[...]elter, owned by W.A. Clark was shut Of the county's total residents, 597 were male and 125 down following repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. female. With the exception of the Mauldin Mine, production from Ha[...]4,294 male, 3,075 female). at finding new pockets of ore and reworking old dumps. Dillon listed a total of 3,099, Lima 614, Wisdom 566, In 1873, a Beaverh[...]out on Lion 211. Mountain at the head of Trapper Creek in the heart of the Representing foreign countries wer[...]d the start. It reached its peak under management of the Irish 106. England sent 98[...] |
| [...]h rose and receded repeatedly. GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF Beave[...]ed today as spectacular The geological history of any one place on earth is neces- formations within many of today's mountain ranges. sarily a complex and ext[...]in This period also saw the development of fishes, vascular the mind's eye. The case of Beaverhead County is certainly plants, amp[...]and then the first coniferous trees. Near the end of the explosive, and beguiling as to seemingly defy logic. It is a period came the first dinosaurs. story of travelling continents, "wandering" mountain[...]rd still astride the equator. This shift- sisting of varying degrees of evidence, theory, and opinion. ing action mo[...]tal masses westward But first, all conceptions of the land as it exists today towards Euramerica and a convergence of most all land must be erased from the mind. The a[...]ay. Now was the time of the dinosaurs, another sedimentary The Earlier Eras period of about 175 million years. Sediments turning to roc[...]accumulated to a thickness of several thousand feet in Bea- The earliest for[...]ent rocks which form the Continen- opment of higher forms of dinosaurs as well as the earliest tal crust. Thes[...]head County was deposited In fact, the large area of basement rocks at the surface east along the shifting shorelines, the Beaverhead gravels, along of Dillon along the Sweetwater Road have been dated[...]The approaching end of the dinosaurs 80 million years At this time th[...]ve sea level with a ago brought an explosion of geologic activity to Beaverhead vast undulating s[...]e atmosphere and climate were most inhos- of the Euramerican continent to the continental conv[...]hable air and a protecting ozone layer. gence of Pangea was a passive one with the continent riding The next important period saw large parts of. what now the eastern-moving continental plate without obstruction consists of our Western Continental Divide area and lower[...]ng rocks slammed together. The leading edge of Euramerica buckled of the period, the Belt formation, accumulated from[...]rm the Appalacian mountains. The sudden cessation of its of sands, silts, and muds over a period of 600 million eastward movement caused the w[...]arine algae. This period also marks the beginning of the atmospheric conversion from a carbonic atmosp[...]ass that would become the North American and part of the European Continent sat astride the equator at a position southwest of the present location.[...]gma flows from within, resulting in a 'spreading' of the land. At a point some 800 million years[...]_,,,. ,-:_~- ' ago, perhaps as a result of this spreading, a large continental[...]• • j " ,. of the western edge of the proto-continent. This left the area |
| [...]tern shoreline. flanks of the Snowcrest Range. This action had great c[...]the great years followed by an equal period of relative geologic quiet. friction of the two colliding plates. Intensifying these events The Later Era was the gradual opening of the Atlantic Ocean and spread- ing of the sea floor, propelling North America back west[...]opposition to the already subducting Pacific of activity contributed to the landscape of Beaverhead plate.[...]ornia, British Columbia, and Nevada, large masses of stretching the land and in places again e[...]mountain ranges and deposited small hilly ranges of debris; The Idaho batholith continued this process until it even- the hills west of the "dump road" in Dillon, the hills south- tually covered most of central Idaho. As it rose to unsuppor- east of Bannack to the southern flanks of the Blacktail table heights, a large section bro[...]nd the hills along the Big Hole near Melrose. One of eastward. the foremost landmark features of Beaverhead County, Besides these magmatic ven[...]After 10 million years of volcanic activity Montana be- In western Montana, two large masses of the Idaho batho- came a very very dry regio[...]d respectively, the leading sediments of sand, gravel, mud, limestone, and coal, were edge[...]osited sedimentary forma- heavy deposits of volcanic ash from the volcanoes from the tion in their path. The peaks of the East Pioneers and the Cascade Range i[...]The dry period was followed by 10 million years of tropi- and overriding these batholiths. Western M[...]ole, was created as the Pioneer block split of even dryer climates than those following the volc[...]0 years ago. Some smaller "single-spine" sin fill of the valley.[...]thwest Montana, however, were subjected to cycles of masses divided into blocks by two or more faults,[...]o lower trenches and floodplains. In the case of the Centennial Mountains, it is believed[...]ountain and valley As they rose they began moving south opening the Centen- scenes we know toda[...]rift, or Today, Beaverhead County is one of the most active geo- opening in the crust, today's Snake River plain. logical areas of the country. Wind, water, and thermal ero- Fau[...]mountains. And who knows when the next series of larger in the valley dropped. The Tendoys are further a prime events may begin again? example of lateral fault movement. Along the eastern front of the range alluvial fans, the outwash of eroded mountain sediments, have been offset laterally from the source of the The mail service which has heretofore been in operation sed[...] |
| [...]with him 120 pairs of boots, disposed of them at a net profit of $1200, while Bob Lusk realized an equal profit fr[...]pounds of tobacco. In the same train was Dr. William L.[...]Steele of Helena and Adolph Graeter of Dillon. (The following events are stories that[...]bers about her grandfather, John F. Bish- of 1864 went to Alder Gulch to placer mine. In Bivin[...]ay life in Beaverhead County.) Before you learn of John F. Bishop's exploits in Beaver- head County, you should become aware of the vigor, the ambition, the adventurous spirit and the "drive" that this man possessed. At the age of 21, John left Warsaw, N.Y., westward bound. He st[...]of general merchandise: mainly flour, sugar, and fre[...]During his travels he was a strict observer of the lay of the[...]assure himself that his choice of land was correct, he and[...]Beaverhead River, nine miles north of what is now Dillon. Reports of Montana's rich gold discoveries had reached[...]in March 1863 and started for East Bannack by way of ing in earnest. the Bridger cut-off and Soda[...]eam on ice until it reached to buy horses, some of which were for sale in The Dalles, the Snake River. Several stations of the Pony Express were Ore. Around the first of July, 1869, they left for Oregon with passed, where Indians had stolen the horses and riddled the a team of horses and a wagon. By the time they got there the buildings with bullets, leaving the dead bodies of their vic- horse market did not suit them, so they bought a band of tims. The wagon train reached Bannack on A[...] |
| [...]ater, after many trials, tribulations, and ety of Scholarship Phi Beta Kappa her junior year. She t[...]travel- attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Bos- ing 800 miles.[...]ton. Jean was a lifelong resident of Dillon, residing in the In the spring, the sheep were sheared and the wool sold to home of her parents. Colonel Charles A. Broadwater for $.19 a pound. Broad- She was a lifelong friend of Jeannette Rankin and worked water hauled the wool[...]road for for her election to the U.S. House of Representatives. Jean shipping to St. Louis-the f[...]were on an she and Miss Rankin toured South America, where they extensive scale and he prospe[...]hildhood home She entered the University of Montana and graduated in in Warsaw, N.Y., enjoyin[...]s. She taught in Darby, married Jennie F. Painter of that city and they traveled Montana, and[...]she married Mr. There Mr. Bishop purchased a team of horses and a one- James A. McCollum an[...]Mildred Eliza- and graduated from College of Physicians and Surgeons in beth, born in 1876, Ma[...]o children, moved to Dillon to a new house at 413 South Idaho Street so Verla and Leslie Allen. the[...]by this time developed many other interests, one of which was real estate in Dillon. He invested in s[...]ana Auto Supply and the U-Save buildings. Several of his residences were used as rentals. He sold his[...]overnment never wavered. He was the first justice of the peace in Beaverhead County and SHEEPHERDER'S COMMENT served on the board of managers of the Montana State Nor- mal College, where among h[...]RST TASTE the grounds. He was twice the president of the Montana OF CANNED MILK Pioneers and was a member of the local school board. His social activities inc[...]est in the lan', and the Shrine. He was Commander of Knights Templar Comes to the t[...]June 29, 1899, Mildred married Leslie A. Thompson of Twin Bridges where 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[...]ociety, the D.A.R. and P.E.O. She died at the age of 89. Jean Frank Bishop, the third daughter, was[...], on the Bishop Ranch. She entered the University of 598-Beaverhead History |
| [...]again before the end of the year, also keeping his hotel going A good friend of the Big Hole rancher was J.P. Lossl, who all th[...]building a new Wisdom the Big Hole in the spring of 1896, looking for a new loca- School. His wife[...]otel and the old store then young, and in spite of life's many adversities that came his owned by Emil Zorn. About this time the townsite of Wis- way, he remained a busy, cheerful man[...]ssl Store. Mr. Lossl was a pioneer storekeeper of the old school and -ANN HIRSCHY and BER[...]omeone over a "Land of the Big Snows" stretch of hard luck. He never refused credit for a load of groceries or the needed haying supplies. His stag[...]e line to Gib- Since oxen were used for much of the freight hauling, bonsville, Idaho.[...]dom; one ing gold. The ox was placed in a frame of stocks and the split had groceries, clothing and shoes, the other had hardware of shoe applied by the smith. Going price for that[...]rother George Lossl. He and still have most of the day to himself.[...] |
| [...]By FRANK HULL A history of Beaverhead County would be incom- plete if it ignored the presence of those wistful women who pursued the world's old[...]ls" - Bannack, Wisdom, Jackson, Lima, Monida, all of them-but especially Dillon. Dillon had some domiciles of discontent that remained in existence from pione[...]eth year, said, "Hell, from the present location of the Club Bar all the way to the Penney's building-mostly upstairs of course-nearly every other one and sometimes four-[...]the Standard Lumber and Coal Company. It was one of th~ most stylish bordellos concubines or t[...]Oakland Rooms and the Ewing Place B. F. White, of political and banking fame, was once a wer[...]The Idaho Apartments violin player in the parlor of "The Big Brick". Later, when was among the b[...]t like it was "only yesterday." Its Ma- president of the First National Bank, he became known as a dame, Madelice,was the queen bee of the Beaverhead bor- smart lender who demanded col[...]d, the owners. In 1917, Herb Anderson, one of the Centennial's "Why you S.O.B., I remember you[...]ls", although not respected openly, Perusal of the city records of police judges provides some were certainly tolera[...]and in the best and For some reason a fine of $25 became standard for the most expensive seats[...]ty functions. madams who were in violation of section one of ordinance These second-story sultanas dressed in[...]sessed each week. The girls, called "inmates of a house of ill business and took great delight in driving "The Ladies" to fame" and later "inmates of a house of prostitution" ap- and from these events. Of course, "The Girls" always re- peared reg[...]ly not in hiding. to its limits. Of course, the gossipers of the community had a great Some of the city judges who assessed fines were named time when one of the escapades of a well-known local patron Elliott, Rich, Phi[...]ified as the babble bounded accounts of the offenses in longhand in the giant court around the Beaverhead. Tales of big shots who were keeping books. (C[...] |
| [...]came in This community was shocked by receipt of news from view of the library Mrs. Metzel was kneeling upon the flo[...]known and prominent pillowing the head of her husband in her lap and weeping. stockman of the Centennial valley near Lakeview, had been[...]sworn, she testified freely as to the happenings of the time of the occurrence. Testimony showed that Metzel was[...]nnial valley believes for a minute that outbursts of temper and roughly handled both women. The[...]beyond endur- returned from a fishing trip to one of the lakes south of the ance and turned on her husband in a moment of anger. ranch. A quarrel started for some reason a[...]they ble manner. were assessed $20. Cost of "doing business" seemed to as- The body of Metzel was taken to his old home in Madison cend with the whims of the city councilmen. Though most county[...]t have "smarted off' to the judge received a fine of $8 in the same court transaction. Madams had to sometimes list the names of their places: Home Ranch, Big[...]Brick, Frame House. Six madams responded in July of 1909 N ot After, Not Before and 20[...]ot after, not before When the people told the out of Dillon, so Dillon got Monida's and Lima's floater[...]Myrtle, Beulah, Hazel, Hortense, dent of the train-And that's how Dillon got its name. Mil[...]rostitute name was Grace. There Thousands of sheep and cattle Were brought over the was one Ce[...]though it was rough. When asked about the girls of yesterday and those of Now the passenger train That started it[...]esponded, "Yesterday's girls But the town of Dillon Still grows on. had style. A good whore co[...]OPHER ANDERSEN, Age 10 amateurs would put her out of business!"[...] |
| [...]ith Madison County ty, Mo., on June 14, 1883, son of Fred and Margaret Phiffner Woodside. The mother d[...]ry Book lists the following Glen, following birth of her ninth child. The father then sold schools[...]ad Boundary In 1903 young Fred began the study of electrical engineer- Book. The Joint Distric[...]replaced the old build- Fred was also part owner of the Ford Garage, as well as ing which[...]dealership and presented his wife period of construction, students attended high school in th[...]t Buick roadster. basement of WMC. Fred realized a lifelong dream on August[...]27 and later The very early records of the school districts were appar- served as worthy patron and worthy matron of Mizpah ently lost or destroyed and[...]. Please keep in mind that school was voted queen of Tirzah Temple in Butte.[...]uring World War II, Elfreda chaired a local group of county and long before Montana became a[...]apparently was the first County Superintendent of Beaver- served treats to those soldiers. For that[...]ponsible for num- citation from the national DAR, of which she was a state bering and descri[...]around school house could be built. Many of the students were 1950 the couple, with friends a[...]reda served on the State them. Wives of the majority of pioneers were from the East Parks Board, which he[...]chool education. Fred Woodside died in October of 1955 and was buried in A person was quali[...]the eighth grade, was sixteen years of age, and had passed an Elfreda then became curator of the museum and also oral or written examination. An example of home teaching traveled extensively, including tri[...]r and the P & 0 Ranch. Long Following 30 years of volunteer service to her community before there was an estab[...]was punctuated now and then by a sharp tap of a ruler, to Dillon. get the immediate attention of each and every child." As[...]Superintendent of Schools)[...] |
| [...]pioneer Grasshopper Valley rancher and discoverer of Polaris Silver Mine; a veteran of the Civil War (1868) 616-Beaverhead History |
| H. DERBY PICKMAN, M.D., Dillon, Surgeon General of Montana 1896[...] |
| [...]FOURTH-GRADERS VISITING INDIAN CAMP WEST OF DILLON (1900) 638-Beaverhead History |
| [...]~ FIRST BOY SCOUT TROOP OF DILLON, 1887. Standing are Mark Poindexter[...] |
| GENE POINDEXTER IN REO COUPE, one of first cars in Dillon 648-Beaverhead History |
| [...]BEAVERHEAD COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATING CLASS OF 1909 ~ 0) Top Row: Louise Boucher, Pau[...] |
| [...]ROAD AGENTS ROCK, north of Bannack, where outlaws awaited victims[...] |
| [...]:r: oo· ("t- o ~ Q) O') ..... CONTINGENT OF 44 BEAVERHEAD COUNTY DRAFTEES leaving for World War I service September 19, 1917 (Dillon) |
| [...]o age and deterioration of the pictures. Every effort, however,[...] |
| [...]etry vividly recapture the early- day atmosphere of Bannack)[...] |
| [...]He who has , gets ... that's the law of the lawless. Morely's claim that there was[...]nnot go on, but what fun living on the edge of the blade! Only those who treasure life are[...]ould pull in the reins. Fear under the guise of pride caused the red brick to be placed. I r[...]to find a fine spiral ascendence in this pit of mud? Yet many mounted the stairs to chambers of social order. Short glory.; then statur[...]urning times. Seldom do we serve the purpose of our origin. Lucky are those who rise[...] |
| [...]r the creek was evidence of gleaming happiness exposed.[...]my spine, I hear murmur of gulch bound buildings; t[...]others, no demise. Proof of endurance. Listen to them! 666-Beaverh[...] |
| [...]courthouses, and jails Are built out of damn fear ... fear of being roasted fear of being alone fear of being gypped fear of being buggered I was put up early[...] |
| [...]without 'er." The cause of problems, and the soluti[...]lonely cabin with ghosts of what could have been.[...], .. Whiskey! Some kind of plot going on |
| [...]NSON AND MOTHER (Lillian Hackett Hanson) in front of Lodging House and Millinery Store, near Co[...] |
| [...]UPPER CENTENNIAL, BELIEVED TO BE TRUE HEADWATERS OF MISSOURI RIVER[...] |
| [...]. 092 . Lakeview 050 Code of Cow Country 581 • Estelle E. Ham[...] |
| [...]558 Danish Brotherhood, 204 . Coming of Railroad 195 Contway,Arthur 153[...] |
| [...]188 . Stella Tessimond 182 Father of Masonry, • Helen Ruth Bowers[...] |
| [...]ay 365 McMenomey,Sara 362 Mail Service 1880 596 • Rufe[...] |
| [...]407 • Mary Leonard 416 Pillar of Fire 588 Olson,Helen 117[...]262 Pendleton, . Merchant of Big Owen,G. Quitman 409 . Frank[...] |
| [...]Repute 600 Explanation of Index • Prominent Roles 586 • Upstairs "Girls" 600 This back-of-the-book index contains the Wood,Bettie[...]s, • Ellen Isbell Gill 242 Names of heads of families • • Estella M. Pyle 452 Maiden names of wives. Fred 242 Names ofof focal persons. Woodside,Elfreda 002 Elfre[...]e the . J. Fred 569,602 accuracy of the spelling of names, but some • Rose E. 345[...]oodward,Leslie 570 with variations of spellings ofof all names, subjects and Wormke,Annie 163[...]• Flora E. Craver 572 This back-of-the-book index was generated • Walter Ev[...] |
| A Debt of Gratitude to at es · · hue[...]an .·. various stages of the book, as well as an endless number of ' his experiences, o · :1µ1 · ,mg ,-~ phone[...]e data entry volunteers, the com- . Thos~ of,~s ~bQ hav:ew.ork · .,'° puter dis~s were soo[...]&rfl· might become hers again, the proof pages of the · articles man and,a·true·g eptle~an. Wepr[...]· · ~· ·. together again for several weeks of page lay-outs and sizin · ·. of photographs. The final assignment was[...] |
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| A history of early families and communities in Beaverhead County, Montana, 1800-1920. First of two volumes | |
| Local Histories of Montana | |
| Local Histories of Montana |
Beaverhead County History Book Association, The History of Beaverhead County, Volume 1 (1990). Montana History Portal, accessed 16/03/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/5611
